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Mira Jacob
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theferocity.bsky.social
People are out here proudly announcing that they intend be authors and that they have no interest in writing, that they deserve a large-audience of readers but they themselves only read to extract from the actual artists they plan to usurp. Baby, the cogs have learned to TALK. Wild times.
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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nteu335.bsky.social
“Mike Salemi is an outstanding lawyer, an effective manager, and a dedicated public servant who has delivered results for CFPB leadership under both parties.”

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CFPB Workers Praise Distinguished Career of Latest Top Enforcement Official to Resign - CFPB Union
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s top enforcement official, Michael Salemi, resigned his post yesterday after concluding that “there is no path to an effective future enforcement program at t...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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t-gerber.bsky.social
Join us for a sneak peek at three new books by 3 amazing writers @isaacbutler.bsky.social @mirajacob.bsky.social featuring music by Maggie Carson to kick off a two-day national celebration of art and resistance. www.falloffreedom.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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needhibhalla.bsky.social
“Zohran has been marinated in love…He’s so secure in knowing who he is. There was a feeling of great pride and gratitude the night he won—that we had yielded this person who will bring, and who has already brought, hope to the world. That he has the mettle to do it.”

ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰
mirajacob.bsky.social Mira Jacob @mirajacob.bsky.social · Nov 13
I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters.

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How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani
The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
mirajacob.bsky.social
I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters.

www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...
How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani
The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent
www.harpersbazaar.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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alexanderchee.bsky.social
My friend @mirajacob.bsky.social takes us all to therapy and I can say I got a lot out of it: mailchi.mp/eed8f2d5e619...
A self portrait drawing of Mira Jacob, a South Asian American woman writer. In a thought bubble next to her head is a pie chart : ME ALL NIGHT, EVERY NIGHT HOW WILL IT ALL END? _ GLOBAL WARMING ALIEN INVASION HEGSETH ADDS SATAN TO THE CHAT _ THE RAPTURE _A.I. TAKEOVER SOMETHING I DID _ A-1 TAKEOVER ASTEROID MEANY TAKEOVER - DON JR. _MEASLES _ FASCISM In a text box: My therapist has this thing she says a lot, which is now a thing that I say to myself a lot, which either means therapy is working or l've fallen into a two-person cult. The first time she
April 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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mlensheffer.bsky.social
THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES is a finalist for the @penamerica.bsky.social / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection.

Thank you to the judges and congrats to all the other finalists and their awesome collections!
Screenshot of PEN finalist announcement, including covers of Softie, I'll Give You a Reason, Japa, The Man in the Banana Trees, and Sad Grownups
April 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Eid Mubarak from me to you 🌙
March 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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juliacsmith.bsky.social
Letting this piece of writing from Kaveh Akbar (via @mirajacob.bsky.social on IG)
wash over and through me. What is your answer this weekend?

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What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
www.thenation.com
March 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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smith.senate.gov
Circling back on this…
Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.
March 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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symphonyspace.bsky.social
Join us to celebrate 100 years of of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Authors and admirers @egangoonsquad.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Wesley Morris, and Ernesto Quiñonez will take the stage. In-person and livestream tix available! bit.ly/4bH094Y
March 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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symphonyspace.bsky.social
The second story on this Selected Shorts episode is performed by Rita Wolf. In “Death by Printer” by @mirajacob.bsky.social, technology both helps and hinders a widow as she copes with loss. You can listen to the story wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/41WMm5Z
(Photo by Kevin Yatarola)
Rita Wolf reading on the stage of Symphony Space's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre.
March 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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alexanderchee.bsky.social
A great thread from @caseyparks.bsky.social on the hearing Judge Reyes is giving to a challenge to the trans soldiers ban.
caseyparks.bsky.social Casey Parks @caseyparks.bsky.social · Mar 12
DoD officials have said the military spent $52 million between 2014 and 2025 on gender dysphoria treatments for troops — so an average of $5.2 million a year. According to Judge Reyes, the military spends $42 million a year on Viagra treatments.
March 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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jamellebouie.net
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
mirajacob.bsky.social
I know it’s just Wordle but today’s taking me 4 tries makes me feel like I’ve failed South Asian.
March 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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reetamac.bsky.social
Too many folks on the wrong end of this curve
A graph with a curve upwards. Text on the side reads How alarmed you are and below it reads how much you understand government
March 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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nicolechung.bsky.social
"As soon as Trump was inaugurated, the department’s processing of disability rights complaints ground to a halt ... That has left students—including a 12-year-old boy with autism and epilepsy who’s been unwillingly assigned to remote schooling—without recourse"
America’s kids are already suffering under Trump’s education policies
What Trump and DOGE want to do to the Education Department, explained.
www.vox.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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kristenarnett.bsky.social
A BOOK TOUR SO BIG IT’S BASICALLY A CLOWN CAR STUFFED WITH SUPERSTARS
February 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
What a disgrace.

Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them.

*This* is how democracy dies.
Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order
The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause.  The group …
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February 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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aniceburrito.bsky.social
The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things
February 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.
February 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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nteu335.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨STARTING AT NOON 🚨🚨🚨

70+ CFPB workers were fired last night in an email that didn’t even bother to mail merge [AppointmentDate] and [JobTitle].

Join us at 12p TODAY to rally for them! #saveCFPB
A flyer reading Hands off CFPB jobs! Wednesday Feb 12, noon local time, wear red. DC 1700 G St NW, NYC 26 Federal Plaza, Atlanta 401 W. Peachtree St, Chicago 230 S Dearborn St, San Francisco 301 Howard St, Your Local Big Bank--Everywhere
February 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM