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Shelby Kinney-Lang

@shelbyhere.bsky.social
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O. Henry Prize 2023 | fiction writer | he/him www.shelbykinneylang.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/06/2025
In 2023, Russell Vought detailed plans to deploy the military in response to domestic unrest: “We want to be able to shut down the riots and not have the legal community or the defense community come in and say, ‘That’s an inappropriate use of what you’re trying to do." (Published Oct. 2024)
propublica.org
“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda
Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
The New York Times front page.
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
🧪 From American Institute of Physics, summary of proposed spending cuts in science as understood today. Unconfirmed report that NSF could go from $9B to $3B. Even if only directionally correct they amount to major sabotage of US world leading science. us17.campaign-archive.com?e=73d6a7d075...
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Science Agencies Brace for Mass Layoffs
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Nigel Goldenfeld @nigelgoldenfeld.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
🧪Absolutely devastating to universities. (This was in Project 2025, page 355.)
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 08/02/2025
Fascists always seek to remake arts and culture because these are the spaces that incubate freedom of expression, liberation of identity and openness of mind.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I don’t think anyone in the administration knows or cares the long-term impact of this. I’m not sure anyone can predict all the ripple effects. Anyway, another American Century would have been boring.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Multi-level barrage of US book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America
Censorship at local to federal level recalls past authoritarian regimes ‘but this has never all happened at once’
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Here comes the “apartheid really wasn’t so bad” history rewrite.
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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
4/ The biggest surprise? Media indoctrination and civil liberties repression are the most predictive of autocratic survival. These findings have big implications for “information autocracies” in the digital age.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“‘People should know there are steps they can take to uphold democracy’ said Erica Chenoweth. This is a core tenet of civil-resistance theory, also known as people power—that citizens, working in concert, have more agency than they are led to believe.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Hard to know the exact details at this point but this sounds like the result of permitting ICE to do collateral arrests again; they found their target and then demanded the papers of everyone else at the location and refused to believe the US citizen (who was likely Latino) was a US citizen.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22/01/2025
Trump's promised executive order against "gender ideology" is ugly and dangerous, and also, like everything with Trump, contains few specifics and is meant to terrify people into self-repression. Here's my attempt to refocus on the fight ahead:
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Assault on Trans Rights Has Begun. Here’s What to Watch For.
An early executive order shows the White House wants to get into the business of defining sex and gender. That could play out in a few ways.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I don't think anyone actually wants it, but a bunch of recent hires suggest that the people that own big newspapers/websites think the future of covering American politics is this kind of cheesy/huffy Tory-scented celebrity gossip tone. I guess rich people find it amusing?
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
What to expect from Trump 2.0: The anti-rights brigade are now in power
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What to expect from Trump 2.0 and his anti-rights brigade
We're hurtling into a dark period for abortion rights and beyond. Get out your flashlights
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Shelby Kinney-Lang @shelbyhere.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
apropos today, auden’s “crisis” #booksy #poetry www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Crisis
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Chris Gloninger @climatechris.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
For the next 4 years I will fact check his climate and environmental policies. Fact: renewable energy is 20 to 30% cheaper than gas. Fact: 74% of EV’s are manufactured in North America, but only 64% of gasoline power cars are made here. Fact: the Green New Deal could’ve created 2 million jobs
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 15/01/2025
I have a new paper in Dialogues on Climate Change exploring climate outcomes under current policies. I find that we are likely headed toward 2.7C by 2100 (with uncertainties from 1.9C to 3.7C), and that high end emissions scenarios have become much less likely. journals.sagepub.com...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
irishexaminer.com
Séamas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs
As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Meanwhile, all of his fanboys are like, ooooh, he talked back to the cathedral, derp derp
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
So just to be clear these Paramount Executives are discussing paying money to the incoming president of the united states with the specific intention of influencing an official action of the government?
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Trump's taking office on Monday and the opposition party doesn't exist
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Mr. Zuckerberg, who I was told is done with politics, is running his policy choices by a white nationalist.
Before Joining White House, Stephen Miller Pushed White Nationalist Theories
A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center seeks to illustrate how Mr. Miller brought anti-immigrant beliefs to the White House and turned them into policy.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Pretty clear where this is going ….
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Shelby Kinney-Lang @shelbyhere.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
trump has always been a canvas upon which any grievance can be painted, including ones that are fictional. he is the hyperobjective ID
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Shelby Kinney-Lang @shelbyhere.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
honestly everyone in california should be directed to stop paying federal taxes if they do this
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/01/2025
have been deep into us constitutional history for some stuff i’m working on and one thing that i am angry about all over again is the ahistorical and extra-constitutional vision of separation of powers roberts deploys in trump v. us
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/01/2025
This feels right to me. In a age when "authenticity" is prized more than ever, Dems have never felt more message-tested, programmed, fake. In an age where attention is the prize, sanding off all rough edges & being blandly pleasant is a death sentence.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I’m not sure what was worse: that Merrick Garland couldn’t bring himself to prosecute Trump on his own and felt he had to bring in a special counsel as cover, or that he waited so long to do it that Smith never got Trump inside a courtroom. History won’t be forgiving to Garland.
politico.com
Jack Smith resigns from DOJ
The special counsel's departure was disclosed in a court filing submitted Saturday afternoon to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.
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Shelby Kinney-Lang @shelbyhere.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
we have failed on a catastrophic scale to communicate to ppl why this is insanely dangerous and apocalypticish
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Shelby Kinney-Lang @shelbyhere.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
this is the story. this is it. this should be what everyone is furious and bewildered about.
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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Re-upping the in light of recent events. What we should really be talking about when we talk about Greenland: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
When the Arctic Melts
What the fate of Greenland means for the rest of the Earth.
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Shelby Kinney-Lang @shelbyhere.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
it’s january 11. there have been *101 wildfires in california this year already,* including the devastating LA fires. there were 1.4 times as many fires between 2009 — 2018 compared to the decade before. i’d bet we’re on pace for a bigger increase. let’s say what this is: the #climatecrisis
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
As right-wing media seeks to blame diversity efforts for the Los Angeles fires, I can't help but think of the how this hateful rhetoric can be traced back to the work of white supremacist/environmentalist John Tanton.
propublica.org
Far-Right Extremists Embrace Environmentalism to Justify Violent Anti-Immigrant Beliefs
Climate change and anti-immigrant hate are colliding, foretelling a volatile future.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Just wrapped up an interview w a House Dem about Laken Riley Act (he's against it) and the party is still unsure of how to handle this info environment. While you're approving a press release Elon has convinced 100 million people that you personally started the fire to enact Agenda 21.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
the structure of this debunking notable. “Far-left activists” who don’t—with peace and love—have much influence at the moment get top billing. The **billionaire owner of the LA Times** is an afterthought. And the seething far right with its direct line to the incoming president goes unmentioned.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
DEI has replaced "woke" because it's the perfect way to blame every disaster caused by billionaires on the &^$$#^s or the *&%%*^$s, and the press reports it as if were some sincere concern and not just a chant that would break out at a Klan rally.
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Shelby Kinney-Lang @shelbyhere.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
it’s a handful of billionaires and corporations vs all life on earth and we are losing bad
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
*commitment to free speech does not include speech critical of the owner of the site. We don't need fact checkers when we censor factual reporting.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The normalisation of fascism is the threat. “In Trump's America, you capitulate to power: Gradually and then suddenly.”
thebulwark.com
Take Trump’s Greenland Obsession Seriously
Trump’s thirst for expansion isn’t a sideshow. It’s the foreign-policy expression of his core political impulse: bullying.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The whole idea that tech companies would regulate themselves is insane.
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
DOJ says the Attorney General has decided not to release the volume of Special Counsel Jack Smith's report that deals with Trump's possession of classified documents as long as the case against his co-defendants is pending. That makes it very unlikely the report will become public.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 04/01/2025
O earth! What else?
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maura johnston @maura.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
“To see high quality publications bought and broken by rich people is like watching a drunk hedge fund dickhead throwing up on a Picasso that he hung in his yacht. It’s just a fucking shame.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...
hamiltonnolan.com
It's Not Looking Great
The slow assassination of the free press.
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