Sarah Szalavitz💡
@dearsarah.bsky.social
Accountability Architect💡
Artisanal Database Maker🔎 🧾
Storyteller/Writer/Producer🎙️✍️🎥
Avenger, Academic, Lawyer🗳️
Redistributive Justice ⚖️
Choice Optimizer🤖
Researcher & OG Prompt Engineer🧌
Whistleblower🚨
Human Palantir🔮
https://linktr.ee/realdearsarah
Artisanal Database Maker🔎 🧾
Storyteller/Writer/Producer🎙️✍️🎥
Avenger, Academic, Lawyer🗳️
Redistributive Justice ⚖️
Choice Optimizer🤖
Researcher & OG Prompt Engineer🧌
Whistleblower🚨
Human Palantir🔮
https://linktr.ee/realdearsarah
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Sarah Szalavitz💡
@dearsarah.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Experiment confirms quantum theory weirdness; proves reality does not exist until measured <a href="http://phy.so/351940527" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://phy.so/351940527 <a href="http://t.co/BjOhcGrwTs" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://t.co/BjOhcGrwTs
Wyoming supreme court strikes down near-total abortion bans
Justices rule 4-1 that laws, including a ban on abortion pills, violate a state amendment protecting competent adults from making their own healthcare choices www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Justices rule 4-1 that laws, including a ban on abortion pills, violate a state amendment protecting competent adults from making their own healthcare choices www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Wyoming supreme court strikes down near-total abortion bans
Justices rule 4-1 that laws, including a ban on abortion pills, violate a state amendment protecting healthcare choices
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Wyoming supreme court strikes down near-total abortion bans
Justices rule 4-1 that laws, including a ban on abortion pills, violate a state amendment protecting competent adults from making their own healthcare choices www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Justices rule 4-1 that laws, including a ban on abortion pills, violate a state amendment protecting competent adults from making their own healthcare choices www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Nearly 1/2 of Americans didn’t read any 📚last year—& it’s the 1 daily habit separating them from billionaires flip.it/wBgFTS LOL—Forbes (& JP Morgan) have no data about how many (if any) or how often US billionaires read 📚
But yup it must be reading📚daily & not inherited wealth & lawlessness!
But yup it must be reading📚daily & not inherited wealth & lawlessness!
Nearly half of Americans didn’t read a single book last year—it's the one daily habit separating them from billionaires | Fortune
Billionaires swear by books—but two in five Americans didn’t read a single one last year. Experts warn its decline among Americans, especially Gen Z, could have lasting consequences.
flip.it
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Nearly 1/2 of Americans didn’t read any 📚last year—& it’s the 1 daily habit separating them from billionaires flip.it/wBgFTS LOL—Forbes (& JP Morgan) have no data about how many (if any) or how often US billionaires read 📚
But yup it must be reading📚daily & not inherited wealth & lawlessness!
But yup it must be reading📚daily & not inherited wealth & lawlessness!
🇮🇱pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank
Construction of 3,401 homes is designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... “We said there will be no Palestinian state, & indeed there will be no 🇵🇸state! This place is ours” Netanyahu said.
Construction of 3,401 homes is designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... “We said there will be no Palestinian state, & indeed there will be no 🇵🇸state! This place is ours” Netanyahu said.
Israel pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank
Exclusive: Tender posted for construction of 3,401 homes in settlement designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:16 PM
🇮🇱pushes ahead with vast illegal settlement in heart of West Bank
Construction of 3,401 homes is designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... “We said there will be no Palestinian state, & indeed there will be no 🇵🇸state! This place is ours” Netanyahu said.
Construction of 3,401 homes is designed to ‘bury idea of a Palestinian state’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... “We said there will be no Palestinian state, & indeed there will be no 🇵🇸state! This place is ours” Netanyahu said.
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Can't tell you how much it means to me for WITHOUT CONSENT to be written up in the New Yorker as part of a larger consideration of consent in general. And I will gladly be known as "taking a true-crime approach to intellectual history"!
How Consent Can—and Cannot—Help Us Have Better Sex
The idea is legally vital, but ultimately unsatisfying. Is there another way forward?
www.newyorker.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Can't tell you how much it means to me for WITHOUT CONSENT to be written up in the New Yorker as part of a larger consideration of consent in general. And I will gladly be known as "taking a true-crime approach to intellectual history"!
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Actual exchange from court today:
Me: I can't do January 20 for the hearing, your honor, because I'm having surgery, but I can do [dates in February]
Judge: Ordinarily I'd accommodate medical issues, but not for people like you. Attend from the hospital if you have to.
Me: I can't do January 20 for the hearing, your honor, because I'm having surgery, but I can do [dates in February]
Judge: Ordinarily I'd accommodate medical issues, but not for people like you. Attend from the hospital if you have to.
January 6, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Actual exchange from court today:
Me: I can't do January 20 for the hearing, your honor, because I'm having surgery, but I can do [dates in February]
Judge: Ordinarily I'd accommodate medical issues, but not for people like you. Attend from the hospital if you have to.
Me: I can't do January 20 for the hearing, your honor, because I'm having surgery, but I can do [dates in February]
Judge: Ordinarily I'd accommodate medical issues, but not for people like you. Attend from the hospital if you have to.
Reposted by Sarah Szalavitz💡
🚨BREAKING: DOJ admits it has only released 12,285 documents required by Epstein Files Transparency Act. More than 2 million documents still need to be reviewed/released. DOJ is in violation of federal law that required release by Dec. 19.
More from Democracy Docket in am. www.democracydocket.com
More from Democracy Docket in am. www.democracydocket.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:31 AM
🚨BREAKING: DOJ admits it has only released 12,285 documents required by Epstein Files Transparency Act. More than 2 million documents still need to be reviewed/released. DOJ is in violation of federal law that required release by Dec. 19.
More from Democracy Docket in am. www.democracydocket.com
More from Democracy Docket in am. www.democracydocket.com
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2000 federal mercenaries are deploying in Minneapolis to terrorize and kidnap people. This is the front line of the regime's program to introduce fascism: rule by brute force.
But they can be beaten. Study Chicago organizers' guide to grassroots resistance to ICE:
crimethinc.com/StandUptoICE
But they can be beaten. Study Chicago organizers' guide to grassroots resistance to ICE:
crimethinc.com/StandUptoICE
January 6, 2026 at 2:38 AM
2000 federal mercenaries are deploying in Minneapolis to terrorize and kidnap people. This is the front line of the regime's program to introduce fascism: rule by brute force.
But they can be beaten. Study Chicago organizers' guide to grassroots resistance to ICE:
crimethinc.com/StandUptoICE
But they can be beaten. Study Chicago organizers' guide to grassroots resistance to ICE:
crimethinc.com/StandUptoICE
Fires, ICE Raids, Hollywood Job Apocalypse: Why All My Friends Are Leaving (my beloved) L.A. www.vulture.com/article/leav... an(other) excellent eulogy for Hollywood & the media industrial complex…
“There were 4 total job slots open in comedy at the moment & about 1800 people competing for them.”
“There were 4 total job slots open in comedy at the moment & about 1800 people competing for them.”
Fires, ICE Raids, Hollywood Job Apocalypse: Why All My Friends Are Leaving L.A.
From the fires to the ICE raids to the contraction of Hollywood, it was a rough 2025.
www.vulture.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Fires, ICE Raids, Hollywood Job Apocalypse: Why All My Friends Are Leaving (my beloved) L.A. www.vulture.com/article/leav... an(other) excellent eulogy for Hollywood & the media industrial complex…
“There were 4 total job slots open in comedy at the moment & about 1800 people competing for them.”
“There were 4 total job slots open in comedy at the moment & about 1800 people competing for them.”
Reposted by Sarah Szalavitz💡
US artist visas are now given based on your number of social media followers
January 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
US artist visas are now given based on your number of social media followers
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The original story: www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
www.404media.co
January 5, 2026 at 6:32 PM
The original story: www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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I've said it a lot lately: the problem with nonconsensual deepfake porn of adults isn't the "porn" part, it's the "nonconsensual" part. That HAS to be accounted for when regulating, otherwise you're just banning legal porn, which is (1) unconstitutional but (2) what the Heritage Foundation wants.
January 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
I've said it a lot lately: the problem with nonconsensual deepfake porn of adults isn't the "porn" part, it's the "nonconsensual" part. That HAS to be accounted for when regulating, otherwise you're just banning legal porn, which is (1) unconstitutional but (2) what the Heritage Foundation wants.
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The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
www.huffpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
Los Angeles Ends Strange Rite of Passage With New Fridge Law
Starting today, landlords must provide tenants with working refrigerators. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/r... this was unbelievable & overdue decades ago…but finally requiring fridges is the precursor to requiring landlords provide AC:)
Starting today, landlords must provide tenants with working refrigerators. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/r... this was unbelievable & overdue decades ago…but finally requiring fridges is the precursor to requiring landlords provide AC:)
Los Angeles Ends Strange Rite of Passage With New Fridge Law
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Los Angeles Ends Strange Rite of Passage With New Fridge Law
Starting today, landlords must provide tenants with working refrigerators. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/r... this was unbelievable & overdue decades ago…but finally requiring fridges is the precursor to requiring landlords provide AC:)
Starting today, landlords must provide tenants with working refrigerators. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/r... this was unbelievable & overdue decades ago…but finally requiring fridges is the precursor to requiring landlords provide AC:)
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For at least a decade we've been in the period of American history that will cause later historians to say "a lot of these stories have to be false" like Suetonius writing about Caligula and Nero
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 4:54 AM
For at least a decade we've been in the period of American history that will cause later historians to say "a lot of these stories have to be false" like Suetonius writing about Caligula and Nero
What I experienced at Mamdani’s inauguration slate.com/news-and-pol...
My revised headline is 👎but this beautiful & joyful post deserved better:)
“What stayed with me wasn’t just pride, tho there was plenty of that. It was relief. Relief that, for once, a side selling hope instead of fear had won”
My revised headline is 👎but this beautiful & joyful post deserved better:)
“What stayed with me wasn’t just pride, tho there was plenty of that. It was relief. Relief that, for once, a side selling hope instead of fear had won”
I Came to See Mamdani’s First Big Speech as Mayor. I Found Something Else Entirely.
New York City is working through its feelings in real time.
slate.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:32 AM
What I experienced at Mamdani’s inauguration slate.com/news-and-pol...
My revised headline is 👎but this beautiful & joyful post deserved better:)
“What stayed with me wasn’t just pride, tho there was plenty of that. It was relief. Relief that, for once, a side selling hope instead of fear had won”
My revised headline is 👎but this beautiful & joyful post deserved better:)
“What stayed with me wasn’t just pride, tho there was plenty of that. It was relief. Relief that, for once, a side selling hope instead of fear had won”
Reposted by Sarah Szalavitz💡
A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
NEW—In late Feb, Chris Rufo published leaked chats between queer/trans employees at US intel agencies. Then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she’d fire all involved.
I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:
I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:
Queer intel officers targeted by top secret chat leak get their chance to speak
Chris Rufo published the chats. Staffers say a new "lavender scare" is upon us.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 4, 2026 at 10:24 PM
A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
Growing number of CA sheriffs no longer respond to mental health calls www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... (This follows) a 2024 federal court ruling that held NV police liable for killing a mentally ill man.
Weird: it’s almost as if holding police liable for killing people has an immediate impact!
Weird: it’s almost as if holding police liable for killing people has an immediate impact!
Growing number of California sheriffs no longer respond to mental health calls
A shift away from police-led responses spreads, but gaps in crisis teams leave some communities exposed
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Growing number of CA sheriffs no longer respond to mental health calls www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... (This follows) a 2024 federal court ruling that held NV police liable for killing a mentally ill man.
Weird: it’s almost as if holding police liable for killing people has an immediate impact!
Weird: it’s almost as if holding police liable for killing people has an immediate impact!
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It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
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The Artist in Gracie Mansion www.thecut.com/article/rama... In her final moments before she’s a “public figure” & her creepy new reality where everyone not awful is in love with her…
“I didn’t know if that was a real thing,” Duwaji says when…told women are asking their hairstylists for “the Rama”
“I didn’t know if that was a real thing,” Duwaji says when…told women are asking their hairstylists for “the Rama”
January 4, 2026 at 4:21 AM
The Artist in Gracie Mansion www.thecut.com/article/rama... In her final moments before she’s a “public figure” & her creepy new reality where everyone not awful is in love with her…
“I didn’t know if that was a real thing,” Duwaji says when…told women are asking their hairstylists for “the Rama”
“I didn’t know if that was a real thing,” Duwaji says when…told women are asking their hairstylists for “the Rama”
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We are witnessing a sea-change in the form of state power. Trump is ushering in a dissolution of the postcolonial world order of nation-states.
But it isn't a simple resurrection of imperial states. It is new: the anti-migrant politics of nation-states + "indirect" colonization. Seatbelts required
But it isn't a simple resurrection of imperial states. It is new: the anti-migrant politics of nation-states + "indirect" colonization. Seatbelts required
January 4, 2026 at 9:46 PM
We are witnessing a sea-change in the form of state power. Trump is ushering in a dissolution of the postcolonial world order of nation-states.
But it isn't a simple resurrection of imperial states. It is new: the anti-migrant politics of nation-states + "indirect" colonization. Seatbelts required
But it isn't a simple resurrection of imperial states. It is new: the anti-migrant politics of nation-states + "indirect" colonization. Seatbelts required
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Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces from anyone who enters its supermarkets
NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces
The supermarket chain says it’s a move to ensure shopper safety. Surveillance experts warn of privacy risks.
gothamist.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces from anyone who enters its supermarkets
The Artist in Gracie Mansion www.thecut.com/article/rama... In her final moments before she’s a “public figure” & her creepy new reality where everyone not awful is in love with her…
“I didn’t know if that was a real thing,” Duwaji says when…told women are asking their hairstylists for “the Rama”
“I didn’t know if that was a real thing,” Duwaji says when…told women are asking their hairstylists for “the Rama”
January 4, 2026 at 4:21 AM
The Artist in Gracie Mansion www.thecut.com/article/rama... In her final moments before she’s a “public figure” & her creepy new reality where everyone not awful is in love with her…
“I didn’t know if that was a real thing,” Duwaji says when…told women are asking their hairstylists for “the Rama”
“I didn’t know if that was a real thing,” Duwaji says when…told women are asking their hairstylists for “the Rama”
Reposted by Sarah Szalavitz💡
Western countries, in particular, have a choice to make: will they help the US tear the system apart the international system they claim is so important, or will they ally with the wider world to protect it?
disconnect.blog/the-united-s...
disconnect.blog/the-united-s...
January 4, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Western countries, in particular, have a choice to make: will they help the US tear the system apart the international system they claim is so important, or will they ally with the wider world to protect it?
disconnect.blog/the-united-s...
disconnect.blog/the-united-s...
After 3 decades without change, women now hold even fewer top🎥 jobs www.latimes.com/entertainmen... “Add the current political war on diversity & women in🎥…now find themselves in uncharted territory. Hollywood has never needed permission to exclude or diminish women, but the industry now has it.”
Women still face steep challenges securing top movie jobs
A San Diego State University report found that women made up 23% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors and directors of photography on the 250 top-grossing films in 2025.
www.latimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:20 AM
After 3 decades without change, women now hold even fewer top🎥 jobs www.latimes.com/entertainmen... “Add the current political war on diversity & women in🎥…now find themselves in uncharted territory. Hollywood has never needed permission to exclude or diminish women, but the industry now has it.”
What Should Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani & First Lady Rama Duwaji Wear? www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r... yikes headline &🤯wtf: “Duwaji (was born) in Texas to Syrian Muslim progenitors”
Not “parents” or “immigrants” but PROGENITORS?! 😳😱
But yay—❤️the looks & Gabriella Karefa-Johnson!
Not “parents” or “immigrants” but PROGENITORS?! 😳😱
But yay—❤️the looks & Gabriella Karefa-Johnson!
What Should a Democratic Socialist Wear? Enter Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji
The newly inaugurated New York City mayor and his wife make a convincing pitch for aligning the new polish of public image with their progressive politics.
www.vanityfair.com
January 2, 2026 at 9:59 PM
What Should Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani & First Lady Rama Duwaji Wear? www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r... yikes headline &🤯wtf: “Duwaji (was born) in Texas to Syrian Muslim progenitors”
Not “parents” or “immigrants” but PROGENITORS?! 😳😱
But yay—❤️the looks & Gabriella Karefa-Johnson!
Not “parents” or “immigrants” but PROGENITORS?! 😳😱
But yay—❤️the looks & Gabriella Karefa-Johnson!