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Margaret Monteith

@memonteith.bsky.social

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Walks further than people think. Humanities teacher & fiction writer with words in Bomb, McSweeney’s, Evergreen Review, Fugue, Gargoyle and more. USC BA/Columbia University MA/Brooklyn College MFA. she/her/hers www.margaretzamosmonteith.com

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · Oct 11

Check out my story in McSweeney’s, and please please please vote. #harriswalz #childlesscatladies

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Aug 19

"Sure, I might be a childless cat lady with a solid career as a quantitative analyst, but Senator Vance and a podcast host researching the theory of everything have helped me see the lack of meaning in my existence."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Postmenopausal Woman’s Purpose-Driven Life

“In a 2020 podcast interview discussing the benefits of grandparents in children’s lives, JD Vance agrees when the host says, ‘That’s the whole pur...

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 4h

Posts like this are why I follow Adam Gaffin’s @universalhub.com and if you’re in greater Boston I recommend you do too. Hyper local coverage of issues I care about, made even more essential as local media outlets become ever more scarce.

Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 17h

Judges order more immigrants freed from #ICE clutches, including 13-year-old boy now locked up with men at ICE's office prison in Burlington
www.universalhub.com/2025/judges-...

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 5h

happy bday Eleanor Roosevelt, b.1884, NYC.

“I believe that democracy is based on the ability to make democracy serve the good of the majority of the people. If it can’t do that, then it should not survive.”

“If silence seems to give approval, then remaining silent is cowardly.”

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1h

This post is about Boston, and we plan to keep it that way. DM me for more info on an event we are having to protect our strong gun laws in Massachusetts. The NRA put a question on the 2026 to repeal our recent gun safety legislation, and I am chairing the committee that is saying absolutely not.

Don Solomon @dsolomonesq.bsky.social · 2d

The cost of housing aside, I think it's one of the few places left in the US where you can feel the illusion of safety for days at a time. Yes, strangers don't wave hello on the street, but they also don't open-carry long guns on the street.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 5h

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 22h

Agreed! And people can donate to support them here: donate.wck.org/give/499865?...

World Central Kitchen

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 22h

World Central Kitchen is invaluable. And everyone involved is a hero. Donate to their work here: donate.wck.org/give/499865?...

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, while there are aspects of things like autism and ADHD that make life harder no matter what (to different degrees for each individual), a big chunk of "symptoms" are really "our brains work in a way that is incompatible with the way our society is set up for and by other people".

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not autistic, just a parent to an autistic kid w/ fairly significant support needs, but I personally find it very frustrating to see so many people fixated on preventing, reducing, or “curing” autism and neurodiversity instead of talking about inclusion + getting folks whatever support they need

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

Inside Portland’s War Zone (Spoiler: It’s a Farmers Market

Inside Portland’s War Zone (Spoiler: It’s a Farmers Market)

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 1d

“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - @aoc.bsky.social

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 1d

This interview on the recklessness of our current AI path is well worth a watch:

Center For Humane Technology @humanetech.bsky.social · 4d

CHT co-founder Tristan Harris returns to "The Daily Show" for an incisive conversation about the reckless AI path we're on, driven by the race to achieve market dominance: "This is an insane way to roll out a technology."

Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d_6WGPbo

Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Josh @dumbjosh.bsky.social · 3d

Dolly rules and non parents probably won't know this, but she has a book club for little kids and she will just send them books for free. my kids have loved them. it's a good excuse to stop doing something and just hang out and read a book with them.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 7d

[Throwing the money back.]

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 8d

The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens.

Few understand this.

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 8d

“Being nice costs you nothing! Being a piece of shit costs you your humanity!” Amen.

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 8d

“Being nice costs you nothing! Being a piece of shit costs you your humanity!” Amen, @amandalitman.bsky.social

Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 8d

In my personal newsletter this week: I posted online about vaccinating my baby. You can probably guess what happened next. amandalitman.substack.com/p/i-posted-o...

I posted online about vaccinating my kid

You can probably guess what happened next...

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 8d

Musk’s wealth
2012: 2 billion / 2024: 447 billion
Bezos wealth
2012: 18 billion / 2024: 249 billion Zuckerberg’s wealth
2012: 2 billion / 2024: 447 billion
USA minimum wage
2012: $7.25 an hour/2024: $7.25…
#TaxTheRich #incomeinequality #makeitmakesense

Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 8d

This.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 8d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 8d

They willfully refuse to understand, “‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ / He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’” 😞

Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 8d

“‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ / He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’” Call your reps and demand justice and civil rights for all.

Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 8d

Our government has given these men license to do this. Supplied them with weapons and uniforms even. Given them ample resources to live out their hate filled fantasies while saying we have no resources for healthcare. It’s truly unforgivable.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 8d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

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