Asa West

My husband just told me that if a man watches My Melody and Kuromi, he’ll be torn apart by the Bacchae

Imagine if we elected a literal infant president, and every day NPR reporters had to say, completely straight-faced, "The president said 'goo-goo-ga-ga ba ba ba." And then pundits tried their best to spin it into something meaningful. That's what my morning commute feels like these days.

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

anyone who had a position of power (in congress, in the party, in the doj) or influence (like op-ed space in a major newspaper or tv spot), and counseled against swift and punitive legal action, got the biggest question of their lives wrong and should never have power or influence again.

the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history

This is utterly vile. Loomer is calling for ethnic cleansing and we need to say so, every single day, and stand in the way of this.

The heart-pounding suspense, the utterly wholesome payoff 😂

just please remember, whatever the news says about LA after this, that this is *always* how it goes. Everything is extremely calm until the police actively escalate for no reason. It was true during all the BLM protests and it’s true now.

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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

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

In the past 48 hours, Israel has killed more than 250 Palestinians. Tweets from Palestinians in Gaza report some of the worst bombings across the Strip since the start of the genocide.

Trump’s gilded Oval Office was the perfect setting for his and Bukele’s grotesque spectacle | Julia Carrie Wong The president’s penchant for the gaudy has been mocked but the menace beneath was clear when he met El Salvador’s leader

I wrote about all the gold in Trump's oval office, sort of

The parallels to anti-trans propaganda are pretty blatant. Take a group that's been gaining visibility and acceptance, ramp up derogatory rhetoric until it's deafening, and then use it to persecute the group.

They were never going to stop at just one group. They're coming for all of us.

Trump lost us Canada. How do you fuck up the US/Canadian relationship- breathtaking

I had so much fun talking to @beescolnick.bsky.social! Thanks for having me!

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I finally posted on the Patreon account I started a million years ago. I'm making all my Patreon posts free, but there are paid tiers if you're feeling moved to support a writer.

This post is about finding a hummingbird nest while the world is falling apart.

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A book cover reading, "Witch Blood Rising: Awaken Your Magic in a Modern World by Asa West." A woman with antlers stands with her eyes closed, surrounded by black birds and a red full moon.

My new book is a memoir in essays about witchcraft, SFF, pop culture, urban ecology, and other cool things!

"When you're on that bike in your shorts, panting away next to a Republican, you know they're your trustworthy buddy and definitely not a con artist playing you like a fiddle."

In a total betrayal of their constituents and our democracy, 10 Democrats just voted with Senate Republicans to give Trump and Musk a blank check to continue their coup. @schumer.senate.gov led Democrats to this total surrender. We need strong leadership, not cowards who cave at any GOP pressure.

Welp, the upside to getting my car stolen yesterday is that I didn't check the news for 24 hours 🥴

ICE Arrests Pro-Palestinian Activist at Columbia Mahmoud Khalil, who recently completed a graduate program at Columbia, has legal permanent residency, his lawyer said.

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

jj abrams: "omg what if chewbacca finally got the medal that he didn't get in the original movie!"

tony gilroy: "German Sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) once said that a government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence--"

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Thank you so much for the kind words!