Marvelous Hebden
@marveloushebden.bsky.social
Writer • Grad Student • Cultural Studies • English Lit • Folklore, Myth, & Fairy Tales • Creative Nonfiction • Poetry • Art • Nonbinary, they/them.
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I’ve had a minute to settle in and think about what I’ll post here—likely what I’m reading, including poetry, and art that relates to what I’m reading or what I’m exploring in writing. But study is a big part of my life right now, and rather than hoard words and concepts, I’ll share those here too.
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In 2024, the Democratic Party’s outer-borough collapse in NYC voting mirrored its national crack-up.
We went back to those areas to see how Mamdani did with the working-class, non-white voters Democrats lost.
We went back to those areas to see how Mamdani did with the working-class, non-white voters Democrats lost.
Democrats collapsed here last year. How’d Zohran do?
New York's mayor-elect launched his campaign by talking to non-voters and Trump supporters. Some of them even came along.
www.motherjones.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
In 2024, the Democratic Party’s outer-borough collapse in NYC voting mirrored its national crack-up.
We went back to those areas to see how Mamdani did with the working-class, non-white voters Democrats lost.
We went back to those areas to see how Mamdani did with the working-class, non-white voters Democrats lost.
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Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power.
We've seen how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.
Be warned.
We've seen how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.
Be warned.
BREAKING: Tesla shareholders just approved a pay package for Elon Musk that’s worth up to $1 trillion.
November 6, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power.
We've seen how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.
Be warned.
We've seen how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires.
Be warned.
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The White House website has updated it's Major Events Timeline to include some extremely political content attacking Democrats. Every structure, symbol, and system has to be debased to serve the MAGA-agenda.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
October 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The White House website has updated it's Major Events Timeline to include some extremely political content attacking Democrats. Every structure, symbol, and system has to be debased to serve the MAGA-agenda.
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh...
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Big news out of Indiana today as Republican legislators surprise everyone by saying no to Donald Trump.
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
October 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Big news out of Indiana today as Republican legislators surprise everyone by saying no to Donald Trump.
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
Each crack in Trump’s facade of inevitability will lead to more. Let’s keep it up!
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Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.
The lower courts doing their best to maintain Checks and Balances despite the erosion and corruption of Checks and Balances within the Supreme Court
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The lower courts doing their best to maintain Checks and Balances despite the erosion and corruption of Checks and Balances within the Supreme Court
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15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
October 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.
Short note and short video (roughly 2.5 minutes) by Timothy Synder on No Kings and propaganda.
October 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Short note and short video (roughly 2.5 minutes) by Timothy Synder on No Kings and propaganda.
“Many people who consider themselves non-political or independent, or moderate Republican, or who even voted for Trump last November, can’t avoid seeing what’s now come so clearly into the open.”
— Robert Reich
Sunday Thought: The Big Reveal
— Robert Reich
Sunday Thought: The Big Reveal
October 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
“Many people who consider themselves non-political or independent, or moderate Republican, or who even voted for Trump last November, can’t avoid seeing what’s now come so clearly into the open.”
— Robert Reich
Sunday Thought: The Big Reveal
— Robert Reich
Sunday Thought: The Big Reveal
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Understanding the dangers facing US educators in Trump’s America.
A good thread.
bsky.app/profile/lmac...
A good thread.
bsky.app/profile/lmac...
I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
October 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Understanding the dangers facing US educators in Trump’s America.
A good thread.
bsky.app/profile/lmac...
A good thread.
bsky.app/profile/lmac...
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This is why I'm saying to be careful what you say online. By all means, oppose this administration vocally, loudly, and publicly. Just don't snitch on yourself in the process.
truthout.org/articles/tex...
truthout.org/articles/tex...
Texas AG Announces Undercover Operations Into “Antifa,” Cites “Transgenderism”
The move echoes a push by the Trump administration to weaponize counterterrorism tools against left-leaning groups.
truthout.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This is why I'm saying to be careful what you say online. By all means, oppose this administration vocally, loudly, and publicly. Just don't snitch on yourself in the process.
truthout.org/articles/tex...
truthout.org/articles/tex...
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This was recommended by Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Ezra Klein show the other day. I was halfway through the book and didn’t yet see why he was recommending it as especially relevant, but I finished reading it tonight, and it’s pointedly relevant. A must-read: The Sirens’ Call (2025) by Chris Hayes. 1/
September 30, 2025 at 5:12 AM
This was recommended by Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Ezra Klein show the other day. I was halfway through the book and didn’t yet see why he was recommending it as especially relevant, but I finished reading it tonight, and it’s pointedly relevant. A must-read: The Sirens’ Call (2025) by Chris Hayes. 1/
“If Democrats sit this debate out, Miller has calculated, Trump's deceptions can flood public information spaces, persuading low-info, low-attention voters that his autocratic encroachments constitute a proportional response to the civic unrest he keeps propagandizing about.” — Greg Sargent
October 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“If Democrats sit this debate out, Miller has calculated, Trump's deceptions can flood public information spaces, persuading low-info, low-attention voters that his autocratic encroachments constitute a proportional response to the civic unrest he keeps propagandizing about.” — Greg Sargent
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Once again @nytimes.com heds and subheds are failing to convey to readers what is actually happening. The casual reader will come away with the impression that this is a genuinely held rationale on Trump's part, rather than a corrupt pretext for lawless, authoritarian threats.
October 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Once again @nytimes.com heds and subheds are failing to convey to readers what is actually happening. The casual reader will come away with the impression that this is a genuinely held rationale on Trump's part, rather than a corrupt pretext for lawless, authoritarian threats.
Enjoyed a few chuckles reading this.
This entire administration is the embodiment of the Underpants Gnome business plan from South Park www.splinter.com/trump-and-th...
Trump and the GOP Float a Great Idea to Get Annihilated in Virginia Elections
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Enjoyed a few chuckles reading this.
“Is America Contagious?”
Discussing global politics
Article by Anna Merlan, journalist and Mother Jones contributor
Discussing global politics
Article by Anna Merlan, journalist and Mother Jones contributor
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“Is America Contagious?”
Discussing global politics
Article by Anna Merlan, journalist and Mother Jones contributor
Discussing global politics
Article by Anna Merlan, journalist and Mother Jones contributor
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He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.
October 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.
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Our dementia-addled President In Name Only hacks it up on the golf course again this weekend while rage-boy Gestapo Miller seethes and plots the 4th Reich.
October 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Our dementia-addled President In Name Only hacks it up on the golf course again this weekend while rage-boy Gestapo Miller seethes and plots the 4th Reich.
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A pretty good possibility is that he causes massive civil disorder in the US and implodes the whole administration in a ball of fire when it turns out America in 2025 is not, in fact, Germany in 1932. I think he could even get jailed for his troubles. Or worse.
October 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
A pretty good possibility is that he causes massive civil disorder in the US and implodes the whole administration in a ball of fire when it turns out America in 2025 is not, in fact, Germany in 1932. I think he could even get jailed for his troubles. Or worse.
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He's not a historian, he's not even a competent demagogue, he's just a sneering brat who spent his entire life fantasizing about being the guy who gets to say things like "We will crush the radical communists and restore our fatherland." He thinks it's a cheat code around having to do politics
October 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
He's not a historian, he's not even a competent demagogue, he's just a sneering brat who spent his entire life fantasizing about being the guy who gets to say things like "We will crush the radical communists and restore our fatherland." He thinks it's a cheat code around having to do politics
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Trump could have entered office, engaged in some corruption, let the GOP cut taxes for him, and played golf for four years, and left in 2029 a rich man.
But instead he put Stephen Miller in charge. And Stephen Miller doesn't want to be rich. Stephen Miller wants to do fascism.
But instead he put Stephen Miller in charge. And Stephen Miller doesn't want to be rich. Stephen Miller wants to do fascism.
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Trump could have entered office, engaged in some corruption, let the GOP cut taxes for him, and played golf for four years, and left in 2029 a rich man.
But instead he put Stephen Miller in charge. And Stephen Miller doesn't want to be rich. Stephen Miller wants to do fascism.
But instead he put Stephen Miller in charge. And Stephen Miller doesn't want to be rich. Stephen Miller wants to do fascism.
“Trolling the American people with the idea that Congress has no power and Russell Vought is running the government to destroy it is an odd choice for a president who is already deeply unpopular.”
October 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“Trolling the American people with the idea that Congress has no power and Russell Vought is running the government to destroy it is an odd choice for a president who is already deeply unpopular.”
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Rest in peace Jane Goodall you made this world a better place
October 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Rest in peace Jane Goodall you made this world a better place
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October 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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That was a silence for the Ages
September 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
That was a silence for the Ages