Rebecca Fishbein
@bfishbfish.bsky.social
Writer: NYT, WaPo, Teen Vogue, Jezebel, Vulture, The Cut, Hell Gate, etc. I talk back.
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Burned Out At Work? Maybe You Need A "Hallmark Job"
What it's really like to quit the corporate grind, find charming work in a tiny town, and marry a local fisherman.
www.bustle.com
Wrote this fun piece about women who quit their corporate city gigs for Hallmark jobs! It was a real blast to report out (and lowkey inspiring) www.bustle.com/life/hallmar...
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the female astronaut that we'ee sending to the moon had to warn her husband that he won't just be able to call her to ask where something is in the house 💀💀💀💀
January 19, 2026 at 2:36 PM
the female astronaut that we'ee sending to the moon had to warn her husband that he won't just be able to call her to ask where something is in the house 💀💀💀💀
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That people would only work to protect their neighbors because they get paid cuts to the core of conservative ideology. Across Minnesota, people, many who weren’t that political, are outside in negative temps, armed with whistles and phones putting their lives on the line to protect their neighbors.
January 19, 2026 at 2:16 PM
That people would only work to protect their neighbors because they get paid cuts to the core of conservative ideology. Across Minnesota, people, many who weren’t that political, are outside in negative temps, armed with whistles and phones putting their lives on the line to protect their neighbors.
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Threatening Greenland because you didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize is like shaking down the mayor of Hollywood, SC for an Emmy.
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Threatening Greenland because you didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize is like shaking down the mayor of Hollywood, SC for an Emmy.
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I know that things aren’t great for England politically either but it’s been a nice 250 year experiment and maybe you could take us back I think we have had enough
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
I know that things aren’t great for England politically either but it’s been a nice 250 year experiment and maybe you could take us back I think we have had enough
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Me, learning that everyone else in the preschool parents anti-ICE patrol is getting paid
January 19, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Me, learning that everyone else in the preschool parents anti-ICE patrol is getting paid
So really no one’s going to do anything about this…?
Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
January 19, 2026 at 1:23 PM
So really no one’s going to do anything about this…?
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Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(Photo via Reuters)
(Photo via Reuters)
January 19, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(Photo via Reuters)
(Photo via Reuters)
You could root for the Seahawks, if I can do it then anyone could do it
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 AM
You could root for the Seahawks, if I can do it then anyone could do it
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They’re going to invoke the Insurrection Act to stand around in this.
January 18, 2026 at 2:15 PM
They’re going to invoke the Insurrection Act to stand around in this.
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Leading 27-6 with 72 net yards passing is SEAHAWKS FOOTBALL
January 18, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Leading 27-6 with 72 net yards passing is SEAHAWKS FOOTBALL
(It was me)
I’m at a bar watching the Seahawks game with fans. My friend and Seahawks fan wife — who does not care about football — was the one who broke the Bo Nix news
January 18, 2026 at 2:26 AM
(It was me)
Entire bar is finding out about Bo Nix in slow motion
January 18, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Entire bar is finding out about Bo Nix in slow motion
Sam Darnold’s oblique is def hurting :/
January 18, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Sam Darnold’s oblique is def hurting :/
I know you're all hyped about the Bills game, but please spare a prayer for my husband's beloved Seahawks!
January 18, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I know you're all hyped about the Bills game, but please spare a prayer for my husband's beloved Seahawks!
Not to be corny on here but I'm so in awe of the people of Minneapolis.
January 17, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Not to be corny on here but I'm so in awe of the people of Minneapolis.
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This FB post is public.
This FB post is public.
January 16, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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This FB post is public.
This FB post is public.
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They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.
Woman Seen Pulled from Car Speaks Out: 'Lucky to be alive'
Aliya Rahman "said she was driving to an appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when the incident occurred."
She asked for a doctor and was taken to a detention center where she lost consciousness.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
Aliya Rahman "said she was driving to an appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when the incident occurred."
She asked for a doctor and was taken to a detention center where she lost consciousness.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
January 17, 2026 at 12:31 AM
They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.
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No one is taking the bait. Regular people armed only with whistles and phones are trying to prevent their neighbors from being disappeared by unaccountable masked armed goons. The differential in power and force between these two sides is so immense it is laughable to even consider them together.
January 17, 2026 at 12:16 AM
No one is taking the bait. Regular people armed only with whistles and phones are trying to prevent their neighbors from being disappeared by unaccountable masked armed goons. The differential in power and force between these two sides is so immense it is laughable to even consider them together.
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I feel like people who are telling folks in Minnesota not to take the bait so Trump doesn’t invoke the Insurrection Act have a lot more good faith in an aging cruel dipshit who is being feed a steady diet of AI slop by scheming viziers who dream of invoking the Insurrection Act than I do.
January 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I feel like people who are telling folks in Minnesota not to take the bait so Trump doesn’t invoke the Insurrection Act have a lot more good faith in an aging cruel dipshit who is being feed a steady diet of AI slop by scheming viziers who dream of invoking the Insurrection Act than I do.
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Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.
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PSA: as rent-stabilized tenants, we retain our leases and must be offered renewals by law. Our fight is over whether this buyer will actually fix the issues in our apartments and maintain the buildings—or simply extract more money from our homes by forcing people to leave so they can raise rents
January 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
PSA: as rent-stabilized tenants, we retain our leases and must be offered renewals by law. Our fight is over whether this buyer will actually fix the issues in our apartments and maintain the buildings—or simply extract more money from our homes by forcing people to leave so they can raise rents
It appears that Summit, one of the biggest slumlords in the city, will be purchasing my apartment building, and you bet your ass I’ll be making a huge public stink any time there’s a problem in my or one of my neighbors’ apartments.
An indignant attorney for Pinnacle Group from Big Law's Weil, Gotshal & Manges referred to tenants who were legal delegates on filings and wanted to sit in the courtroom as "paid protestors." The clerk had to be like "no one gets to say who can be in the room except me and the judge" and let them in
January 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM
It appears that Summit, one of the biggest slumlords in the city, will be purchasing my apartment building, and you bet your ass I’ll be making a huge public stink any time there’s a problem in my or one of my neighbors’ apartments.
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I was at bankruptcy court for three hours yesterday and listened to more of the hearing online after that. The lawyers for my current landlord and the presumptive buyer were SO mad about organized tenants so I personally think every rent-stabilized building should form a union :)
Slumlord update: Sale set to be finalized today. Thanks to tenant organizing "the bank financing the deal offered to extend a $3M line of credit to fund repairs." Buyer negotiated w city, tenants "around a binding timeline and specific cash commitment to address thousands of housing code violations"
NYC landlord clashes with Mamdani administration in 9-hour bankruptcy hearing
Attorneys for City Hall and Pinnacle tenants argued for legally binding financial commitments that would compel a new buyer to address housing violations.
gothamist.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I was at bankruptcy court for three hours yesterday and listened to more of the hearing online after that. The lawyers for my current landlord and the presumptive buyer were SO mad about organized tenants so I personally think every rent-stabilized building should form a union :)
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Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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i don't blame the mets for not signing tucker—they made a plenty fair offer and what the dodgers did by going over the top yet again is overwhelmingly why baseball sucks now—I do blame them for letting alonso walk with zero guaranteed replacement for his run production
January 16, 2026 at 12:59 PM
i don't blame the mets for not signing tucker—they made a plenty fair offer and what the dodgers did by going over the top yet again is overwhelmingly why baseball sucks now—I do blame them for letting alonso walk with zero guaranteed replacement for his run production