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Republicans want to kill us. Erase that. Republicans are killing us.
That alone will get me kicked off The New York Times.
Again.
The truth is just the truth. Americans cannot face the truth. You live in an ugly country inhabited by ugly people with their fetish for a king.…
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There is a word that Americans refuse to confront. Sadism. Sadism has won and Americans cannot even articulate what it is. Americans do not read. Americans are more into building detention camps. I turn to art. It’s all I have. I am writing a play called Somalia. I hide the…
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Paris art seems very gritty.
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The New York Times was on a jag today, the issue being medical screenings. All the comments were old people declaring war on any institution or individual who might get in their way of the old folks and their constitutional right to every single screening tools available to stupid people…
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There was only one question in Dirt Bike Town, and that question was about survival.
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I was Creative Director for a foundation where we brought art programs and cameras to kids at risk, all over the world. We gave hundreds of Play Sport Kodak cameras to the children. What came back was a kick in the gut. I was speechless (rare). This is how they…
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Travel Time: Nawlins to Baton Rouge, 3 minutes, 26 seconds. Depending on the dirt bike.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antichrist-ross-douthat.html#permid=143116474
Take notes. Ross has major chops with his interviewing skills. I’m not sure if I have ever seen or heard anything like this interview. I am interested in the sparring. In some ways, Ross did push some (Ross, you squirmed, don’t do that), and then he smiled and settled…
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ICE has arrived in Appalachia. This morning, I walked over to the migrant camp. I walked up and down that old dirt road. People smiled and they waved. Women were hanging dripping clothes on overburdened clotheslines. I speak Spanish. I wave back. Gossiping was mainly about how well their kids…
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Dirt Bike Town
a novel by tim barrus
read by robin king