Sarah Gen
@sarahgen.bsky.social
composer, music technologist, once and maybe again vocalist, works at Penn State School of Music (views my own). Profile pic is a depiction of a transgender statue of liberty by Amy Sherald that was censored by the Smithsonian
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When you don't click on articles from The Atlantic
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
When you don't click on articles from The Atlantic
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Stop taking madness out of your equation when you talk about homelessness. It's very transparent to us. You have no solidarity with the mad in any aspect of your life & the only way you can feel sorry for a homeless person is if you think they're "normal" like you.
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Stop taking madness out of your equation when you talk about homelessness. It's very transparent to us. You have no solidarity with the mad in any aspect of your life & the only way you can feel sorry for a homeless person is if you think they're "normal" like you.
cancel your NYT subscription, don't click on their posts
love it when the paper of record puts together a panel on journalism with no journalists lmao
what man
November 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
cancel your NYT subscription, don't click on their posts
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My single best advice for promoting your own music is to find people who make music you like and listen and boost it. You’ll hear some good tunes and I promise it will lead to folks checking out your stuff too. It’s so much easier when we act like a community instead of a flea market.
Oh! A big one! I long ago accepted, and EMBRACED, that my audience was mostly other musicians.
There are SO MANY of us... and we're all obsessive about music, so why not embrace them?
Those 50k other artists releasing songs on any given day? That's not your competition -- it's your audience!
There are SO MANY of us... and we're all obsessive about music, so why not embrace them?
Those 50k other artists releasing songs on any given day? That's not your competition -- it's your audience!
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My single best advice for promoting your own music is to find people who make music you like and listen and boost it. You’ll hear some good tunes and I promise it will lead to folks checking out your stuff too. It’s so much easier when we act like a community instead of a flea market.
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
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The NYT *equates itself* with the New York Post as it platforms and amplifies conspiracy theories it *knows* are false.
So, why do you still subscribe to it?
So, why do you still subscribe to it?
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The NYT *equates itself* with the New York Post as it platforms and amplifies conspiracy theories it *knows* are false.
So, why do you still subscribe to it?
So, why do you still subscribe to it?
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1000% Don't talk to the NYT, don't subscribe, don't click on the NYT
"And so, after consulting with friends a little more media-seasoned than I, and exchanging some emails with the reporter laying out what I was and wasn’t interested in speaking about, I agreed to an interview. I did this because, in ways you might think I’d have outgrown by now, I’m a fucking idiot"
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
1000% Don't talk to the NYT, don't subscribe, don't click on the NYT
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I relate molecularly to the lady in the green top
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I relate molecularly to the lady in the green top
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Senate Democrats are like “with your donation of $25 or more, we will help Donald Trump kill you”
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Senate Democrats are like “with your donation of $25 or more, we will help Donald Trump kill you”
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I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I think tonight shows why “moderate to win elections” is a real risk
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
the big divide in the Dem caucus, as many have noted, has been less moderate vs progressive than fight versus don’t fight
but it’s not a coincidence that basically everyone in the “don’t fight” camp is a moderate
resign!
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM
resign!
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This is obscene. This is fucking monstrous.
Have a chronic illness that has been relatively under control for about 20 years. I'm going to lose insurance because the premium is going up to 1600/month. Talked to 2 case managers, both did research and said there will be no affordable options for me. I have no other options.
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This is obscene. This is fucking monstrous.
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This is how every federal employee I personally know feels about this situation.
I’m a federal employee who was furloughed and just missed my second full paycheck. I have two young kids, so it’s tough.
It’s hard but DAMN worth it. Hold the line.
Capitulating now puts all that folks have sacrificed to this point in the trash bin.
@vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov
It’s hard but DAMN worth it. Hold the line.
Capitulating now puts all that folks have sacrificed to this point in the trash bin.
@vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This is how every federal employee I personally know feels about this situation.
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.
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I reached a deal with the burglar. He gets to keep all of my possessions that he can carry and I get to call the police one hour after he leaves.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I reached a deal with the burglar. He gets to keep all of my possessions that he can carry and I get to call the police one hour after he leaves.
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This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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Moderate Democrats saw that voters were energized and might expect something from them, so they needed to put a stop to that ASAP
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Moderate Democrats saw that voters were energized and might expect something from them, so they needed to put a stop to that ASAP
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The proposal is “not a deal," says Democratic U.S. House Rep. Ritchie Torres.
"It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double.”
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"It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double.”
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Democrats Consider GOP Deal to Reopen Government, With Promise of Later Vote on ACA Subsidies
Democrats are considering a Republican offer to reopen the government with a promise of a later vote on extending ACA health-care tax credits.
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November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The proposal is “not a deal," says Democratic U.S. House Rep. Ritchie Torres.
"It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double.”
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"It’s an unconditional surrender that abandons the 24 million Americans whose health care premiums are about to double.”
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yep
Imagine coming off an incredible Election Day mandate from coast to coast and going 'you know what voters want? to be completely sold out by a bunch of craven cowards too pathetic to hold the line against a bunch of fucking weirdos'
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
yep
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Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.
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With alt text for my fellow disabled baddies
September 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
With alt text for my fellow disabled baddies
AMEN
perpetually confused why people are just ... reading the NYT. sharing the links ...
save their best literal small handful of commentators I suppose ... why are we ever sharing their links ... it just baffles my sad tired trans heart ...
save their best literal small handful of commentators I suppose ... why are we ever sharing their links ... it just baffles my sad tired trans heart ...
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
AMEN
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For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Democrats’ election wins showed they don't need to hide their support for trans rights
Republicans repeated Trump's anti-trans strategy from 2024 and lost big. This should be instructive for Democrats.
www.msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...