Em Gunter 顧安 🍉
@emgunter.bsky.social
Aspiring anthropologist studying in Taiwan who always stands up for what is right. I care about immigration and queer life in the American South. I'm also a photographer and something of a journalist.
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Em Gunter 顧安 🍉
@emgunter.bsky.social
· Oct 22
August 11, 2017 - white nationalists march the lawn with tiki torches, no police intervention
May 4, 2024 - students protest israel's ongoing genocide of palestine, riot police beat and arrest protesters
it's not about the protesting, it's what we're protesting
May 4, 2024 - students protest israel's ongoing genocide of palestine, riot police beat and arrest protesters
it's not about the protesting, it's what we're protesting
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ME WHEN JOYCE CAROL OATES SAYS SOME DUMB OLD LADY SHIT: Crying Snipes with gun meme
ME WHEN JOYCE CAROL OATES LETS ELON MUSK HAVE IT WITH BOTH BARRELS: Legolas and Gimli meme
ME WHEN JOYCE CAROL OATES LETS ELON MUSK HAVE IT WITH BOTH BARRELS: Legolas and Gimli meme
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
ME WHEN JOYCE CAROL OATES SAYS SOME DUMB OLD LADY SHIT: Crying Snipes with gun meme
ME WHEN JOYCE CAROL OATES LETS ELON MUSK HAVE IT WITH BOTH BARRELS: Legolas and Gimli meme
ME WHEN JOYCE CAROL OATES LETS ELON MUSK HAVE IT WITH BOTH BARRELS: Legolas and Gimli meme
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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i follow a lot of people covering ICE's terror campaign but it was eye opening to see irl how angry everyone is. every store has anti ice signs and know your rights brochures. there's anti ice graffiti everywhere. people are pissed.
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i follow a lot of people covering ICE's terror campaign but it was eye opening to see irl how angry everyone is. every store has anti ice signs and know your rights brochures. there's anti ice graffiti everywhere. people are pissed.
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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This is a bad use of city funds: $1.2 million to help people carry their shopping bags, give directions, and sweep leaves. This is the squeaky wheel getting the grease, not a solution to real problems.
www.cvilletomorrow.org/some-busines...
www.cvilletomorrow.org/some-busines...
Some business owners welcome 'million-dollar clean team' on Downtown Mall, others find it 'dubious'
Some Charlottesville business owners hope that a $1.2 million two-year pilot program for cleaning and ambassador services will help declining foot traffic; others say it could push unhoused folks away...
www.cvilletomorrow.org
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
This is a bad use of city funds: $1.2 million to help people carry their shopping bags, give directions, and sweep leaves. This is the squeaky wheel getting the grease, not a solution to real problems.
www.cvilletomorrow.org/some-busines...
www.cvilletomorrow.org/some-busines...
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May this be the thing that finally clues folks into .. if someone is constantly terrible to people …
Don’t wait for the smoking gun .
Don’t wait for the smoking gun .
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
May this be the thing that finally clues folks into .. if someone is constantly terrible to people …
Don’t wait for the smoking gun .
Don’t wait for the smoking gun .
Here's a gift link for y'all.
It's also important to note that this Judge retired to senior status in 2013 so his replacement was appointed by Obama more than 10 years ago. His resignation is not creating an opening on the court.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
It's also important to note that this Judge retired to senior status in 2013 so his replacement was appointed by Obama more than 10 years ago. His resignation is not creating an opening on the court.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Here's a gift link for y'all.
It's also important to note that this Judge retired to senior status in 2013 so his replacement was appointed by Obama more than 10 years ago. His resignation is not creating an opening on the court.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
It's also important to note that this Judge retired to senior status in 2013 so his replacement was appointed by Obama more than 10 years ago. His resignation is not creating an opening on the court.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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it's our workplace, it's our university, all love to pete and uic
If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
it's our workplace, it's our university, all love to pete and uic
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
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The regime despises poor people, yes. And importantly it does not fear poor people as a political force. It's important to take both of these together to understand what they are doing with SNAP. They do not believe that they will incur lasting political costs for their current actions.
November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The regime despises poor people, yes. And importantly it does not fear poor people as a political force. It's important to take both of these together to understand what they are doing with SNAP. They do not believe that they will incur lasting political costs for their current actions.
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THE POOREST PERSONS ON TWITTER MAY HAVE ACCESS TO MORE BEAUTY AND MEANING THAN THE ‘MOST WEALTHY PERSON IN THE WORLD’
omg.
Just absolutely devastating, from the top ropes.
omg.
Just absolutely devastating, from the top ropes.
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
THE POOREST PERSONS ON TWITTER MAY HAVE ACCESS TO MORE BEAUTY AND MEANING THAN THE ‘MOST WEALTHY PERSON IN THE WORLD’
omg.
Just absolutely devastating, from the top ropes.
omg.
Just absolutely devastating, from the top ropes.
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"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."
November 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."
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And let's name names. #ElonMusk #MarcoRubio #RussellVought and #DonaldTrump (with help from #JohnRoberts). This is premeditated murder--of children. You can spin it anyway you like but you cannot escape this fact.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
And let's name names. #ElonMusk #MarcoRubio #RussellVought and #DonaldTrump (with help from #JohnRoberts). This is premeditated murder--of children. You can spin it anyway you like but you cannot escape this fact.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.
November 5, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Not to replace substance with message but I genuinely do not think that the GOP establishment is prepared, nor capable, of regulating itself in a world where all high profile democrats are directly staring into a camera and telling Trump to go fuck himself.
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Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
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Apropos re Mamdani win: Eugene Debs was born 170 years ago today.
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Apropos re Mamdani win: Eugene Debs was born 170 years ago today.
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We are so fucking back
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We are so fucking back
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Alito to Katyal, eliciting laughter from the other justices: “I wonder if you ever thought that your legacy as a constitutional advocate would be the man who revived the nondelegation argument.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Alito to Katyal, eliciting laughter from the other justices: “I wonder if you ever thought that your legacy as a constitutional advocate would be the man who revived the nondelegation argument.”
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The nature of policing is to avoid accountability and responsibility. That is how it works, in the past, today, and in the future. (I’m not allowing responses because I don’t want to keep explaining. At this point if you tell me the police need to be more professional, I’ll just tap this.)
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The nature of policing is to avoid accountability and responsibility. That is how it works, in the past, today, and in the future. (I’m not allowing responses because I don’t want to keep explaining. At this point if you tell me the police need to be more professional, I’ll just tap this.)
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
One of my friends in the US bought me a copy that he's mailing to me here in Taiwan. I can't wait to get it lmao
it was so sweet of the NY post to make a special commemorative issue
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
One of my friends in the US bought me a copy that he's mailing to me here in Taiwan. I can't wait to get it lmao