Maxine Kaplan
@maxinegkaplan.bsky.social
Author of THE ACCIDENTAL BAD GIRL, WENCH, and more TK. My brand is feminist genre exercises. I collect old things and watch TV.
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We could solve like half the problems in education with smaller class sizes (like 15 instead of 30 kids crushed in a room). Including that it would be easier to find teachers b/c they wouldn’t get so burnt out.
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
We could solve like half the problems in education with smaller class sizes (like 15 instead of 30 kids crushed in a room). Including that it would be easier to find teachers b/c they wouldn’t get so burnt out.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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So I'm reading the cursed profile and this shows up. Seems throwaway but, in the vernacular, I "couldn't help but wonder," if it's actually significant that this type of political reporter conceives of politicians this way, and I'm very much including her curious use of only one set of pronouns.
November 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So I'm reading the cursed profile and this shows up. Seems throwaway but, in the vernacular, I "couldn't help but wonder," if it's actually significant that this type of political reporter conceives of politicians this way, and I'm very much including her curious use of only one set of pronouns.
I just got tickets to a screening of Home Alone with Macaulay Culkin because I need to feel joy, so guess what, it’s Christmas now bitch. Skipping right over thanksgiving
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just got tickets to a screening of Home Alone with Macaulay Culkin because I need to feel joy, so guess what, it’s Christmas now bitch. Skipping right over thanksgiving
Just a toxic stew of weird nepo babies jerking each other off
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Just a toxic stew of weird nepo babies jerking each other off
They are coming for psychiatric medicine, and it's not nuanced. Any drug can be abused but there is nothing inherently dangerous about Lorazepam. I've been much more endangered by Ambien for example.
So this WashPo headline is irresponsible. I've been prescribed Lorazepam for 20 years, bc before I had severe, rolling panic attacks. It eases symptoms of panic disorder. It is generally prescribed in wildly low doses & is so far from addictive, in 20 years, I've never run even low, let alone out.
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
They are coming for psychiatric medicine, and it's not nuanced. Any drug can be abused but there is nothing inherently dangerous about Lorazepam. I've been much more endangered by Ambien for example.
So this WashPo headline is irresponsible. I've been prescribed Lorazepam for 20 years, bc before I had severe, rolling panic attacks. It eases symptoms of panic disorder. It is generally prescribed in wildly low doses & is so far from addictive, in 20 years, I've never run even low, let alone out.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
So this WashPo headline is irresponsible. I've been prescribed Lorazepam for 20 years, bc before I had severe, rolling panic attacks. It eases symptoms of panic disorder. It is generally prescribed in wildly low doses & is so far from addictive, in 20 years, I've never run even low, let alone out.
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It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches
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I think a lot about the interview with one of Kevin Spacey’s victims, assaulted at 15 when Spacey was 35, who said that when he turned 35 himself he deliberately tried to see if he could look at a 15yo and feel desire, but couldn’t. he was like “that’s a baby.” that’s when it finally really sunk in
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I think a lot about the interview with one of Kevin Spacey’s victims, assaulted at 15 when Spacey was 35, who said that when he turned 35 himself he deliberately tried to see if he could look at a 15yo and feel desire, but couldn’t. he was like “that’s a baby.” that’s when it finally really sunk in
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Hey that's my mayor(-elect)! So glad I knocked doors for him!!
Zohran Mamdani says that New York City stands with Starbucks employees!
He points out their CEO made 96 billion last year.
That’s 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker salary.
Boycott Starbucks. Support the workers. Demand they receive a living wage.
He points out their CEO made 96 billion last year.
That’s 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker salary.
Boycott Starbucks. Support the workers. Demand they receive a living wage.
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hey that's my mayor(-elect)! So glad I knocked doors for him!!
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My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?
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We seriously have Republicans talking about going back to the “good old days” of high-risk pools, which just meant that people with preexisting conditions like cancer couldn’t get health insurance.
Tom Emmer: "You're gonna have to create high risk pools again. Just go back where Minnesota was before the ACA."
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We seriously have Republicans talking about going back to the “good old days” of high-risk pools, which just meant that people with preexisting conditions like cancer couldn’t get health insurance.
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
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Hey, NYC! I’m on this New York Comedy Festival show TOMORROW! Check it out! (Caveat, NYC, 9:30 pm)
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hey, NYC! I’m on this New York Comedy Festival show TOMORROW! Check it out! (Caveat, NYC, 9:30 pm)
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"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
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November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
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America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate
November 10, 2025 at 3:27 AM
So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate
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I just think that if you’re okay with people — adults, children, the elderly — starving, your soul is destined for dark places bc you are an evil person.
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I just think that if you’re okay with people — adults, children, the elderly — starving, your soul is destined for dark places bc you are an evil person.
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It's the first Friday of the month, which means my new Queer Romances post is up on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books! smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2025/11/nove...
November 2025 Queer Romances | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
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November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
It's the first Friday of the month, which means my new Queer Romances post is up on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books! smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2025/11/nove...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Given the attack on academia right now, hats off to campuses that are not just hardening for climate change, but actively including it in education and degree requirements.
Climate change ‘is the new liberal arts’: Colleges build environmental lessons into degrees
University of California, San Diego, requires all students to learn about climate change, while other schools have added environmental sustainability requirements.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Given the attack on academia right now, hats off to campuses that are not just hardening for climate change, but actively including it in education and degree requirements.
And that’s not even touching the way they invoke the dual loyalties trope
I will also add that insisting that opposing both genocide and the curtailing of free speech (a right inherent to BDS movements) is fundamentally antisemitic is one of the most devastatingly anti-Jew sentiments I can imagine, and every editorial that does this makes Jews less safe and more othered.
i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read
November 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And that’s not even touching the way they invoke the dual loyalties trope
The NY Daily News can get fucked, in other words.
- a Jewish New Yorker
- a Jewish New Yorker
I will also add that insisting that opposing both genocide and the curtailing of free speech (a right inherent to BDS movements) is fundamentally antisemitic is one of the most devastatingly anti-Jew sentiments I can imagine, and every editorial that does this makes Jews less safe and more othered.
i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The NY Daily News can get fucked, in other words.
- a Jewish New Yorker
- a Jewish New Yorker
I will also add that insisting that opposing both genocide and the curtailing of free speech (a right inherent to BDS movements) is fundamentally antisemitic is one of the most devastatingly anti-Jew sentiments I can imagine, and every editorial that does this makes Jews less safe and more othered.
i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I will also add that insisting that opposing both genocide and the curtailing of free speech (a right inherent to BDS movements) is fundamentally antisemitic is one of the most devastatingly anti-Jew sentiments I can imagine, and every editorial that does this makes Jews less safe and more othered.
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i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 AM
i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read