Rebecca Bodenheimer
@rmbodenheimer.bsky.social
Freelance writer & cultural critic with a PhD in ethnomusicology
Host of The Clave Chronicles, a Cuban music podcast
she/her, bilingüe, fat, 🏳️🌈 , Oaktown
Hire me: [email protected]
https://rmbodenheimer.com
Host of The Clave Chronicles, a Cuban music podcast
she/her, bilingüe, fat, 🏳️🌈 , Oaktown
Hire me: [email protected]
https://rmbodenheimer.com
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Hey all!
I'm a freelance writer & editor with a PhD in ethnomusicology.
I write about music (Cuban/Latin/Caribbean, hip hop), TV, film, Cuba, parenting & fat representation. I host a podcast about Cuban music (see bio)
I’m also a mom, bi, Bay Area native, bilingüe, foodie, dancer, & Niners fan
I'm a freelance writer & editor with a PhD in ethnomusicology.
I write about music (Cuban/Latin/Caribbean, hip hop), TV, film, Cuba, parenting & fat representation. I host a podcast about Cuban music (see bio)
I’m also a mom, bi, Bay Area native, bilingüe, foodie, dancer, & Niners fan
A 🧵 of my kids helping me prepare the thanksgiving turkey, 2014-2024
You’re welcome ☺️
You’re welcome ☺️
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
A 🧵 of my kids helping me prepare the thanksgiving turkey, 2014-2024
You’re welcome ☺️
You’re welcome ☺️
"Everybody has an origin story, and all these people in power have been rejected by polite society. There are 2 ways to handle that: you can reform and be a better person and look inward, or you can go and become a full fascist authoritarian. Most of them chose the second" 💯 @bencollins.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Everybody has an origin story, and all these people in power have been rejected by polite society. There are 2 ways to handle that: you can reform and be a better person and look inward, or you can go and become a full fascist authoritarian. Most of them chose the second" 💯 @bencollins.bsky.social
Rock is not my area of expertise but I am VERY pleasantly surprised that @billboard.com included two Spanish-language rock bands: Cafe Tacuba and Maná
My personal fave in rock en español is Aterciopelados, but I recognize how iconic the other two are
My personal fave in rock en español is Aterciopelados, but I recognize how iconic the other two are
@billboard.com magazine’s TOP 50 ROCK BANDS OF ALL TIME or “SOMETHING ELSE FOR THE COUNTRY TO FIGHT ABOUT." Sound off!
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Rock is not my area of expertise but I am VERY pleasantly surprised that @billboard.com included two Spanish-language rock bands: Cafe Tacuba and Maná
My personal fave in rock en español is Aterciopelados, but I recognize how iconic the other two are
My personal fave in rock en español is Aterciopelados, but I recognize how iconic the other two are
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Reposted by Rebecca Bodenheimer
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
fuuuuuckkkkkk this disgusting selfish POS forever.
I wish I believed hell was real cuz I need him to suffer in the afterlife
I wish I believed hell was real cuz I need him to suffer in the afterlife
SCOOP: The Trump administration has instructed employees and grantees not to use U.S. funds to commemorate World AIDS Day — because the observance was started by the World Health Organization.
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Trump Administration Cancels U.S. Observance of World AIDS Day
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November 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
fuuuuuckkkkkk this disgusting selfish POS forever.
I wish I believed hell was real cuz I need him to suffer in the afterlife
I wish I believed hell was real cuz I need him to suffer in the afterlife
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
Trump responds to a detailed report about his waning energy and propensity to sleep through on-camera events by calling the New York Times's Katie Rogers ugly
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
At this point, I wonder if he isn't lying when he says he has "my highest Poll Numbers, ever" since it's entirely possible that's what his aides are telling him. It's quite likely that there's an entire Potemkin village built around Trump right now.
I'll go above and beyond this ridiculous bullshit.
FUCK YOUR GIFT GUIDES
I hate gift guides. Why would I buy something you recommend when we don't even know each other & you don't know the people I'm gifting to?
Plus, why are you trying to get ppl to buy more when capitalism is destroying the world?
FUCK YOUR GIFT GUIDES
I hate gift guides. Why would I buy something you recommend when we don't even know each other & you don't know the people I'm gifting to?
Plus, why are you trying to get ppl to buy more when capitalism is destroying the world?
thank you for putting a wide variety of $600+ items on your holiday gift guides. I never know how to spend my gift budget of $600+ per person
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I'll go above and beyond this ridiculous bullshit.
FUCK YOUR GIFT GUIDES
I hate gift guides. Why would I buy something you recommend when we don't even know each other & you don't know the people I'm gifting to?
Plus, why are you trying to get ppl to buy more when capitalism is destroying the world?
FUCK YOUR GIFT GUIDES
I hate gift guides. Why would I buy something you recommend when we don't even know each other & you don't know the people I'm gifting to?
Plus, why are you trying to get ppl to buy more when capitalism is destroying the world?
Reposted by Rebecca Bodenheimer
wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
Breaking News: The last pending criminal prosecution against President Trump was dismissed by a judge in Georgia, effectively ending efforts to hold Trump criminally responsible for attempts to overturn the 2020 election. trib.al/EnJu57H
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Reposted by Rebecca Bodenheimer
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.
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I'd like to spend the rest of the year talking about books and movies without a single mention of politics.
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I'd like to spend the rest of the year talking about books and movies without a single mention of politics.
RFK Jr secretly hates his boss with a passion lolll
he believes what now
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
RFK Jr secretly hates his boss with a passion lolll
In case you're wondering what I thought about the portrayal of academia in After the Hunt: WOOF
Guadagnino didn't write it, but these quotes from the screenwriter make it clear she didn't know much about academia & didn't bother to research about tenure & the diff between a lecturer & asst prof
Guadagnino didn't write it, but these quotes from the screenwriter make it clear she didn't know much about academia & didn't bother to research about tenure & the diff between a lecturer & asst prof
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
In case you're wondering what I thought about the portrayal of academia in After the Hunt: WOOF
Guadagnino didn't write it, but these quotes from the screenwriter make it clear she didn't know much about academia & didn't bother to research about tenure & the diff between a lecturer & asst prof
Guadagnino didn't write it, but these quotes from the screenwriter make it clear she didn't know much about academia & didn't bother to research about tenure & the diff between a lecturer & asst prof
Recovering from surgery, feel like live-posting After the Hunt.
Now why did Luca decide to use the woody Allen opening credits font and posting in alpha order??
Now why did Luca decide to use the woody Allen opening credits font and posting in alpha order??
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Recovering from surgery, feel like live-posting After the Hunt.
Now why did Luca decide to use the woody Allen opening credits font and posting in alpha order??
Now why did Luca decide to use the woody Allen opening credits font and posting in alpha order??
Reposted by Rebecca Bodenheimer
OMG the new york times, which endlessly discussed Biden's age, has FINALLY discovered that Trump is... ALSO OLD.
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
OMG the new york times, which endlessly discussed Biden's age, has FINALLY discovered that Trump is... ALSO OLD.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
A 40-year old democracy is walking the walk. Meanwhile, our own leaders refused to punish treason.
Who's the banana republic now?
Who's the banana republic now?
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A 40-year old democracy is walking the walk. Meanwhile, our own leaders refused to punish treason.
Who's the banana republic now?
Who's the banana republic now?
I am the Thanksgiving cook in my family. I love Thanksgiving - it's my favorite holiday. I can't cook this year because I had surgery last week. So now my (non-nuclear) family has decided we're doing Friday Thanksgiving cuz it's better for their schedule.
I am not pleased.
I am not pleased.
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I am the Thanksgiving cook in my family. I love Thanksgiving - it's my favorite holiday. I can't cook this year because I had surgery last week. So now my (non-nuclear) family has decided we're doing Friday Thanksgiving cuz it's better for their schedule.
I am not pleased.
I am not pleased.
Just found out that the only editor I could rely on to respond to my music pitches was laid off last week.
I feel like people don't understand that music journalism is basically dead. This is not hyperbole. There are only a few outlets that still take freelance pitches & they all have frozen budgets
I feel like people don't understand that music journalism is basically dead. This is not hyperbole. There are only a few outlets that still take freelance pitches & they all have frozen budgets
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Just found out that the only editor I could rely on to respond to my music pitches was laid off last week.
I feel like people don't understand that music journalism is basically dead. This is not hyperbole. There are only a few outlets that still take freelance pitches & they all have frozen budgets
I feel like people don't understand that music journalism is basically dead. This is not hyperbole. There are only a few outlets that still take freelance pitches & they all have frozen budgets
Reposted by Rebecca Bodenheimer
Here it comes: the crisis wave of Americans making the tough choice to drop coverage — in the face or rising premiums.
@reuters.com $XLV
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November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Here it comes: the crisis wave of Americans making the tough choice to drop coverage — in the face or rising premiums.
@reuters.com $XLV
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
@reuters.com $XLV
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
And yet somehow Purdy keeps throwing long balls 🤯
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
And yet somehow Purdy keeps throwing long balls 🤯
Take Purdy out. This is fucking ridiculous.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Take Purdy out. This is fucking ridiculous.