Sara Schaff

This Verse Curious episode has made explaining my book to family 100% easier. I've shared it with all my parents. So grateful to Benjamin Landry for offering my work so much context.

Episode 42: Anna Nygren's BLUSH/RIVER/FOX Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · February 22 · 10m

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 42: Anna Nygren’s BLUSH/RIVER/FOX, from @milkweededitions.bsky.social.

"[BLUSH/RIVER/FOX] is deeply personal and yet also high-wire daredevilry and in this strange combination, profoundly moving."

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WOW, this is the 🎉FORTIETH EPISODE🥂 of VerseCurious!

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Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:

This is how I feel about GOP defections to the Democratic Party. Dems love a good reversal story, but we need to be focusing on building and strengthening core progressive values--not on diluting them with conservatism.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

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I went to go look for Census data this morning and.... y'all. #econsky

BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis.

Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.

And Amy Klobuchar wants to be governor of Minnesota?!

Bye, Bye Elise: A Political Theater Kid Leaves the Stage — Sara Schaff Less Greek tragedy. More cringe high school musical.

I can't promise I'll never write about Elise Stefanik again, but this did feel like a kind of closure. Good riddance.

Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.

“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.

He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

Core Memories of American Unexceptionalism — Sara Schaff I hate that my daughter is growing up in this system. And I hate that I did too.

On growing up with American unexceptionalism--

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There’s a reason Mamdani voted for himself under the Working Families Party. You’re seeing that reason why NOW.

From now on, it’s @workingfamilies.org forward.

May the old Democrat ways die.

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People really need to wrap their heads around HOW ATTENUATED our election cycles have gotten.

They're acting like the Maine primary was a race between Platner and Mills only and it's too late for anyone else to jump in.

The deadline to REGISTER FOR IT is in MARCH!

Go out and recruit SOMEONE ELSE

Stefanik booster and ally spread anti-Muslim conspiracy theories A conservative activist in the North Country with ties to Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has a long history of anti-Muslim statements and conspiracy theories on social media, NCPR has learned.

Here is the detailed story North Country Public Radio did on the Stefanik-Ashendorff connection.

www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/3...

Photo of smiling Elise Stefanik with Ava Ashendorff in a USA hoodie.

Photo of a smiling Elise Stefanik with arm around Ava Ashendorff, in a hotel ballroom or conference room.

No surprise Elise Stefanik is tied to the racist Young Republicans group. During 1st Trump presidency, one of her closest upstate allies was Ava Ashendorff, leader of the North Country Women's Republican Club, who posted hateful & Islamophobic content on FB. Stefanik never distanced herself.

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Episode 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 10/07/2025 · 11m

✨📚NEW EPISODE📚✨Ep. 38: Erin L. McCoy's WRECKS (@noemipress.bsky.social).

"I appreciated [McCoy's] skillful weaving of textures and materials in a book that comes to resemble less the chaos of the wreck than the natural artistry and ingenuity of a nest."

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Please consider signing this petition calling for Professor Dixon’s reinstatement. www.change.org/p/reinstate-... @aaup.org #academicfreedom

The US has blown up another boat near Venezuela.

Instagram account connected to Gilroy shooter pushed staple of white supremacist internet forums

Anti-Semitic open letter posted online under name of Chabad synagogue shooting suspect

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies

New Zealand mosque shooting: Attacker's apparent manifesto probed

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

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Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 09/09/2025 · 11m

📚🚨VerseCurious is back from summer hiatus with Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE (@fordhampress.bsky.social). "Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE holds us, briefly, back from the fray, provides the curative caesura." Listen/enjoy/rate/share/subscribe!

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah took down X posts Tuesday making an apparent connection between Gov. Tim Walz and the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses, and blaming “Marxists” for the murders. The change comes after blowback from Sen. Tina Smith and her staffers as well as Minnesota Democratic and Republican lawmakers. One X post said “Nightmare on Waltz Street,” with pictures of Boelter, who is accused of killing Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, in the early morning hours of June 14. Boelter also went to the homes of two other state lawmakers that night; one house was empty, and at the other, a police officer pulled up to the house shortly after Boelter arrived, so Boelter left. Another Lee post read, “This is what happens When Marxists don’t get their way,” with a picture of Boelter.

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman.

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😹 look at this fuckin guy lol