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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Source request: Looking to speak with New Yorkers considering having children now that Zohran Mamdani is officially our new mayor. (Zohran voters who are already expecting and/or would-be Zohran supporters who left New York to have kids also welcome!) cat.zhang@nymag.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 13/06/2025

I'm aggressively reposting this because thousands upon thousands are hitting the streets this week, and it's an excellent time to help people connect their politicization and rage to ongoing movement work — and expand their view of our power in this moment! if you're protesting tmr, worth a read?

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J.C. Howard @thejchoward.com · 07/05/2025

Fantastic reporting here by Cat. And honestly, tea!

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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

You might be familiar with Partiful, that events app that keeps texting you about your coworker's friends birthday. Here's my conversation with their CEO www.thecut.com/article/wait...

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Wait, Partiful’s Founders Worked at Palantir?

The RSVP app was started by alumni of the controversial firm that’s helping Trump track and deport immigrants.

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

"People revere musicians and songwriters more than they do politicians and other elite leaders at this point." I spoke with @craigsj.bsky.social about @ekkoastral.bsky.social, @liberationwknd.bsky.social & why music gives me hope. I hope you'll buy a ticket to our big trans rights fest!😃🏳️‍⚧️

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‘We Created a Pitchfork Fest for Trans Rights’

Ekko Astral’s Liberation Weekend aims to fight eroding support for the community, even as some companies “don’t want to be associated with this.”

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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"We have ICE on our streets abducting people because Donald Trump or Marco Rubio don't like their speech. That's crazy, and we have to figure out how to respond to it," Rutgers professor + @aaup.bsky.social president Todd Wolfson tells @leximcmenamin.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/aaup-t...

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Students Are Getting Swept Up By ICE. Here’s What Professors Are Doing About It

"We have ICE on our streets abducting people because Donald Trump or Marco Rubio don't like their speech. That's crazy."

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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Excellent and horrifying piece from @chrisstanton27.bsky.social , who spoke to former healthcare executives about the soul-destroying things they witnessed at the top of the for-profit medical insurance industry nymag.com/intelligence...

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The Confessions of Health-Insurance Executives

Champagne for record profits. Being ordered to “execute some hostages.” Why four men quit and spoke out.

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

It’s getting real y’all. 97% of New York Magazine Union members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from Vox Media. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

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READER PLEDGE — New York Mag Union

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 31/01/2025

Heretic’s ‘Nosferatu’ perfume is just the start of an avalanche of film-based fragrance collaborations.

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What Does a Movie Smell Like?

Heretic’s ‘Nosferatu’ perfume is just the start of an avalanche of film-based fragrance collaborations.

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New York Mag Union @nymagunion.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If you love @NYMag and the work that @nymagunion.bsky.social does to make it, join our friends like Julia Fox, Anna Delvey & John Early and add your name to our pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

Don't be lowbrow despicable. Stand with the New York Union by refusing to cross the digital picket line.

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Have you been thinking, "Wow, something's missing from my life?" You're right. But do not fear: the Jameson reading group is BACK! We're meeting Sunday, January 26th, at 2pm eastern to discuss Archaelogies of the Future with Alberto Toscano! Sign up here! forms.gle/TbKwZrusax8k...

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Jameson Reading Group January Meeting Registration

Our third monthly meeting will take place on Sunday, January 26, 2pm Eastern/1pm Central/11am Pacific; Zoom invitation to follow! We will be reading selections from Archaelogies of the Future and An A...

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Daniel Felsenthal @dfelsenthal.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Unfathomably awful that California forces prisoners who are paid a teeny percentage of minimum wage to put their lives in grave danger

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Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Inspired by others, I'm going to try to do my own quick year-end freelancing thread. This was the year I became a full-time freelance journalist—at first out of necessity, and then by my own active decision. 2024 has been up and down in so many ways, but I think I made the right choice for me.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Office Siren? Babygirl (2024)? Succession fancams to Brat? @catzhang.bsky.social on "The Year of the Office Pervert" in The Cut: www.thecut.com/article/offi...

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The Year the Office Brought Sexy Back

From HBO’s Industry to A24’s Babygirl, a sexed-up version of corporate America ruled culture in 2024.

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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

they let me into the New Directions office 😈

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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I wrote about Eusexua, Babygirl, Industry, the “office siren” trend, and the corporate 9-5 as erotic fantasy www.thecut.com/article/offi...

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The Year the Office Brought Sexy Back

From HBO’s Industry to A24’s Babygirl, a sexed-up version of corporate America ruled culture in 2024.

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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The Bisexual on Hulu: criminally underrated TV show that would have killed if it had been released this year and not in 2018 ... humor is so painfully British in the best way

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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

spotify wrapped sucks so here are my most listened-to songs and albums of the year

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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

i attract a wonderful community on Twitter — everyone here step it up

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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

it's friday and we're listening to JEFF PARKER intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/the-wa...

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The Way Out of Easy, by Jeff Parker ETA IVtet

4 track album

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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

beautiful women of Bluesky let me hear you roar

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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I loved the first two volumes of Solvej Balle's septology On the Calculation of Volume, translated from Danish and out soon via New Directions. Wrote about it for the new NYMag issue — you can also read online :) www.thecut.com/article/solv...

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Ever Felt Like You Were Trapped In The Same Day?

Maybe you’ll relate to the main character in Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume time-travel series.

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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 17/11/2024

We’re collecting our staff here on Bluesky, follow along! go.bsky.app/6erZwzy

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Cat Zhang @catzhang.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

“Keep your mind in hell and despair not; you may be weaker than the whole world, but you are always stronger than yourself” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Jenny Turner · What else actually is there? On Gillian Rose

Love’s Work is the ‘existential drama’ of a postwar Jewish British woman philosopher, born in London in 1947, who...

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