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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an anti-fascist German Lutheran pastor who opposed Hitler and the Nazi Party so effectively that they murdered him in 1945. He is only a bad guy if you literally spend all your time on far-right, neo-Nazi websites and have pickled your brain in fascist group chats.

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 16/06/2026

I had no idea this was a thing! I also had no idea that you could set actions to work with a tap on the back of your phone!

theverge.com

Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

It’s not magic if it’s science.

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 25/02/2026

The 90s kid in me is still shocked that you can order TWO TERABYTES* of storage to your door, and it can arrive less than 24 hours later. *I know that 2TB isn't even all that much. It's still shocking.

media.tenor.com

a woman in a blue shirt is sitting at a desk in front of an old computer .

Alt: A woman with retro hair & a blue blouse sits in front of a giant vintage computer, shaking the disembodied hand that emerges from its monitor.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 27/12/2025

I’m working on a piece on exactly this—in additional to the biological reality, this is a core principle of feminist theory & epistemology.

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 16/12/2025

The only thing better than closing out of Zoom for the week is closing out of Zoom for THE YEAR.

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 03/12/2025

I just listened to the latest episode and wondered if this was what you were hinting at! Can’t wait!

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 27/11/2025

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: 1. Dave Matthews Band 2. John Mayer 3. Jennifer Knapp 4. The Chicks 5. Grace Potter (yes, I am an elder millennial mom…)

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 08/10/2025

Ever since my daughter got excited about "supporting" Taylor Swift by buying "Taylor's Version" albums, I've wanted to write something like what @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social did so brilliantly here. Spot on. Swift is the embodiment of capitalist realism.

defector.com

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 02/10/2025

My daughter's school instituted a no-phone policy this year—she loves it. However, the students are on their school-issued iPads all day long. And those iPads deliver push notifications anytime they receive a grade: homework, tests, papers, etc. This stresses her the F out.

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 04/08/2025

Today I discovered @ceaubin.bsky.social’s pod This Guy Sucked because of a mention on @annehelen.bsky.social’s Culture Study pod. Put all the millennial scholar podcasts straight into my veins. (Guessing on gen… but you catch my drift!)

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 04/08/2025

"I am someone who does what I do pretty well, and does very little else willingly." = My Whole Vibe Also @katemanne.bsky.social admitting she'd "rather experience growth as a beginner than regression as a more expert practitioner": SAME.

open.substack.com

My Summer of Strategic Incompetence

Learning not to be so embarrassed by my ignorance and failures.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 30/06/2025

Went looking for the research (I think?) on how playing in a fenced-in area can actually get kids to explore/roam more than in an open area... and the search results for my query were... disheartening 🤣

Screenshot of a black hole of "get off my lawn" search suggestions including: How to keep kids off my driveway, Child trespassing laws, How to keep neighbors kids of my property, Neighbors kids keep playing in my driveway, How to get rid of annoying neighbor kid

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 25/06/2025

"Traditional economic theory assumes information flows serve resource allocation. But increasingly, resource allocation serves attention flows. We've moved from an economy where attention supports other forms of value creation to one where attention is the value creation." - @kyla.bsky.social

kyla.substack.com

Trump, Mamdani, and Cluely

attention and speculation as primary economic drivers

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

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tante @tante.cc · 18/06/2025

Teaching people how to use LLMs is not "upskilling", it's the opposite.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 04/06/2025

In honor of this week's Maintenance Phase episode on ultra-processed food, I must highly recommend the Ritz Crisp & Thin original chips. They kinda look like diet food... but I don't think they are? Anyhow, they're freaking wonderful.

Mockup of Ritz Crisp & Thins Original snack bag

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 04/06/2025

Listen to @melissafebos.bsky.social on The Feminist Present with @adriandaub.bsky.social and Laura Goode this morning and PHWOOF (in the best way). Brilliant conversation, recommended it immediately to my husband, AND it unlocked part of an essay I was in the middle of! episodes.fm/1517251918/e...

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Listen to from The Feminist Present wherever you get your podcasts!

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 03/06/2025

Disturbing. Fascinating. And I’m absolutely hung up on the AI’s use of the word “lie.” I’ll be thinking about that for the rest of the day, thankuverymuch.

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 20/05/2025

“The one thing that today ought to define ‘the left’ is the impulse to denounce the radical insufficiency of managing the given.” — Yves Citton, Mythocracy

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Let's be clear: Republicans don't want more 'parents' at home. They want more *women* at home. If you think this isn't about eradicating women from the public sphere, you haven't been paying attention

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

An attempt to cast consumers as feminized and hence contemptable …. not like those manly producers.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/04/2025

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 28/04/2025

Joe Mungo Reed's new novel, Terrestrial History, is the first book containing time travel that I had zero issues with. It leaves holes in exactly the right places. Recommend!

Cover of Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed. Gray frame around a picture of green hills and blue sky with a large orange circle transposed on top

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Never thought we'd do this but... Use discount code ALGORE for 30% off titles from Theodor Adorno

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 23/04/2025

After my husband related a bonkers work story, I told him, "I have so many thoughts and not enough time to think them." If I had more time to think about that thought, I'd explain. But, yeah.

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 11/04/2025

Louder for the sacks of shit in the back!

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A lot of people seem to be under the belief that the post-war factory jobs their parents and grandparents had were good jobs because they were masculine and tough instead of, say, protected by a union under a progressive tax rate and a massive surplus

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 04/04/2025

My "day job" is audio/video production for a wildly popular kids' lit podcast. I also get to make audiobooks & videobooks for their publishing imprint. Their latest book just landed, and it's about the woman who illustrated Narnia & made the maps for LOTR. The graphic & sound design were SO fun.

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RAR #260: The Woman Behind Narnia’s Iconic Illustrations

YouTube video by Read-Aloud Revival® with Sarah Mackenzie

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

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Greenberg Visa Law @asgvisalaw.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Let's talk visas this morning. People don't know what they are and that is resulting in very imprecise language (glaring at you, Rubio) when we should all be on the same page. Longer version of prior complaint follows. 1/

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 11/03/2025

Mostly agree with this analysis of the newsletter bubble from The Rebooting. It made me wonder whether the best analysis for the flood of new, tiny media businesses is actually as a symptom of an industry-wide "union"-busting effort...

therebooting.com

The newsletter bubble

A conversation with Workweek's Adam Ryan

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Rosemary Kirstein @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

What a fascinating analysis! (And not just because @taramcmullin.com talks about my work.) This examination of "temporal bandwidth," and how it effects our level of engagement with the world and life, gives an important perspective on our digital age's forced fractional focus.

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 06/03/2025

In which I meditate on @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social's Steerswoman series, Alan Jacobs's Breaking Bread with the Dead, and a bit of @timothysnyder.bsky.social's On Freedom for good measure

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/02/2025

One annoying thing about the "run the government like a business" guys is that they also are terrible at running businesses. I run my podcast "like a business" in the sense that things are made to a high quality and shipped on time, but it seems their only version of "good business" is "layoffs"

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 21/02/2025

While certainly not the biggest consequence of our current crises, it's a weird time to be an autistic person who consumes news analysis. Talking about Musk & his minions often involves highlighting traits/behaviors that are autistically coded (this was also true during the SBF/FTX saga).

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/02/2025

Who what when where why not be our Valentine? Send these to someone you’re headline over heels for. 💌

Valentine’s Day graphic with a pink hearts background. Text in white and red: You’ve made an impact on me, with the word “impact” in all-caps.

Valentine’s Day graphic with a pink hearts background. Text in white and red: I’ve got a thing FOIA.

Valentine’s Day graphic with a pink hearts background. Text: No one can redact our love. (Black boxes are in between the words, as if certain lines have been redacted.)

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Tara McMullin @taramcmullin.com · 14/02/2025

This @michellegoldberg.bsky.social column is a great companion to what I wrote yesterday. The attack on higher ed is an attack on class (with it, women/queer/BIPOC/etc) AND an attack on knowledge/ways of knowing. They don't like what's taught—but they REALLY don't like the wrong people learning it.

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Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke Parts

The administration’s war on universities defies rational self-interest.

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