Elana Levin
@levin.bsky.social
Digital & narrative trainings @NewMediaMentors.
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
Host of Graphic Policy Radio: a podcast on genre media & movements for social change. 🤘🏻 🏳️🌈 🖖🏻 Public Health, unions, NYC, comic books, music history & DS9. https://graphicpolicy.com/radio/
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Batman: Caped Crusader with Leslie Lee III of Struggle Session - Graphic Policy
Batman: Caped Crusader with Leslie Lee III of Struggle Session
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Half the time when Leslie Lee would come on my podcast (or vise versa) we would disagree on whether the film, comic or tv show in question was good.
But his take was always eye opening and he would show me something I hadn’t perceived before. Most recently re the Batman Caped Crusader show.
But his take was always eye opening and he would show me something I hadn’t perceived before. Most recently re the Batman Caped Crusader show.
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Trans people only ruined boobs for Glinner in particular because his ex wife will no longer show him hers
Well, y'all did it AGAIN!
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Trans people only ruined boobs for Glinner in particular because his ex wife will no longer show him hers
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TOMORROW! Witness the battle of champions as #3 seed, De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING takes on #1 seed, Pixies, DOOLITTLE to determine once and for all The Best Album of 1989! Vote here when the match begins at 11am CST!
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
TOMORROW! Witness the battle of champions as #3 seed, De La Soul, 3 FEET HIGH AND RISING takes on #1 seed, Pixies, DOOLITTLE to determine once and for all The Best Album of 1989! Vote here when the match begins at 11am CST!
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I’m a grateful vegetarian at Mac n cheese thanksgivings.
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I’m a grateful vegetarian at Mac n cheese thanksgivings.
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Race-baited comment threads are the only kind of engagement the Sinclair-drained zombie husks of local journalism have left
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Race-baited comment threads are the only kind of engagement the Sinclair-drained zombie husks of local journalism have left
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At this point, these kind of stories are just plain race-baiting. We know what this is. We know what this does. We know who makes the Mac and cheese and who doesn’t. Cmon now.
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
At this point, these kind of stories are just plain race-baiting. We know what this is. We know what this does. We know who makes the Mac and cheese and who doesn’t. Cmon now.
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not that it's really news but nice to see they are still chummy
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
not that it's really news but nice to see they are still chummy
Mazal Tov @kungernyc.bsky.social ! So proud of you, Katie.
❣️Mabrook + Mazal Tov to JFREJ Board Members, @kungernyc.bsky.social & Rabbi Ellen Lippman, for their respective appointments to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ‘s transition team & the more than a dozen other JFREJ members also named in this powerful list of NYers ready to roll up their sleeves & work!
November 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Mazal Tov @kungernyc.bsky.social ! So proud of you, Katie.
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It’s a new day in NYC, and our movement is making progress! We're also excited to announce that we are extending our Fall Membership Drive into tomorrow ‼️ Join the movement at jfrej.org/join ✨
Full Tranistion Team list here: mailchi.mp/zohranfornyc...
Full Tranistion Team list here: mailchi.mp/zohranfornyc...
Join JFREJ During Our Fall Membership Drive!
From Monday 11/17 - Monday 11/24 we will welcome 800 members into our community
jfrej.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
It’s a new day in NYC, and our movement is making progress! We're also excited to announce that we are extending our Fall Membership Drive into tomorrow ‼️ Join the movement at jfrej.org/join ✨
Full Tranistion Team list here: mailchi.mp/zohranfornyc...
Full Tranistion Team list here: mailchi.mp/zohranfornyc...
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⭐️We are proud to welcome every new member with an orientation by our welcome team! You will get JFREJ 101 & learn all about the benefits of becoming a member! 🤩
💫 Today is the LAST day of our drive - join jfrej.org/join & we will see you at the 12/3 orientation!
💫 Today is the LAST day of our drive - join jfrej.org/join & we will see you at the 12/3 orientation!
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
⭐️We are proud to welcome every new member with an orientation by our welcome team! You will get JFREJ 101 & learn all about the benefits of becoming a member! 🤩
💫 Today is the LAST day of our drive - join jfrej.org/join & we will see you at the 12/3 orientation!
💫 Today is the LAST day of our drive - join jfrej.org/join & we will see you at the 12/3 orientation!
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Thought I recognized that artist's name for all the wrong reasons...
This artist painted Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Now she's documenting his immigration crackdown.
Isabelle Brourman's goal: "a portrait of America."
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Thought I recognized that artist's name for all the wrong reasons...
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Gosh, if only there was a scientific explanation for why so many working age people got terribly sick and developed long term chronic health problems between 2019 and 2024...
Truly a mystery we will never solve
/snark
Truly a mystery we will never solve
/snark
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
UK ‘sliding into avoidable crisis’, major review into workplace sickness warns
The number of people aged between 16 and 34 who are out of work due to long-term sickness increased by 76% between 2019 and 2024
www.independent.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Gosh, if only there was a scientific explanation for why so many working age people got terribly sick and developed long term chronic health problems between 2019 and 2024...
Truly a mystery we will never solve
/snark
Truly a mystery we will never solve
/snark
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the media focuses on the "mental health" aspect of covid and not on the physical brain damage.
if long covid is framed as a "mental health" issue then patients are abandoned and personally responsible for their own recovery. admitting it's neurological means patients merit medical research & care.
if long covid is framed as a "mental health" issue then patients are abandoned and personally responsible for their own recovery. admitting it's neurological means patients merit medical research & care.
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
the media focuses on the "mental health" aspect of covid and not on the physical brain damage.
if long covid is framed as a "mental health" issue then patients are abandoned and personally responsible for their own recovery. admitting it's neurological means patients merit medical research & care.
if long covid is framed as a "mental health" issue then patients are abandoned and personally responsible for their own recovery. admitting it's neurological means patients merit medical research & care.
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Epstein-Barr virus has now been linked with lupus and multiple sclerosis. It's frequently reactivated in ME and long covid. An extremely common virus that people assumed was "normal" has been causing untold misery.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Stanford Medicine scientists tie lupus to a virus nearly all of us carry
The Epstein-Barr virus can convert B cells it’s infected into diabolical overlords that reprogram myriad other immune cells to attack our tissues, Stanford Medicine scientists have found.
med.stanford.edu
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Epstein-Barr virus has now been linked with lupus and multiple sclerosis. It's frequently reactivated in ME and long covid. An extremely common virus that people assumed was "normal" has been causing untold misery.
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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How can you claim to treat long covid if you have not read anything about long covid? Not the CDC website, not a medical journal, not a news article, not Wikipedia: NOTHING.
"Sorry, there's no neurologist on staff, but perhaps you'd like to see a nurse who's really into conspiracy theories?"
"Sorry, there's no neurologist on staff, but perhaps you'd like to see a nurse who's really into conspiracy theories?"
Ppl w #LongCovid in nyc: avoid the Mt Sinai clinic in union square.
It is not connected to the one lead by David Putrino. The union square is run by a nurse who is pushing SSRIs as the only possible Covid treatment & if you don’t want them they refuse to offer anything else.
And they insult you.
It is not connected to the one lead by David Putrino. The union square is run by a nurse who is pushing SSRIs as the only possible Covid treatment & if you don’t want them they refuse to offer anything else.
And they insult you.
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
How can you claim to treat long covid if you have not read anything about long covid? Not the CDC website, not a medical journal, not a news article, not Wikipedia: NOTHING.
"Sorry, there's no neurologist on staff, but perhaps you'd like to see a nurse who's really into conspiracy theories?"
"Sorry, there's no neurologist on staff, but perhaps you'd like to see a nurse who's really into conspiracy theories?"
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Covid-19 has been linked to cardiovascular complications, but the long-term impacts, particularly for mild infections, are not well understood. A study in Nature Communications demonstrate an increased risk of cardiovascular disease after Covid-19, also among mild cases. #medsky #cardiosky 🧪
Covid-19 and cardiovascular disease in a total population-study of long-term effects, social factors and Covid-19-vaccination - Nature Communications
Covid-19 has been linked to cardiovascular complications, but the long-term impacts, particularly for mild infections, are not well understood. Here, the authors investigate the long-term impacts of Covid-19 on cardiovascular disease using data on the whole population of Sweden aged 40-75 years.
go.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Covid-19 has been linked to cardiovascular complications, but the long-term impacts, particularly for mild infections, are not well understood. A study in Nature Communications demonstrate an increased risk of cardiovascular disease after Covid-19, also among mild cases. #medsky #cardiosky 🧪
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"Like how Ouija boards work" I'd argue this is the on-the-money thought in this whole story
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"Like how Ouija boards work" I'd argue this is the on-the-money thought in this whole story
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When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean.
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean.
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.
Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
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For scale: I spent eleven days in the maximum security wing of a local county lockup before a judge heard my case and moved me to min. I had one hour out of the cell a day. The cell was small. There was a speaker in the ceiling. By the end I was talking to the speaker and spending hours each day
Rejon Taylor was one of 37 people on federal death row whose death sentence was commuted by then-President Biden. This year, he learned the Trump administration was sending him to a supermax prison once called a “clean version of hell.”
Death Row Prisoners Granted Clemency by Biden Brace for “Living Hell” Under Trump
Trump officials are retaliating by imposing the harshest conditions in the entire federal prison system, including near total isolation.
boltsmag.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
For scale: I spent eleven days in the maximum security wing of a local county lockup before a judge heard my case and moved me to min. I had one hour out of the cell a day. The cell was small. There was a speaker in the ceiling. By the end I was talking to the speaker and spending hours each day
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Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina in Alphaville by Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
November 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Eddie Constantine and Anna Karina in Alphaville by Jean-Luc Godard (1965)
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It’s indescribably amazing that these union members hung together for so long. This is was solidarity looks like! ✊✊
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 AM
It’s indescribably amazing that these union members hung together for so long. This is was solidarity looks like! ✊✊
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In the running for "Overreaction of the Year Award," CEO Brian Niccol has barricaded his office to avoid striking baristas getting anywhere near him.
No matter. We'll be waiting right out front when you're ready to talk, Brian!
No matter. We'll be waiting right out front when you're ready to talk, Brian!
November 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
In the running for "Overreaction of the Year Award," CEO Brian Niccol has barricaded his office to avoid striking baristas getting anywhere near him.
No matter. We'll be waiting right out front when you're ready to talk, Brian!
No matter. We'll be waiting right out front when you're ready to talk, Brian!
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well the vast majority of Americans are legally allowed to eat pierogi so obviously Alan Dershowitz does not represent us
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
well the vast majority of Americans are legally allowed to eat pierogi so obviously Alan Dershowitz does not represent us