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Heather Hendershot

@profhendershot.bsky.social

Author of When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. Media historian, film weirdo, 45rpm collector. Qapla’!

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so, looks like Jeff and Lefty opened a gin joint together.

01.03.2026 20:51 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

22.02.2026 18:10 — 👍 8085    🔁 4388    💬 338    📌 376

Show me your Uber driver

19.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lemme show you my pride and joy!

19.02.2026 05:26 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

YES

17.02.2026 06:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This one can come over from the other place.

17.02.2026 04:32 — 👍 114    🔁 21    💬 3    📌 2
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Nobody Watched People the Way Frederick Wiseman Did

Goodbye to a filmmaker who taught me so, so much.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

17.02.2026 01:39 — 👍 210    🔁 44    💬 6    📌 12
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This is how you live a life

17.02.2026 02:32 — 👍 4256    🔁 1010    💬 25    📌 32

A doozy of a review! Kudos @sayanniething.bsky.social !

16.02.2026 05:13 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Front page NYT book review today!

15.02.2026 22:49 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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a man wearing headphones is sweating while sitting in an airplane . ALT: a man wearing headphones is sweating while sitting in an airplane .

Oh, that's great! Oof, I cannot take the 80 degrees!!

15.02.2026 19:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a picture of yoda with the words " do or do not there is no try " ALT: a picture of yoda with the words " do or do not there is no try "

You've got this.

15.02.2026 18:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

OMG Thelma Ritter's birthday! She was such a treasure. I'll take this opportunity to recommend Sam Fuller's autobiography, A Third Face. He loved her so much!

14.02.2026 19:42 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Today's morale booster

12.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This one is uneven, for sure, but watch it for Carradine and Duvall, just awkward kids, drinking Cokes and doing their own Depression version of Romeo and Juliet. Wrenching.

12.02.2026 04:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Alabama Solution | Official Trailer | HBO
YouTube video by HBO The Alabama Solution | Official Trailer | HBO

Oscar nominee The Alabama Solution is the strongest doc about our failed prison system since Cinda Firestone's Attica. Virtually all footage shot by prisoners on contraband phones. Watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRNN...

10.02.2026 18:16 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Right on.

09.02.2026 00:27 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

yep.

08.02.2026 05:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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JD Vance Unleashed His Latest Attack On Journalists — And This 1 Phrase Is Especially Concerning The vice president shared criticism about the media during an interview with Megyn Kelly. Experts in history, journalism and the First Amendment weigh in.

Have been getting some interview queries lately from HuffPost... www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-van...

07.02.2026 20:35 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

Yes, best dad movie...if you're into, you know, "home sweet home, the family, all that crap."

04.02.2026 04:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Right on.

03.02.2026 00:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

"Must remain in seats for entirety of film."

02.02.2026 07:01 — 👍 100    🔁 23    💬 11    📌 1

"I can't give you anything but love, baby."

02.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks, I had missed this one!

"To call Melania vapid would do a disservice to the plumes of florid vape smoke that linger around British teenagers."

31.01.2026 19:14 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

"...an elaborate piece of designer taxidermy..."

30.01.2026 23:34 — 👍 21    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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a woman in a sequined dress with the word schitts creek on the bottom left ALT: a woman in a sequined dress with the word schitts creek on the bottom left

Goddess.

30.01.2026 19:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such a fun picture!

25.01.2026 20:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes. This.

25.01.2026 20:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.

wapo.st/49Zqv1L

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