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Moira Donegan

@moiradonegan.bsky.social

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Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 26d

Every day is like a cross between “Who Goes Nazi?” and “…the Aristocrats!”

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 8h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3h

Like much of that this regime does, the murders of Venezuelan fishermen and boat passengers seem to be being conducted for the sake of making social media content that demonstrates Trump’s masculine dominance. So one way to describe them is as snuff films.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 3h

An alarm has been going off on my block for five (5) hours and I just think that whoever is responsible for this should be sent to The Hague.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 7h

To celebrate @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social hitting 100 eps, we're doing a LIVE SHOW in San Francisco! But in true IBWTR style, we're doing it late! Join us on NOV 20 at SWEDISH AMERICAN HALL for MORAL PANIC BINGO NIGHT feat Sarah Marshall and @mattxiv.bsky.social!
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9h

Lucky!!!

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9h

This kind of expose has lost much of its power when these people no longer claim to value anything aside from racial and gender hierarchy.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 9h

Fork found in kitchen.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10h

She has returned.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10h

(She scratched me immediately after this.)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10h

Crazy how literally nothing is better than the love of a cat.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12h

But it’s not clear that this is what any significant number of readers actually want. I wrote about it in my newsletter:

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Bari Weiss Completes the Conservative Media Capture

America's preeminent middlebrow provocateur takes the helm of what used to be a serious news organization.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12h

The Post is among several prominent mainstream media outlets that have pivoted right in recent months, betting that there’s a market for the center-right conservatism and cautiously pro-Trump political coverage that mirrors the preferences of their billionaire owners.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12h

The Washington Post’s daily circulation has fallen below 100,000. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 14h

This is another level.

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

I made these cute little apple-cardamom turnovers with the apples I got when I went apple picking upstate this weekend! Now I just have to use the other 14 pounds of apples.

A plate of turnovers on my kitchen table.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

As a feminist I’m maybe more invested than most in the idea that major figures of history cannot be neatly categorized as “bad, therefore nothing they did was good” or “good, therefore nothing bad they did matters.” But Columbus is an unusually unambiguous case. His only achievement was an accident!

Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.