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Jaya Saxena

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Correspondent at Eater.com // Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing // Vox Media Union committee // she/her

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Trans healthcare saves lives. America's trans & nonbinary legislators are calling on the Biden Administration to oppose any attempt to ban puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, & surgery for young trans people, and to follow medical best practices as set out in WPATH.

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the idea that it's a hyper individualistic and specifically American flaw of character to want to leave a country falling into fascism is so funny because that is like morally one of the best reasons that people have had, historically, for moving to America!

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...if we are going to need everyone to get through this, including the people with annoying takes but who are on 'our' side, it makes learning to keep said takes in perspective pretty vital

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Jaya Saxena's avatar Jaya Saxena @jayasax.bsky.social
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I keep saying "hues and clues" they should really change it

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Ohhhh my god I shouldn't let my anger lead me to despair? I should let it radicalize me? Should we throw a party? Should we invite voting?

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"They’re on a Stairway to Bell." Unfortunately the Post still has it

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every time I see someone complain about unions I think about how unions were the consensus alternative to the previous system of burning the factory owner alive inside his house

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It's July but these pieces are forever!!!!!

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It’s like when reporters tone down their criticism so they can get access to politicians or celebrities maybe, idk, just feel like this season could have gone harder but would have lost the ability to film at Noma

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It is VERY funny how The Bear has romanticized restaurants just enough that every chef is now excited to be on and gets to have his little cameo and make his little profound speech.

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Jiminy Glick should go on Hot Ones

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Gaza’s remaining hospitals, health centers and oxygen stations will stop working within 48 hours as the fuel needed to operate generators runs out, Gaza’s Health Ministry said in a statement shared to Telegram noon local time Sunday.

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I feel very lucky that I get to work at a place that encourages finding and publishing these stories, and that trusted me to have a say in our coverage, and that continues to publish queer shit all year round!

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I wrote about queerphobic stereotypes in food, the history of colonial fears about bodies and selves being able to change via food, and why food maybe CAN make you gay (complimentary) www.eater.com/24162871/foo...

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Happy pride weekend, I wanted to highlight some of the amazing pieces on queerness and food I got to write/work on/just be happy to be published alongside this month at Eater! Gonna thread:

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Love to reach the “been out long enough I can admit to myself I kind of loathe pride weekend” milestone

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"Trump reminded us tonight that he is uniquely unfit for office and hostile to our democracy. The fact that those qualities have lost their ability to shock underscores just how much the man has bent our politics to his will." www.vox.com/politics/357...

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The Democratic Party’s reaction to their candidate having a bad debate substantially outpaces the Republican Party’s reaction to their candidate being convicted of multiple felonies, held liable for rape, and owing judgments in the hundreds of millions for defamation and fraud.

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if your representative is a democrat, please call or email about KOSA. i know we all hate them, but calls are better & you can use this script. it's timed to 1:00 & works for congress or senate. you'll get an intern. be polite.

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JIMINY GLICK: Now you, you, you, you—your cars, they tend to run over pedestrians. Or else BURST into flames. ha HA isn't that wonderful! ELON MUSK: *the least convincing laugh of all time* GLICK: *tucking his legs under himself* You bought a website where no one likes you. Why?

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Do they even have to declare Germany's right to exist?? That is a whole ass different country!

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Ok but one day you will have leftover homemade ranch from making khushbu shah’s amchur ranch salad and you will do this and know glory

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a reminder of who just won the NY-16 democratic primary:

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Jaya Saxena's avatar Jaya Saxena @jayasax.bsky.social
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Just a tip whisk ranch dressing into your eggs when you make an omelette

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There's something that everyone gets wrong about the Ashley Madison data dump from 2015. And I should know, because I was one of the reporters who broke the story. It's my latest for @newscientist@mstdn.social (sign up for a free account to read).
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

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And as a reminder, please send me any food/travel writing from 2024 at bestamericanfoodtravel@gmail.com! Newsletters, zines, blogs, anything in a North American periodical counts!

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