I’m tired, yall. Real tired. But today I’m going to finish the draft of my dissertation, which means I’m exhausted AND grateful. I’m doing this.

Renee Good won a national prize six years ago for her poem "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs," which muses on science and faith. Good was shot to death by an ICE agent this week in Minneapolis.

Max is also concerned about your doomscrolling.

EAT THE BOWL COWARD

ah well, not all news is terrible

some personal news: my cat has discovered my mattress heading pad that my kiddo gave me for xmas, and she now lives on my bed. (exhausted grad student pro-tip: turn it on, & then escape to rest brains and mini-nap whilst diss writing) DRAFT GETS SUBMITTED MONDAY (get off social media, rebekah)

My abolitionist friends have been right all along, but I have to say that it's surreal to see antebellum Overseer behavior and logics applied to white Americans. But my parents never lied about what I told you the other day: stand up for racialized folk, you are a n* lover & disposable to racists.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.

one billion percent this

These @iampoliticsgirl.bsky.social faces are all of us

It’s absolutely the right call and fucking surreal that our public schools have to close because of the threat posed by OUR OWN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. I am beyond livid.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Tonight I really need to read some Octavia E. Butler. The audiobook of Sower has actress Lynne Thigpeg as the narrator, and it's like medicine. I just wish she wasn't so right

I hate how much this resonates.

Support Renee Good’s wife and son ❤️ gofund.me/6870ba33a

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

Say Her Name is not for white women.

I didn’t wanna be that guy but this is 100% spot on. #JusticeForReneeGood is a perfect hashtag. But if you weren’t amplifying Say Her Name for Sandra Bland, Breyonna Taylor, Atatiana Jefferson, or the multitude of other women killed by law enforcement please don’t use that hashtag now.

just gutted, no words

it's such a wild feeling to go back to the earlier writing you've done, and to notice just how much you've grown in your skills in the months since

goddamnit, your email found me.

Day 700 for me of making the best best choice to stop drinking. Next month, 2 years! I will always recover loudly, and never stop being so proud of this choice I made for myself 🤍

We had a good run

Open Veins of Latin America would be a terrific book to read with others if you have the bandwidth to organizing a book discussion.

Now that they’ve started a war I’ve completely forgotten that they’re pedophiles.

As someone who has lost a loved one to fentanyl, a mighty FU to this sundowning fool

anyway I need to finish my chapter 5 today and try not to get distracted that my home country kidnaps world leaders to distract from the fact the president associated with a notorious sex criminal

This is a good time to actually be honest about the country.

DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Republicans would rather condone preemptive war than give us healthcare

To summarize: the president of my home country just authorized the kidnapping (read: not “capture”) of another world leader, and … associated A LOT with a pedophile Eye on the ball.

I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

ICE defeated by SNOW

I left on Nov 5, 2024 and I have zero regrets about it …and Twitter was a lifeline of support for me for years. No more. (and it’s the only name on Earth that I will forever choose to deadname)

the best part of choosing to finish your dissertation over the winter break is how you then set yourself up to be v. exhausted when you start teaching 4 classes next week

Black bear living underneath California house shows no sign of budging as homeowner mulls legal action

Comical, @wsj.com.

Imagining the day that Andrew Cuomo had. The glaring. The scowling. The awkward silences. Blessings to us all.

oh damn

I wish I had an “unwrapped” stat for how many HOURS I’ve listened to the “Samantha” voice on MS Word read back to me the text I wrote for my dissertation

I'm almost done the final chapter of analysis for my dissertation, and it feels truly cathartic to write it all out. This chapter is my academic life and learnings on the page, and I'm so proud of the work I have done -- and that I have yet to do. There's power in reclaiming your voice + trauma.

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

uhhhhh.... a 1926 prediction for 2026

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

Zohran Mamdani sworn in as New York City mayor https://aje.io/lv8uxp

'tis the season and here's to the prediction that we all are carrying into 2026