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Dara Lind

@daralind.bsky.social

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Former journalist, currently employed at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), forever immigration explainer. Because the public has a right and a duty to know what its government is doing in its name. Signal: daralind.18

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 7d

Anyway, this is your regular reminder that my Signal is available in my bio, and that if you have something you want publicly known I'm happy to chat with you about it and come up with a plan.

Not so that I can break it -- breaking news isn't my profession anymore! -- but so it can get out there.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1h

OH MY GOD THEY PULLED HIM FOR FINNEGAN? As a Nats fan ZOMG I AM SO SORRY

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1h

I’m happy for Victor Robles

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1h

I’m so sorry. But I have enjoyed this so much.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1h

My household has been agonizing over watching this, a game where we legit don’t care who wins, over GBBO, which we have been waiting for all week.

Then @blanksslate.bsky.social said “this is why we watch baseball” and now we’re all in

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 1h

In the ABQ airport watching the Tigers-Mariners game, which is in the bottom of the 14th. Good lord.

Baseball! 😍

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1h

I truly don’t know why you think that a cliche for “conservative men talking about young women” in the 1990s, being voiced by a not-very-online conservative man about young women in 2025, somehow doesn’t come from that but from a thing very-online men started saying more recently. But ok g’night!

Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2h

I literally saw these things first as cliches about people talking shit about the youth in young-adult novels.

Mass media existed even though social media didn’t. The jerks had platforms. Rush Limbaugh was a massive cultural influence, to give just one example.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2h

SHRIMP www.mlb.com/news/basebal...

The internet slang baseball dictionary

Baseball fans have always loved jargon. From the very start of the game, terms like "butcher boy," "can of corn," and "Texas leaguer" have been used -- and have only grown stranger since then. While t...

www.mlb.com

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2h

@blanksslate.bsky.social, shown this post : “I was unaware @jayjaffe.bsky.social was on Bluesky! I have missed @jayjaffe.bsky.social !”

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2h

Seriously, I am telling you, that was being used by the jerks as a code word in the 90s.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2h

They didn’t, it’s just that if I were to come up with a distinctly 2025 stereotype about things the youths are doing _now,_ I’d probably be going for transphobic “they’re all they/thems” crap

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2h

Nope. I assure you that is not true. It was a conservative complaint at that time. You are pointing to a certain kind of guy becoming conservative who might not have been coded as conservative previously. But I guarantee you Kid Rock was not that dude, he was a self-styled proud redneck from jump.

Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2h

(And for the record that would have been even slightly after when Kid Rock, born 1971, was in college)

Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2h

I am someone in my late 30s and can tell you that “the youths have blue hair and piercings” is something I absorbed as a cliche from the media I consumed in the mid- to late 1990s

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2h

Also like…this is giving an extremely 1990s view of what college girls are like???

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 4h

I try not to speculate about what might happen or — especially — what counterfactually might have happened.

As a cognitive habit. But especially in public.

It’s not about a desire to avoid being wrong. It’s about a desire to focus on what _is happening,_ so as to be most clear on what I can do.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 6h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1d

Ok would you recommend Pynchon to someone who hasn’t tried him in adulthood but also has not written any novels

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1d

This seems right! When I’ve ruminated on this, the central concept to me isn’t fearlessness but courage.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

It’s OK to be afraid. One could argue that true courage can only happen in the awareness of fear. The question isn’t “can you be fearless,“ it’s “can you overcome your fears.”

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1d

This, and also: if your answer is “I can’t afford to be fearless,” ask yourself at least once if you are sure.

You don’t owe it to anybody else to offer a defense but you do owe it to yourself.

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1d

The title verse of “We Shall Overcome” and most of the others are in the future tense. One verse is in the present: “We are not afraid TODAY.”

That is the most important message for our current moment. If you can “afford” to be fearless, do it.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t DO the workbook assignments for several weeks to be clear

Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1d

I have been working with my therapist on the set of cognitive skills called “executive skills” or “executive functioning” and unfortunately I recommend it. There’s even a workbook!

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1d

I think of it as executive skill mastery

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 1d

Immconf 2025 readout: the vibes are bad. But the humans? The humans are very good.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2d

In other things I read this week and liked a great deal: Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, finally

Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I’ve heard data points on BW from folks who aren’t at all suckers and whose judgment of character I generally trust, so I’m less inclined to write it off as “this person is loved by people I don’t respect”

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