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I’m going to be moderating a panel about SPECULATIVE FICTION AND FAITH for the Brooklyn Book Festival! It’s free! See you all next week :)
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September 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM

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Raquel Willis

@raquelwillis.com

If a politician never discusses Islamophobia or anti-Blackness, I can’t take their takes on anti-Semitism seriously.

June 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM

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Edmonds Scanner

@edmondsscanner.bsky.social

I like the way you think.
I like the way you move through the world all weary and confused, leaving a trail of library books and disappointment in your wake.

June 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM

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Mina Kimes

@minakimes.bsky.social

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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Haus of Decline

@hausofdecline.bsky.social

Gender is mostly about doing bits

May 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM

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NPR

@npr.org

The church said it's terminating a decades-long partnership with the federal government to help refugees arriving in the U.S., citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.