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Laura Mullen

@afteriwasdead.bsky.social
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Author of 9 books, translator of 2.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone employed at a postsecondary institution (& esp deans of students) should read Kate Manne's powerful essay: "Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. ... become a place where our sons are not initiated into rape culture."
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now reading & enjoying Nicholas Boggs's massive Baldwin: A Love Story, which tells James Baldwin's life story through his intimate relationships with four men. In an interview, Baldwin said about Giovanni's Room, "If I hadn't written that book, I probably would have had to stop writing altogether."
Nicholas Boggs's biography of James Baldwin from an angle that shows how fat the book is, as well as the book's title, author, & publisher (FSG) along the spine. The front of the dust jacket is a close-up photo of Baldwin by David Gahr with a white background and no text at all. Next to the biography, but blurry, is a small mass-market edition of Baldwin's novel Giovanni's Room.
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We've spent over $38 billion killing schoolgirls and wedding guests in Iran and putting HUGE profits into the pockets of fossil fuel companies while widening our circle of enemies and WtF why can't we STOP this?!
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sept 25 5-7 California time:
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Resonant, and even more striking: Torkwase Dyson’s Seeing in Blue — the geometry of perception, surveying, plumb lines, compasses…
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One more example of how a personalist regime they cannot conceive of a bipartisan institution to the point they would prefer to destroy it if they cannot repurpose it to their ends. See, also, much of the rest of the federal government, our military, science, higher education etc.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
Apropos of nothing, sharing this little except from Prince’s memoir, “The Beauiful Ones”: “…they keep trying to ram […] Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it.”
about competition, how can we outsell. Monkeys and primates could sell music. With Clear Channel [a radio and media conglomerate, since rebranded as iHeart-Media] it becomes like Soylent Green-people feeding people to people. We need to tell them that they keep trying to ram Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis." Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026
@attackerman.bsky.social reported on the Amnesty report at the time, and astutely compared it to the torture boxes at Gitmo, where Ron DeSantis, as a young military lawyer, oversaw the torture. So once again, mainstream media is months behind independent media. www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.thetinymag.com/current-issue check it out 🩵
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Current Issue — the tiny
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bhanu Kapil! www.labiennale.org/en/art/2026/...
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Biennale Arte 2026 | Holy See
The Ear is the Eye of the Soul
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Same thing would happen, is happening, in the U.S.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
New Yorkers asked City Hall for 25 years what it knew about the air downtown after 9/11. Records requests. Lawsuits. They got almost nothing. Then a mayor eight months into the job went looking. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And remember the innocent lives we TOOK, when a President (Bush) LIED us into a violent and foolish response. Pause to honor those lives, and the lives of veterans sent out to fight and die because we are dishonest, because we did not have the sense or strength to be thoughtful in our grief. #No2WAR
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Salvador Allende's final words, recorded on September 11, while US backed right-wing forces attacked and invaded the capital.
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Suz @lily2748.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yes, it is illegal under U.S. federal and state laws to offer money or any valuable incentive to influence someone's vote or to pay them to vote.
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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
These same exact Democratic Party backers are calling this exact same thing “bribery.” Which is walking into an obvious political traps while giving the finger to the wall of red flags we pass by.
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In Georgia, Democrats close with populist pitch vowing $2,000 stimulus checks
In a historically conservative state won by President-elect Joe Biden, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are leaning in to the prospect of a Democratic Senate.
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Yeah--this seemed big...until he started promising (remember, TACO: don't believe ANY promise) to give people $$$ to vote the way he wants 'em to vote (against their best interests)...
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New poetry coming soon from Canisia Lubrin and @tianareid.bsky.social I know I'm excited. www.cbc.ca/books/25-can...
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25 Canadian poetry titles we're excited to read this fall | CBC Books
From debut poets to some of the most celebrated writers in Canadian literature, we've got you covered with a list of the must-read Canadian poetry titles publishing this fall.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 08/09/2026
1/2 Lonnie Bunch is leaving the Smithsonian after Trump spent months trying to strong-arm America’s museums into laundering his whitewashed nostalgia as “history.” Exhibits. Wall text. Social media. Museum directors. Nothing was off limits. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...
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Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Is Resigning (Gift Article)
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.
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I Resist Fascist Trump @harrypotterresists.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The US Government has been utterly taken over by an international crime family. Our nation has become a Mafia state. Trump has been selling out the US all along and won't stop. We must organize our resources and connect to our communities in real life to stop him in November ! #USMidterms
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Studio Channel Islands Saturday (September 12) at 1:30 pm. Lecture title: Night Sky with Stars Meet some contemporary practitioners—lit and living stars—who show us how wide the poetry heavens are, guiding us on our way(s) across darknesses we might want or need to explore. Stay for SLAM after!
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Just got Thinking with the Poem: Essays on the Poetry and Poetics of Rachel Blau DuPlessis (U of NM P, 2024), ed. Andrew Mossin. So happy to see this out, and I was delighted to peer review it! (I'm thanked in the acknowledgments, so am not outing myself lol). www.unmpress.com/978082636721...
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Thinking with the Poem
Broad-ranging and pluralistically investigative, the essays in Thinking with the Poem document Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s authorial interventions as a poet, s...
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lean into the loss--and all that she left us: this is where that wonder lives now.💔
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Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In this interview, Rachel Blau DuPlessis says: "I was lucky enough to have George Oppen’s intransigent eye on my very early work." I was lucky enough to have Rachel's intransigent eye on my very early work. Rest in peace— dear fierce brilliant generous Rachel
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
US national debt just hit $40 trillion. Why? HINT: It's NOT because the government is trying to provide its citizens healthcare or childcare.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And then there were four! Alchemy Lecture books that is!
Four Alchemy Lecture books. In a stack.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: The US Postal Service announced late Friday night that it intends to move forward with its final rule on changing how mail voting is administered. The new rule was created to enact Donald Trump’s executive order, which seeks to restrict mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes final rule on restricting mail voting forward
The federal postal service acknowledges the new rule will impose burdens on states, but says its necessary to help law enforcement hunt for voter fraud.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Playing in our faces
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Forbes @forbes.com · 22/08/2026
The contractor on the project has predicted more than $300 million of the project will come from public funds.
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Trump Again Claims Taxpayers Aren't On The Hook For Ballroom—But Contractor Says Otherwise
The contractor on the project has predicted more than $300 million of the project will come from public funds.
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Former British and French diplomats urge action over Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine
In letter to Macron and Burnham, more than 100 senior figures accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing and call for measures including trade ban
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5 Calls @5calls.org · 20/08/2026
This will put iconic destinations like California’s Tahoe National Forest, Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, and the Appalachian Trail at risk. Call your reps and submit a public comment to protect the Roadless Rule! 🔥📞🔥 Info, contacts, script, and public comment link @ 5calls.org/issue/roadle...
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Protect the Roadless Area Conservation Rule ⭑ 5 Calls
The Roadless Area Conservation Rule has protected nearly 59 million acres of national forest land from road construction and large-scale logging since …
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ presidency
Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level
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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Remembering Mandela & JFREJ’s first action 36 years ago, a Shabbat dinner welcoming him to NYC that raised $50,000 for anti-apartheid struggle. Thank you Mayor Mamdani for lifting up this history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Nelson Mandela held a mirror to humanity – and showed us what solidarity means | Zohran Mamdani
In a speech given on Wednesday in honor of Nelson Mandela Day, New York’s mayor reflects on what Madiba can teach us in a fractured era
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Oh I am NOT okay with a translator's honesty being dismissed! JCO seems a perfect example of a familiar American mode saying SHUT UP HE'S HELPING YOU SELL BOOKS. Money, evidently, not only talks here: it's all that gets to talk. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
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‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey
The novelist suggested Wilson should have been ‘a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful’ towards a film-maker who may have helped boost her book sales
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/07/2026
Police arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
thewire.in/rights/cockr... “They will do everything they can to break us. We must do everything we can to stop them.”
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Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous
Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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I Thought I Knew Gaza. Then I Went Back.
After nearly three years, I finally returned to my homeland. I wasn’t prepared for what I found.
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Check out these wonderful, timely, poems: www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/helen...
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from Helen a user’s guide - Asymptote
Who is believable as the most beautiful woman in the world?In the distance, a ship.On board, his skin lacerated, the young man back from war, beardless. He appears on the beach.Shining.Imagine hi...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Statement from Annie Farmer on meeting with Todd Blanche: "After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General. "I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors."
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17/07/2026
After listening to the president’s rambling address, I want him to know that the SAVE America Act is going NOWHERE in the Senate. It belongs in the trash with the rest of Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories. America, use your vote & your voice to save our democracy. 🇺🇸
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Healthy Habits @thinkbetter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy Birthday America. You Don't Look A Day Over Slavery.... y'all be good 🙌🏾😁
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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A coalition of anti-Trump protesters marched in DC this afternoon with a 700-foot banner carrying the Constitution’s preamble, followed by thousands of signatures calling for an end to authoritarianism and political violence.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Today, billionaire investor & Epstein close friend, Leon Black, appears before House Oversight for his transcribed interview. Black paid Epstein $170+ million for what Black claims were "tax, estate planning, and other related services." Black's name appears more than 8000 times in the Files.
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
www.tiltedhouse.org/tilt0006-lau... (Black &) BLUE COBALT
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TILT0006 Laura Mullen — TILTED HOUSE
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Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
www.tiltedhouse.org/tilt-0006 Check out BLUE COBALT a film for and from #Epstein #survivors
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TILT 0006 — TILTED HOUSE
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