Margaret Monteith
@memonteith.bsky.social
Walks further than people think. Humanities teacher & fiction writer with words in Bomb, McSweeney’s, Evergreen Review, Fugue, Gargoyle and more. USC BA/Columbia University MA/Brooklyn College MFA. she/her/hers www.margaretzamosmonteith.com
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Margaret Monteith
@memonteith.bsky.social
· Oct 11
"Sure, I might be a childless cat lady with a solid career as a quantitative analyst, but Senator Vance and a podcast host researching the theory of everything have helped me see the lack of meaning in my existence."
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The Postmenopausal Woman’s Purpose-Driven Life
“In a 2020 podcast interview discussing the benefits of grandparents in children’s lives, JD Vance agrees when the host says, ‘That’s the whole pur...
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Check out my story in McSweeney’s, and please please please vote. #harriswalz #childlesscatladies
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A beautiful and deeply important piece. Please read.
The Love We See in Minneapolis Isn’t Exceptional — It’s How We Survive Together
A beautiful web is being woven in Minnesota: not with new materials but with wisdom that was already here.
truthout.org
February 15, 2026 at 3:35 PM
A beautiful and deeply important piece. Please read.
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Part of my theory of change is to share the words white men need to hear, spoken by white men. This is because creating defections is crucial to stopping authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. This is because almost everyone else is already off the Trump train.
"I never want to see a child ever run away from our own government ever again"
Notes on changing brains. And Brians.
www.thefarce.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Part of my theory of change is to share the words white men need to hear, spoken by white men. This is because creating defections is crucial to stopping authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. This is because almost everyone else is already off the Trump train.
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This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.
Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
February 16, 2026 at 4:01 AM
This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.
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My definition of a life well-lived does not include ingesting slop. Writing is a beautiful human thing, and using it to make journalism robs the field of what makes it such a fun/insane tradecraft.
February 16, 2026 at 3:56 AM
My definition of a life well-lived does not include ingesting slop. Writing is a beautiful human thing, and using it to make journalism robs the field of what makes it such a fun/insane tradecraft.
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
February 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
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WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏
February 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏
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"I watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government. I never want to see that again and I'm not going to stand by and watch my neighbors run away scared."
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 1:57 PM
"I watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government. I never want to see that again and I'm not going to stand by and watch my neighbors run away scared."
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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
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Nile Rodgers & CHIC: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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February 13, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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every day ask yourself what you can do to Bring Back Shame
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:53 PM
every day ask yourself what you can do to Bring Back Shame
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I get really sad when I get to the end of my iced coffee.
February 12, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I get really sad when I get to the end of my iced coffee.
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On my flight today, a chatty lady said, “I can’t go to New York with all that’s going on over there.” And I said, “What? Free child care?” And she stopped talking to me.
February 12, 2026 at 5:14 AM
On my flight today, a chatty lady said, “I can’t go to New York with all that’s going on over there.” And I said, “What? Free child care?” And she stopped talking to me.
How it even possible this person feels so free to talk like this about more than half of the population? How is this man constantly given a platform and audience? And can so many people (even one person) listen to him and not be horrified by how very unintelligent and creepy he is?
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 8:48 PM
How it even possible this person feels so free to talk like this about more than half of the population? How is this man constantly given a platform and audience? And can so many people (even one person) listen to him and not be horrified by how very unintelligent and creepy he is?
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Spanish was the first European language spoken in what would become the United States, and this is especially true in California. New York, at the time of the Revolution, was a town of many languages from all over the world, and my ancestors who came to NYC in the early 18th century, were Spanish.
English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.
February 10, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Spanish was the first European language spoken in what would become the United States, and this is especially true in California. New York, at the time of the Revolution, was a town of many languages from all over the world, and my ancestors who came to NYC in the early 18th century, were Spanish.
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Yes.
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Yes.
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To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.
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"I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming." ~ Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (Bad Bunny)
February 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
"I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming." ~ Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (Bad Bunny)
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Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
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That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 AM
That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."
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"First of all, I don’t see any issue with my choice of words. Human chess is quite literally a big game. Not only that, I can’t think of ANY game that is bigger than human chess."
When I Invited All of You Over to Watch “The Big Game,” I Assumed You Knew I Was Talking about Human Chess
I don’t know why you’re all so upset. I’m sorry if there’s some “other event” that you were all more excited about that’s apparently also happening...
buff.ly
February 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
"First of all, I don’t see any issue with my choice of words. Human chess is quite literally a big game. Not only that, I can’t think of ANY game that is bigger than human chess."
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Who else remembers the compulsory “figures” in the Olympics? I remember practicing these on the frozen pond behind my childhood home in Akron as a kid. Figures were replaced by the short program in 1990. I also remember VCR tracking. #Olympics
February 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Who else remembers the compulsory “figures” in the Olympics? I remember practicing these on the frozen pond behind my childhood home in Akron as a kid. Figures were replaced by the short program in 1990. I also remember VCR tracking. #Olympics