Mira Jacob
@mirajacob.bsky.social
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Author/ Illustrator/ Partner In Crimes
I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdaniās mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters.
www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
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How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani
The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a69414913/mira-nair-zohran-mother/
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Alexander Chee
7 months ago
My friend
@mirajacob.bsky.social
takes us all to therapy and I can say I got a lot out of it:
mailchi.mp/eed8f2d5e619...
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Marguerite Sheffer
7 months ago
THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES is a finalist for the
@penamerica.bsky.social
/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Thank you to the judges and congrats to all the other finalists and their awesome collections!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
8 months ago
Eid Mubarak from me to you š
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Julia S
8 months ago
Letting this piece of writing from Kaveh Akbar (via
@mirajacob.bsky.social
on IG) wash over and through me. What is your answer this weekend?
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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What Will You Do?
Whatās your āI am Spartacusā move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/rumeysa-ozturk-kaveh-akbar/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaB2xuNxaLE2QjDMDNuEOABLdLhFThZv0yu1_gw8SRQqJdL-Xa_TGbPQfU_aem_3UonPT1wj27JQv6Gm1FWpQ
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Timothy Snyder
8 months ago
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Tina Smith
8 months ago
Circling back on thisā¦
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Symphony Space
8 months ago
Join us to celebrate 100 years of of F. Scott Fitzgeraldās masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Authors and admirers
@egangoonsquad.bsky.social
,
@mirajacob.bsky.social
,
@minjinlee.bsky.social
, Wesley Morris, and Ernesto QuiƱonez will take the stage. In-person and livestream tix available!
bit.ly/4bH094Y
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Symphony Space
8 months ago
The second story on this Selected Shorts episode is performed by Rita Wolf. In āDeath by Printerā by
@mirajacob.bsky.social
, technology both helps and hinders a widow as she copes with loss. You can listen to the story wherever you get your podcasts.
bit.ly/41WMm5Z
(Photo by Kevin Yatarola)
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Alexander Chee
8 months ago
A great thread from
@caseyparks.bsky.social
on the hearing Judge Reyes is giving to a challenge to the trans soldiers ban.
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jamelle
8 months ago
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
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I know itās just Wordle but todayās taking me 4 tries makes me feel like Iāve failed South Asian.
8 months ago
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Syreeta McFadden
8 months ago
Too many folks on the wrong end of this curve
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Nicole Chung
9 months ago
"As soon as Trump was inaugurated, the departmentās processing of disability rights complaints ground to a halt ... That has left studentsāincluding a 12-year-old boy with autism and epilepsy whoās been unwillingly assigned to remote schoolingāwithout recourse"
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Americaās kids are already suffering under Trumpās education policies
What Trump and DOGE want to do to the Education Department, explained.
https://www.vox.com/policy/402336/department-of-education-trump-musk-doge-schools
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Kristen Arnett
9 months ago
A BOOK TOUR SO BIG ITāS BASICALLY A CLOWN CAR STUFFED WITH SUPERSTARS
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George Conway šŗšøš«ššø
9 months ago
What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks itās still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. *This* is how democracy dies.
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Washington Post backs out of āFire Elon Muskā ad order
The Washington Post this week backed out of a āFire Elon Muskā advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause.Ā The group ā¦
https://thehill.com/media/5148497-washington-post-backs-out-of-fire-elon-musk-ad-order/
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journeyman folklorist
9 months ago
The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on āmaybe we were too wokeā rather than āa cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your futureā is astonishing. Just one of those things
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Alt National Park Service
9 months ago
Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as āexceptionalā performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.
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CFPB Union
9 months ago
šØšØšØSTARTING AT NOON šØšØšØ 70+ CFPB workers were fired last night in an email that didnāt even bother to mail merge [AppointmentDate] and [JobTitle]. Join us at 12p TODAY to rally for them!
#saveCFPB
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Indivisible āš
9 months ago
Government funding runs out on March 14. Republicans canāt pass a bill alone, so Democrats have real leverage here. Weāre calling on Democrats to commit to withholding their votes and insist on an end to the Trump-Musk coup rampaging across the government.
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Joe Katz
9 months ago
DC folks: Elizabeth Warren, Indivisible, the CFPB union and others rallying outside the CFPB building tomorrow at 4:15
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Liz Thurmond
9 months ago
This is it. This is the take.
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shauna
9 months ago
So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media
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Celeste Ng
9 months ago
Please know that if you reply to me with any variation on "calling doesn't matter"/"no one's listening"/"X action is pointless" I'm going to mute or block you. Not personal. Feel your feelings and I hope you find a way to take SOME action. I just don't have the spoons to deal with doomerism rn.
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DC! Iām here with my BFF & have been out protesting since Weds. Our shouting muscles are primed at this point! Where are we going today?
9 months ago
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Matt Barber
9 months ago
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
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Direct Economic Contributions
NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.
https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/impact-nih-research/serving-society/direct-economic-contributions
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Cristian Farias
9 months ago
While we were sleeping: A federal judge in New York issued an aggressive order against the DOGE goon squad at the Treasury Department barring them from any and all access to the Bureau of Fiscal Services and ordering them āto immediately destroyā anything they may have downloaded from the systems.
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https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609/gov.uscourts.nysd.636609.6.0.pdf
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Anne Applebaum
9 months ago
If you are a public servant, or know one, this may be useful. A new organization, the Public Service Alliance, is offering advice on privacy and cybersecurity, physical safety, access to legal counsel and more.
thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-...
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Strengthening America Through Service: Announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA) - Public Service Alliance
Today, weāre announcing the Public Service Alliance (PSA), a nonpartisan organization dedicated to strengthening America by supporting the people who serve it.Ā PSA is founded on a simple yet profound...
https://thepublicservicealliance.com/introducing-the-public-service-alliance-strengthening-america-by-empowering-public-servants/
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Aaron Fritschner
9 months ago
Congressman
@beyer.house.gov
will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area
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Tomorrow (Friday) night weāre doing a reading to benefit victims of LA Fires featuring Jessamine Chan, Sloane Crosley, Eve Ewing, Isaac Fitzgerald and James Spooner! Come help us turn this bad week better! Tix start at $5:
bit.ly/tuesday-fire-relief
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Swapna Krishna
10 months ago
If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...
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Lilliam Rivera
10 months ago
This is going to good and a good cause so let's go.
site.corsizio.com/event/6787ea...
Lilliam
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Flat on my back sick. Please tell me what to binge.
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Laila Lalami
10 months ago
A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.
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Friends! Today was a clown car opening to even more clown cars! Come meet me at the (online) bar on Friday. 5 readers! New work! Stuff youāve never seen before, but in the good way! All proceeds going to underserved Black families in Altadena. Tell the whole school!
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