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Seyward Darby

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Editor in Chief, The Atavist Magazine (@atavist.com) • Contributing Editor, Longreads • Author, Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Frontlines of White Nationalism • May I please pet your dog? • www.seywarddarby.com

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exactly.

27.02.2026 23:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

wat.

27.02.2026 23:50 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

Can't emphasize enough: this story is WILD.

27.02.2026 23:52 — 👍 11    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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American Hindenburg In the early days of flight, airships were hailed as the future of war. Then disaster struck the USS Akron.

And the illustrations in AMERICAN HINDENBURG are so arresting—they evoke dread, and feel like historical snapshots, which is exactly the point.

magazine.atavist.com/2025/america...

26.02.2026 21:41 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"There Will Be No Mercy": On the Frontlines of War in Ethiopia When Ethiopia’s government launched a brutal two-year war in Tigray, the region’s largest hospital was overrun with victims. The medical staff risked everything to treat the wounded—and believe the wo...

THERE WILL BE NO MERCY is a true feat of reporting and storytelling. It was also the last story I edited before I had a baby, and reading about the horrific things done to women—including pregnant women—in Tigray, Ethiopia will never leave me.

magazine.atavist.com/2025/there-w...

26.02.2026 21:37 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS 2026 NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

Breaking friend-news reporter @greenwell.bsky.social was the first to alert me that @atavist.com is a finalist for TWO (!!) National Magazine Awards this year. I'm thrilled. Congrats to all the finalists.

asme.memberclicks.net/national-mag...

26.02.2026 21:21 — 👍 24    🔁 2    💬 5    📌 0
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Three Mothers, One Struggle: Saving Their Children with Schizophrenia When their sons began to suffer from profound mental illness, these Colorado women learned to lean on each other.

Shameless plug. But really, this one is special. magazine.atavist.com/2026/thats-s...

23.02.2026 03:21 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

not me bursting into tears in an oakland coffee shop

19.02.2026 22:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I mean, to be fair, the more accurate term would be "implosion" but god it felt like a massacre.

13.02.2026 22:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

there are significantly worse things going on in the world but watching ilia malinin wait for his scores is excruciating.

13.02.2026 21:59 — 👍 27    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I'm willing to give all the credit for this to the Dog Rates guy.

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Artist uses Harry Potter books to make portraits of murdered trans women A Vermont-based artist is making a statement after using Harry Potter books to make powerful portraits of murdered trans women.

I spent a long time trying to figure out what to do with my Harry Potter books, because just dumping them in a little free library felt wrong. So I mailed them to this artist who was turning them into portraits of murdered trans women

www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/11/a...

10.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 1143    🔁 386    💬 11    📌 11

Thanks for having me on the show. I hate that we have to talk about this topic, but here we are.

11.02.2026 22:43 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How Trump Is Scrapping the Legal Bedrock of Climate Rules In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency formally concluded that greenhouse gases jeopardize public health and welfare. This so-called endangerment finding became the legal foundation for a host o...

The final rule text isn't yet available, but there's still *a lot* we already know about the Trump EPA's coming repeal of the endangerment finding and greenhouse standards for vehicles.

Here's an explainer (with a gift link) to get you up to speed @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

11.02.2026 18:23 — 👍 20    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 1

“things are winding down in Minnesota”

11.02.2026 18:20 — 👍 754    🔁 226    💬 3    📌 2

this guy rules. always has. always will.
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11.02.2026 18:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

what does one even say at this point?

11.02.2026 18:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

10.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 5439    🔁 2259    💬 104    📌 113
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Three Mothers, One Struggle: Saving Their Children with Schizophrenia When their sons began to suffer from profound mental illness, these Colorado women learned to lean on each other.

"It felt as though I was holding my breath the entire time I read this extraordinary piece, which follows the stories of three mothers in Colorado and their three children who were diagnosed with schizophrenia."-Guest editor @rainesford.bsky.social's top pick magazine.atavist.com/2026/thats-s...

08.02.2026 15:22 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

KELSEY. RIGHT!?!?!?

10.02.2026 20:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

hell yes, DinoCon

10.02.2026 03:39 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

extremely important journalism

10.02.2026 03:37 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

{whispering} people convicted of violent crimes also do not deserve to live in these conditions

09.02.2026 13:02 — 👍 580    🔁 162    💬 7    📌 0

Revolution when? bsky.app/profile/char...

09.02.2026 18:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you, @rainesford.bsky.social and @thesundaylongread.bsky.social, for featuring our latest story. It's one of the best I've ever had the honor of working on.

Read it here: magazine.atavist.com/2026/thats-s...

08.02.2026 18:45 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

If you have info about East Montana, Dilley and poor conditions at Texas’s two dozen ICE detention centers you can reach me anonymously + securely on Signal at 832-729-3421 or email me lkriel@texastribune.org

07.02.2026 19:07 — 👍 183    🔁 114    💬 3    📌 1
The wint "turning a big dial tath says 'racism'" tweet.

The wint "turning a big dial tath says 'racism'" tweet.

Meanwhile, at the White House.

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Guardian screenshot: BuzzFeed editor-in-chief: fair to call Donald Trump a 'mendacious racist'
This article is more than 10 years old
Staff will not get in trouble for their descriptions of Republican presidential candidate on social media, says Ben Smith

Guardian screenshot: BuzzFeed editor-in-chief: fair to call Donald Trump a 'mendacious racist' This article is more than 10 years old Staff will not get in trouble for their descriptions of Republican presidential candidate on social media, says Ben Smith

More than 10 years later, still true!

06.02.2026 18:59 — 👍 100    🔁 24    💬 0    📌 0

i hate it here.

06.02.2026 02:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

we're doomed.

05.02.2026 18:36 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0