Chris Santiago

She must have *shudder* presidential aspirations?

White House says Nobel Committee places 'politics over peace' WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House on Friday criticised the Nobel Prize committee's decision to award the peace prize to a Venezuelan opposition leader instead of U.S. President Donald Trump. "The...

TLDR: "Wah! Wah! Waaaaaaaaaaah!"

Tr*mp's haphazard efforts to ram through (and market) a peace deal while the Nobel is dishing out prizes has the energy of a shoebox diorama thrown together the night before a science fair by the kid who's going to smash it all to pieces if he doesn't win.

What horrible gun deaths yesterday in Colorado and Utah. Gun control now.

Department of Justice to be renamed Minitrue

Reading the script for JUNO 17 years after seeing it. A little cutesy with some of the dialogue, but it holds up really well. What are your favorite comedies (not series but feature films)?

Avez-vous vu la série « Station Eleven » ? Ces personnages survivent à la fin du monde, mais veulent toujours créer.

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New anthology available now
Poetry Is Not A Luxury: Poems For All Season, 2025.
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It bears repeating again and again: for Asians in America, proximity to whiteness will not shield you from white supremacy, no matter how successful or wealthy you become.

Solidarity with other oppressed groups is the answer.

Vulgar Display of Power Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world […]

OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.

https://tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-of-power/

On Small Wars at Home and Abroad The day I started writing this essay, hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in downtown Los Angeles, about ten miles from my home in Pasadena. They joined the 2,000 National Guardsmen already in the cit…

The Marines are leaving LA, but the precedent is set—the president has deployed the military on U.S. soil in order to silence his political enemies.

(If you haven't already, please consider reading my piece in @adroitjournal.bsky.social on the occupation of LA)

theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/14/o...

On Small Wars at Home and Abroad The day I started writing this essay, hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in downtown Los Angeles, about ten miles from my home in Pasadena. They joined the 2,000 National Guardsmen already in the cit…

My latest—an essay on the military occupation of L.A. and its connection to American imperialism in the Philippines and elsewhere. Thank you to @adroitjournal.bsky.social for supporting this work!

theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/14/o...

Absolutely. Absolutely. Jesus Christ.

I agree with you, of course, about Iranian self-determination. I’m just wondering what the likely outcomes would be if things even went in that direction.

I have friends, students, and colleagues who are Iranian exiles and dissidents; what does regime change even look like this current moment?

In the #Andor finale, Cassian, Melshi, and K-2SO play Rianza. This game was created by the art/graphics department. Heavily inspired by ancient Mahjong sets and dominoes.

S2 E10-12 HIDDEN DETAILS & REFERENCES:
https://vulkk.com/2025/05/15/andor-season-2-episodes-10-12-hidden-details-and-references/

was interesting to track which of Tokyo's metal monuments survived the material mobilization of war:

(but not interesting enough to keep in the book!)

Thank you!

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

Nonviolent Political Actions for Writers 1) Writing-speeches, letters, statements, flyers, leaflets, group letters, petitions...plus your poems, stories, plays, and commitment to making art as a person who desires a better world. 2) Banners bumperstickers, t-shirts, protest signs, sky-writing, sidewalk chalk, broadcasts, social media posts, articles, editorials, displays of language in public places. 3) Symbolic Acts-pickets, marches, prayer circles, vigils, mock awards, delivering symbolic objects (pies, dildos, dead flowers, glasses of water delivered by citizens of Flint, MI, to their local politicians, etc), displays of flags or other symbolic objects (in the Polish Solidarity movement, members wore electronic "resistors" from radios), public performances, satire, costumes (pussy hats at the Women's March; nuns' habits worn by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, etc.), disrobings, die-ins, mock funerals, effigies, puppets. 4) Public disapproval-whistles, bullhorns, assemblies, sit-ins, stand-ins, ride-ins, solidarity with those being attacked (Angel Action against the Westboro Baptist Church, US Veterans acting as "Human Shields" to protect the Standing Rock protesters), walk-outs, silence, withholding approval, turning one's back, boycott, sanctuary, total personal non-cooperation, conscientious objector status. 5) Witness-At any level of action, remember that action speaks louder with words. You not only have to be willing to participate, you must be willing to testify. You are here on this earth at this time. Don't act like you're not a part of what's going on.

I made this list of Nonviolent Political Actions for Writers for a course I taught during TFG 1.0 on Writers & Resistance. Please share. You do not need to be a writer to participate.

"You are here on this earth at this time. Don't act like you're not a part of what's going on."

The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey.

Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work.

It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin

An achievement to brag about indeed!

Was just reading one of your poems from a slightly older Poetry Northwest and it was 🔥

Trump went to the Kennedy Center and Drag Queens showed up!

Yassssssssss ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Good plan.

Stephen Miller represents everything vile about this administration and drawing more attention to him will (a) make it harder for the administration to pretend this isn't creepy white nationalism in action and (b) likely make Trump jealous to the point he shitcans him like Elon.

Win-win.

a man in a star wars uniform looks out the window at a cat ALT: a man in a star wars uniform looks out the window at a cat

This has got serious Chewbacca-and-the-Ewoks-taking-over-the AT-ST vibes.

Huntington Park confirmed by ktla ktla.com/news/local-n...

When will they be held accountable?