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Rebecca McKanna

@rebeccamckanna.bsky.social
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Author of DON’T FORGET THE GIRL 🖤🌽🪦 || Professor & Midwesterner || she/her

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Rev. Col. C.A. Martin, PhD @pataphysicien.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
So social media has become a collection of snuff films, where we watch some of the worst people in the country execute some of the best, and mainstream media has become the place where talking heads debate whether the executions we just watched were justified.
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Gabriel Valjan @gvaljan.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
#booktour @loriraderday.bsky.social @minotaurbooks.bsky.social @bluehousebooks.bsky.social @christinaclancy.bsky.social @tracyc1.bsky.social @mpmthewriter.bsky.social @2ndflightbooks.bsky.social @rebeccamckanna.bsky.social @murderbooks.bsky.social
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Jeff Circle - The Dossier @jeffcircle.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Hey Midwest folks. Meet us in Carmel, Indiana next Saturday for these fantastic thriller writers. Register with the Carmel Clay Library. @chrishauty.bsky.social @loriraderday.bsky.social @rebeccamckanna.bsky.social
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Rev. Col. C.A. Martin, PhD @pataphysicien.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A satisfied Claire’s customer from ITYSL
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Rev. Col. C.A. Martin, PhD @pataphysicien.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I love the “every generation of men needs their Hemingway / Kerouac / Bukowski . . . to write self-published violent pedophile porn under a pseudonym for a small group of LA edgelords” thesis. Ah yes, a literary movement to be reckoned with
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Jeremy C-howl @jmchao.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“Do you solemnly swear that your racial self identification is accurate in the eyes of white journalists 15 years from now who are allied with White Supremacists? Failure to do so will be used against you in the event other White Supremacists hack and leak this application for political gain.”
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schnufflerowner.bsky.social @schnufflerowner.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
i’d appreciate if more people would own me by posting pictures where i look really beautiful and elegant. that would show me
photo of rama duwaji with caption from RivvyGenX: This is Zohran Mamdani's wife, not very Muslim... 🤔
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/06/2025
This 940-page reconciliation bill has a list of horrific provisions. One of the worst is a $211 billion tax break to the top 0.2% who inherit $30 million. In this bill 16 million lose health care & hungry kids lose nutrition. Meanwhile, billionaires get much richer. Disgusting.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Love this totally legitimate and real functioning democracy, where every June our nine wizard-kings descend from the mountain to tell us which laws aren’t real anymore
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Rev. Col. C.A. Martin, PhD @pataphysicien.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Axelrod on #CNN saying the Dem establishment is opposed to Mamdani because he’s too young and that his supporters just want a fresh face. Nothing about policy. Nothing about establishment failures. This a party that refuses to learn.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
We have gone from the margin of error to the margin of effort. On the day before the election, we stand on the verge of toppling a political dynasty and winning a city we can afford. But we can only do it with you. zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country
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Luthen Rael Fan Club President @brusdar.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Is there a way for the people who actually enjoy living and being an animal on a beautiful planet to be in charge instead of these soulless pits of despair?
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Cost-cutting tactics

The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.

Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients.

The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.
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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Dear god let this man cook.
Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.
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j a k e @jakeismaking.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
love how Katy Perry and co’s 10 minute space trip had a $167 million price tag yet insulin still isn’t free
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
There’s something very perverse about this happening in the context of all the cuts in funding for research in public institutions.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/04/2025
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If Jeff Bezos can send Katy Perry into space, he can pay a wealth tax so every American has debt-free healthcare.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2025
yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11/04/2025
COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back
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Rev. Col. C.A. Martin, PhD @pataphysicien.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Screw it, turn every movie theater into a Spirit Halloween. I give up www.businessinsider.com/meta-movie-m...
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Meta wants you to use your phone as a 'second screen' in movie theaters to interact with a chatbot
Meta's Movie Mate technology will be used during an upcoming showing of the Blumhouse hit "M3GAN" for its Halfway to Halloween Festival.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Dr Hibbert pointing back at the senator, as if to say “yes YOU do that”
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Rebecca McKanna @rebeccamckanna.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Never forget yalerecord.org/2017/07/13/i...
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I Am David Brooks’ Friend With Only A High School Degree. I Have Never Seen A Sandwich and All I Know Is Fear. | The Yale Record
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Jennifer Ziegler @jennyziegler.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Excellent turnout for “Hands Off” Heard and McDonald Islands!
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 04/04/2025
They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism. It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism. This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
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How Katy Perry and Blue Origin's all-female crew are preparing for space
Katy Perry and an all-female crew will launch on the New Shepard rocket on April 14.
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His Skeletoncy, the Ghoul of Hell @timhodgson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—
image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I can’t compete with this
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
what's nice about this is that it's 25 seconds, exactly the length of a campaign ad.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
imagine accusing hecklers of being paid while youre on stage at the event where youre literally purchasing votes
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 28/03/2025
mm yes more of that populism I've heard so much about
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
gotta hand it to @electricliterature.com for taking a stance and not applying for nea funding under this administration. here's part of their reasoning from today's email -- this is a MUST-READ for writers.
Screenshot from Electric Literature's email: "Earlier this year, the NEA released new compliance guidelines that, pursuant to an executive order that seeks to “restore biological truth to the federal government,” require applicants to certify that their programs do not promote “gender ideology.” Federal funding is contingent on this certification. The ACLU is challenging this requirement, but as of this writing, the case is unresolved. 

Frustrated and uncertain, I found myself, along with other editors, asking insidious questions like, “Does publishing trans writers constitute promoting gender ideology?” But to pursue this line of questioning is in itself a moral compromise. The term “gender ideology” is not only condescending, but like so much fascistic vocabulary, it is also unintelligible. I may not know what “gender ideology” means, but I do know that Electric Literature stands with trans writers and readers, and will continue to fiercely advocate for their rights, protection, and the full expression of their humanity. "
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"
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Rev. Col. C.A. Martin, PhD @pataphysicien.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I mean Bill Clinton wanted to say he got shit done, which is why he collaborated with Newt Gingrich after ‘94 to make the country worse. Obama offered Boehner the “Grand Bargain” to get shit done, which would have been a disaster. What you do matters.
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
ah crap this guy is stabbing me with a knife. maybe if i help him hold the knife he’ll stop stabbing me
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Rebecca McKanna @rebeccamckanna.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Me too :(
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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work
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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The same people who decried taking down statues of Confederate Generals are now purging mention of Jackie Robinson, and I’m beginning to draw a conclusion from that! All the pieces are coming together!
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 19/03/2025
today's insane job listing comes from Netflix's game studio, which requires a work sample with your application along with a disclaimer that says "we might steal your work, is that cool"
We’d also love to see a polished sample of your work, which could be a sample from a screenplay, teleplay, play, or interactive game script. Ideally this sample showcases both your approach to dialogue and how you structure a scene with a beginning, middle and end, within a 5 page limit. Please upload it as a single document with your resume below.

BUT, PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT A WRITING SAMPLE IF YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING: You understand and acknowledge that Night School Studio may already have or may in the future receive or develop materials independent of your writing sample (the "Sample") which may be similar or identical to elements in the Sample. You agree that Night School Studio has the unrestricted right to use these materials without any obligation to you and that you will have no right or recourse against Night School Studio for use of these materials.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Interesting move by Schumer to cave and disappoint everyone and then immediately go do an extended NYT interview explaining that actually he is even worse than we thought, let’s see if this pays off for him
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