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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 3h

I hate Hegseth so much it makes my teeth hurt.

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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 5h

“Here is the remarkable accomplishment of Gloria Steinem’s hair: for over 50 years it weaponized a white middle-American normal ideal in the service of intersectional, sometimes radical, feminist politics.”—Sarah Mesle buff.ly/DJ7Q43p

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Gloria Steinem’s Hair

How does hair matter to feminism? Specifically, how does long, straight, brown, hair matter to feminism? I’m talking about Gloria Steinem’s hair. Steinem is not the only feminist; her hair is not t…

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 9h

Am I still mad about that writing op-ed? YES I AM.

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What an absolute tool. NOBODY, writing teachers included, think that students learn ANYTHING *only* by writing.

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How is “genitive” not a word? IT’S A WORD ABOUT WORDS!

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

salty sherrod brown is my favorite sherrod brown

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Student journalists consistently showing more courage and ability to meet the moment than anyone in positions of power.

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Browsing exterior paint colors and wow, have I got some fodder for the aesthetics of fascism crowd:

Swatches of bland taupe paint titled "agreeable gray" and "accessible beige."

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/09/2026

Lots of "I hope someone tells these proles to turn off their phones and not talk through the performance" commentary in response to NYC's Met ticket giveaway, as if theaters aren't already overrun with people who pay hundreds of dollars to leave their phones on and talk through performances.

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Could be.” I mean, do your own research, y’all

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ally @inaneenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I want to screech every time I see someone post "why don't they teach media literacy in school?" Well I hate to break it to you but all those Arts & Humanities you systematically defunded and devalued WERE the media literacy.

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another sure hit from the league that gives the fans exactly what they could care less about and/or actively despise!

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 28/09/2026

“The American myth of the lonely cowboy was never the whole truth, but it was perpetuated because men like Gilpin and his modern-day counterparts profited from it. A man alone is easy to take advantage of.” Tana Wojczuk on California’s water crisis: www.thebeliever.net/drying-in-th...

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Drying in the Wilderness - Believer Magazine

I. DYNAMITE In 1868, the West was a mythical place, a land associated with boundless acreage for the speculator, infinite glory for the intrepid mountaineer, and rich veins of ore for the prospector.…

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fucking finally someone with a spine AND a heart?

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 27/09/2026

order a cocktail invented after 1956 here and they'll never find your body

rundown building with a colorful sign reading MOONLIGHT Lounge

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.

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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you shouldn't take an iced coffee to a job interview because you shouldn't be trying to get a job. you should be digging an enormous pit or a complex system of tunnels

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Since that New York Magazine piece cast doubt on Jackson’s stance on Israel/Palestine, he’s set the record straight.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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Laura Tanenbaum @ltanenbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Are the machines as smart as us" is a question you might ask if you decide caring for a baby, nursing the sick, cooking a meal, making ethical choices and building relationships are not features of intelligence.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Every villain has a weakness. And occasionally their weakness is turning to the camera and explaining what their weakness is and that their weakness is making themselves stupider

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I hope future generations judge us all for empowering Mark Zuckerberg, the man who only ever had one good idea which was born out of his desire to rank the hotness of women who would never look at him. He really is not the symbol of our times that we want, but he is the one we deserve.

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026

The idea is to use a deep canvass to learn what’s on the minds of working families, and then distill the results into an explicit plan of action that reflects actual worker views rather than top-down policy wonkery. prospect.org?p=145220

Troy Jackson seated with other attendees at a labor council breakfast

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 24/09/2026

Wondered what would happen after the posting of that video showing the apparent stabbing of a dinghy in the Channel? Read my story about the arrest of the man who posted it: as.ft.com/r/115f09d2-3...

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Anti-migrant protest leader arrested after posting video stabbing a dinghy

Rightwing activist who calls himself Danny Tommo was also one of the organisers of a recent blockade of Dover

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari...

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sure, Republicans currently control all three branches of government but we’re overlooking the persecution they suffer at the true center of power in American life: the National Book Awards fiction longlist.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

Looking forward to new classic movies like birth of a nation 7

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Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Agreed but also it takes a delusional white man to think that Trump had a “project” other than feeding his infinite narcissistic wound.

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Shawn Milrad @shawnmilrad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is basically the entire past decade of America summed up in one unintentionally poetic blurb.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Has the NY Times published a single article with the headline "White Supremacist Nazi Elon Musk is a Problem for the GOP"?

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I did a double take. A university just put the words "humanities research" out there where anyone can see them? Are we sure that's allowed?

Colorful vertical banner attached to a post. Sideways-oriented in the upper right is the text "fluent in social change." Below, oriented as standard left-to-right text, reads "Expanding what is possible through humanities research"

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2026

The New York Times can't stop telling us how sexy they think fascists are.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026

"It's just sports and it's a red state." "It's just medical care for trans youth." "It's just banning trans people from schools." We are here. Stop rationalizing Dems throwing trans people under the bus. Do not vote for anti trans Dems.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

*files nails*

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New school year off to a stumble w/ three major higher ed AI fallacies: 1. “We must embrace it because it’s here to stay.” So are radioactive waste & heroin. 2. “MY students would never cheat.” A statement about the speaker’s ego, not their students. 3. “I can always tell.” Sure thing, Sherlock.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/09/2026

was "let's make squid game real" not sociopathic enough

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“White people who expect Black joy are really expecting white safety, a sign that they are not under threat.” Damn.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve spent a lot of time with parents and grandparents at the ER and in the hospital over the last several years, and the understaffing & lack of resources (even in a community that isn’t rural) is horrifying. And is going to get worse.

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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Pretty much this

Ed Sheeran: "I'm gonna side with oppressive colonizers. Literally everyone I'm touring with is Irish. Can't see any way this will go

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I never expected in my life to have an opinion in any direction regarding an argument between Macklemore and Ed Sheeran (who can get in the bin), but here we are.

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Beth Boyle Machlan @bethmachlan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My husband @anotherstraycat.bsky.social just informed me of the existence of the Houston Texans and I’m still not sure I believe him.

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Rocko’s Modern Basilisk @scratchbomb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

isn’t the thing about The Pitt that the main characters care about other humans

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