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Amy Laura Hall

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 7h
There are a lot of parents focused on getting gentleness *for* their sons, but not expecting their sons to show gentleness to anyone else. And that’s just male entitlement in liberal window dressing.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11h
While I have you here, let me also link to an article I wrote years ago about how to talk to your daughters about sexual violence—without blaming them, shaming them, or restricting their freedoms.
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What You Should Really Say to Your Daughter About Campus Sexual Assault
It’s not what you might imagine.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And the last one I’ll mention is for mothers to set boundaries in their own relationships with their sons. The way he treats you is a model for how he treats all other women. If you succumb to the social pressure to make every sacrifice for him, he will expect the same of other women too.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another big one is teaching your son to see girls as equals. Instead of enrolling him in sex-segregated sports, introduce him to a co-ed team. And help him foster his more “feminine” interests where we can be in mixed-sex spaces, making mixed-sex friend groups.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 5h
NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 4h
TODAY: @lesbrains.bsky.social on Veronica Gonzalez Peña’s new book SECRET DAUGHTER. "Exile doesn’t erase [secrets]; it merely displaces them. Silencing a secret is much harder and obliterating the evidence of it is harder still. In fact, it might be impossible." flaminghydra.com/r/706a8598?m...
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Template for grief
Myriam Gurba descends into the darkness of a new book by Veronica Gonzalez Peña
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 17h
There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once (Gift Article)
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 17h
A reminder that the @ncaaup.bsky.social is a key part of “saving the middle class” through education in NC ♥️ This N.C. College Leader Thinks Two-Year Schools Can Save the Middle Class www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
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This N.C. College Leader Thinks Two-Year Schools Can Save the Middle Class
Monty Sullivan, the new president of the N.C. Community College System, thinks the schools can get more North Carolinians into jobs.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 17h
Yep.
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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amen.
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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
♥️
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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is a new book about Repair Cafe in NC ♥️ repaircafenc.org/the-spirit-o...
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"The Spirit of Repair" Book — Repair Cafe North Carolina
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What’s in a pepper pot? Black chefs gather to celebrate, revive, and update Philadelphia’s signature soup. Don’t call it a comeback. The legacy of pepper pot has been in the Philly culinary scene all along. share.inquirer.com/4xaZ11
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What’s in a pepper pot? Black chefs gather to celebrate, revive, and update Philadelphia’s signature soup.
In a year full of historical reflections for America's 250th anniversary, the time is ripe to consider an iconic Philadelphia soup that has nearly disappeared — and attempt to revive it.
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DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Korean comedy horror drinks from the same water as Alien and Predator, before morphing into a completely different beast Highly ambitious production is in cinemas now: dmovies.org/2026/05/18/h...
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Hope - DMovies
Korean comedy horror drinks from the same water as Alien and Predator, before morphing into a completely different beast - highly ambitious production shows at San Sebastian/ in cinemas on Friday, Sep...
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DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The 74th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival drew to a close last night! Check out our full coverage here, with 56 exclusive film reviews: dmovies.org/tag/74th-san...
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Very sad news. The great Ian Berry has left us. He was the sole photographer at one of the crucial events in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. 👇🏽
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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yes! Libraries are essential ♥️
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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forgotten songs from Texas prisons. Heartfelt tracks written, performed, and recorded by incarcerated men. The resurrected recordings from the '60s, ’70s, and ’80s tell us about crime and punishment, rehabilitation, and the humanity of the men locked inside. Read More👉 ebx.sh/IHSLcR
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The ACLU and Amnesty International have published an exhaustive, 322 page repoter about student (and faculty) speech being under attack around the world. www.aclu.org/publications...
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UAW @uaw.org · 24/09/2026
When Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga were fighting to form their union and win an historic first contract, IG Metall members had their backs through it all. Now, UAW members in Chattanooga are standing with IG Metall autoworkers in their fight for justice in Germany.
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UAW @uaw.org · 25/09/2026
"Around 200 graduate students and academic workers rallied outside the Science Center on Wednesday, threatening another strike as contract negotiations between Harvard and its graduate student union stretch past a year and a half." 📰 ow.ly/9Hhm50ZR7pS
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Grad Students, Academic Workers Rally at Science Center as HGSU-UAW Sets Strike Authorization Vote | The Harvard Crimson
Around 200 graduate students and academic workers rallied outside the Science Center on Wednesday, threatening another strike as contract negotiations between Harvard and its graduate student union stretch past a year and a half.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
HUGE: Autozone workers just won the first ever union at the company. Despite Autozone spending an estimated $210,696 and using every tactic in the book to stop just 11 workers from forming a union, the small shop in New York chose to unionize today. These workers will now join the @uaw.org.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m sorry, but if you use a starkly, tragically poignant MIA song as a segue for your show about how $$$ works, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
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Dig: A History Podcast @dig-history.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Worcester v. Georgia: The Case That Cemented Native American Sovereignty But Failed to Save the Cherokee In 1830, afraid that white missionaries were aiding the Cherokee in their effort to resist giving up their lands, the Georgia state government made it illegal for white people to live within…
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Worcester v. Georgia: The Case That Cemented Native American Sovereignty But Failed to Save the Cherokee
In 1830, afraid that white missionaries were aiding the Cherokee in their effort to resist giving up their lands, the Georgia state government made it illegal for white people to live within Cherokee Nation  territory without a license from the government.  Samuel Austin Worcester - raised in Vermont and trained as a Congregationalist minister - had lived for years with the Cherokee and became close with the Cherokee leadership.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
This is both hilarious and an inspiration
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Tens of thousands of the letters were generated by public relations campaigns by Reynolds American, maker of Newport, and Altria, maker of Marlboro Menthol, researchers found. Newport and Marlboro Menthol are the two largest menthol brands in the U.S., according to Tobacco Insider”
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 24/09/2026
I've been promising an essay nobody was asking for, and I'm pleased to announce that Patrons now have nearly 10,000 words on Gillian Welch and David Rawling's classic album Time (The Revelator), just like they didn't especially want. www.patreon.com/elizabethsan...
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The Revelation of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings | Elizabeth Sandifer and Penn
As promised, an essay absolutely nobody was asking for. This'll be Patreon exclusive at least to November—I'm thinking a Thanksgiving drop o
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Ben Ehrenreich @benehrenreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Terrific Kirkus review of Hold Still that I should’ve posted last week: “the effort itself, and [Ehrenreich’s] refusal to seek pat, tidy resolutions, are what make the book poignant and satisfying… A meditative and wide-ranging response to loss.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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HOLD STILL | Kirkus Reviews
A writer channels his grief into brief riffs on death, family, and storytelling.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 25/09/2026
Corporate media is not telling you about the current mood in Canada, but @flaminghydra.com's Nathan Munn caught up with former Canadian MP @charlieangus104.bsky.social, in an interview very much worth reading flaminghydra.com/issue-655/
Again, it’s not just the border that we’re worried about. We do not want to give our values up to an American government run by gangsters.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2026
Thousands came out to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's trip to New York City. As he addressed the United Nations General Assembly, protesters shouted, "Stop the killing" in Gaza and accused Netanyahu of committing genocide against Palestinians.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/09/2026
Two thing can be true. The WH kicking out media it doesn’t like is absolutely a First Amendment violation. And There is little journalism of value to be found in the highly controlled, substance-free halls of power—wall-to-wall navel-gazing about one’s access probably being of the least value.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I have quite a few but
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Vicar of Dibley: No No No to Yes
Alt: Vicar of Dibley: No No No to Yes
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026
Thousands of detained immigrants with “Final Orders of Removal” have had their records hidden or deleted from ICE’s tracking system, leaving families and lawyers unable to locate them.
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ICE wiped thousands of people from its database. Families are paying the price.
Lawyers and loved ones are scrambling to find people suddenly culled from DHS rolls.
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Eileen Jones @eileenj19.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My piece for JACOBIN on the Criterion Channel's a sick, twisted, and fascinating "Southern Gothic" series. Try these sensationalistic critiques of a monstrous culture: Elia Kazan's BABY DOLL (1956), Don Siegel's THE BEGUILED (1971), and John Huston's WISE BLOOD (1979). jacobin.com/2026/09/film...
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Southern Gothic Films Take On the Horrors of the Past
The Criterion Channel’s Southern Gothic collection gathers a century of films about a region that set out to make its slaveholding past look civilized. Instead, it produced a body of work steeped in r...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/09/2026
I have been waiting for this to come out. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’
Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conduct
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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My sophisticated take-away is THROW A LOT MORE MONEY AT PUBLIC SCHOOLS NOW! TAX THE BILLIONAIRES TO PAY FOR THE THROWN MONEY!
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 22/09/2026
like this?
Showing Up When The World Is On Fire:
Balancing Urgency & Slowness in Times That Demand
All of Us
Ashley Fairbanks launched a website called Stand With Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge and ended up helping direct over $40 million in donations towards work happening on the ground in Minnesota. Now, she asks what it actually looks like to treat a crisis like a crisis—without living our entire lives in crisis mode.
Because the world is on fire. Some of it, quite literally. But the real threats come from the compounding crises of climate change, fascism, and corporate greed.
This is a talk about mutual aid, imagination, burnout, climate change, collective power, and our deep human desire to belong to one another. It's about moving quickly when the moment demands it, moving slowly whenever we can, and building the relationships that will carry us through whatever comes next.
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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yipes scary weather here in Durham!
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
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Opinion | Why Tech Oligarchs Are Willing to Risk Apocalypse (Gift Article)
Silicon Valley’s strange new theology.
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Aaron Jakes @aaronjakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I wrote for @nplusonemag about Angela Buchdahl, head rabbi of the synagogue in which I was raised, and her role in helping to lead the Reform Jewish movement toward a seemingly limitless accommodation with the political right in both Israel and the US. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-54/rev...
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The Right Reform Rabbi | Aaron Jakes
When Buchdahl professes that she can understand “how even white men in America are feeling,” she unwittingly reveals a structuring affinity between the politics of white reaction and her own anti-anti...
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Delicious, horrifying story by Ian Parker that confirms all of my biases against horse people, rooted in the Ascot Gavotte number from My Fair Lady, decades-old vacation reading of Dick Francis paperbacks & Rielle Hunter’s origin story: She Made Me Do It www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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She Made Me Do It
A prominent dressage trainer shot an annoying student—and now maintains that he’s the real victim.
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Muppets have to put on a show to save the Kennedy Center. There you go, Disney, that's your premise.
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21/09/2026
None of us can top E.B. White on this argument
“Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last--the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion.”

-E.B. White, "Here is New York"
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 21/09/2026
That’s why they carved that poem that goes “Go back home, or at the very least stay in the designated zone” on the base of the Statue of No Transplants that stands in the harbor.
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New office door sign just dropped
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