Richard Conniff

Author, magazine feature & @NYTimes essayist. National Magazine Award. Guggenheim, Sloan Fellowships. #Xdissenter @richardconniff on Bluesky!

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On closer examination, maybe that's the "P," which means progress in ending this jerk's presidential misrule.

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At the #KennedyCenter, down comes the "D," the beginning of the end for Donald Trump's pathetic celebration of himself. (Photo: Cliff Owen/Associated Press)

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Trump’s name ripped off the Kennedy Center — but not before they put up scaffolding AND a massive curtain to shield the public from watching.

Peak petty. Peak fragile. Peak humiliation.

#FragileTrump #KennedyCenter

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Ghastly.

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Out on a Limb for a Tree Like No Other https://t.co/aUERx3mtQf

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What does it take to save a species when only one individual survives? https://t.co/O3gYcPWjPn
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If you have ever indulged in fighter pilot fantasies, you will enjoy this @NewYorker story on the front lines of #Ukraine's self-defense against Russia. https://t.co/q07RP7CPli

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Trump SOP: “By dismantling such a system, we push the United States back yet again into a rear seat in global scientific leadership.” https://t.co/rfLPR6HgDV

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Just leave the Endangered Species Act alone. It works. Here some big name species that did not go extinct. https://t.co/ggfqZ1Sn2d

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Children getting sick, being hospitalized, and sometimes dying because of Trump- and Kennedy-fueled #vaccine denial. https://t.co/6r60w4EsOl

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Trump Be Damned, We Can Protect Our Wildlife. https://t.co/A53yCzAzjG

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What got the original Luddites so effin’ mad. (Hint: It wasn’t the technology.) https://t.co/imxHVCcCe3

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What the original #Luddites were all about, #crossdressing included https://t.co/imxHVCcCe3

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AI and its hulking data centers seem tare taking our jobs, our electricity, our water supply, and our world down a giant suckhole into whatever grim future they imagine for us. The Luddites would be pissed. https://t.co/uzQJK1bZT3

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@krassenstein @AOC https://t.co/uzQJK1bZT3

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"Intelligent machines and their hulking data centers seem to be everywhere, taking our jobs, our electricity, our water supply, and our world down a giant suckhole into whatever grim future they imagine for us." https://t.co/uzQJK1bZT3

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Trump uses another frivolous lawsuit to extort taxpayer dollars to fund his MAGA allies. https://t.co/hZE8gSHEf1

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Inside the hunt for the most beautiful fossils in the world. https://t.co/EX11ZxkWKc

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It was 46 years ago today that a worldwide #vaccination campaign finally freed humanity from #smallpox, our deadliest and most disfiguring infectious disease. Here's the story of one fighter in that campaign. https://t.co/mzadRvgxhr

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It's insane to base a global economy on this highly breakable system of energy supply, when solar energy falls freely onto every rooftop https://t.co/hkictUfInQ