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Margaret Wappler @margaretwappler.bsky.social · 4d

So good, all of it.

Erin Somers @somers.bsky.social · 4d

New story by me in Granta today about inept swingers on the Hudson Valley granta.com/pleasantries...

‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about t...

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Margaret Wappler @margaretwappler.bsky.social · 11d

Did 50 burpees because Woke. What did you do to fight the scourge today?

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Margaret Wappler @margaretwappler.bsky.social · 17d

A gorgeous gut-punch.

Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · 18d

"What I Might Sing," a poem from my new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (pub 10/7), is in the @newyorker.com. Preorder link for a signed copy book is in my pinned post.
@graywolfpress.bsky.social

“What I Might Sing”

“Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, / and, because of you, I was thinking too of America.”

www.newyorker.com

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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · 18d

"What I Might Sing," a poem from my new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (pub 10/7), is in the @newyorker.com. Preorder link for a signed copy book is in my pinned post.
@graywolfpress.bsky.social

“What I Might Sing”

“Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, / and, because of you, I was thinking too of America.”

www.newyorker.com

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Margaret Wappler @margaretwappler.bsky.social · 18d

Call me hysterical but this seems bad, very bad.

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 18d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 19d

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · Sep 8

So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · Sep 7

This review shifted my center of gravity a couple inches to the left. A banger. (Paywalled, but you can register to read for free. I renewed my sub for ten bucks just to finish reading it.)

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

‘How Goes the Battle?’ | Lorrie Moore

For those unfamiliar with the Canadian novelist Miriam Toews, her latest work—a fragmented, artfully strewn memoir titled A Truce That Is Not Peace—may

www.nybooks.com

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Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social · Jul 22

“What kind of world / would let loose / a low orange moon / that shocks you / into being”

— Maggie Nelson

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This poem appeared in Boston Review, 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · Jul 22

The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship.

That's just a true statement about the world!

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Margaret Wappler @margaretwappler.bsky.social · Jul 22

So sad to hear about Malcolm-Jamal Warner. He was a great friend to Luke Perry in a crucial time in Luke's life. He spoke to me for A Good Bad Boy and I was a tad bereft at the end of the interview to leave his wise and grounded company. Sending care to his incredible mother and all who loved him.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Jul 10

Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures

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Margaret Wappler @margaretwappler.bsky.social · Jul 8

Help a great writer out on her birthday! It’s tough out there (nods in the general direction of publishing, journalism and everythingggg, duh).

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · Jul 8

What you can do for me on this birthday:
1. Buy my book. www.amazon.com/dp/15......
2. Review my book on Goodreads or Amazon. FREE AND HELPFUL. www.goodreads.com/........
3. Contribute to the Gofundme from old: gofund.me/5ffccd97
4. PayPal or Venmo me for Chico’s med expenses.

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture: Romano, Tricia: 9781541736399: Amazon.com: Books

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · Jul 3

I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...

Brad Pitt Is Fooling You

The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.

www.vulture.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jul 3

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Margaret Wappler @margaretwappler.bsky.social · Jul 3

Every single one of the GOP cowards has blood on their hands.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jul 3

BREAKING: The Republican-led House gives final passage to Trump's tax bill in a defining moment for his second term.

Live updates: House Republicans push Trump's big bill toward a final vote

House Republicans have muscled President Donald Trump's tax and spending cuts package forward to a final vote. If passed, the bill would bring tax cuts, money for deportations and Medicaid cuts.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · Jul 3

Well, seems like it's over. Trump will get his almost $200 billion more for immigration agents, weapons, surveillance tools, and huge detention expansion. This will entail at minimum another roughly 19,000 immigration agents across ICE and CBP, that will probably be shotgun-hired at lower standards

The Worst Part of Trump’s Big Bill Is Getting Almost No Attention

The Republican budget bill is stuffed with terrible policies, but Democrats have been largely silent on perhaps its most destructive component.

newrepublic.com

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Jul 3

CALL CALL CALL YOUR REPS!

THE VOTE HASN'T HAPPENED YET, PEOPLE

here's the number: (202) 224-3121

Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · Jul 3

If @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social keeps going to 1:23 pm ET, he will have set a new record.

In 2021, Kevin McCarthy logged a 8-1/2 hour speech to delay the Build Back Better vote.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Jul 2

I know there's a ton of bad political news out there, but this kind of experiment makes me genuinely hopeful. I'd love to see a campaign afoot to do this in every state. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Some good news about political polarization: It can change

Nearly 200 residents representing the voting breakdown of a swing state found common ground on hot-button issues.

www.politico.com

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · Jul 2

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times

timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · Jul 2

My God. Please make sure everyone you know knows this.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · Jul 1

The path is very clear: Republicans are creating a system to allow anybody—you, me, whoever—to have their citizenship revoked, sent to a prison camp in the Everglades, then exported to a labor camp in a third-world country. That entire pipeline could be in place in 24 hours.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 1

Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."

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Margaret Wappler @margaretwappler.bsky.social · Jul 1

Insane. This time is going to be such a dark stain on this country’s history.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jun 30

I believe this is BORTAC, the Border Patrol's equivalent of SWAT. The guy who eventually shot the Uvalde killer was part of BORTAC. They're trained operators.

There is literally no justification to use BORTAC to round up day laborers. None. Zero. Zip. Nada.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Jun 30

I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

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Margaret Wappler @margaretwappler.bsky.social · Jun 30

My local Home Depot got raided by America's secret police.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · Jun 30

I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

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