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Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social · 3d

From a long time ago, but an old favorite

A woman and child standing in a living room in matching Wonder Woman costumes

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · Sep 9

NOTE: you all should check out this interview I published today with Danielle Evans, all about a single story in her straight up amazing collection, THE OFFICE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS, which published in 2020, and which I interviewed her about this summer just bc I love it and wanted to.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Aug 7

We can’t let weird stuff like the actual, rock bottom crime rates affect our number one industry, which is the imaginary crime industrial
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Aug 7

1. This week, the FBI released its comprehensive crime report for 2024, which revealed that both VIOLENT CRIME and PROPERTY CRIME reached their LOWEST LEVELS SINCE THE 1960s

This a massive story. But you might not have heard about it, even if you follow the news closely.

Here's why.

Why you might not know that 2024 was America's safest year since the 1960s

An overwhelming majority of Americans, 64 percent, believe that crime increased across the country in 2024, according to a Gallup survey conducted late last year.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Jul 27

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · Jul 24

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jul 23

The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...

Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’

www.nytimes.com

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · Jul 21

The only not-real people allowed to be reported about as if they’re real people — it’s the law, they teach it in J school — are the Muppets

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Jul 21

also: this is an insane way for an outlet to describe an account of ai images that is not a human person. who is “her?”

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Writers in Baltimore Schools @writersinbmore.bsky.social · Jul 11

So far, we've raised $7510, which makes us 25% of the way toward of goal of raising $30K!

Help us send 30 young writers to camp by making a gift today bit.ly/2025WBScamp

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Jul 4

people seem really confused about racial categories maybe we should have some educational programs to teach how these historically constructed categories structure our entire society in insidious ways we could even do programming in workplaces to improve how people communicate with each other

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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · Jul 1

Almost twice as many people ride the New York City bus every day as live in Wyoming.

The bus should have two senators

Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · Jul 1

The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · Jun 29

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 28

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · Jun 25

Zohran's win has a message for national Dems, if they can hear it. Campaign on an aspirational platform that you actually believe in, wear your true politics on your sleeve, don't equivocate or triangulate or throw people under the bus in the name of attracting 'undecideds'.

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · Jun 3

This is basically the standard GenAI use case. Someone hoping AI will let them pretend to be informed yet actually just wasting everyone's time with nonsense. www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI

Some titles on the list included books with extremely garbled titles and fake authors.

www.semafor.com

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Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social · May 26

Cannot work under these conditions

A white cat with brown tabby markings placing his paw on a woman’s arm and looking at her/the camera with what appears to be an expression of skepticism or concern.

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Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social · May 24

What if it’s this bear though?

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San Diego Humane Society @sdhumane.bsky.social · May 14

You might want to sit down for this one — the level of cuteness is un-bear-able! Meet the newest patient at our Ramona Wildlife Center: a 2-month-old black bear cub, and the youngest bear we’ve ever cared for in our organization’s history!

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · May 22

Also: I assume Harvard will try to sue fast and fix things, but the cruelty this letter unleashes *today* will induce lasting fear and panic not just on the 6800 international students at Harvard, but also on all international students in this country, even if there is a swift TRO. Why stay here?

Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · May 22

🧵 Today's revocation of Harvard's ability to enroll international is awful for many reasons, chief among them the human cost as @jeremywallace.bsky.social notes. It's also an attack on the US economy. But maybe less obvious: it is terrible national security policy. It makes Americans less safe. 1/

Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · May 22

6800 people who already probably have leases for next year, spent years of their lives working to get to where they were now upended because Trump and Noem and Stephen Miller want to crush a major export sector of this economy, oh, and also a source of cures for diseases and knowledge of all sorts.

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Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social · May 21

Please tell him his impressive commitment to professionalism just sold me some necklaces!

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Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social · May 20

I know this is a minor point in the overall nonsense of this, but I am stuck on why your imaginary book’s imaginary climate scientist has wealthy clients who are targets of eco-activism? Are they paying her to not do her job?

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · May 20

Also everyone knows that if I ever write a followup to The Great Believers it will be called
2 Great 2 Believe!

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Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social · May 15

Veruca Salt?

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Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social · May 12

I spent a lot of the time my mother was sickest frustrated or even arguing with her because she sometimes trusted what I thought of as predatory wellness-industry nonsense, but I also understand that we are all made vulnerable when our actual systems of care are at so many levels unworthy of trust.

Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social · May 12

It’s an infuriating read but worth it even if you have no personal connection— not so much an expose of one company as of
many ways systems and processes that could protect us or improve the world are warped by corruption/underinvestment/narratives that don’t align with reality

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Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social · May 12

I spent this mother’s day finishing this book, which I picked up in part because my mother died of cancer and is part of the talc class action, but I probably noticed it on the shelf because the iconic logo reminded me of my mother combing my hair with no more tangles no more tears when I was little

Photograph of the cover of No More Tears: the dark secrets of Johnson +Johnson, by Gardiner Harris

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Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social · May 12

Grief is strange and slippery. Wednesday would have been my mother’s birthday. I’m missing her and also knowing how much of her anger was a kind of faith in the potential of the world to improve. This is one of those years when to find any faith in the rage I have to remember who raised me.

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