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The United States Is Southern Now From booming metros to culture-defining exports, the South has quietly become a demographic powerhouse and a battleground for the country’s identity.

Got a story out today about something I’ve been fascinated by for years: From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, here’s how and why the South has taken such a firm grip on modern American culture. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Baby’s first skull 💀 check out my weird little Kentucky poem ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🐎🐎🐎

Despite bond being set, Ernesto Manuel-Andres to remain detained - Bowling Green Daily News The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the release of Ernesto Manuel-Andres, despite a federal immigration judge ordering that he be released on bond, according to the nonprofit working with ...

Update on Ernesto, an 18-year-old in Bowling Green, KY who was taken by ICE: “The Department of Homeland Security has blocked the release of Ernesto Manuel-Andres, despite a federal immigration judge ordering that he be released on bond, according to the nonprofit working with him.”

my newest poem in JAKE is an absolute favorite of mine, read it here!!!

Get in loser we’re creating honest sentimental art without a trace of irony and putting a piece of ourselves out into the world

Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

King Jeremy the Wicked: How “Jeremy” Helped Jeremy to Love Being Jeremy And then, when I was in middle school, my parents introduced me to Pearl Jam’s “Jeremy,” a badass rock song that offered a small sliver of feeling witnessed. A badass rock song that followed another y...

good morning. today at IHTOV we have @jeremymauser.bsky.social writing about pearl jam. specifically "jeremy" and how having a song with his name, about this subject, affected him. great read ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/king-...

Trump admin terminates ‘illegal DEI’ settlement over raw sewage in poor, majority-Black Alabama communities The agreement, reached under the Biden Administration, required the state’s Department of Public Health to improve sanitation efforts in Alabama’s Black Belt.

The Trump admin is terminating a settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Black Alabama communities harmed by raw sewage, calling the agreement an “illegal DEI and environmental justice policy”

Kentucky Unions Stand Up to Halt Deportation of Two Hundred Workers Two hundred union workers, out of 5,700 who assemble dishwashers, refrigerators, washers, and dryers for GE Appliances-Haier at Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, received notice this month that ...

"The immigrant workers from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Venezuela have received a mixed reaction to their imminent deportation—hostility from some co-workers and an outpouring of support from their union (IUE-CWA Local 83761) and the local labor movement."

labornotes.org/2025/04/kent...

Two Prose Poems by Benjamin Niespodziany About the Author after Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi Benjamin Niespodziany's body of work is a lobby of dirt. A hallway for cloud gazing. A raisin telling the sand it's a plum. His hum has been classifie...

two weird prose poems out today with @havehashad.com

one inspired by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi & one inspired by Amelia Gray

www.havehashad.com/94wk0

I am in Tuscaloosa and go to UA—afaik, there was a small protest on campus this week, but I have not heard anything about the jail

UA student reportedly detained by ICE This is a breaking news story and will continue to be updated.  A UA student was reportedly detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement early Tuesday morning.  Alireza Doroudi, a doctora...

The Crimson White, the UA university newspaper, confirmed yesterday that he’s at the Pickens County Jail in Alabama (for now). (See their excellent reporting here: thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/...)

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

BREAKING | A UA student was reportedly detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement early Tuesday morning. Alireza Doroudi, a doctoral student from Iran studying mechanical engineering, was reportedly arrested by ICE officers at around 5 a.m. at his home on Tuesday.

thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/...

Reading Sam Lipsyte’s Venus Drive for the first time and feeling like I’ve missed out for years with how incredible this collection is

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Roll Tide & Go Tops, this is why I attended these institutions

Someone went to a Firehouse Subs in Bowling Green, KY and spotted Fireman Big Red artwork

Someone went to a Firehouse Subs in Bowling Green, KY and spotted Fireman Big Red.

so honored to have a poem in this wonderful issue alongside my fellow Kentuckian Silas House 🥳 check it out, y’all!

I am growing and becoming a more complete person and it absolutely sucks ass

Spurs playing the morning after Christmas must be to ensure my holiday joy is immediately extinguished

I wish I could write pop punk poems. Not poems about pop punk, but poems that elicit similar vibes. I want to be the Gerard Way of poems

Alina! I’m a poet in Tuscaloosa, and I would love to attend this (-:

My mother told me she’s been listening to a new rapper but she couldn’t remember the name and after much searching it was revealed to be XXXTentacion. The news was hard to deliver

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha began her National Book Award acceptance speech, "Good evening everyone and Good morning to beloved Gaza, where it is the 411th day of the genocide.. We are now living in the second November of the American-funded genocide in Palestine: t.ly/DV2K9

if anyone has resources for this, please, talk to me like I’m stupid, because I know embarrassingly little !

I would love to write a poem in meter but unfortunately I’ve made it all the way to an MFA program writing poems and I do not know how <3