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Seph Rodney, PhD

@sephspeaks.bsky.social
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Freelance visual arts critic and curator, former editor at Hyperallergic, current contributor to the NY Times (www.nytimes.com/by/seph-rodney), former artist, lapsed poet. "To make something beautiful should be enough; it isn't. It should be" —R. Siken

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michele39.bsky.social @michele39.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think there is something deeply wrong with a culture that celebrates scripted melodramatic physical contests while treating them like genuine sporting events. I don't understand the appeal of WWE. Aren't watchers just slowly killing their brain cells?
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Only one of these people sounds truly despicable and it's NOT the woman who had one too many drinks: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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The Campaign for Ohio’s Next Governor May Be the Ugliest in the Country
The candidates for Ohio governor have significant policy differences, but the campaign ads have been strikingly personal, with exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as ...
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
No. He was elected … by people who hate Democrats and utterly lack critical thinking skills.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tucker Carlson is not a wise man.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I love this. Men being supportive of each other physically and emotionally. More of this please.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So many sexual assaults could be stopped if men had the courage at the locker room talk phase (on or offline) of just telling their boys “that’s fucked up, dude. You should show some respect for women.”
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.
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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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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What does a man, who has nothing to lose and doesn’t care about his own party, do….not good.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This shit is disgusting.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Doug Hammond @hammie777.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As hard as it is to believe, that is the actual position of the so-called law and order party.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"A girl nearly died after drinking raw milk. The state did little to punish the unlicensed farmer who sold it." Why call out farmers? I see the parents as responsible. I don't understand why they'd give unpasteurized milk to their child. C'mon! Do some thinking. www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/h...?
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A girl nearly died after drinking raw milk. The state did little to punish the unlicensed farmer who sold it. | CNN
Sitting in a pediatric intensive care unit last year, watching a ventilator keep her 17-month-old daughter alive, Emily Marris scoured the contents of her phone for evidence to give to California heal...
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John in Western New York @johnwalczak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So ICE agents are getting fired before their probationary periods are up and are having to repay the $50,000 signing bonus. I love this for them.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Trump is burning our house down. And he, Kushner, & the rest are walking away with billions while they burn our house down. You don’t sit down with them. You defeat them. You put the fire out. You put them in jail. Hakeem doesn’t get it. He wasn’t built for this moment. He should not be Speaker.👇
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
this is so grim. he’s TEN.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Glad 60 Minutes is doing a Jacob Wohl story literally nine years after I reported on that guy. One time he was pretending a scam website he was running wasn't his, so I called the number on the website and it went to his mom's voicemail. Jacob is like training wheels for investigative journalists.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A story that needed to be told: www.vogue.com/article/how-...?
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How Fashion Week Forgot Its Black Inspiration
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You’ve got to fight sometimes.
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Christy Wagner @com1ty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
They Told The Librarian To Pull The Books. She Said No. open.substack.com/pub/dworkin/...
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They Told The Librarian To Pull The Books. She Said No.
Plus: an Arkansas nurse beat a utility, two Kansas neighbors beat a city, and a Denver-born citizen ICE deported made it home
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A lawsuit, filed in 2022, says the contamination violated Jacksonians’ constitutional right to bodily integrity. Donald Trump-appointed judge Kurt Engelhardt disagreed. He stated there is no “constitutional right to truthful information from officials during a public health crisis.”
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
GOP Sen. Thom Tillis said about Hegseth: "I have never witnessed more inept management of the brave men & women who serve our country. He is intimidated by competence & retreats to ginning up culture wars instead of soberly attending to the vital work of national defense" But we knew this.
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Who would ever have thought that we would fall so far that we now face a need to defend Democracy from the president. #VoteBlue up and down the ballots and don’t sit out the Midterms.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Word.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm sad to hear this. I remember her voice on "Last Train to Clarksville" and I will miss her. apnews.com/article/cass...
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Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, has died
Cassandra Wilson, the two-time Grammy-winning jazz singer, has died. She was 70. Her manager said she died in her native Jackson, Mississippi, surrounded by family and friends.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey Maine, come get your representative. www.pressherald.com/2026/09/02/d...
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Democratic leaders blast Golden for ‘blindside’ vote with Republicans
Maine's 2nd District congressman told reporters in Washington, D.C. that his vote allowed for passage of a bill related to lobstering regulations.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Check out this new book written by my brilliant colleague Rose Salseda: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Unrest
The first book to examine the visual art legacy of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.On April 29, 1992, a jury’s acquittal of four white Los Angeles police officers who had beaten Rodney King, a Black man, i...
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Machu Pikacchu @judet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Fuck every single person who, through action or inaction, allowed this stupid, stupid reality to come to pass.
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 26/08/2026
BREAKING: Everton Blair Jr. wins runoff for Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, meaning he will be the first Black openly gay Congressman from the South. Congrats to Everton Blair Jr. on his victory.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Finally, some good news. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Washington Post ordered to reinstate opinion writer fired over Charlie Kirk posts
Arbitrator determined the Post improperly fired Karen Attiah, a union-protected employee, over social media posts
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Congratulations! I'm very happy for you. Please keep fighting the good fight.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There should be General Outrage over these trump’s comment…. “Donald Trump said I should be hanged, executed, prosecuted. The guy couldn't even get the order right." -Sen. Mark Kelly
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Me too.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I like the Lexmark MC3224 laser printer. I've had it for about 6 or 7 years and it's done the job admirably. I'm not an influencer, and they are not paying me to say this. I just genuinely approve of it.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I wish we had a way into this that isn't about race. I get that it's valid and important. But I'm also trying to make another point: that our ways of understanding abuse have gone off the rails. I think we on the Left have become so righteously indignant that we often don't acknowledge nuance.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Honestly. Since when is making more money than a romantic partner, or not emotionally supporting them equivalent to “abuse”?
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Everyday this administration makes things worse: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/u...
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Supreme Court Allows Trump Plan to Restrict Mail-In Voting, for Now
The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
From Rolling Stone re: the suicide of Reggie Watts’ late ex-girlfriend Katherine McCollough: "Friends said they witnessed abusive aspects of the couple’s relationship, including financial dependence, & Watts allegedly withholding emotional support from McCollough." Let's please pump the brakes.
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This seems excessive: www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...
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Former Alabama basketball player wins $9.25m in defamation case against New York Times
An Alabama jury found that the New York Times defamed Kai Spears by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
REPUBLICANS: "For our next trick, we're going to drive up the national debt past $40 trillion—without providing you with *any* bullet trains, universal healthcare, or bringing down the prices of ANYTHING. You're welcome!"
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Minnesota Med Mama @dremilybrunner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
2 of our 9 Supreme Court justices were credibly accused of sexual harassment and large hearings were held Then it was decided women love to lie about these things and they should really just stay quiet and these men were appointed to Life long positions on the highest court in the land
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Seph Rodney, PhD @sephspeaks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
That's a good man right there.
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