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Margaret Monteith

@memonteith.bsky.social

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Walks further than people think. Humanities teacher & fiction writer with words in Bomb, McSweeney’s, Evergreen Review, Fugue, Gargoyle and more. USC BA/Columbia University MA/Brooklyn College MFA. she/her/hers www.margaretzamosmonteith.com

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · Oct 11

Check out my story in McSweeney’s, and please please please vote. #harriswalz #childlesscatladies

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Aug 19

"Sure, I might be a childless cat lady with a solid career as a quantitative analyst, but Senator Vance and a podcast host researching the theory of everything have helped me see the lack of meaning in my existence."
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The Postmenopausal Woman’s Purpose-Driven Life

“In a 2020 podcast interview discussing the benefits of grandparents in children’s lives, JD Vance agrees when the host says, ‘That’s the whole pur...

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Josh @dumbjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly rules and non parents probably won't know this, but she has a book club for little kids and she will just send them books for free. my kids have loved them. it's a good excuse to stop doing something and just hang out and read a book with them.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 5d

[Throwing the money back.]

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 5d

The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens.

Few understand this.

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 5d

“Being nice costs you nothing! Being a piece of shit costs you your humanity!” Amen.

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 5d

“Being nice costs you nothing! Being a piece of shit costs you your humanity!” Amen, @amandalitman.bsky.social

Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 5d

In my personal newsletter this week: I posted online about vaccinating my baby. You can probably guess what happened next. amandalitman.substack.com/p/i-posted-o...

I posted online about vaccinating my kid

You can probably guess what happened next...

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 5d

Musk’s wealth
2012: 2 billion / 2024: 447 billion
Bezos wealth
2012: 18 billion / 2024: 249 billion Zuckerberg’s wealth
2012: 2 billion / 2024: 447 billion
USA minimum wage
2012: $7.25 an hour/2024: $7.25…
#TaxTheRich #incomeinequality #makeitmakesense

Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 5d

This.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 5d

They willfully refuse to understand, “‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ / He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’” 😞

Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 5d

“‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ / He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’” Call your reps and demand justice and civil rights for all.

Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 6d

Our government has given these men license to do this. Supplied them with weapons and uniforms even. Given them ample resources to live out their hate filled fantasies while saying we have no resources for healthcare. It’s truly unforgivable.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 5d

They really take “whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me” don’t they? 😞 It is all horrific.

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · 5d

So exhausted. 😞

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 8d

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 8d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive:

2015: 332
2016: 383
2017: 347
2018: 335
2019: 414
2020: 611
2021: 689
2022: 644
2023: 659
2024: 503

So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days.

We do not have to keep living like this.

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10d

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10d

History is like science and free speech. It doesn't exist for you to agree or disagree with it, it exists for you to listen to it.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 11d

On top of everything going on--- I still have a Resistance School to run!

My classes for Race, Media and International Affairs 101 begin Monday, October 6th!

We are expanding the class size (but not by much!)

So you still have a chance to enroll! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11d

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12d

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12d

Noah catalogued every living animal in pairs and was hyperfocused on boats.

Don’t tell me autism started with Tylenol.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12d

very excited for it to be that time of year when i contract a mysterious illness from my children.

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