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Mads Ducharme

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Producer for @Slate's What Next (past: One Year / Slow Burn) • writing on culture + LGBTQ life • Slate Union, baby! • they/she #bikedc

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 29/09/2026
Really great work here from @maggiemertens.bsky.social:
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She Was a College Beach Volleyball Star. Then She Was Abruptly Kicked Off the Team. The Real Threat to Women’s Sports May Be to Blame.
Republicans have made women’s sports a signature issue. What’s really happening shows how cynical that is.
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Even if you think you don't need more Platner discourse -- you should listen to my show today. Two women on why they supported him for so long: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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She Supported Graham Platner. Then She Couldn’t Anymore.
Can Platner’s platform live on without him as the candidate?
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I really enjoyed @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s new book, and sat down with him to talk about it. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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A.I. Enshittifies Everything
Should you base the whole economy on companies that hemorrhage money?
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I sat in for my friend @maryharris.bsky.social today and got talk to @rebeccanagle.bsky.social about her fascinating new podcast, which I highly recommend slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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America Before 250
America didn’t start with the Declaration of Independence.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"It looks like D.C. will get its first democratic socialist mayor." @samdelgado.bsky.social and @curiouskurz.bsky.social for @51st.news 51st.news/janeese-lewi...
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Kenyan McDuffie concedes mayoral race to Janeese Lewis George
The Ward 4 councilmember is leading in partial first-round results by double digits
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
… what if Americans look at Graham Platner and see a “candidate who is alive below the waist”? And… like it (with @kenklippenstein.bsky.social and @titonka.bsky.social) slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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Do the Dems Need More Graham Platners?
The plan seems to be “just win and sort out if he’s Fetterman 2.0 later.”
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you know Justin Peters or have just read his funny and insightful writing, please give and spread the word.
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Donate to Support Justin Peters, organized by Kate Reidy
Let's Show Up for Justin! If you know Justin Peters, you know he is one of those unforge… Kate Reidy needs your support for Support Justin Peters
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Slate Union @slateunion.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
This week, Slate staff was notified that three employees—all members of the union—were being laid off. Each was a member of Slate’s podcast staff. With their departure, Slate is reducing its audio content, which includes job reductions for a number of contractors. Slate Union's official statement:
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I'd really like Trump and MAGA to stop fucking with my city's streets. Me, in Bloomberg
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Why Trump’s War on DC’s Streets Matters
The federal effort to remove a popular bike lane in Washington, DC, is part of a broader campaign to impose control over the city’s streets — and sideline its residents.
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Slate @slate.com · 03/03/2026
How did you hear about the strikes? Have you been able to stay in contact family members in the region? Are you relieved or worried to see Khamenei assassinated? Give us a call at 646-582-0091 or send a voice memo to whatnext@slate.com.
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Slate @slate.com · 03/03/2026
🚨 Slate’s What Next podcast wants to hear from you. If you’re Iranian or Iranian-American, give us a call to share your thoughts, concerns, and feelings about the United States going to war in Iran. Give us a call at 646-582-0091 or send a voice memo to whatnext@slate.com.
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
One thing I loved about this convo is about how it went kinda deep on allyship. This Olympian who made waves for speaking out about Trump did so strategically: as an older white man (and alternate) he felt like he could take the heat for his team. And: he GOT heat: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLlV...
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U.S. Olympian Rich Ruohonen Speaks Out on Trump, ICE, and the Curling Drama in Italy
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Gotta read @alexkirshner.com on the men's team post-gold locker-room talk with Kash Patel and Trump at the expense of the women's team. "A particular bummer here was the visible, bent-over laughter of overtime hero Jack Hughes, whose mom literally works for the women’s team."
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Kash Patel and the U.S. Men’s Hockey Team Deserve Each Other
These Olympics were joyful and uplifting. Then the FBI director showed up.
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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
“One day, a woman wrote to me on Signal, asking me not to respond. She lived alone, she messaged, and planned to die that weekend. Before she did, she wanted at least one person to understand: Trump had unraveled the government, and with it, her life.” @hannahnatanson.bsky.social essay:
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I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I don’t know what to say except that human beings deserve better than whatever this is
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
“.. they carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," Heller said. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes." “This was horrific and will change my life forever,” she said. “I feel so scared." @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Minnesota ICE shooting live updates: Driver fatally shot by immigration agent
Follow the latest news after an ICE agent fatally shot a 37-year-old woman after a group of individuals began to block an immigration-related operation.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The only time people on TV can imagine a vehicle being dangerous is if it’s in the vicinity of a cop. Every cycle commuter has been closer to death by vehicle that that border patrol murderer
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
When mad drivers tell you that you, a cyclist, don't belong on roads because you don't pay registration and the gas tax, show them the Road Damage Calculator. Compare, for example, the damage made by a small SUV and a longtail cargo e-bike. Very different orders of magnitude roaddamagecalculator.com
Damage calculator output: https://roaddamagecalculator.com/?vehicle_one=longtail-cargo-bike&vehicle_two=small-suv
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Slate Union @slateunion.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We’re headed to the bargaining table today for our second meeting with management to discuss details of a new contract. The members of Slate Union are excited to bargain for improvements that will enhance working conditions and lives. We hope Slate management bargains in good faith with us. ✊
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Ryan Schuchard @ryanwithboulder.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Your annual reminder that US streets and vehicles are generally not designed to keep pedestrians, especially small ones, safe. So wonderful Halloween is the most likely day you’ll kill a child with your car, and someone will kill a child you care about with theirs. www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Mads Ducharme @madelineducharme.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"Even in the face of incredible horrors, Palestinians in Gaza never gave up on our cats." From Lamar Alhuwaiti, a very brave 17 year old writer and photographer from Gaza. prismreports.org/2025/10/16/g...
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Our love for Gaza’s cats is a light that refuses to go out
During the genocide, my mother and I walked the city’s streets in search of stray cats to feed, these small souls giving us a reason to keep going
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Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war. She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza. tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
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Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital
A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"But fundamentally, crime of any kind is a minor risk for a white man in D.C., which classification applies to Mullin, Duffy, Scott, and Trump. Overwhelmingly, the largest source of danger for people who fit that description is vehicle traffic, which killed 110 people in the D.C. area in 2024..."
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Why Republicans Are Terrified of Nonexistent Crime
They need an excuse to violently subjugate liberal cities.
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Cauldron Bendy 👻 @auldbendy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
186 journalists killed in Palestine since Oct 2023, for daring to tell the real story.
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Rob Gunther @1robgunther.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Is the government planning to privatize our national parks like Yosemite? Are you going to have to pay a for-profit company to visit Yellowstone? Today on Slate's What Next podcast, I talked to Jon B Jarvis, former director of the National Parks Service. He's sounding the alarm about a sell-off.
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Gutting Our National Parks
Step 1: Ruin everyone’s national park experience.
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omerbartov.bsky.social @omerbartov.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
As Trump’s massive bill rolls ahead, it’s truly wild to me how little of the coverage of the GOP’s cuts to Medicaid/work requirements talks abt what happened when the GOP TRIED THIS BEFORE! They’ve tried in two states! It didn’t go well! Anyway we covered this back in May: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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Here’s How the GOP Cuts Medicaid
Peeling back Medicaid expansion, one annoying layer of bureaucracy at a time.
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It's important to pay attention to the lack of food in Gaza - what it feels like for those on the ground, and why millions are feeling that way in the first place: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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Will Israel Starve Gaza Into Submission?
Israel is starving Gaza, according to a famine scholar.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
When Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence. Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age. w/ @ashendruk.com
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Opinion | Here are the people Trump doesn’t want to exist
Women, people of color and those in the LGBTQ+ community are main targets.
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Mohammed R. Mhawish @mohamhawish.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
This week on @ThisAmerLife: I reported on Gaza’s severe food shortages and what it means to live through starvation. Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now.
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Week Eleven - This American Life
Mohammed Mhawish, a reporter who left Gaza a year ago with his family, talks to a young woman in Gaza about how she manages her hunger. Israel blockaded all food from Gaza for more than two month...
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Reverend William Barber walks with two canes and is *still* showing up to the Capitol to pray (and getting arrested for it). Reason enough to listen to him about why: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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Can A “Morality Coalition” Succeed Against Trump?
Can a progressive coalition be built on morality in 2025?
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The GOP is *saying* "work requirements". What they really mean is deep, and probably cruel, cuts. We know because they've already done it: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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Here’s How the GOP Cuts Medicaid
Peeling back Medicaid expansion, one annoying layer of bureaucracy at a time.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/05/2025
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Spoke with @maryharris.bsky.social about the Supreme Court's assault on secular public education—simultaneously giving religious parents a veto over curricula AND demanding that states divert taxpayer money to parochial charter schools run by the Catholic Church. Insanity. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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Are Public Schools the Supreme Court’s Next Target?
Is teaching religious doctrine less “indoctrination” than a book with a gay character?
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 23/04/2025
I acutally looked at the books that Sam Alito thinks are pro-gay propaganda designed to "indoctrinate" children. I've read my kids a million stories like these. There's nothing objectionable about them, unless you find the *existence* of LGBTQ people objectionable ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...
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Let’s Take a Look at the Children’s Books Sam Alito Is So Afraid Of
Stories like "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" are only objectionable if you find the very existence of LGBTQ people to be objectionable.
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It is getting harder to stay alive in Gaza. That is the bottom line. And I'm glad that @ayaelb.bsky.social is relentlessly shining a light there: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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The Mass Grave in Gaza
A plan once only discussed in the far-right fringe has become the Israeli government’s policy.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“Certain people have rights in this country until they don’t.” Please listen to my friends @maryharris.bsky.social and Aymann Ismail. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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Free Speech? Not If You’re A Foreign Student.
Podcast Episode · What Next | Daily News and Analysis · 04/01/2025 · 24m
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I've been wanting to have @adamkinzinger.bsky.social on the show for a MINUTE and I'm real glad we had him on this week to talk about the Signal story: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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The Group Chat Heard ‘Round the World
Per Kinzinger, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is probably going to take the fall for this.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Sesame Workers Union @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Presenting the 1,2,3s of why we’re unionizing on Sesame Street 💚 Please help us by signing our public petition! Link in bio 🍪
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Thanks to my friend @stephruhle.bsky.social for teaching me all about the Keynesian vocab of "animal spirits" -- and also making me laugh, a lot slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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Trump’s Animal-Spirit Economy
How long will the business community tolerate constant uncertainty?
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Slate @slate.com · 14/03/2025
At Slate, we care about bringing you critical reporting and analysis about the layoffs happening throughout the federal government. We’re offering six months of complimentary Slate Plus access to federal employees who have been affected by these layoffs. Visit slate.com/fed-plus for more info.
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Slate Union @slateunion.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
On Monday morning, Slate was suddenly informed that six of its employees—including three editors, two of whom were members of the union—were being laid off, just months after four other staffers were also let go. The Slate Union's official statement reads as follows:
The Slate Union logo—the Slate S featuring upward fist and surrounded by pink and white stripes—is seen above a statement: We, the Slate Union, are united in our belief that management’s decision yesterday to lay off three editorial employees—along with three of our coworkers in other departments—was misguided, foolish, and cruel. The cuts are not these employees’ failures; they are the result of the failure of this company to follow its obligations to its workers. When you can’t find a way to make the most out of smart, talented journalists, that’s a failure of management—and Slate staffers are right to believe it’s incumbent upon management to find ways to solve that problem that don’t involve job losses. Otherwise, what are we investing in journalism for? What are we asking Slate Plus members to invest in us for?

There are particular aspects of these layoffs that we in the union find particularly outrageous. Eliminating three editors with their hands on politics and business will put an unbearable strain on others in the department, at the precise moment when coverage of these two subjects is crucial to the magazine’s success. One of the laid-off editors had union-negotiated parental leave approaching—as did another union member who was laid off just months ago. Another one of the laid-off employees was about to go on a honeymoon, and yet another was about to meet the qualifications for their pension benefit. The affected worker will be paid out for their parental leave, but the timing of these departures appears to be designed to make other union members think twice before utilizing the leave they have the contractual right to take. Not to mention, that one of the laid-off editors was hired not even a year ago—after a protracted search—calls management’s strategy into question, to put it lightly.
Slate has had two consecutive years of profitability. The fact that management views employees as chits to be discarded at any hint of trouble, instead of valuable people whose work makes our shop successful and profitable, is an enormous mistake. We insist that, in the upcoming contract negotiations, Slate commits to policies that treat layoffs not as a hair-trigger response to adversity but as an absolute last resort, one that will not be undertaken without consulting with the union and the employees in question. Simply paying out extra severance to a laid-off employee should no longer be a substitute for warnings about the state of our business and, more importantly, real attempts to save our staffers’ jobs. Anything short of this will demonstrate that Slate values the jobs of its executives more than its rank-and-file workers, and that good journalism by good journalists is no longer the north star of the magazine.
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Jessica Stoya @stoya.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Well, that’s certainly not nothing: @slate.bsky.social giving current and recent US Federal workers comped access to Slate Plus slate.com/fed-plus
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If you’re a federal employee—current or recently laid off—Slate Plus is free for six months.
Thousands of federal employees are facing job cuts—or working under growing uncertainty. Slate is offering them six months of Slate Plus for free.
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Mary Harris @maryharris.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It's hard to characterize this convo with @vagrantjourno.bsky.social - but it will make you reconsider what you understand about Ukraine right now AND it has a SPECIAL SURPRISE if you listen to the end. Just -- listen: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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How Worried Are Ukrainians?
What would the country be willing to give up to stop the war?
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Extraordinary conversation with a young man living with a disability, and how these cuts are risking all his care. And a reminder that all of us - you, me, everyone you love - will need care at some point.
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
congratulations to No Other Land, which may be the first film to win a major Oscar but not theatrical distribution.
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The Most Relevant Movie in Theaters Is Poised to Make Oscar History. It Would Be a Shameful First.
It swept the critics’ awards and seems like an Oscars lock, yet it still doesn’t have a distributor.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Are you kidding me nypost.com/2025/02/25/u...
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Gov. Hochul orders CUNY remove Hunter College ‘Palestinian Studies’ job posting, calls for probe into ‘antisemitic theories’
The job listing has since been removed from CUNY’s website.
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Shannon Palus @shanpalus.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
we're hiring a summer intern to work on our advice team at Slate! they'll do a bunch of things, including some editing. jobs.lever.co/slate/d22006...
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Slate - Summer 2025 Editorial Intern, Advice
About the role Slate is looking for a summer editorial intern for its Advice section. This internship is suited for someone who wants hands-on experience working at a fast-paced online magazine and wh...
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