Seph Rodney, PhD
@sephspeaks.bsky.social
Freelance visual arts critic and curator, former editor at Hyperallergic, current contributor to the NY Times (www.nytimes.com/by/seph-rodney), former artist, lapsed poet. "To make something beautiful should be enough; it isn't. It should be" —R. Siken
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
I wish the same. Instead we have influencers, grifters, and entrepreneurs constantly trying to sell us things.
I wish America still had such a thing as public intellectuals
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I wish the same. Instead we have influencers, grifters, and entrepreneurs constantly trying to sell us things.
If only our Supreme Court had this kind of integrity.
"Brazil’s Supreme Court upheld Monday former President Jair Bolsonaro’s incarceration after he admitted to trying to break his ankle monitor...to escape and avoid a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt."
apnews.com/article/braz...
"Brazil’s Supreme Court upheld Monday former President Jair Bolsonaro’s incarceration after he admitted to trying to break his ankle monitor...to escape and avoid a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt."
apnews.com/article/braz...
Brazilian Supreme Court upholds Bolsonaro's jailing after ankle monitor tampering
Brazil's Supreme Court has upheld former President Jair Bolsonaro's incarceration after he admitted to trying to break his ankle monitor while under house arrest.
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If only our Supreme Court had this kind of integrity.
"Brazil’s Supreme Court upheld Monday former President Jair Bolsonaro’s incarceration after he admitted to trying to break his ankle monitor...to escape and avoid a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt."
apnews.com/article/braz...
"Brazil’s Supreme Court upheld Monday former President Jair Bolsonaro’s incarceration after he admitted to trying to break his ankle monitor...to escape and avoid a 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt."
apnews.com/article/braz...
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
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Get out of the echo chamber, they said. Get on Twitter and debate “real Americans”
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Get out of the echo chamber, they said. Get on Twitter and debate “real Americans”
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
I'm on a panel at Art Basel in Miami. If you are going, come say hello:
Conversations | Rethinking the field: Museums and the power of sports
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Conversations | Rethinking the field: Museums and the power of sports
www.artbasel.com/events/detai...
Conversations | Rethinking the field: Museums and the power of sports
Sports x Art Day
www.artbasel.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I'm on a panel at Art Basel in Miami. If you are going, come say hello:
Conversations | Rethinking the field: Museums and the power of sports
www.artbasel.com/events/detai...
Conversations | Rethinking the field: Museums and the power of sports
www.artbasel.com/events/detai...
"The country’s political and media ecosystem treated a sitting president’s fantasy of defecating on citizens as if it were entertainment."
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Donald Trump’s AI Video Is a Psychosexual Confession
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November 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"The country’s political and media ecosystem treated a sitting president’s fantasy of defecating on citizens as if it were entertainment."
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Given the harm caused by the pettiness and vindictiveness of this administration, can we please put to bed the idea that being petty and vindictive is commendable or admirable?
It just isn't.
It just isn't.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Given the harm caused by the pettiness and vindictiveness of this administration, can we please put to bed the idea that being petty and vindictive is commendable or admirable?
It just isn't.
It just isn't.
I don't understand Mamdani taking that meeting with Agent Orange. What good could come of that? Twittler is just going to try to embarrass and belittle Mamdani. That's what he always does with those perceived to be his political opponent.
November 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I don't understand Mamdani taking that meeting with Agent Orange. What good could come of that? Twittler is just going to try to embarrass and belittle Mamdani. That's what he always does with those perceived to be his political opponent.
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I don’t care if people dislike Meghan Markle; I don’t know her and am not protecting her.
My issue is how incredibly angry they get about her, practically frothing at the mouth.
Everything she says and does (which is usually quite bland and safe), they act as if she’s just insulted their child.
My issue is how incredibly angry they get about her, practically frothing at the mouth.
Everything she says and does (which is usually quite bland and safe), they act as if she’s just insulted their child.
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I don’t care if people dislike Meghan Markle; I don’t know her and am not protecting her.
My issue is how incredibly angry they get about her, practically frothing at the mouth.
Everything she says and does (which is usually quite bland and safe), they act as if she’s just insulted their child.
My issue is how incredibly angry they get about her, practically frothing at the mouth.
Everything she says and does (which is usually quite bland and safe), they act as if she’s just insulted their child.
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Despicable
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Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
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Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
Despicable
The bully-in-chief is targeting women in the White House press corps
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November 21, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Despicable
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Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Great read from Dan Rather:
"...The very existence of a free press is a threat to this president’s modus operandi, which is to govern by lying. Why would he want people around him who ask for facts and truthful answers?..."
#BlueCrew #MisogynistInChief
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
I just don’t get why this world is the way it is.
November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I just don’t get why this world is the way it is.
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
Justice Department official told prosecutors that U.S. should 'just sink' drug boats
NPR interviews with current and former officials reveal more of the backstory around the military's strikes in the Caribbean.
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
This is what criticism should be:
"Andrews makes sheepish mention of primatology and rests her tenuous case. I confess that I find her defiant inanity almost refreshing. At least she has the perverse merit of making it easy for her readers to discover where she stands — even if she stands in hell."
"Andrews makes sheepish mention of primatology and rests her tenuous case. I confess that I find her defiant inanity almost refreshing. At least she has the perverse merit of making it easy for her readers to discover where she stands — even if she stands in hell."
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is what criticism should be:
"Andrews makes sheepish mention of primatology and rests her tenuous case. I confess that I find her defiant inanity almost refreshing. At least she has the perverse merit of making it easy for her readers to discover where she stands — even if she stands in hell."
"Andrews makes sheepish mention of primatology and rests her tenuous case. I confess that I find her defiant inanity almost refreshing. At least she has the perverse merit of making it easy for her readers to discover where she stands — even if she stands in hell."
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Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.
This horse race news reporting will be the death of us: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p....
It's just dumb.
It's just dumb.
Which party do Americans think won government shutdown negotiations? Republicans, new poll says
The results come in stark contrast to polls taken amid the shutdown that showed Republicans shouldering the brunt of voter criticism.
www.usatoday.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This horse race news reporting will be the death of us: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p....
It's just dumb.
It's just dumb.
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mad libs-ass timeline
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
mad libs-ass timeline
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Good for Massie but, come on, the GOP was blowing our budget, starting wars overseas and, yes, even protecting pedophiles (Hastert) two decades ago
REPUBLICAN REP. MASSIE: “I vote with my party 91% of the time… But when they're protecting pedophiles, blowing our budget, starting wars overseas — I'm sorry, I can't go along with that.”
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Good for Massie but, come on, the GOP was blowing our budget, starting wars overseas and, yes, even protecting pedophiles (Hastert) two decades ago
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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 12:25 AM
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.
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Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
November 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Can we just take a minute and acknowledge that our POTUS is right OUT IN THE OPEN lobbying Congressional members to vote against releasing the Epstein files?! Like... what the fuck else does anyone even need to know?
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Bright sunlight catches a few benches
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Bright sunlight catches a few benches