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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Usually hate crime stories. Try to avoid stories about child rape and suffering. But these two books got me. Very different, similar angles. zoezolbrod.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...

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How I Learned to Love (one author’s) Crime Novels Even Though I Don’t Like Crime Novels Plus More About Child Sexual Assault

The Talking Bone by Rene Denfeld and Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Criminal, horrible, atrocious behavior to hold back students like this

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This book had me fighting the NIMBY wars in my head and wishing Le Guin had lived longer so she could understand the merits of multi-story transit-oriented housing--which then made me annoyed at myself.

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Ursula K Le Guin's Imagining of a Future Now Past

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Again unanimous immediate impeachment for every other president in history

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Selling off much of my 90s zine collection. If you know of an institution that preserves stuff like this and is interested, LMK and we can have a side chat. Some real works of art here that shouldn't spend the next 25 years in my basement. www.ebay.com/itm/36652029...

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Lot of 32 Vintage 1990s Zines, Rollerderby, Bust, Plotz, Rare Pagan Kennedy Read | eBay

5 - Lisa Carver Rollerderby. 1 - Plotz (Rare).

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I’ve had lots of work travel lately & whatever day of the week or time of day I’m at O’Hare it’s packed like a sold-out rock show. Does this show growing class disparity where many are reducing road trips due to cost of gas cost but others are jetting anywhere they want? Or just a boom for O’Hare?

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We are the Common Folk, and the Common Folk deserve joy! My forthcoming near-future novel speculates about a lot of bad things that are in the process of becoming reality, but this time the real-world parallel is all to the good. open.substack.com/pub/zoezolbr...

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Faires for the Common Folk

Reality is once again catching up to events in my near-future novel, but this time it’s a good thing

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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

I loved this book and the way it came to me, through a subscription to Hagfish who reissues hard-to-find titles and is just generally dead cool including by being off social media.

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In the City

Historical fiction about a bohemian flapper written in 1987 by Jane Silber and reissued recently

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I love how people just call anything a Caesar salad. This is fabulous, but it doesn’t have one typical Caesar salad ingredient, unless you count chicken.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Second night of Jersey cops attacking protesters who are there supporting hunger strikers inside a sadistic immigrant jail

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Globally, car culture claims 3,500 lives a day. Yet our moral panic is spent on ebikes, people riding on sidewalks to stay safe, and pedestrians wearing dark clothing or wearing headphones. We have normalized mass casualties while villainizing people just trying to exist outside of a vehicle.

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I biked in this @ibikedinthis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I’ll be there taking photos/videos of bike riders in cool outfits. Wear your best duds and be Chicago-bike famous!

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

All excellent, interesting books that deserve reads and re-reads

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Shit like this would define a president's entire term in a previous era. There would be scandal names with -gate attached. I doubt even 2% of Americans will know this is happening by week's end.

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I'm liking the TV and loved the book. Till I reread my own review I forgot how clearly it makes the case that English classes teach important marketable skills no matter what the educatation-haters say.

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

A novel by Rufi Thorpe

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Ken Vogel @kenvogel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

NEW: Under Biden, the DOJ indicted Indian billionaire Gautam Adani for “corruption & fraud at the expense of US investors.” Adani hired Trump’s lawyer Bob Giuffra. He told Trump’s DOJ that if they dropped the charges, Adani would invest $10b in the US. DOJ is now planning to drop the charges.

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U.S. Set to Drop Charges Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Fraud

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Max Read @maxread.info · 04/05/2026

the best education to make a person 'literate' in 'ai' would be a comprehensive liberal arts education :)

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss

Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The revolution gotta start somewhere.

Picture attached to a door that reads "Refuse to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided."

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Reading and listening to this book, and I can barely stay in my skin for the anger at our country’s systems and despair for these families.

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Literally the moment before I saw this, I was thinking every single thing in this country was getting worse and worse and maybe I should hurl myself into the sea. But, it turns out flowers still bloom after all.

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Fifteen years ago or so was when I first heard a man on a TV news show sneering about birthright citizenship. It made my blood run cold. Now here we are. This book is perennially important, but especially this week. open.substack.com/pub/zoezolbr...

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Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth

A fact-filled, analytic, and sometimes poetic rumination by Daisy Hernández on the connotations of citizenship

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2026

from 1868 to 2025 there was little dispute about what the birthright clause meant and the idea that the past year has been some great scholarly debate is absurd. a handful of partisans and hacks have churned out junk so that the president can get what he wants. that’s it.

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zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Love this essay. "As critics we provide a service—not of explanation or puzzle solving, but rather of showing the expanded possibilities for what a book could mean, what it meant to us and could thus mean to other readers."

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

American publishing regularly punishes women in their 50s by simply not interviewing them for new jobs in the way @saribotton.bsky.social describes here. So it’s great revenge that she launched Oldster magazine on her own, now with 70k subscribers.

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Ty Burr @tyburr.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

Statement from Oscar-winning director
Hamdan Ballal:
This afternoon, nearly a year after we won the Oscar, the same settler who attacked me shortly after l returned from Los Angeles-Shem Tov Lusky-again led an attack against my home and my family. Four of my family members are currently arrested and one is in the hospital.
I invite all journalists and diplomats to come visit me and my family this Tuesday, February 17, to hear about how the situation has gotten worse in the year since we won the Oscar, as it has across the West Bank.
Email me to coordinate your visit:
hamdanalhrane90@gmail.com
Two weeks ago we managed to get a decision from the Israeli court that the area around my home is closed to non-residents, but the settlers break that order and still come with their flocks almost every day.
We call the police, they do nothing. The army comes, they do nothing. Today, Shem Tov Lusky-the settler who attacked me in my home shortly after I won the Oscar last year-came with his flock to my home. My brother called the police to report the incursion. The army came first and immediately raided our house, attacking everyone inside. Then they arrested two of my brothers, a nephew, and cousin. Another brother was badly injured and is now in the hospital.
The Israeli court decision was supposed to make things a bit quieter for us. But the opposite has been true. The settlers have ramped up their harassment and the Israeli authorities have done nothing to enforce the decision, and today they joined the settlers in the attack.
8 hours ago

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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Kate Harding @kateharding.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hearing folks are bummed they missed the Eyes on ICE training - but good news, it's all recorded and public! We'll be holding more live trainings soon, but if you aren't one of 200,000 who already watched it, find it here: www.youtube.com/live/zqka9fU...

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Eyes on ICE: Document and Record

YouTube video by No Kings

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I like that they’ve given up on even having immigration enforcement as a pretext for any of this. It’s just purely armed masked goons wandering around in the middle of intersections harassing U.S. citizens as a display of force now.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 08/01/2026

In Chicago's Winnemac Park tonight, a growing crowd of around a hundred neighbors have gathered for an emergency vigil for Renee Nicole Good, a 37 yr old mom shot and killed by DHS in Minneapolis today.

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404 Media @404media.co · 07/01/2026

NEW: At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. Our latest:

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DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman

At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Bravest motherfuckers you've ever seen. They just saw a neighbor get murdered and still out there. Maybe let's see some local officials with the power to arrest show as much backbone as these voters PAYING YOUR FUCKING SALARY

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