Claire Fallon
@claireefallon.bsky.social
culture critic of sorts. apologies in advance for all the mom posts.
podcast: love to see it with @emmagray.bsky.social
substack: claireandemma.substack.com
podcast: love to see it with @emmagray.bsky.social
substack: claireandemma.substack.com
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
watching kids be socialized into gender roles is so funny because my son has become convinced that only girls can like unicorns and have long hair, but has also begun demanding to wear a gold necklace, and right now he’s smashing Hotwheels together while listening to Anne of Green Gables
October 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
watching kids be socialized into gender roles is so funny because my son has become convinced that only girls can like unicorns and have long hair, but has also begun demanding to wear a gold necklace, and right now he’s smashing Hotwheels together while listening to Anne of Green Gables
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The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.
And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.
This is not about politics. It's about people.
Let’s break it down:
And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.
This is not about politics. It's about people.
Let’s break it down:
October 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.
And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.
This is not about politics. It's about people.
Let’s break it down:
And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.
This is not about politics. It's about people.
Let’s break it down:
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
ah yes, of course, the qualities we all agree make for the best actresses: smooth hair, never posts, virgin. wait, where is everyone going
October 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
ah yes, of course, the qualities we all agree make for the best actresses: smooth hair, never posts, virgin. wait, where is everyone going
every detail of this story is more sickening than the last, including the clear implication that landlords could be using ICE to evict vulnerable tenants
![Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.
"I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up," Johnson said. "I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:paijlqy3vdjsnci3acbew5wj/bafkreibcoyiizytj5babbi7fa6qw25szd6atixyymiuv7qc7zonusnlvue@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
every detail of this story is more sickening than the last, including the clear implication that landlords could be using ICE to evict vulnerable tenants
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Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork
ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of
www.amny.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
Today they attacked two journalists.
We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.
somehow this makes it sound like she has never even met stephen miller so she’s trying to make up a plausible story of what it’s like to be married to him based only off of having seen his speeches
Watters: What is it like being married to Stephen Miller?
Miller: He's an incredibly inspiring man who gets me going in the morning with his speeches being like let's start the day, I'm going to defeat the left and we are going to win.
Miller: He's an incredibly inspiring man who gets me going in the morning with his speeches being like let's start the day, I'm going to defeat the left and we are going to win.
September 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
somehow this makes it sound like she has never even met stephen miller so she’s trying to make up a plausible story of what it’s like to be married to him based only off of having seen his speeches
i can't even wrap my head around what it would feel like to be one of these detainees, or one of their loved ones. this is dystopian nightmare fuel.
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
i can't even wrap my head around what it would feel like to be one of these detainees, or one of their loved ones. this is dystopian nightmare fuel.
this is absolutely unhinged. the entire point of a college student studying children's literature is to engage with it on a scholarly level, not to have nice stories read to you like you're a five-year-old
Explicitly unwilling to understand the difference between being a college student enrolled in a course where you study children's literature and being a child reading children's literature www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...
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Savannah Landers, another student in the class, shared her experience in a Sept. 13 TikTok video, saying she supported the student who confronted McCoul.
“If you haven’t seen the video, I encourage you to go watch it, because the girl in the video is just respectfully asking, like, how does this apply to children’s literature?,” Landers said, adding her own complaints about the curriculum. “Melissa McCoul was wrong for teaching this kind of thing in a children’s literature classroom. [Highlighting begins] Children deserve to maintain their innocence as long as they can, and whenever we’re shoving this kind of stuff in their face that’s ripping away their innocence.” [Highlighting ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyspo2bgxpznqtug5ir2q33g/bafkreif7hb4k3gs6cid2dnuxoekr5b46zqgjp7tzds3crywdtxzyfpvhpu@jpeg)
September 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
this is absolutely unhinged. the entire point of a college student studying children's literature is to engage with it on a scholarly level, not to have nice stories read to you like you're a five-year-old
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BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
September 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."
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What's the best thing you can do for families? Elect. Women. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What's the best thing you can do for families? Elect. Women. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
this framing is sort of funny given that feminists spent the last 15 years talking about what women wanted from men in sex and dating and the response was like “god, who cares”
The left is completely silent on the subject of men getting laid - which, generally speaking, they are v.interested in doing and will continue to be interested in regardless of whether progressives want to talk about it. So the stage has been left entirely clear for the far-right.
August 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
this framing is sort of funny given that feminists spent the last 15 years talking about what women wanted from men in sex and dating and the response was like “god, who cares”
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The men we interviewed said the terror they felt in El Salvador began almost immediately upon arrival.
Salvadoran police boarded the planes and began forcing the shackled men off — shoving them, throwing them to the ground, hitting them with their batons.
Salvadoran police boarded the planes and began forcing the shackled men off — shoving them, throwing them to the ground, hitting them with their batons.
Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT
Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...
www.propublica.org
July 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The men we interviewed said the terror they felt in El Salvador began almost immediately upon arrival.
Salvadoran police boarded the planes and began forcing the shackled men off — shoving them, throwing them to the ground, hitting them with their batons.
Salvadoran police boarded the planes and began forcing the shackled men off — shoving them, throwing them to the ground, hitting them with their batons.
bro on the phone in the park: “so she’s 30, 31. and she’s a catch, dude, I mean, she’s a catch. BUT.”
July 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
bro on the phone in the park: “so she’s 30, 31. and she’s a catch, dude, I mean, she’s a catch. BUT.”
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In the past when I sat down to write about Israel, I’ve had a moment where I take a deep breath and accept that, as a Jewish woman, it’s going to be difficult. This time, there was no such moment.
I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:
I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:
Gaza is starving
Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In the past when I sat down to write about Israel, I’ve had a moment where I take a deep breath and accept that, as a Jewish woman, it’s going to be difficult. This time, there was no such moment.
I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:
I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:
today my 5-year-old explained to me that saber tooth tigers all died out when a rocket ship crashed into earth. and on that rocket ship? the cro-magnons
June 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
today my 5-year-old explained to me that saber tooth tigers all died out when a rocket ship crashed into earth. and on that rocket ship? the cro-magnons
such an honor to finally have Josh on the pod — and to discuss Julia Roberts in polka dots, no less!
I'm on the Love To See It podcast with pop culture geniuses @claireefallon.bsky.social and @emmagray.bsky.social today talking about Pretty Woman and lamenting Jason Alexander's performance as bad for the bald guy community.
June 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
such an honor to finally have Josh on the pod — and to discuss Julia Roberts in polka dots, no less!
the cruelty to mother and child here is unconscionable. this administration cannot claim to value family, motherhood, or children
ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...
ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.
apnews.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
the cruelty to mother and child here is unconscionable. this administration cannot claim to value family, motherhood, or children
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ali. Ali is 42, him and his wife Manar have 7 kids, Mohammed, 18, Haneen, 17, Amir, 15, Layan, 13, Zain, 10, Yazan, 10 and baby Yaman who is 6 months old. Ali is also taking care of his parents and his 21 year old brother. They need help.
June 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ali. Ali is 42, him and his wife Manar have 7 kids, Mohammed, 18, Haneen, 17, Amir, 15, Layan, 13, Zain, 10, Yazan, 10 and baby Yaman who is 6 months old. Ali is also taking care of his parents and his 21 year old brother. They need help.
i rotted all summer as a kid, i believe it can be great to spend unstructured time doing art and free play, i frankly have no specific desire to send my kid to “high-status” camps… and yet my husband and i both have to work (a lot) this summer, so camp it is
Ah yes it's time for the annual summer camp trend piece that fails to engage with the fact that kids being home requires the presence of a parent [mom] & that lists the amounts of money involved purely as a lifestyle marker instead of a symptom of total systemic failure & the need for class war 🤗
June 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
i rotted all summer as a kid, i believe it can be great to spend unstructured time doing art and free play, i frankly have no specific desire to send my kid to “high-status” camps… and yet my husband and i both have to work (a lot) this summer, so camp it is
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Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines.
This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive.
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive.
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
June 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Brand-new polling from YouGov out this AM finds Trump's actions re: LA underwater. Double-digit disapproval on sending in Marines.
This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive.
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
This should be a reality check for those people arguing the protests inherently help Trump bc his immigration approval # is positive.
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...
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Law enforcement injure at least 4 journalists covering protests in California amid federal crackdown cpj.org/2025/06/law-...
Law enforcement injure at least 4 journalists covering protests in California amid federal crackdown - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., June 9, 2025—Law enforcement in Los Angeles, California, shot non-lethal rounds that struck at least four reporters while they covered protests that began on Friday, June 6, and esca...
cpj.org
June 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Law enforcement injure at least 4 journalists covering protests in California amid federal crackdown cpj.org/2025/06/law-...
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if you've been watching the community defenses against ICE and thinking, "i support my comrades but i don't feel comfortable being on the ~front lines~" please know there are many other ways to support! you can drop off a case of water and snacks, buy medical supplies, donate to jail support, etc
June 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
if you've been watching the community defenses against ICE and thinking, "i support my comrades but i don't feel comfortable being on the ~front lines~" please know there are many other ways to support! you can drop off a case of water and snacks, buy medical supplies, donate to jail support, etc