Rebecca Saltzman

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

They murdered Good and Pretti, a poet and a nurse, one whose last words were “I’m not mad,” another whose last act was shielding another. Because of course that’s who they killed. Everyday people.

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

okay, actually, everyone needs to see this.

From the wonderfully funny @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social - it reeks of glorious COVID-era creative weirdness but predates it by a couple months!

Thank you!!

And for the next generation, a meme

I noticed that too. The vibes were different this year.

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"So, what would happen without Medicaid?My patients will be forced to forgo lifesaving care, and they will die. My hospital could face closure entirely or the shuttering of units or services." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

On this day 80 years ago, the mustache guy unalived himself in a bunker. We defeated fascism before and we can defeat it again.

A lot of hospitals are going to be in trouble if Republicans gut Medicaid. E.g, we have had a problem with labor and delivery wards closing for decades. Medicaid pays for 40% of US births. What’s going to happen to the remaining L&D wards if Medicaid goes away?

really can’t be said enough how none of these republicans know a gotdamned thing about anything

These guys are about to kick millions of people off their health insurance and they don't have the faintest idea of how these programs work, just throwing out numbers in an incoherent jumble. It's like a football coach saying "We've got a 10-yard redzone in our offside flea flicker so we'll be good"

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Canada Conservative Leader Poilievre Loses His Own Seat in Election, CBC Projects Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his own seat in the Canadian election, despite delivering the best result for his party since 2011.

Could not be happier for Canada 🇨🇦

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Screaming at these people works. They’re fundamentally wimps, we just have to actually DO the screaming instead of preemptively admitting defeat.

I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.

Love to see it! Immediate push back.

Are people really subjecting us all to another round of Junot Diaz discourse in the year 2025?

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

Words to live by.

Hey so if DOGE fired thousands of federal workers and cut all these programs, where is all that money now? Is it in a shoebox under the government’s bed? Siphoned to someone’s foreign bank account? Just wondering!

They’re trying to siphon the little margin we get. But indies put 67% of every dollar back into their local economies. Am*zon puts 4% back. Barnes and Noble returns 45%. What they are doing is calculated expressly to hurt small independent bookstores.

The damage this administration is doing will not be undone in my lifetime

That’s actually adorable

Ok but this one is objectively hilarious. The boomer retirement satire we all need!

Short Story 1 | Writing Pad In this 5-wk Online short story workshop, Rebecca Saltzman (The New Yorker, McSweeney’s) helps you write, revise, and publish a short story.

I still have space in my short story workshop that starts tonight! I’ll give you my best writing tips, and you’ll leave with a story draft and guidance on how to keep revising. On Zoom!

writingpad.com/classes/onli...

my plan to get people to start having more kids? make climate change worse. abolish the department of education. also milk is poison

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.

The administration that brought us military Signal chat leaks is now promising to be, like, totally careful with millions of Americans’ sensitive medical records

www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

Mice, Hairballs, and ‘Poltergeist’ Noises Residents paying up to $10,000 a month at Greenpoint’s Eagle + West say life there is not very luxurious.

“My luxury NYC apartment is a shithole” is one of my favorite genres, as someone who also lives in an NYC shithole apartment for 1/3 of the price.

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