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J Escobedo Shepherd

@jawnita.bsky.social

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Xicana writer/editor. She/her/ella. Cofounder Hearing Things, hearingthingsco.bsky.social. Flaming Hydra, Hell Gate, etc. Vaquera forthcoming on Penguin Books

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J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 23h

went to the art museum w/ sudan archives and we talked about shredding! and lots of other stuff! her new album is amazing! let's go!!

Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 23h

For a violinist who already shreds, on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘗𝘔, Sudan Archives is going even harder on the melodies to keep pace with the drive of the beats. “I'm shredding because I'm trying to be like Jimi Hendrix,” she says.

Sudan Archives Is Pushing the Tempo

An afternoon at the museum with the genre-smashing violinist.

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 2d

Eric Adams on Sept. 5: “Andrew Cuomo is a snake and a liar"

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

Breaking News: Mayor Eric Adams will endorse Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City to try to stop the momentum of Zohran Mamdani. nyti.ms/4nfliHv

Eric Adams, wearing a Knicks hat, shakes hands with Andrew Cuomo. A headline reads: "Eric Adams Will Endorse Andrew Cuomo for Mayor." Photo credit: Al Bello/Getty Images.

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J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 3d

TOTALLY AGREE!@!!

J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 3d

can confirm as a regular bus rider that no one pays the dang fare anyway and everyone knows it so just like, put that into the budget!

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J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 3d

wow couldn't get another hour w/o cuomo being REVOLTINGLY islamophobic again, this is disgusting

J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 3d

trying to imagine cuomo standing on an unpaved walkway let alone catching arca under the k bridge or w/e

J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 3d

sliwa stays raving

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 3d

The mispronouncing of Mamdani by both these old white men is actually exactly fitting for this moment.

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J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 3d

or maybe show the knicks game on a giant screen behind the candidates? lots of opportunities for excitement!!

J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 3d

NY1 needs a screen-in-screen with the knicks game playing during the debate

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J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 3d

this is a fucking disgrace

J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 3d

Cuomo is one of the most virulently Islamophobic politicians out rn and in 2025 that's saying a lot

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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 3d

ALSO TODAY: @jawnita.bsky.social and @littlewow.online chat about PARTY GIRL, “the greatest movie ever” flaminghydra.com/yakkin-about...

Yakkin’ About ‘Party Girl’

In the 1995 film Party Girl, director Daisy Von Scherler Mayer tells a colorful fable about Mary (Parker Posey), an irresponsible young woman who, after encountering the New York Public Library (and a...

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J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 3d

not mamdani bringing up cuomo's singing water fountain 😭😭

J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 3d

does anyone remember when andrew cuomo definitively lost the democratic primary lol

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 3d

How long until Trump claims to have legal authority to extrajudicially murder people he suspects of trafficking drugs not just in international waters but also inside the US?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump says he'd "like to do" land strikes on drug dealers

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 3d

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity.

"We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes.

Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Attorney General James Launches Portal to Collect Photos and Videos of ICE Activity in New York

NEW YORK – New York Attorney General Letitia James is encouraging New Yorkers to submit videos or other documentation of federal immigration enforcement actions in New York following yesterday’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on Canal Street in New York City.

“Every New Yorker has the right to live without fear or intimidation,” said Attorney General James. “If you witnessed and documented ICE activity yesterday, I urge you to share that footage with my office. We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law. No one should be subject to unlawful questioning, detention, or intimidation.”

Attorney General James is asking New Yorkers to share photos or videos of federal government actions using the Office of the Attorney General’s new online portal.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 4d

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 4d

As the raid progressed, officers from different agencies stood or walked around and were yelled at by passersby. Small crowds formed near agents standing on street corners and curbs or inside their cars, as protesters called them "fucking fascists" and "scum."

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Masked Federal Agents Storm Canal Street in Raid Targeting Immigrant Vendors

During the raid, small crowds formed near agents, with protesters calling them "fucking fascists" and "scum."

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4d

Here is my fuller dispatch from this afternoon in @hellgatenyc.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

CHICAGO: “They took my son. He’s only 16. I just want my baby back.”

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8d

The only thing that anyone ever needs to know about Bill Ackman is that he once joined a group of avid long distance bikers from NYC to Montauk and back without training or preparation, arrogant in his ability to "lead the pack" and ended up screaming in agony

The others fell in behind, at first struggling to keep up with the alpha leader. But soon enough Ackman faltered—at Mile 32, Ackman recalls—and fell way behind the others. He was clearly “bonking,” as they say in the cycling world, which is what happens when a rider is dehydrated and his energy stores are depleted.

While everyone else rode back to Loeb’s East Hampton mansion, one of Loeb’s friends, David “Tiger” Williams, a respected cyclist and trader, painstakingly guided Ackman, who by then could barely pedal and was letting out primal screams of pain from the cramps in his legs, back to Bridgehampton. “I was in unbelievable pain,” Ackman recalls. As the other riders noted, it was really rather ridiculous for him to have gone out so fast, trying to lead the pack, considering his lack of training. Why not acknowledge your limits and set a pace you could maintain? As one rider notes, “I’ve never had an experience where someone has gone from being so aggressive on a bike to being so hopelessly unable to even turn the pedals…. His mind wrote a check that his body couldn’t cash.”

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J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 8d

i agree but apparently curtis sliwa does not!

J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 9d

i agree

J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 9d

i def want a mayor who has blazed weed before, like actually... ty zohran mamdani for your forthrightness!!!!!!

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