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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

People are out here proudly announcing that they intend be authors and that they have no interest in writing, that they deserve a large-audience of readers but they themselves only read to extract from the actual artists they plan to usurp. Baby, the cogs have learned to TALK. Wild times.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

“Zohran has been marinated in love…He’s so secure in knowing who he is. There was a feeling of great pride and gratitude the night he won—that we had yielded this person who will bring, and who has already brought, hope to the world. That he has the mettle to do it.” ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

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How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani

The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

We really do not know what the condiments are capable of.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

My friend @mirajacob.bsky.social takes us all to therapy and I can say I got a lot out of it: mailchi.mp/eed8f2d5e619...

A self portrait drawing of Mira Jacob, a South Asian American woman writer. In a thought bubble next to her head is a pie chart : ME ALL NIGHT, EVERY NIGHT
HOW WILL IT ALL END?
_ GLOBAL WARMING
ALIEN INVASION
HEGSETH ADDS
SATAN TO THE CHAT
_ THE RAPTURE
_A.I. TAKEOVER
SOMETHING
I DID
_ A-1 TAKEOVER
ASTEROID
MEANY TAKEOVER
- DON JR.
_MEASLES
_ FASCISM

In a text box: My therapist has this thing she says a lot, which is now a thing that I say to myself a lot, which either means therapy is working or l've fallen into a two-person cult. The first time she

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Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES is a finalist for the @penamerica.bsky.social / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Thank you to the judges and congrats to all the other finalists and their awesome collections!

Screenshot of PEN finalist announcement, including covers of Softie, I'll Give You a Reason, Japa, The Man in the Banana Trees, and Sad Grownups

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Eid Mubarak from me to you 🌙

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Julia S @juliacsmith.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Letting this piece of writing from Kaveh Akbar (via @mirajacob.bsky.social on IG) wash over and through me. What is your answer this weekend? www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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What Will You Do?

What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Blew it, you’ll never be mistaken for a millennial girl again.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 24/03/2025

Circling back on this…

Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.

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Symphony Space @symphonyspace.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Join us to celebrate 100 years of of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Authors and admirers @egangoonsquad.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Wesley Morris, and Ernesto Quiñonez will take the stage. In-person and livestream tix available! bit.ly/4bH094Y

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Symphony Space @symphonyspace.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The second story on this Selected Shorts episode is performed by Rita Wolf. In “Death by Printer” by @mirajacob.bsky.social, technology both helps and hinders a widow as she copes with loss. You can listen to the story wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/41WMm5Z (Photo by Kevin Yatarola)

Rita Wolf reading on the stage of Symphony Space's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A great thread from @caseyparks.bsky.social on the hearing Judge Reyes is giving to a challenge to the trans soldiers ban.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/03/2025

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I know it’s just Wordle but today’s taking me 4 tries makes me feel like I’ve failed South Asian.

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Syreeta McFadden @reetamac.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Too many folks on the wrong end of this curve

A graph with a curve upwards. Text on the side reads How alarmed you are and below it reads how much you understand government

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

"As soon as Trump was inaugurated, the department’s processing of disability rights complaints ground to a halt ... That has left students—including a 12-year-old boy with autism and epilepsy who’s been unwillingly assigned to remote schooling—without recourse"

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America’s kids are already suffering under Trump’s education policies

What Trump and DOGE want to do to the Education Department, explained.

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A BOOK TOUR SO BIG IT’S BASICALLY A CLOWN CAR STUFFED WITH SUPERSTARS

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🚨🚨🚨STARTING AT NOON 🚨🚨🚨 70+ CFPB workers were fired last night in an email that didn’t even bother to mail merge [AppointmentDate] and [JobTitle]. Join us at 12p TODAY to rally for them! #saveCFPB

A flyer reading Hands off CFPB jobs! Wednesday Feb 12, noon local time, wear red. DC 1700 G St NW, NYC 26 Federal Plaza, Atlanta 401 W. Peachtree St, Chicago 230 S Dearborn St, San Francisco 301 Howard St, Your Local Big Bank--Everywhere

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 10/02/2025

Government funding runs out on March 14. Republicans can’t pass a bill alone, so Democrats have real leverage here. We’re calling on Democrats to commit to withholding their votes and insist on an end to the Trump-Musk coup rampaging across the government.

House Democrats Have Leverage—
If They Use It
Republicans Can't Pass a Budget Without Democrats: Any funding bill that passes the Senate must clear the 60-vote filibuster, meaning Senate Republicans will be forced to compromise with Democrats. That bill will not be the full MAGA wishlist-it will be a negotiated deal.
And here's the problem for House Republicans: as soon as the bill looks even remotely reasonable, hardline MAGA extremists will revolt. The House Freedom Caucus will refuse to vote for anything that doesn't include extreme cuts and right-wing poison pills.
That means House Republicans' razor-thin 218-215 majority won't be enough to pass a budget on their own. If just three Republicans defect, the bill dies. Their chaos and dysfunction have already divided them.
Democrats must not bail them out. Republicans will need Democratic votes to pass a budget, and that gives Democrats enormous leverage.
The GOP Civil War is a Gift-Exploit It: The House GOP is eating itself alive. The far-right Freedom Caucus is demanding draconian cuts, while vulnerable Republicans fear the backlash of a shutdown. Demoerats should let them fight and use it to extract real concessions.
The Shutdown Deadline is the GOP's Problem to Solve: Government funding runs out on March 14. If the
GOP can't pass a bill, they own the shutdown. Instead of letting Republicans ram through a terrible deal, Democrats should be demanding a budget that stops MAGA looting and protects working families.
Trump and His Billionaire Buddies Want to Steal the Budget: Trump and his inner circle, led by Russ Vought, are openly planning to override federal spending decisions, funnel cash to their allies, and slash social programs. If the budget doesn't include safeguards-real, meaningful, and enforceable safeguards— they will rob the country blind.

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Liz Thurmond @countmystars.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is it. This is the take.

jourdain searles
@judysquirrels
I'll vote for whoever will come at the republicans like kendrick went for drake. i'm not joking either. give me that energy or shut up. don't email me. don't text me. don't ask me for anything.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Please know that if you reply to me with any variation on "calling doesn't matter"/"no one's listening"/"X action is pointless" I'm going to mute or block you. Not personal. Feel your feelings and I hope you find a way to take SOME action. I just don't have the spoons to deal with doomerism rn.

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Deeply feeling this. Also, it’s good out here, fighting for what we care about? Have been on DC streets all week. Feels fucking great.

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Am also open to shout suggestions from anyone who can’t be here in person. Your feelings, my mouth! Let’s goooo!

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Headed here. Let us know about anything else. Got lungs, will use them.

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

DC! I’m here with my BFF & have been out protesting since Weds. Our shouting muscles are primed at this point! Where are we going today?

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Matt Barber @biobarber.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

nih.gov

Direct Economic Contributions

NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 08/02/2025

While we were sleeping: A federal judge in New York issued an aggressive order against the DOGE goon squad at the Treasury Department barring them from any and all access to the Bureau of Fiscal Services and ordering them “to immediately destroy” anything they may have downloaded from the systems.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/02/2025

If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more. thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-...

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Strengthening America Through Service: Announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA) - Public Service Alliance

Today, we’re announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA), a nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening America by supporting the people who serve it. PSA is founded on a simple yet profound...

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Tomorrow (Friday) night we’re doing a reading to benefit victims of LA Fires featuring Jessamine Chan, Sloane Crosley, Eve Ewing, Isaac Fitzgerald and James Spooner! Come help us turn this bad week better! Tix start at $5: bit.ly/tuesday-fire-relief

Sunset with details for LA Fire Relief reading printed over it, including names of readers (Jessamine Chan, Sloane Crosley, Eve Ewing, Isaac Fitzgerald, James Spooner and mc Mira Jacob), date (1/24), time (7-8:30 EST) and ticket link: bit.ly-tuesday-agency-relief .

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Swapna Krishna @swapnakrishna.com · 22/01/2025

If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

Mr. Trump’s executive order indicates that in 30 days, all federal agencies will be required to confirm the immigration status of the parents before issuing documents like a passport.

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Also I really do love her shovel jaw.

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Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I love watching her shovel jaw!

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