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Kristen Radtke
@kristenradtke.bsky.social
Creative Director at The Verge, author of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS
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If reading about college students using AI to cheat made you feel crazy, wait till you hear about where they get their news
Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
Zoomers get all their news from TikTok — and refuse to go elsewhere
www.theverge.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Very cool that @kristenradtke.bsky.social won an Online Journalism Award for excellence in visual storytelling for her comic about motherhood and surveillance awards.journalists.org/entries/how-...
How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
www.theverge.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A terrific (and hilarious) feature from @miasato.bsky.social, with brilliant design from @kristenradtke.bsky.social and @macaree.bsky.social.
How dupes turned online shopping upside down
When everything is the same, who gets to claim ownership over ideas?
www.theverge.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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All gas, no breaks.

Only you can make this poll a reality: zohranfornyc.com/events
June 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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May 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Today marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon. To commemorate—and challenge—the legacy of the conflict, The Verge commissioned five stories from five Vietnamese writers in a series called American War.

Illustrations by Nguyen Tran 🧵
American War
A special series from The Verge that confronts the legacy and mythmaking of the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon.
www.theverge.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The only accounts I want to follow are coral reefs
May 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Just an incredible piece of visual storytelling from the great @mattyhuynh.bsky.social www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Comic: Wandering Souls
The sounds that still haunt us, even 50 years after the Vietnam War.
www.theverge.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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before I like, bury my head in a garden bed for the rest of the day, however literally, i want to re-share my piece about what we rob from children when we don't allow them to authentically be.

fuck all the monsters who've abetted this genocide. i curse you.

www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...
Mourning the Trans Boyhood I Never Got
I won't ever be nine or fourteen or twenty-one again.
www.esquire.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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April 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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"Tell me about your TV garden and your synthesizer library," asks @theverge.com's @kristenradtke.bsky.social.

And I am so glad @jessiechar.com & @maxy.bsky.social answered.

www.theverge.com/tech/631922/...
The beautiful, retro tech of two theatrical sound designers
How a pandemic reading group and some color swatches led to one of Brooklyn’s coolest creative partnerships
www.theverge.com
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Cartoonist R. E. Burke has been returned to the UK after three weeks of detention and international outrage
Cartoonist R.E. Burke returns to UK after three weeks in detention
Cartoonist R. E. Burke has been returned to the UK after three weeks of detention and international outrage
www.comicsbeat.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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If a legal permanent resident can have his green card revoked for exercising his first amendment rights, there’s nothing to stop them from going after citizens, too.
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.

Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.

His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.
Shocking But Not Surprising Strikes Again (and Again)
The Caprices of the Oligarchs Shocking but not surprising is a phrase I've often reverted to in the past eight years, for things that are both hideous and predictable, maybe transgressive against the...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.
February 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Women who worked at semiconductor factories in Silicon Valley are at higher risk of miscarriage or giving birth to children with disabilities due to exposure to toxic chemicals. With a new chip fab boom underway, are we just repeating the mistakes as the past? www.theverge.com/features/611...
The women who made America’s microchips and the children who paid for it
The US wants to manufacture chips again — but there’s a dark, overlooked history.
www.theverge.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“The truth is that most of us are brave, generous, altruistic, creative as we rise to meet the demands of a sudden disaster by rescuing and taking care of each other and re-building the terms of survival”
from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...
February 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Six ways to send a message to your representatives
Six ways to send a message to your representatives
Let politicians know what you want.
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February 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter’s crusade to save books from Amazon
Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter amps up his crusade against Amazon
The bookselling platform’s next frontier in the fight against Amazon: ebooks.
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February 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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On est d'accord pour dire que ca ne s'arrange pas, n'est ce pas ?

Page 141, "SEEK YOU" voyage dans le solitude contemporaine
- Kristen Radtke
January 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Chris Ware explains how to draw strangers on the bus without getting arrested
Chris Ware explains how to draw strangers on the bus without getting arrested
An interview with one of America’s most important cartoonists
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January 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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The emotional entanglement of new motherhood and surveillance tech is movingly captured in this autobiographical comic.

Hats off 🎩 to @kristenradtke.bsky.social and @theverge.com for creating this wonderful bit of internet storytelling!
How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
www.theverge.com
January 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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December 30, 2024 at 9:03 PM