Arielle Zibrak

U.S. calls on allies in hemisphere to intensify fight against drug cartels “The cartels that operate in this hemisphere are the ISIS and the al-Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere, and should be treated just as brutally and just as ruthlessly as we treat those organizations.”

SAVAGES. 🫠
“The human rights that we are going to protect are not of the savages that torture and rape and murder,” he said. “The human rights that we are going to protect are the peaceable citizens.” www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Feminism is also about learning to love Rosamond Vincy. #middlemarch

A poster for an event called The Novel and Labor on May 1, 2026 at the University of Pennsylvania featuring a black and white photo of haystacks x'ed out.

Looking forward to this whole workshop, especially the public conversation on the novel and labor with Dora Zhang and Lilith Todd on May 1 in Philly!
www.english.upenn.edu/.../2026/05/...

We haven't seen the end of her, unfortunately. I think we'll see tomorrow this was a huge promotion.

Faith leaders pray for Trump at White House Christian leaders from around the US joined the president to pray in the Oval Office. It comes as the war with Iran entered its seventh day.

Prayers on Friday, War Summit on Saturday, do they take a break for the Sabbath or begin phase 2 Sunday?

news.sky.com/video/pastor...

"Over the long term the corollary had little to do with relations between the Western Hemisphere and Europe, but it did serve as justification for U.S. intervention in Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic."
history.state.gov/milestones/1...

The Shield of Americas Gathering and an Amplified Strategy to Counter China in the Western Hemisphere CSIS Americas Program Director Ryan C. Berg discusses key issues that should be on the agenda for the upcoming Shield of the Americas Summit.

Welcome to 1905.
"The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine concerns itself with two main areas: (1) control and operation of strategic assets in the Western Hemisphere by great power adversaries and (2) control of strategic geographies."
www.csis.org/analysis/shi...

We're using the special envoys.

The Special Envoy: "of all the intruments available to the President in his conduct of foreign relations, none is more flexible"

I am terrified that she is right, frankly.

Love this! So many of my neurodivergent college students have especially found D&D such an amazing tool of expression. Thanks for sharing and for creating!🙏

PLEASE if you are making art tell us about it. It does not need to be art that comments on the geopolitical situation. ART IS ALSO WHAT WE NEED. Art is also what we need. Art is also what we need. Say it all the time.

Maybe domestic animals have already done to us what we plan to do to the robots we invented. We thought we were the superior animals, but, in fact, cats and dogs have trained us into being their super-intelligent caretakers. We're following their lead.

This is the best news on what I am pretending is a slow news day.

This "it's a distraction from" stuff is like when I wrote one book to procrastinate on another book. They were both books, in the end.

Jenny Holzer's 1989 billboard in Times Square, which reads ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE

A room full of somber victorian children sitting at their desks with slates and chalk.

Personally, I've always wanted to go back to slates.

Excuse me, sir, dialectics is a straight trans woman.

Makes all the sense in the world and yet so necessary. 🙏

Say more!

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor + Michelle Alexander: How We Get Free 2nd Edition Join us for an event with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor discussing the Updated, 2nd Edition of her award-winning book, HOW WE GET FREE.

NYC! Tonight!

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a conversation with Michelle Alexander, hosted with @hammerandhope.bsky.social and @strandbooks.com

Wednesday, February 18th at 7:00 pm

Tickets here:

Feed full of misogyny? Some good news: next month is Women's History Month and the first anniversary of 12 STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN. I'm on the East Coast for the year and want to bring 12 Stories to your events in person or online! Let's talk.

The bad reviews of Wuthering Heights just make me more excited to see it.

somehow the final line of the article lives up to the promise of the headline

Age of Innocence

Seattle Aquarium cancels octopus sex act due to cannibalism concerns EDITOR'S NOTE: This original story below was from February 2016 but somehow got picked up from other sites and began trending again in 2017. The Seattle Aquarium wants everyone to know the Octopus Bli...

On this Galentine's day, I celebrate the ten-year anniversary of this great event in the history of sexuality.
komonews.com/news/local/a...

NYC: GO TO THIS TONIGHT! Two brilliant minds in fiction. Nina McConigley's book is big news in Energy Humanities / THE NOVEL / Anti-Colonial Fiction. Say you saw her when because you're going to be seeing her everywhere.
greenlightbookstore.com/event/2026-0...

Folks going to @c19americanists.bsky.social conference: Give a hand up in the comments if you want me to bring you your very own copy of TWELVE STORIES
in Cincinnati. Also a good time to think about a desk copy if you're considering Fall adoption.

Remember the ladies!

edu.prh.com/us/desk/

a shrugging sheet ghost

Don't fear. The ghost of the future is also unknown to itself.