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Rakesh Satyal

@rakeshsatyal.bsky.social
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Author of the novels Blue Boy and No One Can Pronounce My Name. Book Editor.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21h
Holy shit.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
chron.com
How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
rollingstone.com
J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The problem has never really been that conservative voters are reluctant to criticize Trump. The problem is a relentless right-wing media apparatus that tells them Democrats are worse.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This was wild to see. My first time writing for the screen. My thanks to Zoe Kazan for inviting me on this journey back in 2023, and my agent Jason Richman and everyone at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social for their work on my behalf.
“Written for Television by ZOE KAZAN & ALEXANDER CHEE” in white letters against the black tv screen.A tv still of Mike Faist, Christopher Abbott and Florence Pugh. White text in a San serif font reads “This East of Eden, adapted primarily by Zoe Kazan-Alexander Chee co-wrote a key midseason episode-with Garth Davis directing, is rich, morally complex and packed with memorable performances."
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As an aside, maybe you felt your high income and elevated caste status made you white adjacent enough to justify a Trump vote because they would never come for you. Looks like the joke’s on you, uncle
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Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Forget Carrie Bradshaw’s book party. Samantha Jones should’ve released a memoir called PUBLIC RELATIONS.
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Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🍊🧡🍊🧡🍊
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In light of all the horrible sexual assault in the news, this from my conversation with Kate Manne in February at Princeton still sums up my thoughts. Power =\= Good Men(tm). Power = Power.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apropos of nothing, I get a lot of mileage out of this meme.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So excited to see PEOPLE launching the cover of my new novel The Amnesiac today! people.com/jami-attenbe...
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Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
💖💖💖💖💖
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Very excited to share the cover of my new book JUST BENEATH THE SOIL: WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS LAST WITNESSES. It will be out May 4, 2027. I learned so much writing this book and truly can't wait to share it with you all. It’s available for preorder now: sites.prh.com/justbeneatht...
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Susan of Texas @susanoftexas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A woman’s lifetime of suffering is weighed against a potential temporary setback in a man’s career, and the man’s self-induced plight always carries more weight.
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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
tech bro is short for technically broken
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nithya has consistently demonstrated support for writers and our issues and advocated for increased production in Los Angeles, with clear actions and policies. We are proud to support Nithya Raman for Los Angeles Mayor! #nithyaforthecity #nithyaparalaciudad #nithyaraman
WGAW endorses Nithya Raman for Mayor of Los Angeles; text overlay quote.Woman with microphone and endorsement text for Nithya Raman.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but just fucking don’t film or photograph strangers who are just minding their business and not hurting anyone. I don’t care if they’re dressed weird, or “faking disabled” (they probably aren’t), or are adorable together. Just don’t.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Remember when things worked?
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Every time I bring something like this up on this site, people lose their shit in my mentions. I will say AGAIN that no one currently voting for Democrats knows that they will specifically do if they win except for some vague "hearings." THAT'S IT.
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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
FRIENDS! The STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL $1.99 digital sale is now cross-platform for a brief time! Get my award-winning Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy Romance via @bookshop.org at a complete steal! 2-books-in-1! Jane Eyre + Ghostbusters + 1888 London + Dark Academia + Ancient Mythology + Hot-For-Teacher Romance
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Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spring Awakening is one of the greatest musical theater scores ever written, period. What a tragic loss. RIP.
nytimes.com
Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56
Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just got a press release for a new bar that “pays homage to the glory days of NYC nightlife” and listen, I’m sure this bar is perfectly nice, but I’m losing my goddamn mind. I’m sick of remakes! I’m sick of homages! Stop building monuments to beauty instead of trying to build beauty itself!!!!
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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hi! This is out today and it’s awesome! And I am proud to be connected to it! SUPPORT TRANS PEOPLE!!! WE ARE FUCKING MAGICAL!!!!
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What Happened at Aleister Crowley’s Boleskine House? | #WITCHYAF
YouTube video by Etch
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026
Black text on white page that reads:

Whether you call it New York City, Nueva Yol, or PueblaYork, Hispanic and Latino New Yorkers are at the heart of the city we love. 

From the labor activism of Luisa Moreno, to the marches of the Young Lords in the South Bronx in 1969. 

From Juan Rodriguez, a free, mixed-race Dominican sailor who became the first non-indigenous resident of Manhattan in 1613, to Jose Alvarado, NYCHA's very own Knicks Champion. 

From the Nuyorican Poets Café on the Lower East Side, to Toñita's in Williamsburg, New York City would not be New York City without its Hispanic Heritage. 

And yet, more than three-quarters of Latino New Yorkers struggle to afford living in New York City. As we mark Hispanic Heritage Month, we remember that Hispanic and Latino families must be at the heart of our affordability agenda.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There is, to me, an unsettling sense of connection between gambling and misogyny that is making some (*some*) young men into angry, cynical, no-fun sports “fans.” Everything becomes about gain, dominance, and the exclusion of the unwelcome; there is no pleasure in the game itself.
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this is what killed Bob Mackie
Photo of... is that Shailene Woodley walking the Emmys carpet. She's wearing a periwinkle tank top with a plunging neckline showing her sternum,  a pair of maroon....pleather? vinyl? definitely hideous gloves going up to her elbows, and a pair of..
 textured? awful pants that look kind of like a popcorn ceiling.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15/09/2026
You may’ve heard of DHS and White House officials getting peppered with questions about a report of a parent getting detained by ICE at a school bus stop. Well, @joshuaeaton.bsky.social got video of the incident in question — which also appears to have taken place near a church.
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Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The tagline on the poster for An Unmarried Woman basically being the lyrics to “She Used to Be Mine”…
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Herstory
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was unfamiliar until recently with the story of Father Mychal Judge, a gay priest who became the first recorded casualty of 9/11 while administering last rites in the lobby of the North Tower. There is an effort to canonize him, which would make him the first openly gay saint in history.
thelettersfromleo.com
Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint
The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
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Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Always Toni Morrison ❤️
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THE DEAD OF SEPTEMBER II | Vanity Fair
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11/09/2026
Making a powerful person mad by demanding an answer they don't want to provide is precisely the job description.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/09/2026
trying to get people to understand that the trans women in sports debate isn’t really about sports but a meta narrative pushed by the right all about slowly getting all trans people out of public life is truly impossible
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
David is 27 years old, a state house rep, and an INCREDIBLE @runforsomething.net leader. His win against an incumbent is truly against the odds and a big victory for young people, for renters, and for anyone ready for a new generation of Democrats.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
With respect, he lies with the confidence of someone who's always been rewarded for it.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ok but at least that trans kid cant play jv volleyball with her friends anymore
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Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sitting on a Brooklyn restaurant rooftop nearing the end of the season and “Borderline” is playing and it’s making me misty-eyed how much Madonna really Did It: Released one of her greatest albums and had her whole catalog playing all summer, everywhere. She really is the queen.
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Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Orangetheory
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 09/09/2026
Trump has never offered much in the way of material goods or transfers to his voters. He engages in displays of dominance, they derive a sense of status and prestige from those displays. It's a symbolic economy that rests on a cult of personality, in which his diehard fans are eternal marks.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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kalen whose twitter pic is 15 yrs old @kalenski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
She is the queen.
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Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sitting on a Brooklyn restaurant rooftop nearing the end of the season and “Borderline” is playing and it’s making me misty-eyed how much Madonna really Did It: Released one of her greatest albums and had her whole catalog playing all summer, everywhere. She really is the queen.
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Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wearing a champion to the Open. #greysanatomy
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.
inquirer.com
FanDuel sent a personal message from Phillies star Bryce Harper to a customer with a gambling addiction
Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel. The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' All-Star first baseman.
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