Arabelle Sicardi 英梅

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Historians are quite capable of explaining the hellscape that is the US at this particular minute, and its kind of telling that you imagine we won't because it means you haven't been listening or reading

Being a war and supply chain nerd has only prepared me for a more extravagant psychosis at this point

William Gibson and Nostradamus have never been seen in the same room together you know…. Think about that ☠️

I used to want to write sci fi but we already live in an assassination market deepfake dystopia, so….

Distraction turducken.

This is grave robbery.

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

What’s the place below the abyss?

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Kipling, after the death of his son, speaking in the voice of the Kaiser, his doctor, & an observer

One of the reasons we are the world's most prestigious literary magazine is because every issue we put out our contributors set the bar at writing the best poems of the century

I get so confused by it too. I wanna study their ability to disassociate so much

The Latest Filler Craze is Actually, Sincerely: Another Human's Remains. Welcome to zombieland.

open.substack.com/pub/arabelle...

There is a hot new filler made of cadaver fat and I wrote about how beauty makes us all zombies.🥹

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

“This is a Band-Aid—I am trying my best while people in power deal with policy. This is what I can do,” explains Raines. In an interview with Vogue on her work during the pandemic, she confessed that doing the work with the pandemic crowding the city is skyrocketing her anxiety. “It’s very unsettling for me and my team. Of course, we’re paranoid and washing our hands 24/7. Of course, my family is concerned. My kids and my sister beg me, ‘Please, don’t go out there,’ and I’m just like, ‘I gotta. We can’t give up on them right now. [I have asked the people here to] lay back, close their eyes, and trust that my Fighters for the World will make sure nobody will run up on them. We gained their trust with consistency by coming every Saturday. And that can’t end now. It is essential that we don’t lose that love and trust we’ve worked so hard to get from this community.” Raines lost her job recently due to pandemic budget cuts, but she’s still coming out every weekend with donations from her online network of supporters. She is still handing out roses from her car window and apologizing for not being able to hug the now-familiar faces on the street who call her mom, who call her godmother, who ask her about her health and her family.

I know about Raines because @arabellesicardi.bsky.social described her and her work helping homeless people so beautifully in The House of Beauty.

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek

Der Spiegel headline: Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.

I didn't say it. The Germans did.

Read The House of Beauty, 220 or so pages of more exhibits

In Pakistan, the CIA went around door-to-door pretending to be giving polio vaccines, while secretly hunting for Osama bin Laden. The result was that real health care workers were ignored or even killed, and hundreds of people got polio, which had otherwise been nearly eradicated worldwide.

My fragrance group chat is so powerful… got people shopping for each other in two different perfume sales across the country rn and a global decluttering swap happening at all times 😌

Perfect

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

Every single page of @arabellesicardi.bsky.social’s House of Beauty so far has contained a horrifying interesting fact I did not know about the beauty industry and also now I can’t stop thinking about how evil the term “beauty” “industry” is.

I need a sixty minutes episode on why toothpaste is eleven dollars

Ok fine don’t wring my arm just subscribe to my substack lol

I do find it hilarious that the person sitting next to me on the flight asked if I knew why there are so many Vietnamese nail techs and I was like… funny you should ask… I wrote a book about this exact subject that just came out 😆

Coco Chanel. And I wrote a pilot and a book chapter to prepare for this exact opportunity. Hahahahaha

Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents? (3rd printing) This collection of questions is an invitation to think about situations we may encounter with ICE, a poetic rant against ICE, and a provocation for ICE’s allies.

Yo! If you missed the first two printings, tonight I cranked out 100 more copies of the Public Collectors booklet "Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents?" Still just $6.00 from the Half Letter Press webstore. Give the gift of FUCK ICE to someone you love. halfletterpress.com/who-shares-w...