“… When we take them into the [operation] theatre they’re alive, they’re bleeding to death". Australian Dr Saya Aziz, working at Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, says she has lost count of how many amputations she has performed aje.io/9v68pu

Sometimes I look up dream interpretations like "finding an axe" to interpret my awake life.

Israel is pushing towards the centre of Gaza City from two directions, 'sandwiching' Palestinians and forcibly displacing them toward the coast in a bid to drive them out of the besieged enclave’s largest urban centre aje.io/e8bfqz

Today is pub day for my third book and debut monograph! This baby has had quite the journey, and I'm so thrilled to see where it lands in the world. Link below for the info - please buy it if you have the means, ask your libraries to stock it if you don't, and ask me to things! a.co/d/5FmYwYw

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

Looking forward to this collection of poems by @asaldrake.bsky.social. Explorations of “lineage and future lineage of a body shaped by economic, ecological, and political dissonance” are my jam. Coming February 2026!

Thank you so much to everyone at @tinhouse.bsky.social for taking even the frivolous parts of my heart seriously, and thank you Adam at @debutiful.bsky.social for helping me celebrate this incredible cover!

There are some empires that destroy themselves… But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t harm others on the way down. My love to Breezy & all harmed by this man & series. Free Palestine

Say. it. louder. for. the. people. in. the. back! 👏🏽

This is one of my favorite poems I wrote this winter. It's a little messy but also one I was resistant to change? So glad @cerena.bsky.social and Poet Lore gave it a home in its current form. Every once in a while, I need to protect a sentimental poem.

Oh, we're so grateful for new books 💕 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was published Aug 26th from Soft Skull Press! Get your copy here: buff.ly/Ym7Ew6W

I've been rereading @estherwslin.bsky.social's Cold Thief Place since January when I got an early copy from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. It's already one of my favorite books.

holy toledo just about $800 left til @coyotemedia.org hits our pie-in-the-sky stretch goal! and then we launch our sicccccccck worker owned bay area alt weekly on sept 15! givebutter.com/coyotemedia

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Breaking news: Kilmar Abrego García was detained by ICE on Monday after arriving at the agency’s Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in after his release pending trial on human smuggling charges, his attorney said.

Harryette Mullen's "Regaining Unconsciousness" (out with @graywolfpress.bsky.social) does so much, but maybe my favorite thing about the collection is how it resists the "economic argument" in favor of robust engagement. Much thanks to Elizabeth Metzger and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social!

The law requires "verification for all users, not just those accessing age-restricted content." This is a bad time for people who need anonymity to be subjecting their online activities to scrutiny.

Ooooooo lookit! Mah Poem!! 🥰

Gosh, I wonder who picks fresh vegetables.

U Chicago AAUP fights back docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Thank you to the folks at @slowdownshow.org for sharing this poem. (One of many reasons why I'm grateful for public media.) This poem is one of the oldest I've kept throughout the many rewrites of my debut collection, "Maybe the Body" which comes out with @tinhouse.bsky.social in February!

I just spent three hours disassembling my washing machine to determine that I need a new washer.

So thankful to @andhow.bsky.social for helping me celebrate this favorite poem. And to Ninong, my mom, my cousin Beboy and Tita Nena for all the steps it took to mail our family copy of José Garcia Villa's Collected Poems to me.

A US child has been abducted without due process by Israel and is being held in a notorious prison, very likely being subjected to torture. This appears to be something neither the mainstream media nor US government care at all about. Seems rather alarming. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More attention here please.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway @mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

Open letter to the Portland Book Festival “We ask you to say ’no’ to sponsorship from banks that profit from and facilitate the destruction of Palestine.” Consider adding your name: lithub.com/an-open-lett...

"Raul's" been working CA Central Coast strawberries for 12 yrs. "I work piece rate. I just dropped off a box and need to rush back to the field to pick more. It's important to move fast as I get paid by the box. It's tiring work bending down cutting strawberries." #WeFeedYou

I don't have the spoons for this anymore but I really think that a blue state moratorium on any immigrant jails is the campaign to run at this time. Organize state and county legislatures and electeds to reject any new detention centers.

awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

Rabbits share my Nanay's food opinions. I had cereal instead of real food for breakfast and Bun thumped when she realized no cut fruit was coming.

When I worked for the county, I frequently had to check social media for local news and emergency services updates, many of which were not available anywhere else, including internal communications or the county's emergency services website. When we most need it, we lack independent infrastructure.

🚨 Journalist Anas Al-Sharif from Gaza writes: "Dangerous news that may not be important to you, UNRWA announces that most of Gaza's residents have entered the fifth phase, which is the most severe on the famine index."

"The facts of American history have in the last half century been falsified because the nation was ashamed. The South was ashamed because it fought to perpetuate human slavery. The North was ashamed because it had to call in the black men to save the Union, abolish slavery and establish democracy."

I am never going to stop saying I told you so about body cameras. I firmly and loudly said in 2014 that this should NOT be a movement demand. I wrote about it. I tried to get comrades not to support the effort. I and others were CORRECT and i am FURIOUS.

People who entered the US legally and have no criminal charges are being held in the Everglades camp, according to records obtained by the Miami Herald. Maybe that’s why the government won’t release the names of those being detained. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

READ: Palestinians screamed for months: Israel is turning U.S.-run “aid” sites into killing fields. No one listened—until Israeli soldiers admitted they were ordered to shoot civilians. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/pale...

Farm workers are being terrorized, imprisoned, and deported without due process. Trump's immigration sweeps unjustly target farm workers, Latinos and other vulnerable communities. This goes against American values. This July 4th weekend, take action and message your Congress Members. Link below. ⬇️

"...progress toward liberation requires we actually abandon such obsession to 'goodness' or 'rightness' in order to meet each other with honesty..." From "What to Read When You Want to Destabilize the Binaries Between Good and Bad" by ‪@leighsugar.bsky.social‬. ➡️ buff.ly/9xdt0Ez

"Voices ringing out around me on streets growing familiar, I could almost dare to believe it—that we might survive this administration together." Check out Adi's newest essay, "Stitching Community" by Roohi Choudhry! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/sti...

One thing I didn't mention in this review is that Jennifer Nelson is one of (if not the first) poet I heard read in NYC before going to grad school. They're work is such a huge part of why I became a poet.

Congratulations to Cathy Linh Che on the release of BECOMING GHOST, her latest poetry collection from @wspbooks.bsky.social. 🩵 Read "'I love the smell of napalm...': Remix" and "Live-Stream" now, in #TheMargins' #PoetryTuesday column: aaww.org/two-poems-by...

Buried in a Senate budget bill is a massive giveaway to corporate developers and fossil fuel companies. It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.

Someone told me to make sure my mom has a mask to protect her from chemical agents. My mom is not going to get gassed at a permitted rally y’all. In some places, people may break off from the permitted event and do their own thing. Their risk level changes. But for most people, this is low risk.

So excited to see Mele by @kalekim.bsky.social reviewed in the July issue of Booklist (@ala-booklist.bsky.social)!

This is the oldest poem in my forthcoming debut. I still remember the morning I wrote it. I fed my rabbit strawberries and rose petals. One thing I couldn't bring myself to say at the time of publication is that it's a pet elegy written the last day of my pet's life and edited the week after.