You should care about this because trans people are human beings with inalienable human rights, but even if you don't, you should care about this for your own personal safety
First they violate the rights of a group they think no one will fight for, and then they come for the rest of us
This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.
If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
The Fraud is more Dickensian!
NEXT THURSDAY! Join us at @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social as we metabolize the ongoing emergency. Your $25 ticket goes to the ILCMN!
I guess I'm also rooting for my favorite dead writers, as if they were all just temporarily on the Injured List.
Zadie Smith wearing a "WG SEBALD" hat in an interview
Zadie Smith wearing what must be the world's only "WG SEBALD" baseball cap
for: President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution By RICK HASEN on February 14, 2026, 9:10 am
2026 in one headline:
@deardara.bsky.social on the brutal impact of ICE on Twin City businesses.
Poetry by Claudine Toutoungi, Austin Allen, Zachary Bos, @timliardet.bsky.social, @carlphillips.bsky.social, Sim Pereira-Madder, Caitríona O’Reilly, @lisadmkelly.bsky.social, Stephen Kampa, @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social and Rory Attwood.
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let's not forget our friends in minneapolis. they're still occupied. time for another round of calls to our reps. free minnesota!
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
The question of morale is PARAMOUNT. These clowns have no idea what even TEN MINUTES more of sunlight can do to us. So a whole hour this month?? We are gonna be HULKING OUT with our whistles, we are gonna be SUCH a pain in the ass, GET WRECKED ALREADY ASSHOLES
I found this comment regarding the poem in an interview with Brooks. Love what she said about the insinuation that she was copying Pound
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
I think a lot of politicians tell themselves, "If I make this one little compromise, I can climb up to the next rung of power, where I'll finally have the power to be uncompromising." And that's never how life works.
the base has always pushed dems to fight harder
but this is different & i don't think dem leaders get that -- people are apocalyptically furious
This man is gazing toward a future we have not yet reached.
text from the app linked, including “stop ice’s aggressive attacks on immigrants & citizens”
text from the app linked
five calls makes it easy to call your reps, it takes mere minutes & they provide a script. you can call about ice’s murder of renee nicole good, a fellow writer & poet. you can call about venezuela
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Here's the full moment of silence including a fan yelling "Go home, ICE"
With Trump, we see American imperialism with no clothes. Naked and vain. American imperialism is not just morally wrong. It is strategically disastrous.
I wrote this essay in March 2025 when Vance visited Greenland, and it is unfortunately still too relevant.
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During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
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If I were elected comptroller, my inaugural speech would start, "Well, well, well. I guess you people just couldn't comptrol yourselves."
Mascot trying and failing to put on a convincing smile
Happy 2026...?
People are dying inside American concentration camps right now.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
“I carried him on my back. It took seven days.” A camp in eastern Chad is now home to more than 100,000 refugees of Sudan’s civil war, and is a key destination for those fleeing El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State. Resources are strained as the number of newly displaced people increases.
This reading's going to be excellent - mark your calendar:
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