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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"But in Springfield, the heightened level of fear is so widespread, & the state-imposed terror vs a vulnerable minority so constant, that it is impossible to see this as anything but [Trump's] proof of concept for the president’s militarized vision of what America should be" - @swin24.bsky.social

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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’

The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

it was such an honor to join Annika this week for a conversation about The Bachelor and evangelicalism! from the ways the show frames courtship, virginity and marriage to the most successful Christian influencers launched by the show, there was so much to dig into

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I'm really excited for this week's Sunday interview for @straightwhitejc.bsky.social - I talked to @claireefallon.bsky.social about religion, purity culture and performance on Reality TV, from the Bachelor to Love is Blind and various Mormonism-themed shows. Stay tuned- the episode drops on Sunday!

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

BTW, for folks new here, please check out this incredible anthology I co-edited featuring brilliant talent like: @samanthaallen.bsky.social, @priscadorcas.bsky.social, @jeannakadlec.bsky.social, @emmagray.bsky.social, @claireefallon.bsky.social & more! bookshop.org/a/20948/9781...

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Here for All the Reasons: Why We Watch the Bachelor

Why We Watch the Bachelor

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The Appeal @theappeal.org · 05/06/2026

A growing national movement for menstrual equity is calling on prisons to ensure menstrual products are freely available for people who menstruate behind bars. theappeal.org/prison-menst...

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Bleeding Behind Bars Is Extra Grim When Prisons Fail to Offer Menstrual Products

Twenty-two states have laws requiring prisons to provide free menstrual products, but not all of them do.

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Congresswoman Analilia Mejia @repanalilia.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I returned to Delaney Hall today with Rep. Menendez and Rep. Pallone after disturbing reports that detainees were being beaten. We confirmed that four people were taken to the hospital. The inhumane conditions inside Delaney Hall must end. It is time to shut this facility down.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

meanwhile, i had to have a VERY difficult conversation about the iran war with my 6-year-old at the playground yesterday, is anyone making sure kids (mine, but, more importantly, kids in iran) don't have to deal with that

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

hard to imagine fucking your kid up so bad that they need therapy to deal with learning about gay people

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

do these people… have kids? before I did, playgrounds were invisible to me. now I spend half of every weekend at a location that looks, literally, exactly like this (give or take some snow). you can go to one right now, they exist.

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

they tried that back in the day, and unfortunately what they came up with was negging and maybe wearing a silly little hat to happy hour

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/02/2026

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

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Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories

Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

this is absolutely fucking terrifying, on every imaginable level.

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

every time i see this creep's face lately it's because he said something insanely bigoted in public to prove that he's electable

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

you think you can simply ban blippi from the house but then your toddler listens to a sesame street playlist and he hears a blippi/elmo duet of "garbage truck" that he immediately imprints on like a baby duck and everything goes to shit

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

first date was boring (got drinks at a dive bar) second date was nye, so it involved accidentally spending hundreds of dollars on a prix fixe menu, then meeting a bunch of his friends and spilling a margarita on one of their loafers

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

being in local FB mom groups, I routinely see women asking for advice on getting floofy exemptions to their children's vaccines and it is basically impossible to get them to admit that this might have any effect on their own or other people's children

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

"Maybe all we do is frustrate," Star said. "Give someone one more day with their daughter or their dad. "But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.” My latest for Slate

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Activists Are Fighting ICE Even Though It Could Get Them Killed. Here’s Why.

ICE is still trying to subjugate Minneapolis. It's still failing.

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

correct, which is why we never fly anywhere. much easier to secure a 100-car caravan to ensure you always have the essentials (water wipes, a booster seat they refuse to sit in, 500 pounds of fig bars) on hand

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

the only reason to join ICE is because you want to be able to beat up and/or shoot brown people and get away with it, exhibit 47392874

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

it’s been funny watching reality franchises trying to pivot right to catch the Trump vibe shift, only for it to already be, essentially, over

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Traitors recap! after a wild episode 8, we broke down the internecine violence in the turret, the unlikely murder, and Rob's terrifying allure with @notalawyer.bsky.social -- plus, we close-read the casting announcement for Chris Harrison's new trad dating show

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Chris Harrison’s Creepy New Dating Show & ‘The Traitors’ S4 E8 w/Peter Shamshiri

Podcast Episode · Love to See It with Emma and Claire · 02/06/2026 · 1h 55m

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

even as so many books desks have been wound down over the years (i was basically the whole books dept at huffpost when i got laid off in 2021), i really never dreamed it would happen at wapo. devastating.

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support

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Support Independent Journalism | GF

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

this man was perplexed by the political rage of women in his life in *2020*, two entire years after at least, off the top of my head, two major nonfiction books specifically explaining the rise of female rage were published

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

so, uh, "abolish ice" does NOT mean "add more, mostly redundant, regulations that ice will continue to ignore." just... to clarify

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

i had to explain what was happening in Minneapolis to my 6-year-old today. he was so scared and confused. it completely shatters my heart to think of the kids his age who have been snatched off the street, seen their parents kidnapped, and how helpless they and their parents must feel.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

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Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today

A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

the consequence for not immediately, unambiguously, and perfectly following whatever order a federal officer barks at you is summary execution, that’s the land of freedom we all know and love

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026

The resident dean who was fired was given only ten days to vacate his housing. @harvard.edu is putting a Black family — with a newborn baby — out on the street because of comments opposing white supremacy. Please donate to their gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

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Donate to Support for the Davis Family's Unexpected Transition, organized by Nirisi Angulo

Hello everyone, We are reaching out to ask for your support dur… Nirisi Angulo needs your support for Support for the Davis Family's Unexpected Transition

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/01/2026

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I have watched the video. I think you probably do not need to watch the video. it shows what you think it's gonna show in terms of lack of justification.

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

dismantle ICE and salt the earth it grew from

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

such a delight to join @redford.bsky.social for an in-depth examination of something we wonder all the time: what, if anything, does it even mean to cheat on The Bachelor?

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

me, seven hours into active labor, glancing at the estimate and shaking my head frugally: “no thank you, I’ll wait until the in-network anesthesiologist’s shift starts for my epidural”

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

if i could speak to an AI-generated image churning out made-up memories that seem like something my dead grandmother could plausibly say, based on a 3-minute video, why wouldn't i want to do that?

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

ugh, heartbreaking. Sophie Kinsella wrote some of the most delightful and genuinely hilarious rom-coms out there, from the Shopaholic series and beyond. glioblastomas are so so cruel.

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

this dipshit is just working his way down a list of innovations that dropped childhood mortality from around 50% to single digits and trying to cross them all out

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

tech bros are obsessed with AI at least in part because they can conceive of these characters as eternal virgins and also program them to have cybersex on demand

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

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Claire Fallon @claireefallon.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

watching kids be socialized into gender roles is so funny because my son has become convinced that only girls can like unicorns and have long hair, but has also begun demanding to wear a gold necklace, and right now he’s smashing Hotwheels together while listening to Anne of Green Gables

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 08/10/2025

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you. And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it. This is not about politics. It's about people. Let’s break it down:

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