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Rebecca Bodenheimer

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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

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · Nov 10

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

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 19m

you mean the mode of NYC transport everyone actively avoids despite the subway smelling like piss 365 days of the year? SMH

Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 25m

I get this decision - she has mobilized a prominent anti-authoritarian movement. But it would be nice if she wasn't also welcoming US forces into Venezuela with open arms.

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 8h

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, in a statement announcing its decision to recognize Maria Corina Machado with the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025:

Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 29m

omg how is that possible??? The ensemble set pieces were just so damn good.

Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 31m

Feel free to copy any of the language I used several weeks ago to respond to UC Berkeley's administration "naming names"

Dear President Milliken,

As a Cal alum who received my PhD in Music in 2010 and a Jewish woman, I'm writing to express my anger and disappointment at your decision to hand over the names of 160 students, faculty and staff to the federal government for alleged instances of antisemitism.

I don't know how many of those names belong to Jewish people, but I do know that one of them is Judith Butler, one of our country's preeminent scholars in gender studies. The simple fact that non-Jewish people are allowed to determine whether certain Jews are antisemitic or not is in itself absurd.

More importantly, your capitulation to an authoritarian administration is shameful, and betrays the bedrock principles of American higher education: freedom of speech and academic freedom. This is a particular betrayal of UC Berkeley's own history, as the place where students like Mario Savo founded the Free Speech Movement.

The Trump administration's extortion of universities using the facade of "antisemitism" is extremely transparent, and is being used to punish students and faculty protesting Israel's destruction and starvation of Gaza. I know many of these protesters to be Jewish. Beyond the fact that their protests are constitutionally protected, and that punishing them is thus a violation of the First Amendment, critiquing Israel does not equal being antisemitic.

Higher education is under a huge threat of censorship right now, as faculty self-censor in order to avoid being identified (often falsely) as "antisemitic." Just this week, a professor at Texas A&M was fired for teaching what right-wing thinkers call "gender ideology." That is the opposite of academic freedom.

As a Cal alum I urge you to stop collaborating with an authoritarian administration that seeks to destroy American higher education. They will not stop at asking you to "name names." They will continue extorting universities unless you stand up to them and refuse.

Rebecca Bodenheimer, PhD

Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 33m

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As for her call for non-academics to get involved: one thing you should do if you see attacks on academic freedom or administrators capitulating to Trump's extortion at your alma mater is to write the uni/college president & express your outrage. They need to hear from alumni ASAP. Template👇

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 46m

Tens of thousands of Palestinians returning to their homes in northern Gaza as the ceasefire takes effect.

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 40m

Strange how hard it is for some people to separate the art from the artist. I swore I'd never watch his films again yrs ago but then I broke down & watched Annie Hall again & was like, yup, it's still incredible, he really contributed something novel to film. But that doesn't make him less abhorrent

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1h

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I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 47m

whoa nelly!

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 51m

Magary gets it.
This is legitimately my favorite season of Slow Horses and this week's episode is my favorite of the whole show!

Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 1d

This week’s JAMBOROO topper is about Slow Horses, which is a perfect TV show. defector.com/how-slow-hor...

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 12h

Jagger really did the damn thing on the Slow Horses theme song

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 12h

That legit might have been my favorite Slow Horses ep in the whole series. I don’t know how but season 5 feels like the best one yet!
The dialogue is usually so snappy and fast that lingering on Oldman for that yarn he was spinning was truly novel for the show.

Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 12h

Jagger really did the damn thing on the Slow Horses theme song

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15h

$20 BILLION.

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that helps American families.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 16h

Only 10 senators voted for Bernie Sanders's amendment to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10% and instead expand veteran dental care:

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 18h

Interestingly I think PTA did a much better job with the Latino elements of the script, so to speak - the 2nd act with Benicio is my fave part of the film, there's some untranslated Spanish and it all feels really warm and lived in.

Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 18h

I def felt uneasy about its portrayal of Black women, but I seem to be in the minority among white viewers. I just kept thinking, your wife is Black, why couldn't you get a Black woman to help you write those characters??

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 18h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 18h

I knew that TAMU student had been trained in getting that instructor fired...it was all so calculated.
Kudos for changing one mind!

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 18h

Ginning up a war with Venezuela while bailing out Argentina...truly the most psychotic foreign policy agenda

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 21h

Anyway we're bailing out Argentina

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1d

It is remarkable that of all the celebrities from the '80s who've gone full fash Axl Rose of all people zoomed in the other direction.

Meia tigela @brunodoamaral.bsky.social · 2d

No show do Guns N' Roses de ontem em Bogotá, o Axl recebeu essa bandeira da plateia durante a música Civil War.

Cantor Axl Rose, homem branco de meia idade com cabelo louro, segura uma bandeira da palestina com o logotipo do Guns N' Roses e escrito "I don't need your civil war".

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 21h

🧵RFK "HIV-doesn't-cause-AIDS" Jr. is now linking circumcision with autism.

This nonsense was posted by his anti-vax group Children's Health Defense years ago, and I looked into it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS9D...