Litsa Dremousis
@litsadremousis.bsky.social
ALTITUDE SICKNESS (Future Tense Books). Upcoming: A EULOGY FOR THE LIVING. Left WaPo b/c of Bezos. The Blvr, Esquire, Flare Lit Mag, McSwy's, NPR, NY Mag, NYT, Pictura Journal, P&W, PW, The Rumpus, Short Beasts, et al. #pwME https://litsadremousis.com
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The books you should read from Washingtonians past and present.
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Seattle Metropolitan Magazine named my first book Altitude Sickness (Future Tense Books) to its all-time 20 Books Every Seattleite Must Read list and then to its Big Seattle Reading List. I'm now writing my second book, Fire in the Hole: A Eulogy for the Living.
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If he isn’t non compos mentis, no one is.
Trump: "Coal doesn't mind very cold weather, right? You're not allowed to say the word 'coal' with preceding by saying 'clean, beautiful coal.' It's not affected by bad weather. The windmills are are frozen. You know that, right? They don't turn. The windmills aren't turning."
January 29, 2026 at 6:23 PM
If he isn’t non compos mentis, no one is.
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Amazon has spent over $70M on Melania Trump’s Eva Braun “documentary” while also laying off 16,000 workers. These are choices. So is how you buy stuff. Vote with your wallet.
January 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Amazon has spent over $70M on Melania Trump’s Eva Braun “documentary” while also laying off 16,000 workers. These are choices. So is how you buy stuff. Vote with your wallet.
Congresswoman Jayapal in my Congresswoman and, overall, I admire her quite a bit.
But she represents the WA-07, one of the bluest districts in the U.S.
If SHE won’t say, “Abolish ICE”, what are we even doing?
But she represents the WA-07, one of the bluest districts in the U.S.
If SHE won’t say, “Abolish ICE”, what are we even doing?
Senate Democrats must continue to stand strong and refuse to send DHS and ICE another dime as they terrorize our communities.
Our safety, our lives, and our constitutional rights depend on it.
Our safety, our lives, and our constitutional rights depend on it.
January 29, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Congresswoman Jayapal in my Congresswoman and, overall, I admire her quite a bit.
But she represents the WA-07, one of the bluest districts in the U.S.
If SHE won’t say, “Abolish ICE”, what are we even doing?
But she represents the WA-07, one of the bluest districts in the U.S.
If SHE won’t say, “Abolish ICE”, what are we even doing?
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Facial recognition "being used on the street in ways that are dangerous, that are totally unprecedented in this country, and that are, frankly, blatantly illegal."
ICE Agents Film Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Facial Recognition Push
ICE and CBP are using facial recognition technology to facilitate President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. With a smartphone app, immigration officers can scan faces of people they encounter and q...
www.democracynow.org
January 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Facial recognition "being used on the street in ways that are dangerous, that are totally unprecedented in this country, and that are, frankly, blatantly illegal."
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We hope to publish these firsthand accounts in the opinion pages of the Minnesota Star Tribune and through social media in the coming days and weeks.
Kumar: Have you been stopped or detained by ICE? Share your story with us.
We hope to publish these firsthand accounts in the opinion pages of the Minnesota Star Tribune and through social media in the coming days and weeks.
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January 29, 2026 at 5:04 PM
We hope to publish these firsthand accounts in the opinion pages of the Minnesota Star Tribune and through social media in the coming days and weeks.
Just called my Senators yet again.
Told Murray @murray.senate.gov not to stand slack-jawed next to Schumer while he blathers on about reforming ICE.
Told Cantwell's staffer @cantwell.senate.gov that Cantwell's persistent middle of the road bs will get her unelected.
Keep calling.
#AbolishICE
Told Murray @murray.senate.gov not to stand slack-jawed next to Schumer while he blathers on about reforming ICE.
Told Cantwell's staffer @cantwell.senate.gov that Cantwell's persistent middle of the road bs will get her unelected.
Keep calling.
#AbolishICE
January 29, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Just called my Senators yet again.
Told Murray @murray.senate.gov not to stand slack-jawed next to Schumer while he blathers on about reforming ICE.
Told Cantwell's staffer @cantwell.senate.gov that Cantwell's persistent middle of the road bs will get her unelected.
Keep calling.
#AbolishICE
Told Murray @murray.senate.gov not to stand slack-jawed next to Schumer while he blathers on about reforming ICE.
Told Cantwell's staffer @cantwell.senate.gov that Cantwell's persistent middle of the road bs will get her unelected.
Keep calling.
#AbolishICE
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Periodic reminder that Congresswoman Omar and Congresswoman Pressley introduced the #LongCovid Moonshot Bill in the House in Sept 2024 and it specifically included #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis.
Of course, we know what happened next.
But they're heroes to those of us w/ post-infectious diseases.
Of course, we know what happened next.
But they're heroes to those of us w/ post-infectious diseases.
CNN: Are you okay?
Omar :I've survived war. And I'm definitely going to survive intimidation and whatever these people think they can throw at me because I'm built that way.
Omar :I've survived war. And I'm definitely going to survive intimidation and whatever these people think they can throw at me because I'm built that way.
January 28, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Periodic reminder that Congresswoman Omar and Congresswoman Pressley introduced the #LongCovid Moonshot Bill in the House in Sept 2024 and it specifically included #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis.
Of course, we know what happened next.
But they're heroes to those of us w/ post-infectious diseases.
Of course, we know what happened next.
But they're heroes to those of us w/ post-infectious diseases.
Thinking of Dostoyevsky tonight:
"The degree of civilization in society can be judged by its prisons."
"The degree of civilization in society can be judged by its prisons."
January 29, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Thinking of Dostoyevsky tonight:
"The degree of civilization in society can be judged by its prisons."
"The degree of civilization in society can be judged by its prisons."
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Lauryn Hill will lead Grammy tribute to Roberta Flack and D’Angelo
Lauryn Hill Will Lead Grammy Tribute to Roberta Flack and D’Angelo
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Sounds like what they do with cops when they kill Black folks. PAID administrative leave?
January 28, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Sounds like what they do with cops when they kill Black folks. PAID administrative leave?
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this quotation comes to a satisfying conclusion
NEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social:
“I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.”
"In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
“I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.”
"In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Brother calls Ilhan Omar suspect ‘right-wing extremist,’ has hated Somalis for years
Exclusive: ‘In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t,’ Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother told The Independent
www.independent.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 PM
this quotation comes to a satisfying conclusion
"This is how men who cannot tolerate a woman’s disrespect put her in her place: with violence or the threat of it."
I was a Domestic Violence Victim Advocate in the Nineties and I've been saying from the start that it's likely all the men in ICE have committed DV.
I was a Domestic Violence Victim Advocate in the Nineties and I've been saying from the start that it's likely all the men in ICE have committed DV.
Women who refuse to submit to male authority, refuse God-given heterosexual relationships, or reject their ‘natural’ roles as reproducers of the nation are seen as the enemy.
This is why, after an ICE agent shot Renee Nicole Good, he lobbed the phrase “fucking bitch” as she was dying.
This is why, after an ICE agent shot Renee Nicole Good, he lobbed the phrase “fucking bitch” as she was dying.
ICE violence is fueled by misogyny and white nationalism
How the Trump administration has mobilized state-sponsored terror in Minneapolis and beyond.
www.motherjones.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:55 PM
"This is how men who cannot tolerate a woman’s disrespect put her in her place: with violence or the threat of it."
I was a Domestic Violence Victim Advocate in the Nineties and I've been saying from the start that it's likely all the men in ICE have committed DV.
I was a Domestic Violence Victim Advocate in the Nineties and I've been saying from the start that it's likely all the men in ICE have committed DV.
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Just a reminder that hundreds of people were literally fired from their jobs for not grieving appropriately after the death of Charlie Kirk
I'm sure the heterodox civility cops will be all over this one
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 AM
Just a reminder that hundreds of people were literally fired from their jobs for not grieving appropriately after the death of Charlie Kirk
Noem deserves everything coming to her.
And it's funny that a woman willing to align herself w/ some of the worst men on earth is now playing the victim.
And it's funny that a woman willing to align herself w/ some of the worst men on earth is now playing the victim.
“Two Republican senators joined the growing chorus of lawmakers calling for the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after the death of a Minnesota man over the weekend at the hands of federal immigration agents.”
www.ms.now/news/kristi-...
www.ms.now/news/kristi-...
Two GOP senators say Kristi Noem's time is up at the Department of Homeland Security
Sens. Thom Tillis and Lisa Murkowski said it was time for the secretary to move on, while President Donald Trump called them both "losers."
www.ms.now
January 28, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Noem deserves everything coming to her.
And it's funny that a woman willing to align herself w/ some of the worst men on earth is now playing the victim.
And it's funny that a woman willing to align herself w/ some of the worst men on earth is now playing the victim.
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Iran’s dead are piling up in the streets – so why has the West been silent?
Iran’s dead are piling up in the streets – so why has the West been silent?
Iran’s dead are piling up in the streets – so why has the West been silent?
www.independent.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Iran’s dead are piling up in the streets – so why has the West been silent?
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Once upon a time in Nazi occupied Maine…
ICE thugs from Arkansas thought they could drop their masks and hit the bars.
ICE thugs from Arkansas thought they could drop their masks and hit the bars.
January 27, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Once upon a time in Nazi occupied Maine…
ICE thugs from Arkansas thought they could drop their masks and hit the bars.
ICE thugs from Arkansas thought they could drop their masks and hit the bars.
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More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.
January 28, 2026 at 3:02 PM
More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.
As they should.
Foreign countries are reporting the ICE shootings of innocent citizens as “Executions”.
January 28, 2026 at 4:27 PM
As they should.
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#OtD 28 Jan 1995 40 fascists outside the Clarence Inn, Manchester, attempted to attack a Bloody Sunday commemoration, but were beaten back by members of Anti-Fascist Action and their supporters stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1000...
January 28, 2026 at 4:25 PM
#OtD 28 Jan 1995 40 fascists outside the Clarence Inn, Manchester, attempted to attack a Bloody Sunday commemoration, but were beaten back by members of Anti-Fascist Action and their supporters stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1000...
Great points re the authority of state courts to charge, try, and obtain convictions for ICE and why no president can pardon anyone convicted in state courts.
This is exactly what I’m saying. The Philadelphia district attorney, Larry Krasner. 👇
January 28, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Great points re the authority of state courts to charge, try, and obtain convictions for ICE and why no president can pardon anyone convicted in state courts.
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I made a promise to Alex’s parents to continue to tell his story.
An ICU nurse at the VA, an outdoorsman, a deeply generous, compassionate friend and family member, and a true son of Minnesota. Rest in peace, Alex.
An ICU nurse at the VA, an outdoorsman, a deeply generous, compassionate friend and family member, and a true son of Minnesota. Rest in peace, Alex.
January 28, 2026 at 3:43 PM
I made a promise to Alex’s parents to continue to tell his story.
An ICU nurse at the VA, an outdoorsman, a deeply generous, compassionate friend and family member, and a true son of Minnesota. Rest in peace, Alex.
An ICU nurse at the VA, an outdoorsman, a deeply generous, compassionate friend and family member, and a true son of Minnesota. Rest in peace, Alex.
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Neil Young has escalated his way against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland. More:
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free
Neil Young has escalated his way against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland.
www.rollingstone.com
January 28, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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Of course. And that’s why Dems need to lean in and work towards dismantling ICE.
First no funding.
Impeach Noem.
Demand hearings on ICE’s operation in MN.
Demand that Miller resign.
Don’t let up.
First no funding.
Impeach Noem.
Demand hearings on ICE’s operation in MN.
Demand that Miller resign.
Don’t let up.
“An administration official gave away the game to Punchbowl News, admitting that these “de-escalatory measures” are about placating Senate Democrats so they don’t seize this moment to demand restrictions on ICE as part of any government funding package.”
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
newrepublic.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Of course. And that’s why Dems need to lean in and work towards dismantling ICE.
First no funding.
Impeach Noem.
Demand hearings on ICE’s operation in MN.
Demand that Miller resign.
Don’t let up.
First no funding.
Impeach Noem.
Demand hearings on ICE’s operation in MN.
Demand that Miller resign.
Don’t let up.
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ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown
Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:42 AM
ICE deported a 5-year-old US citizen to Honduras, where she had never been, after holding her & her mother in a hotel room 80 miles from home for several days and not allowing them access to a lawyer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...