Amanda Lundquist
@amandalundquist.bsky.social
Low brow cinema snob + filmmaker.
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“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba
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This comes out tomorrow!! I can't wait for everyone to finally be able to meet Lina and Relicario (and his donkey) in English. Many thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for the space!
“I’d been warned that it wouldn’t be easy to go digging up the dead.” Read from Mariana Travacio’s novel All That Dies in April, translated by @willmorningstar.bsky.social and Samantha Schnee.
All That Dies in April
I’d been warned that it wouldn’t be easy to go digging up the dead. I had some new coffins with me, because I’d also been warned the old coffins would be in pieces by now. It was a good thing I’d r…
buff.ly
September 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This comes out tomorrow!! I can't wait for everyone to finally be able to meet Lina and Relicario (and his donkey) in English. Many thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for the space!
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"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
June 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"
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In which I try to call things what they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived.
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In which I try to call things what they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
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Democrats, and not even just those from New York, used the hearing to grill the mayor over the (likely) dropping of his federal charges over a quid pro quo with the Trump administration, which he steadfastly refused to talk about.
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March 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Democrats, and not even just those from New York, used the hearing to grill the mayor over the (likely) dropping of his federal charges over a quid pro quo with the Trump administration, which he steadfastly refused to talk about.
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🔬🧪🧬 @sadbumblebee.buzz and I are collecting stories from scientists whose research funding has been halted by the Trump admin. Feel free to share this form with anyone who has been impacted and as always you can reach me on signal at caitlingilbert.24
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Are you a scientist who has lost funding or grants in recent weeks? - Formstack
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February 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🔬🧪🧬 @sadbumblebee.buzz and I are collecting stories from scientists whose research funding has been halted by the Trump admin. Feel free to share this form with anyone who has been impacted and as always you can reach me on signal at caitlingilbert.24
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“The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.”
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“The rate of sepsis shot up more than 50% for women hospitalized when they lost their pregnancies in the second trimester, ProPublica found.”
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Entire government agencies are being reshaped, career experts are leaving and power is shifting — often behind closed doors.
ProPublica is investigating.
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ProPublica is investigating.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Entire government agencies are being reshaped, career experts are leaving and power is shifting — often behind closed doors.
ProPublica is investigating.
🧵⬇️ (1/6)
ProPublica is investigating.
🧵⬇️ (1/6)
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What year do you think this was shot?
The Chronochrome color process on display in this 1913 short. The film itself was black and white with color projected via filters. Unlike rival natural color films and processes, Chronochrome captured the full spectrum, including pure yellow and true blue.
The Chronochrome color process on display in this 1913 short. The film itself was black and white with color projected via filters. Unlike rival natural color films and processes, Chronochrome captured the full spectrum, including pure yellow and true blue.
February 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
What year do you think this was shot?
The Chronochrome color process on display in this 1913 short. The film itself was black and white with color projected via filters. Unlike rival natural color films and processes, Chronochrome captured the full spectrum, including pure yellow and true blue.
The Chronochrome color process on display in this 1913 short. The film itself was black and white with color projected via filters. Unlike rival natural color films and processes, Chronochrome captured the full spectrum, including pure yellow and true blue.
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NEW: Under the Trump administration, the Office for Civil Rights has shifted its focus to removing gender-neutral bathrooms, banning transgender athletes from women’s sports and prioritizing complaints alleging discrimination against white students.
“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump
Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and ...
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February 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
NEW: Under the Trump administration, the Office for Civil Rights has shifted its focus to removing gender-neutral bathrooms, banning transgender athletes from women’s sports and prioritizing complaints alleging discrimination against white students.
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Now that Trump has fired the Kennedy Center leadership and installed a bunch of cronies who made him the new chair, the theater is canceling programs with even a hint of LGBTQ themes and scrubbing them from its website. Dark stuff. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center staff describe climate of fear as events drop from calendar
Issa Rae became the first major artist to publicly cancel an upcoming show at the center after President Donald Trump took over its board and leadership.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Now that Trump has fired the Kennedy Center leadership and installed a bunch of cronies who made him the new chair, the theater is canceling programs with even a hint of LGBTQ themes and scrubbing them from its website. Dark stuff. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Delighted to participate in the Stowe Story Labs feature campus 🤍
#stowestorylabs
@filmfatalesorg.bsky.social
#womeninfilm
#queerfilm
#stowestorylabs
@filmfatalesorg.bsky.social
#womeninfilm
#queerfilm
Stowe Story Labs is Pleased to Announce the Participants for our 2025 Winter/ Spring Session of the Feature Campus Screenwriting Program — Stowe Story Labs
Stowe Story Labs Feature Campus presents an opportunity to write a new feature film screenplay while developing screenwriting skills and a process to create story. We look forward to working with the...
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February 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Delighted to participate in the Stowe Story Labs feature campus 🤍
#stowestorylabs
@filmfatalesorg.bsky.social
#womeninfilm
#queerfilm
#stowestorylabs
@filmfatalesorg.bsky.social
#womeninfilm
#queerfilm
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"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
February 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
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What can be learned from the Guerrilla Girls that can be applied to the present? And is this work an effective method of making change?
Re-evaluating the Guerrilla Girls for Today’s Politics
A mini-retrospective of the feminist collective raises the question: What can be learned from this work that applies to today, and is this an effective method of making change?
hyperallergic.com
February 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
What can be learned from the Guerrilla Girls that can be applied to the present? And is this work an effective method of making change?
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My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation.
The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My latest.
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.
I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.
Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Help @nicolefoy.bsky.social and our other immigration reporters investigate 👇👇
things are changing quickly on the immigration beat. don't forget @propublica.org is still investigating the immigration system
Right now, I'm looking for info on citizens & others w/legal status caught up in raids & workplace enforcement issues
Contact info here: www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Right now, I'm looking for info on citizens & others w/legal status caught up in raids & workplace enforcement issues
Contact info here: www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Help ProPublica Reporters Investigate the Immigration System
We need your help to find productive ways to examine the country’s immigration system — what’s working and what isn’t. We especially want to hear from federal workers, attorneys, employers, labor advo...
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February 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Help @nicolefoy.bsky.social and our other immigration reporters investigate 👇👇
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Elon Musk is committing a lot of felonies. He belongs in jail, and so do his criminal associates. He may not comprehend that. And if and when he does it may make him more reckless. No assumptions about where we go from here.
This @washingtonpost.com story is so important that I'm gifting it. These people appear to be operating totally illegally and outside the Constitution -- and they know it. wapo.st/40LVERn
U.S. government officials privately warn Musk’s blitz appears illegal
The billionaire’s DOGE team has launched an all-out assault on federal agencies, triggering numerous legal objections.
wapo.st
February 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Elon Musk is committing a lot of felonies. He belongs in jail, and so do his criminal associates. He may not comprehend that. And if and when he does it may make him more reckless. No assumptions about where we go from here.
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Critics often talk about the “worldbuilding” potential of art, but a collection of books that don’t belong to the real world (at least not in the traditional sense) at one of North America’s oldest bibliographic societies might bring this idea closest to reality.
An Exhibition of Non-Existent Books
It’s clear that this exhibition was put together by a bunch of absolute nerds — and that’s a compliment of the highest order.
hyperallergic.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Critics often talk about the “worldbuilding” potential of art, but a collection of books that don’t belong to the real world (at least not in the traditional sense) at one of North America’s oldest bibliographic societies might bring this idea closest to reality.
Any #newyorkers have thoughts on #BusRapidTransit? New to the discussion and curious.
If New Yorkers are going to consistently choose transit over their cars, every neighborhood needs access to viable options to do that.
The best among them is Bus Rapid Transit, which can transform public mobility relatively quickly, cheaply, and broadly.
The best among them is Bus Rapid Transit, which can transform public mobility relatively quickly, cheaply, and broadly.
Memo to Mayor Adams: Reliable Buses Start with You - Streetsblog New York City
Congestion pricing’s success and legacy depends on improving bus service. Mayor Adams must act.
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February 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Any #newyorkers have thoughts on #BusRapidTransit? New to the discussion and curious.
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🚨TRUMP IS TRYING TO BAN HEALTHCARE FOR TRANS KIDS🚨
NYU Langone is one of the few hospitals in the country that's begun withholding life-saving healthcare for trans kids. Join us for an emergency rally tomorrow. Demand NYU Langone reverse this decision! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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NYU Langone is one of the few hospitals in the country that's begun withholding life-saving healthcare for trans kids. Join us for an emergency rally tomorrow. Demand NYU Langone reverse this decision! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
actionnetwork.org/events/prote...
February 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🚨TRUMP IS TRYING TO BAN HEALTHCARE FOR TRANS KIDS🚨
NYU Langone is one of the few hospitals in the country that's begun withholding life-saving healthcare for trans kids. Join us for an emergency rally tomorrow. Demand NYU Langone reverse this decision! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
actionnetwork.org/events/prote...
NYU Langone is one of the few hospitals in the country that's begun withholding life-saving healthcare for trans kids. Join us for an emergency rally tomorrow. Demand NYU Langone reverse this decision! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
actionnetwork.org/events/prote...
All it took was a couple of days for #nyulangone to forfeit the health and well being of children. They have now set a precedent for the rest of the nation’s hospitals. Absolute cowardice, right out of the gate.
#protecttranskids
#protecttranskids
Breaking News: Parents say NYU Langone canceled gender-affirming treatments for two children after an executive order from President Trump threatened to punish doctors and hospitals.
N.Y. Hospital Stops Treating 2 Children After Trump’s Trans Care Order
The hospital canceled their appointments the same week an executive order from President Trump threatened to punish doctors and hospitals for offering gender-affirming care.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
All it took was a couple of days for #nyulangone to forfeit the health and well being of children. They have now set a precedent for the rest of the nation’s hospitals. Absolute cowardice, right out of the gate.
#protecttranskids
#protecttranskids
“Similar revisions are taking shape across the country as companies have reversed their DEI policies and the Trump administration has placed employees working on DEI initiatives on leave.”
#dei #science #censorship #feminism
www.propublica.org/article/vera...
#dei #science #censorship #feminism
www.propublica.org/article/vera...
Vera Rubin Was a Pioneering Female Astronomer. Her Federal Bio Now Doesn’t Mention Efforts to Diversify Science.
The edits to the webpage offer a glimpse into how far the Trump administration will go in refusing to acknowledge today’s inequalities as it purges federal initiatives promoting diversity, equity and ...
www.propublica.org
January 31, 2025 at 10:11 AM
“Similar revisions are taking shape across the country as companies have reversed their DEI policies and the Trump administration has placed employees working on DEI initiatives on leave.”
#dei #science #censorship #feminism
www.propublica.org/article/vera...
#dei #science #censorship #feminism
www.propublica.org/article/vera...