You can’t give ICE a budget larger than all but 15 militaries worldwide and expect the agency to demilitarize its behavior. Yet that’s just what congressional Democrats are doing.

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.

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.

such a good interview— Adam Plunkett on Frost and the fetishization of difficulty: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...

Collaborators with the fascists.

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 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."

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

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 💙

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. bsky.app/profile/covi...

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

The link in this post actually works now...

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.

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.

Seems like a good test to put the brakes on a doomscroll.

Just saw Karen Solie who read new poems from _Wellwater_. I love her humor and her sentences. Her syntax is quietly enthralling. It was such a beautiful reading and I am so excited for this book.

I just read the following sentence to describe Emily Dickinson's similes— "She's like a gear freak at the auto show of resemblance." —and had to stop, because. Like. That's a fucking great simile. Go read Srikanth Reddy's _The Unsignificant_. It's delightful.

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

It is more difficult than I would have suspected to limit my Terrible News™️ consumption. Is this vigilance or am I willing a mental breakdown upon myself?

Just a reminder, in case it helps: another way to think about "holding the line" and "do not comply in advance" is saying "Fuck you, make me."

This is a great way to support radical learning for Black people and our incarcerated siblings who are committed to the revolution behind bars! Memberships are $1, $2, $5, and $10 a month! Anything helps 🙏🏾 we all we got!

www.patreon.com/nonamebooks From the About page: "Noname Book Club is a Black-led worker cooperative connecting community members both inside and outside carceral facilities with radical books." Join their Patreon and support this important work.

SLC folks: Email and call your senators and urge them to vote NO to HB 267!!!: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Reading, checking in on loved ones, and coming back to my breath. Grounded in love and locked in on the fight ahead.

Friends and friends of friends from Salt Lake, Austin, Denton, Dallas, Ann Arbor, Vancouver! Are any y'all here? Whatch'all been up to? I just had pretty good gyūdon at 9Up at the Chinatown market. And called my rep about HB 267. What'd you do today?

Some bits are dated, but there's an entire field guide of how to resist via ineptitude. When it doubt, just imagine the most incompetent coworker you've ever had to deal with, and ask yourself how they would handle a task. www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...

Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it. You can find it here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

BREAKING: Here is the anti-trans sex/gender executive order. It's extensive, it's bad, and it's often lawless. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... And, do not miss in "d" and "e" below, it even tries to put in the beginnings of a personhood argument, for some reason.

Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025: 1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it. www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...

Summoning the only appropriate vibe for (looks around...) the whole day