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Divya Karthikeyan

@divyakrthk.bsky.social
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Freelance journalist. Audio producer. Musician. Chennai girl. she/her. divyakarthikeyan.com divya.karthikeyan94@gmail.com Tips? Tricks? Gigs? DM for Signal.

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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Found the best way to learn new language by flexing songwriting skills and composing a piece
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
proposal: we allow network TV to survive but only under federal regulations that require them to trigger a Planet Fitness "lunk" alarm any time somebody lies in an interview. the enforcement ladder for this begins at fines but ends in asset forfeiture
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
playing NYT connections on a Saturday night is truly masochistic
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 19/09/2026
The kids are alright
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LISTEN: JCPS student reporters on why journalism matters
LPM talked with groups of JCPS student journalists on why they report and what changes they’d most like to see in their community.
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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)
a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 18/09/2026
My latest 👇
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drew xolaya costley (they/she) @drewcostley.northsky.social · 18/09/2026
we're all just saying look at me or look at this constantly
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”
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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just @emilyhughes.bsky.social, one of our best living horror critics, talking about alienation, the institutional Gothic, BACKROOMS, and Walter Benjamin. Don't miss it. www.darkertimes.com/walter-benja...
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Hallucination
Or, why I stopped worrying and learned to love Walter Benjamin in the Backrooms.
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 15/09/2026
A federal judge has dismissed a petition by a Nashville Spanish-language news reporter that alleged her detention by federal immigration agents this year was an unconstitutional retaliation for her critical reporting on immigration raids. tennesseelookout.com/2026/09/11/f...
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Federal judge dismisses claims ICE detained Nashville journalist in retaliation for her reporting • Tennessee Lookout
A federal judge dismissed a petition by Estefany Rodriguez alleging her detention by immigration agents was retaliation for her reporting.
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Lauren Wagner @laurenwreports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you do anything today, read this critical story that my colleague @bethhawkins.bsky.social has worked on for months about how applied behavior analysis turns huge profits for providers at kids' expense: www.the74million.org/article/priv...
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Private Equity Is Cashing in on Autism Therapy. Children Are Paying the Price
Analysis of Medicaid data finds applied behavior analysis — an unproven, even dangerous therapy — turns huge profits for providers at kids' expense
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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There's something extra exhausting about the expectation from cis people that trans people should be nice and acquiesce quietly, when a lot of us have lost friends in recent years, have been fleeing homes or are helping out friends fleeing or trying to keep them afloat after being ousted from work..
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 14/09/2026
A co-worker set up a GoFundMe for the 13 Herald-Leader journalists laid off by the McClatchy hedge fund:
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Donate to Support laid off Lexington Herald-Leader journalists, organized by Ryan Hermens
On Thursday, Sept. 10, 13 journalists were laid off from the Lexin… Ryan Hermens needs your support for Support laid off Lexington Herald-Leader journalists
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Sylvia Goodman @sylviaruthg.lpm.org · 14/09/2026
The drop in SNAP enrollment in Kentucky just from July to August is huge — and more than 15k of them children The USDA is also contributing less and less. We’re talking millions fewer pounds of food going into local food pantries
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Ej Dickson @ejdickson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...
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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For @playboy.com, I spoke with sex workers around the country who are organizing for self-defense with firearms education, carry permit classes, and gun clubs. As one organizer told me, “It’s very much this ‘stay ready so you ain’t got to get ready’ type thing.” www.playboy.com/read/politic...
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Meet the Sex Workers Forming Gun Clubs for Self Protection
Sex worker gun clubs are popping up across the country as a form of self-defense and community protection.
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
DO YOU KNOW THEY WROTE ABOUT YOU AND IT WON A PULITZER PRIZE www.pulitzer.org/winners/anan...
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Anand RK and Suparna Sharma, contributors, and Natalie Obiko Pearson of Bloomberg
For “trAPPed,” a riveting account of a neurologist in India held under “digital arrest” by her phone, reporting that uses visuals and words to cast light on the growing global challenges of surveillan...
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
india based scam callers hate to hear “DONT INTERRUPT ME WHEN I AM SPEAKING DO YOU KNOW WHO MY FATHER IS”
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Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One woman I met outside Delaney Hall told me men inside the jail -- including her husband -- are denied medical care and have resorted to drinking their own urine to try to address infections. truthout.org/articles/thi...
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This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Doin' panels and running around San Francisco gay bars at NLGJA
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drew xolaya costley (they/she) @drewcostley.northsky.social · 09/09/2026
Morning folks! I'm headed to the Bay for NLGJA and will be on a @transjournalists.org panel. If you wanna meet up and say hi, lemme know!
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 09/09/2026
A new analysis by @propublica.org’s @andreasuozzo.com & Angel Philip shows that deaths from ectopic pregnancy are on the rise — and it’s worse in states with abortion bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you’re at the #NLGJA2026 conference in SF (@nlgjaofficial.bsky.social) please say hi!
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In SF for the first time riding the BART and texting my friends: “Has a ring to it. I’m on the BART.” “The blue line sucks BART” “I have DeBARTed” “BART could be a beautiful name for a baby girl hear me out”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/09/2026
What is BAPS, the Hindu group whose demands led to Eiffel Tower closure? aje.news/xadkaf
What is BAPS, the Hindu group whose demands led to Eiffel Tower closure?
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 08/09/2026
According to the president of the union that represents Louisville jail workers, Matt Bevin is being given special privileges and was delivered a private meal from Texas Roadhouse on Sunday night, with surveillance cameras suspiciously going black in that time frame.
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Did Matt Bevin get private Texas Roadhouse dinner at Louisville jail?
Former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin was given a private Texas Roadhouse meal at the Louisville jail, according to the president of the officers union.
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
oh ok thanks for the deep cut trivia
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 06/09/2026
tfw you love & defend women’s sports
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
please read my dear classmate’s incredible narrative nonfiction book on psychedelic toads and a crazy ass “guru”, available pretty much everywhere in Louisville
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Figured it out. wrote songs in Hindi and Tamil and BOOM
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Former KY governor (R) jailed 60 days for refusing child support for boy he adopted from Ethiopia at age 5. 🥚 “The sad reality is that adoption is supposed to be forever. And this makes it clear that my parents haven’t felt that kind of love for me in a long time.” thehill.com/homenews/sta...
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Judge denies bail, orders jail time for ex-Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin
A judge on Friday ordered former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) to serve 60 days in jail without bond after he was arrested on an outstanding warrant in a child support case involving his estranged w…
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm sorry for chortling at this @joesonka.lpm.org
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
How did they get into my brain
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Jason Bailey @jbaileyky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Kentucky ICE Arrests Approach 5,000 Amid Spike From Local Law Enforcement kypolicy.org/kentucky-ice...
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Kentucky ICE Arrests Approach 5,000 Amid Spike From Local Law Enforcement - Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
New data shows there have been nearly 5,000 ICE arrests in Kentucky since the beginning of the Trump administration.
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How to write creatively after years of not writing for yourself? Please help
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"The work and everyday labor of living with ME/CFS contains this recursive loop of everyday labor of being ill." For @motherjones.com, I interviewed @elimrogers.bsky.social on her book tracing the history of ME/CFS and what it's like to be exhausted in America. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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The relentless work of being sick
A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Best thing to come out of the hellsite
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
my insurance no longer covers "psychiatry" but it does come with 15% off my first 3 months of disney+
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Zines as Creative Defiance - Colorlines
The convictions of Prairieland defendants are part of a broader strategy to scare activists, artists, and supporters from opposing ICE. “They’re really trying to separate those of us who have yet to f...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 31/08/2026
NEW: 23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Even now, Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the 27 years he spent on death row. Despite his overturned conviction, Louisiana could force him to go back. with @veritenews.org
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He Spent 27 Years on Death Row as a Wrongfully Convicted Man. What Comes Next?
23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent in Louisiana’s Angola prison — and how, even after being released, he still isn’t truly free.
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WKMS @wkmsfm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A Kentucky GOP lawmaker pushed back against Trump’s social media post, which said communities resisting data centers “want to end up being backwards and poor.” www.wkms.org/2026-08-31/t...
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Trump says data center critics want to be ‘backwards and poor,’ drawing bipartisan rebuke in Kentucky
A Kentucky GOP lawmaker pushed back against Trump’s social media post, which said communities resisting data centers “want to end up being backwards and poor.”
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drilbot @drilbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
beautiful women named cvs pharmacy keep texting me
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
if you’re at the NLGJA conference in less than two weeks at San Francisco, there is soooo much happening, so bring your bagels to this really cool panel on Sept 12 that I happen to be in with some amazing journalists!
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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Same, kid. Same.
Screenshot of young Asian baseball player named Daniel Huang. It says his dream job is retirement. 

Word!
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
veteran status for sleeping on the floor of the Newark airport and receiving a $15 voucher
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Divya Karthikeyan @divyakrthk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
who are these ham gamblers? Show yourself
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