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Peter L'Official

@elapostrophe.bsky.social
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director of american & indigenous studies program @ bard college | author, *urban legends: the south bronx in representation & ruin* | sometimes editor @ european review of books

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Ralph Ellison Center at Bard College @ralphellisoncenter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ralph Ellison Trust Donates Rights to Bard College www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/a...
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Ralph Ellison Trust Donates Rights to Bard College
The liberal arts college announced a center dedicated to the “Invisible Man” author, who taught classes there.
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Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Blue states should prohibit the use of masks by federal authorities.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 07/07/2025
"To be white in America is not to have to think about it," R.W. Terry wrote in 1981. Everyone else needs to be attentive to their race — not only as they understand it but also as White people do. Gift link: wapo.st/40HTp2j
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Opinion | The useful political lesson from Zohran Mamdani’s college application
America’s understanding of race and ethnicity is still woefully simplistic.
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Future of Music Coalition @futureofmusic.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Franz is one of the most insightful chroniclers of music labor from the ground level. Always worth engaging with his insights, especially when they challenge your assumptions.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/04/2025
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/04/2025
Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct." Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.
“Race does not provide an accurate representation of human biological variation,” the statement reads. “Humans are not divided biologically into distinct continental types or racial genetic clusters. Instead, the Western concept of race must be understood as a classification system that emerged from, and in support of, European colonialism, oppression, and discrimination.”

“It thus does not have its roots in biological reality, but in policies of discrimination,” the statement says. “Because of that, over the last five centuries, race has become a social reality that structures societies and how we experience the world. In this regard, race is real, as is racism, and both have real biological consequences.”
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The idea that people with humanities educations are ignoramuses pursuing meaningless debased fragments of what human knowledge used to be sounds more and more like projection from incompetent computer babies
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Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Can we nominate a Facebook screenshot for a Pulitzer? I love this.
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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I texted @trufelman.bsky.social and we had a super-tiny chat about novelty, yet we managed to squeeze in Italian generals sporting jaunty little Tirol hats and nuns ditching their habits... europeanreviewofbooks.com/texting-with...,
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Texting with … Avery Trufelman … – The European Review of Books
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If your excuse as an elected official, here in 2025, for not doing something that is in the interest of Dems who elected you is that Republicans might weaponize it, you are not living in 2025. They are going to weaponize anything you do, either way. They have demonstrated this over and over.
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A collapsing Tesla stock genuinely erodes Elon’s economic power. If the stock is hurt enough, Tesla’s board will have no choice but to remove Musk as CEO in order to save the company. www.currentaffairs.org/news/boycott...
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Boycott Tesla
Electric car buyers don’t like right-wing politics. This means Elon Musk’s position at Tesla is very vulnerable and susceptible to economic pressure.
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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Everyone--EVERYONE--in higher education has to understand that this is Trump's plan for you, too: federal control over scholarship, curricula, discipline, admissions--everything. They want you to submit. Your only other option is to stand up, together.
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
30 years ago, we did. They were called "local newspapers." Then the Telecom Act of 1996 allowed essentially unlimited corporate consolidation of media outlets and they killed off local news in the space of a single generation.
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 10/03/2025
Columbia University has caved to outside forces attempting to silence pro-Palestinian speech at every turn, and look at where it's gotten them: raided by ICE and defunded by the federal government. hellgatenyc.com/columbia-uni...
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Columbia University, Profile in Cowardice
And more news to start the week.
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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · 15/02/2025
UbuWeb, an avant-garde #web #archive that has existed independently for 30 years, is adding new content again. No ads, no links to social media. Only #art (text, image video) for you to #discover. ubuweb.com
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...
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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I can’t say I’ve thought about inflation that much since the US Attorney in the district you and I both live in had to resign because the President wanted to make a corrupt deal with the Mayor, backed by the threat of a dangling DOJ prosecution, to terrorize immigrants and people of color here.
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The AP should stop covering Trump events. Instead send those White House reporters out into the field to report on the harms and repercussions of his policies. The U.S. public never needed coverage of pseudo-events anyway.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Signs. Of. Life. Protest outside Treasury Dept. tonight.
Nobody Elected Elon 

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LEAVE MY DATA ALONE!

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signCoalition of Labor Union Women hoodieMembers of Congress speaking outside of Treasury
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/02/2025
this is exactly what i’m getting at when i see these people have no understanding of civil society. they do not seem to conceptualize other people as having agency whatsoever.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
aaaand now it all makes sense
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The inability of the national media to understand this basic point ABOUT AMERICAN CIVICS is simply wild
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 03/02/2025
I need Americans to hate this administration the way Kendrick hates Drake so they can actually stand a chance of surviving
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2025
Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Dante described a special place in hell for NYT headline writers, where they experience burning pain but there are no devils, no agents of torment, just weird ‘undercurrents’ like bad smells. Who is torturing them? No one in particular
“As Trump Attacks Diversity, a Racist Undercurrent Surfaces”

President Trump has promised a
"colorblind and merit-based" society, while also equating diversity with incompetence .
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The biggest threat right now is Musk taking over Treasury data & IT with an aim to usurp congressional power of the purse. This is a real constitutional crisis, a coup happening before our eyes. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Who Will Stop Elon Musk’s Coup?
Society / February 3, 2025 Who Will Stop Elon Musk’s Coup? The world’s richest man now has the power to override congressional spending decisions and access to private information about every US taxpa...
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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Leticia James, NY Attorney General sends a letter to NYU Langone, the hospital refusing gender affirming care for children. To summarize: “Cut that shit out.” Will it help? We’ll see. Is it a welcome sign of someone doing their fucking job? Yes. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/n...
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N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care
A White House executive order last week threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in ...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Senator Andy Kim just went to the USAID building, talked to the security guard there to confirm employees are being barred entry, and then did a press gaggle right there in front to call it out. This is doing something. This is making an effort on messaging. Other Democratic lawmakers: take notes.
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Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Schumer is still talking about tomatoes in Park Slope probably, but at least others are waking up.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A guy with his mind fried by ketamine and a 24/7/365 diet of Nazi shitposts is inside the federal government’s general payments system canceling whatever he personally decides looks like fraud while taking legal advice from his own busted AI chatbot, that’s the status report?
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
they'll call it doxxing or whatever but you actually don't get to run the government on a first-name-only basis
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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Wired seems to me like the publication best equipped to report on this administration
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 02/02/2025
We need TV news networks to run features on the Musk payment coup situation. There is no other mechanism by which most Americans will learn of it
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The Jarmer Fones @thefarmerjones.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
An anon X account run by a journalist/activist dedicated solely to screenshotting and posting any such govt accounts on Bluesky would be a genuine public service.
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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
“What’s needed is a Democratic Party that sweeps aside the pablum of past messaging and replaces it with an absolute and outspoken commitment to economic and social and racial justice that gives frustrated Americans something to vote FOR.” www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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What the Next DNC Chair Must Do to Save the Party
Yes, pushing back against Donald Trump is essential. But to do that, the Democrats must turn themselves into a fighting force for economic justice.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 01/02/2025
It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 31/01/2025
“Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week,” AOC wrote. “Air traffic controllers—already understaffed—got Trump’s ‘buyout’ this week with a 1 week ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI—it’s him. And Elon too.”
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AOC Rips Trump a New One Over Lies About D.C. Plane Crash
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their peddling of lies.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/01/2025
again this is a full scale attack on constitutional government
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2025
I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
what Musk is doing is as close to the government being taken over by a hostile foreign power in our lifetimes, the coverage should reflect that
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Mike Scarcella @mikescarcella.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New - Elon Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
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