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Celeste Headlee

@celesteheadlee.bsky.social

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Writer, journalist, speaker. She/her. Black, Jewish, Portuguese. Detroit stan forever. Living on Piscataway land. Latest book: https://rb.gy/4ovkd Press: [email protected]

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · Nov 9

My friends & I have a food pantry in my front yard. It is used heavily. We can't keep it full & could use some help covering the cost of shelf-stable supplies.
No one is using this pantry unless they need the help. We supply beans, oatmeal, onions, etc. It's not gourmet food.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 2h

"Now, what's it gonna take to get y'all n****s to come back in? We got all your Black needs under one roof: cocoa butter, bootlegs of Sinners, Hennessy, white women, Dragon Ball Z. We got rid of that old Target dog & replaced him with a pitbull."

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 2h

The nation will be overrun with inflated frogs dry humping in the vicinity of uniformed officers.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 9h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 5h

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12h

SHOUTS & MURMURS
ICE wants YOU to betray your fellow-HUMANS. Join ICE today and receive UP TO a $50,000 signing bonus, which YOU can spend on anything YOU want-like a LAWYER when you're eventually TRIED at THE HAGUE.
NEW YÖRKER

SHOUTS & MURMURS
ICE wants YOU to forget that YOU and nearly everyone YOU have ever KNOWN are descended from IMMIGRANTS. We also want YOU to ignore the FACT that the FIRST LADY worked in the U.S. before ever getting a WORK VISA. ICE reminds YOU that YOU will not arrest MODELS, as they are CRUCIAL to our ECONOMY.
NEW YORKER

SHOUTS & MURMURS
ICE wants YOU to put on a MASK to do your JOB. But NOT like
during COVID when YOU didn't WANT to wear a MASK. This time, it's NOT for protecting OTHERS from HARM—it's for protecting your IDENTITY while YOU harm OTHERS.
THE
NEW YORKER

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, Adam.
Oh, Adam, no.

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 2h

Would that be possible, though, if society in general had not equated wealth with virtue and allowed the free flow of money into politics?

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 2h

We are rewarding Trump for his silly propaganda campaign for the Nobel by talking about his loss more than Machado's win.

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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 3h

I don't think folks realize this, but the Sun-Times is now a nonprofit owned by Chicago Public Media (the parent company of the incredible local NPR station, WBEZ).

They continue to have the most dogged and forceful coverage in the region, thanks in part to that ownership structure.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

Page One in Chicago.

@chicago.suntimes.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Aug 3

Paul Ingrassia has called for reparations from the descendants of slaves to slave owners.
You read that correctly.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 2

The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election

Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 11h

Well, this is a surprise.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 19h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

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Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 11h

MOOCs! I totally forgot about MOOCs.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · May 17

Men’s pants: Your waist is 30 inches, therefore you are a size 30.

Women’s pants: Your waist is bad inches, you have wide hips, a small butt, short legs, a long torso, a prehensile tail, and we don’t like your face. Therefore you are a size whatever the fuck we want, but only at this store.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14h

"does the president know what is real and what is not" is a legitimate question that should probably get asked a lot more

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 17h

It was creepy and because it was so wildly inaccurate, one must wonder about the choice to make it so very unsettling.

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 17h

Ha! That's not the question about Amadeus either. But if you ask one of us (insufferable music folks), we will go into mind-numbing detail about how inaccurate it is, how offensive it is to portray genius that way, how Salieri wasn't a brilliant composer anyway, blah blah.

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 1d

Ask music majors how they liked "Amadeus" and you'll discover a whole new category of insufferable bastards.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 1d

"When you saw the first movie, did you watch it?... and learn about anything that happened in it?... I don't like causing people pain except for right now..."

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 1d

"Anything terrible that happens to you, we couldn't care less. Anything terrible that happens to us, we're going to burn it to the ground."

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 1d

Dequindre (duh-QUINN-der), Livernois (LIVER-noy), Schoenherr (SHAY-ner), and Mackinac (MACK-in-aw)

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 1d

Also Cadieux

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 1d

We. Took. Free. Speech. Away.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 1d

Caption this photo:

Photo of Marco Rubio leaning over to whisper something into Donald Trump's ear

Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 1d

Not pronounced the way you think. Or the second way that you think. It's GO-thee (like knee with a th)

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 1d

Goethe Street in Detroit

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