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Shima Oliaee

@shimaoliaee.bsky.social
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Creator of Dolly Parton’s America, Pink Card, The Competition, The Vanishing of Harry Pace, UnErased, & The Flag and the Fury shimaoliaee.com/about

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Monica Sircar, PhD (she/her) @phenomonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thoughtful remembrance of Dolly by @shimaoliaee.bsky.social , creator of the award winning podcast on Dolly’s life and impact: time.com/article/2026...
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Dolly Parton Loved Us All, Darlin'
The beloved country-music legend, who has died at 80, saw the light in everyone and sought to bring people together above all else.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy May Day ✊
Roz from Frasier holds up a folder with the words “I’m Union” written on it.
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Associate Marshallian Spillover Coordinator @stevenlandgraf.com · 06/05/2026
What jackass consultant is selling all these Dems on the "college professor" criticism that virtually no national Democrat talks like?
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Right wing men desire a world ruled by hierarchy and domination, and the way they treat women and girls is an extension of that principle. Left wing men desire a world ruled by equality and dignity, and the way they treat women and girls is an exception to that principle.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is gender.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 02/02/2026
TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend
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Alex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Also I cannot recommend this podcast series from 5 or 6 years ago highly enough @shimaoliaee.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...
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Dolly Parton's America
Music History Podcast · Series · In this intensely divided moment, one of the few things everyone still seems to agree on is Dolly Parton—but why? That simple question leads to a deeply personal, hist...
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 08/06/2025
What happens when a Supreme Court decision catapults high school girls to the center of a debate about their rights as women in America? @shimaoliaee.bsky.social takes us behind the scenes as girls choose: Speak up about their beliefs or stay quiet.
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The fall of Roe, through the eyes of high school girls
From the podcast “The Competition,” as Roe v. Wade fell, high school girls at a national pageant must process what it means for them and their future.
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Shima Oliaee @shimaoliaee.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Thank you Lynn! Just seeing this. Sending so much love!
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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
OMG, my pal Shima's shimaoliaee.bsky.social new podcast dropped this morning! If you luved Dolly, listen to "The Competition," where Shima gave the mic to teen girls competing for the Distinguished Young Women Program. Listen to all those voices! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Shima Oliaee @shimaoliaee.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Thank you @revealnews.org for spotlighting these women!
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Eight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours for what you will. Happy May Day.
Walter Crane engraving of workers labeled with the names of the continents joining hands around a globe
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/04/2025
Judge Hannah Dugan, the Wisconsin judge who was arrested on Friday morning on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement, spent most of her legal career working on behalf of low-income people and marginalized groups. Here's what to know.
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Who Is the Wisconsin Judge Arrested in Immigration Dispute?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/04/2025
these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
We decided to watch “School of Rock” last night because it has “Minecraft Steve in it” (I know…It is what it is) and I decided to google a bit and, yall, the little singer girl just got married to the big security guard boy /in real life/. She’s a OBGYN sonographer and he’s a music industry lawyer.
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Jeffery C. Mays @jeffcmays.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“I have spent my life making government work and getting results for people,” Andrew Cuomo says, listing his experience, including 11 years as governor. A woman yells out, “you resigned in disgrace!”
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
NO GOD, NO BOSS, NO HUSBAND. Athens, 2020.
Graffiti in purple spray paint that reads NO GOD, NO BOSS, NO HUSBAND. The word BOSS is partially obscured by the remains of a yellow flier.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is in Mississippi—the state with the largest Black population by percent. Nearly 4-in-10 Mississippians are Black. Yet we have "Confederate Heritage Month" and "Confederate Memorial Day." Oh, and our 8 statewide elected state officials look like this.
a photo showing 7 white men and one white woman posing
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I do keep thinking about how all the people who took to the pages of Harpers or the NYTimes to talk about how I was a threat to men's due process rights for inviting women to talk to each other are perfectly okay with men being kidnapped without charge and disappeared to foreign concentration camps.
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Epremo @epremo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Cycle of power and control dynamics, break the cycle.
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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Classic abuser move: create a crisis and then position yourself as its solution. After the abuser “solves” the crisis, he will expect gratitude and adoration.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/04/2025
Meanwhile, South Korea has successfully impeached their president www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
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Jubilation in South Korea After President Who Declared Martial Law Is Ousted
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Christine Wang @christinejw.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“Waltz built the entire NSC communications process on Signal," source told Politico www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world
It’s a more extensive use of the app than previously reported and sheds new light on how commonly the Trump administration’s national security team relies on Signal.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This has been empirically demonstrated many times! You can’t expect men to have a place of domination and superiority over women in the home and treat women as equals outside of it.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Raskin: I call on my colleagues to take down the wanted posters with judges’ faces on them outside of offices in House office buildings
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/03/2025
Everyone needs to understand what Elon and DOGE are building, an AI driven panopticon that will know everything about you and will be used to ensure compliance with their fascist agenda. They are creating a unified database of everything the federal government has on every single American. 🧵1/
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source. They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/03/2025
NEW: The move to funnel $15 million for sexual assault survivors through a GOP-controlled commission is part of a pattern by the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature and judiciary to deprive elected Democrats of resources and powers. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
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A Political Power Grab Redirected Funds for North Carolina’s Sexual Abuse Survivors. Women in Crisis Paid the Price.
The move, which led to disruptions in services for sexual assault and domestic violence survivors, provides a glimpse of the consequences when a branch of government assumes unprecedented control.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The El Salvador government is using its concentration camp as a kind of Disneyland thrill ride for right-wing influencers. The reason those guys are standing silently shirtless behind Noem is that they’ve been asked to do it again and again, it’s part of the whole ride
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Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
On a meta-level, one of the many horrifying things about this story is that the Atlantic had no reasonable option other than to release the Signal messages at this point. They should have been able to go to the Inspector General! Or the FBI! Or Congress!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/03/2025
The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/03/2025
More than three years after the only woman to serve as chancellor retired, German national politics seems to be backsliding when it comes to diversity and gender parity.
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In Germany’s New Parliament, Women Will Be a Rarer Sight
The class of lawmakers taking office is noticeably more male and less diverse than the constituents it will represent.
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Jennifer de Ghoulsman Haunts Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I want our three ex-presidents and two ex-vice-presidents to be doing some stuff behind the scenes right now. Maybe use the institutional and experiential knowledge they, and only they, have of the presidency to do something besides fundraise.
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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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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The truth is, in fact, the exact opposite. It is the foreign undergrad, paying full tuition in most cases, that is subsidizing the discounted tuition of the underprivileged American student, among so many other things.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The US invasion of Iraq began on this day 22 years ago. In the years since, the United States spent roughly $10 trillion on the so-called "war on terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, housing, and education?
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I wrote about ghosts and hauntings open.substack.com/pub/ingridro...
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On Ghosts and Hauntings
That there could be a singular victim, or many victims—this is terrifying to the State.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The trick to surviving a volatile stock market while your country slides into authoritarianism under the rule of the stupidest people alive is to simply never have had any savings or hope for the future.
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a close up of a man 's face with a shaved line on his head .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a shaved line on his head .
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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At Harvard Talk, Former Israeli PM Joked He Would Give Exploding Pagers to Protesters | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett joked to hundreds of people about sending detonators to dissenting event attendees at a talk at the Harvard Business School on Thursday, according to six ...
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A group of people on my block have started getting neighbors together each Sunday to share opportunities for activism. Kids run in and out while the parents plot. I find it so comforting and inspiring and people should steal their model.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
happy international women’s day
yeji kim, korean olympic sharpshooter, aiming a pistol during a competition wearing the glasses that help you aim better and showing unlimited aura
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David Noll @david.noll.org · 08/03/2025
Pro-tip for university administrators: when the government illegally cancels your grants, your first response shouldn't be "you kind of have a point."
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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
As a general matter, I also dislike the idea of respectability in dress because the concept is often unevenly applied. It bothered me to see Vance smirking during this moment, as he supposedly champions the forgotten working poor who are most often shamed because of these concepts.
Vance smiling during the moment when Brian Glenn asked his question.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Do not make this abuser the mayor of New York.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake
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