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olive samuel greenspan

@greenspan.bsky.social
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Radio, but with pictures. Angelenx, 中文学生, Novocollegian

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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social hi taylor, are you aware that Marines recruiting ads are playing in your podcast feed? Weird to hear that surface during an interview with a dude talking about anti ice apparel
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
but the drive to release the unedited interview got us this, soo.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-4...
youtube.com
LibsofTikTok Chaya Raichik - Taylor Lorenz - FULL INTERVIEW
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
i also recently rewatched Good Night & Good Luck. so good, so weird
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
A map of which states care about hunger.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is amazing. I’m literally working on a project now about quitting journalism, literally used the phrase “moral clarity” earlier today. Congrats on this
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This is new? I had assumed this was a repost from 8 years ago
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19/10/2025
the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
she just started, i'm sure it's been a busy week!
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
then suddenly there's exponential growth of the public square via social media but without the civil society, accountability, or literacy/critical thinking that had once been there. All you have left is a big morass of people without a lot in common, and not much to do but yell at each other. Maybe!
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I think this is dead on, but why? I wonder if it has to do with 1940-80s(?) as a decrease of wealth inequality and increase of literacy & civil society. Civil society goes first w/suburbanization & repression of CRA/ERA, then class stratifies making ppl more susceptible of idea-silo-ing...
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
No way it was at least 60
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Sometimes the absolute bravest thing is to do nothing. RIP to a legend.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Did it?
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Amen
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
love to be considered "of sub zero consequence"
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
would settle for smart glasses that unlock 'regular intelligence'
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“Of course there’s legitimate debate about transgender medicine! The New York Times wouldn’t just make up batshit arguments against long-accepted scientific truths…right?”
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
normalize calling your partner "bro"
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
immigration is good, actually.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thanks for the shout out, JB!
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Going through old photos and found this bus ad. Surreal how I'm seeing what I must have seen then and having such a completely different way of seeing this now.
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Consular Affairs Center @consularaffairs.org · 15/03/2025
My passport gender request was denied. It could have been much worse. Source: @newrepublic.com.
newrepublic.com
My Passport Gender Request Was Denied. It Could Have Been Much Worse.
After a grueling and expensive bureaucratic process, I became one of the first people to have a passport correction request denied by the new Trump administration.
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non-binary plague doctor @infinitymachine.xyz · 11/03/2025
i managed to update my license with my correct gender marker back in july, but i now i definitely cannot get a passport and prob not a real ID. this is a travel ban.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
also @alexpadilla4ca.bsky.social @adamschiff.com & Laura Friedman I wrote your offices about this and never heard back! @rokhanna.bsky.social you're not my rep but you might like to know!
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
cc @chasestrangio.bsky.social @erininthemorning.com @aclu.org @aclusc.bsky.social @lambdalegal.bsky.social
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I wrote about the ~$800 and months-long process of not getting a passport. This administration is effectively instituting a trans travel ban. Thanks so much to @newrepublic.com @hsouvainehorn.bsky.social (& an assist by @melissagiragrant.com ) newrepublic.com/article/1925...
newrepublic.com
My Passport Gender Request Was Denied. It Could Have Been Much Worse.
After a grueling and expensive bureaucratic process, I became one of the first people to have a passport correction request denied by the new Trump administration.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Wait what did they do now
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
My fear for speakers of the English language is not negligible.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Wait, Trump had a whole transition TEAM and I have to do this myself??
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
This should be exceedingly obvious, but when Stonewall stays up while references to trans people come down, they will measure the silence of cisgender people as concurrence for whatever they plan next, and it still won't protect you in the end. So please get loud. Our mutual survival depends on it.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 11/02/2025
a year ago 16-year-old Oklahoman Nex Benedict died after a bathroom beating. in the time since, we've lost more trans kids, while losing federal trans rights. how a community is holding itself together after years of living under Trump's current anti-trans policies at the state level @teenvogue.com
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A Year Without Nex Benedict
"We are saying that the rhetoric is just as damaging as the bullet or the blow."
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/wait...
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A Podium Is the Same Thing as a Lectern
We'd say it from a podium if we had to
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
9/ So, @apnews.com , here's your chance. Go journalism the shit out of this administration. Who knows, you might even help your subscribers boost their subscription sales.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
8/ I wrote during the Trump 45 that news orgs have become way too complacent with just taking down quotes from the prez and calling it news. As @samsanders.bsky.social put it: "stop waiting for the White House to deliver you your news…you’re going to have to hunt for it logicmag.io/justice/tran...
logicmag.io
Transparency Settings
Why does Silicon Valley hate journalists?
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
7/ Point being, the @apnews.com will have no trouble getting any media of WH pressers, and any lag time will be negligible. What will the AP do with all their free time now that they can just get the feed from their desktop? Well, for one, they can report.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
6/ Also relevant: most big press events have "pool audio/video" which is media literally fed from the agency to the media orgs. They are litterally all getting it from the same place. It's why you don't see all those microphones at the podium anymore.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
5/ And as much as the news orgs refuse to believe it, "being first" does not matter. If you have something before another news org, it's by a factor of seconds. And yet until last year, the spectacle literally called "The Running of the Interns" was a thing www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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The Supreme Court 'running of the interns' comes to the finish line
For decades, Washington’s lowliest denizens delivered the Supreme Court’s most important decisions. Now, the internet has made the beloved tradition nearly obsolete.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
4/ Of course in the scheme of things none of this really matters. Prez is gonna prez, and the press has been pacified.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
3/ Sure, they take questions, but like...accountability? In this administration? There's this dumb feedback loop that happens between presidential "grilling" and the news cycle, where journos feel like they ask hard questions and brag about it to their readers. Look at those zingers! Their waffling!
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
2/ Presidential pressers have been largely useless since at least the George W. Bush admin. The prez (or press secretary) has a script, and they stick to it. They also distribute the briefing, in print, to the press BEFORE the presser even starts. This is true of all gov't press events IIRC.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Gonna go on a limb and say that this is the best thing that could have happened for the AP and its subscribers (newspapers) who syndicate its reportage 🧵...1/x
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
the NYT suddenly taking an interest in the human suffering they’ve helped normalize & exacerbate is not some sudden change of heart. they are simply doing what they alway do - pivoting to whatever position makes them money media ghouls will use your bones or your tears, as long is makes their bread
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Normalize saying “I love you, man” to your partner
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/02/2025
These are the same picture.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I just need you to understand the degree to which every columnist and pundit claiming they just wanted to "follow the science" or have more research on trans kids is just remarkably full of shit
In the order, CDC researchers were
instructed to remove references to or
mentions of a list of forbidden terms:
"Gender, transgender, pregnant person.
pregnant people, LGBT, transsexual,
non-binary, nonbinary, assigned male at
birth, assigned female at birth
biologically male, biologically female,"'
according to an email sent to CDC
employees (see below)."
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Trump is doing that thing where you cancel your credit cards just to see who is still billing you.
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Oh hey we’re here
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olive samuel greenspan @greenspan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Getting back to blue sky I think!
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