@cluftnyc.bsky.social
Writer, editor, artist, scientist; she/her
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Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)
January 22, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)
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If you know anyone who still supports this one or doesn't think it's that bad in MN, please send them this. People need to know.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 1:09 AM
If you know anyone who still supports this one or doesn't think it's that bad in MN, please send them this. People need to know.
Today’s “MLK to Renee” rally/march across the Brooklyn Bridge was spirited and mighty in spite of frigid temps. Great speakers included Kirstin John Foy, Jumaane Williams, leaders of the nurses’ union, Carlene Pinto, and more. From MN to NYC, ICE out now!
m.youtube.com/shorts/xEKbF...
m.youtube.com/shorts/xEKbF...
January 20, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Today’s “MLK to Renee” rally/march across the Brooklyn Bridge was spirited and mighty in spite of frigid temps. Great speakers included Kirstin John Foy, Jumaane Williams, leaders of the nurses’ union, Carlene Pinto, and more. From MN to NYC, ICE out now!
m.youtube.com/shorts/xEKbF...
m.youtube.com/shorts/xEKbF...
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This pal of Bari Weiss posted made-up ChatGPT baloney and attributed it to Francis Bacon, under his own byline!!! A wildly irresponsible person
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
January 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
This pal of Bari Weiss posted made-up ChatGPT baloney and attributed it to Francis Bacon, under his own byline!!! A wildly irresponsible person
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
Rally tomorrow 9am in Foley Square, with march to WTC, where Noem is holding a press conference.
January 8, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Rally tomorrow 9am in Foley Square, with march to WTC, where Noem is holding a press conference.
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NO WAR ON VENEZUELA!!!
January 3, 2026 at 3:11 PM
NO WAR ON VENEZUELA!!!
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Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com/watching-bar...
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Hey, speaking as a parent who also teaches art in my kid’s school:
1) I don’t want genAI involved in my child’s learning bc the AI short-circuits the effort & repetition needed to help him cement skills.
2) GenAI art teaches my tiny artists no skills & reinforces what they perceive as inadequacy>
1) I don’t want genAI involved in my child’s learning bc the AI short-circuits the effort & repetition needed to help him cement skills.
2) GenAI art teaches my tiny artists no skills & reinforces what they perceive as inadequacy>
December 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Hey, speaking as a parent who also teaches art in my kid’s school:
1) I don’t want genAI involved in my child’s learning bc the AI short-circuits the effort & repetition needed to help him cement skills.
2) GenAI art teaches my tiny artists no skills & reinforces what they perceive as inadequacy>
1) I don’t want genAI involved in my child’s learning bc the AI short-circuits the effort & repetition needed to help him cement skills.
2) GenAI art teaches my tiny artists no skills & reinforces what they perceive as inadequacy>
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Reposting this petition for NYC people interested in pushing back rather than partnering up:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
December 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Reposting this petition for NYC people interested in pushing back rather than partnering up:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
Read Carlos Valladares’s review of A. S. Hamrah’s “Algorithm of the Night” and “Last Week in End Times Cinema” here, in the Brooklyn Rail — excellent insight, and congratulations again to Mr. Hamrah on his NBCC nomination!
brooklynrail.org/2025/12/film...
brooklynrail.org/2025/12/film...
December 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Read Carlos Valladares’s review of A. S. Hamrah’s “Algorithm of the Night” and “Last Week in End Times Cinema” here, in the Brooklyn Rail — excellent insight, and congratulations again to Mr. Hamrah on his NBCC nomination!
brooklynrail.org/2025/12/film...
brooklynrail.org/2025/12/film...
Hooray for A.S. Hamrah, nominated for the Nat‘l Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism! Get his latest, “Algorithm of the Night“ and “Last Week in End Times Cinema“ [n+1, Semiotext(e)]. His work is brilliant, often hilarious, and always rooted in the sociopolitical moment.
bsky.app/profile/hamr...
bsky.app/profile/hamr...
Thank you National Book Critics Circle for this nomination.
Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Criticism
December 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hooray for A.S. Hamrah, nominated for the Nat‘l Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism! Get his latest, “Algorithm of the Night“ and “Last Week in End Times Cinema“ [n+1, Semiotext(e)]. His work is brilliant, often hilarious, and always rooted in the sociopolitical moment.
bsky.app/profile/hamr...
bsky.app/profile/hamr...
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Very nice review by @pkeough1.bsky.social in The Arts Fuse of my book, Algorithm of the Night. artsfuse.org/321302/book-...
Book Review: The "Night" Movies of Film Critic A.S. Hamrah - The Arts Fuse
Once again, critic A.S. Hamrah sheds perceptive light on our cinematic malaise.
artsfuse.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Very nice review by @pkeough1.bsky.social in The Arts Fuse of my book, Algorithm of the Night. artsfuse.org/321302/book-...
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For World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1 and which is being ignored by the Trump administration because they dislike the World Health Organization, other countries, science, and queer people, I'm reposting a piece I wrote earlier this year. (They also hate history.) www.vulture.com/article/hiv-...
The List Keepers
The AIDS crisis shattered Broadway, and the scope of the loss has never been fully accounted for. Some kept their own records.
www.vulture.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 AM
For World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1 and which is being ignored by the Trump administration because they dislike the World Health Organization, other countries, science, and queer people, I'm reposting a piece I wrote earlier this year. (They also hate history.) www.vulture.com/article/hiv-...
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Since our fucking government isn’t observing World AIDS Day, I will. In 1990, I started taking care of people in the last stages of AIDS in their homes. I did this for nearly two years. The home care company I worked for had meetings for those of us who solely (or nearly solely) took care of PWAs.
December 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Since our fucking government isn’t observing World AIDS Day, I will. In 1990, I started taking care of people in the last stages of AIDS in their homes. I did this for nearly two years. The home care company I worked for had meetings for those of us who solely (or nearly solely) took care of PWAs.
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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Celebrating Ann Reinking on her birthday with this astonishing Jack Mitchell photo. Annie was elegant, intelligent, hilarious, bawdy, ferocious, silly, empathetic, and deep as the ocean. 💔💜
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Celebrating Ann Reinking on her birthday with this astonishing Jack Mitchell photo. Annie was elegant, intelligent, hilarious, bawdy, ferocious, silly, empathetic, and deep as the ocean. 💔💜
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books
A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.
www.pilsencommunitybooks.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.
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Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
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🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
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This is exactly what was horrific about Ezra Klein saying Charlie Kirk did politics "in the right way."
Read the whole @nytimes.com essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
Read the whole @nytimes.com essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
September 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This is exactly what was horrific about Ezra Klein saying Charlie Kirk did politics "in the right way."
Read the whole @nytimes.com essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
Read the whole @nytimes.com essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...
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a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...
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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
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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...
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This is a great piece by @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social with helpful tips for addressing COVID misinformation.
As a science communicator, my experience is that the best way to win people over is with empathetic real world conversations and it's work we all need to do if we want to turn things around.
As a science communicator, my experience is that the best way to win people over is with empathetic real world conversations and it's work we all need to do if we want to turn things around.
I inserted myself into a conversation at a bar about Covid and vaccines. Here’s what happened
What happened when a public health scientist overheard four men sharing misinformation about Covid — and decided to talk to them about it.
www.statnews.com
September 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is a great piece by @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social with helpful tips for addressing COVID misinformation.
As a science communicator, my experience is that the best way to win people over is with empathetic real world conversations and it's work we all need to do if we want to turn things around.
As a science communicator, my experience is that the best way to win people over is with empathetic real world conversations and it's work we all need to do if we want to turn things around.
The AMA has issued multiple (upward of a dozen) statements opposing RFK's actions, expressing grave concerns about his impact, calling for reversals of decisions such as his dismissal of all the members of ACIP (vaccine panel). To my knowledge, AMA has not yet outright demanded his removal.
August 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The AMA has issued multiple (upward of a dozen) statements opposing RFK's actions, expressing grave concerns about his impact, calling for reversals of decisions such as his dismissal of all the members of ACIP (vaccine panel). To my knowledge, AMA has not yet outright demanded his removal.