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I’m watching a prestige drama in preview. Can’t say which, but I’m impressed with how the female lead’s hair and makeup get more polished and impeccable as her leadership gets increasingly on edge. Costume, hair and makeup in sync with character and the times. Wish the script was as impressive.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 15h

I’m confounded by the level of wtf is he talking about here. He’s replaced the usual ideological extremism attack line with random distortion.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

East of Eden’s Lee is one of the first Asian American characters most of us encounter, also one of the first characters to let readers in on how and why he code-switches. Zoe was willing to take risks with Steinbeck’s material and trusted my research and intuitions. I hope you enjoy our results.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Congrats. This is such important and successful collaboration. I watched the new East of Eden in preview a couple months ago and loved the adaptation.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was wild to see. My first time writing for the screen. My thanks to Zoe Kazan for inviting me on this journey back in 2023, and my agent Jason Richman and everyone at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social for their work on my behalf.

“Written for Television by ZOE KAZAN & ALEXANDER CHEE” in white letters against the black tv screen.

A tv still of Mike Faist, Christopher Abbott and Florence Pugh. White text in a San serif font reads “This East of Eden, adapted primarily by Zoe Kazan-Alexander Chee co-wrote a key midseason episode-with Garth Davis directing, is rich, morally complex and packed with memorable performances."
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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s rich and acclaimed short story collection Unaccustomed Earth is going to be epic. Harper’s Bazaar has a first look: “Netflix’s Sweeping Adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Beloved Story Collection” www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film...

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Exclusive First Look: Inside “Unaccustomed Earth,” Netflix’s Sweeping Adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Beloved Stories

Showrunner Madhuri Shekar and stars Freida Pinto and Sarayu Blue on the highly anticipated adaptation

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 29/09/2026

Hey while they’re at it, IMLS and NEH should start offering unrestricted operating support for museums. Like, a lot of it. johngmarks.beehiiv.com/p/america-s-...

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America's Museums are Falling Apart

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MarkWayne Mullin’s DHS feels compelled, around midnight ET on a Saturday, to tweet a denial of a Daily Wire report saying ICE is being told “to stop arresting non-criminals.”

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

“Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among MAGA activists…We find [they] are not simply voters responding to policy preferences or culture-war appeals but are also participants in a social movement organized around a shared perception of lost honor, declining esteem, and institutional disrespect.”

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The Symbolic Politics of Status in the MAGA Movement | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

The Symbolic Politics of Status in the MAGA Movement

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Booker Prize 2026 shortlist has arrived:  The End of Everything by M. John Harrison  The Disappearers by Marlon James  Black Bag by Luke Kennard  May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry  The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout  John of John by Douglas Stuart

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Public universities have led the way in creating popular ethnic & gender studies programs, which are now being destroyed by aggressively regressive politicians & administrators, not because students aren't interested in these subjects, but because they are. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/u...

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The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Having faced a difficult crossroads in her daughter’s education, Nikole Hannah Jones contemplates the principles she fought for and the cost. “In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?” NYT Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)

A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For the life of me I legit can not imagine why anyone thought attacking the Kennedy Center was a good idea.

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran?

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am fascinating by the ongoing Ed Sheeran story and the way it strikes right at the heart of the fading viability of "Oh, I don't do politics."

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bari Weiss has plunged CBS News into ratings calamity. —"Evening News" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —"CBS Mornings" has posted worst ratings of 21st century —And now "60 Minutes" has posted worst ratings of 21st century More in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

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Bari’s ‘60’ Bust

Bari Weiss blew up “60 Minutes," ostensibly to create a better show. Instead, her revamped premiere just suffered its worst debut ratings of the 21st century—what one longtime TV executive told Status...

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I remember Michael’s memorial, which we went to as a group from JAMPACT. Here’s a short remembrance. www.memorial.marsh.com/P/michael-pa...

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Michael Parkes

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There were so many calls. We knew that a member of our community of Jamaicans in NY, Michael Parkes was one of the missing. He worked in one of the towers. He was later confirmed dead.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The days bleed into each other in memory. I remember gathering for dinner with friends by the 2nd or 3 rd day. And I remember all the posters for the missing. The first center for reporting missing loved ones was around the corner from our offices at Park Ave South so the missing notices were thick.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A friend from Jamaica called to say that his friend was stranded in New York and she needed a place to stay. We bought an air mattress and I think she stayed for under a week. The airports were closed for a bit. And then flights were hard to get. It’s fuzzy.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We were watching the news at work when UA 93 crashed. I left work. Walked home to 68th street amid chaos and stray bomb threats. At some point that afternoon we found out my stepfather was on Continental flight which was safely rerouted to the Midwest and not UA93.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It doesn’t feel like 25 years. I lived in Manhattan near Lincoln Center and I worked at Digitas at 23rd and Park Ave South. I saw the first tower in the distance on my way to work. My mother called to say my stepfather was on a flight from EWR to SFO and they hadn’t heard from him. 1/2

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

He’s still actively dating!

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As if the headline isn't enough incentive, do read this short news story to the last paragraph because MAN does it escalate! playbill.com/article/man-...

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Man Sentenced to 2-Year Jail Sentence After Strangling Fellow Theatregoer for Singing Along During We Will Rock You

The dust-up happened at a 2023 press performance in London's West End.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026

25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

By far the most interesting thing I’ve seen of Hasan Piker!

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That’s entertainment. Every day is a new frontier in what we call political communication in the USA.

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As we approach the 9/11 anniversary, I'm sharing an article I wrote about a man who chronicled the attacks and their long aftermath on the lives on fellow New Jersey residents. njmonthly.com/articles/new...

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25 Years After 9/11, New Jerseyans' Stories of Grief, Courage and Hope Endure

New Jersey reporter Mike Kelly’s new book, After Ground Zero, follows 26 lives forever changed by September 11, 2001.

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Dana Milbank @danamilbank.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Washington Sun rises today. I hope you’ll join our orbit. The Sun aims to do nothing less than reinvent the newspaper for the digital age — and to prove that there is a market in the capital region for local news and sports coverage. washingtonsun.com/perspectives...

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Dana Milbank: The Washington Sun Rises Today. I Hope You’ll Join Our Orbit.

My boss, Tim Grieve, posted a photo on X last week of a shipment of office chairs that had just arrived at the Arlington, Virginia, headquarters of our new publication, The Washington Sun. “It's fun t...

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“Marlon James has written a masterpiece, the novel of the decade and possibly of the century thus far.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. bookmarks.reviews/5-reviews-yo...

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5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Our bevy of brilliant reviews this week includes Dwight Garner on Marlon James’ The Disappearers, Kate Tuttle on John Dos Passos’ U.S.A. trilogy, Parul Sehgal on Rachel Cusk’s The Life of M, Laura…

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/09/2026

Q: ”In 2021, you said, 'God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary.' Do you still stand by that?” Talarico: “I was being provocative…What I was trying to say is that you can't use human categories to define God. That is not controversial theologically.”

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

An accomplished transformational tenure. I’m impressed he lasted so long in this role into this administration. Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...

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Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (Gift Article)

In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The 40-hour work week. The weekend itself. Lifesaving safety standards. Organized labor has changed our country for the better. This Labor Day, we recognize the achievements of our unions and the workers who make the American way of life possible.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor

Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 03/09/2026

Did you hear Marlon James on All Things Considered talking about "The Disapearers"? Check it out! And then grab tickets to his upcoming Talking Volumes show with MPR News host Kerri Miller at The O'Shaughnessy on Sept. 12 where you can hear all about it.

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'Damage happened here.' In Marlon James' new novel, the violence has a point

NPR's Juana Summers talks with award-winning author Marlon James about his new book, “The Disappearers,”the story of a brutal attack on a group of gay men in Jamaica and its aftermath.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Queens: “If feminism means each of us finding our unique power, and helping other women do the same, Dolly Parton certainly has done both.” Gloria Steinem, 1987

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What happens when you search for Lake Ontario on Google Maps.

Search result displays a map of the lake labeled as Lake America.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My point: The condescension hurled at Nixon by Vindman’s wife during the senate primary wasn’t the same or as overt as Loomer, but it was grotesque. And the effects are cumulative.

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Carole V. Bell @cvbell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Typing too fast. Sorry for the typos.

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