Charlotte Shane

A Certain Mistake: Jackie Ess on Tolstoy’s Resurrection Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 12/03/2025 · 49m

Come and get it: @essj.bsky.social + @jolivingstone.bsky.social + me, Tolstoy, the Bible, horny Frenchmen, I could go on!
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Infinity Pilled — CS The one blot on this otherwise perfect canvas is Team Australia who I’m afraid will be heading to hell when parkour guy’s 8000th uncalled-for backflip inevitably opens up a dimensional portal. They al...

Presented for your modest amusement: November's books, movies, shows, triumphs in the field of stain removal charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/11...

RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.

#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️

Reading Writers/@bookforum.bsky.social heads: come get your free tickets! @jolivingstone.bsky.social, Stephanie Wambugu and I will be discussing a VERY divisive recent novel on December 4th. www.eventbrite.com/e/bookforum-...

Just saw this today. This is a transparent attempt to KILL DUE PROCESS by lying about the job of immigration judge and stacking the deck through hiring only bloodthirsty lawyers who want to deport people.

This comes after they pushed out over 100 judges deemed too likely to grant relief.

get ready to become a PROUD podcast listener....RW will convert you permanently

Metaphysically Blown Away: Torrey Peters on Zoe Schlanger’s The Light Eaters Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/19/2025 · 1h 9m

This week's Reading Writers is very dear to me. @torreypeters.bsky.social joined for a lively, funny, moving discussion about plant consciousness that I think will leave listeners inspired and hopeful about life/the world/the future/etc. Come get your balm: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e... Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community

I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."

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posts like this makes me so happy. unironically, it is beautiful

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group

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Setting the House on Fire: Lauren Michele Jackson on Nettie Jones’ Fish Tales Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/12/2025 · 56m

Stop whatever you're doing and START procrastinating...by listening to the latest Reading Writers. It's a really fun one, with the scintillating Lauren Michele Jackson. Expect talk of dirtbag women protagonists, Alexander the Great, and hot cheetahs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Seems like they both spent an alarming amount of time with Henry Kissinger!

First Draft of Reality: Rumaan Alam on Tina Brown’s The Vanity Fair Diaries. Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · 11/05/2025 · 1h 3m

Please allow me to further the high you may be riding this morning by sharing the first episode of Reading Writers Season 3 — and we're now in partnership with @bookforum.bsky.social! Thank you @rumaan.bsky.social for the perfect conversation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Yayyyyy :)

"As I’ve said many a time, I don’t like movies. They underwhelm and annoy me; I am immune to their alleged magic."

October's reading, watching, listening: charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/10...

yes same, I think about Obama coming into office and people confidently saying comeuppance was nigh....

that's my thought too, those fantasies seem predicated on the involvement of other countries (one way or another) even though I don't think it's ever made explicit

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

The fantasies of every ICE agent facing some sort of (severe!) justice tribunal are shocking to me. People speak about it so confidently, like it's something that will magically, inevitably occur... Can you point to a clear precedent in *this country's* history? I only know of the myriad opposites

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

this is such a high compliment! thank you

Deconstructing Creative Angst Making • Sharing • Selling • Freedom

For months I've been thinking about what precise anxieties and insecurities hide in questions like "how can I write at a time like this?" and tried to untangle them by parsing separate (though interrelated) acts: making, sharing, and selling meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/deconstruc...

Hold Fast, M’love — CS It steams my beans that we’ve got people out here going on an extended tear about how Colleen Hoover is irredeemable dogshit while saying Emily Henry wrote one of their favorite books. I’ve read three...

Soft launch of something special (or rather the return of something special…) in September’s blog 🤭http://charlotteshane.com/blog/2025/9/8/september

There's a @charoshane.bsky.social line I think about constantly - 'But to fight for more than can be achieved in one lifetime is the plight of all radicals. Radicals are destined to die wanting.' And that's ok. It's in the job description www.bookforum.com/print/2502/s...

Capital punishment: What it means that Trump reinstated the death penalty in D.C. D.C. did away with the death penalty 44 years ago, but the president is bringing it back.

It got lost in other news, but last week President Trump reinstated the death penalty in D.C., where it hasn't been used in 70 years. For @51st.news I did a dive into what exactly Trump's policy change means, who might be impacted, and what residents can do to push back: 51st.news/trump-reinst...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

404 Media is simply a dream come true

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win