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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 26/09/2026

Rewatched tick, tick...BOOM! today while writing a fellowship app that'd help me to pay bills/eat/live/etc. I was writing about my cancer, how setbacks can sharpen art, while on screen Judith Light tells Andrew Garfield to 'start writing the next one'. That scene is always such a punch to the gut...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It is DEEPLY suspicious, in a world that is rapidly turning against the rich, that someone would finance a version of this film that tries to get us to empathize with a wealthy oppressor.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 31/08/2026

Our film got to the 2nd round of Sundance’s Feature Film Program!! THE LAST SETLIST is a musical—Station Eleven meets Andor, community resilience as resistance—with music/lyrics by @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social and @chrisfarren.bsky.social. Advancement ≠ acceptance, but it’s a huge deal nonetheless.

An email from the Sundance Institute that reads: “2027 Development Track |
Invitation to Round 2
Dear Sarah,
We are pleased to inform you that we are advancing The Last Setlist to the second round of consideration for the 2027 Development Track. Below are instructions for submitting Round 2 materials; please read them all!”

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I wrote about Dolly Parton's impact on culture and politics. Something I feel deeply and personally.

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Dolly Parton Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

My tribute to a legend

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Abolishing ICE is now the official position of the Democratic Party

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 13/08/2026

They really did that: www.classicfm.com/music-news/d...

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Every Liberal Dem payroll strategist "we need to throw trans people and reproductive rights under the bus if we want to win." Reality:

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/08/2026

This is incredibly disturbing. The number of cases in Mississippi alone of Black people who met their deaths in dubious/highly suspicious ways, only for authorities to shrug it off and do a piss poor job if investigating...there are so many names

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Tasia Fortune Identified as Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Jackson Home

The woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant Jackson, Mississippi, home is 29-year-old Tasia Fortune, the Hinds County Coroner’s Office said.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 05/08/2026

They're calling it for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social — this is a victory for Medicare for All, for every American who has ever needed care but couldn't afford it. We are one step closer to realizing health care as a human right in this country.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 31/07/2026

The only movie controversy I care about this week boils down to how ridiculous it is to cancel the Emmy-nominated and fantastic Wonder Man the day that the director of that series debuts an anticipated box office smash for the same franchise.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

AI is not a neutral technology whose benefits need to be redistributed. It is a weapon of class war from above, designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power. Nationalizing it does nothing to change that.

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The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/07/2026

Holy shit, we're actually getting there. "UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample [—] In tests, MethylScan detected about 63% of cancers across all stages and roughly 55% of early-stage cancers." (from April) #ShareGoodNewsToo

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UCLA researchers develop low-cost blood test to detect multiple cancers and other diseases from a single sample

The test could offer a more affordable approach to early disease detection.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 20/07/2026

HERE WE GO. A temporary pause in the Paramount/Warner Bros merger granted. Next up, getting a full injunction that would push the delay past September 30. This thing can still be stopped.

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Judge Pauses Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order pausing the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/07/2026

Here's the link to check to make sure you're registered to vote. Check today. And check again a couple of times before Election Day in November. www.vote.org/am-i-registe...

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Check Your Voter Registration Status - Vote.org

It takes less than 30 seconds to check your registration status with our free 50-state tool. And if you're not registered, we'll help you take care of that too. Fast, free, secure, non-partisan.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

@clarkesworldmagazine.com is 20 years old this year! To help them stick around another 20, they're doing a subscription drive. July's issue has new stories from @thomasha.bsky.social @carloshem.bsky.social & me (mine was inspired by BTS-more on that later). clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/

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This Is an Emergency Broadcast by R.S.A. Garcia

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 15/07/2026

Of course, the FCC approved a giant space mirror for ‘on-demand daylight’. It’s only a reckless idea first proposed by Nazis as a super-weapon and later lampooned by Futurama as an idiotic example of climate hacking.

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A Space Mirror Will Test Turning Night Into Day. What To Know About the Controversial Project

Astronomers worry that Reflect Orbital's plans to direct sunlight into darkness will put night skies at risk.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 13/07/2026

Just saw this shirt over on r/fauxmoi and I hit 'add to cart' sooooo fast. skeletallightning.com/products/gay...

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/07/2026

I think I like Elizabeth because she complains loudly and loves deeply in the same breath. Most of her crueler thoughts are internal dialogue—she *feels* in messy ways, but she’s not always expressive of it (except to Darcy lol), not the way Lydia is. She is AN elder sister, after all.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 12/07/2026

My Sunday reading: the absolute roasting Cory Booker is getting on Threads for posting a ‘my good friend/what a hero’ eulogy video about Lindsey Graham. He didn’t post it on Bluesky; he probably expected a better reception on a Meta product, but the ratio is glorious and the comments are perfection.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 09/07/2026

The family of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is asking for help with funeral and burial costs, legal expenses, everyday living costs, and the wife’s needs, who has lost her lifelong companion and sole provider.

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Donate to In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old, organized by LULAC Institute, Inc.

On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 08/07/2026

My mom just sent along an image her work made of her answering phones and they used AI to do it. No loved one of mine has ever traversed the uncanny valley and looking at it is so freaking bizarre. It looks just enough like her to be placeable and just enough *unlike* her to cause existential dread.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Meanwhile, on Bluesky.

A repurposed moment from BROOKLYN 99. Mitch McConnell's face is on a standee reading "I'm happy, healthy and alive."

One man says "Oh, Mitch dead." Another says "Mitch real dead."

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 01/07/2026

The last few months have been so busy with work and out of town guests rotating in and out (May/June are the prettiest months to visit Seattle). One more deadline to go before taking a whole week off to rest (and by rest, I mean watching The Vampire Lestat, The Bear, and whatever else is bingeable.)

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Mav (Comms Open) @xmaveria.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The area near the capital was struck with 7.2 and 7.5 earthquake. Some Venezuelans were greatly affected including some of the ones here. If you have the means to help donate to their kofi's or other means directly to them. Int organization funds often don't reach as many people here

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elliepnw.bsky.social @elliepnw.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 09/06/2026

The WHALEFALL trailer raised my BP *AND* brought Zach Reino's hilarious 'No Thank You to the Ocean' Smartypants lecture back to mind. youtu.be/UO1Kcxahjdo?...

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Why "The Ocean" Sucks | Smartypants Presentation

YouTube video by Dropout

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/06/2026

Once again, here's the GoFundMe for injured photojournalist @angelinakatsanis.bsky.social. Toss her a few bucks if you can. Freelance photojournalists are taking enormous risks to bring us news that ICE and the cops and politicians don't want out there. Support 'em! www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...

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Donate to Support Angelina After Delaney Hall Attack, organized by Evan Katsanis

Our photojournalist sister was injured and equipment stolen while on assignme… Evan Katsanis needs your support for Support Angelina After Delaney Hall Attack

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 29/05/2026

Finished my umpteenth watchthrough of Nida Manzoor's WE ARE LADY PARTS. If you haven't seen it, it's a punk musical prestige series about a band of Muslim women making art in London. The music is fantastic, and the cast and direction is so outstanding. Just two absolutely perfect seasons of TV.

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

TLDR: call your house reps to demand they vote NO on 8705 and 7661 Call your senators to demand they vote NO on 2616 All three seek to ban books nationally. All three are the fever dream of bigots. All three must be stopped.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

And let's be clear for the few here who think Democrats shld "just focus on affordability": these Democrats voted to actively punish trans people. That's not "focusing on affordability." That's going out of your way, bucking your party, to hurt people.

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 19/05/2026

Did my first post-cancer reading at a literary event last night. It went well, performance-wise, but my heart rate was around 120bpm the entire time. I kept telling my body: 'you've done this before. It's just words. It's just words in front of people' and oof if one's soul could roll their eyes...

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 19/05/2026

Rejection sensitivity dysphoria meets text disruptions.

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 18/05/2026

Finished application season last week and it’s so hard to switch out of that mode. Two months of applications for grants, fellowships, and labs. Nearly a 100 pages, all combined, answering essay questions that ask kinda the same thing, but in different enough ways that you can’t reuse any answers.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

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Vasant Salcedo @vasantsalcedo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Spent a really generative time last week at Stowe Story Labs's Producing Lab. Was thrilled to be chosen and bring @sarah-salcedo.com and I's science fiction project, THE LAST SETLIST, to the lab and learn from my cohort-mates and the mentors Stowe assembled.

A screenshot of an Instagram post showing a grid of faces on Zoom for Stowe Story Labs Spring Producers Lab. The text reads: "stowestorylabs: Day one of our Spring Producers' Lab.
Excited to work with these producers on their feature film projects. Thank you for trusting us with your work.
#filmproduction #filmmaking"

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 04/05/2026

Nemik’s manifesto is my Roman Empire—I’m thinking about it at least once a day.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

are federation offices closed on star wars day

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Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com · 04/05/2026

Spent my weekend writing (short fiction! taking a break from the film for a few days with a new story!) while @vasantsalcedo.bsky.social built me a cedar garden box. It smells so pretty—can’t wait to fill it.

A man kneels before a garden box made of western red cedar, adjusting a board.

An unfilled garden box made of western red cedar.

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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Celebrating May Day is as American as baseball and apple pie 🇺🇸 May Day was established to honor the American workers killed fighting for the 8-hour work day. Today, we celebrate by striking once again to demand: ❌ NO ICE ❌ NO WARS ❌ END CORPORATE CONTROL OF DEMOCRACY

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isaac @sevier.io · 29/04/2026

"Real power exists in working people, and when they organize together they can change the balance of power in the United States. We’ve seen that before throughout history." This is one of the central, animating beliefs I hold about organizing for public power.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

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Xenia Foxtrot @xenia.sh · 26/04/2026

I think everyone should support some legislation that requires new datacenters to be built with solar panels that can provide >80% of the total power usage. If it turns out that AI is bubble, we'll have all these solar panels that can be made into solar farms.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Shameless plugs: It's indie bookstore day! Kill two birds with one stone by preording a signed copy of MOTHER TONGUE from A Novel Idea in Philly anovelideaphilly.com/book-list/

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Books - A Novel Idea, Philadelphia

We’re always happy to make a specific recommendation from our ever growing reading list, but for now – here’s some great reads!

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