Coraline Wren
@coralinewren.bsky.social
'Non-traditional' student: Drexel math/physics ('26) Ace/autistic/trans. Reclaim Philly, but mainly in spirit these days.
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Another day - another pogrom. Dozens of settlers attacked two villagers, torching houses and vehicles. This happens daily now.
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Another day - another pogrom. Dozens of settlers attacked two villagers, torching houses and vehicles. This happens daily now.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
when you go back to visit your pre-transition friends
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
when you go back to visit your pre-transition friends
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Highlights from the Bundled Up on Broad auction opening tmow 11/13!! (Buys warm clothes for the families at my synagogue Rodeph Shalom Philly's food pantry, or give directly to our wishlist: bit.ly/bundled25)
I HAVE to start with Olivia Waite's beaded octopus www.32auctions.com/organization...
I HAVE to start with Olivia Waite's beaded octopus www.32auctions.com/organization...
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Highlights from the Bundled Up on Broad auction opening tmow 11/13!! (Buys warm clothes for the families at my synagogue Rodeph Shalom Philly's food pantry, or give directly to our wishlist: bit.ly/bundled25)
I HAVE to start with Olivia Waite's beaded octopus www.32auctions.com/organization...
I HAVE to start with Olivia Waite's beaded octopus www.32auctions.com/organization...
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and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
and that can be true! but then you open the actual newspaper and it's soft-focus profiles of Chris Rufo, a frenzied transphobic crusade, an all-out effort to get the first Black woman president of Harvard canned over bullshit, Get Zohran, etc etc
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Already one presidential candidate says he wouldn't sign a new MOU— left wing fire brand Pete Buttigieg
As the current 10 year Memorandum Of Understanding between the US and Israel inches closer to its expiration date of 2028, the Israelis are asking for the next one to be a 20 year extension with emphasis of investment in AI and "America First" projects.
Scoop: Israel seeks 20-year military aid deal with U.S. with "America First" tweaks
Past deals have been 10 years.
www.axios.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Already one presidential candidate says he wouldn't sign a new MOU— left wing fire brand Pete Buttigieg
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What doesn't get highlighted enough: bans on trans care almost never end just at healthcare specific to us. They're often a cover for just refusing to treat trans people period, for anything.
Broken bone? Surgery complications? Infection? Bigoted medical institutions are happy to let us die.
Broken bone? Surgery complications? Infection? Bigoted medical institutions are happy to let us die.
U.S. catholic bishops criticizing Trump's crackdowns obscured that at the same conference they tried to make sure way more trans people die due to a lack of life-saving medical care.
Catholic hospitals see 1 in 7 patients. In some areas they're the only medical system:
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
Catholic hospitals see 1 in 7 patients. In some areas they're the only medical system:
www.npr.org/2025/11/12/g...
U.S. bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
The bishops' decision formalizes a yearslong process for the U.S. church to address transgender health care. They also approved a special message on immigration, expressing concern over enforcement an...
www.npr.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
What doesn't get highlighted enough: bans on trans care almost never end just at healthcare specific to us. They're often a cover for just refusing to treat trans people period, for anything.
Broken bone? Surgery complications? Infection? Bigoted medical institutions are happy to let us die.
Broken bone? Surgery complications? Infection? Bigoted medical institutions are happy to let us die.
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not to be a Debbie downer but I regret to inform you people have zero problem being cruel to survivors' faces
I hope that one day Karoline Leavitt has to stand in front of a room of Epstein victims and explain to them what she means when she says, “It’s all a Democrat hoax.”
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
not to be a Debbie downer but I regret to inform you people have zero problem being cruel to survivors' faces
I've been sick all week
sometimes I regret that as a woman my body is dominated by cold and wet humors
sometimes I regret that as a woman my body is dominated by cold and wet humors
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I've been sick all week
sometimes I regret that as a woman my body is dominated by cold and wet humors
sometimes I regret that as a woman my body is dominated by cold and wet humors
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I've written a short story every month for about 10 years, and it made me very good at the repetitive form of beginning/middle/end. Endings are easy for me because the key to the ending is always in the beginning. Here's easy hack from a workshop talk I gave awhile back:
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I've written a short story every month for about 10 years, and it made me very good at the repetitive form of beginning/middle/end. Endings are easy for me because the key to the ending is always in the beginning. Here's easy hack from a workshop talk I gave awhile back:
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in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM
in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies
PREDATOR: SONG TO SONG is a toe-tapping good time
As others have pointed about PREDATOR: BADLANDS, the entirety of Terrence Malick's filmography works with "PREDATOR:" in front of it.
November 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
PREDATOR: SONG TO SONG is a toe-tapping good time
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Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania.
The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown.
🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown.
🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Erica Deuso is the first openly transgender person to be elected mayor in Pennsylvania.
The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown.
🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
The longtime Democratic advocate defeated Republican Rich Bryant Tuesday to serve as the next mayor of Downingtown.
🔴 Live election updates: www.inquirer.com/politics/ele...
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Even more relevant now that Dems are going to control Virginia.
Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas (a Democrat who is the chamber's president pro tempore) just tweeted this:
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Even more relevant now that Dems are going to control Virginia.
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CHOTINER: So this movie, you already had it on bluray?
ME: That's correct.
CHOTINER: And you've bought it again.
ME: Not exactly. I bought a 4K bluray of it.
CHOTINER: Superior?
ME: Yes.
CHOTINER: Perceptibly superior?
ME: The resolution is...look, on an OLED-
CHOTINER: Do you have an OLED?
ME: That's correct.
CHOTINER: And you've bought it again.
ME: Not exactly. I bought a 4K bluray of it.
CHOTINER: Superior?
ME: Yes.
CHOTINER: Perceptibly superior?
ME: The resolution is...look, on an OLED-
CHOTINER: Do you have an OLED?
October 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
CHOTINER: So this movie, you already had it on bluray?
ME: That's correct.
CHOTINER: And you've bought it again.
ME: Not exactly. I bought a 4K bluray of it.
CHOTINER: Superior?
ME: Yes.
CHOTINER: Perceptibly superior?
ME: The resolution is...look, on an OLED-
CHOTINER: Do you have an OLED?
ME: That's correct.
CHOTINER: And you've bought it again.
ME: Not exactly. I bought a 4K bluray of it.
CHOTINER: Superior?
ME: Yes.
CHOTINER: Perceptibly superior?
ME: The resolution is...look, on an OLED-
CHOTINER: Do you have an OLED?
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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.
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
www.aftonbladet.se
October 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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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Hello bluesky. I'm glad to report that, after a lengthy dispute with management, I am back to work. Unfortunately, I don't get paid for another week, and my checking account is currently at -$11. If you can spare a few bucks or can share this, I'd be super grateful.
CashApp & venmo: Npruiz
CashApp & venmo: Npruiz
October 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hello bluesky. I'm glad to report that, after a lengthy dispute with management, I am back to work. Unfortunately, I don't get paid for another week, and my checking account is currently at -$11. If you can spare a few bucks or can share this, I'd be super grateful.
CashApp & venmo: Npruiz
CashApp & venmo: Npruiz
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We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in.
If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.
If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.
American Eagle was dragged into an online outrage cycle after conservative media figures claimed that liberals were offended by the clothing company's ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and a denim-themed pun about her "great jeans."
We checked the data. That wasn't true.
openmeasures.io/american-eag...
We checked the data. That wasn't true.
openmeasures.io/american-eag...
Outrage Over American Eagle’s ‘Great Jeans’ Ad Was a Conservative Media Creation - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
openmeasures.io
October 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in.
If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.
If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.
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PLAN TO CUT COSTS AT YOUR LOCAL UNIVERSITY:
STEP 1: Eliminate all academic departments.
STEP 2: Hire consultant to interpret 99% drop in enrollment.
STEP 1: Eliminate all academic departments.
STEP 2: Hire consultant to interpret 99% drop in enrollment.
It’s interesting how we are asked to justify why there is an English Department at a college but not why there is an athletics program
I think both are valuable but it’s interesting which one is more likely to be on the ropes, again, at a college
I think both are valuable but it’s interesting which one is more likely to be on the ropes, again, at a college
September 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
PLAN TO CUT COSTS AT YOUR LOCAL UNIVERSITY:
STEP 1: Eliminate all academic departments.
STEP 2: Hire consultant to interpret 99% drop in enrollment.
STEP 1: Eliminate all academic departments.
STEP 2: Hire consultant to interpret 99% drop in enrollment.
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it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation
September 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation
maybe math can be about play and exploration
I dunno, just spitballing
I dunno, just spitballing
now I'm working through it I question whether hyping this up as the most terrifying class that any math undergrad will ever take is actually a helpful strategy
I dunno, guys, I'm having fun so far
September 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
maybe math can be about play and exploration
I dunno, just spitballing
I dunno, just spitballing
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"Democracy dies if prominent black writers don't frame their arguments around appeasing white voters in Wisconsin," or "Democracy dies unless liberal writers praise radical, hateful conservative activists" is the subtext. And it's worth thinking through who makes these kinds of arguments and why.
We are edging close to an argument that all left public figures need to think like political strategists first, constantly measuring the impact of their work on the Democratic Party's electoral prospects. We saw that frame used against racial justice protesters in 2020-22; Gaza protesters in 2024.
Everyone, as Coates acknowledges, thinks that politicians need to win more voters. Obama and Harris can't sound like Coates. Coates agrees! But Klein argues that political culture (so the writing of people like Coates) shapes politicians and hints Coates should be mindful of that.
September 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"Democracy dies if prominent black writers don't frame their arguments around appeasing white voters in Wisconsin," or "Democracy dies unless liberal writers praise radical, hateful conservative activists" is the subtext. And it's worth thinking through who makes these kinds of arguments and why.
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One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.
September 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One Battle After Another and Sinners both lay out a formula for cinema success: diverse movies where white nationalists get duffed in the most graphic way possible shot and presented in increasingly baroque high resolution formats.