Danette Chavez
@danettechavez.bsky.social
Editor-In-Chief @avclub.com. Formerly of Primetimer, Polygon, The Chicago Reader. Secretary, @tvcritics.org
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Thanks so much to Luke for working with me on some thoughts I've been trying to gather since I realized how far back we might be going
Another great piece by @gonebabygone.bsky.social on RFK and Trump's efforts to claw back all of the progress made by people with autism over the years.
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-not-g...
www.welcometohellworld.com/i-will-not-g...
I will not give up that which I have tasted
Promotion of the myth
www.welcometohellworld.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Thanks so much to Luke for working with me on some thoughts I've been trying to gather since I realized how far back we might be going
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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Some news: I was let go as EIC of Splinter as it's getting downsized and rolled into Jezebel. I'll still write there a couple times a week as Editor at Large.
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Some news: I was let go as EIC of Splinter as it's getting downsized and rolled into Jezebel. I'll still write there a couple times a week as Editor at Large.
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They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.
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I wrote about the painful, hopeful, often absurd process of picking out a brand new wardrobe -- after coming out as a brand new gender-- for @flaminghydra.com: flaminghydra.com/issue-442/?a...
Fit check
Tal Lavin’s wardrobe metamorphosis
flaminghydra.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I wrote about the painful, hopeful, often absurd process of picking out a brand new wardrobe -- after coming out as a brand new gender-- for @flaminghydra.com: flaminghydra.com/issue-442/?a...
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'We will win': Six Broadview protesters plead not guilty to conspiracy, decry attack on First Amendment
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
'We will win': Six Broadview protesters plead not guilty to conspiracy, decry attack on First Amendment
Chicago has long been a town where the whiff of a federal indictment is the kiss of political death. Now, three politicians charged in the case, including social media influencer Kat Abughazaleh, seem...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 AM
'We will win': Six Broadview protesters plead not guilty to conspiracy, decry attack on First Amendment
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story w/ @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
Pictured: Dave Franco and the only person who could get a kick out of this Now You See Me: Now You Don’t activation
November 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Pictured: Dave Franco and the only person who could get a kick out of this Now You See Me: Now You Don’t activation
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What Is the Point of Voting for Democrats? www.splinter.com/what-is-the-...
What Is the Point of Voting for Democrats?
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
What Is the Point of Voting for Democrats? www.splinter.com/what-is-the-...
Doing stretches, cracking my knuckles, etc. to lead what’s sure to be a 20+ minute standing ovation at the end of Now You Three Me
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Doing stretches, cracking my knuckles, etc. to lead what’s sure to be a 20+ minute standing ovation at the end of Now You Three Me
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On Wednesday, Conde Nast management illegally fired four union leaders. While our union fights these illegal dismissals, the “Fired Four” have been left with no severance or COBRA coverage. Please donate to help cover their living expenses at the link below.
Donate to Support the Fired Four: Alma, Ben, Jake, Jasper, organized by Louryn Strampe
On November 5, 2025, Conde Nast management illegally fired four union l… Louryn Strampe needs your support for Support the Fired Four: Alma, Ben, Jake, Jasper
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November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
On Wednesday, Conde Nast management illegally fired four union leaders. While our union fights these illegal dismissals, the “Fired Four” have been left with no severance or COBRA coverage. Please donate to help cover their living expenses at the link below.
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A marketplace no one can afford is not a marketplace at all.
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
A marketplace no one can afford is not a marketplace at all.
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Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WALMART.
(This is real. I took the screenshots.)
(This is real. I took the screenshots.)
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WALMART.
(This is real. I took the screenshots.)
(This is real. I took the screenshots.)
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My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."
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“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...
Teen Vogue's Closure and the Quiet Defunding of Worker Consciousness
Teen Vogue’s shutdown marks more than a media loss. This is a warning about how profit-driven consolidation quietly dismantles worker awareness and voice.
thisislaborwise.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...
Pondering the AI apocalypse
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Pondering the AI apocalypse
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I cannot fully vouch for the final Predator ranking here, but always a treat to read @rockmarooned.bsky.social Run The Series www.avclub.com/predator-run...
Like their prey, the Predator movies have evolved in order to survive
The flexible Predator franchise has changed alongside its longtime Alien counterpart, with fewer classics but more eccentricity.
www.avclub.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I cannot fully vouch for the final Predator ranking here, but always a treat to read @rockmarooned.bsky.social Run The Series www.avclub.com/predator-run...
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I'm going to have a lot of fun covering PLURIBUS for The A.V. Club. My review of the first two episodes, in which I talk about the traditions the show fits into (and defies), Vince Gilligan's visual style, Rhea Seehorn's ability to hold multiple notes at once and more! www.avclub.com/pluribus-pre...
Vince Gilligan's Albuquerque breaks even badder in Pluribus
Vince Gilligan's Albuquerque breaks even badder in Pluribus
www.avclub.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I'm going to have a lot of fun covering PLURIBUS for The A.V. Club. My review of the first two episodes, in which I talk about the traditions the show fits into (and defies), Vince Gilligan's visual style, Rhea Seehorn's ability to hold multiple notes at once and more! www.avclub.com/pluribus-pre...
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This isn't the first time that Donna and I have written about the same show, but this is the first time that we'll be doing weekly reviews for different publications at the same time. You won't want to miss Donna's, so please subscribe if you aren't already!
So long as Vince Gilligan keeps making shows set in Albuquerque, @donnadb.bsky.social will keep writing about them.
Her review of the first two episodes of #Pluribus is now up at Episodic Medium.
Her review of the first two episodes of #Pluribus is now up at Episodic Medium.
Review: Pluribus, "We Is Us" & "Pirate Lady" | Season 1, Episodes 1 & 2
A castaway on Utopia's glittering shore
www.episodicmedium.tv
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This isn't the first time that Donna and I have written about the same show, but this is the first time that we'll be doing weekly reviews for different publications at the same time. You won't want to miss Donna's, so please subscribe if you aren't already!
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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
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"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope
His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM