Always good to keep in mind that Guardian has a partnership with OpenAI.

The persecution complex is out of control

Homeownership is impossible? I will just build a tiny house out of stone I quarry myself

I wrote for New York magazine about deportations to CECOT in El Salvador, which are bound up with a tradition of US extrajudicial actions in the Americas and further the long arc of concentration camps.

"The defining characteristic of any concentration camp is one that detains civilians en masse without due process on the basis of race, ethnicity, or supposed affiliation, rather than for any crime an individual has committed. Governments use them for political ends, to gather and keep power."

While of course I’m glad these corrupt-ass people are being exposed, I just really hate that we are living in a pizzagate conspiracy theory and all of these fringe Facebook pages that have destroyed people’s minds are being validated as true

Either/Or is a new literary journal out of UW-Whitewater, and it’s inaugural issue is now published! I’m glad to have three poems, including this one, in such a beautiful issue. Keep your eyes out for this journal and consider sending some work their way!

If I see AI art in my feed, that’s an unfollow.

I feel like I need to name something. I don’t talk about Donald Trump or this admin because I almost feel like I lose credibility when I do. Like the only language that fits his deeds will sound deranged and hysterical, and be ignored and dismissed. When he is all I should be talking about.

This is plainly not true? Migrants are not only largely overemployed, they are also the lowest unhoused demographic. The levels of fascist propaganda in this country are staggering

Christ this is dark an organization which exists to support writers is like “we don’t want to take a side and make anyone mad, so if the plagiarism machine helped write your book it’s up to OTHER PEOPLE, NOT US, OUR HANDS ARE CLEAN, to decide if that should disqualify you from winning an award”

With the recent passing of Johnny Canales, Fito Olivares, and Abraham Quintanilla, I think I want to write about the slow, invisible passing of the old guard of Texas Cumbia, and the end of an era of La Onda Grupera.

Reminder that this is the name of Aragorn's sword. We are trapped in the white colonial imagination.

In the new year you're going to watch Netflix constantly debase itself to secure regulatory approval for its merger with Warner Brothers. This is just the start:

New website/logo for The Rumpus! therumpus.net I hope you check it out!

Children cannot be incarcerated for longer than 20 days. These facilities are seeking to overturn the Flores Settlement so thdey can be held in for-profit detention centers INDEFINITELY. prospect.org/2025/12/10/f...

Ahmed Al Ahmed, is 43, a father of 2 and owner of a fruit shop in Sutherland, Australia. Yesterday, he disarmed a terrorist targeting a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach where 12 humans were killed. Ahmed was unarmed. He was shot twice and is expected to make a full recovery. Hero. 💔

I’ve been thinking a lot about why there hasn’t been an organized movement with a name in light of the ICE kidnappings, internment, and ethnic cleansing via mass deportation. The main reason is that this time, nonwhite or migrant protestors can be abducted for any reason at any time.

Found the coolest website that takes random found cassette tapes people submit and digitizes them. I’m listening to an NYC hip hop station from 1994: intertapes.net

Was just remembering the "NFT Poems" grift and "writing poems on the blockchain" and "paying poets in crypto." Did anything ever come of that? The scheme of frauds and charlatans. Encoding a poem as an NFT doesn't change the language, it just changes the valence to meaningless techbro fuckshit

The sheer relief of this ruling freeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, which of course homeland security calls, “naked judicial activism.“ What an embarrassing combination of words. I hope Kilmar reveals everything about CECOT and within the rot of the US immigration system. May history judge us harshly.

I’m still getting threats on Instagram for sharing the location of the hotel ICE was staying in my neighborhood, which had already become public information and had two nights of No Sleep for ICE protests in front of it before I shared it.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer today. I need to move her out of Texas and in with me in a sanctuary state as soon as humanly possible, but the academic job search continues to stay silent, and two fellowship applications have rejected me this year. If you know of anything, please lmk.

Rage Against the Machine Learning

I don’t have to embrace anything that means me and us harm.

Please come work with us CNF writers! It is very cold but the food and community are great

This is incredibly disappointing disinformation from Rolling Stone. The “study” cited is from an AI startup, Gudea, and a woman named Georgia Paul, a Swiftie with the intent to paint a specific picture. They found that only 4% were bot accounts, meaning the other 96% were real people.

Politicized pejoration - @erikbleich.bsky.social, Husam AlZubaidy, Andrey Cao, Abigail Chang, Nikki Sadat, Abby Ward & A Maurits van der Veen develop the concept through a case study of the term “woke” in the US. Read more: buff.ly/lviFdJO @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci

The law is a highly specialized language that requires a very strong set of rhetorical skills. Why? Because you are building an argument (rhetoric), presenting evidence (research and citation), citing precedent (critical reading, research, interpretation). Law is not made in a logic vacuum.

jesus christ

Advocacy depends on powerful rhetoric, economical language, and rhetorical skill. Poetry is the only way you’re going to learn skills like metonymy, the effect of stressed syllables, scansion, rhetorical methods only the most skilled orators use to this day. Please stop devaluing the humanities

I wrote a 2026 media prediction for Nieman Labs. It's about how I think more newsrooms will use AI (and that the AI will have a right-wing bias). Check it out here: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

The first two seasons of Arrested Development are impeccable comedy

An ICE agent has been arrested for putting a woman in a chokehold and causing “serious physical harm” Police said they had been called to the residence 22 times It’s time we talk about what kind of men are attracted to being ICE agents Hint: It’s men who would strangle a woman

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Coming May 19, 2026 from Amistad Books and HarperCollins THE OVERSEER CLASS: A Manifesto by Steven W. Thrasher cover art by Jamaal Barber Available for pre-order now www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF (Going to try to post a less predictable one for me lol)

A long time ago, there was a tweet about the difference between US diaspora poets vs poets of the home country. Diaspora poets were like: my otherness is a mango my mother cuts/she is crying/the tears are mine. But poetry from the home country was like, DATA CENTER SERVER: GAPING BILLIONAIRE ASSHOLE

Since we are talking poetry and words, the phrase “rent-free in your head” makes me so sad… the idea of rent is so corrosive and pervasive, it’s considered an exception to have thoughts, feelings, ideas, poetry in your mind, rent-free!!

Actually, can someone update my Wikipedia page? I can’t do it (you can’t author or update your own page) and it’s missing my latest book, MAGICAL/REALISM and the long lists. I’m sorry to ask like an egomaniacal asshole but it’s bugging me! And maybe it might help with the academic job search?

And edit too! Even little fixes are really helpful! 😄

This is catastrophic on like, generational infinite levels, but here’s another thing: Netflix will own Game of Thrones and all other associated properties. So really: That’s all, folks.

At this point I’m begging you to boycott Amazon, if you want a future.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

You can’t be fucking serious.

This is pure censorship—using DEI as cover. U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

If you’re showing off your Spotify Wrapped this year, I know you’re morally bankrupt, and that even running ICE ads isn’t enough to cancel your subscription. Never mind that Spotify is a fascist corporation that invests in AI military tech, and would rather create AI slop than pay artists.

“Now”?