new poem 🐾 ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/poem-change

i hope someone got me THE FORT BRAGG CARTEL for Christmas, and @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social's interview with author Seth Harp is well worth reading. open.substack.com/pub/ayeshaas...

I interviewed the author of bestselling book The Fort Bragg Cartel. We cover the potential for regime change in Venezuela, the unique rate of violence around US bases, our “low information” Congress, Israel’s influence on US army doctrine, and more ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/interview-...

I interviewed the author of bestselling book The Fort Bragg Cartel. We cover the potential for regime change in Venezuela, the unique rate of violence around US bases, our “low information” Congress, Israel’s influence on US army doctrine, and more ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/interview-...

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Every single person should read this. I've read it three times.

“wellness” tied to anti aging is both cope and accelerant for imperial violence, in this piece I outline the past, present, and grim future marked by the products and routines selling “longevity” ayeshaasiddiqi.substack.com/p/late-empir...

Robert E. Wells (British, b. 1956). Chiara Study (oil on panel). Mirror, Mirror (oil on canvas).

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“Eventually, to suffer in such societies is to mark yourself outside their social contract, because if you were among those that belonged you wouldn’t be struggling.” absolutely incredible piece

This is one of the most enlightening and thought-provoking things I’ve read in awhile.

The Quran says God made humans out of clay and jinn out of fire But I am sand in the machinery of the world– waiting for lightning to turn me into glass. In spite of me, perhaps to spite me the machinery churns. If I were glass I could earn a name, like Mirror. I pray for lightning. ....

I have a new poem in @proteanmag.com proteanmag.com/2025/10/16/s... 💎⛰️🪞💙

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Can’t believe that when I posted my vigorous agreement with this earlier I forgot to once again share @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social’s review of PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, a meticulous, measured, yet utterly excoriating work of criticism. Read it and confirm/correct your opinions.

My piece about the ongoing US military occupation of Korea thenewinquiry.com/korea-under-... is here! @newinquiry.bsky.social

Elizabeth Holmes was slightly ahead of her time, had she done the same today she’d have a cabinet position

the phrase “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” i always misremember as a question instead & often think no it would not - bc of how people think and the ‘power of branding’. did you know the common daffodil is the same flower as the dramatic and tortured narcissus

re: ICE raids. This is a Know Your Rights resource list by state vis Vanessa Villareal docs.google.com/document/d/1...

the cute boy with the white jacket and thick accent

a truck you a truck you use to use to move show you’re afraid heavy goods of communism