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Morgan Leigh Davies
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Victorian lady invalid, lying in bed surrounded by books. Long covid, ME, other ailments. Bylines in The Sick Times, Electric Lit, Jezebel, etc; cohost of Overinvested pod in absentia; picking away at a novel. she/her https://linktr.ee/morganleighdavies
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · Mar 4
I want to start a running thread of 2025 book recommendations. I post a lot about books over at Instagram (www.instagram.com/morganleighd...) but here are some of the new books I have loved so far this year!
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2h
A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h
Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3h
In complete seriousness, what does the government think this will do in terms of suppressing pro Palestinian sentiment long term? In fact it seems like it would only further concretize the tenacity of those who feel so strongly.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 4h
A British couple who are members of a grassroots pro-Palestine organisation which had its bank account frozen have had their joint personal account closed without explanation.

John Nicholson, 70, and Norma Turner, 76, barrister and nurse, received no explanation. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation
John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 7h
All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 17h
anyone who has had any basic interactions with voters should know this in late 2025, showing the degree to which these pols are completely alienated from any form of livable reality
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 20h
Wine moms are pro Palestine lol
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 20h
Re: Booker's non-answer about Netanyahu on I've Had It
excited for every ambitious corporate dem to go on this podcast expecting softballs from wine moms and instead absolutely disqualifying themselves in front of the 2028 primary electorate I've Had It Podcast & @iveh... • 3h It's a simple yes or no question
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 17h
absolutely disgusting that @vanityfair.com has hired this woman, who is making money off of her unethical behavior, ESPECIALLY when there are so few full-times in journalism. utterly craven
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h
Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...
Have I Got Nuzzi For You
Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 1d
The US govt is evil in a pretty fucking straightforward way atm and they know we don’t want what they’re doing and they don’t care about democracy. These fucking people on the other hand… think being like this will make them popular somehow? The mind reels
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 1d
The sheer evil of this government, for absolutely no fucking reason when no one is asking for it, is beyond my powers of comprehension
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d
Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...
Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English
Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.
www.gov.uk
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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d
ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d
Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...
Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English
Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.
www.gov.uk
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 2d
The big monologue and the scene with KST this last ep… absolutely to die for. Such a thrill for him to be getting the spotlight and running away with it like this
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 2d
obviously haven't seen this yet but I read the book a couple weeks ago and HATED IT... Gav and I will be an island in the sea of weeping viewers I suspect...
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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 3d
I already know I'm in the extreme minority here, but I found Hamnet infuriatingggg.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d
The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 3d
They’re just fucking idiots. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 3d
Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977
black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 4d
Certain celebrity deaths are harder to process than others because the person in question was so full of life and creativity and originality that you just assume it's never going to end.
Diane Keaton in Annie Hall
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 4d
the performance I think of first when I think of her is THE YOUNG POPE
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 4d
ah, fuck
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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 4d
In person, she was a gem. RIP variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning ‘Annie Hall’ Star, Dies at 79
Diane Keaton, who starred in "Annie Hall," has died. She was 79.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 4d
You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 5d
Qatar gave Trump the luxury 747 that he wanted and now we are LETTING THEM BUILD A MILITARY BASE ON US SOIL
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · 5d
This is exceptional: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Dear Tilly Norwood: Some Blunt Advice, Actress to “Actress,” From Betty Gilpin
The Emmy-nominated actor and author pens an open letter to the AI avatar that's got Hollywood in a tizzy.
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Lauren 🎃'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social · 5d
Very wealthy people once again learn the hard way that there are still a few things in this world that can't be bought. A clean conscience, for example.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 5d
whew

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Human Rights Watch ‘Cannot Accept’ Donations From Aziz Ansari and Other Comedians Who Performed at Riyadh Comedy Festival
Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.
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