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marianela d’aprile

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writer and socialist / contributing editor, @BOMBmagazine / words many places, also

new york city

https://t.co/58TMLt5UA9

Joined December 2010

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4 years

ultimately, the world I’m fighting for is one where we can more easily exit the cage of ourselves to see other people fully, to inhabit our shared humanity with generosity and without sacrifice, and to love unguardedly and without fear of loss, which is another name for dignity.

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2 years

a woman just got proposed to on the jumbotron at the cyclones game and she said no. she was very angry.

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one of the things that fascinates me about taylor swift is how dead clothes look on her. she can be covered in sequins but fail to channel camp or glam, in a form-fitting black dress but fail to be sensual, dressed down and fail to look effortless

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Taylor Swift Is TIME's 2023 Person of the Year

This was the year Taylor Swift perfected her craft—not just with her music, but in her position as the master storyteller of the modern era.

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eric adams really had to go and get indicted on a night i’m trying to go to sleep early this man stays fucking over new yorkers

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confirmed fake. trustworthy source let me know she’s a comedian. gonna sue for emotional damages. if you were at the game and want to be recognized as a defendant in my class action lawsuit please call 1 800 I GOT GOT

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@ElyKreimendahl I think constantly about the scene from Mad Men where Joan tells Peggy “Men don’t take the time to end things. They just ignore you until you insist on a declaration of hate.”

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personally i think we are in dire cultural straits when the inner lives (or lack thereof) of rich people are the primary subject matter in supposedly subversive/edgy television (white lotus, succession)

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she lacks the depth of personality required to give life to garments. her ability to be a blank canvas onto which almost anybody can project their delusions of grandeur, crucial to her rise to fame, keeps her from—unlike almost every other woman pop star—being a style icon

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this was during an @AlamoNYC promo, hope it doesn’t deter people from going to the movies

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2 years

comments on @Jomboy_ ’s YouTube video have led me to believe this was staged by comedian edy modica (see attached photo). this story is breaking. stay tuned for more

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what taylor represents is the triumph of the everywoman, not in the sense of economic or social averageness—she is, after all, white and affluent even before the record deals—but in the sense of cultural and artistic mediocrity

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3 years

the gutting of the infrastructure bill tells me that the ruling class is not sufficiently scared of the working class. we have to keep building our power until we are so utterly terrifying that just considering such betrayal makes all of congress simultaneously shit their pants

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yesterday at the rally in DC I got asked by an NPR reporter if I saw a generational divide in opinions about Palestine/Israel

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people saw what happened in iraq, how 18 year olds got sent to die for oil. they see the brutal violence black people are subject to in america. they see how our government lets people die every day. they see all the ways they are not free.

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what the media is going to try to spin as a generational divide (reasonable elders / idealistic young people) is actually a deep political shift

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nothing can undo that. solidarity never goes away because it’s a product of our shared condition of unfreedom. that’s what we mean when we say we are not free until all of us are. it’s not a slogan; it’s real, it’s life, it’s the fuel for all of our fights.

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i’d like an editor to hire me to write about this

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I can’t get over Liz Bruenig writing about how the mass pro-life movement should fight for what amounts to a welfare state. As though it’s a movement for anything but oppression and the subordination of women to men

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so when those people rise up and say, we want to be free, and americans rise up with them, it’s not a notion, it’s not an ideal, it’s not even a political line. it’s solidarity.

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this decision doesn’t just make abortion illegal — for many people, it makes it fatal

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I hate the parking meters so much I sued them

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it’s not hard for them to imagine not only how oppression can happen to other people, halfway across the world, but also how it must FEEL. how it must feel not to be free.

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they barricaded prospect park west in anticipation of the children’s march. chuck schumer is scared of babies!!

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5 years

Bernie Sanders activated millions of people into realizing their political power and now it's on us to make good on that. NO SURRENDER

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3 years

this is bullshit!!!!!! the whole fucking point is that the paintings are immersive IN THEIR FRAMES my G O D

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Sick of immersive Van Gogh already? Three separate companies are launching competing immersive Monet experiences:

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academics will really smash a gerund phrase with a an adjective and a noun and call it an idea "riding bikes as radical cartography" "smelling armpits as subversive intimacy" "honking horns as disembodied persistence"

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2 years

who wants to publish a piece by me titled GET THESE RICH PEOPLE OFF MY SCREEN

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3 years

I swear to fucking Christ I’m in Youngstown Ohio staying in a hotel across the road from a restaurant called Quaker Steak & Lube

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laughing hysterically at the idea that Biden will “extend” the pause on student loan payments. extend my ass joe!!! I haven’t paid those shits in almost two years… you think I’ll ever pay them again???? they’re canceled.

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for ⁦ @jacobin ⁩ I wrote about prison architecture

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The Architecture of Prisons Is Everywhere We Look

Buildings’ design communicates the values of a society. In contemporary American architecture, those values appear closer to control and surveillance than openness and enjoyment for all.

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4 years

fuck this building!! (I wrote this)

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The New Amazon Headquarters Is Butt-Ugly. That’s Because It’s Not for Us.

Most new architecture, like Amazon’s proposed new HQ, is hideous. That’s because it is made for corporations. Despite all the mistakes and brutalities of the Soviet experiment, at least their...

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i don’t have video because i was too in shock. the camera guy must’ve been too because he wouldn’t take the camera off them

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yes I mean plaintiff. I made this tweet at one in the morning and also I’m an idiot

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1 year

proud tonight to have marched with thousands and gotten arrested with hundreds in new york city calling for #CeasefireNOW

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we got cut off by chanting (hell yeah) but here’s what I would have said:

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2 years

fills me with rage that in order to retire in this country one has to invest in the stock market

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4 years

more people have joined DSA since october 1st than were in the organization when I joined in 2016

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3 years

as of about a month from now, I will have spent three years on the national political committee of DSA. here are some things I have learned in that time:

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5 years

the most disgusting part of the NYT endorsement is the comparison of Bernie and Trump, which implies that neither the content of a candidate's politics, nor the tens of millions of working people who feel like establishment politicians don't care about them, matter

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one of the most heartbreakingly clear things i have ever read

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She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.

Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.

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reading a piece in the new Harper’s about competitive debate. i don’t believe in criminal records but if you did that shit in high school you should have to disclose it

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man LOOK at this shit!!!!! RIP to a PoMo legend, even if I think all his buildings are hideous

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LOOK AT THIS INJECTION-MOLDED RUBBER SHOE IT'S GOT THE TEXTURES OF A REGULAR CLOTH SHOE WHAT WOULD JEAN BAUDRILLARD SAY

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lotta you in the replies saying you’ve dreamed of seeing this live! didn’t realize this was such a popular fantasy

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we won’t stop

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Are you ready for Bernie to launch Joe Biden into the sun? Because @meaganmday and I are, and if he doesn’t we will

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What better way to spend your weekend inside than by watching the first ever #DSAForBernie debate livestream! RSVP here to join journalist @meaganmday and NPC member @maridapr

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this woman is the dumbest motherfucker alive and yelling at her yesterday was one of the most satisfying things i've ever done and i wish i could do it every day

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this article reminded me why a continued commitment to political education is so important

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No, Studying Marx Is Not Elitist

Reading Marxist theory isn’t just for highfalutin academics — just ask the millions of workers whose ideas about the role they could play in changing the world were transformed by both study and...

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there’s a category of indie music made in the early 2000s that can’t be described as anything but “deliberately annoying”

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Solidarity with NYC teachers fighting for safe learning and working conditions #RedForEd #OnlyWhenItsSafe

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I want to die.

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you come to me on this, the morning of my DSA’s convention

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soccer is about the global south. if you're cheering for a european team you are my enemy

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4 years

the whole hubbub around forcing a floor vote on m4a is a real nice distraction from the fact that we still, despite the recent years of significant upswell, don't have a powerful enough left or labor movement to force anyone in power to do anything

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allow me to tell you a story. for several months in 2015 I worked at an architecture firm where my first big project was doing as-built drawings of a 40,000 square-foot condemned elementary school.

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i need to know who got cate blanchett to endorse shen yun

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just remembered in the 6th or 7th grade shortly after Coming to America™ a girl in my class asked me to show her the Argentine flag and when I did she went “that’s pretty. but not prettier than OUR flag” and like, nationalism aside, just on an aesthetic level, she was so wrong

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3 years

pitch me! marianeladaprile at gmail dot com

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3 years

We have a big announcement: @maridapr is joining NYRA as our Deputy Editor.

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hey guys what's up

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bernie is the only one out here acting like a national leader during a crisis

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4 years

architecture isn’t rly a strategic sector, but there are too many people subjected/accustomed to this kind of working conditions. we shouldn’t be! and importantly, unionizing architects could be a way to build solidarity / power with a VERY strategic sector: the building trades

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the word "modern" is so fucking complicated. my hot writing tip is: never use it

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what happened at current affairs is tragic and horrible for the left and for left media. I rarely agreed with CA takes but their voice was important. I get why we’re prone to jokes right now but they all feel like dancing on the grave of something that mattered to all of us.

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biden’s been edging student-loan cancelation this entire pandemic but it’s finally time for the money shot

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if you read something you really like and you're wondering whether to email the writer to let them know, do not hesitate. just do it. sometimes writing can feel like pouring buckets of water into an ocean and it's nice to know when you actually might've quenched someone's thirst.

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I’m stuck in traffic behind the wienermobile

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this is what happens when we treat things like electricity as a profit machine for a few fat cats and not as what they are: basic human rights

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Over 5.1 million electric customers are without power across the USA. With 4.3 million out in #Texas , as severe winter storms continue to cause significant impacts to the electric grid. Check out for #PowerOutage information! [2021-02-15 8:40PM EST]

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imagine you are 6’4, a medical doctor, a leftist, a professional soccer player, and your name is Socrates. also you look like this

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Bernie is the only candidate in this time of crisis!!! #ChicagoLovesBernie #MedicareForAll #NotMeUs

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I weighed in on the Easterling hubbub. It’s very short. You’ll either agree or hate me.

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actually cried reading this

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for @jacobin , I wrote about why we should save one of the ugliest buildings I have ever had the pleasure to visit: the Thompson Center

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Chicago’s Thompson Center Is a Palace for the People

Downtown Chicago’s wonderfully futuristic, bizarre Thompson Center integrates government, business, public art, affordable eating, and public protest space — and it’s currently in danger of demolit...

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after two and a half years as deputy editor, tomorrow is my last day at @nyreviewofarch . it’s been great to be a part of growing NYRA into the funny, smart, critical, and hopeful magazine it is today. some highlights threaded below:

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Lori Lightfoot needs to resign or the people of Chicago will force her to.

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#coldgirlsforbernie

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why are all these women writers marrying men writers are you STUPID

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just got an email saying student loan payments/interests are on hold until "at least september 2021" by that point, millions will have gone more than a year without making these leeching monthly payments. there is no way they will get away with not cancelling all student debt.

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@_pem_pem i saw this and was like, tina fey is so funny and SO evil

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I’ve been reading Frank Lloyd Wright’s essays for something I’m researching for a few weeks and I am at present ready to blame him for all of architecture’s problems

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nancy pelosi thinks her job is a spectator sport

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@ramsincanon wow big agree. once someone kept asking how they could “hold space” for me and I was like, no I don’t need you to hold space I need you to stop being an asshole

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ridiculous that there are criteria other than "having a body" and "being alive" in order to qualify for health insurance in this country

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I meant what I said!!

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when I say “everyone relax” I mean everyone focus on who the real enemy is — capitalists — and do everything in your power to protect our ability to organize against them

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i can't believe this is real

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70,000 rubber ducks are dropped into the Chicago River at the start of the #Chicago Ducky Derby to raise money for #SpecialOlympics in Chicago, Illinois. 📸: @olsongetty #duckrace #ChiDuckyDerby #rubberduck ------------

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dudes saying Oscar Isaac isn’t that hot all sort of look like him but still can’t get laid

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of all the things we've lost over the past year, perhaps the most devastating is the sense that our lives deserve to be more than endless an trudging-through of responsibilities, more than bare-minimum survival

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here’s a video breakdown

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now is the time to have the courage of your convictions! your entire life might be rearranged as a result but that is good. the whole world needs rearranging

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The Democratic Party has access to billions of dollars and they still couldn’t pull out a clear W against a guy who’s let hundreds of thousands of people die.

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last week we launched the latest issue of @nyreviewofarch with a totally new format and sections, it's very exciting!!!

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several years ago, a comrade and I devised a cheat-sheet to determine "is this campaign worth doing?" - does it make more socialists? - does it build the power and organization of the working class? - does it build the power of DSA? the answer to all three must be YES

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If you went to architecture school, what were some texts you read that were really clear/clarifying? And, what were some texts you read that made you be like that meme with the woman looking at all the complicated math?

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as a Lady Freelancer™ there’s nothing I’d love more than a union to fight for a dollar a word from every publication

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"Big labor efforts threaten choices and freedoms for working women" ( @TheHillOpinion )

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to think i almost stayed home tonight

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here's my contribution to the "gifted kid" discourse: I was not allowed to be in the gifted program in my middle or high school, despite having the highest grades by about a mile, because I spoke accented English and was not from America! Systems that rank children are garbage.

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this is just absolutely incredible. there is no fear or shame in her voice. she is a SOCIALIST! a massive victory for our movement

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Brett "Solidarity 2024" Banditelli

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Reporter: "Do you consider yourself a socialist?" @Indiawaltonbflo : "Oh, absolutely. The entire intent of this campaign is to draw down power and resources to the ground level and into the hands of the people."

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it might be my vantage point but it feels like a lot of people who have barely been holding it together all pandemic are starting to seriously break down now

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if you're sick of the only alternative to mainstreamed misogyny being cheap as shit girls-rule-boys-drool, Lady Boss feminism, join @DemSocialists

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