tkarlekar
@densestuff.bsky.social
Global film and media scholar; writing coach and editor at OneLitPlace; always in between
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So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
March 10, 2026 at 11:11 PM
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
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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...
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.
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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...
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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 $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
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...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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 $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/
Why Chevron Could Reap the Biggest Rewards From Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/b...
Why Chevron Could Reap the Biggest Rewards From Venezuela
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Why Chevron Could Reap the Biggest Rewards From Venezuela www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/b...
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I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather.
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
“No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!”
“No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”
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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.
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
www.forever-wars.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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.
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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 “The Anxious Generation”
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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 “The Anxious Generation”
As we emerge from Thanksgiving break in the U.S., I reflected on my evolving relationship with this complicated American holiday:
americankahani.com/perspectives...
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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
americankahani.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
As we emerge from Thanksgiving break in the U.S., I reflected on my evolving relationship with this complicated American holiday:
americankahani.com/perspectives...
americankahani.com/perspectives...
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem?
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November 26, 2025 at 12:59 AM
America’s Children Are Unwell. Are Schools Part of the Problem? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/m...
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Thank you to the person who donated to Ibrahim.
He has raised only £465.
Please support him if you can.
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He has raised only £465.
Please support him if you can.
Share.
Thank you.
chuffed.org/project/1441...
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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September 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Thank you to the person who donated to Ibrahim.
He has raised only £465.
Please support him if you can.
Share.
Thank you.
chuffed.org/project/1441...
He has raised only £465.
Please support him if you can.
Share.
Thank you.
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Nobody saw that coming…
#OpEd: "We can’t bury the deeper, driving forces behind why this is happening. This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents — ICE, police officers, prison staff — have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies." Read the full story here. ⬇️
How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
www.teenvogue.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Nobody saw that coming…
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Donald Trump seeks to make sure that free speech is reserved exclusively for right-wing billionaires.
So many of our media institutions and information infrastructures are owned and controlled by right-wing oligarchs. And it promises to only get worse.
September 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Donald Trump seeks to make sure that free speech is reserved exclusively for right-wing billionaires.
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"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."
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www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/t...
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.
www.cnbc.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"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."
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www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/t...
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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.
Really hard to tell what these targets of Trumps attacks and smears have in common
Trump says Fed Governor Lisa Cook 'must resign' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Trump says Fed Governor Lisa Cook 'must resign' www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
August 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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.
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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
The Racist Foundation of the Big Lie of a Stolen Election
New research shows how racist beliefs enable lies about voter fraud to spread.
www.brennancenter.org
August 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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
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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.
No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
June 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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.
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
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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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...
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…
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April 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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...
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amazing article reporting how scientists inspecting planets at an unfathomable distance identified the remote possibility of extraterrestrial life— a holy grail of science and perhaps all humanity— and then the end is “anyway Trump took all our money so that’s that”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
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.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM
amazing article reporting how scientists inspecting planets at an unfathomable distance identified the remote possibility of extraterrestrial life— a holy grail of science and perhaps all humanity— and then the end is “anyway Trump took all our money so that’s that”
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...
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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." www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...
Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15." www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...
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
April 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"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...
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.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
March 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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.
11,000 people showed up.
Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.