“it’s fair to say that 80 percent of the world’s problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won’t let go" nymag.com/intelligence... (still relevant Nov piece by @rtraister.bsky.social )
The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.
I revisited a Q&A I did with @rtraister.bsky.social on writing public history as a journalist in 2021—and it struck me as too good not to resend!
alexiscoe.substack.com/p/wordy-wedn...
"All of this is to say that by most standards, I have developed a pretty hard shell when it comes to stories of sexualized power abuse.
So I was surprised when the air left my lungs today. When I felt like I was going to vomit." @rtraister.bsky.social
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So much love and solidarity to Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and every other survivor. Chavez was just a man; women like them, then and now, are the true heroes of the farmworkers’ movement.
Elizabeth Warren was originally a Republican from Oklahoma and this normie, practical, "why should we pay for this useless, profligate, non-Congressionally approved war" perspective sounds like exactly what you would once have heard from such a person
Very coherent, and very, dare I say it, small-c conservative in the best sense??
This is amazing.
When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels.
That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.
I’ve been talking to @amylittlefield.bsky.social about this book for years and today it’s out. Killers of Roe, available here (or your local bookstore): bookshop.org/p/books/kill...
The “optimizing” trend is all about shifting responsibility for health onto the individual and profiting from it.
You can do everything “right” and still get cancer. Ask me how I know.
When @rtraister.bsky.social and @chrislhayes.bsky.social got going I had to check my settings up see if I had the speed turned up. I needed this
This interview with @rtraister.bsky.social is a serious must listen. Imagine what we're continuing to lose because women aren't taken seriously and because many men get away with so much podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
This is v worth your time:
Really terrific conversation between @rtraister.bsky.social and @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Epstein and the legacy of Me Too - give a listen.
Today is pub day for Angry Girls Will Get Us Through, a young readers edition of Good & Mad, drawing on material from all three of my previous books (plus new material). It was brilliantly adapted by Ruby Shamir. Here is a (starred!) review from Kirkus: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
Thread. I sent the link to IRL artist friend & they wound up subscribing to the magazine & wowed by this week's fashion photos of @mayor.nyc.gov's wife. Penn-worthy.
I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.
This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...
But for the cost of childcare, Mamdani would have been born in the US and could have run for president. Read @rtraister.bsky.social’s excellent piece on filmmaker Mira Nair. www.vulture.com/article/what...
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
“There was no woman auteur from India having films distributed in the U.S. to a general audience. There was no Mira before Mira, no precedent for her; she blazed her path with talent, charm, and will in superabundance. Sound familiar?”
www.vulture.com/article/what...
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
Thank you!
“I’ve thought a lot of them not just as parents individually or as aspirations professionally,” Mamdani told me, “but in terms of what a marriage can look like, pursuing your professional dreams and being able to raise a family all at once.”"
xo
Thank you!!
Thank you!
So many quotes in here to pull out and share, but this is a such a incisive, startling profile of Mira Nair, one of my favourite ever filmmakers who also just happens to be Zohran Mamdani's mum.
She has stayed in my head as a young filmmaker from the '90s, so when I first heard that her son was running for Mayor, my initial reaction was "Mira Nair isn't old enough to have a son who is a mayoral candidate!" And then I remembered that I'm 50 and it isn't 1992 anymore.
Thank you, Jami!