Charlotte Shane
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Charlotte Shane
@charoshane.bsky.social
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Regarding the Cries of the World
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Wrote something short about American compassion meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/regarding-...
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#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
Reading Writers/@bookforum.bsky.social heads: come get your free tickets! @jolivingstone.bsky.social, Stephanie Wambugu and I will be discussing a VERY divisive recent novel on December 4th. www.eventbrite.com/e/bookforum-...
Bookforum Holiday Party & Event
Join us to celebrate the holidays and the latest issue of Bookforum. Featuring Stephanie Wambugu.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reading Writers/@bookforum.bsky.social heads: come get your free tickets! @jolivingstone.bsky.social, Stephanie Wambugu and I will be discussing a VERY divisive recent novel on December 4th. www.eventbrite.com/e/bookforum-...
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Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.”
That’s seems really bad.
That’s seems really bad.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
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bookforum is sponsoring Reading Writers this season, and CharJo are the kind of hosts that let me get earnest in a way I almost never let myself and I feel good about it! also I got to talk about Light Eaters which is a very powerful book to me
This week's Reading Writers is very dear to me. @torreypeters.bsky.social joined for a lively, funny, moving discussion about plant consciousness that I think will leave listeners inspired and hopeful about life/the world/the future/etc. Come get your balm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Metaphysically Blown Away: Torrey Peters on Zoe Schlanger’s The Light Eaters
Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/19/2025 · 1h 9m
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November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
bookforum is sponsoring Reading Writers this season, and CharJo are the kind of hosts that let me get earnest in a way I almost never let myself and I feel good about it! also I got to talk about Light Eaters which is a very powerful book to me
This week's Reading Writers is very dear to me. @torreypeters.bsky.social joined for a lively, funny, moving discussion about plant consciousness that I think will leave listeners inspired and hopeful about life/the world/the future/etc. Come get your balm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Metaphysically Blown Away: Torrey Peters on Zoe Schlanger’s The Light Eaters
Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/19/2025 · 1h 9m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This week's Reading Writers is very dear to me. @torreypeters.bsky.social joined for a lively, funny, moving discussion about plant consciousness that I think will leave listeners inspired and hopeful about life/the world/the future/etc. Come get your balm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community
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November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
posts like this makes me so happy. unironically, it is beautiful
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
posts like this makes me so happy. unironically, it is beautiful
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Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Stop whatever you're doing and START procrastinating...by listening to the latest Reading Writers. It's a really fun one, with the scintillating Lauren Michele Jackson. Expect talk of dirtbag women protagonists, Alexander the Great, and hot cheetahs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Setting the House on Fire: Lauren Michele Jackson on Nettie Jones’ Fish Tales
Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/12/2025 · 56m
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November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Stop whatever you're doing and START procrastinating...by listening to the latest Reading Writers. It's a really fun one, with the scintillating Lauren Michele Jackson. Expect talk of dirtbag women protagonists, Alexander the Great, and hot cheetahs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Please allow me to further the high you may be riding this morning by sharing the first episode of Reading Writers Season 3 — and we're now in partnership with @bookforum.bsky.social! Thank you @rumaan.bsky.social for the perfect conversation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
First Draft of Reality: Rumaan Alam on Tina Brown’s The Vanity Fair Diaries.
Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/05/2025 · 1h 3m
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November 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Please allow me to further the high you may be riding this morning by sharing the first episode of Reading Writers Season 3 — and we're now in partnership with @bookforum.bsky.social! Thank you @rumaan.bsky.social for the perfect conversation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
"As I’ve said many a time, I don’t like movies. They underwhelm and annoy me; I am immune to their alleged magic."
October's reading, watching, listening: charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/10...
October's reading, watching, listening: charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/10...
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"As I’ve said many a time, I don’t like movies. They underwhelm and annoy me; I am immune to their alleged magic."
October's reading, watching, listening: charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/10...
October's reading, watching, listening: charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/10...
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"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
The fantasies of every ICE agent facing some sort of (severe!) justice tribunal are shocking to me. People speak about it so confidently, like it's something that will magically, inevitably occur... Can you point to a clear precedent in *this country's* history? I only know of the myriad opposites
October 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The fantasies of every ICE agent facing some sort of (severe!) justice tribunal are shocking to me. People speak about it so confidently, like it's something that will magically, inevitably occur... Can you point to a clear precedent in *this country's* history? I only know of the myriad opposites
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A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
For months I've been thinking about what precise anxieties and insecurities hide in questions like "how can I write at a time like this?" and tried to untangle them by parsing separate (though interrelated) acts: making, sharing, and selling meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/deconstruc...
Deconstructing Creative Angst
Making • Sharing • Selling • Freedom
meantforyou.beehiiv.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
For months I've been thinking about what precise anxieties and insecurities hide in questions like "how can I write at a time like this?" and tried to untangle them by parsing separate (though interrelated) acts: making, sharing, and selling meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/deconstruc...
Soft launch of something special (or rather the return of something special…) in September’s blog 🤭http://charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/9/8/september
Hold Fast, M’love — CS
It steams my beans that we’ve got people out here going on an extended tear about how Colleen Hoover is irredeemable dogshit while saying Emily Henry wrote one of their favorite books. I’ve read three...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Soft launch of something special (or rather the return of something special…) in September’s blog 🤭http://charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/9/8/september
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There's a @charoshane.bsky.social line I think about constantly - 'But to fight for more than can be achieved in one lifetime is the plight of all radicals. Radicals are destined to die wanting.' And that's ok. It's in the job description www.bookforum.com/print/2502/s...
October 6, 2025 at 1:25 AM
There's a @charoshane.bsky.social line I think about constantly - 'But to fight for more than can be achieved in one lifetime is the plight of all radicals. Radicals are destined to die wanting.' And that's ok. It's in the job description www.bookforum.com/print/2502/s...
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It got lost in other news, but last week President Trump reinstated the death penalty in D.C., where it hasn't been used in 70 years. For @51st.news I did a dive into what exactly Trump's policy change means, who might be impacted, and what residents can do to push back: 51st.news/trump-reinst...
Capital punishment: What it means that Trump reinstated the death penalty in D.C.
D.C. did away with the death penalty 44 years ago, but the president is bringing it back.
51st.news
October 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It got lost in other news, but last week President Trump reinstated the death penalty in D.C., where it hasn't been used in 70 years. For @51st.news I did a dive into what exactly Trump's policy change means, who might be impacted, and what residents can do to push back: 51st.news/trump-reinst...
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Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...
404 Media is simply a dream come true
NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
www.404media.co
September 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
404 Media is simply a dream come true
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Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
September 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
First the grand juries, now the trial juries. This Admin is not winning.
Jurors acquit anti-ICE protester accused of assaulting federal officer in Paramount
Brayan Ramos-Brito was the first of immigration protestors to go to trial in Los Angeles federal court.
www.dailynews.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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D.C. doesn’t have its own prison, so its residents are sent to federal facilities all over the country. This is a bad system that serves no one, Askia Afrika-Ber writes.
This writer is a D.C. resident currently incarcerated at USP Hazelton in West Virginia, published here via More Than Our Crimes:
This writer is a D.C. resident currently incarcerated at USP Hazelton in West Virginia, published here via More Than Our Crimes:
Opinion: The federal Bureau of Prisons fails D.C. residents
D.C. doesn’t have its own prison, so its residents are sent to federal facilities all over the country. This is a bad system that serves no one.
51st.news
September 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
D.C. doesn’t have its own prison, so its residents are sent to federal facilities all over the country. This is a bad system that serves no one, Askia Afrika-Ber writes.
This writer is a D.C. resident currently incarcerated at USP Hazelton in West Virginia, published here via More Than Our Crimes:
This writer is a D.C. resident currently incarcerated at USP Hazelton in West Virginia, published here via More Than Our Crimes:
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i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view
September 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view