Paula Mendoza

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

‘Inhumane conditions’ and death at Miami’s Krome migrant detention center Growing reports of overcrowding and mistreatment at Florida’s largest immigration enforcement facility have sparked protests and are yet another example of the use of cruelty as a deterrent

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Where I'm at: AWP decompressing. Mentally drafting bulaklak. Conflicted about Ian and Poppy. Why can't friendship be enough? Other Books in LA is a dream of a bookstore. Love is a perpetual motion machine of strength and exhaustion.

Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet? - The Paris Review “Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb...

such a good interview— Adam Plunkett on Frost and the fetishization of difficulty:

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...

Collaborators with the fascists.

Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders | The United States Army U.S. Army Heritage Asian American & Pacific Islander Microsite | The United States Army

The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history.

Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...

Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...

Disgusting.

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Mahmoud Khalil has filed an emergency petition to return to NY. He is being held in Louisiana.

“It feels like my husband was kidnapped from home, and at a time when we were supposed to be planning to welcome our first child into this world,” said Khalil's wife, who is eight months pregnant.

SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained "I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.

He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

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Poster for a panel at the 2025 AWP conference in L.A. called Filipino Writers on Diasporic Subjectivity and Postcolonial Prosodies. Headshots of four Filipino writers against a dark green background. From left to right: Kay Ulanday Barrett, Oliver de la Paz, Kimberly Garza, and Alleliah Nuguid. The panel will be at the L.A. Convention Center, level 2, room 407, on Thursday, March 27th, at 10:35 AM, and moderated by Paula Mendoza.

Thrilled to be moderating this amazing panel at AWP this year. If you'll be there, I invite you to join us! #AWP2025 #AWPLA #Filipinowriters #Filipinxwriters

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

questions for reflection, journaling or conversation with people in your community:

The last three weeks in a small coastal town in Maine we have been doing weekly protests. 4 attended the first week 21 the second and 70 the third. I suggest you pic a spot not matter how small a town and make your voices heard! People will join you 💙

Wyoming Workers Rally At Capitol To Protest Legislature, Trump Cuts Around 150 Wyoming workers gathered outside the Capitol on Friday to protest moves by the Wyoming Legislature and Trump administration cuts.

The AFL-CIO was protesting in Wyoming today.

This week in Iowa we may have set a record as an estimated 2,500 people showed up to protest anti-trans legislation. It's certainly the loudest and most well attended protest event I've been to at the Iowa Capitol, and I've been to a number of them over the years.

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Just watched episode 7 of Severance. That was fucking devastating. I'm haunted, heartbroken.

The link in this post actually works now...

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Application for a U.S. Passport The Department of State has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on these collections from all interested individuals and organizations....

The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.

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I think everyone should apply for a DOGE job. Or at least, you know, fill out the form. Maybe even apply for other people. Fictional people, even. Inanimate objects. In this form right here. doge.gov/join

Surprised myself how happy I was to watch Canada win the Four Nations Face-Off game last night. Damn good game. Binnington's incredible.

Following a couple of IG accounts of congressional staff & interns (folks taking all our calls) and I have a new (and unfortunately belated) level of admiration, respect, and sympathy for the work they do. They all deserve care packages and gift baskets.

Woke is the favourite gremlin of mediocre men. It's nebulous, it's everywhere, it's why they run companies into the ground and their children hate them and they're getting a divorce.
Woke creeps into their rooms at night and leaves skidmarks on their underwear.

Oh my god.

They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.

"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"

WOW.

Very happy one of the best forms of resistance right now is through being extremely annoying. I have been training for this moment my entire life.

Here's another fun one, from @chaninicholas.bsky.social:

So, a little dopamine resistance candy for y'all. I've another for the Gulf of Mexico that I'll post after this, but for now, tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" to the Stonewall Monument.