Dakotah Kennedy
@dakotahsays.bsky.social
upbeat nonsense launches 12/3 --> https://dakotahsays.beehiiv.com/
Transparently, I was pretty anxious about filling the politics section. Not because there isn't plenty to choose from, but because my anxious and thought-filled mind didn't know how I was going to summarize what's been going on in Cleveland. And then I got a text message. 1/🧵
And we're live! Still working out the kinks with Beehiiv on the website end, but read Issue #1 of Upbeat Nonsense here: dakotahsays.beehiiv.com/p/upbeat-non...
December 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Transparently, I was pretty anxious about filling the politics section. Not because there isn't plenty to choose from, but because my anxious and thought-filled mind didn't know how I was going to summarize what's been going on in Cleveland. And then I got a text message. 1/🧵
And we're live! Still working out the kinks with Beehiiv on the website end, but read Issue #1 of Upbeat Nonsense here: dakotahsays.beehiiv.com/p/upbeat-non...
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
And we're live! Still working out the kinks with Beehiiv on the website end, but read Issue #1 of Upbeat Nonsense here: dakotahsays.beehiiv.com/p/upbeat-non...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Only 6 more days until Upbeat Nonsense lands in inboxes for the first time. Subscribe below for FREE and it's just once a week. #Cleveland #localnews #artsandculture
Amazing, no notes.
Fleetwood Mac 's "Silver Springs" is a trending sound right now at least on Insta, and people are using it for ... their wedding videos and getting brunch with friends.
they hear "you won't forget me" and go "awww 🥹"
🫠 You don't even need to know the background, just actually listen to the song
they hear "you won't forget me" and go "awww 🥹"
🫠 You don't even need to know the background, just actually listen to the song
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Amazing, no notes.
I'm finally giving in and starting a #Cleveland newsletter about pop culture and politics. I've spent years covering local arts and culture in addition to breaking news about housing and policing. Upbeat Nonsense launches next Wed. 12/3 and you can subscribe now. Totally free <3
Upbeat Nonsense
a weekly newsletter that combines pop culture with Cleveland politics.
dakotahsays.beehiiv.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I'm finally giving in and starting a #Cleveland newsletter about pop culture and politics. I've spent years covering local arts and culture in addition to breaking news about housing and policing. Upbeat Nonsense launches next Wed. 12/3 and you can subscribe now. Totally free <3
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A man tried to create a "women's safety" app called Tea. Then, images and more than a million private conversations, including some about cheating partners and abortions, were compromised in two separate security breaches.
If you want to share your story, reach out to us at [email protected].
If you want to share your story, reach out to us at [email protected].
How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World
A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.
www.404media.co
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
A man tried to create a "women's safety" app called Tea. Then, images and more than a million private conversations, including some about cheating partners and abortions, were compromised in two separate security breaches.
If you want to share your story, reach out to us at [email protected].
If you want to share your story, reach out to us at [email protected].
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Join us for one final meal at Hell Gate's Eric Adams Table of Success. As the Eric Adams era reaches its conclusion, we're gathering everyone who's made it to the bitter end.
You can make your haters your waiters, but you can't escape…The Last Supper.
tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
You can make your haters your waiters, but you can't escape…The Last Supper.
tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Join us for one final meal at Hell Gate's Eric Adams Table of Success. As the Eric Adams era reaches its conclusion, we're gathering everyone who's made it to the bitter end.
You can make your haters your waiters, but you can't escape…The Last Supper.
tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
You can make your haters your waiters, but you can't escape…The Last Supper.
tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com
Wonder if #Harvard will cut ties with #LarrySummers as fast as they ousted Claudine Gay. Not wondering that hard, unfortunately.
Elizabeth Warren called on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after he featured prominently in the latest Jeffrey Epstein emails
Elizabeth Warren Calls For Harvard To Cut Ties With Larry Summers
The former Harvard president "cannot be trusted" with students, she warned.
www.huffpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Wonder if #Harvard will cut ties with #LarrySummers as fast as they ousted Claudine Gay. Not wondering that hard, unfortunately.
Haven't been able to listen to much else since #WestEndGirl came out and I'm recommending it. There aren't enough albums about women's anger and I'm here for it. Especially from #LilyAllen. It's also just hilarious to me that #StrangerThings comes out literally this month. You go girl 💪
a woman with long hair is holding a banana in her hand .
ALT: a woman with long hair is holding a banana in her hand .
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Haven't been able to listen to much else since #WestEndGirl came out and I'm recommending it. There aren't enough albums about women's anger and I'm here for it. Especially from #LilyAllen. It's also just hilarious to me that #StrangerThings comes out literally this month. You go girl 💪
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Y'all I have to be insufferable about fundraising for @scarleteen.com because the work we are doing is too important! We're establishing a $40k fund to help with health care expenses for staff and volunteers, and a dollar-for-dollar match kicks in at $10k!
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Y'all I have to be insufferable about fundraising for @scarleteen.com because the work we are doing is too important! We're establishing a $40k fund to help with health care expenses for staff and volunteers, and a dollar-for-dollar match kicks in at $10k!
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
www.classy.org/fundraiser/6...
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“It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”
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According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
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Bessie the Trash Monster floated down the Cuyahoga River to raise awareness of plastic pollution in Lake Erie www.clevescene.com/news/bessie-...
Bessie the Trash Monster Floated Down the Cuyahoga River to Raise Awareness of Plastic Pollution in Lake Erie - Cleveland Scene
“One of the highest concentrations of microplastic in the world is in Lake Erie,” Cheryl Johncox, a member of People Over Petro, said through a mic at Settler’s Landing.
www.clevescene.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Bessie the Trash Monster floated down the Cuyahoga River to raise awareness of plastic pollution in Lake Erie www.clevescene.com/news/bessie-...
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Get a membership to @theflytrapmedia.com
Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Get a membership to @theflytrapmedia.com
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I know we all have a lot of other things to worry about right now but this is your PSA to get the latest covid booster & flu shot if you haven't already. It takes a couple weeks to build immunity and holidays will be here soon. (Stickers from my shop! shop.breelundberg.com/product/get-...)
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I know we all have a lot of other things to worry about right now but this is your PSA to get the latest covid booster & flu shot if you haven't already. It takes a couple weeks to build immunity and holidays will be here soon. (Stickers from my shop! shop.breelundberg.com/product/get-...)
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my first story @theintercept.com: organizers with @adalahjustice.bsky.social and @genderlib.com announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"
Human Rights Campaign Rejects Weapons Company Sponsorships After Pressure Around Israel Genocide
LGBTQ+ group Human Rights Campaign ended sponsorships from arms firms Northrop Grumman and Raytheon, who profit off of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
theintercept.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
my first story @theintercept.com: organizers with @adalahjustice.bsky.social and @genderlib.com announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"
My experience has consistently been that the #ADA is more porous than any of us what to admit. I can't tell if it's just because I'm #autistic, but I'm surprised that people with disabilities get chased out and often we have no actual legal recourse. But we hear about people suing all the time. 1/🧵
“These narratives around young people in ‘starter jobs’ or doing sort of superfluous work, or just work to get them through, can often function to lower young people's bargaining power and reduce the power that they have in the workplace. Unions can obviously help with giving them back that power.”
What Are Your Rights at Work As a Young Person?
Exploitation of young people on the job is way too common.
www.teenvogue.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I still find it hilarious that on shows like #DragRace that chestplate nipples aren't censored but "real" nipples are.
GOOD MORNING!! We got brand new content for you today, this week we got @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social writing about #FreeTheNipple and why it still matters in 2025: the-flytrap.ghost.io/amid-fierce-...
Amid Fierce Patriarchal Backlash and Surging Fascism, Does Freeing the Nipple Still Matter?
A transgender woman with “indecent” breasts makes the case that topless equality is still worth fighting for.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I still find it hilarious that on shows like #DragRace that chestplate nipples aren't censored but "real" nipples are.
Words matter!
I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Words matter!
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you signed up for a @theflytrapmedia.com membership in the last two weeks, can I offer you another kickass media collective doing critical reporting?
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We now know that the Teen Vogue fold is more than an absorption & clearly a full shift from the pub’s DNA. Laying off the entire politics team a day before the NYC election is heinous + a knife in the back to a brand that has solidified its importance for youth. Devastating.
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
We now know that the Teen Vogue fold is more than an absorption & clearly a full shift from the pub’s DNA. Laying off the entire politics team a day before the NYC election is heinous + a knife in the back to a brand that has solidified its importance for youth. Devastating.
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Good morning everyone! We just want to express our gratitude for your vote of confidence in our work in the past two weeks. We are SO EXCITED to have another year of The Flytrap, and with pay for the founders. This is everything we've been working towards. THANK YOU!!!
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Good morning everyone! We just want to express our gratitude for your vote of confidence in our work in the past two weeks. We are SO EXCITED to have another year of The Flytrap, and with pay for the founders. This is everything we've been working towards. THANK YOU!!!
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It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds