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Jennifer—em Dash—Graham
@jgriffingraham.bsky.social
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Author of the VERONICA MARS books and the upcoming YA thriller THE FALL OF IRIS HENLEY. She/her.
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Jennifer—em Dash—Graham @jgriffingraham.bsky.social · 10d
Please feel free to mute me for a few weeks if you need to; I’ll be talking about pet loss.
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Tonight’s family watch
Edward Scissorhands movie poster
January 17, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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I have nothing to add to this except a variety of extremely smug sounds
ositanwanevu.com Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 1d
Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Most people didn’t think much of it when the university dean, Ben Crocker, called a student named Dan into his office on Monday, Sept. 9, the first day of classes. But at 7:44 in the evening, they received an email from three administrators saying that Dan had been removed from campus, “transported to his home out of state,” and barred from further access to the university. The nature of the allegations concerned, at their core, a pair of charged statements Dan allegedly made that would be familiar to any Title IX officer. The first was a general statement implying that UATX girls carried themselves physically in a way that invited sexual assault. The second was a suggestion to a specific female student that she had carried herself in a way that invited sexual assault. Dan had already been the subject of some negative attention on campus because of provocative statements he’d made in a UATX-based Discord “introductions” chat. These included a challenge — “If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you” — which was a reference to the 1981 movie “Stripes” and likely misunderstood by fellow students. In another exchange, a discussion of transgender issues, Dan expressed reservations about hormone treatment and said that he couldn’t wait “to play devil’s advocate for legalizing pedophilia.” Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Crocker visited the dorms, where he hosted a meeting on the roof to discuss the issue with students. Crocker’s message was that Dan’s conduct had been evaluated to be a “credible threat” — a phrase that would be repeated by the administration many times over the following days. Crocker then faced what one student attendee recalled as a “firing squad” of questions. Some students said that Dan had seemed off, but others saw his hasty removal as an example of the very cancel culture to which UATX was supposed to be the antithesis. Several students noted a lack of diversity. Consistent with its emphasis on “merit-based admissions,” UATX doesn’t publish demographic data. The students with whom I spoke said their classmates — and the college’s leadership — were overwhelmingly white, disproportionately came from wealthy families and had an overrepresentation of apparent neurodivergence. They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. “I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be,” one current student told me. “You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.” Classes weren’t as innovative as most students expected. “Year one was exceptionally boring,” the student said. “They did great books, they just didn’t do it in a great way,” said another student, who lamented the amount of memorization required. “I thought we were going to be intensely debating,” he said. Several students shared course syllabi with me. Most are easy enough to imagine being offered on any campus — with the notable exception of math and science. “The math classes go over algebra you learned in ninth grade,” a student told me. “There was just nothing there.” He described the offering as “schizophrenic” and described a class he’d taken at University of Texas at Austin as “exponentially more important.” Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment. The poor quality of the science offerings had bothered Heying and Pinker. “Others thought I was the token liberal,” Heying told me, “but I came to understand myself as the token scientist.” In an email, Pinker wrote, “They should have hired a widely esteemed scientist and proven program builder to set up their science division.” Another surprising similarity with other colleges stemmed directly from Dan’s expulsion: The students feared cancellation. “At any moment a frivolous Title IX complaint could be filed against you,” a former student told me. “I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” During the many conversations I had reporting this story, two questions came up more than any other. The first: Where was Bari Weiss? Many of the people I interviewed told me about internal conversations and shared internal emails. Weiss, who remains on the board of trustees, was almost never present in the conversations as they were related to me, and while I saw many emails on which Kanelos and Ferguson were copied, I never saw any including Weiss. speaks onstage during an event in New York City, on Nov. 19, 2024. | Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press One person I spoke to, who was present during the early planning stages, told me that Weiss was “very elusive” and almost never present in person. This was ironic since UATX was closely associated with Weiss — a bust of whom now resides in the school library. Weiss, meanwhile, has only risen further during the Trump 2.0 era and is now editor-in-chief of CBS News, where she has been criticized as genuflecting to the Trump administration. A spokesperson for CBS News did not respond to a request for comment from Weiss. One former member of the development team told me that they would routinely ask prospective donors how they got to know UATX. “Eighty percent of the time, the answer was Bari Weiss,” they said. “It was very often referred to as Bari Weiss’ University, or Bari Weiss’ University Project, or Bari Weiss’ University of Austin.” For several people, this was a source of resentment. “I don’t care whether she wants to pretend this is all gone now — she is the reason that this place exists. She was huge, she was held in such high regard, she had such an enormous impact,” the former staffer said. “I want her to be held to account,” she added. “I’m pissed.”
January 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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NVidia chief creep says resistance and scorn for AI have done a lot of harm. Good. Nice confirmation it's working. Keep it up. Although the main thing is this stuff is harmful crap so the mind and body tend to revolt against it automatically.
January 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
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My best friend's niece, Daphné, has terminal brain cancer. We created this gofundme to help the parents raise money to be able to spend as much as the time she has remaining with them. Please consider donating if you can. Every little bit helps

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Donate to Help Daphné's parents be there for her, organized by Cindy Rivet
version française au bas Daphné is 7 years old. She loves unicorns, princesses … Cindy Rivet needs your support for Help Daphné's parents be there for her
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January 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
jgriffingraham.bsky.social
Nothing in here for Texas—anyone have one to add?
emilylhauser.bsky.social Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2d
HOW TO REPORT ICE

I haven't sung @meganpiont.bsky.social's praises in a minute but DO NOT THINK that I am not singing them in my heart!

If you're in Maine: Why not make a bunch of zines?

And if you're not: Why not go to here drive.google.com/drive/folder... and find zines for your state/area?
January 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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If you are in the market, support this trans-owned sex shoppe that has been doing boots-on-ground support in Minneapolis!

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January 15, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, I do not regret to inform you we are going to win
January 15, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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They even got the "challenge coins" HOLY FUCK
January 15, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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Got booking info forms, DNA request and database forms, the immigration judges, instructions on how to book their hotel I literally im losing it yall this is insans
January 15, 2026 at 5:15 AM
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They got the names of ICE and FBI agents, judges, phone numbers home addresses hotel receipts transport maps sorry for repeating myself but I cant fucking believe this shit
January 15, 2026 at 5:13 AM
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vickyacab.bsky.social
Booking info, staging plans, name of the hotels where theyre staying, literally got the receipts from the agent for the fucking hotel room "staging them in Wisconsin in a Wyndham " holy shit holy shit
January 15, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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vickyacab.bsky.social
Literally they fled on foot and they left maps transports logistic plans operational details this is insane they are just straight getting completely owned on a fucking live stream by a crew of rioters ive never seen anything like it
January 15, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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Some ICE vehicles got taken and a streamer is saying that the entire MPLS city wide battle plan, operational overviews, tactical details and agent lists + id info just got found in the car lmao these clowns driving around with hatchbacks full of their whole shit like the villains in an immersive sim
January 15, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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Imagine your job consisting of the angriest people you've ever seen in your entire life yelling at you 24/7 and throwing bottles of piss in your car while you battle the subzero elements they don't even bat an eyelash about.

Imagine the toll that takes on your psyche. May they never find peace.
January 15, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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haymarketbooks.org
“Our country is at war with its people, and your goodness makes you an enemy, a citizen insurgent.“ —Danez Smith
An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good
Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness
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January 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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lol
Consider Amira Zairi, a self-professed “AI educator” and “ambassador” for Adobe, LeonardoAI, and TripoAI, who posted a scathing rant this week on X-formerly-Twitter to her 49,000 followers. Her complaint? Other people were “plagiarizing” her unique AI prompts. “‘Make your own prompts’ isn’t advice. It’s basic integrity,” Zairi wrote, using syntax that reads suspiciously like text generated by ChatGPT. “I’m honestly fed up. Changing a few words, renaming the prompt, or slightly rephrasing it doesn’t make it yours, the idea is still the same, the vibe is the same, and the results are obviously similar.” “And no, this isn’t about one or two people, and it didn’t happen once!!!!” Zairi continued. “Creating your own prompts is actually easier than copying someone else’s work! Try it.”
January 13, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Now reading
Moderation by Elaine Castillo
January 14, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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mattielubchansky.com
Great question!

It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider.

The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.
January 13, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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My hat is off to the brave hoes out there keeping our ICE officers’ wives and girlfriends warm at night while they are in Minnesota
January 12, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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tacobellquarterly.org
Everyone has some shit to say about how they're going to write a book, and they never will because only you are emotionally naked enough to give yourself over to the years of pointlessness, spiraling, and incredibly difficult work that will almost certainly lead to absolutely nothing! Live más.
January 12, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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today-maybe.bsky.social
Digital illustration of a stack of five ravens standing on each other’s backs. They are colored in unravenlike gradient colors against a pink mottled background. A series of five yellow speech balloons, one word per bird, reads top to bottom ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
September 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"

A list of ideas!
January 11, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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manucleardevice.bsky.social
I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time
John Booth, a 19-year-old apprentice who joined a Luddite attack on a textile mill in April 1812. He was injured, detained and died after being allegedly tortured to give up the identity of his fellow Luddites. Booth's last words became a legend: "Can you keep a secret?" he whispered to the local priest, who attested that he could. The dying Booth replied, "So can I."
January 11, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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hplovescats.bsky.social
what on earth
hannahgais.bsky.social hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 7d
That actually kind of sounds like your fantasy, Naomi.
Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. @naomirwolf Okay, I’ll just say it. I’ve seen enough videos of the faces of liberal white women in conflict with @ICE, to know what is up. Liberal men at this point (sorry) are disproportionately estrogenized, physically passive, submissive due to woke gender hectoring, or porn-addicted. White liberal women are disproportionately sexually frustrated. Policing others as in the pandemic was an outlet for them, but it was not nearly enough. The smiles you see on their faces now say it all: white women long for all out combat with ICE - who tend to be strong, physically confident, masculine men - because the conflict is a form of physical release for them. They long for actual kinetic battle and it will get even uglier. 5:54 PM · Jan 9, 2026 · 474.2K Views
January 10, 2026 at 9:34 PM