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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Check out @dianamheald.bsky.social’s nuanced and thoughtful review of @sophiegilbert.bsky.social’s book, “Girl on Girl.”

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Does it raise questions or does it answer them

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

By @mashagessen.bsky.social “The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing

The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

For me, fighting fascism has nothing to do with thinking I’ll win. I don’t fight because there’s an inevitable outcome, I fight because I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t do something.

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Utterly heartbreaking and terrifying for people with disabilities and their families.

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Slate @slate.com · 02/03/2025

The surprise Oscar nominee has a powerful, unexpected message about life under authoritarianism.

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The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen

I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The @washingtonpost.com went from having an Opinions section to an Opinion (singular) section

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

For @bombmag.bsky.social I spoke to Sophie Madeline Dess about her debut novel “What You Make of Me,” which came out today! bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

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BOMB Magazine | Sophie Madeline Dess by Amanda Chemeche

A debut novel explores art, desire, and creative control.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

“Leaders in higher educational institutions should stand up for their values. Not to pick a fight with Donald Trump or JD Vance,” Michael Roth says. “We should stand up for our values because we’ve said we believed in them for the last many decades now.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | A college president offers a class in standing up to Trump

Wesleyan University’s president is advocating for values in higher education while others stay silent.

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Words by @hughryan.bsky.social on the National Park Service’s erasure of the words “transgender” and “queer” from the Stonewall Monument’s website. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2025

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

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Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights

The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I especially love their catch phrases: “What’s up Captain”, “Let’s split the baby,” “Cool beans,” “Top level…” the corniness paired with the abject immorality and soullessness of their “businesses” is just…macabre.

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NPR @npr.org · 11/02/2025

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

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Jan. 6 video evidence has 'disappeared' from public access, media coalition says

A coalition of news organizations said in a court filing that video exhibits from a Jan. 6 riot case had "disappeared" from a government platform that provided access to evidence used in court.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Sen. Elizabeth Warren addresses Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) shutdown protest: "For every American who doesn't want some weird Elon Musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

“I think the strategy here is: ‘Well, we’re just going to do it and dare somebody to stop us, and by the time they stop us, we’ll have destroyed it.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats

Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/02/2025

Chris Murphy: "We have days to stop the destruction of our democracy ... we are taking back this country from Elon Musk."

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I am thinking back to whipping Obamacare votes in the senate online. How tired I am of begging senators for my life and that of everyone in this country.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We were just told that they won’t let us in. They are denying entry to 2 dozen members of Congress. Elon Musk has all our private information & we have no idea what he’s doing with it. This is happening completely behind closed doors. HELL NO. It’s illegal. We demand oversight!

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

They are violating the constitution and if we don’t urge our representative to block this, many, many more unconstitutional acts will follow.

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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

One thing we've learned since 1/20 with painful clarity is that our institutions are far more fragile than we could have ever imagined.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/02/2025

President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also aligning himself with those who are brandishing the term DEI as a catchall for discrimination against white people, and using it as a pejorative to attack nonwhite and female leaders as unqualified for their positions.

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As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces

President Trump has promised a “colorblind and merit-based” society, while also equating diversity with incompetence.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 28/01/2025

The president can veto or support legislation. He can make recommendations to Congress. But he doesn't have the unilateral right to change laws. Trump has very little respect for the rule of law & our Constitution. He is moving us toward authoritarianism. We must stop him.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Correction: Insta and FB stopped me from “sharing” it on my feed.

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Instagram and Facebook blocked me from posting this article by the @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social. I firmly believe we can resist Trumps regime. It’s just that Trump and his cronies want us to believe hope is lost. To surrender our rights prematurely. jacobin.com/2025/01/trum...

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Trump’s Weakness Is the Left’s Opportunity

Many assumed Donald Trump would be governing in a second term with no guardrails. But guardrails are in fact still there. Understanding these constraints is key to defeating him.

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Very well written. Informative. Chilling. And the way you closed it was masterful!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/01/2025

Peter Yarrow, whose vocals for the trio Peter, Paul and Mary helped establish them as one of the most popular folk acts of the 1960s, died on Tuesday at 86. The folk trio became a pop phenomenon with hits like “If I Had a Hammer” and “Puff the Magic Dragon.” nyti.ms/3PqOFIp

A black-and-white photo of Peter Yarrow with shaggy dark hair on the back of his head, a bushy mustache and glasses smiling and playing an acoustic guitar. The text reads: "1935-2025. Peter Yarrow, Singer of Peter, Paul and Mary Dies at 86." Photo by Sherry Rayn Barnett via Getty Images

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Please consider donations to your local food bank meanwhile and contact your reps about this. I donate to a kitchen in my uncles’ town, in their name, a way to remember them and to help look out for some people they might have been friends with.

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Will Hermes @willhermes.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I wrote about Southern rock and “Southern rock” for @rollingstone.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Well. While he’s pardoning folks….get all of the folks on death row pardoned, all those drug convictions for weed pardoned, etc etc etc.

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Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I wrote about how I take notes when I'm reading, and also why: not to be more "efficient" or "productive," but to dwell with a text more deeply--& also just as a way of relishing existence. With many photos of my notebooks. Link here. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/how-to-tak...

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Laramie @laramiewrites.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Such a useful and worthwhile read, particularly with the visual breakdown of syntax in a Henry James sentence.

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

lmao robert moses came up at the thanksgiving dinner table (duh) and my dad gets up, retrieves this mug from the kitchen and silently hands it to me. he bought it for himself. I can’t ☠️☠️☠️

a mug reading I FINISHED THE POWER BROKER

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Oh my, how the elites love to whine 😅 🤪

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This is so intriguing and informative! Thank you for sharing parts of your writing process with us! 😍

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Check out @willhermes.bsky.social important Substack entry on this album celebrating the trans community!

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Wonderful, humorous, insightful conversation between Robert Caro and Stacy Schiff at @92ndstreety.bsky.social

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Soending some time this Trans Day of Remembrance looking after the living—dropping some spare warm clothes off for a trans friend’s trans friend who just moved up north from Alabama and didn’t realize how cold New England can be.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I keep thinking about those congresspeople kneeling in the rotunda wearing kente cloth scarves, very performative. There has been no loud, visible, unified support for Sarah McBride from the democrats. It’s a real disgrace. That is your colleague! They are bullying her in your faces. And silence!

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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Incredible production of Tosca at the Met featuring Lise Davidsen. Genuinely electric!

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