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Ovidian, classicist, rabble-rouser. She/her.
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John Rogers
about 16 hours ago
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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That was the part that truly sent me.
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Miriam Posner
about 5 hours ago
While administrators have been negotiating in secret, faculty and staff have been fighting. It just could not be more clear who gives a shit about the university as an ideal and who doesn’t.
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J.J.
about 15 hours ago
We say men are less emotional because we coincidentally don't define anger or reacting because of ego as emotions.
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about 5 hours ago
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Marisa Kabas
about 3 hours ago
after trump won last year, there was this idea that now we needed to listen to conservative voices. with zohran’s win (and dem/progressive wins across the country) it seems time to demand that same deference to lefty media.
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Kim Kelly
about 10 hours ago
The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact
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Jeffrey Wuhl
1 day ago
This is a mass delusion, it’s wild
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Bree
1 day ago
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
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Defector
1 day ago
"The premise of Cuomo's primary campaign was that the mayor's office was his by right, because of his last name and because of the indignity he had been forced to endure when he resigned in disgrace from his position as New York's governor."
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Defeat Isn't Enough For Andrew Cuomo And His Pack Of Lunatics | Defector
A New York City mayoral election is, definitionally, not anyone outside of the city’s business. That this year’s campaign, which ended in Zohran Mamdani’s victory on Tuesday night, became everybody’s…
https://defector.com/defeat-isnt-enough-for-andrew-cuomo-and-his-pack-of-lunatics
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Erica Ifill
2 days ago
Everyone is hope scrolling now
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John Scalzi
2 days ago
The day started off great and just kept getting better
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
2 days ago
I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit
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The Democratic Party Needs to Learn from Zohran Mamdani's Guts and Backbone
Zohran Mamdani did something different, and it made all the difference.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/zohran-mamdanis-people-powered-win-is-a-rebuke-to-democrat-cowardice
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Mark Copelovitch
2 days ago
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
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Claire Willett
3 days ago
this is such a great encapsulation of why this race feels existential even to people outside NYC. Cuomo as the final boss of everything wrong with the current Democratic Party, Mamdani happily grabbing the third rails everyone’s told are too dangerous to touch (trans people, Muslims, socialism)
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Will Oremus
3 days ago
Here are a few of the better counterpoints I've gotten in response to my post lamenting mass blocklists
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
3 days ago
we just take it for granted, that R's will lie about and demean "blue states". Imagine any D so consistently denigrating red states. Fox News would have a collective aneurism.
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Drew Magary
3 days ago
Oh right, the sun is gonna set before dinnertime. Happy depression week to all those who ruminate
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M̵͉̿ȁ̶̢͊r̷̰͚̀c̸̡̄́h̶̫͝e̸̢̥̓n̵̲͔̂l̶͔̈́a̴̭͐n̴̺̍̒d̶̞͆
3 days ago
The firing of the award-winning political staff of
@teenvogue.com
is going to go down as another ‘wrong side of history’ move of this era. Shame on the magazine. What a bitter disappointment.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
3 days ago
YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
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Will Stancil
3 days ago
I think every Democrat should be shown this chart and required to explain why any policy solution would convince voters in this environment, and if they cannot, give three steps to fix the media environment, and if they cannot, be forced to resign their seat
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southpaw
3 days ago
You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.
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Dave Zirin
3 days ago
Hot off the presses: it appears Krampus has endorsed Andrew Cuomo.
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 days ago
Cuomo during the campaign: I'm the only man tough enough to stand up to the evil Donald Trump! Cuomo on election eve: I hope New Yorkers all listen to my good friend Donald Trump and heed his advice to vote for me!
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southpaw
3 days ago
you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)
3 days ago
When I was little, I believed that adult people in charge of stuff were all really smart, because they wouldn't be in charge of stuff if they weren't; like, you couldn't be stupid and still have responsibilities. And while I have been wrong about many things in my life, I was wrongest about that.
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Mark Copelovitch
4 days ago
One time. The GOP has won more than 50% of the popular vote <one time> since 1992. And yet, every day, you are bombarded with Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias about how deeply unpopular The Democrats and their policy platform are, without any reflection on how the same standard applies to the GOP.
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Claire Willett
3 days ago
if Teen Vogue as we know it dies today, I hope its team know in their hearts that they did more to champion democracy and freedom of speech and to mobilize citizens of all ages toward progressive causes than all the pundits at legacy outlets who sneered at the notion of wanting teens to be informed
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Marisa Kabas
3 days ago
billionaires have invested in media not because they support journalism but because they want to control it. there is only downside to a free press for people with that level of wealth. journalism is a great equalizer and they don’t want us to be equal.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
3 days ago
I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
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Ashton Pittman
3 days ago
They fired every Black woman at Teen Vogue and every trans staffer. It is astonishing watching the American media ecosystem just falling like dominoes, bowing its knees to fascism.
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PMC Vanguardist
3 days ago
wow, if only there had been warning signs about his temperament before he was confirmed
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A good thread, and one I suspect several of us ought to read through. You're you, and you deserve to like yourself.
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 days ago
Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen. Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy! Sorta seems like a problem.
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Defector
6 days ago
'The Future of Truth' might be thought of as a book about how people need to embrace what few remaining opportunities we have to act like mad penguins, before we all become like pigs stuck in quadrilateral sewers.
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Werner Herzog’s New Book Tackles The Problem Of Truth | Defector
You might think of Werner Herzog’s new book, The Future of Truth, as the story of two animals. On the front cover, you see the silhouette of a lone penguin, somewhere in the middle distance, setting…
https://defector.com/werner-herzogs-new-book-tackles-the-problem-of-truth
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Peter Aidan Byrne
6 days ago
In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis
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Alastair Somerville
about 1 month ago
I found this Kirby idea helpful on not trying to engage with or maintain the framings of eugenics, fascism or racism. Name what is actually happening - you eat their frame - starts with what's actually happening - contains and explains what they're doing - your argument is shaped like kirby
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John Pfaff
6 days ago
This has been such an Illuminating part of our current moment: It’s revealed just how unwilling those with actual power are to even just ask tough questions, while highlighting how willing pajama-wearing suburbanites are to physically drive off guys armed with actual guns.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)
6 days ago
Yeah, academia dot edu is not a place to house your scholarship.
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leupagus
6 days ago
One of the few good things about Trump II administration is discovering a number of really passionate, smart and ANGRY Democratic leaders who I hadn't followed much previously. There've been a LOT of news conferences/media appearances/etc like this; I highly recommend seeking them out.
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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST
7 days ago
Here Trump takes his entire theory of governance to its logical conclusion by demanding Democrats improve the parts of government he keeps trying to destroy
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Māris 🇱🇻🇺🇦🇪🇺
9 days ago
Cleisthenes inventing democracy (508 BC)
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Aysha
10 days ago
My dad sent me this
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Luke Plunkett
10 days ago
"they studied the wrong caesar" is an incredible thing to discover just days away from final exams
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All fail Caesar: Brisbane high school teaches wrong topic for final year 12 history exam
An entire class has made an 11th-hour bid for special consideration due to ‘illness and misadventure’ after studying the wrong Caesar
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/28/brisbane-state-high-school-wrong-caesar-year-12-exam
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Shepherd
10 days ago
The thing about the relentless march of time is that you only get an ending (happy or otherwise) in fiction. Here in the real world no cause is ever lost forever even though we may not live to see it prevail. This is both hope and cautionary tale.
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Nina Willburger
12 days ago
It's time for a timeline cleanse! A small Corinthian aryballos in the shape of an owl (circa 630 BC). It served as a perfume container. On display at Antikensammlung München A lovely Sunday to all of you 🌞 📷 me
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CerberusXt
15 days ago
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World's greatest author out here proving love yet again. Very Vonnegutesque Billy Pilgrim vibes, and a perspective I really needed after watching that ICE video. I think y'all know the one.
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Turkbert Cransauceko
15 days ago
seems like it ought to matter that the White House is not actually the property of Donald Trump. like if the Senate Majority Leader rolled up to the Capitol building in a bulldozer and took out a wall, they would simply be arrested
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darth™️
15 days ago
well i think naming a ballroom after your best friend is something to be celebrated tbh
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