BIG WIN: A court ordered the Trump Education Department to reinstate the civil rights workers they fired. I taught kids with disabilities––the kind of students helped by these workers. Every child deserves to be treated fairly. I’m staying in this fight for our kids.

Yay! 2025 @britgrad.bsky.social - telling a story about 2018 @theshakesforum.bsky.social me, using a 2020 TTF pic of me - arguing for the inclusion of bespoke interpolations into Shakespeare’s text (e.g., maybe Isabella needs better words and that’s okay?). 1/2 @shakesinstitute.bsky.social

To be fair, there should ALWAYS be a content warning for Measure for Measure! 🤣

Heading into the post lunch slot… with Emily Raven on augmenting Shakespeare #BritGrad2025

It’s wonderful to wake up from a deep night of REM, but it also means sorting out your dreams. Such as: wait, no, you didn’t see a monarch butterfly evolve out of a sword, and then turn into a spaceship and fly off into the sky. 1/2

Thrilled and honored that Open Window Theatre is doing my Christmas Carol for a third year in St. Paul/Minneapolis. They’re adding 10 more shows this year (yay!). And apparently last year the show was 90% sold out BEFORE IT OPENED. They do a great job. Get yer tix early! openwindowtheatre.org

Help a PhD folks. WHY is a point 0-dimension? Isn’t a point literally the bare minimum of being? open.substack.com/pub/emilycar...

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.

As I said in yesterday's post - some companies, like Klarna, that laid off a lot of people for AI are now rehiring them. And that's customer service, which is a relatively routine administrative job compared to others.

Hello! I am Emily Cassandra Aria Raven (trying on a new last name). Queer, disabled, neurospicy writer & PhD person. Most of my life has been spent in the theatre, but I’ve gotten back into writing page poetry (rather than my usual poetic verse drama) this past year. First line of latest poem below.

*finds spoons* Hello #LGBTQIAWriteathon! (chronically ill) Author of epic YA Fantasy w. queer &ND MCs here🧵 1. “Pass more than I did, boys?” Des called, pulling up in his rusty motor carriage Smartly dressed parents congratulating graduates behind me looked down their noses at him. I glared at them

Guess who’s deep-diving into theoretical physics and ontological philosophy for her “I’m just writing about silly squiggles on a page for people who like to play dress up” thesis? THIS GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL

Happy Pride! It’s been a long journey to get here. I’ve been lucky bc I was among so many others further along than I on the rainbow, so my little shifts in pronouns or preferences were barely ripples to the ppl who surrounded me. I wish everyone out joy in this month. I wish everyone in: liberty. 🏳️‍🌈

I think I just discovered scripts and speech prefixes from 2500 BCE. Ohmigosh, you guys. This is seismic. (Or I’ve been awake too long. But I think it’s seismic.) #phdlife #theatre #hieroglyphics

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

It’s beautiful in DC right now. Peak bloom from the cherry blossoms and petals drift by wherever you walk, blown in from some distant or nearby tree. When I first transitioned, they were blooming, years ago. On this Transgender Day of Visibility, I am yearning for our own spring to return.

So we could lose $200B in tourism, $100B in immigrants paying taxes, $100B in weapons manufacturing, $500B in lost tax revenue from firing IRS employees… is it sinking in yet?

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

Might save a life.

Very heartening to see foreign officials mocking him for being a fucking clown. Feels like the garlic to his vampire

Frickin’ Vance slouched through my dream last night, and I demand a refund.

In the same way I’m a Gen X/Millennial, I also feel I have an incredibly specific literary experience that only a handful of other people share, one that includes: paper submissions, the early Wild West of online submissions, alt lit, Gawker, HTML Giant mean week, Literary Feuds on blogs, and zines

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

Happy Valentines, you lot

She speaks truth.

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

This is absolutely accurate, and we extremely online, we merry band of dipshits, are now in the surreal position of wondering how long it’ll take the rest of the world to figure this out.

Gender is such an immutable, natural binary that we have to enforce it with the full power of the state.

I’m so tired of them. I’m tired of their lies. I’m tired of their disgusting amorality. I’m tired of their faces, their voices, their smirks. I’m tired of their inability to say — let alone do — even one thing remotely kind or humble or appropriate, ever. So tired.

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(5/X) I don't mean this to sound doomy, I think Elon is becoming toxic politically. While the media and Times/Atlantic reader types have some strange respect for Elon, he just seems like an asshole to normal people.

A statement from the Kennedy Center

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media

READ THIS ASAP: “If we continue to be gripped with outrage and stilled by stupefaction by each day’s new proclamation, we will fail to discern what links them. To be gripped by his statements is precisely the aim of their utterance.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn’t matter anymore, but if there’s one person I wouldn’t want to be the judge of who goes into locker rooms, it would be the man who openly boasted about walking into dressing rooms of underage girls

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

We’re focused on feeding our kids. Investing in our schools. Making sure child care is affordable. Regardless of the chaos unfolding in Washington, we’re making Minnesota the best state for kids to grow up.

Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo

Our United Airlines pilot made sure to emphasize *Mexico* when he said we'd be flying over the Gulf of *Mexico* today. It's the little things. Microdose hope.

The Literary Tarot by Brink Literacy Project brings well known and hidden gem stories together in a deck that would rival Belle's library. If you're all about story and metaphor, this one is for you! What stories will you pull from the shelf? #tarotintro #tarotsky #witchsky

coworker: how was your weekend? me: I'm physically present for this conversation but my head is not here at all and i feel like an icy black claw is gripping my heart at all times and making it harder and harder to breathe each day. I can't focus on anything and idk how to keep going coworker: oh

Calling it now. All but the most minor of tariffs end like this. He levies a tariff, the other country fights back, he makes A Deal for piddling concessions that are often just what the other country is doing anyway. Then he declares victory.

Just a little language note, from my point of view as a professional word person: the most correct word for being removed from the country of which you are a citizen is not “deport.” It is “exile.” (“Banish” also works.)