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i know i'm in a draft's eleventh hour crunch time because i felt the ol' Poster's Urge to stir shit on here and have, thankfully, resisted it ... the angels are watching over me 😇
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow
It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker
This was never about woman's sports
i've been in the city for 13 years and this might be the snowstorm that finally--physically and psychologically--annihilates me
My friend @veryhotmomm.bsky.social joined me and (my friend!) @jolivingstone.bsky.social to talk about Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, political disappointments, simply living for dick, etc. Also, I need everyone to read In the Cut, NOW! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
it's beautiful that turning off "smart" "features" on gmail totally fucked the organization of my inbox up and the only fix is prostrating myself before and submitting to their ai system
One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it.
www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...
Okay, so. Time to leverage some clout. If you are outside MN and don't know how to help, here's one way. Pick a fund from standwithminnesota.com and I'll match them up to $1000. Post a receipt if you want but I'll probably believe you
Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime
Eight minutes matters.
A pulse matters.
Denied medical care matters.
Doctors don’t speak out like this for politics or optics. They speak out when a line is crossed, when an oath is violated, when someone who could have been helped is instead left to die.
It’s utterly vile they have to do this.
Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.
New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...
one year since David Lynch passed, happy friday and RIP big dawg
I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes:
these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.
Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
“I will be blind for life. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, plastic in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.”
Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged
Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities.
“I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.”
A profile in absolute courage.
I know that our attention is being pulled in so many directions, but if you have a few bucks to spare for my friend Ramzi, I would be so grateful. He needs to buy a water tank so that his family has access to clean water, and donations have stalled. If 12 people donate 10 euros, he’ll have enough.
“The development of a feminist consciousness, for Kraf, is the fall from Eden, out of a blissful, childlike ignorance and into the unbearable knowledge of the impossible condition of womanhood.”
i reviewed a book on sexual violence that utterly baffled me in its final section newrepublic.com/article/2042...
i reviewed a book on sexual violence that utterly baffled me in its final section newrepublic.com/article/2042...
"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."
Second piece of 2026! For @theatlantic.com, I wrote about Kay Cicellis’s brilliant, brutal short story trilogy, The Way to Colonos, which consists of three modern retellings of Sophoclean tragedies. This one is for all the Greek mythology girlies. ❤️
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
For #smallpoemsunday, from i Was Working by Ariel Yelen
Here’s my first piece of 2026! For @washingtonpost.com’s Book World, I had the pleasure of reviewing Trina Moyles’ fascinating, deeply sensitive memoir, Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival, which recontextualizes humanity in a compelling way.
Gift link: wapo.st/3L1SDc5
I've been deep in Daniel Berrigan's writing, thinking abt our genocide in Vietnam, early attacks on Afghanistan, the war on Iraq, etc. etc. Waking up to news about Venezuela felt both surreal and inevitable. It's so past time to admit this what America has been and what we the people allow (demand?)
2026
in: me never worrying about money again / me having the most hot rod little bod of all time / my bf loving me even more deeply with each passing day / me being universally praised and possibly given a nobel
out: anything bad
