Meakin Armstrong

Meakin Armstrong

@meakin.bsky.social

Fiction | Ghostwriter | Guernica fiction ed 2006-2022 | NYPL Young Lions Readers’ Committee | Work/words: Lit Hub, New Yorker, Forbes, Business Insider 📍Portland, OR

966 Followers 648 Following 99 Posts Joined Jul 2023
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Live Updates: Former Prince Andrew Is Released After Being Arrested Amid Epstein Revelations

The Asshole Formerly Known as Prince

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

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IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK 
JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS.
WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK.
AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE.
SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.
THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES.
IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

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'Things are not getting better': US Rep. Escobar raises red flags over ICE center U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar raised new concerns over conditions in Camp East Montana after a visit, citing detainees not given time to speak with lawyers.

"Things are not getting better. They are getting worse"

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, made another oversight visit at Camp East Montana last week. During her visit she met with women detained in Minnesota, detailing how many were still in their snow boots.

My story for the El Paso Times

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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

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Why repeat a masterpiece? You explored other options

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I think that knee-cross might be the most on-point knee-cross I’ve ever seen

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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

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Letter From Minnesota: “Mad Means Something” The greatest poem ever written about Minneapolis is a curse on the city. It‘s by James Wright, who wrote “The Minneapolis Poem” and published it in Shall We Gather at the River in 1968. He hated th…

More great voices from Minnesota today @literaryhub.bsky.social Here’s Charles Baxter on the righteous anger of poets (and more)
lithub.com/letter-from-...

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America: too big to die, too stupid to live

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So simply naming someone is doxxing, but taking photos and license plate numbers to create a database of the opposition for government stalking and harassment purposes is not?

Naming someone is not doxxing them, and moving them to another city to kill more is conspiracy against rights.

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Oh Kristen… I’m so sorry

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I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

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Border Patrol is out in Los Angeles, sightings in Echo Park/ Silverlake and South Central.
Please stay alert, get vulnerable people inside. Record everything and be safe.

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When did police start dressing like Fortnite characters? And what is camouflage good for in a city?

Dress is a form of speech and we need to pay attention to the message we’re being sent.

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March on, march on

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Note to folks outside of the US who are buying into the propaganda that Americans "aren't doing anything." People turned out today in -22 C weather for this protest, which was one (huge and wonderful and inspiring) action among many that happen every damn day.

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Israeli Forces Demolish UNRWA Buildings in “Unprecedented Attack” UNRWA’s head called the attack “a new level of open and deliberate defiance of international law” by Israel.

Israeli forces have stormed the headquarters of the UN agency dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in East Jerusalem, demolishing buildings in an attack that the agency condemned as “unprecedented.”

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Today is MLK Day and these folks are watering down history once again. YouTube video by Dulcé Sloan

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ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice.

ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate

www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

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2 months ago

We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one

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10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder

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The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.

(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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2 months ago

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

― Edward Said

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What freaks me out isn’t Trump.
It’s that we’re pretending we still have a Senate.
Pretending we still have democracy.
While one man acts above the law, invading, threatening, and doing whatever he wants.
This isn’t leadership. It’s collapse.

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3 months ago
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Northwest Review Submission Manager Thank you for your interest in the Northwest Review. We look forward to reading your work.Founded at the University of Oregon in 1957, the Northwest Review publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonficti...

The Northwest Review is alive and now on Bluesky. We are reviving this historically great magazine in 2026. We are now open for submissions. Send us your best fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. northwestreview.submittable.com/submit

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This has got to be one of Gavin Newsom's best...

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4 months ago
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Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates. Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…

Ok, yes, this is a public health–adjacent account -- but some of us are also literary nerds. And seeing Joyce Carol Oates roast Elon Musk on his own platform? Just what we needed on an otherwise sh**ty day.

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4 months ago

Mamdani already lowering the crime rate in NYC lol

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