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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 1d

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing photo!

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 11d

Well, Jane Goodall never gave up, either activism or hope. So I won't either. Rest in Power.

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 12d

Now, call me a bleeding-heart liberal who got canceled by the USAFA, but I think telling the military to have a "war war war war war all the time war" mentality is probably not going to lead to great outcomes for its soldiers. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Trump and Hegseth Recount Familiar Partisan Complaints to Top Military Leaders

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 13d

This #AmericanWestCenter event is coming up and I can't wait! Free and open to the public--

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 13d

Just so long as it's not about the plums in your icebox: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Wildest Blackberry Poems by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Others (Gift Article)

Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit.

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 13d

Ten days ago, my father died. I walked him through all the stages of deciding to die, then held his hand as he died. It's strange to say, but I'm grateful for all of it, and grateful I got to have the last conversations I did with him. Taking a moment from death's bureaucracy to post some beauty:

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 15d

So sorry to hear this as well--

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 23d

Well, if we all get sent to the gulag, at least it will be the one with the comedians and Drag Queen Story Hour.

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 24d

New definition of "dark academia": Writing up book blurbs in the ICU waiting room.

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 25d

TFW you agreed to do a big organizational thing and now the poor organization of said big thing makes you realize your next months are going to be total hell.

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The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · 26d

Read the full story, which is part of “Food and Power in the West,” a FERN special issue produced in partnership with High Country News, at thefern.org/2025/09/the-...

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The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · 27d

Read the full story, which is part of “Food and Power in the West,” a FERN special issue produced in partnership with High Country News, at thefern.org/2025/09/eati...

@highcountrynews.org @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 27d

Still good news in the world: Arthur Sze is U.S. Poet Laureate! www.pw.org/content/arth...

Arthur Sze Named U.S. Poet Laureate

During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages.

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 28d

You guys may run an amazing reading series, but if you don't gift your readers a Navajo blanket after, what are you really doing? Thank you to Colorado College for the generous invitation, and for a fantastic visit!

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 28d

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28d

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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achukilissa @achukilissa.bsky.social · 29d

So let’s get this straight, we no longer can practice free speech in America. apple.news/AxcVvsNMuTkW...

Cancel Culture Comes for Artists Who Posted About Charlie Kirk’s Death — WIRED

A South Park episode was taken off air, a DC comic series was canceled, and several artists were fired in the aftermath of the shooting.

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · 29d

When my lecture at USAFA was canceled because the admin had been surveilling my politics, some people said it was to be expected at a military academy. My reply was that it's happening in every academy. And it is: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · Sep 13

OMG. Again, the institutions preemptively taking the knee--

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · Sep 12

I loved writing this essay. Huge thanks to FERN and @highcountrynews.org--

The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · Sep 12

For the Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad, food was a tool of both repression and resistance. Reporter Paisley Rekdal explains in her story for FERN's special issue with High Country News on “Food and Power in the West.” Link below ⬇️

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · Sep 12

I haven't--I read at Colorado College.

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · Sep 12

This dog lives down my road. A special breed created when the first greyhound mated with a Victorian ghost child, it now pops up regularly in my drive. The dog's owners have also purchased it a wardrobe of spacesuits constructed by NASA. Meaning it is now lead singer of a David Bowie tribute band.

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · Sep 11

As if things aren't bad enough in Utah, JD Vance is coming to visit. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Mike Lee wants the U.S. Senate to condemn the killing of Charlie Kirk on a Utah campus

Utah Sen. Mike Lee wants the U.S. Senate to condemn the killing of Charlie Kirk. Lee called Kirk, who was shot and killed on UVU's campus, "a dear friend."

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · Sep 11

Once again, America: I'm reading the news, having every possible feeling you can have.

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Paisley Rekdal @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Killing those we disagree with is wrong. Full stop. You dislike the ideas? Come up with better ones. Freedom of speech requires navigating disagreement, not murdering those we disagree with.

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