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The Met Gala is the closest thing we have to the Capitol from Hunger Games.

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I am deeply honored to be in conversation with THEE Bridgett M. Davis, discussing her latest memoir LOVE, RITA. NYC area friends, please join us at the Brooklyn Public Library in celebration of this beautiful book that has moved me in so many ways. To RSVP: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/bri...

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Holding my breath for the Pulitzers for Hossam Shabbat and the 200+ journalists killed whose citations would’ve read: The Only People Reporting From Inside a Genocide.

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The power of truly good cinema when a non-Marvel movie commands this sort of theatrical power. I’m not even talking Hollywood, but Bollywood level greatness. That multi-genre, songs that thump in your chest, foot tapping, make you jump out of your seats and pants with delight+horror goodness.

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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

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There is an America that does vital work in investigating its own flaws. And which governs itself by this most basic belief in every human’s right to express themselves freely (without it, who even are we?) I am here for this America, and its upholders.

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How one Dalit woman's courage in 1841 challenged a centuries-old system of caste-based slavery and hastened the promise of freedom for millions. Sreyartha Krishna writes:

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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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"The book lets the reader in on the stories of bars and pubs of Cuba, including joints like El Floridita where Ernest Hemingway nursed his daiquiri," writes Cris. Read review of Ullekh NP's book here: scroll.in/article/1081... #bookreview

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As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

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Living on the Edge 🏔️ A mountain goat scales one of the precarious rocky cliff sides in Glacier National Park. 🏷️: 📸🌿🐡🦊

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Beyond parody headline in the NYT. Can't decide whether they're deliberately trolling us at this point, or whether they need to fire all their headline writers.

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Harry & Megan’s charity recently revoked a grant for a Muslim women’s org based in Wisconsin, because the director published an anti-genocide op-ed they deemed “hateful”. The director Janan Najeeb just published this incredible response. ❤️‍🔥 mmwconline.org/response-to-...

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I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

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“We will not know what is killing us.” Funny how writers in the west imagined all kinds of science fiction futures and failed at something this simple: predicting a fascist hegemony in the hands of pill-popping clowns. This could have been the title.

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“Manal, Bilal, & others in Nabi Saleh had done everything they were supposed to do. The moral awakening occurred as planned. It just didn’t make a difference. What they hadn’t counted on was the utter lack of real democracy in the West.” If you read one thing today, let it be this.

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I just watched a clip of a room full of 80 year old white people yell at Chuck Grasley to bring “that guy back from El Salvador.” Maybe there still hope.

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I relish every time you get to see Olympians race normal people who you can see what world class athleticism looks like on a relatable scale

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🎙️📚“When writing 'Amma', I was nervous about people here who knew more than I did reading my book. I was so worried about getting things wrong and doing us a disservice to ourselves.” A conversation with the Sri Lankan-Pākehā writer @saraiddesilva:

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"It’s not species being revived, it’s a few of their characteristics being borrowed. It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat." Rich Grenyer on 'deextinction' in @theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-de-extin...

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people who say change takes time are full of it imo. when i was born the berlin wall had been up for 16 years. growing up it just felt like it would be around forever. a month before my 12th birthday it fell and germany unified. change requires a good, quick shove.

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I had to tell a naturalized citizen that this administration is deporting naturalized citizens. Had to pull it up on my phone to prove it. Anyway, liberal democracy cannot survive this amount of media fragmentation. In the end, a stupid app will have broken y’all’s grand experiment.

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I had such a fun time talking with Christina Cauterucci on the @slate.com Outward podcast! 🌈 We talk about the history of splits in the “LGBT movement” and how trans people became so vulnerable to attacks. Check it out! slate.com/podcasts/out...

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Speaking at UC Berkeley this Friday! Come through 🌷

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Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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hand to microphone in ear I'm getting a report in, there actually is a smidgen of good news to share with you.

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Loyola's therapy dog is graduating (handler is retiring) so they're throwing him a graduation party.

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Maybe it’s just me, but mainstream liberal news media continuing to paywall important, urgent news like “DOGE collects federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs” in this moment of societal collapse, is umm… kinda antithetical to the purpose of news??

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Officially shut down my Instagram account today. If someone asks, be a dear and let them know where they can find me 🙃

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Georgia became the first US state to introduce a bill recognising ‘Hinduphobia’. scroll.in/article/1048... Revisit this piece by Nachiket Deuskar, where he examined how #Hindutva identity politics has played out in the Indian diaspora in recent years.

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The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

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Just cause @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social followed me back and I love his flowers as much as I love his books, here is some dew-drenched north Cali beauty for all of you, but esp for Jeff!

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Yemen: also the land of humans with some of the oldest histories of beekeeping. But they don’t teach you that in school.

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If I were an editor at a prestigious national publication I would simply ask writers to define what they mean by words like "forced" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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These wetland mornings…

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Last weekend in Chicago, 1500 historians gathered for the Organization of American Historians' conference where leading scholars discussed little things like, oh, the fate of democracy. I guess if we add some horny Nazis next year maybe CNN will come out and listen to what we have to say?

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Can’t think of another poem that captures our times of intertwined political and environmental qahr/catastrophe, like Lena Tuffaha’s “To Be Self-Evident”. poets.org/poem/be-self...

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“I’m always amazed by the confident arguments that we can apologise for the racism and the imperialism, and then be left something that is pure and intact feminism – as though gender can even be conceptualised without racialisation, without class relations, without the context of colonialism.”

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“In some photographs I am a silhouette and only make out the vague curvature of my questions.”

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1970s: falls in love with trees 🥲 1980s: gets PhD in ecology 2 B w trees 4EVR ❤️ 1990s: trees on fire 🫣 2000s: leaves forest 😥 to fight climate crisis; Writes and testifies for 20 yrs. Multiple arrests✊ 4/7/25: Person next to me in CrossFit: “just me or does it seem like it snows less now?” 😐

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you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

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1/ A must- read by @zeinmurib.bsky.social - “While it may be tempting to put all the blame on Trump or the Republicans or Project 2025 (& they deserve the lion’s share), to do so would be to ignore decades of choices, missed opportunities, & betrayals” slate.com/news-and-pol...

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I’m going to be teaching at the Tin House summer residency and I’m so excited to meet those who will be joining! If you are still looking for a little window of breath and inspiration in which to work on your writing (amidst a world currently on fire), please consider applying for the fall.

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I guess spring is here, friends.

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We need A LOT MORE PEOPLE in our groups, campaigns, doing mutual aid etc... Bring your nerdy, cringe, loser selves. Revel in being uncool. Join other people who are doing things in community [mostly quietly and without fanfare]. We need many more people.

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“Whatever…”

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