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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026

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21 Grahams

From descriptions of Donald Trump, stated between 2015 and 2018, by Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator from South Carolina.

A race-baiting, xenophobic bigot
The Islamic State’s “man of the year”
The death of the GOP’s relationship with Hispanic voters
A death blow to the GOP’s relationship with women
The world’s biggest jackass
A wrecking ball
A salesman of fear
A politician whose ideas are gibberish
A politician who is incapable of representing a mattress company
A poor representation of a Republican
A president who is unfit for office
A president who sometimes crosses the line
A Twitter user whose tweets are sometimes beneath the office of the presidency
A man who has a blind spot
A thoughtful person
A good person
A strong person
A golfer with an accurate drive and an athletic swing
A president doing a great job
The best hope in decades for peace
A potential recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I wrote about Kerri Greenidge because the vague-accusation-to-career-ending-punishment math isn’t mathing. Show us the work. substack.com/home/post/p-...

substack.com

The Scandal and the Scale

I was bleary-eyed on a delayed flight when I spotted a New York Times article about Kerri Greenidge, a historian of Black political life and memory.

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

People need to study the humanities, case study number one million.

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

future core curriculum of Texas A&M

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Growing up in the boreal forest of northern Minnesota I saw many northern lights shows, but nothing quite like this hot pink! Even down here in Santa Fe, NM the night sky is visibly blushing hard (and the camera intensifies.)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The fact that this, and every other Trump pardonee who has subsequently broken the law, has not ended Trump's political career, that it barely even registers on the national discourse, underlines just how far we are from a functioning democracy that values accountability.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

“You also now must fear one another. Under the new normal, a single student can record a class discussion, fail to protect your identity, and post it online in violation of the safeguards provided by Student Rule 24 and FERPA, dragging you & your classmates into a national scandal without consent.”

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Please, for the name alone, let the new pope be the one named Pizzaballa

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

How that alleged antisemitism purge in academia is going

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

airport posting is often boring and complainy but here’s my pleasantly surprised counter-post just to note that: the ABQ A-gates playlist has gone from Lucinda Williams to Neko Case to (some CSNY-sounding guys I don’t know). Unknown airport indie americana DJ, I salute you

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Huge powerful protests are so beautiful—to humans. Maybe don’t bring your beloved dog? At least not into the thick of it? Yelling and drums and crowds and congestion really stress them out.

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One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Don’t miss our first lecture in our 2025 Lecture Series: The Inner Life of the Sentence with @chelseyhotel.bsky.social this Saturday. A well-made sentence can be its own kind of microfiction. This lecture will delve into the infinite possibilities of sentence structure. bit.ly/4ggEoJP

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you needed something positive today, here it is.

A post from Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson, saying, “very proud to announce the Washington state. Department of Health will now process all request to change gender designation on birth certificates within three business days. Previously, there was as much as a 10 month wait. A team of more than a dozen people work through the weekend to clear the departments backlog of more than 500 requests. We’re speeding up government and centering the people.“

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Do I understand football? Never. Or what legit celebrities are willing to shill? The secondhand embarrassment is real. But I am enjoying the hell out of a giant tray of nachos and will always root for a raptor

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

“the two candidates are essentially the same” why do so many leftists lose their minds to this cynical delusion every four years

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Meta is heading X-ward, and Instagram’s so ad-clogged it feels like network tv—where to next with our photos and reels, or do I just have to kick that social media fix like I did Twitter?

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

tonight I went directly from the Quality of Life Committee to the Friends of Architecture Party and I can’t decide if this is a cozy book club novel & sequel or a couple of deeply sardonic midcareer Lorrie Moore stories

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chris @tallghost.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

He died doing what he loved: death

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

The best Dear Sugar ever. I’ve thought about it so many times since it came out.

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Since straight women call their female friends their “girlfriends” I’m gonna start calling my male friends my “boyfriends” just to see how that plays

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Braxton 🟥 @braxtonb.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Morehouse College transferred every penny of debt they held in collections to the Debt Collective, amounting to $10M for 2800 students. Instead of collecting on it, we canceled it all completely. This is a no strings attached gift. www.businessinsider.com/student-loan...

businessinsider.com

Activists erased $10 million in student debt for nearly 3,000 HBCU students — and said Biden can d...

"We're doing our part, and it's time Biden does his," the Debt Collective said as it erased debt Morehouse College students owed to the school.

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

Reproduction of excerpt from Timothy Snyder's book ON TYRANNY:

"1. Do not obey in advance.
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do."

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Hive: What airports have the best ART integrated into them? And bonus: what SMALL airports (like really little) that you’ve been to have great art and design?

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Laurel Snyder @laurelsnyder.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

And related: I'm just thinking about how, when an award list comes out, the best possible response to it is, "Wow, I haven't heard of any of these books!" Marketing dollars have decided most of the books we'll understand as "good." An award committee is tasked with cutting through that $$$.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 12/08/2023

As many of you are aware West Virginia University is currently being dismantled. The company doing this is RPK Group, education consultancy Take a look and see if your school is on their list of clients.

rpkgroup.com

Clients « rpk GROUP

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

Sorry but "I asked ChatGPT about X and this is what it said!" is the new "Let me tell you about my dream." If I'm not in it, I don't care

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/07/2023

If the creative person you're thinking about doesn't have their name in extremely large type on a poster or billboard, take what you assume they make, halve it, halve it again, and then halve it a couple more times just to be sure. That amount? Probably still more than they are actually making.

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Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Listening in the car, caught completely off guard by the last story Adjei-Brenyah reads, literally crying as I hand the McDonald’s drive-thru lady my card

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Kenneth Owen @kennethowen.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Remember that the reason the right thinks universities are hotbeds of indoctrination is because that’s what they want them to be.

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

Here in Flagstaff, just 100 miles north but 5000 ft higher in elevation, it’s 30 degrees cooler & we have pine forests, snow & water (not from the overtaxed Colo River.) Also have a fucked housing mkt from Airbnbs & rich Phoenicians buying vacation homes. Bracing for coming climate refugee wave…

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Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social · 03/08/2023

This is already an extraordinary piece on the literature of Việt Nam in the New York Times, but this note especially blew me away—what a powerful argument against house style when it comes to foreign languages:

Note: The Vietnamese words in the original version of this essay used diacritical marks. To comply with New York Times style, the marks were removed before publication.

Unfortunately, this practice alters the meaning of the words. In the case of Hỏa Lò Prison, for example, “hỏa” means “fire,” and “lò” means “furnace”: the Burning Furnace Prison. Without the marks, “hoa” means “flowers,” and “lo” means “worry,” rendering the term “Hoa Lo” meaningless. I look forward to the day when The Times and other Western publications celebrate the richness and complexity of Vietnamese, and of all other languages, by showcasing them in their original formats.

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

The open-air Santa Fe Opera served these actual skies last night for the dress rehearsal of Orfeo. Plus lightning flashing over the Jemez Mountains throughout the show. Magic!

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

I know it seems performative and weird but I've worked with House/Senate offices, I've led campaigns like this before--I wouldn't be asking you to do this if it didn't work. If they pass a Hyde Amendment defunding all Medicaid coverage for this care, it will be all but impossible to remove.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

An easy thing you can do for trans people right now is send a message to your Congressperson--regardless of their party--and tell them to reject every piece of federal legislation that restricts or defunds access to gender-affirming care. It will take you less time than it took you to read this.

action.aclu.org

Protect Trans Care Now

As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 26/07/2023

My core work is trying to get activists and journalists to stop saying climate change is some big unstoppable force that’s going to lead to our extinction. We have to create righteous anger— say who is doing it and how we can stop it, give people hope and something to fight for.

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Scott @fyrescotch.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

"'Oh you fucked up your career' but they're talking about the career they had in mind for me. I fucked up the house in Antigua that the record company dudes wanted to buy. I fucked up *their* career, not mine"

Excerpt from an article: "She's probably still most famous for ripping up the picture of John Paul II. Has that defined her career? "Yes, in a beautiful fucking way. There was no doubt about who this bitch is. There was no more mistaking this woman for a pop star. But it was not derailing; people say, 'Oh, you fucked up your career' but they're talking about the career they had in mind for me. I fucked up the house in Antigua that the record company dudes wanted to buy. I fucked up their career, not mine. It meant I had to make my living playing live, and I am born for live performance."

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 25/07/2023

the same companies that have made it illegal for me to copy blu rays for my personal use want to copy people for their commercial use

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

Periodic + gentle reminder: it's worth checking out a bill on GovTrack.us and see where it is in the legislative process. With the understanding I'm saying this to help add perspective and am NOT discounting fears: sometimes, social media isn't accurate in terms of how fast a bill is moving.

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 23/07/2023

this is an interesting headline if you read, as I initially did, “breed” as a verb

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 22/07/2023

"I received an email from the Pulitzer Judging committee asking me to be a judge for its 2023 Autobio/Memoir category...In my reply I wrote: I cannot judge a prize that undocumented, previously- undocumented, and green card holders cannot win because of an unjust policy." Hear hear, Javier Zamora!

latimes.com

Zamora: It's time for the Pulitzer Prize for literature to accept noncitizens

As a previously undocumented person, all I’ve wanted was to be considered the same as everyone else. Defined by my merit, not by the place of my birth.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 21/07/2023

Lately I keep thinking about how much of the problems with TV, movies, books, comics, etc., spring from the music industry's disastrous choice to license every song to Spotify and other music streamers for a pittance. That's what they want to do to everything else if we let them.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/07/2023

I knew streaming residuals were a mess, but holy shit, y'all, streaming residuals are a Fucking Disgusting MESS. See Jana's original thread, here: twitter.com/janaunplgd/status/16807… #WGAstrike #sagaftrastrike

Tweet from @janaunplgd reading:
"To fans of my character Bev on Reservation Dogs, here’s a peek behind the IHS counter at what part of my residuals looks like for acting on a show that I love. I pull in $.03 each quarter for UNLIMITED world wide streams on fx/hulu/DISNEY.

& Iger is yachting.
#SAGAFTRAstrike

[Contains an screenshot reading SAG-AFTRA, then showing the Company, Sent Date, and Gross Amount described in the text of the tweet]

Tweet from @janaunplgd reading:

'“We’ll, but you were a lead on Rutherford Falls.”
'Why Yes! Yes I was.'
[screenshot with a header reading SAG-AFTRA, then showing the Company: Universal City Studios LLC, Sent Date: 04/17/2023, and Gross Amount: $33.15]

Tweet from @janaunplgd, reading:
"Listen, I’m an actor. I don’t want a yacht. But I’d love to be able to save for retirement."

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Chelsey Johnson @chelseyhotel.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

timeline cleanse (incredibly, I took this picture four days ago) (Snowy Range of Wyoming, why did we ever leave you)

a red heeler dog stretched out on a mountain snowbank with a face (and tongue) full of snow

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