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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 13h

I am unreasonably excited about Mamdani-era New York.

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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 18h

I miss doing author talks!

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Gayle King, the face of CBS News' morning show for more than a decade, is expected to depart as an anchor of the morning program next year, Variety reports

Gayle King Expected to Depart as ‘CBS Mornings’ Anchor Amid CBS News Overhaul (EXCLUSIVE)

Gayle King is expected to depart as 'CBS Mornings' anchor when her contract expires next spring. She may shift to a different role at CBS News.

variety.com

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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 6d

This article made me want to give up on humanity entirely.

Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?

www.nytimes.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8d

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 8d

Replies turned off but I want so badly to be like “this is how and why this is like this!!”

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8d

A Washington resident has filed a lawsuit after he was handcuffed and briefly detained last month for protesting members of the National Guard patrolling D.C. neighborhoods by playing 'The Imperial March' from the "Star Wars" franchise.

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 8d

And just like their parents before them, Brooding columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton writes, their vigilance is suffused with anxiety.

Young People Are Helicopter-Parenting Themselves and Each Other

And just like their parents before them, Brooding columnist Kathryn Jezer-Morton writes, their vigilance is suffused with anxiety.

www.thecut.com

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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 8d

lol

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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 8d

The worst hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’

Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November

www.theguardian.com

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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 8d

Super glad to see the Booker add a young people’s literature category.

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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 8d

For reasons unknown, I can’t stop thinking about hibachi!? I haven’t been to one of those spots since I was a suburban 10 year old.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 9d

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9d

People across the country are fighting for their lives and also to protect their neighbors. They are doing so in the 100s of thousands every single day. You can choose to join the fight or you can pretend that "no one is doing anything."

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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 9d

Today’s City Lit purchase

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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 11d

A beautiful piece on our dear D’Angelo from Niela Orr in the LRB.

Niela Orr | Come closer

D’Angelo, that Pentecostal preacher’s son, the man Robert Christgau called ‘R&B Jesus’, has died, and, with him...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12d

Lololol

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 12d

New York Post editorial board calls on Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa to drop out to boost independent candidate Andrew Cuomo: nypost.com/2025/10/20/o...

Swallow the bitter pill, Curtis Sliwa — quit the race to stop Zohran Mamdani

It’s time for Curtis Sliwa to face reality, and admit that the city’s best hope to avoid the disaster of a Zohran Mamdani mayoralty is for him to drop out of the race.

nypost.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17d

Every time something like the GOP chat leak occurs I hear smart people arguing that shame could be a useful tactic. But shame only works if the bad actors think their actions are bad. Hypocrisy, shame, these Victorian-ish norms are just that, norms, guardrails, and they don't work against fascism.