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Margo Weitzman

@margo-weitzman.bsky.social
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Rome Prize fellow, 2025-26 Doctoral candidate in art history Professor, wanderer, researcher of all things 15th, 16th, and 17th c. Italy

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Margo Weitzman @margo-weitzman.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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It's a publishing fairy tale. 'Hansel and Gretel' is reimagined by Stephen King and Maurice Sendak
An upcoming edition of “Hansel and Gretel” combines the dark and singular talents of two literary giants who apparently never met: Stephen King and the late Maurice Sendak.
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Margo Weitzman @margo-weitzman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It should scare the shit out of everyone that the terms of the exchange are unknown. bsky.app/profile/npr....
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/02/2025
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort announced a variety of cuts at the Education Department totaling over $900 million, apparently aimed at hobbling the department’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences.
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Musks’s DOGE Announces Millions in Cuts to Education Dept. Amid Legal Pushback
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team said that it had “terminated” 89 of the department’s contracts, apparently targeting its research arm.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/02/2025
When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/02/2025
Not even trying to hide it…
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
A great website tracking all the companies that have bent the knee to Trump and eliminated their DEI programs, and all the companies that have stood strong. www.dei.watch
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DEI WATCH
This guide is broken into three categories: 1) DISMANTLED - companies that have ended or scaled back their DEI efforts; 2) COMMITTED - companies that have active DEI initiatives; and 3) FUNDED - organ...
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Mood.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
LGBTQIA+ As we resist those who claim diversity distorts scholarship, let’s run through the acronym & show how easy it is to find the rainbow in every era. We don’t even need to look beyond the Renaissance celebrities that are household names! 1/? (Countdown to Inventing the Renaissance)
Book cover of "Inventing the Renaissance." It's very orange, and has Cellini's very naked statue of Perseus holding the severed head of Medusa.
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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A teen DOGE staffer recently given access to government systems worked at a startup known for hiring convicted hackers. Someone using a Telegram handle associated with him also solicited a cyberattack-for-hire service in 2022. All raising questions about his vetting. www.wired.com/story/edward...
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DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Joe Kent, the guy Trump is nominating to lead his counterterrorism division, employed Proud Boys and Patriot Front members, met with Nick Fuentes and sat down with a neo-Nazi YouTuber for an interview.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Could the dystopia slow down a little bit
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/02/2025
BREAKING: Trump has signed an executive order creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund- popular with Middle East monarchies - so the U.S. can buy TikTok. That’s state-run media, folks. www.reuters.com/markets/weal...
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Trump signs executive order to create sovereign wealth fund
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
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