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Marianne Dhenin
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crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
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signs of solidarity with Palestine from Barcelona, Catalonia. ❤️
a large slice of watermelon painted on an empty shop window a pair of Palestinian flags waving from a rooftop in the distance; below a Palestinian flag is painted on concrete steps a long Palestinian flag painted on concrete steps
November 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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I'm at the International People's Tribunal on Palestine in Barcelona this weekend. This morning, experts and witnesses testified to the destruction of critical infrastructure and agricultural land across Gaza.

I'll share updates in this thread, so follow along 🇵🇸
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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brb crying
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November 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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tag yourself, I'm soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks
But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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After your publisher gets ahold of your paper
Same collage of Lampard from the QT, except he looks serious on the left and is chucking on the right.
October 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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I'll be, uh, sexy blanched green onions, I'm afraid.
Bluesky post from @byelacey.bsky.social that reads “your halloween costume is "sexy" + the last thing you google searched” “this year i'll be going as "sexy bus schedule".
October 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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For what feels like ages, whenever I pull up @merriam-webster.com, the top lookup has been "fascism." But when I logged on today, in a refreshing turn of events, the top lookup was instead *checks notes* Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
Online Merriam-Webster Dictionary entry for "Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg," a lakw on the border with Connecticut in south central Massachusetts.
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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⏱️ Time is running out on my Back-to-School Subscriber Drive — and I'm still nine backers short. Help me reach my goal and fund my independent reporting by becoming an annual subscriber at a discounted rate: newsletter.mariannedhenin.com/10-off-back-...
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September 30, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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🍎 Today I’m launching my Back-to-School Subscriber Drive! I’ll be featuring reporting on education, historic preservation, and campus labor organizing with the goal of signing up 15 new annual subscribers before Sep 30.

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September 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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when I hear someone suggest using ChatGPT for literally anything
Frank Reynolds, gun in each hand, "so anyway, I started blasting"
August 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Wiki editors seem to know that no matter how many citations they provide, there will be hateful people who seek to discredit reports of Israel's mass killings of Palestinians in Gaza. I think this may be the first time I've ever seen an "excessive citations" label. What a world.
Wiki article reads: "The Nuseirat refugee camp has been bombed repeatedly since the start of the Gaza war. On 18 October 2023, the Grand Nuseirat Mosque was bombed and destroyed by Israeli airstrikes, subsequently the attacks continued causing more than a hundred victims." The last clause has 17 individual footnotes and an "excessive citations" label.
August 13, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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🚨 Israeli forces have stormed the Handala. Before closing the YouTube feed, Freedom Flotilla Coalition posted: "Please everyone escalate for Gaza and for the safety our volunteers who are being kidnapped right now. The IOF jammed the starlinks. No connection anymore. Push your governments."
Post from Freedom Flotilla Coalition reads "Please everyone escalate for Gaza and for the safety our volunteers who are being kidnapped right now. The IOF jammed the starlinks. No connection anymore. Push your governments."
July 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Before Israeli forces stormed the Handala, French crew member and politician, Emma Fourreau, posted to X/Twitter: "The Israeli army is here. We are throwing our phones into the sea. See you very soon. Stop the genocide. 🇵🇸"
Post on X/Twitter from Emma Fourreau @emma_frr posted at 10:18 pm CET on Jul 26, 2025, reads: L'armée israélienne est là. Nous jetons nos téléphones à la mer. À très vite. Stop génocide.
July 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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me, after eating my sixth donut this week:
Sketch of a goose wearing chic sunglasses, a bobbed wig, knee-high black boots, and a green scarf riding a purple bicycle and holding a double-scoop ice cream cone in one hand. Hand-written capital letters read "The horrors persist but so do the sweet treats." The artist's Instagram handle is @tuerannja (https://linktr.ee/tuerannja).
July 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Lost an old friend and partner and am finding a little bit of comfort in years-old messages like this one that made me snort-laugh through my sobs. Go call an old friend and tell them you love them for me, would you?
messenger bubble reads "I sent you a postcard, it was fantastic! The stamps here are huge so after writing all over it, I realized the stamp would obscure part of what I wrote. FAIL Then I dropped it off in the mail box and realized before I went to bed that I didn't write your address on it lol"
July 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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quote with your favorite anti-fascist film
black-and-white shot of three women sitting or leaning around a living room in The Battle of Algiers film
July 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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"One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty “hi,” is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?"

Ursula K. Le Guin on tech.
We have been so desensitized by a hundred and fifty years of ceaselessly expanding technical prowess that we think nothing less complex and showy than a computer or a jet bomber deserves to be called “technology” at all. As if linen were the same thing as flax — as if paper, ink, wheels, knives, clocks, chairs, aspirin pills, were natural objects, born with us like our teeth and fingers — as if steel saucepans with copper bottoms and fleece vests spun from recycled glass grew on trees, and we just picked them when they were ripe... One way to illustrate that most technologies are, in fact, pretty “hi,” is to ask yourself of any manmade object, Do I know how to make one?
April 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Sharing with alt-text. This is the final message of 23-year-old Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat. Israeli forces killed Shabat in a targeted airstrike on Monday.

"Do not stop speaking about Gaza," he wrote. "Keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free."
Screenshot from Hossam's Twitter/X account reads, "This is Hossam's team, and we are sharing his final message: "If you're reading this, it means I have been killed-most likely targeted-by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old -a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents-anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people's side. By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest-something I haven't known in the past 18 months. I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. I believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people. I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories-until Palestine is free." For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza."
March 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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reposting with alt-text
screenshot from a blog reads: While nonviolence obviously could not have pushed back German armour on the battlefield once the institutions of militarism had been allowed to mature and the self-propelling mechanism of a military state put into motion, it might have been effective at an earlier stage in preventing the rise to power of those responsible. If the historical fact is that military means stopped Hitler once he began to march, it is also an historical fact that reliance upon such means on the part of the world's nations did not prevent his rise to power in the first place. ... [and] had military action not been taken, say, until 1943 (or if Germany... [had] perfected the atom bomb first), it is unlikely that Hitler could have been stopped this way either. In responding to this particular case, it is also important to interrogate what the aims of employing violence against the axis powers were. If they were simply to defend against or repel foreign invasion by destroying the enemy's will to continue fighting, then the military campaign, after much cost, succeeded. On the other hand, if its purpose was to protect civilians, save European Jews, end future military aggression, defeat the forces of fascism, or create a more peaceful world, then the allied use of force in World War II clearly failed.
March 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Greetings from the ophthalmologist's office, where I am paying to have a liquid that causes a burning sensation dropped into my eyes so a doctor can determine whether my lifesaving medication has caused irreparable harm to my retinas. I will be wearing sunglasses indoors until further notice. ✨
selfie of Marianne wearing dark sunglasses and an FFP2 mask with Dräger stamped on the front with plain ceiling tiles in the background.
December 5, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Hello new followers! 👋 Are you familiar with my writing? For every like, I'll drop a piece in the thread.
Text in image reads "Get to know my writing. For every like, I will post one piece I wrote."
November 23, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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I love ordering a book that takes a while to ship, half forgetting about it, and being surprised when it arrives in the post. Today's is Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's CENZONTLE.
My right hand holds the book Cenzontle, which has a blue bird drawn on its white cover. A folded yellow and white throw blanket sits in the background.
November 19, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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hello, new followers 👋 here is a public service announcement, spotted on a recent dog walk.
purple spray paint stenciled on a cement pillar reads "ACAB INCLUDES LANDLORDS"
November 16, 2024 at 2:34 PM
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drop something pink from your gallery 🌸💗
photo of a ticket to the Dauerausstellung at DFF: Deutsches Filminstitut Filmmuseum in shades of pink with information printed in a white box (dated 08 Juli 2023, price 3€) held in my left hand with wooden flooring in the background
September 8, 2023 at 7:49 PM