Beth Boyle Machlan
@bethmachlan.bsky.social
Essayist, educator, Zillow stalker, hockey fan, pet pic poster. Usually tired; probably mad. Words at The Common, Catapult, Avidly, River Teeth, NYT, The Rumpus, Guernica. CFA-UAW she/her
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The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.
It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.
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pssh I’ve had plenty of deeply unsettling “digital relationships,” where’s my fawning NYT profile
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
pssh I’ve had plenty of deeply unsettling “digital relationships,” where’s my fawning NYT profile
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If your politics have become “We must do fascism-lite, or the fascists will win”, then the fascists have already won.
This is political blackmail dressed up as pragmatism. Justifying their nasty policies with “Reform will be worse”.
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
If your politics have become “We must do fascism-lite, or the fascists will win”, then the fascists have already won.
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I missed & now can’t get behind the paywall to hate-read E. Gordon Gee’s take on “higher ed’s woes” in CHE but might I recommend this book instead—co-ed by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social & Lisa Di Bartolomeo & penned in part by veterans of his own war on higher ed at WVU? sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
The Campus Crisis Toolkit
sunypress.edu
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I missed & now can’t get behind the paywall to hate-read E. Gordon Gee’s take on “higher ed’s woes” in CHE but might I recommend this book instead—co-ed by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social & Lisa Di Bartolomeo & penned in part by veterans of his own war on higher ed at WVU? sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
Cue the war to distract from the pedophilia
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Cue the war to distract from the pedophilia
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Waging war without congressional approval to distract from the Epstein emails was on my bingo card. Entirely expected.
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Waging war without congressional approval to distract from the Epstein emails was on my bingo card. Entirely expected.
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ouroboreos
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
ouroboreos
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November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I’m not the best mom in the world, but at least I know that my kids would never do this.
According to the car wash owner, agents arrested employees before they could obtain their documentation from their work lockers. So many were likely here legally.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
Here's hoping this article on Zac boasting about how he ruined some immigrants' lives follows him around for a very long time.
BU College Republicans president says he called ICE to ‘detain these criminals’ at Allston Car Wash
The president of Boston University College Republicans wrote on X he called the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting it detain employees at Allston Car Wash, the site of a Nov. 4 raid w...
dailyfreepress.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I’m not the best mom in the world, but at least I know that my kids would never do this.
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Buckle up. The crowd that brought you "Fifteen is too young to transition" and "Fifteen is too young to terminate a rape baby" is about to bring you "Well, now, actually, fifteen year olds, historically, were married with children by now, so you know, it's not really pedophilia..."
(Some were 13.)
(Some were 13.)
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Buckle up. The crowd that brought you "Fifteen is too young to transition" and "Fifteen is too young to terminate a rape baby" is about to bring you "Well, now, actually, fifteen year olds, historically, were married with children by now, so you know, it's not really pedophilia..."
(Some were 13.)
(Some were 13.)
Is anyone watching “Down Cemetery Road?” I like the characters; I just don’t understand what anyone is doing, or why.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Is anyone watching “Down Cemetery Road?” I like the characters; I just don’t understand what anyone is doing, or why.
As an Americanist and a human, this email broke my brain.
Interesting email here from Elisa New, Harvard professor and wife to Larry Summers, to Epstein, reflecting on Lolita.
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
"...it's about a man whose life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."
November 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
As an Americanist and a human, this email broke my brain.
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Every Epstein email is like "I love that you're a rapist and a pedophile! Signed, a man who personally has more wealth than 20% of the world's population."
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Every Epstein email is like "I love that you're a rapist and a pedophile! Signed, a man who personally has more wealth than 20% of the world's population."
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QAnon: The powerful pedophiles have invented elaborate codes to secretly discuss their crimes that require decades of interpretation
Actual powerful pedophile: Hey Jeff hope this email find you well last week was great so when we meeting up to do pedophilia again
Actual powerful pedophile: Hey Jeff hope this email find you well last week was great so when we meeting up to do pedophilia again
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
QAnon: The powerful pedophiles have invented elaborate codes to secretly discuss their crimes that require decades of interpretation
Actual powerful pedophile: Hey Jeff hope this email find you well last week was great so when we meeting up to do pedophilia again
Actual powerful pedophile: Hey Jeff hope this email find you well last week was great so when we meeting up to do pedophilia again
The House With a Clock in Its Walls. Harriet the Spy. Jane Eyre. Passing. Portrait of a Lady. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The Witches of Eastwick. Tell Me How it Ends. Gaudy Night.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The House With a Clock in Its Walls. Harriet the Spy. Jane Eyre. Passing. Portrait of a Lady. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. The Witches of Eastwick. Tell Me How it Ends. Gaudy Night.
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I truly still don’t know why suddenly everyone was doing like Schrödinger’s Bond discourse and I think it’s more fun if no one ever explains it to me
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I truly still don’t know why suddenly everyone was doing like Schrödinger’s Bond discourse and I think it’s more fun if no one ever explains it to me
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Here's a piece on what sweeps do: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments
People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or kee...
projects.propublica.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Here's a piece on what sweeps do: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
NYU needs to pay its contract faculty what they’re worth, and deserve. @uaw.org nyunews.com/opinion/gues...
When it comes to contract faculty, NYU has no ‘peers’ - Washington Square News
Elisabeth Fay is a clinical associate professor in CAS, and an elected member of CFU-UAW’s Bargaining Committee. My union, Contract Faculty United – United Auto Workers, has been in contract negotiati...
nyunews.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
NYU needs to pay its contract faculty what they’re worth, and deserve. @uaw.org nyunews.com/opinion/gues...
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This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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PLEASE WATCH this video!!! Apparently there is a second senate vote to pass the agreement that the 8 democrats already voted for.
If your senator (new hampshire and others) voted yes for this, please call them to tell them to vote no for the final vote!!
www.youtube.com/shorts/Kp1IC...
If your senator (new hampshire and others) voted yes for this, please call them to tell them to vote no for the final vote!!
www.youtube.com/shorts/Kp1IC...
WE HAVE A CHANCE TO FIX IT! . Booker Houston for in Capital updates
YouTube video by Under The Desk News
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
PLEASE WATCH this video!!! Apparently there is a second senate vote to pass the agreement that the 8 democrats already voted for.
If your senator (new hampshire and others) voted yes for this, please call them to tell them to vote no for the final vote!!
www.youtube.com/shorts/Kp1IC...
If your senator (new hampshire and others) voted yes for this, please call them to tell them to vote no for the final vote!!
www.youtube.com/shorts/Kp1IC...
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it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
it is pretty darkly funny seeing posts like URGENT!!!! it is SUNDAY EVENING you must PUT DOWN YOUR DINNER and call your senator IMMEDIATELY to politely request they not press the big button marked "fuck you". this will not actually stop them from pressing the fuck you button. functioning democracy
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These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
These same bums will be asking us for cash at the next deadline; looking forward to sending this back to every Senate fundraising text
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God the number of times I have been through this with the same damned bus of clowns in the senate. They need to go.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
God the number of times I have been through this with the same damned bus of clowns in the senate. They need to go.
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Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.