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Leila Stegemoeller
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English PhD candidate @ UCSB.
(Redoing this due to typo)
29 ICE officers died in the line of duty in 20 YEARS, mostly from COVID and cancer. 32 people died in ICE custody just last year, they’ve killed or chased 5 others into death from July 2025-present.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

news.wttw.com/2026/01/08/d...
January 10, 2026 at 2:20 AM
"I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way."
"Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Renee Macklin Good’s wife says she nurtured kindness
On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.
www.mprnews.org
January 9, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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January 9, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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Anyone Else Here

xkcd.com/3188/
January 2, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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If you read nothing else this new year, let it be this piece. A former New York Times editor laid out how they're anti trans coverage was directed from the top by AG Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, and Carolyn Ryan. This was a purposeful effort to target trans people.

transnews.network/p/a-directiv...
'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 2, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Jan 1: this is the year of new Me

Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
January 1, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Liza Minnelli — David Lachapelle, 1989
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Proust's proofs for "In Search of the Lost Time"
December 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller)

more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living”

worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...
Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan
What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.
worldliteraturetoday.org
December 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Cracking up since a robotext earlier couldn't make up it's mind on what to text, so it just sent EVERYTHING AT ONCE
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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the craziest thing about this is that all art generated is canonical
BREAKING: Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI, and will allow its iconic characters to be on the company's Sora AI video generator.
December 11, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33
December 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Week 10 🫠
December 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Thaler's post (click it for graph showing striking decreases in science spending) immediately under yet another repost of this fantastic letter to London Times. And I'd just like to say: can we PLEASE have a Democratic candidate who knows we need a massive reinvestment in US arts & humanities too?
December 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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"We have classrooms because you have to learn how to sustain a thought aloud— exposed to others and to your own ineloquence— to see that other people can help you reach where you can’t quite go and to see that you can help others reach better clarity…”
- Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Very Bernarr-Macfadden coded -- American's physical culture who "often walked six hours and twenty-five miles" to work and whose motto was: "weakness is a crime! Don't be a criminal!" (See Mark Adams' excellent book Mr. America for more!)
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
There are so many dangerous details / insights into strange user fantasies in this analysis of ChatGPT's capitulation to its users desired answers (ex. it begins w/ "yes" 10x more than "no") -- but something about "censoring its own swear word" really stood out here. Pathetic! archive.ph/gKgWf
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM