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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · 8h

The president has declared war on Chicago, sending in masked ICE agents and National Guard troops to incite violence, hoping protestors will take the bait. Under Pritzker and Mayor Johnson's leadership, Chicagoans know just what to do. From @themaxburns.bsky.social for us

Governor Pritzker Sets An Example in How to Meet This Moment - Dame Magazine

When Illinois Governor JB Pritzker took the stage at a gathering of New Hampshire Democrats back in April, he knew what he was about to say would rankle plenty of his Democratic colleagues. But Pritzk...

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 3d

Fair point. But that’s just the headline—the piece largely concurs with and supports your argument

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 8d

Love you #Portlandia! #resist #iceicebaby

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 7d

This is a federal agent pointing a weapon at a person recording them.

ICE has become Trump’s personal military that he is using to terrorize communities and cities that don’t support him. And some say we shouldn’t call him a fascist? Open your eyes.

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 7d

Today in @damemagazine.bsky.social, the great media critic @parkermolloy.com on CBS's huge mistake in hiring Bari Weiss

CBS News Just Made a Terrible Mistake - Dame Magazine

On Monday, Paramount announced it had acquired The Free Press for $150 million and would be installing its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Weiss will report directly to Paramount ...

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 7d

Every coherent (using the term loosely here) word out of his mouth is an admission.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "Obama got a prize for doing nothing. Obama got a prize, he didn't even know what he got it -- he got elected and they gave it to Obama for doing absolutely nothing but destroying our country. He was not a good president."

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Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social · 14d

Feels worth noting that this phase-out is for kindergarten through 2nd/3rd grade, where there’s a separate gifted track that doesn’t rely on pre-k teachers nominating students

Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 14d

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 16d

This looks amazing, Ej! Congratulations! Can't wait!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 19d

I am excited to share my inaugural post for my new Substack, "Recording Memories," about Suzanne Vega, whose music about alienation and torment managed to make my young tormented, alienated self feel a lot less ... alone.
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In the Fringes, In the Corner

On Suzanne Vega, whose music about alienation and torment managed to make my young tormented, alienated self feel a lot less ... alone.

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 19d

Why is he declaring war on Portland, Oregon? Was he injured by a Willamette Valley Pinot Noir?

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · 23d

My Rapture look (wish I had thought of this much earlier had they given us a heads up that it was a-comin’ so I could’ve had it made in time): a T-shirt with Debbie Harry on one side, Anita Baker on the other …

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Sep 13

I’ve started a substack about music, memory, and Gen X. Check it out. This is the intro essay — more to come in the next couple weeks.

Welcome to Recording Memories

Essays and musings of a queer Gen-Xer about the way music triggers memories.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Sep 9

Please read and share this gutting, urgent piece by one of DAME's most searing writers. @brynntannehill.bsky.social is one of our "Cassandras" who has been warning us for years about the devastating impact this administration would have on trans people. Tragically, she's been right every time.

The Case for Transgender Asylum From Trump’s America - Dame Magazine

Leaders of free nations of the world need to hear my message: Genocide has already started in plain view, and it is following the exact template of the last great genocide in Western society. So far, ...

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Sep 4

Same.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Aug 29

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US government orders 46 states to destroy trans education materials
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The US government is reportedly demanding that almost every state in the US remove sex education materials referencing trans and non-binary people.

Book burning after looting of the Institute of Sexology, Germany, 1933

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Aug 26

Well, AI drinks our water, raises our electric bills, and tells kids to off themselves, but at least it’s making us dumber

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DAME Magazine @damemagazine.bsky.social · Aug 14

Psychedelics hold the tantalizing possibility of being effective drugs to treat chronic mental health issues like depression and anxiety.

@moxieluhu.bsky.social reports for us on the possibilities and potential drawbacks.

Can We Shroom Our Way Out of Depression? - Dame Magazine

When news dropped last month that Department of Health & Human Services head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aimed to get psychedelic therapy into clinical use within a year, scientists, advocates, practitioner...

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Aug 13

Agree!

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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is great. I would add Belinda on White Lotus as another exemplary character

Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Aug 13

I had the pleasure to publish the award-winning Canadian TV (e.g., Baroness von Sketch, Schitt's Creek) and fiction writer @zoewhittall.bsky.social in @damemagazine.bsky.social, who offers expert advice on how to write fat characters. Writers, have this bookmarked. It's really helpful.

What ‘Too Much’ Teaches Us About Writing Fat Characters - Dame Magazine

Recently, I read a headline that appeared in the British online magazine, Stylist U.K., declaring: “Netflix’s Too Much: It’s refreshing to see a plus-size lead whose story has nothing to do with her w...

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Aug 13

I had the pleasure to publish the award-winning Canadian TV (e.g., Baroness von Sketch, Schitt's Creek) and fiction writer @zoewhittall.bsky.social in @damemagazine.bsky.social, who offers expert advice on how to write fat characters. Writers, have this bookmarked. It's really helpful.

What ‘Too Much’ Teaches Us About Writing Fat Characters - Dame Magazine

Recently, I read a headline that appeared in the British online magazine, Stylist U.K., declaring: “Netflix’s Too Much: It’s refreshing to see a plus-size lead whose story has nothing to do with her w...

www.damemagazine.com

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Kera Bolonik @kerabolonik.bsky.social · Aug 13

Absolutely not

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