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@bowie
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:16

Breaking news: Simon & Schuster pulls Josh Hawley's book in light of Capitol riots

article image placeholderSimon & Schuster cancels Josh Hawley’s book, citing Capitol riots
Hey, y'all, there was some breaking book news today, and that is that Simon and Schuster has pulled Josh Holly's book due to the riots and and what I consider terrorism at the capital yesterday. They are quoted as saying, as a publisher, it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints. At the same time, we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens and cannot support Senator Holly after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom

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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:40

https://s.swell.life/SSLTyXhv11rwCLr

And I think this is just the beginning of some very strong pushback that's going to come because the Republican Party itself is highly split. And you're going to have some very powerful figures of the old George Bush and the Bushes try to now take power back to their side of the party, saying we are the better ones to follow and to bring this party back what it was from where it is today
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@bowie
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:54

@sudha https://app.swell.life/swellcast/PTTk

Something I wanted to mention too, just in relation to all of this is I had posted something about what is called the quote Trump bump in the publishing world and just how much the publishing world has profited off of Trump as a President and his rise to the presidency. And I mentioned in this world that there's a book about all of the books that have so far been written about it
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Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:28
Bowie this needs a swell of its own. You're going to have to start a swell that says titles for upcoming books so you could have serious ones such as The Great Siege, the Siege that almost Was, or you could have funny ones like The Selfie Insurrection or The Casual Coup. I think this deserves its own swell, but the publishing will definitely continue to profit
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@bowie
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:16

@sudha genius!

Suda. I'm on a walk, so apologies if it's really loud, but I just have to say I had no idea you were such a poet. All of those are beautiful. Cool. I love them
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