Monique Laban
Everywhere else I’m endorphinique. I write. https://www.moniquelaban.com
- Reposted by Monique LabanA lot of "golden age" science fiction has interesting ideas and workman-like-at-best prose, and Asimov was no exception to this. He and many other GA SF writers benefitted from "first-mover" status, and also, editors who preferred neat SF concepts (and men) over exceptional prose (and women).
- Reposted by Monique LabanChild at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
- Reposted by Monique LabanJeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
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- Reposted by Monique Labanone thing you have to understand about helen andrews is she is genuinely stupid
- Reposted by Monique LabanLet a thousand @hellgatenyc.com s bloom.
- Reposted by Monique LabanIncredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...
- Reposted by Monique LabanA lot of people cannot just start a paid newsletter or become freelancers to sustain their careers. The sports, metro, and international desks did work that requires *team* resources, like legal checks, documents, access to archives, and long-term beat experience.
- All my pens keeps dying on me and I feel like this is a metaphor for this dry-ass winter and my repeated attempts to write but not having time for it
- Reposted by Monique LabanThis is the stuff that marks someone as a danger. Not even just that he intends to sneak back into an organizing space where he’s been told that he’s unwanted; the need to publicly brag about it, and make sure everyone knows. You cannot do collaborative work with someone who only centers himself.
- Reposted by Monique LabanThis is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
- Reposted by Monique Labanlike this is absurd, get over yourselves
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- Reposted by Monique LabanPsyched for this awesome book coming out from @letsgomathias.bsky.social
- New: Antifa unmasked a new generation of fascists in the Trump era. Now it's exposing ICE. "Predators don’t get anonymity." My latest for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Not a good sign when the Sunday Scaries start this early
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- Reposted by Monique Labanskaters will not have this problem should they choose to skate with the universally beloved music of the Mountain Goats
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- There needs to be a diplomatic way of responding to an email with something like, “Every interaction with you has been unpleasant and displayed your vast incompetence. Please read every other instruction at your disposal before following up with me as I have bigger priorities right now.”
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- been playing around with dry days and drinking days and I regret to inform you that my skin looks so much better and my energy levels are steadier on the days when I haven't been drinking the night before booooooo
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- Happy new Bridgerton and Jujutsu Kaisen day for all those who joint-celebrate
- Reposted by Monique LabanICYDK, publishing is in a decline. Many authors who have had dependable contracts in the past are now scrambling to make ends meet and seeing lower advances and fewer sales than ever. If you see lots of book publicity posts, it's because we're scared and trying to keep our jobs during The Horrors.
- idk why we're so hard on the youth and fantasize about being young like honestly every additional year tacked onto my thirties makes me so relieved i'm not in my twenties anymore
- Reposted by Monique LabanI have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.
- pls bridgerton take your cultural capital and bring back high waists this future bride is tired of seeing every bridal designer succumb to drop-waist dresses and I have not figured out how to shop vintage or secondhand for the look I want 🥲
- this winter has made me so cold and feel so survivalist that it almost made me forget that olives exist but guess what olives are a snack you can have whenever and they make me so happy
- Reposted by Monique LabanI agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.
- Reposted by Monique LabanSesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.
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- Reposted by Monique LabanI wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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- Reposted by Monique LabanThinking about that brief moment in the early pandemic when the government actually reached out to help us, no strings attached, AND how quickly they yanked it all away when they realized that we might get used to being cared for
- Reposted by Monique LabanMamdani is so, so good at this. By which I don’t mean “at politics “, though he is, but at using his office to make people’s lives better while reminding them what government can be.
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- Reposted by Monique LabanA lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line
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- Reposted by Monique LabanThis is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.
- Gift link www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- I wrote my first scathing review on Letterboxd and whew what a rush, that was so thrilling. In tandem with my new year's intention of watching more classic films through my new Criterion Channel account, surely nothing will go wrong.
- Reposted by Monique Laban(I think if you're surprised that normies, bike shop owners, nurses, Disney adults, IG influencers, horse girls/equestrians, golfers, the Dog Rates guy—just a few of the people I've seen mentioned in this context—are dialed in & angry, you need to develop more respect for the people around you.)
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- Reposted by Monique LabanReally hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
- Reposted by Monique LabanI keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad
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- Reposted by Monique LabanA reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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- Reposted by Monique Labani think the "immigration turns high trust societies into low trust societies" people were already on really shaky ideological ground but now they're watching neighbors helping one another and calling them paid antifa agitators
- Reposted by Monique LabanComic Letterers should get cover credit.
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- Reposted by Monique LabanFolks in Texas and other places that are likely to lose power during the upcoming snowstorm: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check in with your elderly and disabled neighbors and see if you can help them prepare or make a plan if they lose power. These folks are the first to die in extreme cold situations.
- I feel like way more people Not just people in the arts but definitely them Could benefit greatly from spending like a month or two reading slush (or whatever this looks like for other creative mediums outside of the writing world)
- Reposted by Monique LabanIt's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...
