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on receiving criticism

and trying to be made less crazy by it

Dec 29, 2025 • Mariya Strauss

Ask My Antifa Ancestors, Part 3

In this week’s installment of Ask My Antifa Ancestors, we encounter my great-uncle, Hymen Schlesinger, on May 24, 1951, as he is manhandled and removed…

Dec 6, 2025 • Mariya Strauss

Ask My Antifa Ancestors

Guest ancestor edition!

Nov 15, 2025 • Mariya Strauss

Ask My Antifa Zayde

A new kind of advice column for fighting the fascist threat at home

Oct 31, 2025 • Mariya Strauss

How not to find what you seek

Good news and bad news: nobody gets lost in library stacks of 1950s and 60s hardbound volumes anymore. On what we win & lose with tech.

Oct 5, 2025 • Mariya Strauss

Is Worry A Form of Care?

an elul story of choices, witnessing, and gifts

Sep 8, 2025 • Mariya Strauss

I'm replacing Stephen Miller as architect of the nation's immigration enforcement regime.

It's my world, now. Welcome.

Aug 21, 2025 • Mariya Strauss

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