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@densestuff.bsky.social

Global film and media scholar; writing coach and editor at OneLitPlace; always in between

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FBI investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE, Patel says The statement from FBI Director Kash Patel comes after right-wing media figures said they joined the chats and claimed participants were obstructing law enforcement.

FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday that he had opened an investigation into the Signal group text chats that Minnesota residents are using www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

27.01.2026 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 535    πŸ” 270    πŸ’¬ 157    πŸ“Œ 195
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Donate - Authors Against Book Bans Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!

For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.

Imagine what we could do with $$$

www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

14.11.2025 17:47 β€” πŸ‘ 521    πŸ” 279    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 13
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Why Chevron Could Reap the Biggest Rewards From Venezuela

Why Chevron Could Reap the Biggest Rewards From Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/b...

06.01.2026 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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I’m at Times Square, where an emergency β€œNo War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20Β°F weather.

β€œNo more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”

β€œNo boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

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A Criminal Empire The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

03.01.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4854    πŸ” 1446    πŸ’¬ 80    πŸ“Œ 77
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'Stranger Things' Was a Casualty of the Franchise Machine How the nostalgic, well-made treat we couldn't help devouring amid the traumas of 2016 devolved into a content factory

time.com/7341726/stra...

27.12.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Dismantling of the New School The New School was founded as an institution dedicated to critical inquiry and the free exchange of ideas. The current austerity measures at the university are dismantling the radical democratic aspir...

jacobin.com/2025/12/new-...

24.12.2025 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy by Madeline Lane-McKinley

Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy by Madeline Lane-McKinley

I haven’t read it yet so I don’t want to misspeak but in my heart of hearts I feel and suspect this is the book everyone should be reading instead of Haidt’s β€œThe Anxious Generation”

01.12.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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Thanksgiving, Then, and Now: When Being an Immigrant Feels More Fraught Than Ever, Coming Together Seems More Important - American Kahani Thanksgiving, Then, and Now: When Being an Immigrant Feels More Fraught Than Ever, Coming Together Seems More Important

As we emerge from Thanksgiving break in the U.S., I reflected on my evolving relationship with this complicated American holiday:

americankahani.com/perspectives...

01.12.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?

America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...

26.11.2025 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Help Dr. Ibrahim Ahmed and his family survive in Gaza! I am Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Taban, 24 years old, and I currently live with my family on the street; we don't have any refuge. Our house was bombed very early in the war, and I sustained serious injuries to ...

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25.09.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody saw that coming…

22.09.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

21.09.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Donald Trump seeks to make sure that free speech is reserved exclusively for right-wing billionaires.

20.09.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump threatens trade probe after 'discriminatory' EU fines against Google, Apple Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanked Trump at a White House dinner after a U.S. judge issued a favorable ruling in the landmark antitrust case against Alphabet.

"President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to launch a trade investigation to 'nullify' what he said were discriminatory fines being levied by Europe against U.S. tech firms such as Google and Apple."
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/t...

05.09.2025 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

RE Lisa Cook. It’s just so hard to tell why Trump is targeting these people. I guess we will never know what they had in common. A mystery for all time.

26.08.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 609    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 4
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The Racist Foundation of the Big Lie of a Stolen Election New research shows how racist beliefs enable lies about voter fraud to spread.

Two troubling new studies find that lies about the 2020 election tapped into racist attitudes and white America’s long-standing fear of a real multiracial democracy. Read about the studies here: bit.ly/3Jqxp6A

23.08.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 222    πŸ” 100    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 21
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BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I…

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

24.04.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2607    πŸ” 921    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 118
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Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (Gift Article) Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

amazing article reporting how scientists inspecting planets at an unfathomable distance identified the remote possibility of extraterrestrial lifeβ€” a holy grail of science and perhaps all humanityβ€” and then the end is β€œanyway Trump took all our money so that’s that”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

17.04.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
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Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines, sinking stock prices since caving on DEI Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15.

"Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines, sinking stock prices since caving on DEI.
Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15." www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...

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We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

21.03.2025 21:23 β€” πŸ‘ 128492    πŸ” 25921    πŸ’¬ 3709    πŸ“Œ 1740

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.

We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.

They own what happens next.

14.03.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 129392    πŸ” 25269    πŸ’¬ 5682    πŸ“Œ 1533

Today I learned that the largest DEI initiative in American history was the Civil War

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E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices An internal memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities.

EPA cancels protecting the environment. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

12.03.2025 04:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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No Other Land Co-Director Yuval Abraham:
"The foreign policy in this country is helping to block this path. Why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? There is another way. It's not too late for life, for the living. There is no other way."

03.03.2025 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4436    πŸ” 1322    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 59
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β€œNo Other Land” just received the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature! And, yet, one cannot watch the film on any streaming service in the U.S.

03.03.2025 02:20 β€” πŸ‘ 234    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3

I don't know how else to say this except for bluntly:

It is not normal to have outbreaks of preventable diseases in wealthy countries.
It is not normal to have children dying from preventable diseases in wealthy countries.

This is the first US measles death in 10 years. There should be none.

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