Happy to report that the recent issue of The Common includes a poem of mine: www.thecommononline.org/the-spies/

Look what's cooking at Copper Canyon Press!

Friday April 24: "Islands" by Aleksandar Hemon. "We got up at dawn, ignored the yolky sun, loaded our navy-blue Austin with suitcases, and then drove straight to the coast, stopping only on the verge of Sarajevo, so I could pee."

O partigiano porta mi via O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao O partigiano porta mi via Che mi sento di morir

Tony Soprano: "Everything we see and experience is not all there is."

This is powerful and beautiful.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

The President of the United States posted this. That he will continue in office affirms that we are unfit to govern ourselves and our American experiment has failed. Too many of us are too stupid, cowardly and damaged to be citizens of a republic, let alone our elected representatives.

To learn more about how we can use science to save democracy - and use democracy to save science - go to SamForNJ.org!

Dog walks and people on the street: a New Yorker writer sees what it's like for a scientist to run for office. New: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

White supremacy is the essence of America, regardless of the party.

They knew exactly what they were doing. The myth of American moral exceptionalism spreads across the political spectrum--Americans do evil only if they're mislead, for they are basically good people. As Tony Soprano said to Dr. Malfi: "I'm basically a good guy."

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

Some of us are not shocked and surprised. From 2016. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Meanwhile, Bosnia and Herzegovina defeats the mighty Italy and is in the World Cup. Resilient motherfuckers we are.

The government oversees safety of roads, flights, food, and drugs. It should do the same for AI. I’m a scientist who uses responsible AI to help parents with autism diagnosis. In Congress I’ll make sure this powerful technology serves us, not harms us. www.ft.com/content/7f63...

Authors to read when you're demoralized with the fascism and feel helpless Anna Akhmatova, Requiem Albert Camus, The Plague Serhiy Zhadan, The Orphanage Simone Weil, The Need for Roots Jacques Derrida, On Friendship Aleksandar Hemon, The World and all it holds Plz add to list

If you’re attending the London Book Fair this week, perhaps you’d like to check out this panel with Aleksandar Hemon, Rumena Bužarovska, and Ivana Bodrožić, moderated by yours truly? www.londonbookfair.co.uk/en-gb/confer...

Hey, I'll be at the London Book Fair next week, with the amazing Rumena Božanovska and Ivana Bodrožić. Come by! From the Fringes of Europe to the World: The Expansion of Global Literature Sponsored by book&zvook Literary Translation Centre Wednesday, 11th Mar 16:00 - 17:00

This is what Columbia paid Trump shitloads of money for.

Can confirm.

With the GOP led by Donald Trump and filled with rising stars like Matt Gaetz, some party insiders are suggesting that JD Vance will need to add more pedophilia to his background in order to secure the 2028 nomination.

What an honorable company for my book The Questions of Bruno to be in! Thank you, Ashraf Zagal! debutiful.net/2026/02/06/a...

The people who voted for Trump and GOP did not do it despite his racism, but because of it. That was the platform: fully restoring white supremacy. That is what they wanted. Don't let ass-wipe polls and ass-wipe columnists fool you. So fuck them all in perpetuity.

ICE Agent Scores Easy Win By Deporting Own Family

Dear Liberals, No, you don’t ever, ever have to forgive or forget what Trump voters have done. They can beg forgiveness and never get it and that’s ok. These people brought you mass ‘detention centers’ and government agents murdering citizens in the streets. Not ok. They can burn in hell. - God

Why I’m running for Congress: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

There is no hope until Schumer, Jeffries and their ilk are gone. They are outright collaborators.

Suozzi voted for ICE funding last week and issued a preening self-congratulatory press release afterwards bragging about bucking the Dem Party on the vote. FAFO.

Hey, I've got a poem in The Common Online!

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

ICE etc got a lot of this power and funding because Democrats (Obama, Biden and Clinton) are afraid of being called soft on policing and immigration by the right and now Trump has weaponized it. There’s a clear lesson here about standing up for shit instead of cowering to racists and fascists.

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

My kind, beekeeping cousin in Canada.

The GOP is a party of American Nazis. There are no good Republicans. Whichever elected Republicans do not quit the American Nazi Party tonight and become independents are, well, fucking Nazis.

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Under the leadership of @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov the Dems are outright collaborators.

The idiotic Dems don't understand that the ICE terror is a rehearsal for the midterm elections, and all the subsequent elections, if there'll be any. Ice will terrorize places, spaces, cities, voting sites, everywhere. The morality of pussyfooting around ICE aside, it is politically suicidal.

Collaborators! @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov

They voted for ICE. But know that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social let them do that, because Democrat leadership is collaborating.

I am a passionate soccer fan, but this World Cup is already a travesty. It is either be a propaganda event for Trump, the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize, or it is going to be an all out fiasco irreparably damaging soccer as a game. Probably both. I'm not watching it.

Our Head of the State.

The people of Minnesota give us hope that we can overcome the violence and cruelty of MAGA fascism.

revival time www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q49B...

NEW: The House just passed the DHS funding bill. Seven Democrats voted yes: Henry Cuellar of Texas Jared Golden of Maine Laura Gillen of New York Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington State Don Davis of North Carolina Tom Souzzi of New York Vincente Gonzalez of Texas

Send those motherfuckers packing. Scum!