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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper raised $14.5 million during the first 65 days of his new Senate campaign — a record-breaking total for a Senate challenger in their first fundraising quarter in one of the most competitive races of 2026.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 5d

At the newsletter right now:

One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since the murder of Charlie Kirk will be a panel with leaders of the abortion ‘abolition’ movement - extremists who lobby for abortion patients to get the death penalty

jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

Turning Point USA Hosts Campus Event Pushing Death Penalty for Abortion Patients

10.3.25

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Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social · 6d

COOKING UP A STORM is also one of my absolute favorite cookbooks of all time.

Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social · 6d

Post-Katrina, many New Orleanians found themselves not only homeless, but also craving the very taste of home. Judy Walker started a column at the Times-Picayune to locate recipes which became a James Beard nominated cookbook of community service and love. www.southerncultures.org/article/reci...

Recipes Lost and Found

Longtime journalist Judy Walker worked as the food editor at the New Orleans–based Times-Picayune for about a year before Hurricane Katrina hit. Most of the newspaper staff, including Walker…

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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 6d

I was at Columbia and on our campus newspaper when Bari Weiss first rose to notoriety for “Columbia Unbecoming.” There is something deeply cynical and depressing about this coronation of bad faith, which is of a piece of our time — and her initial crusade on campus over twenty years ago.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social · 7d

oh no! I'm so sorry, Michael!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

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Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social · 9d

This takes me back!

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 13d

Trump: 'We are so broke 15 million people need to lose their health insurance.'

Also Trump: www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-...

New renderings show more details of White House ballroom under construction

The Trump administration announced in July that a 90,000-square-foot ballroom with a seated capacity for 650 people will be constructed in the White House's East Wing.

www.cbsnews.com

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Anita Felicelli @anitafelicelli.bsky.social · 13d

loved the prismatic novel The Wilderness. here's a profile I wrote about author Angela Flournoy in connection with the book. www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...

Why Angela Flournoy Writes About Friendship and Grief

Angela Flournoy discusses how her second novel, The Wilderness, came to be.

www.altaonline.com

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Jane Ciabattari @janeciab.bsky.social · 13d

And how an AI hallucination inspired the newest story in his collection…the last in the book.

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 13d

Jonathan Lethem talks to @janeciab.bsky.social about writing, revising, and seeing the world through a Marxist lens.

Jonathan Lethem on Revisiting Old Short Stories While Writing New Ones

Jonathan Lethem appears steadily in the contemporary literary livestream, He’s earned the title “bard of Brooklyn” for fiction about his native borough. He’s invented eccentric narrative voices lik…

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Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social · 14d

not fried??

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Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social · 14d

So glad you made it! I was able to tour the lighthouse during Open House New York back when I lived in West Harlem some 17 or so years ago.

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Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social · 14d

I go back and erase instances of writing "I feel."

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 16d

Journalists talk to colleagues on Slack, reach sources via phone, email, and messaging apps, and file in Google Docs.

But as the U.S. government ramps up its attacks on American journalism, it’s a good time to ask: How secure are the tools we take for granted?

www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/its-...

It’s 2025. Do you know how secure your newsroom is?

"It was a lot easier, in some ways, for journalists back in the 80s and 90s, before all of these cloud platforms existed."

www.niemanlab.org

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National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · 16d

NBCC board member Mary Ann Gwinn interviewed historian Jill Lepore for Kirkus Reviews about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution":

Jill Lepore on What the Constitution Means to Us | Kirkus Reviews

The acclaimed Harvard historian considers the complicated history of America’s foundational document.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 17d

Madison Square Garden, 1939:

Nazi storm troopers fill the aisles as the crowd of thousands sings "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the opening of the German American Bund's rally at Madison Square Garden.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 17d

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 18d

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins
There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17d

Donald Trump is unfurling banners of his own face on government buildings across D.C.

He has spent at least $56,000 so far. trib.al/UgfCGxk

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 19d

I posted earlier about the Brooklyn Book Festival but I got the date wrong. It is on SUNDAY. You should all GO. brooklynbookfestival.org/event_type/f...

Festival Day - Brooklyn Book Festival

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21d

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 21d

So what's the plan after we "play down" the impacts of climate change to allegedly help win elections. What's the plan when the water rises to your doorstep

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Lauren LeBlanc @laurenleblanc.bsky.social · 22d

So eager to hear your thoughts, but more eager for you to enjoy it.

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