@girlmathur.bsky.social
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Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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Watched the last episode of Stranger Things 😭
Don’t have to be a fan of the show to appreciate David Harbour’s powerful acceptance speech at the 23rd annual SAG Awards🏆 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Pushing back against this regime—No notes…10/10
Don’t have to be a fan of the show to appreciate David Harbour’s powerful acceptance speech at the 23rd annual SAG Awards🏆 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Pushing back against this regime—No notes…10/10
January 1, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Watched the last episode of Stranger Things 😭
Don’t have to be a fan of the show to appreciate David Harbour’s powerful acceptance speech at the 23rd annual SAG Awards🏆 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Pushing back against this regime—No notes…10/10
Don’t have to be a fan of the show to appreciate David Harbour’s powerful acceptance speech at the 23rd annual SAG Awards🏆 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Pushing back against this regime—No notes…10/10
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The folks at MigraWhistle make it easy to host your own assembly party. Zine PDFs, folding instructions, and whistle print files are at migrawhistle.org — and they welcome questions.
Free kits are available at Citizen Ruth (NE Alberta).
Doing something together builds community — share widely.
Free kits are available at Citizen Ruth (NE Alberta).
Doing something together builds community — share widely.
December 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The folks at MigraWhistle make it easy to host your own assembly party. Zine PDFs, folding instructions, and whistle print files are at migrawhistle.org — and they welcome questions.
Free kits are available at Citizen Ruth (NE Alberta).
Doing something together builds community — share widely.
Free kits are available at Citizen Ruth (NE Alberta).
Doing something together builds community — share widely.
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Freedom cities are on the way!!
#DarkEnlightenment
#DarkEnlightenment
December 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Freedom cities are on the way!!
#DarkEnlightenment
#DarkEnlightenment
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it’s illegal for you to not talk to me
December 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
it’s illegal for you to not talk to me
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After Christmas, it’s not uncommon to see spent firs, spruces and pines strewn across Philly sidewalks, destined for the landfill.
Your tree could get a second life instead, benefitting city gardens, trails and even goats ↓
via @mariapulcinella.bsky.social
Your tree could get a second life instead, benefitting city gardens, trails and even goats ↓
via @mariapulcinella.bsky.social
Your Philly Christmas tree could get a second life as snacks for goats, wood chips and more
Christmas trees don’t have to be left for curbside trash collection, where they are destined for the landfill.
whyy.org
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
After Christmas, it’s not uncommon to see spent firs, spruces and pines strewn across Philly sidewalks, destined for the landfill.
Your tree could get a second life instead, benefitting city gardens, trails and even goats ↓
via @mariapulcinella.bsky.social
Your tree could get a second life instead, benefitting city gardens, trails and even goats ↓
via @mariapulcinella.bsky.social
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This is a pretty dope year, TBH.
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
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💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is a pretty dope year, TBH.
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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'The Running of the Deer' by contemporary UK artist Catherine Hyde #womensart
December 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
'The Running of the Deer' by contemporary UK artist Catherine Hyde #womensart
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Please answer the questions in this thread:
The article you’re sharing touts a teacher making students use “A.i.” to design ugly sweaters. That’s a repugnant use of tech based on theft to rob kids of the chance to use their own minds and hands to actually draw. Do you support that attack on human creativity?
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Please answer the questions in this thread:
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December 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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SHARE WIDELY!!!!!https://open.substack.com/pub/muellershewrote/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment?r=1088tr&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
SHARE WIDELY!!!!!https://open.substack.com/pub/muellershewrote/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment?r=1088tr&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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70% of Americans in new Marist poll say prices have jumped so much that life is unaffordable--including 50% of Republicans. Yet what is Trump focused on? Renaming the Kennedy Center after himself, naming US navy ships after himself, his $400 million ballroom and starting a war with Venezuela.
December 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
70% of Americans in new Marist poll say prices have jumped so much that life is unaffordable--including 50% of Republicans. Yet what is Trump focused on? Renaming the Kennedy Center after himself, naming US navy ships after himself, his $400 million ballroom and starting a war with Venezuela.
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The whole administration definitely comes off like a narcissistic/alcoholic (well, Wiles named it and Trump agreed!) family system. incredibly dysfunctional. And then, we're all stuck in its extended branches. The ambient abuse alone is toxic as hell.
December 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
The whole administration definitely comes off like a narcissistic/alcoholic (well, Wiles named it and Trump agreed!) family system. incredibly dysfunctional. And then, we're all stuck in its extended branches. The ambient abuse alone is toxic as hell.
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It’s one thing to believe in the abstract that authoritarian, fascist, or personalist regimes displace expertise for loyalty, it’s entirely a different thing to watch it happen all over the place in your country.
love how being 'Stephen Miller's wife' is like, a position of influence worthy of a TV spot
Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”
November 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
It’s one thing to believe in the abstract that authoritarian, fascist, or personalist regimes displace expertise for loyalty, it’s entirely a different thing to watch it happen all over the place in your country.
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“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen and threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil.”
— President of Colombia Gustavo Petro
— President of Colombia Gustavo Petro
December 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen and threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil.”
— President of Colombia Gustavo Petro
— President of Colombia Gustavo Petro
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I think it's pretty clear by now that Pope Leo would not have called the 2024 election a choice between two evils as Pope Francis disgustingly did. In fact, I think Pope Leo voted for Kamala Harris based on what we can tell from his voting history. We're in good hands in the Catholic Church.
December 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I think it's pretty clear by now that Pope Leo would not have called the 2024 election a choice between two evils as Pope Francis disgustingly did. In fact, I think Pope Leo voted for Kamala Harris based on what we can tell from his voting history. We're in good hands in the Catholic Church.
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Listen: readings of famous authors and poets - Didion, Vonnegut, Mary Oliver, ee cummings, James Baldwin...
At the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center in NYC.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...
At the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center in NYC.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...
Joan Didion and Kurt Vonnegut Had Something to Say. We Have It on Tape.
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Listen: readings of famous authors and poets - Didion, Vonnegut, Mary Oliver, ee cummings, James Baldwin...
At the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center in NYC.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...
At the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center in NYC.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...
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They think writers can be replaced because they don't understand what writing is effective, yes, but don't discount the desire to cut human labor out of the process entirely, not just for "cost savings" but because the management class and especially the investor class just fucking hate humans.
Is that why people think that ChatGPT and other AI(?) could replace authors - the people in management can't recognize good writing and so assume that no one else can, either? It seems like that would quickly be dismissed witjh any sort of beta readership, but.
December 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
They think writers can be replaced because they don't understand what writing is effective, yes, but don't discount the desire to cut human labor out of the process entirely, not just for "cost savings" but because the management class and especially the investor class just fucking hate humans.
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The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
Excellent points.
December 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The "poverty penalty."
Excellent points.
Excellent points.
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I can't think of a single restaurant I miss more than the classic Pizza Hut situation from when I was a kid. You got your own little pizza. You didn't have to pay for it because you read books, which seemed magical to me because I read everything anyway. They had video games. It looked fancy.
December 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I can't think of a single restaurant I miss more than the classic Pizza Hut situation from when I was a kid. You got your own little pizza. You didn't have to pay for it because you read books, which seemed magical to me because I read everything anyway. They had video games. It looked fancy.