lauren
@elledeejo.bsky.social
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@elledeejo.bsky.social
· Feb 5
Scenes from last night's Rally to Protect Trans Kids (& to shame NYU Langone for halting trans youth gender-affirming care after Trump's EO) 📸
🙏 thank you 🙏
@socialists.nyc 🌹
@jfrejnyc.bsky.social
@pflag.org
etc.
🙏 thank you 🙏
@socialists.nyc 🌹
@jfrejnyc.bsky.social
@pflag.org
etc.
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he's gonna get yelllllled aaaaattttt
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
Dr. Oz urges 'take the vaccine, please' amid measles outbreaks
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
bit.ly
February 9, 2026 at 9:38 PM
he's gonna get yelllllled aaaaattttt
never forget www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5yE...
Bad Bunny Is Infinite | Calvin Klein Spring 2025
YouTube video by Calvin Klein
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 AM
never forget www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5yE...
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From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
February 9, 2026 at 3:54 AM
From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵
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Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.
It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?
February 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.
felt like I was watching Super Bowl: In the Heights (complimentary)
para siempre!
para siempre!
LMM must be so happy right now, someone check on him is his heart okay
February 9, 2026 at 1:48 AM
felt like I was watching Super Bowl: In the Heights (complimentary)
para siempre!
para siempre!
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
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Simply on a live performance stagecraft-design-camerawork-logistics-direction level, this is ASTOUNDING.
February 9, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Simply on a live performance stagecraft-design-camerawork-logistics-direction level, this is ASTOUNDING.
me? I'm rooting for minimal CTE
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM
me? I'm rooting for minimal CTE
I miss Twitter on mass culture days
February 9, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I miss Twitter on mass culture days
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Much like with Covid, I watch a whole lot of my supposedly progressive friends go blank eyed when I mention that his wife, his kids, and an entire plane crew agreed in depositions that he abused his family. Facts apparently do care about your entertainment.
Brad Pitt really did just get away with being a domestic abuser scott free
February 9, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Much like with Covid, I watch a whole lot of my supposedly progressive friends go blank eyed when I mention that his wife, his kids, and an entire plane crew agreed in depositions that he abused his family. Facts apparently do care about your entertainment.
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I can watch this on mute and know it’s bad
guys. the kid rock performance is uh. well it’s exactly what you’d expect
February 8, 2026 at 3:28 AM
I can watch this on mute and know it’s bad
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A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images
February 6, 2026 at 11:03 PM
A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images
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All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.
February 6, 2026 at 12:38 AM
All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.
my god this season of Industry is BLEAK
February 4, 2026 at 3:38 AM
my god this season of Industry is BLEAK
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God the rage this makes me feel. The open, brazen support for a genocidal regime when all the while our country is dying too. Here. People, here, who have given Schumer all the power he has. He doesn’t give a fuck about the murder he funds. Not there. And not here.
February 2, 2026 at 2:17 AM
God the rage this makes me feel. The open, brazen support for a genocidal regime when all the while our country is dying too. Here. People, here, who have given Schumer all the power he has. He doesn’t give a fuck about the murder he funds. Not there. And not here.
Feb. 1st feels like a good time to share that this is the In/Out for 2026 list with which I most closely align (via @jessicabennett.bsky.social) jessicabennett.substack.com/p/a-2026-in-...
A 2026 in-and-out list, courtesy of my students
In: Yearning, gay smut, dry humping. Out: nonchalance, baby!!!!
jessicabennett.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Feb. 1st feels like a good time to share that this is the In/Out for 2026 list with which I most closely align (via @jessicabennett.bsky.social) jessicabennett.substack.com/p/a-2026-in-...
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Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
January 31, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30.
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad
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ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 4:58 PM
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
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Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww
January 29, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza.
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
This is textbook censorship of the highest degree
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A gun kills many men before it’s done.
September 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A gun kills many men before it’s done.
text from a former coworker who is now a Chief Technology Officer
January 27, 2026 at 12:36 PM
text from a former coworker who is now a Chief Technology Officer
ah, yes, who could have seen this coming, other than everyone.
January 26, 2026 at 5:19 AM
ah, yes, who could have seen this coming, other than everyone.
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I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.
Tho I will say, in his defense, he's not the first person to be confused by how quickly the romance authors & readers can whip up finely tuned logistics out of nothing. 😂
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.
how are we supposed to keep going like this
They are grabbing and bursting testicles.
That’s sexual assault.
We already know women detainees have been raped, assaulted and in some cases sterilized.
This is sick stuff. They want to inflict maximum pain.
They’re abusers drunk on power.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That’s sexual assault.
We already know women detainees have been raped, assaulted and in some cases sterilized.
This is sick stuff. They want to inflict maximum pain.
They’re abusers drunk on power.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse
Civil rights coalition calls for immediate closure of camp, where more than 2,700 detainees are being held
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:54 AM
how are we supposed to keep going like this