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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The instinct to romanticize George W. Bush isn’t just driven by his friendly relationship with Michelle Obama. Our culture is enthralled by the Cuddly Conservative trope, a character who is *always* more attractive than the Annoying Liberal. marionteniade.beehiiv.com/p/kill-the-m...
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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
My latest newsletter piece includes a review of "Obsession" (2026), a discussion on "Absolute Wonder Woman", and an announcement of a Substack live happening tomorrow with @marionteniade.bsky.social on "Is God Is". No paywall. Enjoy. angelicabastien.substack.com/p/what-ive-b...
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What I've Been Reading, Watching, and Listening To: Weekly Log No. 1
From Monday May 11th through Sunday May 17th including a review of
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"Is God Is" was the rage- and love-filled Southern Gothic Greek tragedy I've been waiting for. marionteniade.beehiiv.com/p/the-rage-a...
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The rage and redemption of Is God Is
Great vengeance, furious anger, and resilient love.
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The Drama, red flags, and mercy
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The Drama, red flags, and mercy
When do we decide someone is unforgivable?
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 18/04/2026
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Me to my CIA tour guide
A screenshot from “The Pitt” of Dr. Abbot asking Dr. Robby “I mean, what’s in the fucking gift shop, man?”
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
This month’s Terrible Tuesday: 2020’s Antebellum, a visually lovely but cynically hollow exercise in racial horror that took all the wrong lessons from Get Out.
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Terrible Tuesdays: Antebellum
Janelle Monae's first starring role is a misbegotten nightmare
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
BREAKING: The ProPublica union is on strike today. The unionized staff at the non-profit outlet has walked out after two years of stalled negotiations. The workers core demands are AI protections, just cause employment provisions, layoff safeguards, and pay increases.
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ryan Murphy‘s “Love Story” has brought Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s 90s minimalism back into the zeitgeist, but I think nostalgia for this aesthetic is nostalgia for something a bit deeper: marionteniade.beehiiv.com/p/return-to-...
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Return to Camelot
The people yearn for 90s minimalism
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
officially made the transition: left substack for beehiiv! marionteniade.beehiiv.com/p/actor-anno...
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Actor announcement: I'm moving
and you're coming with me!
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It’s me! I’m the pop culture critic in question!
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Shea Serrano @sheaserrano.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
this was written by @marionteniade.bsky.social she did a really great job the essay is sharp and funny and insightful go read it
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“We operate in a society that demands that we empathize with the people who have and harm the most.” Terrific read from @marionteniade.bsky.social.
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On empathy
Who demands it, who denies it, who deserves it.
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This is surreal because my answer to this question is literally Shea Serrano
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The Alien franchise had maintained one ongoing narrative for nearly 50 years: how a megacorporation keeps feeding its workers, soldiers, and prisoners into a grisly machine to keep the gears of colonization and capitalism moving. It’s ruthless…and oddly comforting.
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The undying relevance of the Alien franchise
A funhouse mirror version of our world.
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Grateful to @marionteniade.bsky.social for this. This is the future of art under capitalism: movie-length ads for tech corporations.
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The war of the worlds is over. The oligarchs won.
A red-pilled War of the Worlds.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 01/07/2025
Also there's no need to obscure US history of barbarism. Some folks always want to reach for Holocaust comparisons like there's not a guard tower from Angola in the Blacksonian, like camps used to hold Japanese Americans were a picnic. They gave detainees wormy food. The facilities were filthy.
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Raising my sweet girl Sesame to be a podcast bro, I fear @ifbookspod.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
A dapper tuxedo cat sitting on a tv stand in front of the tv. Projected on the tv screen is an episode of the podcast “If Books Could Kill”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/06/2025
Breaking News: Southern Baptists voted to call for the reversal of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage, spurred by the end of Roe v. Wade. trib.al/BtObJR8
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Southern Baptists Adopt Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage
The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was motivated by conservative Christians’ success in reversing Roe v. Wade.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 03/06/2025
About 5 million borrowers are at risk of having their Social Security checks and tax refunds taken as well as their wages garnished over defaulting on student loans.
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How Congress Quietly Made It Nearly Impossible for Borrowers to Escape Their Student Loans
The story begins in the 1970s.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/05/2025
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 28/05/2025
Tapper soft launching the flip
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
I love this rebrand honestly. “Babes, I’m not unreliable, I’m mercurial 😏”
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Donald Trump has long-espoused eugenicist and ableist beliefs. For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Donald Trump's decades-long obsession with eugenics
A timeline of the president's thoughts on "good genes," IQ, and which disabled people should "just die."
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
These various initiatives and policy changes are often regarded as discrete problems, but they comprise a unified assault. The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us. Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power.
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
If the Mission: Impossible movies have been successful at one thing, it’s rehabbing Tom Cruise’s public persona. (If they’ve been successful at two things, it’s that and convincing me that Tramell Tillman needs his own submarine movie.)
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Tom Cruise thinks that he's Tom Cruise
Reckoning with how Ethan Hunt saved his creator.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.
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I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!



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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Dems trying to make a Joe Rogan of the Left :: DC trying to make an Avengers.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025
very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025
i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Trump’s racist trolling of South Africa’s president today is perhaps the most racist WH moment since Woodrow Wilson screened Birth of a Nation there in 1915.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/05/2025
Under its new leadership — who spread misinformation throughout the pandemic — the FDA announced it will limit all Covid vaccines to adults over 65 and those with certain medical conditions. Covid continues to spread and cause harm. This an anti-science move that will kill more Americans.
F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines
Agency leaders said there was evidence to justify approval only for older people and those with medical conditions. Many others may not be able to get the shots.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
the moral and creative vacuousness of having AI generate this stuff is less surprising to me than the prevalence of people who use AI constantly without the slightest understanding of its limitations
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
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WIRED @wired.com · 11/05/2025
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed to protect some of the most vulnerable people in its custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and people with serious medical conditions.
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US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
CBP’s acting commissioner has rescinded four Biden-era policies that aimed to protect vulnerable people in the agency’s custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly.
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J🌲K E @guess-what.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Overheard at the park today: “I can’t that pope is from…hold on. There’s a guy clearly eavesdropping on me. Excuse me? Yeah he’s just staring at me and typing into his phone. Sir? This is a private conversation? He’s just ignoring me and typing. Wait are you typing what I’m saying?”
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NPR @npr.org · 09/05/2025
Rümeysa Öztürk was ordered released by a federal judge in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it accuses of antisemitism.
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Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk ordered freed from immigration detention
Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback for the Trump administration's effort to deport noncitizen activists it ac...
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Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
TMNT logo: Marxist Social Justice Pontiff
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
“IF YOU DONT USE AI YOU WILL FALL BEHIND!!” Dear god how far back can I fall?? We talking Black Michael Jackson or white Michael Jackson??? Do I need the actual Delorean or will the AI spin up the flux compacitor in my laptop?
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NPRExtra @nprextra.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
You and millions of other people rely on the NPR Network for trustworthy journalism. NPR’s editorial integrity and independence are non-negotiable. It’s a promise we make to you – a promise we will fight to keep. Now, we need your support. Donate today: n.pr/3EYClNR
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NPR @npr.org · 06/05/2025
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Happy Met Gala Monday, y’all!
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
“Ignorance to how the government or the economy work is an asset, in that they don’t need to care about things they don’t understand, and they can paint anyone who does understand as weak, useless little ants.” open.substack.com/pub/marionte...
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Marion Teniade Johnson @marionteniade.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The first hundred days in three emojis.
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The first hundred days in three emojis
fist-flag-flame.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
"Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger. The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways"
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
the contrast between the journalists at 60 minutes who are risking their careers for their independence and the white house correspondents chuckling at nerdprom about how they helped trump get elected is pretty jarring and infuriating
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Marco Rubio saying the 2-year-old went w/ her mother ignores the fact that ICE and DOJ officials knew about and ignored the fact that the father and a guardian, as well as their lawyers, were trying to assert their rights. ICE nonetheless deported them w/in 3 days. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-depo...
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On Sunday, the secretary of state defended the Trump administration's deportation efforts, which have included deporting three children who are U.S. citizens - ages 2, 4 and 7 - alongside their mothers, according to The Washington Post.
"Their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers," Rubio told moderator Kristen Welker.
"If those children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States if there's their father or someone here who wants to assume them. But ultimately, who was deported was their mother, their mothers who were here illegally. The children just went with their mothers," the secretary of state added.
Rubio called the story "misleading," saying that
"you guys make it sound like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed the 2-year-old and threw him on an airplane."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Judge Hannah Dugan, two-year-old V.L.M. They are not outliers, exceptions, or aberrations. … What we are witnessing is the Trump administration’s immigration plan in motion. Today, at Law Dork:
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The horrors are not aberrations. This is the Trump administration's plan.
This is their plan. But the plan is just that — a plan. It can and must be stopped.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana
The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.
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