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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The people of Minneapolis are incredible. I hereby pledge allegiance to the woman in pink

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

One of my favorite things about NYC is that the entire fleet of NYC ferries was named by 2nd graders. I think about this every time my run takes me past the docks. Anyway, there are people who went to work this morning aboard The Tooth Ferry and the Ocean Queen Rockstar.

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Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.com · 29/09/2025

A new novel by @emilymandel.bsky.social OH HELL YES If you have not yet read "Station Eleven" or "The Glass Hotel" get to your local library, bookstore, bookshop.org or libro.fm. I would read "Station Eleven" first, just because a couple of characters from that book appear in the next one.

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An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

God, what an incredibly distracting news cycle. I for one have completely forgotten about the Epstein files

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names.

Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Friends, I’d love your recommendations for hotels in Geneva.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Remember to vote today, New Yorkers. Rank your candidates, one through five. The important thing is to fill in all five columns. With anyone except Cuomo, pictured here harassing a much younger woman at a wedding in 2019.

Alt: Cuomo grabbing the face of a clearly uncomfortable younger woman at a party

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Election worker: “Emily Mandel. Isn’t that a writer’s name?” Me: “I’m a writer.” Election worker: “Oh, I was thinking Hilary Mantel, never mind”

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

We know what we have to do to save our city from Andrew Cuomo. We're cross endorsing 🤝 @bradlander.bsky.social

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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I encourage everyone to consider attending one of the many demonstrations planned for tomorrow across the country. Show up. Demand accountability. Peacefully protest. Find the rally closest to you: NoKings.org

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/06/2025

Anyone who thinks LA is full of socialists has never taken a meeting at a studio

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Update from JFK T4: also signed a lone Station Eleven in the Hudson’s at gate B20

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Just signed all the Station Elevens at the Hudson News by gate B33 JFK Terminal 4

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Trump is the president he said he would be. He’s always fawned over dictators. There’s just not a ton of room for surprise re: tariffs, targeting immigrants, LGBTQ rights, alignment w/ Putin, etc. But I have to say, I really, really thought cancer research might be a bipartisan interest.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Any help boosting this is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines”
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

He has learned that it is very easy to do insider trading from the White House and nobody is going to stop him.

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Yes, the captain intentionally piloted the ship into a huge iceberg, cracking the vessel like an egg. But the officers insist we'll all greatly benefit from an invigorating midnight swim through Arctic waters.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m not saying I spend too much time in LA but I’m currently writing a screenplay in an Erewhon

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.

Photo of Cory Booker in a black suit and tie

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/03/2025

1. Major news in transgender care. Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines. They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the Cass Review in England. Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review

The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

A Tesla dealership in Manhattan has been occupied by protesters chanting “Zelenskyy is a hero.”

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My fiancée and I went down to the NYC city clerk’s office this morning to obtain our marriage license. There were far, far more same-sex couples there than one would expect, like maybe 30% of couples there were gay. All of us hear the ticking clock.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/02/2025

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

“Once it would have been a year’s worth of news. But news right now is like a flock of speeded-up sheep running off the side of a cliff.” -Ali Smith / Autumn

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

JOURNALISTS: Q from a friend who works at the VA: “Do you know any journalists who might want to speak to a veteran who was just laid off due to the mass layoffs that happened overnight at VA?” DM me if you’re a journalist and you’re interested

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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I'm not crying you're crying

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Also, hot take: Canadian resistance to being subsumed by the US is actually pretty simple. Canadians have universal healthcare, gun control, and parental leave. They don’t want to join us because they’re not insane.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

One of the many weird things about Ross Douthat’s extremely weird op-ed is that most of my American friends desperately wish they could move to Canada

From a NYT column dated 1/11/25: …I offer these bona fides, proofs of a current of maple syrup running through my children's veins, as a preface to a controversial claim: that Donald Trump's kidding-or-is-he suggestion that Canada belongs inside our union is not a threat but an opportunity, that Canada might be better off joined to our continental Republic, with the wintry 1775 defeat of Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold finally reversed.
Today Canadian sentiment is extremely cool to this idea, with polls showing, at best, about 10 percent of Canadians open to membership in a Greater United States.
And for understandable reasons, since Canadian identity is so bound up in absolutely not being the U.S.A. that, "Well, we're not American" is literally the first thing Justin Trudeau came up with to explain Canadian pride recently on CNN.

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Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Trying to do *something* just a small thing, every week, that adds a little bit of good to the world. We can't change everything but we can change something.

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Crissy @alovelycalamity.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Create a mutual aide network with my neighbors. Set up a community garden and a community pantry. Start a book club with a focus on political activism and non violent resistance. Join the ACLU. Get a library card. Educate yourself on what you can do if you witness an ICE raid. Fight like hell.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

If you’re in the US, what’s your plan for maintaining your sanity through the incoming administration? My favorite ideas so far: novels and poetry instead of doomscrolling, daily exercise (even 15 minutes is better than nothing), and maybe we don’t need to check the news more than 1x/day

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I do a lot of events, and the signing line is my favourite part of the evening. It’s an opportunity to connect with people who’ve read my work. It means a lot. But for Gaiman, the signing line was, what, basically a hunting ground? It’s disgusting.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Neil Gaiman is a monster. His statement is idiotic and delusional. Sorry Neil, I don’t think anyone believes that 9 (or 14?) women are lying about you, and it’s cute that you think your “readers” will stick with you after this. Several of the people you assaulted were your readers.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you explain your gap in your resume Writer: It’s called a “time jump” and we do it in narrative to sort of… fast forward over the boring parts and no it’s not a “plot hole” I did it on purpose shut up

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 19/12/2024

Spent the day talking to Europeans, and nobody can think of any precedent for what Musk just did to the US Congress. There is no businessman with that much power, the power to stop a routine spending bill, anywhere else in the democratic world.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/12/2024

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I heard this slogan CONSTANTLY this year and feel strongly that people only say this because “survive” rhymes with “25” and not because anyone actually knows anything at all re: whether the TV market will be less desolate in 2025 than it was in 2024

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vineyille @vineyille.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Ugh FINE I'll show up to work "sober" to lead the department of defense. YES without "sexually assaulting" everyone, christ anything else?

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Adrienne Westenfeld @awestenfeld.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

After nearly nine years at Esquire, I’ve been laid off from my role as Books and Fiction Editor. I’m looking for a new full-time role where I can use my storytelling skills, in the book world or beyond it. If you know of anything, I’m at adriennewestenfeld@gmail.com. (🧵1/10)

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