Joelle Monique
@joellemonique.bsky.social
Managing Executive Producer & Host @iHeartPodcasts for X-Ray Vision, Fake Doctors Real Friends, and The Mess Around with Hannah and Lamorne
Writer: @teenvogue @vulture @playboy @avclub @theadvocatemag @thr @thewrap @Polygon @Broadly She/Her
Writer: @teenvogue @vulture @playboy @avclub @theadvocatemag @thr @thewrap @Polygon @Broadly She/Her
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Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Te Pāti Māori MPs to be temporarily suspended from Parliament over haka
MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke faces a seven-day suspension for her actions.
www.rnz.co.nz
May 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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New court filings show the NYPD is attempting to backslide on legal commitments it made to stop arresting journalists who are reporting on police actions.
The NYPD Wants to Be Able to Keep Arresting Journalists Unimpeded
A new court filing accuses the police department of trying to wriggle out of reforms it committed to to settle a suite of civil rights lawsuits.
hellgatenyc.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
New court filings show the NYPD is attempting to backslide on legal commitments it made to stop arresting journalists who are reporting on police actions.
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@joellemonique.bsky.social discussion on The Force and #Andor during this episode was spot on.
As always, the whole crew delivered the most entertaining, most insightful discussion of the week for me.
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As always, the whole crew delivered the most entertaining, most insightful discussion of the week for me.
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Andor Season 2 (Episodes 7-9) Roundtable
X-Ray Vision · Episode
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May 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@joellemonique.bsky.social discussion on The Force and #Andor during this episode was spot on.
As always, the whole crew delivered the most entertaining, most insightful discussion of the week for me.
open.spotify.com/episode/6LDd...
As always, the whole crew delivered the most entertaining, most insightful discussion of the week for me.
open.spotify.com/episode/6LDd...
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We had @rosiemarx.bsky.social and @joellemonique.bsky.social on episode 1853 ‘Vladimir, STAAHP! Oscar Voters Getting SCREWED’ - listen now!
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April 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
We had @rosiemarx.bsky.social and @joellemonique.bsky.social on episode 1853 ‘Vladimir, STAAHP! Oscar Voters Getting SCREWED’ - listen now!
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@milesofgray.bsky.social @jackob1.bsky.social
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@milesofgray.bsky.social @jackob1.bsky.social
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The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.
Bodies of missing aid workers found in Gaza ‘mass grave’ following Israeli attacks | CNN
The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a “mass grave,” a week after they went missing following attacks by Isra...
www.cnn.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.
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None of the Emilia Pérez Winners Mentioned the Trans Community Onstage at the Oscars:
Amid a barrage of anti-trans political attacks, the makers of the "sex change musical" didn’t even use the word “trans.”
www.them.us/story/emilia...
Amid a barrage of anti-trans political attacks, the makers of the "sex change musical" didn’t even use the word “trans.”
www.them.us/story/emilia...
None of the ‘Emilia Pérez’ Winners Mentioned the Trans Community Onstage at the Oscars
Amid a barrage of anti-trans political attacks, the makers of the musical didn’t even use the word “trans.”
www.them.us
March 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
None of the Emilia Pérez Winners Mentioned the Trans Community Onstage at the Oscars:
Amid a barrage of anti-trans political attacks, the makers of the "sex change musical" didn’t even use the word “trans.”
www.them.us/story/emilia...
Amid a barrage of anti-trans political attacks, the makers of the "sex change musical" didn’t even use the word “trans.”
www.them.us/story/emilia...
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Hello! I’m creating a workplace comedy about a struggling comic book shop aaaand we had our first table read! Ofc we documented! See the full video on YT (🔗⬇️) #TheComicShopSeries
youtu.be/4K9gIqLctBo?...
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March 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Hello! I’m creating a workplace comedy about a struggling comic book shop aaaand we had our first table read! Ofc we documented! See the full video on YT (🔗⬇️) #TheComicShopSeries
youtu.be/4K9gIqLctBo?...
youtu.be/4K9gIqLctBo?...
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BREAKING: Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of parts of two of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders (orders defining “sex” and restricting gender-affirming medical care) in Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and Oregon.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
March 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
BREAKING: Federal judge issues preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of parts of two of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders (orders defining “sex” and restricting gender-affirming medical care) in Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, and Oregon.
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-tran...
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The men said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.
Invasive frisks, suicide attempts: Three migrants describe Guantánamo detention
Three migrants sent to Guantánamo said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating strip searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The men said they were denied calls to loved ones, subjected to humiliating searches and left in isolation for prolonged periods.
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Huge thanks to @joellemonique.bsky.social for giving The One Recipe a shoutout on @npr.org's Pop Culture Happy Hour!
February 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Huge thanks to @joellemonique.bsky.social for giving The One Recipe a shoutout on @npr.org's Pop Culture Happy Hour!
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“We are assured that Hitler will stop at the Sudetenland.”
I wrote this on the most consistently terrible, and fatal, idea in centrist politics today. On Fanta, rebadging, and why attempting to win votes from fascists is morally disgusting and politically suicidal.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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Séamas O'Reilly: Appeasing the far-right won't placate them — they'll just want the next cruelty
Their concerns are not about society, the economy or public safety, they’re an ever-moving target of fear and hatred that cannot be sated, it has to be challenged.
www.irishexaminer.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
“We are assured that Hitler will stop at the Sudetenland.”
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one of the reasons i wrote this piece is to get away from the gauzy mythology of the civil rights movement "spontaneous mass resistance" "rosa parks was just tired". no. the movement remains a masterclass in the tactics--and the *strategy*--of resistance.
“Did it end racism in America? No. But it did end Jim Crow.” www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...
How to Win a Rigged Game
The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
one of the reasons i wrote this piece is to get away from the gauzy mythology of the civil rights movement "spontaneous mass resistance" "rosa parks was just tired". no. the movement remains a masterclass in the tactics--and the *strategy*--of resistance.
That Lilo and Stitch spot was very effective marketing. Omg.
February 9, 2025 at 11:38 PM
That Lilo and Stitch spot was very effective marketing. Omg.
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I worked at the Laemmle in Santa Monica during college and it was one of my favorite jobs ever. Bob would occasionally come by and was always so friendly and helpful when we had issues at the theatre. This is so sad ❤️
This is a terrible day for L.A. and for movie lovers.
Bob Laemmle was one of the good guys, exhibiting hundreds of movies that would have had difficulty getting screened anywhere else.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Bob Laemmle was one of the good guys, exhibiting hundreds of movies that would have had difficulty getting screened anywhere else.
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Robert Laemmle, longtime head of local art-house chain Laemmle Theatres, dies at 89
Robert Laemmle, who took over from his father, co-founder Max Laemmle, would eventually hand over the beloved local art-house chain to his son Greg.
www.latimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I worked at the Laemmle in Santa Monica during college and it was one of my favorite jobs ever. Bob would occasionally come by and was always so friendly and helpful when we had issues at the theatre. This is so sad ❤️
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Don't ever use AI, even (and especially) as a joke to show how AI is terrible.
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
fortune.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Don't ever use AI, even (and especially) as a joke to show how AI is terrible.
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I think it also should be mentioned that the person who really got this going was Rick Caruso, the West Coast Trump/developer who Bass kicked the ass of in the election, and who falsely spread conspiracy theories about fire hydrants in the same radio interview.
Not going to stick up for Bass because this is the job, but we’re all in our feelings right now and going after a mayor in a weak-mayor city over a countywide disaster is cope. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass Should Have Canceled Africa Trip Amid Fires, Residents Say
Some residents said Mayor Karen Bass should have canceled her trip to Ghana when weather warnings in Los Angeles grew increasingly dire.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I think it also should be mentioned that the person who really got this going was Rick Caruso, the West Coast Trump/developer who Bass kicked the ass of in the election, and who falsely spread conspiracy theories about fire hydrants in the same radio interview.
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Anyway, Christina Sharpe wrote that “the Internet allows for the consensual as well as the nonconsensual acting out of racialized fantasies” in “Racialized Fantasies on the Internet” back in 1999 (!!!) and here we are with actual profile interactive AI blacks in 2025.
January 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Anyway, Christina Sharpe wrote that “the Internet allows for the consensual as well as the nonconsensual acting out of racialized fantasies” in “Racialized Fantasies on the Internet” back in 1999 (!!!) and here we are with actual profile interactive AI blacks in 2025.
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They find this every year…
They do not care
In fact many of them are basically trying to find ways to make those folks work for free
We’re all on that kind of that place right now
They do not care
In fact many of them are basically trying to find ways to make those folks work for free
We’re all on that kind of that place right now
Diverse companies bring in upto almost 20% more revenue, and almost 10% more productive.
www.forbes.com/sites/annapo...
www.forbes.com/sites/annapo...
A Study Finds That Diverse Companies Produce 19% More Revenue
The diversity of ideas, minds, experiences, and tastes is an integral part of being a human. It is what makes our world beautiful. However, diversity also has a practical function and an important one...
www.forbes.com
December 26, 2024 at 11:42 PM
They find this every year…
They do not care
In fact many of them are basically trying to find ways to make those folks work for free
We’re all on that kind of that place right now
They do not care
In fact many of them are basically trying to find ways to make those folks work for free
We’re all on that kind of that place right now
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Key OpenAI whistleblower found dead by apparent suicide
Key OpenAI whistleblower found dead by suicide in SF apartment
Police found Suchir Balaji, 26, dead in his Lower Haight apartment last month.
sfstandard.com
December 15, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Lorraine O'Grady lifted me up with her intellect, her wit, her nerve. This assignment came at a point in my life when I needed it and didn't even know. She was a blessing.
I am saddened to know Lorraine has passed, and I am endlessly grateful to her. She lit flames that will never go out. 🖤
I am saddened to know Lorraine has passed, and I am endlessly grateful to her. She lit flames that will never go out. 🖤
The Audacity of Lorraine O’Grady
In wake of her tragic passing today, we revisit our 2024 interview with the renegade and eternally punk-rock conceptual artist.
www.harpersbazaar.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Lorraine O'Grady lifted me up with her intellect, her wit, her nerve. This assignment came at a point in my life when I needed it and didn't even know. She was a blessing.
I am saddened to know Lorraine has passed, and I am endlessly grateful to her. She lit flames that will never go out. 🖤
I am saddened to know Lorraine has passed, and I am endlessly grateful to her. She lit flames that will never go out. 🖤
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Hello?????!!!!
The Comic Shop Kickstarter is sooooo close to making goal. If you haven’t yet, please donate, share, give an encouraging word to @cheyennethegeek.bsky.social , whatever it takes.
Where there is a will there is a way. Let’s make it happen ✨ kck.st/4eu9Lj4
The Comic Shop Kickstarter is sooooo close to making goal. If you haven’t yet, please donate, share, give an encouraging word to @cheyennethegeek.bsky.social , whatever it takes.
Where there is a will there is a way. Let’s make it happen ✨ kck.st/4eu9Lj4
THE COMIC SHOP! A Workplace Comedy
A quirky crew will do anything to save their comic shop—from wild schemes to absurd antics! Comedy, chaos, and comics collide!
kck.st
December 13, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Hello?????!!!!
The Comic Shop Kickstarter is sooooo close to making goal. If you haven’t yet, please donate, share, give an encouraging word to @cheyennethegeek.bsky.social , whatever it takes.
Where there is a will there is a way. Let’s make it happen ✨ kck.st/4eu9Lj4
The Comic Shop Kickstarter is sooooo close to making goal. If you haven’t yet, please donate, share, give an encouraging word to @cheyennethegeek.bsky.social , whatever it takes.
Where there is a will there is a way. Let’s make it happen ✨ kck.st/4eu9Lj4
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Nancy Mace's former comms director: "her prop of a sling is a pathetic ploy for attention." 👀
December 12, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Nancy Mace's former comms director: "her prop of a sling is a pathetic ploy for attention." 👀
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“‘…Nancy Mace came to a national foster youth event, told participating youth that it was a safe space—and literally had one of them arrested by Capital police for simply shaking her hand and asking about trans rights,’ said Lisa Dickson, a veteran advocate for foster youth from Ohio…”
December 11, 2024 at 2:29 PM
“‘…Nancy Mace came to a national foster youth event, told participating youth that it was a safe space—and literally had one of them arrested by Capital police for simply shaking her hand and asking about trans rights,’ said Lisa Dickson, a veteran advocate for foster youth from Ohio…”