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Maya Contreras
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(She/Hers) Writer and Advocate. Rep’d by Dystel, Goderich, & Bourret LLC. Art & Public Policy MA NYU. 🩷💜💙
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Maya Contreras @mayatcontreras.bsky.social · Jun 23
It’s official. I have a book coming out next year! Published by Amistad/Harper Collins.
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report Category: Non-fiction: Business/Finance/Economics THE LANGUAGE OF THEFT By Maya Contreras Imprint: Amistad June 20, 2025 Political narrative strategist and researcher Maya Contreras's THE LANGUAGE OF THEFT: HOW THE WEALTHY FUND NARRATIVES THAT ROB AMERICA OF OUR COMMON SENSE, an investigation into the history of narrative strategies used by the rich to rob the public of economic dignity, fundamental rights, and community, offering a blueprint of solutions to counter them and tangible ways to empower media professionals, policymakers, and engaged citizens, to Abby West at Amistad, by Leslie Meredith at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret (world).
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d
dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.
John Dickerson To Depart CBS News In First Major Talent Exit Under New Paramount Owners
John Dickerson, co-anchor of CBS Evening News who has been with the network since 2009, said that he is exiting at the end of this year.
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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d
“Hell yeah, I’m a look like LL Cool J” - every single one
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6d
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7d
More than 1000 people marched to San Francisco’s federal building tonight www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM9SaYhf/
More than 1,000 protestors marched from Embarcadero Plaza to the Department of Homeland Security building Thursday evening, decrying Trump, ICE, and federal troops in the Bay Area. #sanfrancisco #baya...
TikTok video by The San Francisco Standard
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8d
The US froze aid to Colombia
Much of which is used to fight drug cartels
Because the president of Colombia said the US killed Colombian fishermen
In what is supposed to be a US military campaign to stop drug cartels
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15d
Johnson accidently telling the truth there at the end
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15d
Johnson: That is not the principles of the Republican Party. You want me to articulate them? We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology.
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 12d
And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 12d
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
katz.theracket.news Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 12d
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16d
NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams
NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams
The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17d
“While we are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent, we are not bound to stay silent as to the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric of those opinions,” said Sal Mungia, a Washington Supreme Court justice

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful
"Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17d
wrote about last week's super interesting tribal sovereignty decision in Washington Supreme Court

one justice wrote a standalone concurrence basically saying 'the court applied the law correctly, but also the law is terrible and it's our responsibility to say so'
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful
"Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."
ballsandstrikes.org
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 18d
If the bombs really have stopped falling, that is something to celebrate. But @jackmirkinson.bsky.social writes that after that, it’s time to get back to work. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Gaza Still Needs You
The fight for true Palestinian liberation is far from over.
www.thenation.com
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 19d
Basically this
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20d
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 21d
Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela
Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21d
Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, for her work promoting democracy.
María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Live Updates and Video
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22d
That got dark quickly.
junoryleejournalism.com Juno Rylee (🎃birthday + HRT anniversary) @junoryleejournalism.com · 22d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24d
imagine getting a pep talk to "do the fucking news" by peter thiel's hand puppet. i would simply turn to dust.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24d
i can't even make a joke. unprecedented levels of cringe.
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 24d
Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26d
Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal
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Maya Contreras @mayatcontreras.bsky.social · Oct 1
Depressing to see AP use the White House’s framing.
AP apnews » 3h BREAKING: Democrats vote down a GOP bill to keep the government open, putting it on track for shutdown after midnight. AP apnews.com Democrats vote down GOP funding bill, putting government on path to... whitehouse.gov WN: DEMOCRATS' IN THEIR OWN WORDS WATCH NOW DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN: DEMOCRATS' IN 1 Democrat Shutdown is Imminent Ih 50m 23s The WHITE HOUSE
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Sep 30
One of the greatest shitposts I've seen in my entire life
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Sep 30
i am shaking with rage. ICE has always been abhorrent but now they're also completely lawless, unrestrained by money or rules. the people caught up in our disgusting immigration system bear the brunt of it, but now journalists are in their crosshairs. hideous behavior.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · Sep 30
A preview of 2027:

"Dem Says Mike Johnson Is Delaying Her Swearing-In to Prevent Epstein Vote"
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