Beth Boyle Machlan
@bethmachlan.bsky.social
Essayist, educator, Zillow stalker, hockey fan, pet pic poster. Usually tired; probably mad. Words at The Common, Catapult, Avidly, River Teeth, NYT, The Rumpus, Guernica. CFA-UAW she/her
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Basically, I'm interested in hearing about what it's like when multiple generations are job-searching at the same time, especially given the state of the job market. [email protected], Signal rstauff.20, or message here!
January 28, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Basically, I'm interested in hearing about what it's like when multiple generations are job-searching at the same time, especially given the state of the job market. [email protected], Signal rstauff.20, or message here!
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turns out that getting stinking rich running a shopping website does not make you any better than any other out-of-their depths dilettante at running a serious newspaper anywhere but into the ground
“What’s the plan after this?” a former Post reporter wondered. “You cut however many hundreds of people to solve the fact that you’re still losing lots of money. Then what?”
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Inside the Washington Post’s Existential Meltdown
“There’s no vision for why it should exist.”
nymag.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:40 PM
turns out that getting stinking rich running a shopping website does not make you any better than any other out-of-their depths dilettante at running a serious newspaper anywhere but into the ground
When yet another person writes about “Amazons” without mentioning Manon Rheaume
a man wearing a raiders shirt stands next to another man in a blue shirt
ALT: a man wearing a raiders shirt stands next to another man in a blue shirt
media.tenor.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:06 PM
When yet another person writes about “Amazons” without mentioning Manon Rheaume
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Critique by creating.
January 28, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Critique by creating.
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[hushed david attenborough voiceover] watch closely for a rare sighting of the elusive head of the Leopards Eating Faces party
The co-founder of Latinas for Trump is now condemning Trump’s ICE raids:
“I’m afraid of someone stopping my son.”
“This is not what we voted for.”
“I’m afraid of someone stopping my son.”
“This is not what we voted for.”
January 28, 2026 at 1:04 AM
[hushed david attenborough voiceover] watch closely for a rare sighting of the elusive head of the Leopards Eating Faces party
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One small thing you can do today: ICE is ramping up in Maine. Food For All is delivering meals to 300 families that can't leave their homes. They need $7k a day to continue operations. The Culture Study community is raising enough to cover a day—join us?
Donate directly: givebutter.com/Scx87A
or
Donate directly: givebutter.com/Scx87A
or
Food Delivered With Dignity
In the current environment we need to raise a $7,000 a day to sustain our operations
givebutter.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
One small thing you can do today: ICE is ramping up in Maine. Food For All is delivering meals to 300 families that can't leave their homes. They need $7k a day to continue operations. The Culture Study community is raising enough to cover a day—join us?
Donate directly: givebutter.com/Scx87A
or
Donate directly: givebutter.com/Scx87A
or
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the incredible gall to say “we have to look honestly at ourselves” to a room full of investigative journalists at the peak of their careers after you’ve been hired over them from your blog
Weiss' full remarks to CBS News staff (1/4)
January 27, 2026 at 5:57 PM
the incredible gall to say “we have to look honestly at ourselves” to a room full of investigative journalists at the peak of their careers after you’ve been hired over them from your blog
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Not to be that person but yep. And none of it is accidental or only about profit.
TikTok was sold overnight and the algorithm immediately became trash.
January 27, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Not to be that person but yep. And none of it is accidental or only about profit.
How the livestock is weathering the storm
January 26, 2026 at 5:56 PM
How the livestock is weathering the storm
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We’re basically watching a civil war, but you still have to pay rent, walk your dog, care for your kids, heal your broken heart, go to your appointments, send those emails, and all of it just keeps going. The personal victories and failures still exist, while our government executes people.
January 25, 2026 at 10:03 PM
We’re basically watching a civil war, but you still have to pay rent, walk your dog, care for your kids, heal your broken heart, go to your appointments, send those emails, and all of it just keeps going. The personal victories and failures still exist, while our government executes people.
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 25, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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It's almost 2 hours before the hockey game in Minnesota, & neither the NHL nor the Minnesota Wild have postponed it. Nor has anyone made any official comments about what happened - including the visiting team, the Florida Panthers. (Which is hardly surprising, because they're the Florida Panthers.)
January 24, 2026 at 10:53 PM
It's almost 2 hours before the hockey game in Minnesota, & neither the NHL nor the Minnesota Wild have postponed it. Nor has anyone made any official comments about what happened - including the visiting team, the Florida Panthers. (Which is hardly surprising, because they're the Florida Panthers.)
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Sure, I guess we'll never know how the founders would have felt about LGBTQ rights or double jeopardy or whatever but you know what we do know? How they felt about a tyrannical government's roving militias gunning down people in broad daylight.
January 24, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Sure, I guess we'll never know how the founders would have felt about LGBTQ rights or double jeopardy or whatever but you know what we do know? How they felt about a tyrannical government's roving militias gunning down people in broad daylight.
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It’s very frustrating to hear mainstream reporters continue to characterize what ICE, CBP and others as “immigration enforcement.” Even now. Like if you don’t know what this is about at this point I don’t know how to help you.
January 24, 2026 at 9:58 PM
It’s very frustrating to hear mainstream reporters continue to characterize what ICE, CBP and others as “immigration enforcement.” Even now. Like if you don’t know what this is about at this point I don’t know how to help you.
This is so good, for those of us wondering how (and why) to cook dinner in the face of fascism.
"Reading is a curious thing. A book read in a happy fog is one thing; the same pages when the world has turned to ash can be another."
Cynthia Zarin traces the rise of fascism through the diary entries of Virginia Woolf: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dont-close-your-teeth/
Cynthia Zarin traces the rise of fascism through the diary entries of Virginia Woolf: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dont-close-your-teeth/
Don’t Close Your Teeth | Los Angeles Review of Books
Cynthia Zarin traces the rise of fascism through the diary entries of Virginia Woolf, in an essay from LARB Quarterly no. 47: “Security.”
lareviewofbooks.org
January 24, 2026 at 10:01 PM
This is so good, for those of us wondering how (and why) to cook dinner in the face of fascism.
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We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
January 24, 2026 at 9:35 PM
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
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They murdered Good and Pretti, a poet and a nurse, one whose last words were “I’m not mad,” another whose last act was shielding another. Because of course that’s who they killed. Everyday people.
January 24, 2026 at 9:30 PM
They murdered Good and Pretti, a poet and a nurse, one whose last words were “I’m not mad,” another whose last act was shielding another. Because of course that’s who they killed. Everyday people.
Standing together in Lewiston, ME
January 24, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Standing together in Lewiston, ME
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we should have helicopters that fly around and shoot vaccine darts at unvaccinated kids like they do for wildlife
January 23, 2026 at 8:26 PM
we should have helicopters that fly around and shoot vaccine darts at unvaccinated kids like they do for wildlife
Quote skeet a gif with a clue of where you’re from
January 23, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Quote skeet a gif with a clue of where you’re from
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There's also been a shift in character in activism.
In Trump's first term, the big actions were symbolic protests designed to make a narrative impact.
In Trump's second term, we are seeing actions designed to practically frustrate an authoritarian crackdown on civil liberties.
In Trump's first term, the big actions were symbolic protests designed to make a narrative impact.
In Trump's second term, we are seeing actions designed to practically frustrate an authoritarian crackdown on civil liberties.
One of the big trends in opposition activism during Trump 2.0 has been the localism of protest. This level of organizing is pretty astonishing to watch, and anyone who insists that there haven't been any protests against Trump is simply ignoring it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
January 23, 2026 at 2:44 PM
There's also been a shift in character in activism.
In Trump's first term, the big actions were symbolic protests designed to make a narrative impact.
In Trump's second term, we are seeing actions designed to practically frustrate an authoritarian crackdown on civil liberties.
In Trump's first term, the big actions were symbolic protests designed to make a narrative impact.
In Trump's second term, we are seeing actions designed to practically frustrate an authoritarian crackdown on civil liberties.
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Trump's son in law reveals that the destruction of Gaza is all designed to create a platform for a massive real estate deal—in which the Gazans will have no role and no home. www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner unveils images of 'New Gaza' - 'No plan B'
Donald Trump hosted the signing ceremony of the newly-created Board of Peace.
www.express.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Trump's son in law reveals that the destruction of Gaza is all designed to create a platform for a massive real estate deal—in which the Gazans will have no role and no home. www.express.co.uk/news/world/2...