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Alex Dueben

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Writer. Historian. Etc. He/Him

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The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today on the site: @alexdueben.bsky.social talks to the one and only Sharon Rudahl www.tcj.com/your-best-li...
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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 08/07/2026
Here’s the part we all want to know which is behind the paywall. You’re welcome.
If you want to avoid these Al generations of your Instagram posts, without switching your account to private, you'll have to dig into the app's settings.
Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with Al features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up. The sleeping giant of America is roaring.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/03/2026
Trump does not think strategically, historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. Allied leaders know that if they help him in the Gulf, he won't be grateful, or even remember www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I quit my job and I'm co-writing a graphic novel about astronomy, but life is short, so I'm also launching a web site about opera. Here I'll gradually be posting introductory guides to different operas, aimed at "regular people" who are curious and fun. If that's you, check out MusicDrama.net!
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MusicDrama.net
a new way to explore an old art form
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2026
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran). The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Chris Murphy: “This is the most incompetent, incoherent war America has fought in the last 100 years — this administration has no idea what they are doing I have great sympathy for our soldiers & our military leaders — they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) speaks to the media after attending Congressional briefings on Iran at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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J🍅y 🔜 fanfest @ home 🎃 @healinggremlin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
My mother asked me to spread this around online, but if you are against the israeli/american aggression that they are subjecting towards Lebanon, here is a gofundme set-up by the Lebanese Popular Aid Association in order to help re-coup and aid medically! Plz share! www.gofundme.com/f/Amis-de-se...
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Donate to Le Secours Populaire Libanais, organized by WAFA RAAD
Bonjour, vue la situation de guerre au Liban, l'association Le Secours Populaire Libanais a be… WAFA RAAD needs your support for Le Secours Populaire Libanais
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
So let me get this straight ... 1. US bombs Iran 2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info 4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/03/2026
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
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Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died
Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.
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silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
the future is for trans people
a black and white edit that reads "the future includes trans people". around the text is a floral pattern. the image is grainy
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"We here at Bank of America remember a time when a woman couldn't get a credit card without her husband's approval. Wouldn't that be fun again?"
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Barriers.
a child walking in a bike lane in traffic
If youth walked to school our bike lanes, would cities still consider paint a good enough barrier.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"AI Will Only Intensity Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don’t Care" | Great commentary in @thenation.com by @jricole.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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AI Will Only Intensity Climate Change. The Tech Moguls Don't Care.
The AI phenomenon may functionally print money for tech billionaires, at least for the time being, but it comes with a gargantuan environmental cost.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it! Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling. City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
For World AIDS Day, which is Dec. 1 and which is being ignored by the Trump administration because they dislike the World Health Organization, other countries, science, and queer people, I'm reposting a piece I wrote earlier this year. (They also hate history.) www.vulture.com/article/hiv-...
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The List Keepers
The AIDS crisis shattered Broadway, and the scope of the loss has never been fully accounted for. Some kept their own records.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A must read from @anandwrites.bsky.social. This line — “The clubby deal-making and moral racketeering of the Epstein class is now the United States’ governing philosophy” — is spot on. How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 19/11/2025
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (@mbsycamore.bsky.social) discusses “Terry Dactyl,” her latest novel about a trans woman coming of age in the club world, the art world, and the AIDS and Covid-19 pandemics. (@alexdueben.bsky.social)
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The Queer Club Culture Novel We Didn’t Know We Needed - Electric Literature
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s “Terry Dactyl” is an epic of radiant queerness amidst the AIDS crisis and COVID-19 pandemic
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Narrator: He was not all for exposing the bad guys who did ad things.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Patricia McKillip was one of science fiction and fantasy's most elegant storytellers; @alexdueben.bsky.social pays tribute to her brilliance and the sense of wonder and magic that draws readers back to her work again and again reactormag.com/revisiting-p...
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Revisiting Patricia McKillip's Timely, Timeless Fantasy - Reactor
A short tribute to the work of one of SFF's greatest writers and storytellers
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/10/2025
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
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Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 15/10/2025
Mattie Lubchanky’s graphic novel “Simplicity,” is a weird, dreamy tale of monsters, orgies, oligarchs, and the impulse to separate from society. (@alexdueben.bsky.social)
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A Graphic Novel That Exposes the Failures of the American Experiment - Electric Literature
In "Simplicity," Mattie Lubchansky writes about monsters, a separatist commune, and nightmarish oligarchs
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Alex Dueben @alexdueben.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
In 2013 the Roberts Court ended multicultural democracy in the US after 48 years with Shelby County v. Holder. We thought that meant that they were racist. (Because they are) We should have been going, maybe this is their first step towards ending democracy. Things look different in retrospect.
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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Ruthy Gourevitch @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Most of Vienna's renters live in affordable, climate resilient social housing, and people love it. This is green economic populism in action, and a model to replicate. This great @juliaradio.bsky.social @npr.org piece ft. our @cplusc.bsky.social work has the deets! www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
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Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?
Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.
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Alex Dueben @alexdueben.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
One of the great nonfiction writers of his generation. Met him years ago at the LA Festival of Books and we had a long conversation about his book, Sahara Unveiled. Which was and is such an inspiration. Too young.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/05/2025
This image from HRC goes so hard
Bald eagle with long eyelashes, pink talons, trans pride colored tail feathers, trans and gay pride colored wings, and wearing a harness, while flying over a rainbow road. The human rights campaign name and logo are bottom right with pride colored stars at the bottom.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
After the pulling of 381 titles to comply with a Trump admin directive many in Annapolis are rallying round the slogan ‘Don’t give up the book,’ which echoes the 19th-century Navy rally cry “Don’t give up the ship” & now decorates stickers & soon T-shirts across Annapolis www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Locals Fight Back After Naval Academy Removes Books in DEI Cull
After the pulling of 381 titles to comply with a Trump administration directive, many in Annapolis are rallying around the slogan “Don’t give up the book.”
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A "direct inverse correlation" between fluoride exposure and low IQ" means the more fluoride you get, the higher your IQ. What he's looking for is a "direct correlation," but he doesn't know what any of these words mean or how science works.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
As DOJ argues that federal courts have no authority to order "any particular acts of diplomacy," I want to remind everyone that SCOTUS let Matthew Kacsmaryk seize control of Biden's border policy for 10 months and micromanage diplomatic negotiations with Mexican officials. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The court’s inaction empowered Kacsmaryk to assert complete control over resumption of Remain in Mexico. He ordered U.S. diplomats to negotiate over the program with Mexico “in good faith,” demanding monthly status reports detailing exactly how they were implementing his commands and how much progress they were making. He forced the administration to spend millions of dollars rebuilding temporary structures that the government could use to adjudicate immigrants’ claims. He made the Justice Department tell him the precise number of migrants encountered at the border each month and exactly what the government did with each of them.

On top of these status reports, Kacsmaryk ordered ongoing updates on the administration’s “compliance” with his injunction—that is, detailed explanations of negotiations with the Mexican government to restart Remain in Mexico. These updates were accompanied by declarations from U.S. officials explaining how they were implementing the injunction. When Texas complained that they were not implementing it quickly enough, Kacsmaryk allowed the state’s lawyers to depose the federal officials, compelling them to turn over even more information about high-level diplomatic negotiations with the Mexican government. The lawyers and diplomats undertaking this task at Kacsmaryk’s insistence were subject to the constant threat of contempt and sanctions if they failed to meet his demands. Then–Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar later revealed that the judge had forced the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security to hold weekly calls with “their counterparts in the Government of Mexico” to execute his extensive directives.
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Morgan Lockhart @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Even if you have reviewed these kind of checklists before, it is another good day to do it.
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James @jamesroberts.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Meanwhile Yale professor Jason Stanley, who studies how fascism happens, is moving to Canada and warning us to elect leaders who understand what Trump is: an authoritarian who wants to crush Canada. His interview this morning on the CBC: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"It's an awful insult to life" This is a perfect response to the incursion of AI into every aspect of human creativity. I can't stress how important it is to talk to the living legends like Miyazaki and Scorcese about AI. Look how he leaves these young chucklefucks speechless.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 27/03/2025
Stop sharing the Ghibli AI slop, what is wrong with you: aftermath.site/studio-ghibli-...
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I always hated the "this is the greatest country in the world" refrain, but it is striking to me that the things they are killing in government — an unrivaled scientific research enterprise, incredible public lands, etc — are some of the only things that made such a statement vaguely defensible.
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Alex Dueben @alexdueben.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I keep thinking about this. Because it's dead on. (I say this as one who is as guilty of this as anyone)
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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Apparently Hitler had grievances and not everyone listened.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
JAMES MADISON: So, these rights will protect people from being unjustly accused GEORGE MASON: But what if there is a victim of a crime? Anywhere at any point MADISON: Oh, then the government can do whatever it wants. The Constitution only applies if there's never been a victim in our country. OBV
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
You wouldn't let someone who behaved like this coach your kid's soccer team or invite them to dinner at your house. Has the nuclear codes and is systematically undermining American democracy and stripping the government for parts.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
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Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
When Team Democracy is back in charge it will be critical to remember what the billionaires did to this country when it was defenseless.
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