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President Trump has an almost Apollonian daytime argument in favor of his continued political dominance, which is "Jobs Jobs Jobs!," "MAGA!" and so forth. He also has a nighttime argument about decline, racial resentment and ethnic hatred. He pushes both strains hard, but the evidence suggests that his heart is really in the hate.
Through gut (or gutter) instinct, Trump has adopted a political strategy designed to exploit anger at and resentment toward immigrants as well as racial and ethnic minorities. This is the linchpin of his approach to the 2020 election.
Trump's demonization of nonwhites was and remains essential to his takeover of the Republican Party.
His unabashed embrace of insults, epithets and name-calling is well established. In January, my colleagues David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick argued in The Times that
Donald Trump has been obsessed with race for the entire time he has been a public figure. He had a history of making racist comments as a New York real-estate developer in the 1970s and '80s. More recently, his political rise was built on promulgating the lie that the nation's first black president was born in Kenya. He then launched his campaign with a speech describing Mexicans as rapists.
The media often falls back on euphemisms when describing Trump's comments about race: racially loaded, racially charged, racially tinged, racially sensitive. And Trump himself has claimed that he is "the least racist person." But here's the truth: Donald Trump is a racist. He talks about and treats people differently based on their race. He has done so for years, and he is still doing so.
I asked Stephen Utych, a political scientist at Boise State and the author of a 2017 paper, "How Dehumanization Influences Attitudes toward Immigrants," whether he saw Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric as part of a larger political war plan. He wrote back by email:
Taking the morality out of it, I've both conducted and seen research from others that consistently shows that dehumanization "works" by making people dislike dehumanized groups, and wanting to take punitive actions against them. I think Trump has been doing this really subtly, especially over the last few months, so I definitely think this is a strategic move on his part.
This tactic, Utych added, "denies out-groups traits that are uniquely human — things such as the ability to reason, think critically, or feel emotions."
In fact, well before the 2016 election, the white American electorate was becoming increasingly receptive to derogatory language as adherence to standards of the liberal democratic tradition had already begun to waver.
Steven Miller and Nicholas Davis, political scientists at Clemson University and Texas A&M, report on poll data collected by the World Values Survey between 1995 and 2011 in their recent paper, "White Outgroup Intolerance and Declining Support for American Democracy":
Social intolerance of immigrants, those who speak a different language, and those from a different race leads to increased support for strongman rule in the U.S., potential rule of U.S. government by the army, and decreases support for even having a democracy in the U.S.
Intolerance, they continue,
increases white individuals' openness to undemocratic alternatives — white Americans who exhibit social intolerance are more likely to dismiss the value of separation of powers.
Because the Miller-Davis study is based on survey data collected well before the 2016 election, the two authors write, "our analysis might undersell the strength of the relationship between intolerance and anti-democratic attitudes."
Their research suggests that anti-democratic attitudes are on the rise. The percentage of whites who qualified as socially intolerant doubled from 12.6 percent in 1995 to 24.9 percent in 2011, when the most recent World Values Survey was conducted. If that rate of increase were to continue, the percentage of whites in 2020 who would qualify as intolerant would be almost a third.
One of Miller and Davis's most striking findings is that among socially intolerant whites, education heightens hostility to immigrants and fails to moderate the anti-democratic orientation of these white Americans.
Miller and Davis argue that college-educated white Americans who are
prejudiced against ethnolinguistic difference are much more likely to see democracy as empowering these minority groups beyond their numerical endowment, extending rights and liberties to groups that these white Americans see as unwelcome.
How does this operate? The best educated among those already hostile to immigrants are the ones who are best equipped intellectually to recognize that "democracy involves the institutionalized protection of the rights of various minority groups," which is just what intolerant voters oppose.
Miller and Davis warn:
Democracy has been durable in the United States — so durable, in fact, that serious inquiry into Americans' attitudes toward it has been uncommon. No more. A recent and growing scholarly literature raises questions regarding the depths of citizens' support for democracy.
In a pointed critique of current developments in American politics, "Trumpism and American Democracy: History, Comparison, and the Predicament of Liberal Democracy in the United States," Robert C. Lieberman and Suzanne Mettler, political scientists at Johns Hopkins and Cornell, working with three other political scientists, write:
Trumpism has legitimized and ushered back into the foreground of American politics contestation over core questions of civic membership and status: who is included in the political community and what are their participatory rights?
While both parties have at least given lip service to civil rights principles since the 1970s, they write, Trump has thoroughly altered the equation. Through his
hostile comments about members of specific ethnic and religious groups during the presidential campaign, to the Muslim ban, his pardon of former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, and other policies his administration has promoted, to his response to the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, he has given license to political forces that vociferously and publicly spurn these developments.
In a separate study of voters surveyed before and after the 2016 election, Christian S. Crandall, Jason M. Miller and Mark H. White of the psychology department at the University of Kansas, found that the 2016 contest "ushered in a normative climate that favored expression of several prejudices."
The election, they wrote in "Changing Norms Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice," served to give "voice and license to express the previously suppressed."
I asked Nour Kteily at Northwestern University about the objective of Trump's rhetoric. For example, what exactly was going on when Trump said at a May 16 round-table on sanctuary cities in California, "These aren't people. These are animals," leaving open the question of whether he was referring to immigrants generally or to MS-13 gang members.
"There is good reason to believe that Trump's statements — whether or not intended as such — do serve a strategic function," Kteily, who has published extensively on social hierarchy and power disparities, wrote back.
He added that the research he and others have conducted shows a
positive association between dehumanization of minorities and support for several of the Republican candidates, but the link to support for Trump was statistically stronger than for any of the other Republican candidates.
Trump, Kteily notes, "has changed the nature of the conversation, normalizing the expression of attitudes that would previously have been socially prohibited."
Trump is at the cutting edge of these unraveling inhibitions. Studies of voters in both parties show that his hostile invective has begun to infect the electorate at large.
In "Party Animals? Party Identity and Dehumanization," James L. Martherus of Vanderbilt University, Andres G. Martinez of Sonoma State University, Paul K. Piff of the University of California, Irvine, and Alexander G. Theodoridis, of the University of California, Merced, contend that their studies
Demonstrate new and extreme boundaries of partisan behavior. Partisans are willing to explicitly state that members of the opposing party are like animals, that they lack essential human traits, and that they are less evolved than members of their own party.
Trump's rhetoric — leaning heavily as it does on simplification — is an explicit attack on political correctness — on "restrictive communication norms" designed to avoid offense to "groups of people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against" — standards that in the past constrained hostile, cruel and heedless remarks about minorities and immigrants. Trump has profited politically from this attack, to put it mildly.
In "Donald Trump as a Cultural Revolt Against Perceived Communication Restriction: Priming Political Correctness Norms Causes More Trump Support," three psychologists, Lucian Gideon Conway and Meredith A. Repke of the University of Montana, and Shannon C. Houck of Syracuse University, write:
Temporarily priming PC (politically correct) norms significantly increased support for Donald Trump. We further show that chronic emotional reactance towards restrictive communication norms positively predicted support for Trump, and that this effect remains significant even when controlling for political ideology. In total, this work provides evidence that norms that are designed to increase the overall amount of positive communication can actually backfire by increasing support for a politician who uses extremely negative language that explicitly violates the norm.
In an October 2016 Public Religion Research Institute survey, American voters were asked to choose between the following two statements: 1) "even if certain people are offended, it is important to speak freely about sensitive issues and problems facing the country"; or 2) "it's important to avoid using language that is hurtful and offensive to some people when discussing sensitive issues." Respondents chose the first answer 57 to 39.
In fact, the more Trump deploys hostile invective, the more he makes such language acceptable to the public at large.
Brian Schaffner, a political scientist at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, writes in "Follow the Racist? The Consequences of Expressions of Elite Prejudice for Mass Rhetoric" that exposure to
Trump's racist quotes cause people to say more offensive things, not only about the groups targeted by Trump, but also about other identity groups as well.
The result, Schaffner argues,
is that Republican candidates increasingly have an incentive to use prejudiced rhetoric to appeal to their supporters, and using such rhetoric no longer comes with the same electoral penalty as it once did.
The new unwillingness to curb derogatory speech, he continued,
could have profound implications for the nature of mass discourse. Indeed, if politicians increasingly feel at liberty to use explicitly prejudiced rhetoric during their campaigns, then the mass public is likely to take cues from such behavior, leading them to express more prejudice themselves. The result would almost certainly be increasingly heightened inter-group tensions which pose a threat to political and social stability in the United States.
Trump is a powerful force propelling the erosion of standards in our political life and throughout the broader social order, in a decivilizational process about which I have written before. His stunning political success suggests that this trend has progressed further than most of us recognize, much less understand.


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A large-mode-area Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (LMA-EDFA) based all-fiber-integrated amplified compressor with ultrashort length of 5.37 m and ultralow pumping power (260 mW) is proposed. The LMA-EDFA suppresses nonlinear soliton-self-frequency-shift effect happened during femtosecond pulse amplification, in which the fiber laser pulse is reshaped to a low-pedestal hyperbolic-second shape with nearly 100% energy confinement. The pre-chirped amplification from 0.96 to 104 mW and the simultaneous compression of a passively mode-locked fiber laser pulse from 300 to 56 fs is demonstrated. The input pulse energy of 24 pJ is amplified up to 2.6 nJ with shortened pulsewidth of 56 fs and peak power as high as 46 kW.
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Ecological Economics has some worthwhile clips exploring the idea of auctioning permits to emit greenhouse gases. This is a refinement of the general notion of capping emissions and letting emitters buy and sell the permits amongst themselves (and presumably to speculators and investors and others interested in the market).
The weight of learned economic opinion has generally come down in favour of taxing carbon emissions instead of having a cap-and-trade system as the primary way of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions both globally and in any given country. In carbon taxes' favour:
- They can be made universal, not just applied to "heavy emitters" that you'd then need to define
- They can be applied at source, whenever people or companies buy carbon-based fuel, rather than requiring somebody to monitor emissions in some way
- They're less easily subjected to political fiddling, where a politician tries to protect a particular factory, say, in his or her constituency
In short, they're simpler to administer and therefore impose fewer costs on the economy.
But what I think is a crippling weakness in carbon taxes is that it's difficult to predict what effect they'll have. We have a pretty good idea what our targets for future carbon-dioxide emissions need to be, but how to connect those targets to precise tax levels remains a black void. Three cents on a litre of gasoline? Thirty cents? Five dollars on a tonne of coal? Fifty dollars?
If we know what our emissions targets are, though, we know how much carbon dioxide (and equivalents) to issue permits for. The market can do the rest, if it's allowed to work.
That's been the problem with capping and trading so far. The only place it's been tried even half-seriously, in Europe, they issued way too many permits, the prices crashed, and the system's been very little use. Nobody can make money by slashing emissions and then selling their excess permits because the things aren't worth anything.
But if you start by auctioning permits, rather than handing them out to whoever you think will need them, you let the market sort the initial stage out, too. Companies that want to pollute can estimate for themselves what they think their pollution is worth to them in increased productivity, and go out and pay that price for their pollution rights — unless they find that polluting is worth so much more to other people that they've hit the market first, at higher prices.
This would hurt in the early going, and possibly very badly. Companies that are now using their essentially free right to emit CO2 to inefficient ends would get wallopped really, really hard. Some would go bust immediately. But with the rest, we could be confident that the emissions we do allow would be supporting the most efficient economic activity possible.
But even economics-conscious politicians have to keep winning elections, and the short-term pain would be so great — and would definitely be predicted to be so great — that it probably wouldn't be politically feasible unless we reach a point of climate crisis so acute that even people who aren't really paying attention start to notice.


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DocShield may be able to give you a hand here. While it can function as a full-blown backup tool, it also serves as a bit of a configuration manager. since it can take snapshots of your files when they change, and in real time, it is now possible to go back and re-capture the state of the world immediately before that boneheaded error that caused your system to crash and ate your last six hours' worth of work. And that's a good thing, right?
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Pop cover band to play at downtown bar, grill
Six-piece group performs hits from 1980s to current day, differing from Rico's regular jazz
May 16, 2019
Though students might think Pullman summers are boring, there are lots of opportunities to see live music performances.
"Summertimes in Pullman are awesome," said Tawney Szumlas, owner of Rico's.
Rico's Pub will host Paradox, six-piece, multi-genre, cover band who formed in Moscow, Idaho.
Paradox are no strangers to Pullman. Aside from having band members from the little town, Paradox has played in Pullman's "Music on Main" performance series. The band's take on popular music ranging from the 1980s to current hits are lively, Szumlas said.
"[They are] all songs that you know, all songs that you can sing to," Szumlas said. "I mean, you don't need to because they do a better job singing it than I could."
Their covers don't match the original songs but give a spin with different sounds from their blend of instruments.
Regular guests at Rico's coming for their live shows have probably noticed the atmosphere of the pub lights up with jazz music.
"Once in a while, we do go out of our comfort zone and bring in a [non-jazz] band," said Szumlas. "They're really good and people really love them."
The live music event will be from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. on Friday at Rico's Pub, 200 E Main St. For those 21 and over, Rico's offers "brew and tunes," according to the facebook event page.
To get a taste of the band's sound beforehand, visit them on their website, Facebook or YouTube.
Tatiana Meaole is a junior anthropology and neuroscience major from Pago Pago, American Samoa.


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Oh my goodness, I can't believe it's already been SIX months since I started my blog! It's been a stressful, amazing, frustrating, inspiring hair-pulling, beautiful adventure and I'm so happy that I started.
I feel like I've grown so much as a blogger in these last six months! I'm so excited to share what I've learned with you. I also wrote about what I learned after three months of blogging, so check that out if you're interested!
What I Learned After 6 Months of Blogging
#1 – You cannot expect to move at the same pace as other bloggers.
I know bloggers who have turned their blog into a career by six months. I have made nowhere near enough to support myself. Honestly though, those bloggers are the exception, not the rule… and just because they've made their blog into their career super quickly doesn't mean the rest of us aren't as capable!
Comparing yourself to other bloggers (or anyone, for that matter) is counterproductive. It doesn't help you build your blogging empire, doesn't help you create awesome content… all it does is suck the life out of you and makes you feel bad about yourself.
It's easier said than done, though! Chances are, if you've been even moderately consistent with your blog, you're probably better off now than when you started. I certainly am. That's a celebration in itself!
#2 – It's not a get-rich quick scheme.
Okay, I already knew I wasn't going to wake up one day making six figures. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect to have made more by now. I've made $84 so far, and $24 of that was actually on Poshmark, not because of my blog (granted, I think my Twitter following is how I got the Poshmark sale, which I wouldn't have without my blog… but still).
The money I've made online is still an accomplishment though! It's more money than I would have had without doing this, and I still feel like I don't really know what I'm doing.
Anyway, of course there was a tiny part of me that was hoping the money would just fall into my lap, but that's obviously not how any of this works.
#3 – There is more than one way to be successful.
I know bloggers who completely ignore instagram and bloggers who swear by it. I know bloggers who don't sell courses and bloggers who do. Some full-time bloggers barely even utilize email marketing, and others are email marketing queens.
Your recipe to success doesn't need to be copied exactly from someone else. In the beginning of my journey, I felt pressured to do everything a certain way because I wanted to find success blogging so badly. But now I'm starting to realize that if I'm going to do this, I need to find success on my own terms.
Related: Must-Have Resources to Start a Blog Today
#4 – You need to stay true to yourself.
I've been gradually rebranding my blog and my social media because it just wasn't me enough. That stereotypical "blogger aesthetic" (you know what I mean) just … isn't truly me.
If you write about what makes you happy and what you enjoy, instead of what you feel others expect of you, you'll get more out of it and be more motivated to keep going! Also, I promise you that your audience will be able to tell the difference between the posts you pour your soul into and the posts that you write because you think they'll give you the clicks.
#5 – You don't need to know all the details at first.
If you're trying to monetize your blog, most bloggers will say you need a business plan. I don't disagree with that, but you shouldn't get so bogged down with small details that you don't even start or allow your progress to stagnate.
I'm the type of person who loves to plan and organize. Like, really super in-depth organization… as in, a color-coded calendar, daily to-do lists, income and expense reports for my blog… I even have google docs dedicated to my hobbies. Sometimes I legitimately get so caught up in organizing and planning that I don't make any progress.
I'm still figuring out who exactly my target audience is. I'm still determining what my niche is or if I even have one, or want one. I'm still deciding exactly what type of content I want to create. I never would have been able to figure that out before I started blogging. I have to sit down and start writing something to figure out if I actually like writing about that topic or not.
#6 – Social media isn't everything.
Of course a strong social media presence will get more eyes on your content, but it isn't the key to success. If you worry too much about follower counts, how your feed looks, who is following just to unfollow tomorrow… you will drive yourself up a wall. Your main focus should always be your content!
What lessons have you learned on your blogging journey so far? Let's talk about them!!
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Endangered Senate Energy Chairwoman Mary Landrieu has a new problem to worry about — the risk that her longtime supporters in the oil and gas industry would abandon her in a December runoff against Republican challenger Bill Cassidy. Even before the news of a personnel shakeup in the Louisiana Democrat's campaign, people in the industry were grappling with a tough decision: whether to stick with one of their staunchest champions on the Hill or embrace Cassidy in hopes of putting Republicans in charge of the Senate.
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Intel tried its best but could not keep on with its connected objects' division and had to close its dedicated branch.
The connected objects' market (glasses, watches, bracelets…) has been slowing down for the past few years. Perceived as the next technological breakthrough for a while, this sector has been struggling, mostly because of the public's disinterest, but also because of Apple Watch's monopole.
Fitbit, a pioneer company in this field, announces worsening results every year and even canceled new products' releases. TomTom, famous for its GPS systems, closed its entire wearables branch. Nokia recently announced selling Withings, a French startup it bought a few years back to develop connected products.
Seing Intel close its wearables branch, named "New Devices Group" is therefore hardly surprising. Funded in 2013, not long after Brian Krzanich's new position as CEO, the division still counted more than 200 employees, including some of Basis and Recon's teams (both startups were bought by Intel in 2014 and 2016). The first one was specialized in smart watches while the other in connected glasses.
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DURANGO, Colo. (CBS4) – CBS4 got the first look inside the source of the toxic spill on the Animas River at the Gold King Mine where millions of gallons of contaminated water were released.
The Environmental Protection Agency admits it's responsible, and the Department Of Interior announced Tuesday that it's launching an independent investigation into how it happened.
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Millions of gallons of toxic water temporarily turned the Animas River into an eerie, orange nightmare on Aug. 5. The EPA has accepted full esponsibility.
Gold King Mine owner Todd Hennis says he never should have let the federal government in four years ago.
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Chris Jericho spoke with Aesthetic Magazine on a number of topics in and outside of wrestling. Here are some of the highlights:
Who he would have induct him into the WWE Hall of Fame and if he would show up:
"I don't think about stuff like that, like I said. If it happens, I probably wouldn't show up. I don't like these big pomp and circumstance things like retirement matches, and everybody kissing your ass telling you how great you are, because I know how great I am, so I don't need people telling me that. So, depending on what mood I'm in, I've always been the anti-star for that kind of thing anyways. But yeah, I'll leave that to somebody else, but not me. I'll show up, maybe, depends how I feel."
If The Rock ran for U.S. President in 2020:
"I say he should go for it. Maybe I'll become the first Prime Minister and President, where I'll run Canada and the States together since I'm a dual citizen. You never know, I could make it happen."
His favorite wrestlers to travel with:
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Reloved garden bench
Our garden is a spring garden, currently full of tulips – beautiful.
The spring weather is encouraging us all out into the garden. My husband is working hard, on Wednesday he trimmed back part of the garden to reveal a rather collapsed bench. I didn't quite capture the moment before it was dismantled but you can tell from these pictures the condition it was in.
White hammerite paint was found in the shed:)
My husband replaced the wood, with the tot choosing the paint colour. I love the colour:) A trip to a DIY store provided wood, screws and paint for £18.
I am delighted with the result of this revamp – a fabulous transformation.
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- threadsnshreds says:
A great revamp, love it! Was it a special kind of paint used?
I have a couple of furniture pieces that I picked up that I still havent worked on! HAve you tried chalk paint before? Is it any good?
- Vicky says:
He used B & Q Garden Colour, shade Bonsai – specifically garden wood paint. I have used chalk paint with mixed results https://www.vickymyerscreations.co.uk/upcycling-2/try-something-new-chalk-paints/ If you have a go in the next month and use Rust-o-leum they are running a monthly competition with a chance to win £250 or 10 runners up receive some of their products (doenst look like they have many entries either!)
- Clare says:
An amazing transformation! I'm very impressed with your little one's paint picking skills – a renovator in the making I think!
- Vicky says:
I am very pleased with his paint choices too, normally he would select something very bright!!
I love the rose pattern on the side pieces and the lovely paint colour of the wood just finishes it off nicely.
I pretty place to sit and rest with a cuppa (or glass of wine)
- fiddlyfingers says:
What a lucky find and such a pretty revamp:)
- Julie says:
What a difference paint and a bit of hard work can make, that's such a beautiful little bench now.
- Pam @Threading My Way says:
Great upcycling, Vicky!!!
- Caroline says:
My all time favourite colour for the garden, we have a Lutyens the same colour and what a revamp, fantastic
- Free Spirit Designs says:
Such a gorgeous bench, definitely worth revamping and its the perfect time to enjoy sitting on it out in the garden with so many lovely flowers starting to appear 🙂 x
- Louise says:
The revamped bench looks fantastic! I love the colours. Did you know the bench was hiding in there?
- Lucy Blossom says:
It looks great, and such a good way to give an old bench some love.
- Tracy W says:
Fabulous job, the revamped bench looks lovely! Creative Blessings, Tracy x
- The Patchwork Fairy says:
Oh wow – great job – I have one upside down in the garden which, after years of re-varnishing, is finally rotted, rusty and, I thought useless, but I might just see if we could salvage it in a similar fashion.
- Cheryl | TimeToCraft says:
Oh what a lovely bench it is now. Looks perfect. Love the colour and I bet your tot is especially pleased with his involvement. (off to check what is lurking under our overgrown bushes) #ThriftyThursday
- Vickie says:
I love a bench in a garden and you made yours so pretty again. Great job!
- Gina Caro says:
The bench looks lovely Vicky! I love the colour on the top. Thank you for sharing your up-cycling project on #ThriftyThursday
- Mummy Fever says:
Oh that is stunning ! You must be thrilled 🙂 #ThriftyThursday
- Sustainable says:
Oh wow, I love the color. Great job with the upcycling. 🙂 I can imagine garden benches with that kind of paint color. It would be amazing.
- Ivy Chen says:
I have one wish that when I am old, I can own a garden, and I can enjoy my life there.
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It's an oppressively hot and sticky morning in June when Sterling and her brother, Phin, have an argument that compels him to run into the town swamp — the one that strikes fear in all the residents of Sticks, Louisiana. Phin doesn't return. Instead, a girl named Lenora May climbs out, and now Sterling is the only person in Sticks who remembers her brother ever existed.
Sterling needs to figure out what the swamp's done with her beloved brother and how Lenora May is connected to his disappearance — and loner boy Heath Durham might be the only one who can help her.
This debut novel is full of atmosphere, twists and turns, and a swoon-worthy romance.
Well, this book was one deliciously creepy treat. It's the sort of book that wholly transports from the first pages and ensnares the reader into its darkly magical web. At its best, the gothic aspects of this story reminded me of Strange Sweet Song and its dark fairy tale feel brought to mind Cuckoo Song. Those are two of my favorite books of 2014 and I do not make the comparison lightly!
Sterling Saucier (what a tremendous name, btw) is dealing with loss on several fronts. Immediately, her brother has disappeared into the town's mystical swamp. Years earlier her alcoholic and abusive father left their family. Of course, his departure was not without significant scarring itself for both Sterling and Phineas. And the repercussions of that departure echo throughout the story.
I was quite struck, actually, by how this was both a paranormal novel and a contemporary "issue" book. There are many paranormal enemies lurking about in that swamp, but just as many human ones as well. And the book is equally about dealing with the demons within as it is the demons without. I have to say I want to make a content note as Sterling is dealing with an eating disorder and occasionally flashes back to memories of her abusive father. In the hands of a less skilled author it might seem like the book has taken too much on, but I promise you all is balanced with a deft hand and has actual importance to the plot.
I loved Sterling. She most certainly is not bad ass in that warrior "take no prisoners, I will gut you way." Rather it's the much more realistic and quiet way of a normal teenage girl who can accept the love for her brother and her friends and draw her strength from that. Sterling's strength is very much an emotional one and her growth and development throughout the book is a delight to behold. There is no damsel in distress here. The only person who is going to save Sterling (and her brother) is Sterling.
And now we come to the romance. I liked the romance! I truly did. This book wouldn't've had a chance of making it to 4 stars without a worthy ship. Heath is a strong, silent type which is my favorite. Where I might get a bit nitpicky is that we don't get to see as much of the "getting to know" each other stage as Sterling and Heath already have a history. But he's a good guy and there are some moments of genuine swoon. He even asks if he can give that kiss! And a rather, er, juicy scene set in a sun soaked peach orchard. 😉 As always for me I'll grumble a bit when romance takes the backseat in a story but I know most people don't want it overshadowing the plot and I'm happy to inform that is not the case here!
I have to admit I was wavering between a 3.5 to 4 on this book. What finally drove me to give this 4 stars was the strength and beauty of the writing. Parker is tremendously skilled at creating the tense small town atmosphere that is brimming with secrets. I almost flat out refuse to believe this is a debut novel. I will eagerly line up to read anything she writes in the future.
This book was like the swamp between its pages, a living thing. And its roots crawled into my soul by moonlight and refused to let go.


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Travis Valkrum
Human/Demon Warlock
Lightly Tanned
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Gray and White
|Eye Color
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Phoenix Drop High
Unknown Job
|Previous Occupation(s)
|Previous Team
|First Appearance
|Voice Actor
Patrick M. Seymour
Biography Edit
In Season One, Travis used to live with Garroth, Laurance, and Dante. He lived in the basement. He is on the swim team, he knows seven different languages, works out seven times a week, is an amazing cook, he also volunteers for a puppy hospital every weekend and he was Romeo in a few plays. After Dante begins to tell Travis about the "fly honeys" in the neighborhood, Garroth and Laurance tricked him into challenging Aaron for Aphmau.
They were getting ready to watch Frozen when Aphmau went to the bathroom. While she was gone, Travis tore off his shirt, he forcefully tore the other boys' shirts as well. When she came back she was shocked. Then he made Aphmau laugh with a joke, "so bad it's adorable". At the end of the joke, Garroth and Laurance punched Travis to the ground, showing anger.
Throughout the first season, he annoys the girls, especially Katelyn. He often got punched or slapped. In the convention, he is kissed by Katelyn. Lucinda threatened to steal him from her. She was about to kiss Travis when Katelyn wanted to show her how it was done. Travis fell on the ground, then realized what happened. He is then knocked out by Katelyn. In the following episode, Katelyn apologizes to him for kissing him.
Travis wasn't always so annoying as he was back in Season 1. In MyStreet Phoenix Drop High, he is the opposite from his Minecraft Diaries and MyStreet counterparts. He is more isolated and has a more approachable demeanor. He quickly becomes Aphmau's first friend/not-alone buddy and both share a bond due to their shy and timid personality. Later on in the year, Dante took Travis as an apprentice, corrupting his personality to the way it is today.
In Season Two of MyStreet, he is accidentally left behind while the others go on vacation. Katelyn notices this as soon as the group arrives at their location. At first, he thinks he has all the girls to himself (ironically they left too), but then he started to go semi-paranoid, using himself and strangers to replace his friends. When over a week had passed, Katelyn realized she forgot to call Travis. Meanwhile, Travis left cookies in the oven for too long, causing the house to burst into flames. The fire eventually spread to a crate of explosive feathers. The house ultimately self-destructs causing Travis to be blasted off towards Love~Love Paradise defying all logic since he should be dead after that.
Travis landed in the paradise, thinking that he is in heaven. He is surprised to meet Aphmau. He thought that he killed her as well. Aphmau tried to explain the situation to him, but he runs to someone playing with fire, thinking that the fire won't hurt him as he thought he was in heaven. Later in the episode, he wants to jump off the top of a building. He was about to do it when Katelyn came. She said she was worried about him. Travis annoys her as usual. Katelyn then pushes him off the building. Suprrisingly, Travis survives it defying all logic once more. It seems like he was only knocked out. When no one is looking, Katelyn kisses him in his sleep.
At the start of Season Three of MyStreet, Travis and Dante agree on becoming roommates after the gang is introduced to their new neighborhood by Zianna (After Mayor Chad obliterates their old one) and coming to the conclusion that their old house was too crowded with Garroth, Laurance, Dante and Travis living together, leaving Garroth and Laurance to room together. Although, they do pick houses next to each other to become neighbors. It is shown in early episodes that Travis and Katelyn are avoiding a serious relationship despite Travis still showing feelings for her, but they are still friends. Travis is not as prominent as usual this season and his number of appearances decreased. Even though his number of appearances has dropped, Katelyn mentions Travis and her hanging out more often and even stating that she promised him she'd try to control her anger.
In the final episode of Emerald Secret, Travis's father has finally been revealed after the ending credits. Although not very visible, viewers proclaim he may be the snake-eyed man who worked with Ein for many years. This evidence concludes that Travis may have been a victim of the failed Forever Potion, giving his once gray eyes into a jade green, just like those of Lucinda, Aphmau, and Zane.
His relationship with the Snake-Eyed man is further proved when he spots Lucinda's potion book that belonged to the snake-eyed man. When looking at it, his voice suddenly got demonic as he was temporarily possessed by the ghost of the snake-eyed man himself and demanded where Lucinda got the book before snapping back to reality and also tempted to tell Katelyn the story of the Ultima after she was concerned for Aphmau desire for learning about werewolves just by seeing Dottie's appearance, giving them both a sense of deja vu. Further information that proves this theory is that the Demon Warlock from the Minecraft Diaries series was described to have eyes like a snake.
In episode 20 of Starlight, Travis was once again possessed, presumably by the Snake-Eyed man, to help fix an argument between him and Katelyn. Throughout the episode, it is revealed that whoever is possessing Travis is very smooth with their words. We also learned that Travis is aware that he is speaking these things, but feels lightheaded the entire time.
It is later revealed that he has been reading the book that was taken from Lucinda and he brought it with him to Starlight.
In episode 2 of When Angels Fall, he is shown having a conversation with a distressed Katelyn. Sensing that she is worried, he asks what is wrong and Katelyn tells him that she is upset that the Guardian Forces are forcing them to stay because of the Ultima and that neither of them know where their friends are. The two agree to do something about it. They join a crowd rioting and one of the members of the Guardian Forces tells the crowd to cooperate. This causes Travis to get very angry and push to the front of the crowd to tell the member he has a lot of nerve telling the crow to cooperate. When the member insists it's for their safety, Katelyn openly disagrees and the member threatens her. When Travis sticks up for her, the member pushes him on to the ground, knocking him out. In what appears to be inside of his mind, a figure that looks somewhat like him except a shadow over his eyes, another shirt under his shirt and black and white tells Travis that he's "worthless" and "a pathetic excuse for a Valkrum." This figure offers to help him, but the muffled sound of Katelyn's calling out to him is heard and he wakes up. They then leave the crowd.
In episode 5 of When Angels Fall, it is confirmed the snake-eyed man is his father, Terry.
In MyStreet, he wears a teal hoodie with black, uneven drawstrings and black pants. In the explosion, his clothes were torn off and only a part of his pants remained.
In case you were wondering about his appearance as a princess in Season 1, you may find all your answers on this page.
In MyStreet Phoenix Drop High, Travis wears a light navy blue shirt with what seems to be some sort of insignia or badge, gray pants, a white undershirt, and a light sky blue tie that all male students are required to wear.
In Love~Love Paradise, Travis is shown with a pixelated version of Aphmau Merchandise imprinted on a green t-shirt and the obvious swim trunks. However, in the water park, he is seen with no t-shirt on.
In Lover's Lane, Travis wears a blue-ish floral print shirt with yellow flowers over a white t-shirt with black pants and a striped belt.
In the post-credits scene in the finale of Emerald Secret, Travis is shown as a child with silvery grey eyes.
In his cat form, he is similar to Katelyn, pale green with a dark green scarf.
Towards the beginning of MyStreet, he was sociable and was more straight-forward to the women especially. He was more flirtatious and playful (and extremely perverted), which is why he usually ended up getting punched by women. However, in the Valentine's episode, he seemed a bit shy, showing that he could lack confidence sometimes, though it's more likely that he just wasn't expecting Katelyn to feel nervous around him, showing that he might be covering up some self-doubt with all his flirting and bluster. It is revealed in MyStreet Phoenix Drop High that Travis developed his flirtatious behavior due to Dante's extremely horrible dating advice (attempting said advice is practically suicide).
Around Season 2, Travis stopped being so perverted, most likely due to his relationship with Katelyn starting around Love~Love Paradise, causing him to get more serious with his love life.
He also seems to have an unknown split-personality that comes up randomly. It seems to help Travis in certain situations.
Episode AppearancesEdit
Heeyy Baby! Glad to see you made it to the gun show in time! check this out. BIKOW!
|-Travis, talking to Aphmau. MyStreet, Episode 14 "The New Guy"
So Dante, you said there were some pretty fly honies in the neighborhood.
|-Travis, talking to Dante. MyStreet, Episode 14 "The New Guy"
Did someone say hot? Because I'm here to light the room on fire!
|-Travis, MyStreet, Episode 15 "Burnin' Love"
See, I at least admit I am a pervert. Not one who is in denial like "NO NO I don't I don't do stuff like ahh.."
|-Travis Minecraft Pixel Painters *Truth about Sprinkles
Okay real talk, I look like toast right now...
|-Travis Minecraft Pixel Painters *Truth About Sprinkles
Are you a camera? Because I smile everytime I look at you.
|Travis, Phoenix Drop High Episode 24 "Heartbreaker"
I'm Trash. Will you take me out?
|Travis, Phoenix Drop High Episode 24 "Heartbreaker"
"Heeeeyyy" Katelyn..."
|Travis, multiple minigames and episodes and MyStreet Season 2, Episode 1 "Love~Love Paradise!"
Dante: She is such an angel...
Travis: An angel with a BOOTY!
|Travis and Dante; On their Minds, MyStreet Season 1, Episode 26 "Valentine's Disaster"
Don't mess with demons!
|Travis, Minigame Hide and Seek "Baby Garroth"
- He claims that his OTP (One True Pairing) is "Katemau" (Katelyn and Aphmau) though he likely wouldn't be happy about it if it were to become a reality since he has a crush/obsession on Katelyn. He also hates the concept of "Jefflyn" - the pairing of Katelyn and Jeffory, and is prone to extreme jealousy and temper tantrums when the idea is mentioned.
- He seems to always have cherry flavored breath mints on his person.
- His signature color appears to be the dark sea green in his clothing. This is shown more on his MyStreet counterpart, who wears a sea green colored hoodie.
- The reason why he was really flirty is because of Dante's bad advice. Otherwise, he actually seemed to be able to talk to a girl without having them punch him.
- When he arrives in Love~Love Paradise, he thinks he is in heaven due to the fact that there is no way he could've survived the explosion he caused.
- He occasionally shops at American Eagle.
- His favorite character in Undertale is Papyrus. He shares this along with Katelyn.
- His favorite food is tacos.
- He is shown to become very angry easily as shown in an episode of Prop Hunt and he claims he "gets it from his dad". This is a reference to Minecraft Diaries, where he is half demon and is able to turn into one at will. When he has these outbursts of anger, he is unable to remember them after he returns to normal. He also gets really serious and Katelyn seems to like this side of him.
- He calls Katelyn "Hun", and she hates it.
- An old running gag is that whenever Travis says "Heeeey Katelyn!" to Katelyn, she punches him in the stomach.
- Travis has a tendency of referring to some of his female friends as "Hun", this mostly occurs in the case of Aphmau.
- Travis said that he also participates in martial arts. This is a reference that his voice actor also voiced Budo Masuta, the leader of the martial arts club from Yandere Simulator.
- In "Ein Saves Aphmau", it is revealed that Travis used to be bullied in elementary school, and Dante stood up for him.
- His eyes are shown to have once been gray, and it is theorized that his father, Terry, used a failed forever potion on him that changed his eyes.
- Lucinda seemed to suspect him of stealing the spellbook due to his reaction when he saw it, but did not want to suggest this to anyone else. Her suspicions were proven true by Kim and Ghost in "Lucinda Breaks In".
- He is not in Her Wish. This is probably because he is still being investigated by the GF.
- According to Pat, his va, while responding to someone, (who said Travis likes blue hair) he has said "Okay I'm gonna say it to cause chaos, but what color hair is also his best friend? Boy definitely got a type based on hair color." This implies that no matter who, Travis may be attracted to people with blue hair.
- In a pixel painter minigame, Travis (in character, so may just be Pat, but either way is enough) has said he, and I quote, "Enjoys keeping guys and girls on their toes." So, it is safe to say that Travis is in fact lgbt. (possibly pansexual).
- Also, according to a fan, they have asked Jess at a panel if Travis was meant to be a woman (since his eyes, pixel wise, is lower like most of the women in mcd and mystreet). Which Jess has said yes, and they changed it last minute and kept the eyes since it fit him. Now, this doesn't mean automatically that Travis is transgender, but it's a fun headcanon! and cool to think about :)
- ^ we could've had Travlyn sapphic relationship <//333
- Also, according to a fan, they have asked Jess at a panel if Travis was meant to be a woman (since his eyes, pixel wise, is lower like most of the women in mcd and mystreet). Which Jess has said yes, and they changed it last minute and kept the eyes since it fit him. Now, this doesn't mean automatically that Travis is transgender, but it's a fun headcanon! and cool to think about :)
- In a pixel painter minigame, Travis (in character, so may just be Pat, but either way is enough) has said he, and I quote, "Enjoys keeping guys and girls on their toes." So, it is safe to say that Travis is in fact lgbt. (possibly pansexual).
|MyStreet Phoenix Drop High S1 & S2 Characters
|Aaron • Alex • Aphmau • Balto • Cadenza • Chad • Daniel • Dante • Dottie • Ein • Eric • Fenrir • Garroth • Garte • Gavin • Gene • Hyria • Ivy • Jeffory • Kacey • Kai • Katelyn • Kawaii~Chan • Kim • Laurance • Layla • Lily • Lucinda • Maria • Maria(Werewolf) • Michi • Nicole • Rylan • Sasha • Sylvana • Teony • Travis • Vylad • Zane • Zenix • Zianna
|MyStreet S1 Characters
|Main Characters
| Aaron • Aphmau • Cadenza • Dante • Garroth • Katelyn • Kawaii~Chan • Laurance •
Lucinda • Nicole • Travis • Vylad • Zane
|Supporting Characters
| Abby • Brendan • Celestia • Emmalyn • Jeffory
• Kenmur • Marsh • McCloud • Michi • Reese • Zianna
|Minor Characters
|Alexander • Castor• Jasper • Krystal • Kunzite • Megan • Mr. Manly • Pyre • Urla
|MyStreet S2 Characters
|Main Characters
|Aaron • Aphmau • Celestia • Dante • Garroth • Katelyn • Kawaii~Chan • Lucinda • Travis • Zane
|Supporting Characters
|Eric • Gene • Guy • Ivy • Jenna • Nate • Nicole • Sylvana • Teony
|Minor Characters
|Cadenza • Laurance • Vylad
|MyStreet S3 Characters
|Main Characters
|Aaron • Aphmau • Dante • Garroth • Katelyn • Kawaii~Chan • Laurance • Lucinda • Travis • Zane
|Supporting Characters
|Cadenza • Caleb • Celestia • Damien • Eli III • Eric • Gene • Kacey • Maria • Melissa • Michi • Rachel • Sasha • Sylvana • Zenix • Zianna • Guy • Nate
|Minor Characters
|• Nicole • Vylad


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