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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 10/07/2025

big epidemic on consumer-sourced review sites where the reader/watcher/etc is just talking about their expectations based on the description of the media and being angry when they're not "met." larger conversation about the Trope-ification of literature/film/etc i guess

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 24/06/2025

Major decision out of the Northern District of California. AI training on copyrighted material is fair use under the copyright act. This will have major implications for the AI industry and artists having their work stolen by AI companies. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Picture, if you will, a world in which Kamala Harris was elected and dropped an f-bomb on camera.

Iconic image of Rod Serling opening The Twilight Zone. B&W standing in front of a vertically striped display.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 21/06/2025

Advocate 20 Jun 25 - After joining BlueSky in an unsuccessful attempt at high-profile lib-trolling, VP Vance has become the most blocked account on B/S with ~120k blocks while gaining only ~10k followers. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

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JD Vance becomes the most blocked account on Bluesky after anti-trans post

JD Vance has been blocked by 11 times more Bluesky accounts than those that follow him.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

BBC Verify fact-checks Clay Travis

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Martin Empson @resolutereader.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Remember Mordechai Vanunu? He spent 18 years in prison, including 11 in solitary, after his abduction in Italy, following his expose of Israel's nuclear weapon's programme.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

This cartoon was drawn 8 years ago. It seems the right time for it to be reshared. (✍️ Carlos Latuff)

The cartoon depict Trump as a tank being driven by Netanyahu towards Iran. War criminal Netanyahu is seen with a grin standing out of the top of Trump’s hair, through a tank hatch. The Israeli flag flies on top of Trump’s head and he has just run over and crushed a copy of the Iran Nuclear Deal. The whole cartoon suggests felon Trump is steered entirely by Netanyahu.

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A polyphemus moth my daughter found this evening.

A pair of hands holding a moth in sunset shapes with wings borderedby yellow, white, and brown lines with sets of large eyespots.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Mr President sir the people are saying you’re not man enough to cancel Musk’s government contracts

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It’s the happiest day of Elon Musk’s life because he finally posted something people actually want to read

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/06/2025

if the fight is fake, elon is committed to the bit

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Doris Lessing, from Memoirs of a Survivor.

“Yes, it was extraordinary . Yes, it was all impossible. But, after all, I had accepted the "impossible." I lived with it. I had
abandoned all expectations of the ordinary for my inner world, my real life in that place. And as for the public, the outer
world, it had been a long time since that offered the normal. Could one perhaps describe that period as "the ordinariness of the extraordinary”? Well, the reader should have no difficulty here: these words are a description of the times we have lived
through. (A description of all life?-- probably, but it is not much help to think so.)
….While everything, all forms of social organization, broke up, we lived on, as if nothing fundamental was happening. It was amazing how determined, how stubborn, how self-renewing were the attempts to lead an ordinary life. When nothing, or very little, was left of what we had been used to, had taken for granted even ten years before, we went on talking and behaving as if those old forms were still ours.” Doris Lessing, The Memoirs of a Survivor

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"We’re looking for stories where young people are at the center – how a policy impacts them, how an issue is changing how they live and work, or the experiences they’re having in Appalachia."

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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What is Close Reading?

By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to transform postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

a couple of years ago through Sami Zayn I learned about the work of the Zakat Foundation which is how I donate. They do good work and I urge you to look into them. www.zakat.org/gaza-emergency

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Gaza Emergency 2025

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Books I've started and subsequently neglected during winter semester (well, a few of them were started before that). Time to get moving on summer reading. #booksky

A group of books on the floor:
Byron: Life and Legend
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Appalachian Reckoning
Hugh Weirdness
The Language of the Night
Astounding
The Doors of Eden
The Grapes of Weath
Renewable

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Nicole Rizzuto @fluentisona.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It has occurred to me that y'all might not know who Mayor Ras Baraka is. So I'm going to take a moment out of grading to do my duty as a Jersey girl and teach you a thing. Mayor Baraka is the 40th mayor of the Newark, NJ, the city that will forever be Jersey's heartbeat.

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Between this and the proposal by Goebbels 2.0 to suspend habeas corpus, it's feeling like we're cooked. This is a course in which there is no other option than intensification. And don't be fooled - Noem having overspent the budget is no real barrier. They will find the money.

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

the Vichy New York Times is constitutionally incapable of writing about an ongoing coup with anything other than the tones of a person worried about their neighbor's taste in house paint.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 09/05/2025

I first interviewed Alan Moore in 2009, and one of the things he said then has reverberated in my head louder and louder over the last ten years. He was reading the entrails of the 20th century long before the shit hit the fan.

“As our information increases so does our complexity”, he says, “And once it passes this tipping point then you don’t get one super-computer ruling the world, you just get chaos. Eventually you’ll find a lot of systems shaking themselves to pieces because they’re not flexible enough to deal with this level of turbulence. It’s already leading us to reconsider the way we organise our markets, our philosophies, our politics. The ideas that have got us through the 19th and 20th centuries are completely outdated.”

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Matt Scherer @matthewus.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The tech industry only ever has two positions on any proposed tech regulation: (1) Don’t regulate us. It’s too early. Our tech is still developing. (2) Don’t regulate us. It’s too late. Our tech is everywhere.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

oh my god

At one point, Cunningham
triumphantly declares that he's "starting new
pages in the recipe niche" and wants "to
disrupt that whole industry" because, in his
telling, it's "ripe for the taking."
"Going back to the AI recipes, do you know if
they actually work?" someone asks
Cunningham later in the clip.
"Of course they work. ChatGPT told me they
work," Cunningham, who looks genuinely
baffled by the question, responds. "What kind
of question is that?"

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This sweet face greeted me at the barn this morning. Brand new kid, born overnight. #goatsky

A tiny black goat kid with white-edged ears and brown spots looks at the camera.

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

When I discuss AI with my composition classes, I try to emphasize the importance of voice and how AI erodes it. We spend time comparing student drafts and AI "polished" versions and how all the interesting and idiosyncratic parts are smoothed into a bland, generic sameness. AI writing is boring.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

on my way to manuscript central to do peer review

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Using hunger "as a market mechanism [to] compel labor participation" belies the conservative championing of the working class. They're insensate to suffering and uninterested in real remedies.

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This is often true in the humanities in higher ed, too. Why aren't working class concerns reflected? Bc to become a successful academic, you typically need financial stability...or luck. In the comments, people in other fields (journalism, research science) say much the same.

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The Bee Magazine launches TODAY. It has been created to redress the class imbalance in literature, and features an array of writing talent. Big respect to editors Richard Benson, Claire Malcolm and all at @newwritingnorth.bsky.social. Please support it if you can. Go to TheBeeMagazine.com.

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

One goat away from opening a portal to another dimension.

Two yearling goats - one brown, one black with white spots - are standing on upright tires painted blue and aqua. A third orange tire is nearby but without a goat. There are trees in the background and the grass is a lush spring green.

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Great piece on DOGE's violations of the privacy act in its compilation of a "database of ruin" that provides the foundation for "turnkey totalitarianism." (The wit of the neologisms contrasts sharply with how they make my skin crawl.)

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption. Breathtaking. Heartbreaking. We cannot let this stand.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

If we consider Trump’s base through the lens of cult psychology, his rhetoric may hit differently, and it seems less likely that they abandon him due to empty shelves, and a bit more likely they double down through their own sacrifice while waiting for the next promised salvation.

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Maybe the children will have 2 dolls instead of 30 and maybe the dolls will cost a couple bucks more

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Y'all ever just get randomly sad about Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

End of the semester here. In my composition class, there's an Appalachia unit, and we cover the opioid epidemic, including the shameless swag pharma gave doctors to push pills. Today, a student surprised me with a gift when he submitted his final portfolio - an OxyContin plushie.

A gray plushie smiling Oxycontin pill with arms and legs and a pink sash that says "OxyContin 80mg."

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I'm so petty I have a running list of Dems who have bent the knee to Trump, ranked by depth of collaboration. Welcome, Governor Whitmer.

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

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Michelle Martin @michellemartin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

RIP Dave Thomas. I remember the first time I put on The Modern Dance with crystal clarity - I felt jolted awake, like I had finally heard what I wanted music to be.

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Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

an obvious thing but a society genuinely interested in producing more healthy children would also invest heavily in its foster and child protection services, and boy, let me tell you, that is not a good picture in much of the United States.

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