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katie devin orenstein

@katiedorenstein.bsky.social
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"one of the only people in the american theatre with a sense of humor" - sam pinkleton likes&retweets do not equal endorsement

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Jackson McHenry @jdmchenry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it's sort of fun when taylor swift releases new music and everyone becomes an american studies major for half a day
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
catching up on my favorite tv show, Merritt Wever Has Been Contractually Obligated to Do a Press Tour cc @jdmchenry.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=3o1J...
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Merritt Wever’s Late Night Debut & “Primetime” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 15/09/2026
Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 15/09/2026
the irish don’t fuck around!
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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The moviemaker has an idealistic belief that no matter how corrupted mass taste is, people still retain the capacity to receive a vision. (1977)
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
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katie devin orenstein @katiedorenstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
well, in one piece of good news, the O'Neill Center, the administrators of the National Playwright's Conference, are vehemently banning AI from all stages of the contest pipeline
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.” Important piece, a chapter from the book Profiles in Cowardice, about capitulation to US authoritarianism www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Dartmouth Exception | Jacob Weisberg
Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Writer for NBC10 Boston fuckin HATES Mercury
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I mean this with all kindness- if you are not actually in danger, stewing over fear is not going to lead to you having a safer, freer or more beautiful life. It is going to make you a mark for conmen. If you do have multigenerational trauma, like so many of us do, the answer is trying to treat it
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anti Jewish violence is real and horrific. Being a victim of this violence is not the quotidian experience of most Jewish people right now. Encouraging Jewish people to live in terror when they are not actually in danger is deeply manipulative and is used to manufacture consent for genocide
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A comrade asked me to share this link: www.powerthepolls.org - They are seeking poll workers across the country.
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Power the Polls
Poll workers power democracy. We help recruit them! Sign up now to make sure we have safe, fair, efficient elections for all!
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mave @mave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
No one is coming to save you. However, someone is coming to stand in front of what you want to look at in the grocery store
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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katie devin orenstein @katiedorenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i think at this point i've got 6 dropbox accounts and they're all either full or nonfunctioning
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Centrist Mantra: Voters might not like me, but they should imagine there are far away people who do like me, and vote like those imagined people.
Mr. Moulton urged Massachusetts Democrats to think beyond their state lines. He said the state should elect a senator who could appeal to the rest of the country to help the party build a governing majority in Washington.
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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 30/08/2026
I think the punditariat's audience, which is older people, just cannot even remotely fathom that white nationalists run the country—that they do not believe it when they are told, nor recognize it when they see it. The pundits fall back on threats from the left, which are legible to their audience.
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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 08/08/2026
You can try telling older people that young neo-Nazis run the Republican Party. You can tell them 'this guy Stephen Miller tells Trump what to do.' But for one, they don't think Donald Trump gets told by others what to do, and, no one who is a neo-Nazi could become White House deputy chief of staff.
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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 08/08/2026
By contrast, when older people hear about "left-wing radicalism," they know what that is, or at least what the speaker intends by it. Images come to their minds. It means something to them. What comes to mind for most Americans when they hear "right-wing radicalism"? I would expect that it's nothing
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Jason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 08/08/2026
When I say that right-wing radicalism is not 'legible' to older people, I mean they do not quite have a concept of what they are looking at, even on the occasions it is plainly shown to them. Maybe a bit of the problem is labeling—that many don't know what "right-wing radicalism" is supposed to mean
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026
reskeeting with alt text bc this is a funny as hell way to dismiss someone's dumbass argument to their face
Screenshotted excerpt from a conversation transcript, reading as follows

Cottle: My guess is that you then completely reject the idea that we wound up with this wretched administration in part because of the backlash to the excesses of woke, especially alienating young men, who were told they were the problem, just generally speaking.

Bouie: [this line is highlighted] I completely reject that for simple reasons of linear time. This administration was elected in 2024. At peak woke, when Nancy Pelosi was wearing kente cloth, Democrats won a trifecta, right? At the--
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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Chefs kiss
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katie devin orenstein @katiedorenstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
can someone please check on Charo
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026
Jesus Christ. All green card interviews worldwide are paused indefinitely
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
You know y’all complain about the kids not knowing how to read, but Dolly was trying to teach them. She was mailing books to the children. She was working on it.
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Richard Tofel @dicktofel.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Kudos to the Forward for its coverage here. The rest of the press, which leapt to a false conclusion about what happened here, has some catching up to do. forward.com/news/845474/...
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The Central Synagogue attack had no clear connection to Mamdani. He’s still being blamed.
The suspect’s social media posts show a history of supporting Israel and criticizing Mayor Zohran Mamdani
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katie devin orenstein @katiedorenstein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
happy Star Trek Puppet Episode day to all who celebrate
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Luke Winkie @lukewinkie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I did unfortunately want to weigh in on the “Woke 1” stuff. My take is essentially that, in the future, we could create a wokeness that isn’t limited to the rote principles of Experiencing Guilt and Inflicting Guilt. A more joyful wokeness is possible ❤️
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
i think probably the most undercovered story in the united states right now is how many of the draconian HR1 cuts to SNAP and Medicaid don't even start until 2027 and the devastating effect that will have on poorer communities.
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Kevin Daly @kevinddaly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oscar Hammerstein had a terrific 1943, with Oklahoma! opening in March and Carmen Jones opening in December. Finding himself the toast of Broadway again after a long string of failures, he took out a self-deprecating ad in the January 5, 1944 issue of Variety listing his flops. An absolute legend.
Holiday Greetings
OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, IN
author of
Sunny River
(Six Weeks at the St. James Theatre, New York)
Very Warm For May
(Seven Weeks at the Alvin Theatre, New York)
Three Sisters
-(Sis Weeks at the Drurs: Lane, London)
Ball At The Savoy
(Five Weeks at the Drury Lane, London)
Free For All
-(Three Weeks at the Manhattan Theatre, New York)
I'VE DONE IT BEFORE AND I CAN DO IT AGAIN
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Amanda Silberling @amanda.omg.lol · 29/07/2026
but also, that doesn't mean instagram is inherently bad. i find out about events in my community on instagram. i keep up with artists i like on instagram. but the platform itself is designed to monopolize our attention, and that's not the fault of The Internet At Large, that's evil product design
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scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 29/07/2026
A scene from The Odyssey where Penelope stands before the suitors, but Tim Robinson has been added in. It’s a reference to I Think You Should Leave. Penelope says “Ronnie, I feel like you’re just here for the zip line” and Tim Robinson says “what?”
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
around 350,000 Haitians will officially lose their Temporary Protected Status today, as part of the Trump admin's ethnic cleansing operations this is v clearly illegal and immoral I wrote about the Supreme Court decision that's allowing it to happen anyway ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...
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The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak
No comment about “shithole countries” is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
having now seen the odyssey, i think the only way to view the reactionary freak out over it is to see it a victory for normal ppl everywhere. if you’re so brain poisoned that you can’t enjoy *that* time at the movies then i think you’ve already lost whatever war you think you’re fighting
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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hope The Odyssey is a huge success and inspires more big budget adaptations of famous poems. An empty icebox. A fruitless marriage. Jessie Plemons and Kirsten Dunst in This Is Just To Say
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Half of Arizonans on food stamps have lost benefits since Republicans enacted the biggest cut in the program's history last year. Janae Wall is one of them. Her five children ask her, “Why don’t we have a bunch of food in the house like we used to?” she said.
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The Trump Administration Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Get Food Stamps
New work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come.
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katie devin orenstein @katiedorenstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
this week on people who Desperately Need to Go Outside and Eat A Grilled Cheese: the EA crazies
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 07/07/2026
Effective Altruism is a cognitive hazard that exists somewhere on a spectrum between prolonged lead exposure and a career in the National Football League. www.todayintabs.com/p/over-lever...
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Over Leveraged
The inside story of Peter Thiel's MKUltra by someone who thinks it was kind of good, actually.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026
There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
but that’s why the worst person you know loves the crusades. because it lets them perceive doing violence to people they disagree with or are different from them as a sinless, even purifying act
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Specifically, Urban pledges that all men taking part in a crusade were absolved of all sins. Back in the day, you were supposed to do a 40-day penance for killing in a war. But now you can kill with no penance and in fact the act of murdering heathens cleanses your soul of sin
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...
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pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
[MOONSTRUCK] Nicholas Cage is a wonderful romantic clown: he's slack-jawed and Neanderthal and passionate. He may be the only young actor who can look stupefied while he smolders. (1988)
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Dedekind Slut @chasmat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Recalling how many of the early Church’s ecumenical decrees amounted to JESUS WANTS YOU TO BE NORMAL
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Conservatives can't operate without billionaire backing and they are genuinely confused and enraged at the notion people care about things for free
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.
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katie devin orenstein @katiedorenstein.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
genuinely delightful that every night this summer there’s a different ethnicity drunkenly wandering midtown. look at the lost Norwegians!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Know what TV show actually wouldn’t get made today? The Twilight Zone. Half of these fuckin’ episodes are about fascism.
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