Charlotte Shane
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Charlotte Shane
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Regarding the Cries of the World
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Wrote something short about American compassion meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/regarding-...
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I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able
Nicolas Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela is finally ended by Trump reut.rs/3YWbo3K
Nicolas Maduro's heavy-handed rule in Venezuela is finally ended by Trump
Nicolas Maduro ruled Venezuela with a heavy hand for more than 12 years, presiding over deep economic and social crises and resisting pressure from domestic opponents and foreign governments for political change.
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January 3, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able
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I've been deep in Daniel Berrigan's writing, thinking abt our genocide in Vietnam, early attacks on Afghanistan, the war on Iraq, etc. etc. Waking up to news about Venezuela felt both surreal and inevitable. It's so past time to admit this what America has been and what we the people allow (demand?)
January 3, 2026 at 9:26 PM
I've been deep in Daniel Berrigan's writing, thinking abt our genocide in Vietnam, early attacks on Afghanistan, the war on Iraq, etc. etc. Waking up to news about Venezuela felt both surreal and inevitable. It's so past time to admit this what America has been and what we the people allow (demand?)
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I think of this a lot. Mostly because my favorite thing to say is that knowing who to be mad at is praxis. But it's also difficult for people to know currently because there's no identifiable leadership on the Lefts to clearly articulate this. The fascists constantly tell people who to be mad at.
And try not to take your frustration and feelings of powerlessness out on each other.
January 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
I think of this a lot. Mostly because my favorite thing to say is that knowing who to be mad at is praxis. But it's also difficult for people to know currently because there's no identifiable leadership on the Lefts to clearly articulate this. The fascists constantly tell people who to be mad at.
Take a break from holiday preoccupations to enjoy a conversation about corpses, consent, the many irritating conventions of contemporary fiction, and much more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Stinking and Miserable: Clio Chang on Cheryl Strayed's Wild
Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 12/17/2025 · 59m
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December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Take a break from holiday preoccupations to enjoy a conversation about corpses, consent, the many irritating conventions of contemporary fiction, and much more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Come and get it: @essj.bsky.social + @jolivingstone.bsky.social + me, Tolstoy, the Bible, horny Frenchmen, I could go on!
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A Certain Mistake: Jackie Ess on Tolstoy’s Resurrection
Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 12/03/2025 · 49m
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December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Come and get it: @essj.bsky.social + @jolivingstone.bsky.social + me, Tolstoy, the Bible, horny Frenchmen, I could go on!
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Presented for your modest amusement: November's books, movies, shows, triumphs in the field of stain removal charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/11...
Infinity Pilled — CS
The one blot on this otherwise perfect canvas is Team Australia who I’m afraid will be heading to hell when parkour guy’s 8000th uncalled-for backflip inevitably opens up a dimensional portal. They al...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
Reading Writers/@bookforum.bsky.social heads: come get your free tickets! @jolivingstone.bsky.social, Stephanie Wambugu and I will be discussing a VERY divisive recent novel on December 4th. www.eventbrite.com/e/bookforum-...
Bookforum Holiday Party & Event
Join us to celebrate the holidays and the latest issue of Bookforum. Featuring Stephanie Wambugu.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Reading Writers/@bookforum.bsky.social heads: come get your free tickets! @jolivingstone.bsky.social, Stephanie Wambugu and I will be discussing a VERY divisive recent novel on December 4th. www.eventbrite.com/e/bookforum-...
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Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.”
That’s seems really bad.
That’s seems really bad.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.
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bookforum is sponsoring Reading Writers this season, and CharJo are the kind of hosts that let me get earnest in a way I almost never let myself and I feel good about it! also I got to talk about Light Eaters which is a very powerful book to me
This week's Reading Writers is very dear to me. @torreypeters.bsky.social joined for a lively, funny, moving discussion about plant consciousness that I think will leave listeners inspired and hopeful about life/the world/the future/etc. Come get your balm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Metaphysically Blown Away: Torrey Peters on Zoe Schlanger’s The Light Eaters
Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/19/2025 · 1h 9m
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November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
bookforum is sponsoring Reading Writers this season, and CharJo are the kind of hosts that let me get earnest in a way I almost never let myself and I feel good about it! also I got to talk about Light Eaters which is a very powerful book to me
This week's Reading Writers is very dear to me. @torreypeters.bsky.social joined for a lively, funny, moving discussion about plant consciousness that I think will leave listeners inspired and hopeful about life/the world/the future/etc. Come get your balm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Metaphysically Blown Away: Torrey Peters on Zoe Schlanger’s The Light Eaters
Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/19/2025 · 1h 9m
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November 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This week's Reading Writers is very dear to me. @torreypeters.bsky.social joined for a lively, funny, moving discussion about plant consciousness that I think will leave listeners inspired and hopeful about life/the world/the future/etc. Come get your balm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
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From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community
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November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
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posts like this makes me so happy. unironically, it is beautiful
November 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
posts like this makes me so happy. unironically, it is beautiful
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Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Stop whatever you're doing and START procrastinating...by listening to the latest Reading Writers. It's a really fun one, with the scintillating Lauren Michele Jackson. Expect talk of dirtbag women protagonists, Alexander the Great, and hot cheetahs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Setting the House on Fire: Lauren Michele Jackson on Nettie Jones’ Fish Tales
Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/12/2025 · 56m
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November 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Stop whatever you're doing and START procrastinating...by listening to the latest Reading Writers. It's a really fun one, with the scintillating Lauren Michele Jackson. Expect talk of dirtbag women protagonists, Alexander the Great, and hot cheetahs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
Please allow me to further the high you may be riding this morning by sharing the first episode of Reading Writers Season 3 — and we're now in partnership with @bookforum.bsky.social! Thank you @rumaan.bsky.social for the perfect conversation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
First Draft of Reality: Rumaan Alam on Tina Brown’s The Vanity Fair Diaries.
Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/05/2025 · 1h 3m
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November 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Please allow me to further the high you may be riding this morning by sharing the first episode of Reading Writers Season 3 — and we're now in partnership with @bookforum.bsky.social! Thank you @rumaan.bsky.social for the perfect conversation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
"As I’ve said many a time, I don’t like movies. They underwhelm and annoy me; I am immune to their alleged magic."
October's reading, watching, listening: charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/10...
October's reading, watching, listening: charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/10...
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"As I’ve said many a time, I don’t like movies. They underwhelm and annoy me; I am immune to their alleged magic."
October's reading, watching, listening: charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/10...
October's reading, watching, listening: charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/10...
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"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
The fantasies of every ICE agent facing some sort of (severe!) justice tribunal are shocking to me. People speak about it so confidently, like it's something that will magically, inevitably occur... Can you point to a clear precedent in *this country's* history? I only know of the myriad opposites
October 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The fantasies of every ICE agent facing some sort of (severe!) justice tribunal are shocking to me. People speak about it so confidently, like it's something that will magically, inevitably occur... Can you point to a clear precedent in *this country's* history? I only know of the myriad opposites
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A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.
For months I've been thinking about what precise anxieties and insecurities hide in questions like "how can I write at a time like this?" and tried to untangle them by parsing separate (though interrelated) acts: making, sharing, and selling meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/deconstruc...
Deconstructing Creative Angst
Making • Sharing • Selling • Freedom
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October 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
For months I've been thinking about what precise anxieties and insecurities hide in questions like "how can I write at a time like this?" and tried to untangle them by parsing separate (though interrelated) acts: making, sharing, and selling meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/deconstruc...