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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The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
They're Coming for Our Daughters
The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures
jessica.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...
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Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
February 10, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
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if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
if i know discord for anything is that they can and will pussy out if people bully them enough for something. get fucking loud about this
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I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.
During freezing temperatures in Port Arthur, Texas, a 61-year-old homeless man was found dead in his wheelchair outside a convenience store.
He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day.
This is a diseased society.
He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day.
This is a diseased society.
'What's wrong with the world?' Man in wheelchair found dead outside in freezing temps
The 61-year-old man had been released from a hospital the day before.
news4sanantonio.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:05 PM
I've been to some countries where people live under military rule or autocracy. And without fail, one of the questions I get when they ask about life in the U.S. is whether it's true that Americans just let homeless people die on the street.
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(President Xi Jinping picks up the phone. There's nothing but breathing on the other line.)
XI: "Quack, quack, Mr. Ducksworth."
(He hangs up the phone. It has begun.)
XI: "Quack, quack, Mr. Ducksworth."
(He hangs up the phone. It has begun.)
February 9, 2026 at 11:58 PM
(President Xi Jinping picks up the phone. There's nothing but breathing on the other line.)
XI: "Quack, quack, Mr. Ducksworth."
(He hangs up the phone. It has begun.)
XI: "Quack, quack, Mr. Ducksworth."
(He hangs up the phone. It has begun.)
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Lyda, my bestie and fellow SF/F writer, has been volunteering at a food mutual aid that has had to rapidly scale up. This is their venmo, please consider donating.
I know we are all tapped out, but if you have anything to spare, the mutual aid place I volunteer at is desperate for funds to keep the lights on and folks fec. Venmo: @chef-collective-1123 or casapp: $chefcollective1123. Please share widely.
February 9, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Lyda, my bestie and fellow SF/F writer, has been volunteering at a food mutual aid that has had to rapidly scale up. This is their venmo, please consider donating.
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To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 8:03 PM
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
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I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
February 8, 2026 at 4:06 PM
I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.
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Of all the books coverage you could do, all the romance coverage, all the culture coverage, you chose a fluffy piece about a lady who will not disclose her real name because she doesn’t always tell *people she coaches* the truth about her methods?
February 8, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Of all the books coverage you could do, all the romance coverage, all the culture coverage, you chose a fluffy piece about a lady who will not disclose her real name because she doesn’t always tell *people she coaches* the truth about her methods?
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Me eating Girl Scout cookies out of the box, having not been on ice skates for over a decade: “her extension is for shit”
February 7, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Me eating Girl Scout cookies out of the box, having not been on ice skates for over a decade: “her extension is for shit”
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DICK VAN DYKE LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO
Who do you want to guest host a potential revival of The Muppet Show?
Here’s Who We Want to Guest Host ‘The Muppet Show’ If It’s Revived
February 7, 2026 at 2:55 AM
DICK VAN DYKE LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO
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The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
February 6, 2026 at 6:59 PM
The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
One thing about the enormous pressure journalists are under to make videos and TikToks and do streams that kills me is that, like… some of us are meant to be read and not seen. Commenters get SO MAD about the way I look whenever my face breaches containment! Just let me write!
February 5, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.
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One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
February 5, 2026 at 3:11 AM
One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
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In Ruth Marcus’ piece from the New Yorker today she points out that if Bezos put 1% of his wealth in an endowment for the Washington Post and walked away the paper would be funded forever and he’d be known as a hero of journalism until the end of time but he just…doesn’t do that.
today’s tech barons get compared to the robber barons (I’ve done it myself) but it’s notable how the current generation has responded to the philanthropic and cultural legacy of Carnegie et al with their own campaign of wanton destruction of cultural institutions
February 5, 2026 at 3:50 AM
In Ruth Marcus’ piece from the New Yorker today she points out that if Bezos put 1% of his wealth in an endowment for the Washington Post and walked away the paper would be funded forever and he’d be known as a hero of journalism until the end of time but he just…doesn’t do that.
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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honestly can't keep track of all the brilliant, invaluable writers the Washington Post has let go this morning, but I cannot recall in my lifetime a once-great publication so purposefully shooting itself in the face
February 4, 2026 at 3:31 PM
honestly can't keep track of all the brilliant, invaluable writers the Washington Post has let go this morning, but I cannot recall in my lifetime a once-great publication so purposefully shooting itself in the face
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there isn’t a better Books desk in the country than the one at the Washington Post. I’m not really sure there’s anything else to say
February 4, 2026 at 2:26 PM
there isn’t a better Books desk in the country than the one at the Washington Post. I’m not really sure there’s anything else to say
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I got to novelize a section of The Dark Knight and have J.K. Simmons read it. It's extremely dumb and one of the most delightful things I've ever been asked to do. A Harry Stephen Keeler-style James Gordon is my dream.
The Novelizers
Hosted by Dave Hill, we take classic films, get top comedy writers to turn them into hilarious audiobooks, narrated by actors and comedians like JK Simmons, Wayne Brady, Ira Glass, Rachel Dratch, Will...
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February 2, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I got to novelize a section of The Dark Knight and have J.K. Simmons read it. It's extremely dumb and one of the most delightful things I've ever been asked to do. A Harry Stephen Keeler-style James Gordon is my dream.
Attn publishing: this is a joke not a suggestion
February 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Attn publishing: this is a joke not a suggestion
This is a very inside baseball question, but what exactly is Karp's endgame at S&S? We started with the imprint Twelve, which would focus on 12 titles a year. We are now at Simon Six, focusing on 6 titles a year. Are we eventually going to get to Simon Fractions, where we get 2/3 of a book per year?
February 2, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is a very inside baseball question, but what exactly is Karp's endgame at S&S? We started with the imprint Twelve, which would focus on 12 titles a year. We are now at Simon Six, focusing on 6 titles a year. Are we eventually going to get to Simon Fractions, where we get 2/3 of a book per year?
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"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:45 AM
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
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There are four more students from Liam's MN school district in federal detention in Dilley, TX, two of them from the same school as Liam. A second grader, a fourth grader, a fifth grader, and a high-schooler.
i am so grateful that liam ramos as home. this is also a story about the importance of observation and getting these stories out there. how many children are detained that don’t get the same treatment because they don’t have powerful photos
February 1, 2026 at 4:49 PM
There are four more students from Liam's MN school district in federal detention in Dilley, TX, two of them from the same school as Liam. A second grader, a fourth grader, a fifth grader, and a high-schooler.
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Don Lemon on January 20 after the Justice Dept. first threatened him:
"We were there chronicling protests... Once the protest started in the church, we did an act of journalism, which was report on it and talk to the people who were involved... That's it... It's called journalism. First Amendment."
"We were there chronicling protests... Once the protest started in the church, we did an act of journalism, which was report on it and talk to the people who were involved... That's it... It's called journalism. First Amendment."
January 30, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Don Lemon on January 20 after the Justice Dept. first threatened him:
"We were there chronicling protests... Once the protest started in the church, we did an act of journalism, which was report on it and talk to the people who were involved... That's it... It's called journalism. First Amendment."
"We were there chronicling protests... Once the protest started in the church, we did an act of journalism, which was report on it and talk to the people who were involved... That's it... It's called journalism. First Amendment."