Avi Quijada

Los venezolanos deportados a la cárcel de Bukele revelan torturas y violaciones: “Decían que solo saldríamos en una bolsa negra” La organización Human Rights Watch documenta los abusos perpetrados contra los 252 migrantes que Trump envió a El Salvador y que después fueron excarcelados y devueltos a Caracas

"Los guardias nos decían que nunca saldríamos de ahí, que nuestras familias nos habían dado por muertos”. Los venezolanos deportados a la cárcel de Bukele revelan torturas y violaciones

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize Leader of country’s opposition receives award after intense public and private campaign by Donald Trump

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

BREAKING: Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

Tell me we are in societal disassociation struggle bus with a picture - I’ll begin:

Sanders: We’ve got a president of the United States who—

Crowd: Boooo

Sanders: I agree

My investments: my dog.

Monsters Under the Stairs (Part 2) Before jumping into Part 2, I want to thank those of you who read and shared Part 1 of “Monsters Under the Stairs.” Writing this story has been a process of excavation—of memories long buried and emot...

In this second and final part, I revisit the moment everything changed—the day I learned how fear is planted in the body and how silence is enforced. A testament to our resilience.
Full story @ Substack drbanafshehmadaninejad.substack.com/p/monsters-u...
And stay tuned—there’s more to come. 🔥✨

Monsters Under the Stairs (Part 1) I attended Jahan Koodak Middle School near Tehran’s Vanak Square in 7th grade.

In 1982 Tehran, my middle school looked ordinary—but nothing was. Rules tightened, fear settled in, and I pushed back—starting with my uniform. This two-part story is about defiance, fear, and girlhood under repression.
Both parts at Substack.
📰 drbanafshehmadaninejad.substack.com/p/monsters-u...

Thanks to everyone that went out today. I— wont be joining any of these. Not because I don’t want to, but because I don’t think these are safe for any of us at risk.

The next thing the Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief will go after is voting rights.

You heard it here.

Greetings from Wondercon in Anaheim. This isn’t me but happy to report copies of Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell sold out.

No one really knows the extent of bipolarity that an immigrant has to endure while your family is spread all over the world, each on their own struggle, impotent when distances are too great in space and mind to try to help the other.
I do not wish on anyone to live this life.

Like… I had dinner but it is 2:15am and the law says I must be hungry again. #BigBack2025

I’m going to #Wondercon - Check me out! Here’s where you’ll find me. Also, thanks to the folks at Mysterious Galaxy you’ll be able to get my latest book Sherlock Holmes and the Telegram from Hell. I’m going to have a few panels & autograph sessions, hope to see you there. #sherlockholmes #startrek

Heading to Wondercon in Anaheim to appear on three panels starting March 27

The clown car heading off the cliff, Trump et al spoiling for a fight, doesn’t matter with whom- Greenland, Suez, Panama, the Palestinians. There must be someone defenseless we can bully!!

I think the new Netflix version of The Leopard surpasses the original Visconti adaptation. An Italian Gone With the Wind, a true epic, both films, chronicle a changing world and those caught up but powerless to resist. Sound familiar? A heartbreaking series, impeccable tip to bottom.

If you want your country in safe hands again know that we will support elsewhere in other ways but not facilitating our presence for troops of barbarians to do with us what their sick minds and permissions lead them to. This is your fight now. We warned you aplenty.

If you have a friend that’s not a citizen, unless them - on their own volition - say they want to take to the streets, don’t even try. No one is safe anymore. The harrowing stories of legal residents of this country are PTSD inducing and too much for us to expose ourselves.
If you want us here and

I have no other safe harbor to run to. I don’t have the energy nor health to start my life over for a 6th time. I’ve built a life in a country I still believe to despite all signs that we’re heading to one of the darkest times this country has seen in the last century. It’s not hyperbole.

And more. If you followed me once on Twitter, you know this well.
Another friend - I say, bless her heart in a semi southern twang that my accent will allow - invited me to a protest.
I declined.
And you’d ask: WHY?! Aren’t you like the protest girl? Known for them?!
Nope. Not this time.

A friend asked me today if I’m alright. I’d say this isn’t a rarity. All my friends are great like that. And for half of my life it has been about political unrest, mostly about my former home.
But today it was about my current home. The one I escaped to, fleeing political & social violence, hunger

Important conversations to be had here. This is a brand new but very important dive into an overlooked world. Please follow @chelokabob.bsky.social and their Substack!

I know people know that I’m permanently caffeinated and don’t sleep but 2am text messages that aren’t coming from my besties feels like the most random thing ever…

🚨🚨🚨BUCKLE UP!

Sherlock Holmes
and
The Real Thing

August 26, 2025

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Well said!

If you're in Los Angeles, try to see PORN ROCK: The Obscenity Trial of Jello Biafra, the ingenious recreation of a real event with memorable legal and cultural repercussions. An excellent cast directed by Jeremy Kagan at the Eastwood Performing Arts Center. You're the jury. (Plus popcorn).

Drop that recipe

Let him. Actually provide him with a direct line to the engineers, directly connected to loud speakers at the hangars. Make it loud. Record it for when he’s not available because of his golf games so people don’t miss a minute of his annoying ramblings while having to concentrate in nuts and bolts.