Samira Ahmed
@samiraahmed.bsky.social
NYT & indie bestselling author of Love Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Hollow Fires, Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit, This Book Won't Burn, The Singular Life of Aria Patel. Nat'l leadership team Authors Against Book Bans
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I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
this was bad before, but these are the most troubling and serious allegations you can make about a journalist. if they’re true, i genuinely can’t think of a worse scandal in the history of political journalism. devastating to our industry, to public trust as a whole, and to everyone in its orbit
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.
There is only one instance when racists understand that an entire group of people can't be blamed for the violent actions of 1 person...and that is when the perpetrator is a white man.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
There is only one instance when racists understand that an entire group of people can't be blamed for the violent actions of 1 person...and that is when the perpetrator is a white man.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
In all other instances, logic need not apply.
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Breaking News: North Carolina can use the state’s newly redrawn, Republican-friendly congressional map, a panel of federal judges ruled. The ruling means that the GOP is one step closer to securing another seat in the U.S. House. nyti.ms/3M2QNrx
North Carolina Can Use Republican-Friendly Congressional Map, Court Says
The district court ruling means that the party is one step closer to securing another seat in the U.S. House and retain its majority, at the urging of President Trump.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Breaking News: North Carolina can use the state’s newly redrawn, Republican-friendly congressional map, a panel of federal judges ruled. The ruling means that the GOP is one step closer to securing another seat in the U.S. House. nyti.ms/3M2QNrx
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If you can, in the spirit of including someone for the holidays, please help Hammam.
🚨Urgent🚨
This is our life in Gaza. We have become displaced, heartbroken, and without shelter. Our tent was flooded by the rain and is now ruined. We cannot sleep & we are freezing cold.
We desperately need your support & donations to buy a tent ⛺️
Please give your hope
Don@te Pls 👉 urls.fr/DzYN15
This is our life in Gaza. We have become displaced, heartbroken, and without shelter. Our tent was flooded by the rain and is now ruined. We cannot sleep & we are freezing cold.
We desperately need your support & donations to buy a tent ⛺️
Please give your hope
Don@te Pls 👉 urls.fr/DzYN15
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If you can, in the spirit of including someone for the holidays, please help Hammam.
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Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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Tell the billionaires: WE AIN’T BUYIN’ IT!!!
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
Tell the Billionaires We Ain’t Buying It
This week, we use our wallets like a weapon and remind every corporate giant that people—not profits—set the terms.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Tell the billionaires: WE AIN’T BUYIN’ IT!!!
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
No buying from Target, Home Depot or Amazon over the next week!
Throw in union-busting Starbucks too!! 🙃
Pass it on!! 👇👇👇
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the woman using the r-word in this clip, Laura Ndirangu, is now interviewing for a position on the school board in Forest Lake, Minnesota
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
the woman using the r-word in this clip, Laura Ndirangu, is now interviewing for a position on the school board in Forest Lake, Minnesota
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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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Here's what the reality of a school district without librarians looks like, courtesy of Grossmont Union High School District (CA): www.eastcountymagazine.org/grossmont-di...
Grossmont District’s high schools experience first semester without teacher librarians | East County Magazine
November 25, 2025 (San Diego’s East County) - The 2025-26 school year marks the first school year that the Grossmont Union High School District doesn’t have a teacher-librarian for any of its nine schools, following mass layoffs.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Here's what the reality of a school district without librarians looks like, courtesy of Grossmont Union High School District (CA): www.eastcountymagazine.org/grossmont-di...
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Research shows that volunteering can be helpful for retirees’ health and well-being. For @motherjones.com, I spoke to four retirees about how they’re giving back to their communities to resist current happenings. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Turns out fighting fascism helps you live longer
Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Research shows that volunteering can be helpful for retirees’ health and well-being. For @motherjones.com, I spoke to four retirees about how they’re giving back to their communities to resist current happenings. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This tragedy was absolutely avoidable.
Fuck RFK and every antivax influencer. They are responsible for these deaths.
Fuck RFK and every antivax influencer. They are responsible for these deaths.
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
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Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
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Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This tragedy was absolutely avoidable.
Fuck RFK and every antivax influencer. They are responsible for these deaths.
Fuck RFK and every antivax influencer. They are responsible for these deaths.
Cowards.
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Cowards.
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Ayman Soliman was a beloved children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area.
The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
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The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
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November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Ayman Soliman was a beloved children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area.
The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
Sign up:
zeteo.com/p/2pm-et-tue...
The Trump administration however tried to smear him as a possible terrorist, jailing him for 73 days.
Ayman speaks to @swin24.bsky.social in a Zeteo town hall today at 2pm ET.
Sign up:
zeteo.com/p/2pm-et-tue...
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good grief. One of the AI slop cake recipes was a 6 inch cake cooked for 4 hours at 320°F. 
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
good grief. One of the AI slop cake recipes was a 6 inch cake cooked for 4 hours at 320°F. 
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
The grift of "too big to fail" continues like we haven't learned a single damn thing.
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
The grift of "too big to fail" continues like we haven't learned a single damn thing.
AI is just making us so fucking dumb.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
AI is just making us so fucking dumb.
Wow. These dudes are amazing. These extremely high paid Goldman analysts are reporting that when people don't have jobs they are less likely to buy stuff.
Groundbreaking stuff, guys!
Groundbreaking stuff, guys!
GOLDMAN has some tough words about the young college-grad unemployment rate rising to 8.5%. 👀
“.. A further deterioration in employment opportunities .. perhaps reflecting AI and other efficiency-enhancing measures .. could have a disproportionate negative impact on consumer spending ..”
“.. A further deterioration in employment opportunities .. perhaps reflecting AI and other efficiency-enhancing measures .. could have a disproportionate negative impact on consumer spending ..”
November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Wow. These dudes are amazing. These extremely high paid Goldman analysts are reporting that when people don't have jobs they are less likely to buy stuff.
Groundbreaking stuff, guys!
Groundbreaking stuff, guys!
Dude should have retired long ago but since he's still on tv all the time, I'm glad he's finally getting it. Maybe he can drag the rest of the "centrist" wing along.
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Dude should have retired long ago but since he's still on tv all the time, I'm glad he's finally getting it. Maybe he can drag the rest of the "centrist" wing along.
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”if people don’t have jobs they don’t have money to spend”
Geniuses at work, really
Geniuses at work, really
GOLDMAN has some tough words about the young college-grad unemployment rate rising to 8.5%. 👀
“.. A further deterioration in employment opportunities .. perhaps reflecting AI and other efficiency-enhancing measures .. could have a disproportionate negative impact on consumer spending ..”
“.. A further deterioration in employment opportunities .. perhaps reflecting AI and other efficiency-enhancing measures .. could have a disproportionate negative impact on consumer spending ..”
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
”if people don’t have jobs they don’t have money to spend”
Geniuses at work, really
Geniuses at work, really
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The Mellon Literary Fund is the first seriously substantial new funding line that has been announced since I started in publishing. I'm 38. We need to get literary workers in front of philanthropists to make this case because I think most don't think of books as something they can/need to fund.
Our books are inherently non-commercial, art objects. I talk about this a lot in bookshop circles but, people don't hesitate to support dance, visual art, and other modes of artistic expression that are totally nonprofit but culturally valued. Why do people not apply that to books and literature?
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The Mellon Literary Fund is the first seriously substantial new funding line that has been announced since I started in publishing. I'm 38. We need to get literary workers in front of philanthropists to make this case because I think most don't think of books as something they can/need to fund.
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Our books are inherently non-commercial, art objects. I talk about this a lot in bookshop circles but, people don't hesitate to support dance, visual art, and other modes of artistic expression that are totally nonprofit but culturally valued. Why do people not apply that to books and literature?
November 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Our books are inherently non-commercial, art objects. I talk about this a lot in bookshop circles but, people don't hesitate to support dance, visual art, and other modes of artistic expression that are totally nonprofit but culturally valued. Why do people not apply that to books and literature?
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Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them. Now two human-rights organizations have found that all of those men were physically abused, Conor Friedersdorf writes:
What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador
Forty men sent to El Salvador by the Trump administration have shared disturbing accounts of abuse by a regime that America paid to imprison them.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them. Now two human-rights organizations have found that all of those men were physically abused, Conor Friedersdorf writes:
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Lifestory: Rev David Black’s ICE protest arises from his Chicago church’s long tradition. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Lifestory #RevDavidBlack #ICE #Chicago #USimmigrationraids #Broadview #Christianactivism #RevHannahKardon #FirstPresbyterianChurchofChicago
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Lifestory: Rev David Black's ICE protest arises from his Chicago church's long tradition - Sight Magazine
JACK JENKINS reports on the US pastor thrust into the national spotlight for his activism outside the Broadview facility...
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November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Lifestory: Rev David Black’s ICE protest arises from his Chicago church’s long tradition. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Lifestory #RevDavidBlack #ICE #Chicago #USimmigrationraids #Broadview #Christianactivism #RevHannahKardon #FirstPresbyterianChurchofChicago
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