Mads Ducharme
@madelineducharme.bsky.social
Producer for @Slate's What Next (past: One Year / Slow Burn) • writing on culture + LGBTQ life • Slate Union, baby! • they/she #bikedc
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We’re headed to the bargaining table today for our second meeting with management to discuss details of a new contract. The members of Slate Union are excited to bargain for improvements that will enhance working conditions and lives. We hope Slate management bargains in good faith with us. ✊
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We’re headed to the bargaining table today for our second meeting with management to discuss details of a new contract. The members of Slate Union are excited to bargain for improvements that will enhance working conditions and lives. We hope Slate management bargains in good faith with us. ✊
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Your annual reminder that US streets and vehicles are generally not designed to keep pedestrians, especially small ones, safe.
So wonderful Halloween is the most likely day you’ll kill a child with your car, and someone will kill a child you care about with theirs.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
So wonderful Halloween is the most likely day you’ll kill a child with your car, and someone will kill a child you care about with theirs.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
October 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Your annual reminder that US streets and vehicles are generally not designed to keep pedestrians, especially small ones, safe.
So wonderful Halloween is the most likely day you’ll kill a child with your car, and someone will kill a child you care about with theirs.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
So wonderful Halloween is the most likely day you’ll kill a child with your car, and someone will kill a child you care about with theirs.
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
"Even in the face of incredible horrors, Palestinians in Gaza never gave up on our cats."
From Lamar Alhuwaiti, a very brave 17 year old writer and photographer from Gaza.
prismreports.org/2025/10/16/g...
From Lamar Alhuwaiti, a very brave 17 year old writer and photographer from Gaza.
prismreports.org/2025/10/16/g...
Our love for Gaza’s cats is a light that refuses to go out
During the genocide, my mother and I walked the city’s streets in search of stray cats to feed, these small souls giving us a reason to keep going
prismreports.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"Even in the face of incredible horrors, Palestinians in Gaza never gave up on our cats."
From Lamar Alhuwaiti, a very brave 17 year old writer and photographer from Gaza.
prismreports.org/2025/10/16/g...
From Lamar Alhuwaiti, a very brave 17 year old writer and photographer from Gaza.
prismreports.org/2025/10/16/g...
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Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital
A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.
apnews.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
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"But fundamentally, crime of any kind is a minor risk for a white man in D.C., which classification applies to Mullin, Duffy, Scott, and Trump. Overwhelmingly, the largest source of danger for people who fit that description is vehicle traffic, which killed 110 people in the D.C. area in 2024..."
Why Republicans Are Terrified of Nonexistent Crime
They need an excuse to violently subjugate liberal cities.
prospect.org
August 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"But fundamentally, crime of any kind is a minor risk for a white man in D.C., which classification applies to Mullin, Duffy, Scott, and Trump. Overwhelmingly, the largest source of danger for people who fit that description is vehicle traffic, which killed 110 people in the D.C. area in 2024..."
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186 journalists killed in Palestine since Oct 2023, for daring to tell the real story.
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
186 journalists killed in Palestine since Oct 2023, for daring to tell the real story.
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Is the government planning to privatize our national parks like Yosemite? Are you going to have to pay a for-profit company to visit Yellowstone? Today on Slate's What Next podcast, I talked to Jon B Jarvis, former director of the National Parks Service. He's sounding the alarm about a sell-off.
Gutting Our National Parks
Step 1: Ruin everyone’s national park experience.
slate.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Is the government planning to privatize our national parks like Yosemite? Are you going to have to pay a for-profit company to visit Yellowstone? Today on Slate's What Next podcast, I talked to Jon B Jarvis, former director of the National Parks Service. He's sounding the alarm about a sell-off.
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My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My NYT op-ed this morning
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
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As Trump’s massive bill rolls ahead, it’s truly wild to me how little of the coverage of the GOP’s cuts to Medicaid/work requirements talks abt what happened when the GOP TRIED THIS BEFORE! They’ve tried in two states! It didn’t go well! Anyway we covered this back in May: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Here’s How the GOP Cuts Medicaid
Peeling back Medicaid expansion, one annoying layer of bureaucracy at a time.
slate.com
July 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
As Trump’s massive bill rolls ahead, it’s truly wild to me how little of the coverage of the GOP’s cuts to Medicaid/work requirements talks abt what happened when the GOP TRIED THIS BEFORE! They’ve tried in two states! It didn’t go well! Anyway we covered this back in May: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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It's important to pay attention to the lack of food in Gaza - what it feels like for those on the ground, and why millions are feeling that way in the first place: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Will Israel Starve Gaza Into Submission?
Israel is starving Gaza, according to a famine scholar.
slate.com
June 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's important to pay attention to the lack of food in Gaza - what it feels like for those on the ground, and why millions are feeling that way in the first place: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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When Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence.
Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age.
w/ @ashendruk.com
Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age.
w/ @ashendruk.com
Opinion | Here are the people Trump doesn’t want to exist
Women, people of color and those in the LGBTQ+ community are main targets.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
When Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence.
Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age.
w/ @ashendruk.com
Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age.
w/ @ashendruk.com
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This week on @ThisAmerLife: I reported on Gaza’s severe food shortages and what it means to live through starvation.
Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now.
Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now.
Week Eleven - This American Life
Mohammed Mhawish, a reporter who left Gaza a year ago with his family, talks to a young woman in Gaza about how she manages her hunger. Israel blockaded all food from Gaza for more than two month...
www.thisamericanlife.org
June 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This week on @ThisAmerLife: I reported on Gaza’s severe food shortages and what it means to live through starvation.
Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now.
Features my own experience and voices from those surviving it now.
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Reverend William Barber walks with two canes and is *still* showing up to the Capitol to pray (and getting arrested for it). Reason enough to listen to him about why: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Can A “Morality Coalition” Succeed Against Trump?
Can a progressive coalition be built on morality in 2025?
slate.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Reverend William Barber walks with two canes and is *still* showing up to the Capitol to pray (and getting arrested for it). Reason enough to listen to him about why: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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The GOP is *saying* "work requirements". What they really mean is deep, and probably cruel, cuts. We know because they've already done it: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Here’s How the GOP Cuts Medicaid
Peeling back Medicaid expansion, one annoying layer of bureaucracy at a time.
slate.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The GOP is *saying* "work requirements". What they really mean is deep, and probably cruel, cuts. We know because they've already done it: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
Deen, the grief I feel being apart from you is one drop in a sea of sorrow Palestinian families have drowned in for generations
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil
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Spoke with @maryharris.bsky.social about the Supreme Court's assault on secular public education—simultaneously giving religious parents a veto over curricula AND demanding that states divert taxpayer money to parochial charter schools run by the Catholic Church. Insanity. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Are Public Schools the Supreme Court’s Next Target?
Is teaching religious doctrine less “indoctrination” than a book with a gay character?
slate.com
April 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Spoke with @maryharris.bsky.social about the Supreme Court's assault on secular public education—simultaneously giving religious parents a veto over curricula AND demanding that states divert taxpayer money to parochial charter schools run by the Catholic Church. Insanity. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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I acutally looked at the books that Sam Alito thinks are pro-gay propaganda designed to "indoctrinate" children. I've read my kids a million stories like these. There's nothing objectionable about them, unless you find the *existence* of LGBTQ people objectionable ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...
Let’s Take a Look at the Children’s Books Sam Alito Is So Afraid Of
Stories like "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" are only objectionable if you find the very existence of LGBTQ people to be objectionable.
ballsandstrikes.org
April 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I acutally looked at the books that Sam Alito thinks are pro-gay propaganda designed to "indoctrinate" children. I've read my kids a million stories like these. There's nothing objectionable about them, unless you find the *existence* of LGBTQ people objectionable ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mahmo...
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It is getting harder to stay alive in Gaza. That is the bottom line. And I'm glad that @ayaelb.bsky.social is relentlessly shining a light there: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
The Mass Grave in Gaza
A plan once only discussed in the far-right fringe has become the Israeli government’s policy.
slate.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It is getting harder to stay alive in Gaza. That is the bottom line. And I'm glad that @ayaelb.bsky.social is relentlessly shining a light there: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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“Certain people have rights in this country until they don’t.”
Please listen to my friends @maryharris.bsky.social and Aymann Ismail.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Please listen to my friends @maryharris.bsky.social and Aymann Ismail.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Free Speech? Not If You’re A Foreign Student.
Podcast Episode · What Next | Daily News and Analysis · 04/01/2025 · 24m
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April 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“Certain people have rights in this country until they don’t.”
Please listen to my friends @maryharris.bsky.social and Aymann Ismail.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Please listen to my friends @maryharris.bsky.social and Aymann Ismail.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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I've been wanting to have @adamkinzinger.bsky.social on the show for a MINUTE and I'm real glad we had him on this week to talk about the Signal story: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
The Group Chat Heard ‘Round the World
Per Kinzinger, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz is probably going to take the fall for this.
slate.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I've been wanting to have @adamkinzinger.bsky.social on the show for a MINUTE and I'm real glad we had him on this week to talk about the Signal story: slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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Presenting the 1,2,3s of why we’re unionizing on Sesame Street 💚
Please help us by signing our public petition! Link in bio 🍪
Please help us by signing our public petition! Link in bio 🍪
March 21, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Presenting the 1,2,3s of why we’re unionizing on Sesame Street 💚
Please help us by signing our public petition! Link in bio 🍪
Please help us by signing our public petition! Link in bio 🍪
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Thanks to my friend @stephruhle.bsky.social for teaching me all about the Keynesian vocab of "animal spirits" -- and also making me laugh, a lot slate.com/podcasts/wha...
Trump’s Animal-Spirit Economy
How long will the business community tolerate constant uncertainty?
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March 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Thanks to my friend @stephruhle.bsky.social for teaching me all about the Keynesian vocab of "animal spirits" -- and also making me laugh, a lot slate.com/podcasts/wha...
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At Slate, we care about bringing you critical reporting and analysis about the layoffs happening throughout the federal government. We’re offering six months of complimentary Slate Plus access to federal employees who have been affected by these layoffs.
Visit slate.com/fed-plus for more info.
Visit slate.com/fed-plus for more info.
March 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
At Slate, we care about bringing you critical reporting and analysis about the layoffs happening throughout the federal government. We’re offering six months of complimentary Slate Plus access to federal employees who have been affected by these layoffs.
Visit slate.com/fed-plus for more info.
Visit slate.com/fed-plus for more info.
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On Monday morning, Slate was suddenly informed that six of its employees—including three editors, two of whom were members of the union—were being laid off, just months after four other staffers were also let go. The Slate Union's official statement reads as follows:
March 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
On Monday morning, Slate was suddenly informed that six of its employees—including three editors, two of whom were members of the union—were being laid off, just months after four other staffers were also let go. The Slate Union's official statement reads as follows: