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Hannah Silverstein

@hillhannah.bsky.social
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MFA poetry, Warren Wilson College. She/Her. Black Lives Matter. Zero tolerance for fascists. linktr.ee/hannahsilverstein

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
hi abolish the death penalty the state should never have the power to murder (yes this includes indirectly, I see you, ICE)
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is a tough time to be searching these interwebs for the poems of the (real, human) poet Ai, but she has things to say www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42541/...
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Did you ever, you start, wear a certain kind of silk dress and just by accident, so inconsequential you barely notice it, your fingers graze that dress…
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026
Overall, the United States has entirely too goddamn many people who legitimately believe The End is Nigh in positions of massive power. We have to fix that.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Going through some folders of old letters from when my friends and I used to write letters
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Powerful essay. Among many themes, almost casually , the failure of Algebra for All. Gift link. In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Let's talk about a book series NOT getting attention that is among the finest of the decade: James Elkins' Five Strange Languages, the latest of which is Stories, Like Illnesses-- just released to resounding silence. Prior 2 novels are among my favorites ever and the new one so far is as good 1/?
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I saw the best minds of my generation sacrificed to death cults
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
… the thing I can’t get over is how the “AI “ discussion has successfully prevented any discussion of the human future They’ve managed to shove any long term planning for what the world will look like in even five years
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/09/2026
Abortion bans make exceptions for ectopic pregnancies, but some people still don’t get care. One doctor told a woman intervening in her pregnancy could land him jail time, according to a lawsuit. “I felt like my life was a risk he couldn’t afford.”
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 10/09/2026
“I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots” ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai_policy.html > My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know. This.
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I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots
I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m glad I read up on the odyssey movie before I went. It allowed me to set my expectations low enough that I ended up enjoying it.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Syntax without semantics is a river without water Rotting fish on smooth stones
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
LLMs, or as we genxers used to call them, madlibs
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This was the story I needed this morning
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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice (Gift Article)
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sam Waterston: "The lesson couldn’t be simpler … It’s as old as the schoolyard, as old as the Bible. And I won’t forget my father saying, after the war, with the finality and the quiet way that he said it: Never give in to a bully.'" ctmirror.org/2026/09/01/y...
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Demonstrators ring in semester with calls to 'democratize Yale'
It was the first event of its kind since students returned to Yale for the start of the school year. But discontent has been brewing longer.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The expression when I ask where he hid my other slipper
A floofy dog giving side-eye; a very good boy who happens to have big feelings that cause him to steal slippers
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Whose interest does it serve to sing the people back to sleep?
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The way one has to pretend that the status quo in various U.S. institutions was fine and everything was actually perfect in America in 2020 to think any of the anti-woke grievances are legit is a fascinating effort as encouraging mass amnesia and ignorance. Basically requires a break from reality.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
>> What has happened to us was designed specifically to break our body and spirit.
We have been put through hell for the past four months, and our physical and mental health have deteriorated in ways that might not be reversible for years. We are only allowed to speak with my husband for 10 minutes every two weeks, under supervision. My son, who only speaks English and has been in California’s school system since pre-K, is struggling to understand why the only country he considers home is treating him this way.

What has happened to us was designed specifically to break our body and spirit. I am a mother, not a martyr, so I would always choose my son’s health and well-being over any dreams or aspirations I have. But even when we decided to make the difficult decision to asked to be allowed to voluntarily leave the United States—the place we consider our country and our home—the government not only opposed it but suggested that it would appeal any judicial decisions that grant us departure.In other words, they want to continue our indefinite detention without any end in sight. But for what purpose? I have been asking myself that question over and over. I can’t think of any reason why we are being put through this punitive ordeal. We don’t have money or power to help us, shield us, or buy us favor. We are two working-class educators who had been living a working-class life in a rented apartment, and had never imagined anything like this happening to us.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Look who I met on my run last night
A mama black bear and cub at the corner of a country road
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2026
We created this guide for anyone who could experience a miscarriage in a state with abortion restrictions. We wrote it in consultation with dozens of doctors, including those who regularly treat patients who are miscarrying 👇
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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I Have to Go to Work and I Don’t Want To: a memoir
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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The powerful are fundamentally threatened by the education system. Reducing education to employability is simply a strategy to curtails our ability to understand our world, to connect with each other, and to hold those in power to account. It is a threat to human rights, and to our humanity. 8/8
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Hot take: Anyone who’s thought seriously about translation for even half a second knows the idea of a “definitive version“ is absurd.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is the kind of cuteness I am forced to endure every day
A tabby cat stretched to its full length on an ottoman, revealing the softest possible white belly
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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Kinda crazy how little reporting/attention there’s been stateside on what’s actually happening in Canada to cause all this smoke
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/07/2026
launching a substack in 2026 sends several messages, none of them good 1. you're not politically attentive enough to know the company is run by white supremacist coddling assholes 2. you know the company is run by white supremacist coddling assholes and don't care 3. you're getting paid, see #2.
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Substack Still Has A Nazi Problem (And Doesn't Care)
For several years Substack has been accused of coddling white supremacy and fascist ideology for cash. And despite several major scandals and a mass defection of ethical authors, there's little seriou...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
They kidnapped and terrorized Liam Ramos, a little boy in a blue bunny hat. They’ve ripped newborns from their mother’s arms. Today they forced a little girl with a pink backpack to watch her father die. They shot him right in front of her. Abolish ICE now.
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ICE shot and killed a motorist in Maine. Advocates say he's a 26-year-old from Colombia
A federal immigration officer fatally shot a motorist in Maine on Monday, the second time in a week that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have used deadly force and at least the ninth t...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ICE will keep killing people as long as they think they can get away it and not a moment sooner than that.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Portland Press Herald is reporting that Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition & Presente! Maine say the person who died in the shooting is a 26-year-old Colombian man authorized to work in the U.S. & had been issued a Social Security number. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...
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Live updates: Man killed in Biddeford ICE-involved shooting ID’ed as 26-year-old from Colombia
Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12/07/2026
A screengrab of Lindsey Graham’s tweet from May 3, 2016: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed......and we will deserve it.”
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I can’t believe you all are making fun of Lindsey Graham’s death when Mitch McConnell has only been dead 5 weeks (probably)
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I’m totally baffled by US media. The whole focus of US Strikes now is stopping the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Which Trump caused through his incompetence. Billions expended in munitions, the military weakened, lives lost for nothing. And no one is saying anything.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Absolutely essential read for all — and further affirmation that if you haven’t switched from Google to DuckDuckGo you should without a second’s further delay.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵
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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
AI fraud nearly derailed our next anthology. Today we’re talking about what went down, the things we missed, and publishing the report we wish we’d had when it happened. Read all about it on our new blog, and download the full report:
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Honey, We Bought an AI Story — Bona Books
The Queer Torments of the AI-sphere
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"When one party turns antidemocratic and illiberal, incivility and conflict are inevitable—but they are symptoms, not the root problem. Misdiagnosing them as the central issue leads to viewing civility and compromise as remedies, thereby risking the legitimation of authoritarian actors."
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DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
McConnell's Box.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It's ok to have standards.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Maybe now we can also mention the endorsement for the white supremacist conspiracy theorist, the way he channeled Protocols of Elders of Zion, his silence in response to an explicit Nazi endorsement? Not because Platner was himself a Nazi; because he was, & is, a disingenuous opportunistic asshole.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Anyone in office should be banned from purchasing or selling individual corporate stocks. Period. It doesn’t matter what party, or what office.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
may every fuckery they attempt redound to the benefit of those they seek to harm
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
When I was a kid in ‘76, I never imagined that whoever was president for the semiquincentennial would embezzle all the money for the celebrations.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Fascism can’t stand to be laughed at.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026
There is nothing you can claim that ICE is accomplishing that is worth having a domestic paramilitary force that can be deployed by a president in order to disrupt elections. Abolish ICE.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/06/2026
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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