My latest @npr.org story: The United States could be headed toward the largest-ever decline in representation by Black members of Congress if the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting n.pr/49tevoK

This is heartbreaking, and also upsetting to see it amplified instantaneously when video shows her wife crying and talking about their kid at school. We have no idea what kind of family dynamics are at play and a same-sex partner is vulnerable to being muscled out of the story, so we should use care

A cop shot a person three times point blank and instead of the streets being deserted. They filled with people yelling at the cops [who could have shot them too].

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has officially shut down after 58 years following the elimination of its funding under Donald Trump. It served as the primary funder for PBS Kids.

Thank you.

Even the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, a neoliberal institution, won the award after effectively proving that colonial extraction was the worst thing that has ever happened to the global south in terms of long-term outcomes in wealth and stability www.npr.org/2024/10/14/n...

I’m not sure how much better I could have done in my PHD. I won a Whiting award, my dissertation was longlisted for the national book and national book critics circle awards. And yet, still no job, no health insurance, huge student loan payment, and no income for 2026 as a single parent.

Freedom ☺️💙😎

Our government is a fucking private equity firm

“Cuban-trained”

“Finally ended by Trump” Reuters? This was an illegal coup by a fascist pariah state. It’s your job to use precise language. What the fuck is this.

Heard NPR’s correspondent, who is not in Venezuela, explain that people in Venezuela woke up to this news. Yet everyone I’ve heard from was up all night. Intense observation on what the U.S. state is and isn’t doing requires critical attention to what the U.S. press is and isn’t doing, too.

America is a pariah nation and we should be treated as such.

America is an abjectly lawlessness and murderously evil country. Damn it to Hell.

There's no danger of wealth redistribution, still, $160.35 trillion distributed evenly between us, babies to elders, would be $471,465 each. A couple would get $942,930, a family of four would have $1.89 million combined. Imagine that world.

day one in mamdani’s new york

WE have the chance to do the funniest thing. Orcas been doing their part.

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Thanks to everyone who read and shared the piece I wrote that was published in the G & M. I had no gift links but if you want to read it and cannot access it, now you can. web.archive.org/web/20251228...

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

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.