Edward Champion

@edwardchampion
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Brooklyn writer and audio producer. Antifascist, anti-authoritarian, friend to weirdos, half-decent backgammon player.

There are three things that you will NEVER see from white supremacist Aaron Parnas:

1. Aaron Parnas acknowledging and condemning the Israeli genocide of Palestinians.

2. Aaron Parnas speaking out when his followers express racism towards a Black creator.

3. Instead of asking his users to "support him with a cup of coffee," using his influence to contribute to a homeless and/or marginalized person's GoFundMe.

Parnas is a blue MAGA grifter who, much like Trump, cares only about himself.

America is crumbling. Tonight, when I ordered the car service tonight that my employer provides, the dispatcher was in tears. It felt utterly callous to not address this. So I asked if he was going to be okay, offered to listen to him, and told him that I had nothing but plaudits for him. The man had apparently been bullied by a coworker and was trying to power through like so many of us.

Everyone is on edge. Be kind. Trump needs to be gone. Because a lot of people aren't going to make it.

A message from Open AI's Sam Altman.

#ai #grifter #openai #samaltman #anticapitalist #tech

But goddamn. Hurting kids is just so fucking NORMAL in our world, & it has to stop.

We don't need age verification online (a surveillance ploy). We need to stop normalizing the abuse & exploitation of children in every area of life & culture.

Keeping a kid off the Internet doesn't fucking protect them from the predatory adults around them. In fact, it may make them more vulnerable than ever.

These vile Parnas-loving, Piker-obsessed, transphobic DNC scumbags have actually helped me with this script. You see, in 1949, they often said the same thing about Communists in an attempt to smear and discredit them. So come at me all you like. It's only fuel for my writing! 🤣🤣

#writing

Vital fact about the recently departed Tracy Kidder. When Jonathan Harr was writing A CIVIL ACTION, years in and the advance long home, it was Kidder who stopped by Harr's house regularly with notes on drafts: "I got you into this and I'll make sure you get out." A true mensch.

#journalism #tracykidder

Reading a Victor LaValle novel is like rooting for a losing football team with an impressive roster of players committed to amazing drives up the field, but who cannot seem to get it together in the playoffs. The guy is so CLOSE to greatness, but blows it every time. You want the guy to win, but he doesn't. Is it self-sabotage? Cluelessness? Who can say? I'm a foolish optimist on my fifth LaValle book. I want him to win, but will he? Probably not.

#books #victorlavalle

For #TransDayOfVisibilty (and all days), let's celebrate the accomplishments of #transgender #astronomers & #astrophysicists, learn more about some of the brilliant #trans folks working in #astronomy at the links below:

Dr. Megan Pickett: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/27/megan-pickett-interview/

Jessica Mink: https://aas.org/comms/sgma/sgma-interviews-jessica-mink

Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/06/eliot-vrijmoet-interview

Wichahpi King: https://astrobites.org/2025/06/20/wichahpi-king-interview/

Dr. JJ/Jan Eldridge: https://500queerscientists.com/jj-eldridge/

Dr. Rebecca Oppenheimer: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/opinion/transgender-today/stories/rebecca-oppenheimer

Please feel free to share profiles of #trans astronomers and astrophysicists in the comments!

📷 :https://www.vanderbiltmuseum.org/portfolio/pride/

#trans #TransgenderDayOfVisibility #TDOV

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Transgender_Day_of_Visibility

International Transgender Day of Visibility - Wikipedia

Ray and Dave Davies of The Kinks on Dutch TV (1967)
Photo: VARA / Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision