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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 12h

you and me both 😩✌️

Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 15h

he doesn’t need to worry; young pregnant women in his state aren’t going to the ER because they’re afraid a miscarriage will be classified as an attempted murder

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 1d

a real launderer of bad takes, mr caldwell is

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 2d

chick fil a better be catering ALL the cbs events from here on out

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

nypost.com

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 2d

excited to see material like the anti-palestinian op ed he published in our college paper make its way to cbs
kenyoncollegian.com/opinion/2016...

SJP brings extremism to campus — The Kenyon Collegian

Palestinian poet, writer, and activist Remi Kanazi, Students for Justice in Palestine’s (SJP) latest guest, compares Jews to the KKK. He poses in support of terrorists and advocates violence. His pre...

kenyoncollegian.com

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 2d

alt: sherlock and watson go to burning man

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 2d

well you’ve got trouble, my friend, i say trouble, right here in kansas city

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 7d

nice

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 12d

what wine shop in bmore is doing wine dinners?!

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 13d

Really trying to put mass layoffs on Democrats’ shoulders

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 13d

It’s a threat straight from Trump: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

White House to agencies: Prepare mass firing plans for a potential shutdown

In memo, the Trump administration says the Reduction-in-Force plans would go beyond standard shutdown furloughs.

www.politico.com

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 16d

ngl, continually getting rejected from jobs paying like $60k despite my phd is uhhhhh devastating

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 21d

i’m also an if books could kill patreon supporter, highly recommend

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 21d

propublica, defector, your local public radio station! i also give $5 a month to the internet archive for all the ways they’ve enabled my work over the years (including archiving my articles on deleted websites)

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · 26d

I’ll never forgive Netflix for what they did to Teenage Bounty Hunters

Kevin Smokler @weegee.bsky.social · 26d

Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.

What's yours?

Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · Sep 8

It’s from NY Mag’s piece on the death of criticism:
nymag.com/intelligence...

Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?

The grim calculations involved in publishing traditional written reviews.

nymag.com

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · Sep 8

one semester i had multiple students write in course evaluations that my emails had really good memes and ngl it did feel so good

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · Sep 2

And Baltimore is slashing crime with a chronically understaffed police force — partnering with violence mitigation groups and implementing community programs to mentor at-risk youth! Social services in place of militant patrols

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · Aug 29

As a film photography girly and an Etsy vintage browser… this shit uhhhh sucks

Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · Aug 29

The people elected to serve DO have input! They nominate the Fed Board! Trump appointees already control the Fed!

Obviously Vance knows this, but he expects (correctly) that the average person does not, and wants to exploit that ignorance.

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · Aug 28

my man’s built different 😤

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · Aug 24

I have done this too. As an English instructor I have heard of at least one prof who is doing oral exams —which can be a good workaround, but it’s a fundamentally different kind of thinking than writing, which requires struggle and sustained attention. Makes me sad to think that could be lost

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · Aug 22

and what a lede on the story

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · Aug 21

the first time i ever went, the docent in the elevator said “this museum’s entire architectural story is literally ‘up from slavery’”

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Tori Hoover @torihoover.bsky.social · Aug 20

imagine having ownership that would sign your home grown multi time all star player to a 5 year contract extension with a no trade clause

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