tkarlekar
@densestuff.bsky.social
Global film and media scholar; writing coach and editor at OneLitPlace; always in between
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Help Dr. Ibrahim Ahmed and his family survive in Gaza!
I am Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Taban, 24 years old, and I currently live with my family on the street; we don't have any refuge. Our house was bombed very early in the war, and I sustained serious injuries to ...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Nobody saw that coming…
#OpEd: "We can’t bury the deeper, driving forces behind why this is happening. This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents — ICE, police officers, prison staff — have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies." Read the full story here. ⬇️
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
www.teenvogue.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Nobody saw that coming…
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Donald Trump seeks to make sure that free speech is reserved exclusively for right-wing billionaires.
So many of our media institutions and information infrastructures are owned and controlled by right-wing oligarchs. And it promises to only get worse.
September 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Donald Trump seeks to make sure that free speech is reserved exclusively for right-wing billionaires.
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"President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to launch a trade investigation to 'nullify' what he said were discriminatory fines being levied by Europe against U.S. tech firms such as Google and Apple."
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/t...
Trump threatens trade probe after 'discriminatory' EU fines against Google, Apple
Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanked Trump at a White House dinner after a U.S. judge issued a favorable ruling in the landmark antitrust case against Alphabet.
www.cnbc.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to launch a trade investigation to 'nullify' what he said were discriminatory fines being levied by Europe against U.S. tech firms such as Google and Apple."
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/t...
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/t...
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RE Lisa Cook. It’s just so hard to tell why Trump is targeting these people. I guess we will never know what they had in common. A mystery for all time.
Really hard to tell what these targets of Trumps attacks and smears have in common
Trump says Fed Governor Lisa Cook 'must resign' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Trump says Fed Governor Lisa Cook 'must resign' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
August 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
RE Lisa Cook. It’s just so hard to tell why Trump is targeting these people. I guess we will never know what they had in common. A mystery for all time.
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Two troubling new studies find that lies about the 2020 election tapped into racist attitudes and white America’s long-standing fear of a real multiracial democracy. Read about the studies here: bit.ly/3Jqxp6A
The Racist Foundation of the Big Lie of a Stolen Election
New research shows how racist beliefs enable lies about voter fraud to spread.
www.brennancenter.org
August 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Two troubling new studies find that lies about the 2020 election tapped into racist attitudes and white America’s long-standing fear of a real multiracial democracy. Read about the studies here: bit.ly/3Jqxp6A
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BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
June 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend
I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I…
lithub.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
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amazing article reporting how scientists inspecting planets at an unfathomable distance identified the remote possibility of extraterrestrial life— a holy grail of science and perhaps all humanity— and then the end is “anyway Trump took all our money so that’s that”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article)
Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
amazing article reporting how scientists inspecting planets at an unfathomable distance identified the remote possibility of extraterrestrial life— a holy grail of science and perhaps all humanity— and then the end is “anyway Trump took all our money so that’s that”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
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"Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines, sinking stock prices since caving on DEI.
Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15." www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...
Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15." www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...
Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines, sinking stock prices since caving on DEI
Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15.
www.retailbrew.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines, sinking stock prices since caving on DEI.
Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15." www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...
Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15." www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...
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We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
March 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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Today I learned that the largest DEI initiative in American history was the Civil War
March 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Today I learned that the largest DEI initiative in American history was the Civil War
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EPA cancels protecting the environment. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
EPA cancels protecting the environment. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...
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No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham:
"The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."
"The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."
March 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham:
"The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."
"The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."
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“No Other Land” just received the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature! And, yet, one cannot watch the film on any streaming service in the U.S.
March 3, 2025 at 2:20 AM
“No Other Land” just received the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature! And, yet, one cannot watch the film on any streaming service in the U.S.
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I don't know how else to say this except for bluntly:
It is not normal to have outbreaks of preventable diseases in wealthy countries.
It is not normal to have children dying from preventable diseases in wealthy countries.
This is the first US measles death in 10 years. There should be none.
It is not normal to have outbreaks of preventable diseases in wealthy countries.
It is not normal to have children dying from preventable diseases in wealthy countries.
This is the first US measles death in 10 years. There should be none.
February 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I don't know how else to say this except for bluntly:
It is not normal to have outbreaks of preventable diseases in wealthy countries.
It is not normal to have children dying from preventable diseases in wealthy countries.
This is the first US measles death in 10 years. There should be none.
It is not normal to have outbreaks of preventable diseases in wealthy countries.
It is not normal to have children dying from preventable diseases in wealthy countries.
This is the first US measles death in 10 years. There should be none.
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everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky
💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
February 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky
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Today is #MotherTongueDay! Did you know that there are 6 million Tibetan speakers inside of #Tibet, comprised of numerous dialects?
February 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Today is #MotherTongueDay! Did you know that there are 6 million Tibetan speakers inside of #Tibet, comprised of numerous dialects?
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This is a very important story by @charliesavage.bsky.social — it lays out how the Trump admin is effectively circumventing judges’ orders to keep federal spending frozen. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
Trump Team Finds Loophole to Effectively Maintain Spending Freezes
Officials cite other legal authorities — not Mr. Trump’s court-blocked directives — to keep withholding foreign aid and domestic grant money.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This is a very important story by @charliesavage.bsky.social — it lays out how the Trump admin is effectively circumventing judges’ orders to keep federal spending frozen. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u...
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HUNDREDS of Higher Ed faculty, staff, grad workers, postdocs, researchers and students showed up in the cold today outside the office of @davemccormick.bsky.social to say HANDS OFF our research, our healthcare, and our jobs! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
HUNDREDS of Higher Ed faculty, staff, grad workers, postdocs, researchers and students showed up in the cold today outside the office of @davemccormick.bsky.social to say HANDS OFF our research, our healthcare, and our jobs! @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social
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