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Katha Pollitt

@kathapollitt.bsky.social

Poet, essayist, columnist at The Nation, cat lover. Older but probably not much wiser.

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Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · last wk.

58 days of relentless resistance. 🦩 Albanians are standing up against land grabs, corruption, and authoritarian overreach to defend their public lands and democratic rights. When the people unite, real change happens. Keep raising your voices, Albania! 🇦🇱

Jennifer Kretchmer@dreamwisp.bsky.social · last wk.

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

thetimes.com

Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · last wk.

Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz was deported to Guatemala after an ICE traffic stop last year, and his wife Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz later followed him. They were just found bound, gagged, and shot with their 14-month-old daughter crying beside them. www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

stlpr.org

Mrs. Wyatt@mrswyatt247.bsky.social · last wk.

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Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

New York City since Mamdani was sworn in: a booming job market; a soaring economy; a very healthy real estate market; and the lowest crime numbers since Dwight David Eisenhower was president. Plus Trump think he's a very hot man. Bari Weiss and Jonathan Greenblatt have gone into a state of apoplexy

Mamdani’s New York Nets 40,000 New Jobs

A continuing boom on Wall Street keeps the economy expanding — even as tariffs, high inflation and rising rents take a toll.

thecityreporter.nyc

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3w ago

The epic investigation in the New Yorker by Heidi Blake seems to have lit a fire under UK criminal justice bureaucrats, who'd messed up last time they had a chance to prosecute the Tates (including some pretty horrendous victim blaming Blake recounts). Journalism matters for justice.

Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

newyorker.com

Philip Bump@pbump.com · 3w ago

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · 3w ago

It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.