Em
@emilemilyyy.bsky.social
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This week has really crushed my last dregs of hope that legacy news organizations can become capable of meeting the moment.
September 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This week has really crushed my last dregs of hope that legacy news organizations can become capable of meeting the moment.
Grandpa got off his meds again
August 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Grandpa got off his meds again
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Rather than show Amy Sherald's painting Trans Forming Liberty (modeled after artist Arewà Basit), the Smithsonian offered instead to include a video of people talking about the work—with some expressing anti-trans views—to "contextualize" the painting. Sherald instead cancelled the exhibit
July 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Rather than show Amy Sherald's painting Trans Forming Liberty (modeled after artist Arewà Basit), the Smithsonian offered instead to include a video of people talking about the work—with some expressing anti-trans views—to "contextualize" the painting. Sherald instead cancelled the exhibit
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The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.
It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.
It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.
July 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.
It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.
It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.
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A complete and total capitulation of an institution, a brand, the commitment to free speech, academic freedom, and dignity. This is unimaginably terrible.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...
Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A complete and total capitulation of an institution, a brand, the commitment to free speech, academic freedom, and dignity. This is unimaginably terrible.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...
We live in a terrible, evil world. The fact that many people have no empathy for the Palestinians while we watch a live-streamed genocide and holocaust is despicable. Never again means never again for anyone. And the fact that our tax dollars go to fund this genocide… How do we end this horror?
July 24, 2025 at 4:54 AM
We live in a terrible, evil world. The fact that many people have no empathy for the Palestinians while we watch a live-streamed genocide and holocaust is despicable. Never again means never again for anyone. And the fact that our tax dollars go to fund this genocide… How do we end this horror?
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When the inevitable photos come out of starved corpses arranged in rows, I personally will be watching for the people who saved their horror and condemnation for when the war crimes were already over
Few if any experts know more about the deliberate use of starvation as a war crime than Alex de Waal. If he says it's happening, it's so.
July 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
When the inevitable photos come out of starved corpses arranged in rows, I personally will be watching for the people who saved their horror and condemnation for when the war crimes were already over
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this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro chides Zohran Mamdani for not condemning other people’s antisemitism:
“He left open far too much space for extremists to either use his words or for him to not condemn the words of extremists that said some blatantly antisemitic things.”
“He left open far too much space for extremists to either use his words or for him to not condemn the words of extremists that said some blatantly antisemitic things.”
Shapiro rebukes Mamdani for failing to condemn ‘blatantly antisemitic’ extremists
The Pennsylvania governor told JI: ‘When supporters of yours say things that are blatantly antisemitic, you can't leave room for that to just sit there’
jewishinsider.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:01 AM
this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”
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It’s a genocide, possibly the greatest moral catastrophe of our time, and the flippant unwillingness to grapple with it is an egregious failure of intellect in addition to a chilling abdication of honor.
July 23, 2025 at 3:20 AM
It’s a genocide, possibly the greatest moral catastrophe of our time, and the flippant unwillingness to grapple with it is an egregious failure of intellect in addition to a chilling abdication of honor.
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Bed bug says what
July 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Bed bug says what
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You’re not far off! This was the NYT in 1922:
July 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
You’re not far off! This was the NYT in 1922:
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July 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X.
Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the timeline of events as presented by local officials.
Here's a timeline of the catastrophic Texas floods
NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the timeline of events as presented by local officials.
n.pr
July 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X.
Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha says he’s been suspended from Substack, a platform where white supremacists publish without issue. I can’t recall this happening to any prominent writers in the past.
July 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha says he’s been suspended from Substack, a platform where white supremacists publish without issue. I can’t recall this happening to any prominent writers in the past.
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I spent months on this video about people worshiping ChatGPT, please watch and leave a comment and share if you can!! My YouTube channel is still so small that I lose money making these videos rn 😭. Every little bit helps!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCy...
ChatGPT Is Becoming A Religion
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I spent months on this video about people worshiping ChatGPT, please watch and leave a comment and share if you can!! My YouTube channel is still so small that I lose money making these videos rn 😭. Every little bit helps!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKCy...
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Big Tech companies snuck a line into the Republican bill that'd stop local and state governments from having ANY rules about AI for TEN YEARS.
But we fought back — and won!
This fight is not over, but we are not powerless.
But we fought back — and won!
This fight is not over, but we are not powerless.
Senate Removes Tax Bill Provision Limiting State AI Regulation
The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, marking a loss for the Silicon Valley leaders and White House officials who pushed the measure.
www.bloomberg.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Big Tech companies snuck a line into the Republican bill that'd stop local and state governments from having ANY rules about AI for TEN YEARS.
But we fought back — and won!
This fight is not over, but we are not powerless.
But we fought back — and won!
This fight is not over, but we are not powerless.
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We’re lighting the I-35W bridge green tonight and tomorrow in honor of Melissa Hortman, who found joy and peace in trees and gardens 🌳
June 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
We’re lighting the I-35W bridge green tonight and tomorrow in honor of Melissa Hortman, who found joy and peace in trees and gardens 🌳
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I desperately wish the media paid more attention to this heinous act of political violence in my home state of Minnesota.
We’re lighting the I-35W bridge green tonight and tomorrow in honor of Melissa Hortman, who found joy and peace in trees and gardens 🌳
June 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I desperately wish the media paid more attention to this heinous act of political violence in my home state of Minnesota.
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Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
June 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
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Trump’s zealots are busy adding 10K secret police, building concentration camps in swampland, deploying troops to attack Americans, & cancelling everyone’s access to healthcare, but this MF finds time to language-police a genocide.
Never give money to the DNC. Ever.
Never give money to the DNC. Ever.
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Trump’s zealots are busy adding 10K secret police, building concentration camps in swampland, deploying troops to attack Americans, & cancelling everyone’s access to healthcare, but this MF finds time to language-police a genocide.
Never give money to the DNC. Ever.
Never give money to the DNC. Ever.
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We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent.
Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.
Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.
Attacks on Muslims flood mainstream after Mamdani win
Openly racist rhetoric has become normalized at the highest levels of American politics.
www.axios.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent.
Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.
Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.