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Dr. Tara L. Conley
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media and journalism prof | made a film about my hometown | trekkie 🖖🏾
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Today is my birthday.

My only wish is for you to repost and share *everywhere* the official trailer of my feature length documentary film DRY BONES.

drybonesfilm.com

Thank you 🫶🏾

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DRY BONES Trailer 2025
YouTube video by MEDIA MAKE CHANGE
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✨Some professional news ✨ I'm developing my own creative writing workshops called "Root & Reverie" and they will begin in January 2026. Early interest form is here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1w5D...

There will be special incentives for early responders and general great news to come so stay tuned!
Root & Reverie 🌿 Interest Form
🌱 “Something is taking root.” — Morgan Welcome to Root & Reverie, a creative writing workshop designed and led by Morgan Jerkins, NYT-bestselling author, educator, and journalist. This is an intimate,...
docs.google.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“Sydney, who was from Dallas, Texas, died by suicide on Nov. 8, her mother, Jamie Hardeman, confirmed to TMZ.” 😔

people.com/beyonce-fan-...
Beyoncé Fan, Who Went Viral for Her Reaction to Singer's Coachella Performance, Dies at 25 — Months Ahead of Her Wedding
Sydney Hardeman died at age 25 on Nov. 8, TMZ reported, citing her mother, Jamie Hardeman. Sydney went viral for her shocked reaction to Beyoncé's performance at Coachella in 2018.
people.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
one battle after another fetishizes miscegenation as a revolutionary act.

but i can’t shake teyana taylor’s character, perfidia beverly hills. it’s one of those roles you remember long after the film is over.
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
good morning to daughters.

oldest, youngest, midddle child.
i see you.
i understand your burden.

you are appreciated.
November 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
banning edibles with > .4mg of thc that helps people relax and sleep during the most dippity do dah ass moment in this country is just cruel.
4 hemp THC products that could be banned by Congress: Gummies, vapes, drinks and creams thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Also always blows my mind that this woman is 28. Like she is younger than Megan Thee Stallion. She’s younger than Life After Death and Share My World. “I Can Love You” is older than this woman. And her husband was 32 when she was born!
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
this man was in elementary school when i was 17
This guy! Born in 1988!! He's a year older than Taylor Swift!
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
i teach undergrads about newsworthiness. 101 stuff.

1. timeliness
2. proximity
3. conflict and controversy
4. human interest
5. relevance

it’s not a good look for any journalist—NYTimes or otherwise to downplay or obfuscate landon’s correspondences w/ epstein right now.

log off. go for a walk.
The rest of the thread has some valid, important information that I do think people were skipping over yesterday.

There absolutely is a difference between "will information in an email get attention if posted" and "is it reportable."

But there is a lot of there there in those Thomas emails.
I am not defending Landon’s relationship with Epstein. In fact, the NYT didn’t even try to defend it. He left the paper. What I’m saying is that a piece of investigative journalism that exposes a secret, criminal act such as statutory rape requires far more than what is in these emails.
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Every single time! Epstein will write:

"porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no"

and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying:

"You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
if you get banned from bluesky, do you know who your point of contact(s) #onhere will be when you need to communicate with your mutual followers?
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
there has to be a category of psychological illness to describe a collective of heterogeneous people that live in a social context where reality is unreal
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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This is a thing that people could learn from taking classes in the social sciences: the tight social & professional networks of elites globally, along with the ways they use those networks to shape the economic & political environments in which the rest of us live, have been documented for decades.
November 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
so many names and connections poppin up today.

can someone make a chart? like damn.
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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mutually assured destruction is a powerful deterrent
Whats so unnerving, among many other aspects of the whole sordid Epstein miasma, is how incestuous the world of these elites are. Everyone knows everyone. The personal, social, and professional spheres all overlap.
November 12, 2025 at 11:17 PM
oh yeah, about that. as folks see souring healthcare costs, i’m here to say hold my student loan beer. my monthly student loan payment went up by $700.

it’s another mortgage payment.

lolSOB
Oh cool I guess my student loan IDR doesn't work anymore? And I can't even get back on the old plan cause it was discontinued for the SAVE plan? so I now just owe HUNDREDS of dollars more a month? I will never forgive stupid Joe Biden for not wiping this shit out, what a shit hole country we live in
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
#RHOSLC is a whole mess of a show that somehow manages to connect all that is salacious and scandalous in american pop culture and organized religion! lol
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
BOOKMARKED for later!
tired: Heather Gay Mormonism 3 part series

wired: Mary Cosby cult allegations 3 part series #RHOSLC
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“Point Park University in Pittsburgh has launched a scholarship program for Ohio students whose academic programs have been eliminated due to budget cuts and SB 1.”

🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

www.cleveland.com/education/20...
Akron, Kent State cutting degree programs under SB1 as Pittsburgh college recruits Ohio students
The University of Akron and Kent State University are the latest Ohio schools to announce they will eliminate some degree programs to comply with state Senate Bill 1, a sweeping higher education bill ...
www.cleveland.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Is this why they're using DoorDash
WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
as a long time freelancer and owner of a small media production company and consulting business, i have flirted with the idea of creating my own media platform to invest in other media professionals and journalists, then i remember im poor relative to wealthy people who can just do this on a whim.
People keep saying this and let me tell you, as one of way too many freelancers without a steady job, it is annoying!
November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
i’m glad this message is mainstream.
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Do not under any circumstance hand your phone to law enforcement.
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
with alt text
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
yeah, i recall reading this piece earlier from sarah kendzior (is she still banned?).

i will admit, it got my spidey sense going.

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
November 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Breaking news: The Supreme Court extended a pause on a lower-court order directing the Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits to millions of Americans, preventing federal officials from having to provide the aid for now.
Supreme Court extends pause on order requiring full SNAP payments
The Trump administration has twice gone to the Supreme Court in recent days, seeking to prevent other judges from forcing it to fully fund SNAP benefits for November.
wapo.st
November 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM