Horrifying. #Portland

En #Portland, #Oregon, se está gestando un gran movimiento de #Poesía en #Español y mi historia está en @literalmagazine.bsky.social de @rosemarysalum.bsky.social, va: literalmagazine.com/en-oregon-se...

Hegseth basically forced more than 800 top military commanders to sit for a MAGA pep rally.

#DesordenPúblico #Ska #Venezuela in #Houston #Texas

Don't worry, we all know he's a liar, don't let him intimidate you!!! Trump sues The New York Times for defamation, seeks $15 billion | AP News share.google/decmBowCq6PA...

"Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," he claimed in a Saturday speech to a far-right rally in London.

Causing climate change is killing us. Even if you ignore the climate change bit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaT2...

The murder of Iryna Zarutska has shocked me profoundly. The brutality, the bystanders, the social media reaction, the instrumentalization. Obviously many brave souls would have helped, would have saved her or would have soothed her. Outrage is omnipresent. But... ⬇️ 🧵

El #Libro de #Cuentos ‘Travesías interiores’, editado por @literalmagazine.bsky.social de @rosemarysalum.bsky.social, reune obra de varios escritores hispanos en #Texas y se presentará en #Houston. La #Literatura en #Español avanza con fuerza en #EEUU. Si andan por #Houstotitlán vayan!

“The Fourth Amendment protects every individual’s constitutional right to be ‘free from arbitrary interference by law officers,'” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent. “After today, that may no longer be true."

Lene Lovich es una de las figuras más enigmáticas y poderosas del #Punk #NewWave de #Inglaterra. Ahora regresa para abrir la gira de Devo y The B-52’s por Estados Unidos. Debido a eso escribí un texto en @literalmagazine.bsky.social va: literalmagazine.com/lene-lovich-...

🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling Thursday, striking down Louisiana’s state legislative maps for violating the Voting Rights Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

The White House's memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize. “What you have is this desire to get people to buy into the fun of sadism,” says Jason Stanley, an author who’s leaving the US because of “concerns over fascism.”

New Uvalde school shooting records — nearly 12GB — come as part of a settlement in a yearslong lawsuit that news organizations, including ProPublica and @texastribune.org, brought against state and local governments. We continue to seek records from the state Department of Public Safety.

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

Literal Magazine te invita a participar en el taller online de poesía con la poeta mexicana Malva Flores. Lunes de 7 a 9 pm literalmagazine.com/tallerdepoes...

Breaking News: President Trump’s new tariffs on more than 90 countries went into effect, part of a trade war that has started to affect the U.S. economy.

#standforwolves #wolfconservation

NEW: Cornyn sent a letter Tuesday to FBI Director Kash Patel, asking him to take “any appropriate steps to aid in Texas state law enforcement efforts to locate or arrest potential lawbreakers who have fled the state.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"La banda de ska venezolana cumple 40 años" Daniel Centeno Maldonado literalmagazine.com/desorden-pub...

News Analysis: President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics forced his allies into the awkward spot of criticizing an agency they had freely cited in the past.

En @literalmagazine.bsky.social de @rosemarysalum.bsky.social se publicó mi #Poema “Phoenix, Arizona” y me hacen un honor si lo leen. Va: literalmagazine.com/phoenix-ariz...

48 years ago CBGB, New York City, August 1977 Dictators - Search & Destroy #punk #punkrock #cbgb #dictators #nyc #history #punkrockhistory

Estoy muy conmovido y afectado por la partida del gran Carlos Ramírez, uno de los hombres que le abrió caminos al #Rock y el #Jazz en los medios de comunicación de #Guadalajara en #México. Descanse en Paz.

The Trump administration’s new policy requiring applicants for student and exchange visas to set social media accounts to “public” for government review is a dangerous expansion of existing social media collection efforts. This policy gravely chills free expression.

Eye-popping story: A former contractor for US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation wanted to feed Palestinian workers. “Nobody could figure out how to get food." So he used an Israeli app to order Domino’s pizzas to the Gaza border—an example of GHF’s systemic failures, he says. "It’s abhorrent."

En qué momento la estupidez se convirtió en ideología política? #CadaVezEstánPior #NiCómoAyudarlos

🚨BREAKING: Republicans released their proposed Texas congressional map Wednesday, delivering on a request from President Donald Trump that could set off a nationwide redistricting battle between red states and blue states over control of the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm election.

ICE doesn't even have a detention center in Hawaii. The men have been put in a federal prison there. Very far from home, and presumably their lawyers. Via @missionlocal.org

Gradas, de Xirau, “discurre, como la mayor parte de su obra, entre fuerzas de signos contrapuestos pero reconciliados en la red del lenguaje” Mayco Osiris Ruiz literalmagazine.com/ramon-xirau-...

“This is what the US has decided is okay.”

Save Mu'arrajat: Urgent Help for Expelled Palestinian Families chuffed.org/project/1389...

On paper, the endangerment finding states that greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide pose a risk to the public’s health and well-being. That may sound obvious enough. But in practice, it’s one of the agency’s most important decisions.

Emails show that IRS chief counsel Andrew De Mello said a recent DHS request did not comply with the law. Two days after refusing the demand to turn over more than 7 million home addresses, De Mello was pushed out of the top legal job.

Palestinians have been forced to routinely choose between risking death by starvation or risking death by gunfire to reach food aid sites where Israeli soldiers have repeatedly fired at the crowds, killing hundreds of people over the last two months, according to the UN. nyti.ms/3GLjBCH

They are in the US legally, pay billions of dollars in taxes, and have parented thousands of children here. But the Trump admin is stripping them of protected legal status, amounting to the single largest delegalization campaign in US history.

More than a dozen children and adults had died from hunger within 24 hours, as of Tuesday. Aid groups say that they have supplies to support, but that Israeli forces are preventing them from entering Gaza. Palestinians have been gunned down and killed at the US-backed Israeli aid sites.

Kennedy will “do everything possible to destroy the vaccine infrastructure.”

49 years ago - #knowyourroots Patti Smith, Lou Reed, John Cale and David Byrne at the Ocean Club in NYC, July 1976. Photo by Bob Gruen #punk #punks #punkrock #punklegends #history #punkrockhistory

NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

Malnutrition during pregnancy can have lasting consequences not only for the future health of the child but for subsequent generations, research shows.

democracy is failing us. free palestine (with love and blood)

Deja que tu surf hable por ti 🌊 Let your surfing speak for you 💙 #Surfer

NEW: Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost taxpayers more than $24,000 for a day’s work. With @texastribune.org

Thank you to the 287 current or former NASA employees who signed this letter (some anonymously, for good reasons): “We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement and efficient use of public resources." 🧪🌍 #NASA #space

Carlos Avilez, bajista de #Cuca, también tiene una larga carrera paralela como #Cantautor de #Blues y #Rock. Mi historia en @literalmagazine.bsky.social va: literalmagazine.com/carlos-avile...