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Ayesha

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Joy is an act of resilience. | My books: “Love, InshAllah” & “Salaam, Love” | 🍉🍉🍉

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/09/2026
Anyone who has issues with Mamdani attending the commemoration is a bigot, Islamophobe, and/or racist. That's it.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
the argument against Mamdani attending the 9/11 anniversary, as far as I can tell, is literally just that he’s Muslim, and reposting it is just reporting rank racism
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Ruth Ann Crystal @drruth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Long COVID, leaky gut, and menopause share a bigger connection than most people realize.🤔 Breaking down the newest science in this week's issue of the Dr. Ruth Report 👇 #medsky
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Ayesha @ayescha.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“…the future of reading is a party.” 📚 NYT gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/o...
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Opinion | This Is the Solution to America’s Literacy Crisis, and It’s a Lot of Fun
Come join the fun.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
You have to vote with your wallet, people. The same goes for books — if you are mostly buying books that are already mega bestsellers or by mega-bestselling authors, then you're sending a message. Seek out the weird indie shit so we get more of it.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
We spent early July watching Graham Platner's campaign implode because of abuse; now it's a Republican's turn. Let all this be a reminder of how pervasive violence against women and children is across the political spectrum.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The nerve.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is so lovely.
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JK ✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Finishing up this book. Hand it to people who are confused as to what abolition is or why it's necessary. Read it yourself to add eloquence to your own arguments for abolition.
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Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell: 9781662601668 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
One of the New York Times' 6 New Paperbacks to Read Now in paperback and with new material, a 2021 Kirkus Best Book of the year in both Nonfiction and Current Events, the book Naomi Klein called: “a...
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
LIBERALS: Why do you people always say we have to destroy capitalism, all we have to do is elect enough Democrats and they’ll reform it into something that works for everybody COMMUNISTS: A company that got rich making shackles for slaves is still in business making restraints for migrant workers
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/07/2026
one of the most important things you need to do when developing a new product, especially in tech, is sit down and think about how it can be misused by bad actors and nowadays it sure seems like the bad actors are less “people to be guarded against” and more “the target customer base”
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Ayesha @ayescha.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The silent treatment is one of the weapons of choice in my birth fam. I chose to end this legacy & lean towards repair+clarity: coming back is safe, & doesn’t depend on getting it right the 1st time. Conflict can be addressed w/love, respectful communication, & listening. archive.today/Kyf5l
The Atlantic piece illustration: a white woman with dark hair, a dark slash across her mouth indicating silence
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Anthropic is very much not our friend.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A very easily overlooked aspect of the Panthers. Hoover said the Free Breakfast Program was the biggest internal threat to the US.
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jcpillars.bsky.social @jcpillars.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The fact that Nyong’o’s beauty is causing a war between two rival cultures in America right now is proof enough that she is the perfect Helen of Troy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I mean, cmon.
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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The core problem with "surveillance pricing" isn't the pricing, it's the *surveillance*, and the way to fix this is to ban most forms of data collection. There's simply no good reason to allow companies to build highly detailed dossiers full of our personal information.
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Ayesha @ayescha.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
“You cannot be an artist if you strive to please. It’s just the most boring thing to please, & I don’t please, I try not to. Maybe it’s a disaster, maybe it is not, but that pursuit, that way, is something you have to go on. Because to pursue art is to be ruthless.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/w...
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Mira Nair Finds a New Audience as Mother of Zohran Mamdani
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Ayesha @ayescha.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
“Grief is a part of love, & love isn’t just sadness — grief can be full of life.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...
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Grief Doesn’t Follow a Script
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.
The bill has been approved. Israeli prisons will turn into guillotines for Palestinians. 

Hundreds will be executed in the next few weeks. 9300 hostages now in Israeli custody. 

Dark day for humanity. Unforgettable memory in the Palestinian cause history.
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carla @manicsquirrel.dev · 19/03/2026
we’re at over a trillion in new borrowing by trump. we could have EASILY wiped out student debt
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Ayesha @ayescha.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Red yellow blue stripe cassette cover for The Police Synchronicity album
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 17/03/2026
If we had ten more of this guy, we could fix this country
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I'm tired but you know what may actually get people to realize that there's something wrong about catching COVID? Talking about its effect on driving. That resonates because a lot of people are seeing a lot of aberrant driving. Now I just hope they can translate that to not wanting to get sick.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Vast concentrations of wealth have sometimes - but not always - generated political pushback. In some cases, the very wealthy tolerated higher taxes or committed to philanthropy to offset populist dissent. Now they pretend to be the populists, and keep the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
graph showing wealth concentration
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I want to say that if this dragnet snags enough white people, we might finally get meaningful action. But I am pretty sure the elites have already called off even the pretense of caring about poor white people AND they’re actively making middle class white people poor. Sooooo…
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/03/2026
“…as the virus continues to circulate, more people are being forced to reckon with a life-altering yet often invisible disability whose relative newness offers few answers for the future and few avenues for support.”
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Long COVID leaves thousands of L.A. County residents sick, broke and ignored
Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, doctors are still treating long COVID patients with complex symptoms and unknown futures.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 27/02/2026
I'm sure this regime change will go just as well as the last one, where we spent billions of dollars and destroyed thousands of lives to replace the Taliban with the Taliban
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 01/03/2026
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
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Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 02/03/2026
“I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, killed, their homes in ruins.” - Sahar Delijani
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An Interview with Sahar Delijani
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
When it finally happens:
Viola Davis so happy about Michael B. Jordan winning a SAG award that she transcends time space and white supremacy.
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Levi is disappointed @leviforoffice.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
she said what she said
A protest quilt from quiltcon that says “fuck you. make me.”
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!
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Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |...
Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/02/2026
Ramadan Mubarak
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Rachel Bean, still sick but less @colocharachel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Matching funds on all donations up to $50,000 for each of these Minneapolis area rent relief funds this week. www.standwithminnesota.com/keepmnhoused
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DONATE TO OUR MATCHING FUND FOCUSED SOLELY ON RENT RELIEF AND EVICTION PREVENTION

Donate to these rent funds where your donations will be matched up to $50,000
this week:
phillips neighbors rent fund
neighbors helping neighbors
powderhorn park neighorhood fund
yesod fund
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Ayesha @ayescha.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Welcome, Ramadan. 💛
A beautiful rosy dawn over the hills of San Francisco on the first day of fasting for Ramadan.
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Ayesha @ayescha.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Forget about the Ramadan moonsighting wars—Netflix casting Rufus Sewell as Mr. Bennet is creating fitna amongst the Colin Firth as Darcy madhab adherents. www.netflix.com/tudum/articl... 📚
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Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden Star in Dolly Alderton’s Pride and Prejudice Series
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that each generation gets its own adaptation of the Austen classic.
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Farrukh Abdur @farrukh3d.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Made some light lamps for Ramadan ✨️ #b3d
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 19/02/2026
In all seriousness, I see the UK arresting a MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY for Epstein ties and here we sit, our thumbs up our butts, in the country where our 6th grade social studies teachers smugly assured us this kind of lawlessness and nepotism could never happen
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
from the family of Virginia Giuffre: “At last. Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty.... He was never a prince. For survivors everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”
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Ayesha @ayescha.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“Don’t be fooled by those in E’s circle who say they didn’t know. E not only didn’t hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch.& people did watch-scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League & other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched &they didn’t care”
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Mendeia @mendeia.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.
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