Adina Goldman
@ponyup
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There goes the neighbourhood.
Toronto
Joined January 2008
If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too. Anyone - left, right, or center - who has highlighted the importance of constitutional rights + free speech should be sounding the alarm now.
NEWS: Last night, DHS detained a Palestinian who helped lead Columbia encampment. Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too. His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead. https://t.co/4t2RByUI1x
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As you may have heard, Stolen is ending its run at Spotify. Thank you all for listening & supporting the show. We're so proud of our work & grateful we’ve had the space to tell Indigenous stories. We’d love to find a new home for Stolen- there are more important stories to tell.
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Lots of well deserved remembrances of Ellsberg’s heroism today. I’ll just post my favorite passage from his incredible memoir, Secrets. He’s telling Henry Kissinger (who as many have noted is somehow still alive) what access to truly secret information can do to a person’s mind.
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Here’s my @thewalrus feature on the public library's remarkable transformation—from simple book repository to “the last public place.” It turns out asking libraries, and librarians, to fill every gap in a fraying social safety net is kind of a disaster.
thewalrus.ca
Librarians once worried about shushing patrons. Now they have to deal with mental health episodes, the homelessness crisis, and random violence
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“Drink from a fruit” has officially supplanted “meat on a stick” at local street fests
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Hero.
Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa says social media has “come in and used free speech to stifle free speech.” #Colbert
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“Someone bought the thing you liked and killed it” is the defining experience of the 21st century.
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Girl didn't want goat slaughtered; officials sent deputies - Los Angeles Times. This Chad Gad Ya Passover story has an awful twist.
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I cried seeing this photo of Gabriel Magalhaes’ mother, Andrea. She said she “never wanted to get up again” but felt she had to speak out on the systemic injustices around homelessness and mental health. There is no more courageous hero tonight. People/families deserve better.
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I can't stop thinking about it. Close-by stop. Same age. Same name. That poor kid. How will his family get through this?
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I get that this was a random attack by a deranged person, but damn if it wasn't kind of hard to let my own 16 y/o boy take the subway to soccer practice tonight.
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If you want to get something great out of a Kickstarter project, this is a good place to start. Wil Wheaton reads @doctorow's latest audiobook. Sweet!
*Red Team Blues* is my next novel, a #PostCyberpunk anti-finance finance #thriller; it's a major title for my publishers @TorBooks and @HoZ_Books, and it's swept the trade press with starred reviews all 'round. Despite all that, #Audible will not sell the #audiobook. 1/
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Who agrees? To be honest, I don't care if you do.
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OMG I can no longer comfortably deploy current slang without sounding like a grasping fraud. 🤗 Welcome to the other side!
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That NYT piece featuring millennials suddenly realizing that they are middle aged? Brings me lots of joy.
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