Wow I love this poem.

Let’s be clear—your rights don’t disappear because of your skin color, your accent, or your citizenship status. The Constitution doesn’t work like that, no matter how bad Republicans want it to. This Supreme Court ruling is dangerous and it’s only taking us backwards.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.

Rest in piss

The time is now. Right now. Time for literally all of us to push back against fascism. You don't have to and literally can't do EVERYTHING. Don't worry about that! Just pick the one or two issues/things you know and care about and join the people who are doing practical things to help.

I can’t believe I finally met @tananarivedue.bsky.social yesterday more than five years after being part of her speculative fiction cohort at VONA! It was during COVID so everything was virtual. Also picked up a copy of her latest, the reformatory!

I've said this before but I sincerely hope Rowling lives a long long time. I want her to live to see that she's failed, that trans ppl have not gone away, that we are loved and cherished and making great art and there is space for us in the world.

Working on a zombie story and I feel like one too…

Get comfortable with the idea of not being liked if you want to live a life that disrupts systems in place built to oppress or limit progress.

Up now, Episode 18 of All My Regret about my kids Minecraft camp which is minutes away from the burial ground of 95 unknown black folks who were forced into the convict leasing system in Sugar Land Tx. open.substack.com/pub/vivmit/p...

I’m writing about the juxtaposition of the suburbs of Houston, specifically Sugarland where my parents live. Just minutes from my kids summer camp is this sign and the burial ground. Writing about this is hard but necessary. I’ve been wanting to write about this for years.

Here in LA I cannot wrap my head around how atrocious ICE is, to allow gym bros to cover their faces, to arm them, to make them think they are doing something “good” by attacking people just trying to live, and going after indigenous communities and disappearing droves of people w/o accountability

Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.

the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.

Did I get into Viable Paradise 2025? Yes, I did. Did I ugly cry so hard that I couldn't make out the words in the email, and then panic because I thought I'd read the email wrong? Definitely not. #VP2025

In the latest issue of All My Regret I write about the ICE occupation of Los Angeles, where I live and how to parent during this unreal time: open.substack.com/pub/vivmit/p...

I wrote about my uncle (Mamaji) who taught me how to play Table Tennis and with whom we cross crossed India on Bollywood fueled roadtrips in the latest episode of All My Regret: open.substack.com/pub/vivmit/p...

My latest at All My Regret. I talk about depression and its impact on relationships open.substack.com/pub/vivmit/p...

"I am a political prisoner," Mahmoud Khalil says in his first statement since being detained www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If you're an Arab greencard holder you can absolutely not travel right now. You will walk yourself right into an ICE arrest

Mahmoud Khalil has a green card. He's not just on a student visa, he's a permanent resident of the US. And his wife here is 8 months pregnant. FUCK TRUMP AND FUCK ICE y'all. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Wow www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

Trump: "I am going to behead a pronoun-user on live TV" NYT: "Displaying a fondness for showmanship, Trump's decapitation antics raise eyebrows in Washington"

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

Congratulations to Super Bowl LIX champion Kendrick Lamar

ICE will no longer consider if "an alien is a victim of a crime...a positive discretionary factor" in determining whether to deport them, per new ICE memo leaked to me

California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order: "It does nothing" "It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach" Will not comply.

As we saw during the 1st Trump admin I witnessed this on the ground, clients anxieties and vulnerabilities overall on the increase as rhetoric and reports of enforcement actions came in. This happened also after the Nov election, and now after the flurry of EO’s yesterday.

Protect yourself. Protect your family. Protect your community. 🦋 Check out Know Your Rights resources here: https://buff.ly/2Fq1PSy

I was in middle school when I watched Twin Peaks. After that followed nearly every single Lynch project. RIP.

5th Circuit rules that the DACA program that protects Dreamers is unlawful but limits relief to Texas and puts decision on hold: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

As the latest DACA decision comes to light and the details become clear, let us not forget that the only thing reason that the future of DACA is in the balance is because of Donald Trump. He tried to end the program in 2017. He’s made his intentions crystal clear.

Boycott Israel. Sanction Israel. Divest from Israel. Refuse to perform in Israel. Arrest Israeli soldiers and war criminals. Genocide is not in the past. Genocide is not forgotten. Genocide is an active event. The land remains occupied, bulldozed, and collectively punished.

please, if you have the means, help the displaced black families of altadena, ca hit their gofundme goals. we need each other.

In the latest issue of my newsletter All My Regret, I talk about New Years and how it triggers so much nostalgia, about video games and black eye peas. open.substack.com/pub/vivmit/p...

Another LA pic

LA smog has leveled up to Delhi levels this morning. AQI at 300. When I was in Delhi last winter, no one wore masks yet my relatives said that they just got used to it. I hope not to get used to this hellscape that I woke up to. Pic taken from my street of the Eaton canyon fire

India is a fascist state that has actively studied and used fascist tactics from Israel and the U.S. in this arena though it seems India is a trendsetter and likely US under Trump will do something similar. I use a VPN most of the time mostly because I don’t want my ISP to snoop on me.

Looks like the “stifling critical voices” game is well on its way. Agent Orange didn’t even have to lift a finger

all western journalists & mainstream media who’ve spent a year dismissing & vilifying the warnings about war crimes & genocide in Gaza need to read this Haaretz piece then ask themselves how much more horrific the reality must be if this is what they feel comfortable confessing

Please read my @viableparadise.bsky.social friend’s newest piece out in @khoreo.bsky.social!

ICYMI

Enjoying this podcast this morning: open.spotify.com/episode/5WL6...

As always, great advice from Max!

I write about how we can survive the Trump years (wrt immigration) in All My Regret, my newsletter. For paying subscribers I also talk about what I’m reading and watching and some notes on writing craft. open.substack.com/pub/vivmit/p...

Ummmm this looks amazing

"One of my teachers at Columbia was Joseph Brodsky...and he said 'look,' he said, 'you Americans, you are so naïve. You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language.'"