rebekah kirkman
@rebekahkirkman.bsky.social
enrichment time in my enclosure. i’m a writer. rebekah.m.kirkman@gmail.com
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at the NIN show and a hot goth couple were just taking a pic with their daughter who was holding a labubu. this is my first time seeing a labubu in real life. i love rock n roll
August 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
at the NIN show and a hot goth couple were just taking a pic with their daughter who was holding a labubu. this is my first time seeing a labubu in real life. i love rock n roll
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Has any musicologist ever written about the very American phenomenon of taking very left wing songs and either willfully or unintentionally misinterpreting them to be right wing songs for the sake of state media?
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played.
CINEMATIC
CINEMATIC
June 14, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Has any musicologist ever written about the very American phenomenon of taking very left wing songs and either willfully or unintentionally misinterpreting them to be right wing songs for the sake of state media?
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so is anyone in power going to like. do something
June 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
so is anyone in power going to like. do something
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Issue 59 of Baltimore Beat is live. April 19 will mark 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death. This issue looks back on that tumultuous time in our city’s history. Our cover was designed by Wide Angle Youth Media.
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Issue 59 of Baltimore Beat is live. April 19 will mark 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death. This issue looks back on that tumultuous time in our city’s history. Our cover was designed by Wide Angle Youth Media.
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Scenes from #HandsOff protests in downtown Baltimore where at least 1200 rallied to protest President Trump & Elon Musk's assault on federal workers, government agencies & services, immigrants, & democracy.
April 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Scenes from #HandsOff protests in downtown Baltimore where at least 1200 rallied to protest President Trump & Elon Musk's assault on federal workers, government agencies & services, immigrants, & democracy.
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Not all “Hands Off” events were in-person. I attended two virtual events centering chronically ill and disabled people for @motherjones.com, who are terrified about attacks to Medicaid, Section 504, research funding, education and more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
For some disabled protestors, “Hands Off” went virtual
"We know we have to teach everyone how to include us."
www.motherjones.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Not all “Hands Off” events were in-person. I attended two virtual events centering chronically ill and disabled people for @motherjones.com, who are terrified about attacks to Medicaid, Section 504, research funding, education and more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Baltimore writers: Come to the CityLit Festival tomorrow! Mostly free; lots of great sessions and workshops, including one where a bunch of great editors and I will happily read your work and give you feedback (for a $10 donation to the org). More details here! www.citylitproject.org/event/one-on...
CityLit Festival presents One-on-One 30-Minute Editorial Critique Sessions – CityLit Project
www.citylitproject.org
April 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Baltimore writers: Come to the CityLit Festival tomorrow! Mostly free; lots of great sessions and workshops, including one where a bunch of great editors and I will happily read your work and give you feedback (for a $10 donation to the org). More details here! www.citylitproject.org/event/one-on...
if you had a bad day i highly recommend getting a milkshake from tambers
March 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
if you had a bad day i highly recommend getting a milkshake from tambers
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love 2 live in this ayn rand sequel, ATLAS SHARTED
February 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
love 2 live in this ayn rand sequel, ATLAS SHARTED
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logging on
Always anchor your TVs and furniture to the wall.
February 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
logging on
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"Johns Hopkins University-affiliated Jhpiego & Center for Communication Programs have received stop-work orders, affecting at least 4,400 employees worldwide & programs that treat ppl with cancer and HIV, train local doctors & ensure the health of newborn babies in poor nations"
Elon Musk’s gutting of USAID rips through Baltimore humanitarian groups
Musk’s gutting of USAID rips through Baltimore humanitarian groups
Johns Hopkins University-affiliated Jhpiego and Center for Communication Programs have received stop-work orders, affecting at least 4,400 employees worldwide.
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February 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"Johns Hopkins University-affiliated Jhpiego & Center for Communication Programs have received stop-work orders, affecting at least 4,400 employees worldwide & programs that treat ppl with cancer and HIV, train local doctors & ensure the health of newborn babies in poor nations"
This will get lost among all the other things but: Hello, I am an editor and writer who’s open to freelance work such as copy editing, fact-checking, writing about art or unions or whatever really. I’m very good at these things. You can find some of my work here: rebekahkirkman.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This will get lost among all the other things but: Hello, I am an editor and writer who’s open to freelance work such as copy editing, fact-checking, writing about art or unions or whatever really. I’m very good at these things. You can find some of my work here: rebekahkirkman.com
due to being furloughed because of all the fascism that’s going on, i am taking care of myself by going to a class called “gentle yoga” today. do you think they’ll let me yell in there
February 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
due to being furloughed because of all the fascism that’s going on, i am taking care of myself by going to a class called “gentle yoga” today. do you think they’ll let me yell in there
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seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions
But when it comes to cutting aid budgets no one says “let’s spend less money on Israeli or Egyptian military capacity”. Instead you want to start by taking healthcare and education away from people who have been made vulnerable by the structural injustices you create and benefit from.
February 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions
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February 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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it takes effort to abdicate your duty this bad. what a fucking fool.
Trump's been purging and intimidating USAID employees.
Now there’s a rumor he'll dissolve USAID as an independent agency.
It was created by JFK and established in law to further our national security and spread hope.
This'd be illegal and against our national interests.
Now there’s a rumor he'll dissolve USAID as an independent agency.
It was created by JFK and established in law to further our national security and spread hope.
This'd be illegal and against our national interests.
February 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
it takes effort to abdicate your duty this bad. what a fucking fool.
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The data being removed from government website doesn't belong to the current or any other administration. It is public data, paid for by all of us, to serve all of us. This is theft of public goods in service of an odious private agenda.
February 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The data being removed from government website doesn't belong to the current or any other administration. It is public data, paid for by all of us, to serve all of us. This is theft of public goods in service of an odious private agenda.
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Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harper’s piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.
!["Sorry, I could barely get through Kissick’s orgy of grievances. I lived through the years he elegizes, saw some great art and even more middling art. Anyone reading his piece with a gimlet eye will notice that it was speculation, not ‘politics,’ that sucked the air out of the room. I do agree with him on one point: the art world is boring right now. But you’re not going to save it by being boring yourself. And you’re definitely not going to get art that ‘tears open [your] consciousness’ through nostalgia for Hans Ulrich Obrist. Go outside, look around. Stop being sad because markets and institutions aren’t pandering to you. Go where the energy is. Go make some real friends. Break a magazine. Go to a protest. Free Palestine.
David Velasco
New York City”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x7xmggpwlgtotuxi5as5igwy/bafkreihrenoebwsv5fnp2z63jnlvgvdmeoswiwbonxuwywtv4u2bzqhexq@jpeg)
January 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Love this letter from David Velasco (the former Artforum editor fired for publishing an open letter against the carnage in Gaza) responding to that Harper’s piece lamenting the contamination of contemporary art by politics.
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excited for >=4 years of this
November 21, 2024 at 11:59 PM
excited for >=4 years of this
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Taking this and every opportunity to scream that every dollar spent on SNAP generates $1.67 in economic activity. An ROI of 167% and it’s always the first thing these guys cut. Besides the actual cruelty of this, it’s bad business. Republicans don’t know anything about money except how to inherit it
🚨 Trump has suspends all federal assistance, including SNAP, death benefits, VA benefits, and more.
We will update as we learn more.
We will update as we learn more.
Trump administration orders sweeping freeze of all federal aid
In a two-page memo, the Office of Management and Budget ordered all federal agencies to temporarily suspend payments.
www.politico.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Taking this and every opportunity to scream that every dollar spent on SNAP generates $1.67 in economic activity. An ROI of 167% and it’s always the first thing these guys cut. Besides the actual cruelty of this, it’s bad business. Republicans don’t know anything about money except how to inherit it
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This is what the “pro-life” movement IS.
WIC. They are pausing WIC.
That's the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Last time I checked (a while ago), every dollar spent on WIC produced over a dollar in savings *in the same fiscal year.* For most people, though, feeding infants and mothers is enough.
That's the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Last time I checked (a while ago), every dollar spent on WIC produced over a dollar in savings *in the same fiscal year.* For most people, though, feeding infants and mothers is enough.
Broader agreement that it to applies to discretionary spending payments (Head Start, WIC, etc).
January 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is what the “pro-life” movement IS.
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ICYMI: We spoke with federal workers during Trump's first week in office as they face new restrictions and mandates.
"'People were sobbing in the halls."
"'People were sobbing in the halls."
Local federal workers react to Trump's new work policies: 'People were sobbing in the halls’
Many of D.C.'s civil servants panic as they face job losses, hiring freezes, and return to office mandates.
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January 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ICYMI: We spoke with federal workers during Trump's first week in office as they face new restrictions and mandates.
"'People were sobbing in the halls."
"'People were sobbing in the halls."
January 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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one antidote for the “maybe all men” feeling is to watch old lapidarist guys on youtube. they’re all named like dave or chad and they are the most wholesome creatures on earth. right now they’re slicing through a sweet malawi agate with a table saw and gasping at “how pretty you are”
January 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
one antidote for the “maybe all men” feeling is to watch old lapidarist guys on youtube. they’re all named like dave or chad and they are the most wholesome creatures on earth. right now they’re slicing through a sweet malawi agate with a table saw and gasping at “how pretty you are”