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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Clearly she had it coming…

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Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

LA friends. I'll be reading from She's Under Here and discussing the book with the magnificent @samydunn.bsky.social at Diesel Bookstore on Sunday, September 28 at 3:00 p.m. Please come—I'd love to say hi. (p.s. A reservation helps the store plan.) dieselbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

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Karen Palmer with Samantha Dunn, discusses and signs "She's Under Here".

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This article from Persuasion on Substack stopped me in my tracks today: “Is America Still a Free Country?”

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

“Ginsberg: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. Twitter: Hold my beer.” I have real work to do yet here I am, immersed in this addictive crack thing of a novel by @marksarvas.bsky.social #amreading

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Mexico sent more than thoughts and prayers.

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is pretty astounding. 79% of Republicans are happy with the way America is right now, 4% of Democrats are.

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Maybe only journalists will get this, but damn I still laughing…

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Is our creative class disappearing? What does it mean to be "problematized"? Matthew Specktor and Meghan Daum are two of America's most exciting writers at the intersection of cultural criticism and personal narrative. Experience them both on this episode of BOOKISH—

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Bookish with Meghan Daum and Matthew Specktor

YouTube video by Southern California News Group

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“Slouching toward tyranny” is a phrase. I read the other day, and it seems to be more and more accurate…

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The White Lotus season 4 should be set among the crisis PR staff at White Lotus headquarters, just dealing with everyone constantly dying at all their properties

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If my husband is actually being paid by George Soros as MAGA contends the protesters are, we might actually be able to afford groceries now that the tariffs have kicked in…

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

“Your failures and fears are portals. Step through.” Spent some time with the luminous Lidia Yuknavitch— enjoy our conversation here:

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Bookish with Lidia Yuknavitch and 4th annual Noteworthy authors of 2024

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

No surprise that the Democratic Party approval ratings are in the toilet right now.

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.” —Albert Einstein

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Jamie Schler @lifesafeast.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I thought austerity plans were for when a country is in a recession or depression, not to put us in one.

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

And how are you enjoying your dystopia?

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.

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Roxane Gay Books & The Audacity Submission Manager

THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book ...

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Per Heather Cox Richardson: Martin Matishak of The Record, a cybersecurity news publication, broke the story that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stop all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. Gee. I wonder why…

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Timothy Hyde @hydetimothy.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Allegory alert!

Photo of a bald eagle under the headline "Bald eagle in Massachusetts euthanized after testing positive for bird flu"

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

“We all should be worried by what we are seeing. No democracy lasts forever.” — Constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky. I just didn’t think it would be in my lifetime.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2025

Raskin: "Yesterday, Donald Trump banned the Associated Press, a 179-year-old newspaper organization, from the White House because it declines to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America." This is straight up press censorship based on retaliatory viewpoint discrimination."

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I once ghostwrote a book for a Navy SEAL. One of the things I think about a lot now are the three elements of a successful attack: Surprise, Speed and Violence of action. He also used to say: “Admit nothing. Deny everything. Make counter-accusations.”

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.” A must-watch. youtu.be/K8QLgLfqh6s

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Don't Believe Him | The Ezra Klein Show

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Ami Berger @amiberger.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If only it would, Chuck. If only it would.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

…And that’s how they learned that democracy wasn’t an ironclad system, but a series of fragile conventions and agreements, ones that had no external enforcement or protection…

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A friend asked me about the potential risk of losing public broadcasting funding. If you're interested, I recommend this comprehensive report from "On The Media," which explains what's always saved CPB funding in the past, and why it might not now. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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Public Broadcasting Is In Danger (Again) | On the Media | WNYC Studios

The history of public broadcasting and its adversaries; and the modern place of public radio in covering community and crises. 

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

The source of grief for so many of us isn’t what “they“ are doing. It’s the fact that so many of our fellow Americans wanted this for our country.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad. GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE. youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

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PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

For some of us, this feels a lot like childhood. Mean drunks in charge of your security, narcissists controlling the place and stupid cousins looking on, too scared to do anything helpful.

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Trying to read the news and a line from @therickwilson.bsky.social keeps repeating in my head: “The lawlessness is the point.”

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I just received the most timely and accurate press release I’ve ever received….

Man holding his head against a backdrop of dark clouds.

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Samantha Dunn @samydunn.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

What a fantastically rich, educational and inspiring piece this is on the Black community of Altadena #fires redcanarycollective.org/magazine/alt...

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The Ashes of History

The Eaton Fire imperils Altadena — a special place for Black Los Angeles. Written by journalist Erin Aubry Kaplan.

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Veronica Bane @veronicabane.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Los Angeles teachers, if you lost your classroom library in the fire, I am a HS English teacher and YA author and I will get you books whenever you're ready for them. The bookish community is here for you. There is no expiration date. tinyurl.com/LAFireBookDo...

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 30/12/2024

I wish I lived in a country where Mitch McConnell, John Kelly, Bill Barr and John Bolton had at least half the balls of E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, Christine Blasey Ford, or Anita Hill.

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