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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 4h

Look, you can feel however you want about her and express that dislike however you want, but what we're not going to do is traffic in antisemitism. Come on! Maybe you don't know of the connection between the term LP and antisemitism but if htat's the case, now you do.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 9h

Our bill in LA was $900 and we are only there half time. It’s really outrageous. Normally it’s around $500.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 13h

Too bad it’s not creative writing!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19h

Good news! The university has found a way to make DUO even more annoying, fussy, and complicated. It's almost like they don't want us to access anything.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 1d

I have been flummoxed by Bari Weiss heading up CBS news all day. It’s not jealousy. I don’t want that job. I am not qualified to do it. I just don’t understand how this is possible.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 1d

This is not that in any way.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 1d

What's especially frustrating is that these kids are SMART! They're charming! They're interesting! I am not sure why they don't trust themselves.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 1d

Students using AI is definitely the thing that is going to break me. Not even failing grades work as a deterrent.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 2d

Just got back to NY and the disappointment the cats are expressing because Debbie isn’t with me… it’s rude.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 2d

I’m just going to talk about yogurt. It is soft and creamy. I like Fage black cherry and mixing the little compartments.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so frustrating. The level of bad faith engagement! And for what?

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. For sure that is a good question and I fear for their safety.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 2d

Today on Pod Save America I talk to Alex Wagner about all this degueulasse. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Roxane Gay on the Myth of Civility

Podcast Episode · Pod Save America · 10/05/2025 · 1h 1m

podcasts.apple.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 2d

I said what I said, Kevin, how I wanted to say it!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 2d

It’s always interesting to see when in a megastar’s career the people around them stop offering helpful guardrails and saying no, that isn’t good, go back to the drawing board.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 3d

I recently encountered one of my nemeses and update: he is still a nemesis. This man cannot help himself. We are peers but he cannot keep from negging me to my face. In front of people. He smiles and says some slick, backhanded shit and smiles some more. One day…one day i will pop off.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

If I see y’all being disrespectful to black people on here, issa block immediately. PERIODT. I don’t want or need the context. You’re gone irrelevant dust past tense less than palimpsest.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 4d

My amazing wife @debbiemillman.bsky.social has an essay in the NYT today about how Trump is imposing his brand on American democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Opinion | Trump’s Louis XIV Moment

www.nytimes.com

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 5d

Adiós, poeta torturada; bienvenida, chica del espectáculo. Taylor Swift da comienzo a una nueva era, como ella misma llama a cada una de las etapas de su carrera, que inaugura cada vez que saca disco. Y ya está aquí el 12º: 'The Life of a Showgirl' social.elpais.com/m7vkc30

Taylor Swift lanza su nuevo álbum ‘The Life of a Showgirl’, filtrado un día antes, donde destapa a su cabaretera interior más deslenguada

El 12º disco de estudio de la artista, más pop que sus últimos trabajos, se ha lanzado en la medianoche de Estados Unidos con temas muy personales

social.elpais.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 5d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 5d

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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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 5d

We need to get to the bottom of why people
under 35 refuse to ring the goddamned doorbell. Sometimes, they just come to the door and wait, as if I will receive a psychic notification. I try to handle most generational things because everyone is special but come on. Ring the bell.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 6d

I have to imagine even his parents hate Stephen Miller

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 6d

The open use of federal funds as a blunt force object to get universities, cities, and other entities in line is criminal. Those are tax payer dollars! And so much capitulation! Dbjdonfonifbinrondondonodnonfonfoninfonfin

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 6d

MP Vare has written a beautiful essay about their complicated family ecology--one shaped by anger and fear--and how they have tried to find a different way to exist within that ecology: audacity.substack.com/p/family-eco...

Family Ecology

Emerging Writer Series

audacity.substack.com

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