Ariel Lewiton
@ariellewiton.bsky.social
all-purpose literary type person
vp @ the tuesday agency
vp @ the tuesday agency
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Ariel Lewiton
@ariellewiton.bsky.social
· Oct 29
How Protest Pins Taught Me About My Family History
A consideration of the big ideas on small political buttons.
www.nytimes.com
Hi! I wrote about hope, political protest, multi-generational art projects, and my beloved grandparents: www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/m...
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Do Customs and Border Protection officials have the authority to search your phone at the border? Short answer? Yes.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
wrd.cm
April 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Do Customs and Border Protection officials have the authority to search your phone at the border? Short answer? Yes.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
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March 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The mythical US of WWII stories rounded up its citizens of Japanese descent and put them in concentration camps in California
Every time I hear about the conditions of the El Salvador camps I think about growing up hearing lots of stories where the US invaded & overthrew a government that captured and treated people like that.
I know the mythical US of WWII stories distinct from historical truth but the myth is dying too.
I know the mythical US of WWII stories distinct from historical truth but the myth is dying too.
March 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The mythical US of WWII stories rounded up its citizens of Japanese descent and put them in concentration camps in California
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
![As a Jewish constituent of Senator Schumer, as a New Yorker, and as a human being, I am outraged at Senator Schumer’s cowardly and libelous statement on the federally directed kidnapping of legal US and NY resident Mahmoud Khalil. We have now learned that expressing our opinions can lead us to be disappeared at the direction of the President. For Sen Schumer to harp on the nature of his kidnapped constituent’s alleged opinions before addressing the fact that HIS CONSTITUENT WAS KIDNAPPED explicitly aids and abets the Trump administration’s fascist project.
I am further appalled by Sen. Schumer’s ongoing refusal to acknowledge the thousands of Jewish students at Columbia fighting for Palestinian liberation and calling for divestment from Israel, a *geopolitical entity* (NOT A RELIGION) whose policies they have every right to critique without being slandered as antisemitic.
In his insistence that any critique of a nation-state and its policies and actions is de facto antisemitic, Sen. Schumer engages in profoundly anti-semitic behavior himself: he separates his Jewish constituents into “good Jews” and “bad Jews” on the basis of whether they agree with his personally held (and richly funded) positions on the Zionist project. Regarding his call for Columbia to be “much more robust” in “protect[ing] the safety and security of Jewish and other students”: hasOne substantial way Columbia has made its Jewish students unsafe is by calling in police to assault and arrest them, and by threatening them with expulsion.
As Sen. Schumer’s loyalty to the nation of Israel drastically supersedes his interest in protecting and defending the rights of American citizens and residents, I welcome him to relocate and seek office there. I wish to be represented by a congressperson whose foremost concern is the constitutional rights of his constituents, not their opinions about a nation-state 5,700 miles from New York.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q7nqhb6ezs3fzzxjx6ohnch4/bafkreifhm6pfckurnua4npvjanzcfw324kai6tlxchhdbfw6dpeul3obdm@jpeg)
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
today is my favorite holiday, long live DST!!! down with standard time forever ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
March 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
today is my favorite holiday, long live DST!!! down with standard time forever ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
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Imagine if we just stayed here and never did this again. It's easy if you try.
The time change can be hard on our health. There are more car accidents, strokes and heart attacks this week. People eat more junk food and have more migraines. Here's why — plus tips to help you adapt.
Daylight saving time has started. Here's how to adjust
The time change can be hard on our health. There are more car accidents, strokes and heart attacks this week. People eat more junk food and have more migraines. Here's why — plus tips to help you adap...
www.npr.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Imagine if we just stayed here and never did this again. It's easy if you try.
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SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊
This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!
Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...
This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!
Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...
March 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
SESAME STREET WORKERS ARE UNIONIZING!!! ✊
This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!
Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...
This morning, workers at the nonprofit behind Sesame Street delivered their letter asking for voluntary recognition to management!
Read all about it: www.opeiulocal153.org/news/employe...
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Reagan was such a good president that you can see his impact on nearly every measure of America's economy and livelihood ♥️ in that he destroyed everything for everyone and is in hell being tortured by demons right now
![Life Expectancy vs. Healthcare Spending
Over Time, from 1970 to 2014
[reagan fucked it up]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awzzrtrcrvpnxi3ph2sbhxwv/bafkreigoo6hej24xrhel2xwcwz6bj27abtnwqagull3rweydak2xzmsysu@jpeg)
![United States Debt in 2014 Dollars and as Percent of GDP
[reagan fucked it up]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awzzrtrcrvpnxi3ph2sbhxwv/bafkreigzqvxe3gejxl7bqoplcpaztty5uzv3p646gi4uclmfz7wso3n2lu@jpeg)
![Top Marginal Tax Rate from 1966 to 2014
[reagan fucked it up]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:awzzrtrcrvpnxi3ph2sbhxwv/bafkreifosqgwchxj3sieekssveapq4is4dh67nzqfnpqklmv5hedsds5y4@jpeg)
March 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reagan was such a good president that you can see his impact on nearly every measure of America's economy and livelihood ♥️ in that he destroyed everything for everyone and is in hell being tortured by demons right now
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I didn’t watch this but am I to understand that an elderly Black man stood up to a fascist, was then escorted out, and most of the white people in the room sat there and did nothing?
Am I getting this right? I want to make sure before I say what I need to say.
Am I getting this right? I want to make sure before I say what I need to say.
March 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I didn’t watch this but am I to understand that an elderly Black man stood up to a fascist, was then escorted out, and most of the white people in the room sat there and did nothing?
Am I getting this right? I want to make sure before I say what I need to say.
Am I getting this right? I want to make sure before I say what I need to say.
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Think this is a great time to lift up the legacy and work of W.E.B DuBois and Ida B. Wells in using journalism, ethnography, and data to highlight the propaganda of white supremacy. They were able to pierce through official lies with meticulous work and compelling methods of communication.
Perhaps the most insidious thing President Musk is doing is decimating the federal government's production of data. This will make it more difficult for his critics to show, objectively, how stupid his policies are. Stalin did the same thing and executed a great economist named Nikolai Kondratiev.
March 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Think this is a great time to lift up the legacy and work of W.E.B DuBois and Ida B. Wells in using journalism, ethnography, and data to highlight the propaganda of white supremacy. They were able to pierce through official lies with meticulous work and compelling methods of communication.
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You guys. As a member of the Oregon Trail generation, I just.
Dysentery cases on the rise in the Portland area: 40 new cases reported in January alone
Cases of dysentery have consistently been on the rise in the Portland, Oregon area year-over-year since 2012, officials said.
www.usatoday.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
You guys. As a member of the Oregon Trail generation, I just.
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Millennials are a goldilocks generation raised in the narrow window between leaded gasoline and social media and hooooo boy is that showing these days
in this house, we have heckin' doggos, we adult like a boss, we drink IPAs, we listen to Matt and Kim, and we also are apparently the only age cohort meaningfully committed to liberal democracy
March 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Millennials are a goldilocks generation raised in the narrow window between leaded gasoline and social media and hooooo boy is that showing these days
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I’m sure it’ll work out great this time!
"Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity."
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
They Crashed the Economy in 2008. Now They’re Back and Bigger Than Ever.
Wall Street expects to sell more than $335 billion in asset-backed debt this year. Remember that conference in ‘The Big Short’? It just drew a record 10,000.
www.wsj.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I’m sure it’ll work out great this time!
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remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!
Ex-Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spouts transphobic talking points to Bill Maher.
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
"Look, in seventh grade, if I had known that I could have said the word ‘They’ and got in the girls bathroom, I would have done it."
Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education
During HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted city leadership for failing the city on safety and educational standards.
www.foxnews.com
March 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
remember when this guy covered up a brutal police killing? i do!
despicable
Wow, New York State has agreed to stop / lift its restrictions against the use of solitary confinement for three months!
Why? prison guards went on strike demanding they be allowed to put people in solitary more easily. gothamist.com/news/ny-reac...
Why? prison guards went on strike demanding they be allowed to put people in solitary more easily. gothamist.com/news/ny-reac...
NY reaches tentative deal to end prison strike by suspending anti-solitary confinement law
The state said officers will escape discipline if they return to work by Saturday, and the National Guard will remain in the prisons for now.
gothamist.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
despicable
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I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second
February 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second
Primary EVERYBODY
February 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Primary EVERYBODY
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Gee I wonder why there’s a shortage of air traffic controllers
February 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Gee I wonder why there’s a shortage of air traffic controllers
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February 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The Daily, emphasis mine: “The [Israeli] hostages often looked EXTREMELY GAUNT, MALNOURISHED, STARVED, which sent SHOCK WAVES through Israeli society. And on the Palestinian side, there were also some [pause] UNCOMFORTABLE scenes of prisoners emerging from prison in very BAD shape.”
February 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The Daily, emphasis mine: “The [Israeli] hostages often looked EXTREMELY GAUNT, MALNOURISHED, STARVED, which sent SHOCK WAVES through Israeli society. And on the Palestinian side, there were also some [pause] UNCOMFORTABLE scenes of prisoners emerging from prison in very BAD shape.”