Book Advent #4. "The World and All That It Holds" by @sashahemon.bsky.social is a wonderful story of survival and longing across boundaries of all kinds. Books like this fill me with grief and hope.

JD Vance Cries In Bathroom After Trump Uses ‘Piggy’ Nickname On Someone Else https://theonion.com/jd-vance-cries-in-bathroom-after-trump-uses-piggy-nickname-on-someone-else/

@democrats.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov Don't you fucking dare fold! Do not accept bullying! Have some spine, you worthless suits!

The Great American Sociopaths!

Spot a Nazi!

This is me, except I'm Bosnian, Ukrainian, American.

There is a straight line from Bush and Cheney to Trump and his crew of psychopaths, in more ways than one. When Cheney shot his lawyer in the face, his lawyer apologized to him for causing him frustration.

Cuomo Makes 11th-Hour Pass At Female New Yorkers

American Airlines To Phase Out Complimentary Cabin Pressurization https://theonion.com/american-airlines-to-phase-out-complimentary-cabin-pres-1819576190/

History repeats.

Can confirm. My editor of 25 years, whom I followed from publisher to publisher as he changed teams stopped communicating with me around the time the novel I had worked on for 13 years came out. Cowardly silence. Stupidly, I thought we were friends. I couldn't sell enough to qualify for friendship.

I have to tell you, this is an idiot country, some smart people notwithstanding.

All of the Dems in the Senate voted for the honest Marco, every single idiot motherfucker. The vote was 99-0. There is a point where there is no difference between idiocy and collaboration. The Dems have been beyond that point for a long time now. @democrats.senate.gov

Charlie Horst Wessel Kirk

Horst Ludwig Georg Erich Wessel (9 October 1907 – 23 February 1930) was a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, who became a propaganda symbol in Nazi Germany following his murder in 1930 by two members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).

Welcome to war, friends. This will not be resolved by way of elections.

If you call this anything but fascism, you might be a fascist.

Aleksandar Hemon: 'Fašisti uvijek čeznu za nekom prošlošću, a onda i budućnost tako dizajniraju'

It is out!

From this month's edition of The Onion.

Meanwhile, inside my head...

KKKolumbia University has firmly lodged itself in Trump's exhaust pipe. They can now establish a minor in Epstein Studies. Either way, they're not far from loyalty pledges as part of admission process or tenure pack.

Superman is about the white man's burden, a white liberalism manifesto. It's a consolation creed at the time when whiteness has revealed itself as fully malignant. But what about the good ones, Superman asks, particularly about the inherently superior ones who could be evil but choose not to be?

Superman is propaganda for the inherent goodness of whiteness.

The simple fact of America is that you can't have capitalism and democracy in the same place any more.

We're one massacre away from a violent conflict on national scale. The trumpists are gunning for that. So many lines have been crossed, and each time an army of columnists and reasonable analysts predict that America will reboot to its default mode of metaphysical democracy.

In 2017, after Trump's election, I co-wrote a pilot and an outline for a show premised on disintegration of the USA. In it, California first declared full sovereignty then independence. There was also the Great Lakes Federation. The opening shot was the Capitol dome collapsing in flames in 2040.

From The Archives: Trump Locks Bathroom Door So Elon Musk Can’t Follow Him In theonion.com/trump-l...

It turns out that literature could be for something more than dumbfuck empathy point-scoring.

When a federal judge starts a ruling about the government's actions with an extended retelling of Kafka's "The Trial," you know the state of democracy in the good old US of A is in tip-top shape 🙃

MAGA Voter Assumed Trump Would Only Deport People On List She Mailed To White House

It was wonderful! Thank you all!

17th May is the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia. The date commemorates the World Health Organisation’s decision in 1990 to remove homosexuality from its classification of diseases. We exist. We don’t need a cure. #IDAHOBIT

Ran into this old interview: “It’s the end of America. They just don’t know it yet.” Hemon pauses, grins, looks sheepishly over the top of his glasses. “They’ll probably revoke my passport after this,” he says.

The Old Land by Aleksandar Hemon www.divasofverse.com/2020/11/the-...

Recollections by Aleksandar Hemon www.divasofverse.com/2021/05/reco...

If This Were a Movie, You’d Think It Real by Aleksandar Hemon www.divasofverse.com/2025/05/if-t...

"Cities razed, boats sunk, children drowned, kindle wood carved from ancient olive trees, shrapnel-shredded bodies in tall heaps." —Aleksandar Hemon, "If This Were a Movie, You'd Think It Real," TYR's Poem of the Week yalereview.org/article/alek...

It seems that my application for the Pope job was not considered. But we must pick ourselves up and keep going.

While everything that is happening in the US, Palestine, the world has been in the making for a long time, the tsunami of gleeful evil is soul-crushing.

I'll be there. The word is Cielo is DJing at the closing party. Follows me like a fucking shadow.

92 years ago today the world’s only research institute about trans people was destroyed by the Nazis. All transphobia is inherently fascist.

najbolji roman na našim jezicima (koji nije pisan na našim jezicima) u zadnjih puno decenija. hemon feat. irena žlof. boga mu dragog, kakav tour de force

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