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Celeste Headlee@celesteheadlee.bsky.social |
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Writer, journalist, speaker. She/her. Black and Jewish. Detroit stan forever. Living on Piscataway land. Latest book: rb.gy/4ovkd
Press: ashley@triple7pr.com
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Celeste Headlee
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“The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it. You [must] come up with lots of ideas, and most of them will be wrong.” --Francis Crick
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Celeste Headlee
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I'm disgusted by just how easy it is to distract and manipulate people with racism, sexism, selfishness, and hatred. And greed.
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Celeste Headlee
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Hillary Clinton, Yale Law School grad, in 2016: “If we’re serious about fighting for progressive causes, we need to focus on the Court: who sits on it, how we choose them, and how much we let politics—partisan politics—dominate that process.”
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"While the decisions coming out of this Court are bad enough, the fact that they’re coming from a collection of judges who have responded to serious charges of ethical lapses and outright corruption levied against them with nothing but contempt and condescension."
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Celeste Headlee
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"Make no mistake about it — this is the most radical, destructive, arrogant Supreme Court in the entire history of the United States of America."
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Celeste Headlee
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July 4th is the celebration of freedom from monarchy, right?
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Celeste Headlee
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So, the burglary at the Watergate would have been legal because Nixon talked about it in the Oval Office?
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Celeste Headlee
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It's not their fault that their dissent is impotent.
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Celeste Headlee
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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry; it merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me." --Zora Neale Hurston
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Celeste Headlee
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If you believe that there is more than enough food in the world and no one should go hungry, you can help support our pantry that supplies families in our neighborhood. Complete privacy and dignity, no questions asked. Just take the food you need.
www.gofundme.com/f/stock-the-...
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Celeste Headlee
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A growing number of young women are becoming #tradwives. Is that a failure of feminism? @cnicolemason says you may not agree with them, but you shouldn't ignore them. This week on #HearMeOut
@SlatePodcasts
slate.com/podcasts/hea...
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Celeste Headlee
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Thursday at 4ET, Matt Wagner of Target10 will present a case study on the Care With Pride initiative, amplifying voices of marginalized communities w/ partnerships and brand collaborations. (virtual)
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RSVP here: lnkd.in/ePTdKJT7
adage.com/article/crea...
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Celeste Headlee
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Only in a theocracy is a religion also a political party.
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Celeste Headlee
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As a journalist whose job is to pay attention to what the president says, this is true.
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Celeste Headlee
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Anyway, here's a quote from Fred Rogers...
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Celeste Headlee
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One last (hopeful) note: there was a big decline in empathy among young ppl, but that trend has reversed. Now, older ppl are the least empathetic and Gen Z (yay!!) is showing an increase in compassion.
So, let's listen to them instead of arresting them.
news.uwgb.edu/phlash/media...
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Celeste Headlee
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Every one of us should be alarmed by the global decline in empathy. Without empathy, homo sapiens would have died out along with Neanderthal and apes would probably run the world.
www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday...
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Celeste Headlee
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Hurting others isn't tough. It's stupidity in action. To quote myself: "Compassion isn’t nice! It’s tough and resilient and all-around badass."
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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Celeste Headlee
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If you think compassion is weakness, I've got reams of scientific study proving that you're wrong. If you think cruelty and exclusion are strong, you're wrong. And your view is endangering the survival of our species.
learningforward.org/journal/lead...
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Celeste Headlee
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Humans endanger themselves when they murder those who might help them & when they isolate themselves. We are not at the top of the food chain. We're somewhere between pigs and anchovies. We need each other.
www.npr.org/sections/the...
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Celeste Headlee
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Speaking in evolutionary terms, Fred Rogers was a better example of a survivor than Vladimir Putin. The most powerful homo sapiens is the one that builds community through compassion and makes use of the skills and talents of others.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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Celeste Headlee
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Homo sapiens has been on earth for a short time & it's not clear if we are a viable species right now. If we continue breaking apart the communities that protected us, losing the compassion that helped us survive... we're not going to make it.
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Celeste Headlee
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It's ludicrous and stupid to admire independence or "lone wolves." Lone wolves die. They are much more likely to do than the animals who belong to a pack. A maverick isn't admirable. That's a term for a motherless calf.
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Celeste Headlee
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Compassion is also a survival skill. It is crucial for the survival of our species because homo sapiens cannot make it alone. 300,000+ years of evolution has been dedicated to making us REALLY good at working together.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/collab...
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Celeste Headlee
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Empathy is not the answer. It's simply the ability to recognize someone else's emotions and identify them. To survive as a species, we must take the next step to compassion. Compassion is empathy + a desire to help. Compassion is empathy in action.
www.betterup.com/blog/compass...
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Celeste Headlee
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Which means empathy is not a "soft skill." Independence is a soft skill. Empathy is survival for homo sapiens. We are all born with the ability to empathize, implanted through centuries of evolution. We can strengthen that ability or weaken it.
www.wired.com/story/the-em...
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Celeste Headlee
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We think it makes us weak to depend on others, not realizing that dependency has always been our survival skill. We don't all have to be great hunters or builders or cooks--we can band together and make use of a diversity of skills.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...
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Celeste Headlee
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Homo sapiens survived because we have the most advanced communication & collaboration skills. If you are messing with one of us, you are probably messing with more. We build communities & that's what has protected us.
www.newscientist.com/article/mg25...
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Celeste Headlee
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For a long time, evolutionary psychologists & biologists tried to understand how homo sapiens became the surviving human species. After all, we are fragile, slow, and easily hurt. Neanderthals were smart, creative, tough.
www.newsweek.com/2023/01/13/n...
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Celeste Headlee
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Empathy is declining globally.
Narcissism is on the rise.
Let me thread out a short explanation of why this could be a species-ending trend for humans.
www.apa.org/news/podcast...
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Celeste Headlee
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She tried to drown a 3-year-old child.
"I don’t know where to go to feel safe with my kids,” the mother said. "My country is facing a war, and we are facing that hate here."
www.cnn.com/2024/06/22/u...
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Celeste Headlee
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Dehumanization on a cinematic scale... The catch is... the torturers are losing their own humanity while trying to strip others of theirs.
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gamera obscura
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You’re forgiven for the Mad Max images this brings to mind, because movie tropes are what all of this is the IDF. It’s not a war; it’s the culmination of a lifetime of propaganda and playing soldier. It’s not self-defense; It’s dehumanization on a cinematic scale. It’s comic book grotesquerie.
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Mark Chadbourn
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One interesting fact is the most fervent Brexiters weren’t born in Britain. Hannan is from Peru, others from South Africa, Australia and elsewhere. They seem to have got caught up in the fantasy of what Britain meant for them personally and then tried to make it a reality.
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Celeste Headlee
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I cannot say this often enough. If you connect with me on social media and your first communication is a pitch or solicitation, I'll break that connection faster than lies spread on TikTok.
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Ariel Waldman
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Google & websites everywhere. I’ve had to send take downs to multiple websites using my name and work in clearly AI-generated blog posts with incorrect info. Small orgs desperate for clicks. In one, it falsely claimed that my life’s work over the past 10 years was created by a man I’ve never met.
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Celeste Headlee
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CH: I'll pass by people's computers & see 80 tabs open.
AC: That feels like a personal attack.
CH: And they have their cell phone on their desk, looking at the screen so they know as soon as a notification comes in.
AC: You're describing my workspace.
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Celeste Headlee
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Years of research shows kids in wealthiest families enjoy the greatest advantage when it comes to college admissions, regardless of academic achievement.
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Celeste Headlee
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"A SPLENDID ORCHESTRA Is in town, but will not be engaged."
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Celeste Headlee
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Please also take "introvert," "innovator," and "chemical imbalance."
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"If it’s not too much trouble, do you think your hulking, ill-mannered ogre of a pooch could join us? Could you reassure us that—despite his size and general demeanor—he’s actually very friendly?"
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Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer
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Chiquita's annual revenue in 2022 was $3.1 billion. This fine amounts to a single percent (1%) of that revenue.
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Celeste Headlee
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Farage: "I will not be bullied or cowed by a violent left-wing mob who hate [sic] our country."
Anyway, here's a picture of him cowering.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Celeste Headlee
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"God either cannot answer our prayers, or like the great majority of Americans, is not greatly concerning himself with the supplications of black folks." Dean H. Smith, 1936
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Celeste Headlee
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This week, @hayesbrown says the GOP set a trap and Biden is falling for it.
Listen first (!) and then tell me if you agree.
slate.com/podcasts/hea...
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Celeste Headlee
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“Our society has valued really, really toxic things,” she says. “We have for generations been brainwashed” to believe that productivity is morally superior to rest—so it’s no wonder relaxing sometimes feels uncomfortable or even wrong.
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Celeste Headlee
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Just as a store wouldn’t reopen for a customer who arrived after it closed, you shouldn’t make exceptions to your hours when you get a late-night email or feel the itch to check in with the boss on a Sunday afternoon. “Closed is closed,” she says.
time.com/6981061/rela...
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Celeste Headlee
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"I have heard of men without enemies and I have often wondered what they could be doing." --William Pickens
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Quinta Jurecic
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putting the Fix the Court data into a pie chart (usually the worst form of chart) really helps communicate the scale of what is happening here docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Rachel Klein
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Just a reminder that several of the founders of the NAACP were American Jews who saw a heartbreaking parallel between the violence against European Jews at the time & race violence in America, which is to say that our ancestors knew that right is right & injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.
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