Emily Maloney
@emilyfmaloney.bsky.social
Author of COST OF LIVING (Holt), now in paperback. New book forthcoming. I also make pots and ride horses. Artist in Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma. she/her www.emilymaloney.net
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Emily Maloney
@emilyfmaloney.bsky.social
· Feb 11
Art under fascism
making community wherever we can
open.substack.com
i talked about why it's important to have a community and make art, especially now: open.substack.com/pub/emilymal...
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me: i’ve been seeing someone
therapist: as in dating or hallucinations
therapist: as in dating or hallucinations
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
me: i’ve been seeing someone
therapist: as in dating or hallucinations
therapist: as in dating or hallucinations
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
I’ve always wanted one of Chuck Hindes' pots, so I finally bought one. He mostly made “ugly” pots and made destroyed things. He'd bump up your kiln in the middle of the night bc of budget concerns (no overnight candling!) so you’d come in to your kiln roaring @ ^6. I learned to build kilns from him.
November 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I’ve always wanted one of Chuck Hindes' pots, so I finally bought one. He mostly made “ugly” pots and made destroyed things. He'd bump up your kiln in the middle of the night bc of budget concerns (no overnight candling!) so you’d come in to your kiln roaring @ ^6. I learned to build kilns from him.
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
great call w/book swap buddy
we are making book(s)
we are making book(s)
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
great call w/book swap buddy
we are making book(s)
we are making book(s)
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we have PrEP because of these monkey studies. animal welfare in medical research is extremely strictly limited and regulated to ensure ethical use. there is no replacement for these animal models in biomedical research.
EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org
Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research
Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
we have PrEP because of these monkey studies. animal welfare in medical research is extremely strictly limited and regulated to ensure ethical use. there is no replacement for these animal models in biomedical research.
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Oh this definitely won't lead to a bunch of weird mini-cults, no way that could happen with a system like this
OpenAI Launches Baffling 'Group Chats,' So You and Your Friends Can Hang Out with ChatGPT
OpenAI Launches Baffling 'Group Chats,' So You and Your Friends Can Hang Out with ChatGPT
OpenAI wants you to include ChatGPT in your group gab.
gizmodo.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Oh this definitely won't lead to a bunch of weird mini-cults, no way that could happen with a system like this
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
![II. Credibility
The Court next addresses the credibility of the parties’ evidence and witnesses. After reviewing all the evidence submitted to the Court and listening to the testimony elicited at the preliminary injunction hearing, during depositions, and in other court proceedings, the Court finds Defendants’ evidence simply not credible. [FN 6]
Plaintiffs submitted a mountain of evidence, providing the Court with over eighty declarations, numerous videos and articles, and other evidence. Defendants did not rebut anything that Plaintiffs set forth in their declarations or testimony, even with BWC footage.
[FN 6] In another case considering some of the same evidence presented to this Court, another court in this district also found that the perceptions of certain of Defendants’ declarants, such as Hott and Parra, were not reliable. See Illinois v. Trump, No. 25-cv-12174, 2025 WL 2886645, at *5 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 10, 2025) (noting a “troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning, and criticizing their government, and those who are obstructing, assaulting, or doing violence”), motion to stay denied in part, 155 F.4th 929 (7th Cir. 2025).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifpyry2il5toxbr3iejgrsxs6kmnwve75qwnhebfp44ieyjrfpsdu@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
I hate it here.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I hate it here.
Twice so far this week I’ve caught my husband texting photos of our new butter dish to friends.
November 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Twice so far this week I’ve caught my husband texting photos of our new butter dish to friends.
Don’t mean to brag but made my therapist laugh today so I’m definitely winning therapy
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Don’t mean to brag but made my therapist laugh today so I’m definitely winning therapy
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Honored to be included in The Washington Post's list of 10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2025. I feel really lucky to have my writing so well-read by writers and thinkers I really admire: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Honored to be included in The Washington Post's list of 10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2025. I feel really lucky to have my writing so well-read by writers and thinkers I really admire: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
today i am sending a book chunk to my swap buddy
horrifying i know
horrifying i know
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
today i am sending a book chunk to my swap buddy
horrifying i know
horrifying i know
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Art school problems
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Art school problems
The last wet clay day for the term is the 21st, so I am going to have to wait to make pots until next semester, because of broken leg nonsense and not being strong enough to walk that far. I wish I were more independent at this point but I’m doing what I can.
November 18, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The last wet clay day for the term is the 21st, so I am going to have to wait to make pots until next semester, because of broken leg nonsense and not being strong enough to walk that far. I wish I were more independent at this point but I’m doing what I can.
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I think you should read this
If you told me there was this amazing essay about Simon & Garfunkel & a horse farm I *needed* to read, I'd--well, I wouldn't. But damn, this is it, by Cassidy Exner, latest in series of young writers approaching the Trumpocene slant rhyme. callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/eddie-wher...
Eddie, Where Are You Calling From?
Evidence of the moment from a most peculiar archive
callingallsyllables.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I think you should read this
i am icing leg so probably i should also make book or something
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
i am icing leg so probably i should also make book or something
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I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
Seriously, what is wrong with these people?
November 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.
I met with my book swap buddy after a long break and we are swapping books again. Feels good to be back in that groove.
November 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I met with my book swap buddy after a long break and we are swapping books again. Feels good to be back in that groove.
something i've noticed since starting to wear two shoes again (broke my leg & had surgery) is that Millie has stolen all of my socks, so none of them match. I have no idea where they went. The apartment is 600 square feet.
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
something i've noticed since starting to wear two shoes again (broke my leg & had surgery) is that Millie has stolen all of my socks, so none of them match. I have no idea where they went. The apartment is 600 square feet.
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
—Alice Wong
so, I recently graduated to a cane (since breaking my leg in september and having surgery), though I'm not supposed to quite yet. I limp and don't want people to mow me down. For the most part it's ok. But I would appreciate any cool cane suggestions. I want to feel slightly less unfashionable?
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
so, I recently graduated to a cane (since breaking my leg in september and having surgery), though I'm not supposed to quite yet. I limp and don't want people to mow me down. For the most part it's ok. But I would appreciate any cool cane suggestions. I want to feel slightly less unfashionable?
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Mary Shelly lost her virginity on her mom's grave, facilitated a lesbian wedding, and carried her dead husband’s heart around in a bag, so, yeah, I agree, let’s return to traditional values.
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Mary Shelly lost her virginity on her mom's grave, facilitated a lesbian wedding, and carried her dead husband’s heart around in a bag, so, yeah, I agree, let’s return to traditional values.
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Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.