Coraline Wren
@coralinewren.bsky.social
'Non-traditional' student: Drexel math/physics ('26) Ace/autistic/trans. Reclaim Philly, but mainly in spirit these days.
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Years ago, when I still wrote for SPIN, the great @danielkohn.bsky.social let me write about "A Long December", so of course I wrote a little about death and sadness and choosing to believe things can get better.
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
‘A Long December’ Always Gives Me Reason to Believe
December is a month of traditions. A myriad religious observances, baked goods, decorations and familial obligations. We all have our conventions, taking time t
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December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Years ago, when I still wrote for SPIN, the great @danielkohn.bsky.social let me write about "A Long December", so of course I wrote a little about death and sadness and choosing to believe things can get better.
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
www.spin.com/2021/12/a-lo...
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Knowing that the instructor was trans is directly relevant here, in that it turns this whole deal from a random terrible essay into a knowing ploy to bait the instructor by not doing the minimum required work, then claim that the professor hated her for being cis
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Knowing that the instructor was trans is directly relevant here, in that it turns this whole deal from a random terrible essay into a knowing ploy to bait the instructor by not doing the minimum required work, then claim that the professor hated her for being cis
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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named my fists simon and garfunkel 'cause if you fuck with me all you're gonna hear is the sound of silence
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
I named my fists Gilbert and Sullivan because they are slaves to duty
December 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
named my fists simon and garfunkel 'cause if you fuck with me all you're gonna hear is the sound of silence
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It's time to end the arguments, they've gone on much too long. Here is the definitive ranking of Star Wars:
1. Star Wars (film, 1977)
2. Star Wars (comic book series, 1977-present)
3. Star Wars (video game, 1983)
4. Star Wars (novelisation, 1976)
5. Star Wars (proposed missile defence system, 1983)
1. Star Wars (film, 1977)
2. Star Wars (comic book series, 1977-present)
3. Star Wars (video game, 1983)
4. Star Wars (novelisation, 1976)
5. Star Wars (proposed missile defence system, 1983)
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It's time to end the arguments, they've gone on much too long. Here is the definitive ranking of Star Wars:
1. Star Wars (film, 1977)
2. Star Wars (comic book series, 1977-present)
3. Star Wars (video game, 1983)
4. Star Wars (novelisation, 1976)
5. Star Wars (proposed missile defence system, 1983)
1. Star Wars (film, 1977)
2. Star Wars (comic book series, 1977-present)
3. Star Wars (video game, 1983)
4. Star Wars (novelisation, 1976)
5. Star Wars (proposed missile defence system, 1983)
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I can't remember who it was reviewing whom & internet seqrch is broken but the phrase has stuck, calling a supposedly major USian writer "fundamentally dishonest at the level of the sentence." It's been my guiding star since: to be honest at the level of the sentence. And so many writers aren't.
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I can't remember who it was reviewing whom & internet seqrch is broken but the phrase has stuck, calling a supposedly major USian writer "fundamentally dishonest at the level of the sentence." It's been my guiding star since: to be honest at the level of the sentence. And so many writers aren't.
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There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
There are more people organizing and pushing back against the regime today than there were in the first term. There are more people in more places (rural towns and big cities across the country). I think it's really strange how resistant some people are to these facts. I wonder what's going on.
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“Always put the people first”: Progressives get a new candidate in New York City
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer in Manhattan, is challenging Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Harlem (New York's 13th congressional district)
www.salon.com/2025/11/20/a...
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer in Manhattan, is challenging Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Harlem (New York's 13th congressional district)
www.salon.com/2025/11/20/a...
"Always put the people first": Progressives get a new candidate in New York City - Salon.com
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer in Manhattan, is challenging Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Harlem
www.salon.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“Always put the people first”: Progressives get a new candidate in New York City
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer in Manhattan, is challenging Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Harlem (New York's 13th congressional district)
www.salon.com/2025/11/20/a...
Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer in Manhattan, is challenging Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Harlem (New York's 13th congressional district)
www.salon.com/2025/11/20/a...
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Looks like we're doing a bonus explainer this week: why on earth does this happen
1/4 ⚛️🧪
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There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Looks like we're doing a bonus explainer this week: why on earth does this happen
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look if ever there was an author who could capture my unique charisma in prose, well...
I wasn’t sure how in the zone I was tonight but hey I just sat down and almost instantly wrote 1k words of Cora, so.
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
look if ever there was an author who could capture my unique charisma in prose, well...
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Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...
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In fact, as I discuss in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR, it's a *feature*, not a bug of white supremacy.
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In fact, as I discuss in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR, it's a *feature*, not a bug of white supremacy.
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
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'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
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yeah, this sounds right to me. the man's gone mad with power, thinks he can do anything, and isn't listening to the actual experts anymore bsky.app/profile/neqo...
Wasn't. Tesla wasn't either, earlier. The more his god/Technoking status had to show up in implementation level things the more off the rails everything becomes: Falcon 9 -> Starship is comparable to Model S -> Cybertruck.
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
yeah, this sounds right to me. the man's gone mad with power, thinks he can do anything, and isn't listening to the actual experts anymore bsky.app/profile/neqo...
no place for antisemitism OR Jews, it would seem
Mike Pence wrote an opinion piece for Fox News. Reading the headline, I was like, "Okay, seems like a normal take."
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
Then I read the subheadline and... bro, what?
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
no place for antisemitism OR Jews, it would seem
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Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
November 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?
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Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
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This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.
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one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
Trump's corrupt scheme to rig 2026 is suddenly falling apart:
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
*Court strikes down Texas GOP gerrymander
*Indiana GOP lacks votes to redraw map
*Big Dem win in Virginia could give Ds more seats
On the pod, DLCC head Heather Williams is informative on what's next:
newrepublic.com/article/2033...
Trump’s Plot to Rig 2026 Is Falling Apart, and Boy Is He Mad About It
As the Trump-GOP scheme to gerrymander the midterms suddenly faces big new setbacks, a Democratic operative who’s leading in these fights explains why the battle isn’t over—and what must happen now.
newrepublic.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)
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recurring dream where I'm on an airplane and one of the flight crew bursts out of the cockpit and says breathlessly, "This is an emergency! Does anyone here know anything about the arguments presented at the Second Lateran Council (1139 A.D.)?"
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
recurring dream where I'm on an airplane and one of the flight crew bursts out of the cockpit and says breathlessly, "This is an emergency! Does anyone here know anything about the arguments presented at the Second Lateran Council (1139 A.D.)?"
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today's least surprising data:
"62% of [Black Jewish] respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7"
"62% of [Black Jewish] respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7"
Some Black Jews feel more ostracized from Jewish communities post-Oct. 7, survey finds
In a survey of 104 Black Jews, 62% of respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7.
forward.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
today's least surprising data:
"62% of [Black Jewish] respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7"
"62% of [Black Jewish] respondents reported “increased marginalization” in a Jewish community or space after Oct. 7"