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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 7h

ugh

Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 7h

Some of the smartest people in my life are sending me cat videos (which I love) which are AI (which I hate) which they do not realize (which scares me). We are cooked.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone seen Nothing Can Take You From The Hand of God? Surprisingly, cannot find a single review.

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 1d

She’s baaaaack. Thoughts on the Free Press from one of the best

Sara Yasin @sarayasin.bsky.social · 1d

going back to my roots.....
Blogging
sarayasin.substack.com/p/rejoining-...

rejoining the living and some thoughts on....free press and...that deal

I haven’t said much these last few months, that’s because I’ve felt way more introspective since leaving the L.A.

sarayasin.substack.com

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely depressing to look back on texts from the morning of Oct 7, 2023 and be reminded that everything unfolded exactly as expected. May Bibi and Hamas have their day in The Hague.

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been Bad Bunny-pilled

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 4d

This week’s newsletter tackles the eternal question miriamelder.substack.com/p/why-are-men

Why Are Men?

Sailing the stormy seas of compulsory heterosexuality.

miriamelder.substack.com

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 4d

This week’s newsletter tackles the eternal question miriamelder.substack.com/p/why-are-men

Why Are Men?

Sailing the stormy seas of compulsory heterosexuality.

miriamelder.substack.com

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 5d

Funny to see TikTok and critics turn on TS because the music has always sounded like this (bad, basic) so what else has changed (engagement? overexposure? the veil of fascism imposing cultural insight?)

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 5d

Endless coverage of the descent into fascism: I understand this and society needs it
Endless coverage of T*ylor Sw*ft: why are you doing this to me?!?!!!

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 5d

Impossible to delink this from the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - the total militarization of law enforcement. Story opens with a Black Hawk helicopter deployed against Americans and only gets worse from there abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 6d

And on the 30th day she discovered trazadone

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 7d

This @tressiemcphd.bsky.social column is obviously so much more than a subtweet of Ezra Klein (who himself is a stand-in for a certain type of thinking) but I did appreciate that aspect of it www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | When Silence Is the Only Logical Choice, Are We Really Free?

www.nytimes.com

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 7d

sigh

Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 7d

bah

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 7d

Made it to 4.27, this losing streak is almost impressive

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 8d

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 8d

Tonight, as every night, we shall play the game of "can I sleep past 4.30am?" and lose

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 8d

The fact that his main critics are Black men and women, women and people of color more broadly, and he is making a performance of not really listening feels like a signal

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 8d

Unfortunately I think the Ezra Klein discourse matters - not because of him but because of his role in legitimizing certain views for the liberal mainstream, in this case, the full internalization of the Republican-driven backlash

Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 22d

Ezra Klein’s role is to legitimize elite views. See: his shifting opinions on Gaza, which grant centrists permission to discuss genocide, etc. He doesn’t lead, he reflects. His recent work (even pre-Kirk killing) shows liberals truly don’t understand the threat before them.

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 9d

WHAT! How did I not know this. Huge.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 10d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 10d

Never thought I’d be saying Paul Thomas Anderson comedic genius, but here we are

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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 10d

Alas all the haters who became his waiters have cleared the table of success

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 10d

NEW: After weeks of fervent denials, Mayor Eric Adams announced Sunday that he's dropping out of the mayoral race.

Eric Adams Drops Out of Race for Mayor, Refuses to Endorse Other Candidates

Lagging badly in polls, the mayor confirmed in a video that he's suspending his campaign after weeks of denying he was considering an exit.

www.thecity.nyc

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Kate Tsurkan @katetsurkan.bsky.social · 11d

For @kyivindependent.com I wrote about Guardian journalist Shaun Walker's new book on the history of Russia’s illegals spy program. One of the most insane books I’ve read in a awhile, but so well-written, definitely worth your time.

kyivindependent.com/spies-among-...

Spies among us? Shaun Walker's new book details Russia’s decades-long international espionage program

It could be a scene from a thriller — watching the FBI arrest your own parents for being Russian spies. But for Alexander and Timothy Vavilov, who had known their parents all their lives as Donald Hea...

kyivindependent.com

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