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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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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This is a v sad kid. What even is this life they’re leading? Whatever it is, he’s miserable. It’s written all over his face.
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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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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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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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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I would offer very few people besides you! 🙏🏼❤️
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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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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Robust, er, discussion of the joy that is Heated Rivalry before my yoga class yesterday morning. Really set us on the right track. 😌🙏🏼
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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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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Perfect.
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
So important and we can’t hear it enough. I do sincerely wish more journalists and editors had a firmer grasp on political vs politicized, especially as we are increasingly operating in a cynical and chaotic (and reductive and venal, depending) information environment.
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
🤘🏽😆
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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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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
😂😂
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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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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
So expressive! I love it.
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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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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I cannot even *stand* how much I love this!! Will 💯buy this album.
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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 · 23/12/2025
💜🤲🏽💜 Such hard, important work, and much to be proud of. Glad your mother is home and hoping you both can rest a bit. xo
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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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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
*nods in North Carolina*
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I love these so much! Pls sell it to a streaming service though, because we need minimum 8 episodes. Got to get that whole arc! 👀🍿
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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Imagine believing this is true. 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡
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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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Ayşe E. @heyayse.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Ha, yes, and happy birthday!!
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