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Ayşe E.

@heyayse.bsky.social
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Editor (&c). Art monster. Poetry fan. Lover *and* fighter. Give peace a chance, FFS. She/her/y’all. Durham, NC. Ayşe is pronounced I-sheh. 🇹🇷 I do desire we may be better strangers. — Wm Shakespeare

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/04/2026
“If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes…you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”
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What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?
“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...
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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
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geekysteven @geekysteven.com · 30/03/2026
your grandparents voting for reagan
Coop from Interstellar piloting a spaceship and saying "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"
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Pol Niuman @pol-niuman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Claude Monet (1885)
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Catherine @shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
These #Cat #Drawings Somehow Capture Pure Chaos in Just a Few Lines - #art by ShouXin #CatArt #graphite Link: mossandfog.com/these-cat-dr... And another link: mymodernmet.com/cat-drawings...
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 27/02/2026
The North Carolina organizers of Moral Mondays built a broad coalition (labor + faith + civil rights + enviro + LGBTQ) using sustained action to beat back the extreme-right—and they offer real lessons for resisting Trump’s anti-democratic crackdown now. inthesetimes.com/article/what...
A diverse group of people in a church holds protest signs demanding social justice. A large cross is visible in the background, conveying a solemn yet determined atmosphere.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
😍😍😍
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.
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Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief. — Anne Carson, “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form”
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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Good trouble, necessary trouble, today: Feb 1: COURAGE to end brutality and realize the greater Measure of Our Humanity: Christiana Figueres, Rebecca Solnit, Roshi Joan, online, 11-12:30 MT, free. www.upaya.org/program/the-...
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Literature of Protest and Resistance Great Books (17th & 18th c.) The Rhetoric of Social Movements Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa Environment and Society
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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."
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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The wealthy have class solidarity and we'll only beat them when we have it too
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
We’re all Minnesota proud, goddam! Leading the way. Thank you. 🙏🏼🙏🏼✊🏽✊🏽
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Yuki Maehara Art 🇯🇵 @yukimaeharaart.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
“Sky” 11 acrylic on wood panel 23 x 16 cm #OriginalArt #Paintings #Artist #Landscape #Sky #Color #Soothing
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
*visiting the Netherlands* Me: So... how big is The Hague? How many people can it fit?
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
❄️☃️🌨️ #abolishICE #fuckICE #snowpocalypse
Neighborhood kids chalked the phrase “Let It Snow Not ICE” in large letters on the road. Lit by a headlamp on the evening dog walk, reflections in the asphalt look like dots of snow around the message.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980) #everynightapoem #ofsorts
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/01/2026
It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
There’s a special kind of grief many of us are feeling tonight. Because it didn’t have to be like this.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/12/2025
Do not give your subscription money to once-admired national brands that now consistently operate as propaganda arms of a fascist regime. Instead, please check out these INDEPENDENT journalists and news rooms in @laminda.bsky.social's excellent starter pack. go.blacksky.community/6A6FGLy
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
It’s too perfect for our trash fire times that Infantino is giving a toy to an infant.
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Commence the screeching about participation trophies and snowflakes from the right!!
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
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gusgus from cinderella 🔞 @larvallamp.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
please donate to these local orgs that got us all organized well in the first place: secure.actblue.com/donate/siemb... secure.actblue.com/donate/carol...
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Donate to Siembra NC
Show your support with a contribution.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Gustave Courbet, L’immensité, 1869
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Simply Susan 💙 @simplysusan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
share.inquirer.com/reWm4W?utm_s... GIFT ARTICLE The Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com, a public benefit corporation, and the largest American newspaper owned by a nonprofit, is an alternative to WAPO and NYT. This article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social is a fine example.
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Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it
If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.
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The Can’t Win Victory Fund @cantwinvictoryfund.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
#Gerrymandered and fired up? Fight back—run for office, even when the map is rigged. Can’t Win Victory Fund helps “can’tidates” in impossible districts make noise, grow the vote for up-ballot races and push for fair maps—and yes, we make it fun. Apply to run: cantwinvictoryfund.com/run
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Meredith McClaren @iniquitousfish.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
honestly amazing how much damage, violence, and sustained mistreatment the world can endure without in any way dimming its inexhaustible impulse towards repair. To quote George Eliot, these things are a parable
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Kevin from the Armageddon @kmmickvega.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
David Byrne at #nokings protest in Philly
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
In a vacuum, that might sound good and noble. But these self-anointed guardians of bipartisanship and “unity” are radically failing the moment because they can’t or won’t grapple with the fact that “normalcy” politics is simply not an adequate response to an acute democratic emergency.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
to call this a crime against humanity is true but inadequate — it’s a crime against all creation
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Other countries get high-speed rail and health insurance. We get this, which won't happen.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Democracy Americana is back! After a hiatus far too long, I wrote about how to situate our Trumpist moment in U.S. history – and why we need to start from the realization that division has been the historical norm, and we are experiencing the latest iteration of a very old struggle.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Every so often someone must wake up and realize that they voted to make a pedophile rapist the most powerful person in the world and he is using that power to steal everything he can and crush every decent person who opposes him. Maybe that’s just too hard to accept so they pretend not to understand
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Teresa @tkerhughes.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
What a perfect response & terrific recommendations for reading! My admiration for Ann Patchett grows. #booksky
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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