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Jenna Beet

@jennabeet.bsky.social
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Not actually a beet. Proud to be Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Fiction writer of no renown. She/ her/ y'all

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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 10h
Go for this, especially my Native fam. Tell our stories!
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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 14h
Hey y’all: ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, I’m helping my best friend @kristenknapick.bsky.social teach a class about sex, love and communication! It’s going to be great, you should come and see us if you’re in Seattle! Learn new skills! Be with your community! thestranger.boldtypetickets.com/events/18692...
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Truth, Love, and Sex: Getting to Know You Tickets | Gallery Erato | Seattle, WA | Sat, Oct 17 from 12pm - 1:30pm | Stranger Tickets
You’ve met. Now what? In this workshop we’ll explore how we reveal ourselves and invite others to do the same. This workshop will combine lecture and group participation to discuss: Truth: explorin...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 20h
Do read this sparkling profile of Neha Bohra by Rohini Mohan "Indian police’s most wanted student protester is an unlikely heroine When the police drag Bohra along the road,the protester leans back,face placid but eyes blazing,& delivers pitch-perfect political rhetoric in literary Hindi & English"
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From PhD student to Indian police’s most wanted Gen Z protester: Who is Neha Bora?
Neha Bora becomes a symbol of India’s Gen Z protests over voter roll deletions and calls for the election chief’s resignation. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 18h
I want to see empty exhibits in British museums, that contain only the story about what they once contained, and why they had to be sent home. The space would be no less profound for me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Oxford ceremony marks return home of kiwi feather cloak
The kahu kiwi, given to a British doctor in 1900, was "crying to come home", Māori campaigners say.
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 18h
What a sweetheart! Eclectus are so delightful.
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Nuala Bishari @nuala.bsky.social · 23h
“a group of journalists left their legacy media outlets to build the Coyote Media Collective” says the SF Chronicle lol the legacy outlet was YOU 😂
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Oakland’s new media scene has a socialist point of view — and an open bar
The East Bay’s literary publications are trying to be “the opposite of Nextdoor.”
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wrote about Baltimore's co-op infrastructure a couple of weeks ago... here's a much more in-depth look at what is quietly one of the most revolutionary things happening in the US.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the things I love most about watching old Wallace & Gromit shorts (not exactly high art, but arguably very much high art) is that you can see fingerprints in the surface of the characters. May all your creations have fingerprints.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Check out our list of the 54 best Mexican restaurants in L.A. and support one of these certified bangers this long weekend! The very best Mexican restaurants in L.A., ranked: lataco.com/best-mexican...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you are fiction-curious, please apply to this cohort. MRK took a chance on me, and I came away with tools, inspiration, connection to other Native writers, and a cohort that are still pals and writing colleagues to this day. Go for it, you'll be glad you did.
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We got there :)
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ALA stands with library workers, readers, and communities working to keep books available. Our work helps ensure everyone can seek information and make their own reading choices. Your gift makes that work possible. Helps us protect the freedom to read at ala.org/protect. #BannedBooksWeek
Colorful art of various monsters and creatures reading books. Art by Hyesu Lee, copyright ALA. Text reads: "HELP US PROTECT THE FREEDOM TO READ." ALA.ORG/PROTECT. American Library Association logo
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Climate Justice Alliance @cjaourpower.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oppose the “Affordability and Jobs Act” Lawmakers say they need to cut through the “red tape” so big business can build projects faster. But what they really mean is they want to cut protections for people. We are not red tape. Our health, air, water, & land deserve protection. 🌻
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Terrific thread
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Reel Indigenous Podcast 🪶🦭 @reel-indig-pod.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mark your calendar for Indigenous Peoples Day films with Reel Indigenous and DeadCenter Continuum! Pod favs @joeytainment.bsky.social, Sabrina Saleha, Cary Cody and more screen in the Five Moons Theater at First Americans Museum in OKC starting at 11 am.
Brown poster with yellow text Sovereignty in Motion with a list of short films below. Films will screen at First Americans Museum starting at 11 am on Indigenous Peoples Day
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights
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Know Your Rights: Federal Immigration Enforcement (ICE) - MOIA
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“We showed, ironically, that they are often helping us in ways that are kind of unhelpful.”
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I think Pete Hegseth reminds me of a rabid animal: howlingly, hallucinatingly insane, wildly aggressive, gripped with priapism, and incredibly dangerous to all around him.
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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 09/10/2026
Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.
The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.
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Stelliform Press @stelliform.press · 09/10/2026
Canadian authors, we are looking for a horror novella for 2027. If you have a complete ms in the ~18-40k range that is deliciously creepy, with carefully crafted prose and a strong eco focus, we'd love to read it. See our sub guidelines and submit to submissionsStelliform Press Please share!
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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 09/10/2026
Last chance to register for Saturday's virtual panel discussion on historic and recent strikes in Appalachia, including the West Virginia Mine Wars of the early 20th century! Featuring @pmpress.bsky.social authors Mitch Troutman and Gordon Simmons.
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Rural Radical Resistance Author Panel | Firestorm Books
Join us for an evening of conversation around rural radical resistance and resilience with Ian By...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 09/10/2026
Things are slowly heating up. While they are still simmering, it's a good time to review skills for street protests. Unfortunately, everyone should read "A Demonstrator’s Guide to Responding to Gunshot Wounds" in order to be prepared for a worst-case scenario. Hopefully, you'll never need it. 🤞
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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Responding to Gunshot Wounds
Even if you have no medical training, there are things you can do to maximize the likelihood that a person who is shot in your vicinity will survive.
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yesterday I made apple cider cake and felt good. I logged on here while it was baking & was crying within 5 minutes. I logged off & made black bean soup. It was delicious and nurturing. Go cook something of you can.
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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: The ICE agent seen wearing a hi-vis vest and waving around an AR-style rifle at the scene of the shooting in New York was a supervisor named Brenden Cuni, who has a history of alleged violence and lying in court. @dmehro.bsky.social, @awinston.bsky.social, and @regret.bsky.social report:
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree
We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/10/2026
We can still get 3k+ whistles out the door to people in need in under 24 hours and they are free.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 09/10/2026
My favourite Annie Dillard quote, from THE WRITING LIFE
Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.

The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you touch but touching it nevertheless, because acting is better than being here in mere opacity; the page, which you cover slowly with the crabbed thread of your gut; the page in the purity of its possibilities; the page of your death, against which you pit such flawed excellences as you can muster with all your life’s strength: that page will teach you to write.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
Very VERY glad to see Jon Ossoff leaning all the way the fuck away from the centrists trying to tell dems to "reconcile" or "tone it down" or "find the persuadable republicans." This is the shit, right here. Hammer down and make them have to say on live TV that they love Nazis. The end.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pen and watercolor 

Cowboys again. This time one of our boys has lost his boots. Standing in a field of long grass the cowboy points towards the ground and shouts back to his colleague, “Lil bone people got muh boots.” This makes no sense to the other cowboy who sits atop his horse away from the action. He responds, “Lil wut?” Sure enough in the foreground we see a squad of little bone people scampering through the grass with the stolen cowboy boots. They’re thrilled. How the bone people got the boots off the cowboy is unclear.

Artist’s note: I tend to draw drawings from the same perspective (straight on) most of the time. This idea came about when I was goofin around trying to draw a character from a lower angle. I like that the story unfolds with the foreground, mid-ground, and background all working together. There’s a draft of this one included in the Spooky Pants book. Coming out next week!
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Glad you're on our team, Mr Gibson
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
On Monday, ~200 Border Patrol Agents invaded an anti-border camp in Lochiel, Arizona, made arrests and cut down the ancient Grandmother tree that campers had been protecting from construction on the double-border wall separating the U.S. and Mexico. Full article: unicornriot.ninja/2026/histori...
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Historic Trees Demolished, Land Defenders Arrested and New Treesit at US-Mexico Border
On Oct. 5, Border Patrol agents raided the anti-border camp on the U.S.-Mexico border arrested land defenders and cut down historic trees before a treesit was reestablished the next day. 
By Hannah Kass & Ryan Fatica
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...
For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.” (Published June)
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That’s Making People Sick. The Government Isn’t Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
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Tallulah Cunningham @yesthattallulah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Sixth of #FatBatWeek 2026: Fijian Long-tailed Fruit bat with Kavika sorbet. Last minute Bat suggestions for the last few days?
A fruitbat clutches half a coconut with a big scoop of melting pink sorbet with three tiny slices of kavika (white fleshed, red skinned pear shaped fruit) and a teaspoon with a star pattern.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 08/10/2026
Brutal scenes coming out of Lochiel, Arizona tonight. Border Patrol is moving a truck with a land defender locked to it while firing off pepper balls and tear gas: instagram.com/reel/DeODKqCt_BS/
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1) If you're considering submitting a story -- or are approached to create art for any publications that Must Read Magazines owns, including Asimov's -- walk away. Their current contracts are too predatory and do not suitably value you, your work or your rights. There will be other opportunities. 2/
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 08/10/2026
THIS. Having a story published in Shimmer is one of the highlights of my life. If you look at the authors that were published by @ecatherine.com in Shimmer (and if you look at her work at @thedeadlands.com now), you will SO many awesome writers. Donate to help her: www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...
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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey
hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 25/02/2026
Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix
A poem in the shape of the artist beating Henry Kissinger to death, full text can be found on the website Taco Bell Quarterly
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The head catches up with the heart
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Right?!
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"More than 400 Washingtonians across 19 locations took to the streets Sunday to demand a statewide moratorium on data centers. In Walla Walla, where a $4.8 billion Amazon data center project is planned, the tension among opponents and local officials was palpable." www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Amazon’s Walla Walla data center plan sparks tension between protesters, local officials
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — More than four hundred Washingtonians across 19 locations took to the streets Sunday to demand a statewide moratorium on data centers. In Walla Walla, where a $4.8 billion Amazon ...
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RIGHT? I'm just trying to pee in peace, if I wanted to be watched I'd get a cat 😹
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in the NYC area, join @brodner.bsky.social , @adamzyglis.bsky.social, @pxmolina.bsky.social, and me talking about satire and free speech. Society of Illustrators @soi128.bsky.social on Thursday, October 8th at 6pm. societyillustrators.org/event/republ...
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Cartoonists Celebrate America 250 and the Republic of Satire - Society of Illustrators
As Americans go to the polls for the midterm elections in America's 250th year, join us for a high-energy evening with political cartoonists and scholars to hon
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Abuse of Power Watch @abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“We already don’t have an independent [immigration] judiciary,” said MIRC’s Ana Raquel Devereaux, “and to have the defense side of representation also be within the government makes me feel like it’s all a farce and everybody is working together to get the kids removed.” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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Jenna Beet @jennabeet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jesus wept
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