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Beth Boyle Machlan
Beth Boyle Machlan
@bethmachlan.bsky.social
Essayist, educator, Zillow stalker, hockey fan, pet pic poster. Usually tired; probably mad. Words at The Common, Catapult, Avidly, River Teeth, NYT, The Rumpus, Guernica. CFA-UAW she/her https://linktr.ee/bethmachlan?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
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i wrote about billionaire heiress elizabeth koch's terrible personal essay www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...
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“Catapult management could not be reached for comment, it remains unclear what will happen to the 16 frontlist titles across Catapult’s four imprints that are slated for spring 2027.” Shocked to learn that bored billionaires don’t answer the phone. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Lmfao Dems +9 on transgender issues after hundreds of millions of dollars in attack ads. Get absolutely rolled x.com/PollTracker2...
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Replying to @jamellebouie.net
I wonder if Jan CBS has read the Handbasket piece outing Tommy, yet?
SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
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Fossil-fueled drought is drying up Maine's groundwater, and the lame-duck Congress is planning to eviscerate the Clean Water Act and accelerate climate pollution with #BAAJA
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For folks in or near Brooklyn tonight! There is nowhere like the Brooklyn Public Library. There is no one like @chenjerai.bsky.social. And there are few things more Brooklyn than Howard Zinn. Come on through! www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/dav...
When my kids were little, we went to a Halloween event described as a “bat show.” We assumed a bat show would have actual bats, or bat experts, or something bat-specific; instead it was just some stuffed bats. Now we call any event that doesn’t live up to expectations a “bat show.”
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Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
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Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built.
this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted
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I think he just wants it bc Obama got it.
1. I think the president of the United States really believes "there's never been anybody" who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than he does. He really believes he "settled eight wars." He really believes he stopped "the total obliteration of the world" by going to war with Iran.
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This @nyc.streetsblog.org story highlights horrifically and graphically many, many of the things wrong with the culture around traffic all over the world: nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/10/09/o... It is utterly disgusting that so many commenters seem to be blaming the child victims.
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At last we have created the Wire Mother from the groundbreaking research study “Don’t Create The Wire Mother”
It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.
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The new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is excellent. Don't miss Lisa Armstrong on Memphis's occupation. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...