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Performative Social Media Activism Doesn't Help Ukraine
I’m unfollowing anyone who’s posted statements like, “I express solidarity with my Ukrainian brothers by switching from Moscow Mules to Mezcal Mules.”
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Refresh and Rebuild: Plotting the Future of New York’s Most Conservative Borough
“We get a bad narrative that it’s Trumpville, that it’s racist,” Jasmine Robinson, who moved to Staten Island from the Bronx when she was 17, tells Bitch. “That’s not all of Staten Island.”
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The Infuriating Failure of Alice Sebold's Apology
Sebold’s statement after the exoneration of a man she accused of rape in 1981 suggests she bears no responsibility for his conviction or 16 year incarceration.
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White Lies: How Democrats React to Kyle Rittenhouse's Acquittal Matters
Encouragements to “just vote” tell a grieving country that we can be saved by continuing to do something that hasn’t saved us yet.
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Crimeless Victims: What Is the True-Crime Takeover Doing to Us?
The emergence of “highbrow” true crime allows listeners to recast spectatorship as objective critical analysis.
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The Truth about TV News Is Far Scarier Than Fiction
The points these movies are making—that news is selectively curated, hosts can be vapid, and commercial television is motivated more by profit than public service—were perhaps shocking once but are now the least of our problems.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: Everything Is at Stake
The SCOTUS again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: We've Already Had Enough Of Brett Kavanaugh
How fast can you read 42,000 pages? Cause it takes us more than a couple hours.
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Backtalk: We Don’t Need to be Civil to Inhumane People
This week, Dahlia and Amy survived another week where hell is empty and all the devils are here on earth. It’s been a couple weeks of horrifying news and the last thing we need to hear is how progressive folks need to be civil to the inhumane Right. It feels the the least possible harm that Stephen... Read more »