Keith Roysdon
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Writer. IN to TN. 2021 Hugh Holton Award winner for unpublished novel Seven Angels. Fiction, true crime. @CrimeReads https://t.co/s5wnA30b3u
Knoxville, TN
Joined August 2009
Tennessee writer of fiction, true crime and pop culture. Short fiction from @punk_magazine @ShotgunHoney @CowboyJamboree . 50-plus articles in @CrimeReads. Revising and querying THAT OCTOBER, a crime YA set in 1984, also SEVEN ANGELS. Fourth true crime book COLD CASE MUNCIE
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I had to watch the video to be sure he really said nobody knew Lincoln was a Republican - or had forgotten - until he pointed it out. Yep, he said it. Paging @sarahcpr.
"Nobody ever heard of it before I came along . Abraham Lincoln was a Republican" -- Trump thinks he discovered that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican
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There's a lot to love about this quick video, which shows Tim Walz as a regular guy. But I think my favorite part is when his daughter says she's a vegetarian and he says they'll have turkey, she replies that turkey is meat and he says, "Not in Minnesota.".
My daughter, Hope, tricked me into doing the most extreme ride at the Minnesota State Fair.
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For such a sweetie, @JortsTheCat is fierce, laying waste to corporation after corporation in these replies.
Not me stopping every time I see a Starbucks along my road trip. 🚗☕.
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This is the fire that’s needed. (Thread).
Biden campaigning in Maryland on stakes of the 2022 midterms: "The survival of our planet is on the ballot."
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And this, 1,000. The next “tr$mp” won’t be so much a psychopath, will be smarter and more disciplined and will be surrounded by more than just incompetent bottom feeders.
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Follow @JortsTheCat for more beauty tips.
People ask me how I get so adorable and the answer is simple: I wash myself with spit and not very often
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Woke up to a sweet Father’s Day text from my son, two states away. Love this kid. I’m so proud of him.
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In today’s @thestarpress and other Hoosier newspapers, a full page of Indiana healthcare providers calling for the state to protect access to reproductive care. Bravo!
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This by @MollyJongFast expresses my thoughts exactly.
“There is much soul-searching that needs to happen to prevent something like this from ever happening again.” @MollyJongFast reflects on the end of Trump’s presidency.
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Great, enthusiastic crowd in Knoxville right now for Harris/Walz. And I got to talk to my friend @VoteGloriaJ, running to unseat Marsha Blackburn @dudes4harris @KamalaHarris @Tim_Walz
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Journalists - and I was one - were taught to “both sides” every story and I agree it is important to include responses. But the reluctance to actually report the truth, combined with love of access and the political “horse race” - damn near ended our American way of life.
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lol.
MSNBC: Live coverage of day 2 of House Speaker votes.CNN: Live coverage of day 2 of House Speaker votes.FOX NEWS:
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Failson No 2 also trots out the imaginary war on Christmas.
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This is a really simple point that @MollyJongFast is making here. The pandemic isn’t over yet, so please stay home and don’t travel and kill your family or yourself.
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Every politician should be asked this.
WATCH: “Was the civil war fought over slavery?”. REP. MIKE SPARKS: “I haven’t really studied it- we all need to study our history 🤔- there’s different context.”. He spoke FOR KEEPING THE KKK GRAND WIZARD BUST today. @Brandon4Tenn (a black man) is running against him in SMYRNA.
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Aggressive rodents, you have to wait your turn behind Murder Hornets and wolves surrounding haunted German castles.
With restaurants closed, CDC warns of increasingly aggressive rodents looking for new food sources
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Meet the #TennesseeThree - the D legislators facing expulsion by Rs over their support for protestors in the wake of a mass shooting. @RobinGibsonTSP of @knoxnews among the reporting team here. cc @VoteGloriaJ @brotherjones_ @Justinjpearson .
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I really didn’t want to spend my 60s worrying whether some spoiled idiot, his puppet master and his dumbass followers would end democracy.
I do truly believe we're gonna be okay in the long run, but that said, lately, every day has become a struggle to avoid the reminder that my entire 30s will have been spent on the absolute dumbest era in American politics, and all of it was entirely preventable.
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I want him to say, "Here's my veep and here's my AG and here's my Secretary of State and here's my Treasury Secretary and here's my Director of Intelligence. And oh yeah, here's a few more amazing appointments.".
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I don’t disagree with Charlotte. Time’s awastin’.
PSA: if any of you have further horrible information on Trump, please release it now instead of saving it for a book deal. I beg you. Please.
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More important now than before to follow @AuschwitzMuseum.
Support our mission & amplify our voice. Help us reach more people with historical facts, names, and faces of victims. Let others know about @AuschwitzMuseum.
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@cmclymer I was really disappointed with the “both of them are old” comedy. Yes they are. Which one wants to be dictator?.
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@TheRickWilson He and his dog-killer boy and lying-ass daughter should pack up a uhaul for the seventh level of hell.
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Wherein @cmclymer calls school - er, church - into session.
Today, I was sitting in front of a cafe in downtown D.C., minding my own goddamn business, when three people who were clearly tourists of some sort walked up and gestured for me to take out my headphones. And I did and one of them said: "Can we pray for you?".
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What a fucking idiot. Who made you get vaxxed, Ricky? No one? Shut up and sit down.
Ricky Schroder is in DC now awaiting the freedom convoy. Schroder streamed the Capitol Building and then declared:. “We want freedom. Free. Our bodies are our own. We own this. We get to decide what goes in and what goes out. Understood?”
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@liamstack This sad tree is “the side you turn to the wall because it’s flat and ugly” all over.
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Over the past seven years, I've lost the ability to figure out what's parody and what's reality, @cmclymer.
FL Governor Ron DeSantis shocked political observers this morning at a press conference where he announced a statewide ban on Pink Floyd, the English progressive rock group generally considered by popular music critics to be one of the most influential bands of all-time. (thread).
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"You won’t be a real woman until you’re pushing out a fleshy container of germ-infested Baby Shark fandom. That’s what they think.". @cmclymer just made me pass an entire beverage, container and all, through my nose. Her newsletter is the best.
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The world feels like it's spinning off its axis some days, but on my pop culture blog, I'm urging you to take a break from our world and go to the world of @Motherland .
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Of course he is.
🔥@Mike_Pence is LYING. @Pfizer says it did NOT join in the administration's program. Pfizer’s head of vaccine development Dr. Kathrin Jansen told the @nytimes: “We were never part of the Warp Speed. We have never taken any money from the U.S. government, or from anyone.”💥.
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I’ve fired the AR-15 at a police gun range for an article. Plinked the target a helluva lot of times. If I can hit that many times, first time firing it, it’s too effective a tool for mayhem.
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I've watched Netflix series that were shorter than this handshake.
The farewell handshake between President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron lasted about 25 seconds
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Rewatching episodes of @BoschAmazon by @Connellybooks for a story I’m writing for @CrimeReads and enjoying the late, great Scott Wilson with @welliver_titus
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More 👏 of 👏 this 👏 please.
WATCH: “Did Marsha Blackburn vote for this bill?” (Spoiler: she voted NO). We asked an @MarshaBlackburn field rep if he felt weird applauding for and posing for pics with a $31 MILLION check for rail projects from a bipartisan Biden bill she + every Tennessee Republican opposed🤔
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I’m afraid @DrDenaGrayson is right here. It’ll be much worse before it gets better. Until January 20, we have no leadership, so it’s up to each of us to lead by trying to save lives.
We are only at the very beginning of hell in this pandemic — the next few months will be absolutely awful. Please don’t let your guard down, especially now. We will get through this, together.🙏🏼. #coronavirus #COVID19.
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I had only one piece of fiction placed or published in the year leading up to March, and honestly I was about to give up on fiction writing. I've had six stories accepted/published since then. I'm 64 years old. Do not give up on your dreams.
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There's not enough "fuck these guys" to go around for all these guys. Social Security is our money. They need to be destroyed at the polls in November.
🚨 JD Vance said Trump will use Elon Musk to target Social Security
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This, from @cmclymer, is moving and full of righteous anger.
The straight line distance between Washington, D.C. and Dover, Delaware is less than 85 miles. It takes a helicopter about 40-45 minutes to make the trip. I was 19 years-old, and it was my first time riding a helicopter. I barely remember any of it. I was distracted. (thread).
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Many of you are too young to understand this reference to an old National Lampoon cover, but trust me, this is genius.
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Please, Twitter, stop trying to make “top tweets” or “home” happen. If we wanted a nonsensical sprinkling of out-of-timeline posts, we’d be on Facebook.
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. @gregolear names names, particularly of the men who created our four-year nightmare.
"It was Jeff Zucker, the president of CNN, and Mark Burnett, the producer of The Apprentice & Celebrity Apprentice, who created the 'Donald J. Trump, Successful Businessman' that ran for president. They were Professor Higgins, and Trump, Eliza Doolittle.".
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No one has shown a better understanding of Twitter than @EmoPhilips.
I like Twitter because it combines my two favorite forms of communication: texting, and throwing a note in a bottle out into the sea.
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@EDoggTheRed @MattGertz As a lifelong viewer of NBC news shows and viewer of CNN during breaking news, I stopped watching any of it around 2015-2016 when it became obvious 2016 was just a horse race in their coverage. Everything was normalized and done without thought. I’ve never missed it.
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"Did I mention this is Kansas?. "Kansas, where Trump won by 15% in 2020 and 20% in 2016?. "Kansas, where the Republican Party holds supermajorities in both chambers of the state legislature?. "That Kansas.". @cmclymer 's newsletter just dropped in my inbox.
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@RexChapman I attribute some of this to how inwardly-focused people are, Rex, but I also think we've done a really poor job of educating recent generations about what is, really, the recent past. (Not picking on teachers here; I think curriculum is changing, so much to teach, etc.).
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Y’all don’t need to hear this from me, because President Obama told you. But @blacklionking73 is a master and his ALL THE SINNERS BLEED is one of the most satisfying books I’ve read this year. A tense-as-hell thriller with the best ending in years.
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The greatest crossover in history is every time @darth and @dog_rates tweet at each other.
Listen, I know it’s the first day of fall, and that’s very exciting, but we still only rate dogs. Please don’t send in pupkin patches. Thank you. 13/10
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It's all here, in this article. @RadioFreeTom lays out what's likely to happen to the military if trump is elected in 2024. Putin ascendant in Europe and boots on your neck in your town.
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. @RadioFreeTom is 100 percent correct. This article stings like hell and we deserve every sting.
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Here's some news: After more than 34 years, I'm taking early retirement from The Star Press. My last day is Jan. 2. I'll still be here on Twitter and Facebook and still be writing (hopefully a third book). Thanks for reading and keep in touch!
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Now that Garland has said DOJ seeks to unseal some of the search warrant and related material, the same voices who screamed for transparency and that he must explain himself will cry that this is a violation of privacy.
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I’ll add this: while I hope the attack on libraries motivates people, I had hoped that the attacks on trans people, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, POC, women, children, our democratic norms and the rule of law would have motivated people. The answer is to vote.
Someday, when we look back on all this, I believe we'll be able to pinpoint the moment they lost: when they came after our public libraries.
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Go home, everyone. @RealLyndaCarter has once again won the Internet.
I trained at Waffle House.
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@ACShilton Yep. I studied journalism but ultimately found out I really needed to know more about politics and government, economics and finance, business, history, sociology, psychology, architecture and construction . Education for reporters and writers should be much more broad-based.
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Lately on my morning walks I see an aggressively loud pickup truck with a huge flag mounted in the bed. I’ve been thinking the same thoughts @cmclymer puts into words so well here.
". and after all that, they have the audacity to talk about how our country is so divided and lamenting the hyper-politicization of our country’s symbols.".
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And an Indiana race that’s totally winnable: @TheDestinyWells for SOS.
478 - 493: INDIANA is a pretty red state, but flipping some legislative seats blue could at least break the GOP supermajority (& better turnout can also help @RepMrvan retain his seat in #IN01). Donate today to make #INBlueIn22:
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This is correct. I'd note that the small amount of melancholy Superman feels because he is (practically speaking) the last of his kind gives him another great power: empathy for others.
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If you tweet that “the media” has neglected a story and I do a Google search and find dozens of stories, I’m gonna unfollow you.
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RIP Thelma, the sweet old pup, March 5, 2007 to March 29, 2022.
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Voted for the first time in Tennessee. A little less than an hour wait. I’m hoping that’s a good sign.
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This whole thread by @djrothkopf is illuminating, but I think this is a key point here. He did what he did because he was fatally compromised and afraid the truth would come out through the intelligence community.
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@JasonIsbell A real one my folks from Tennessee used:. "Shakin' like a dog passin' a peach pit.".
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The federal commitment to hurricane readiness and recovery is very impressive. I'm glad Joe Biden's hand is on the wheel. @cmclymer has the facts.
Tonight, Hurricane Milton will slam into Florida's west coast in the Tampa Bay region. It's expected to be one of the strongest hurricanes to ever make landfall in the U.S., threatening many millions of lives. Here's what Pres. Biden is already doing to help prepare:. (thread).
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This will be the end of an era.
This is my final novel before retiring. It comes out on April 2, 2024. If you're going to order it, please consider ordering it today as every pre-order matters now. Amazon: B&N: Apple:
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@RexChapman Thanks for watching it. I won’t. And you’re so right about the apologies and you’re correct that they will never come.
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There’s a lot of great writing by @cmclymer in this thread, but this @USATODAY piece after the “losers and suckers” debacle is straightforward and searing. Thank you to military members for your service.
In September, it was reported that Trump insulted American war dead, calling them "losers" and "suckers". I wrote for @USAToday about my experiences on a casket team at Dover. This is the most widely read piece I've written anywhere. I'm quite proud of it.
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@OhNoSheTwitnt @darth Two dumb guys are driving a truck and come to a sign on a bridge that reads, "LOW CLEARANCE: 12 ft." One gets out, measures the height of their truck and it is 13 feet. He gets back in and says, "I don't see any cops around. Let's go for it.".
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We’ve got to wake up to this renewed threat. “Too monstrous to be real,” but it’s real.
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Get out and vote, Tennessee! Vote for @VoteGloriaJ and in local races too! . (I’m still getting used to voting other than in May and November like we did in Indiana, but I remembered to vote today.)
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I’m so jazzed that my short story “Sleepover” will be published in Rock and a Hard Place issue 13. It’s a ghost story!.
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As someone whose first book was published when I was in my late 50s, I love this thread by @cmclymer about age and aging and ageism. We all know Charlotte is a hell of a writer, but this is on point for some of us.
In 1980, a psychiatric nurse at Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital (and mother of two) divorced her husband in the midst of a particularly troubled married life and decided to pursue her lifelong dream of an acting career. She was 40.
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Chuckles, see how fast you can fuck all the way off, would you please?.
Chuck Todd: Biden's presidency 'will have failed' if he doesn't deliver 100 million doses in 100 days
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@LincolnsBible We're up against all the messaging since Reagan's attack on government, Fox news, access journalism, horserace journalism and social media, which has poisoned the minds of a couple of generations.
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So much truth in @SarahTaber_bww ‘s tweet thread, but this in particular. I covered the local county board of assessment for many years and it was *not* poor people contesting their property assessment in order to lower their ultimate tax bill.
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Paranoid political thrillers are the best. "Seven Days in May." "The Manchurian Candidate." "Three Days of the Condor." "The Parallax View.". I wrote about the genre for @CrimeReads . The Golden Age of the Paranoid Political Thriller
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Some personal news: After living here in Muncie, Indiana, my whole life, and writing about it in books and articles, I will be moving to Knoxville, Tennessee, in the next few weeks.
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With the “Bosch:Legacy” title of the new @IMDb series announced by @Connellybooks, links here to my @CrimeReads pieces on @BoschAmazon. First:
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