Majda Gama
@majda.bsky.social
Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com
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ICYMI - my poem about caring for plants & self in @alocasiamag.bsky.social
"Exhausting, this whole business of renewal
and the banana palm I nearly killed trying to kill its plague of mites
as cures go I’m worse than the disease
Death to what? What’s the motto?"
—Chiara Di Lello, Childless Millennial Considers Non-Attachment
alocasia.org/2025/10/20/c...
and the banana palm I nearly killed trying to kill its plague of mites
as cures go I’m worse than the disease
Death to what? What’s the motto?"
—Chiara Di Lello, Childless Millennial Considers Non-Attachment
alocasia.org/2025/10/20/c...
Chiara Di Lello :: “Childless Millennial Considers Non-Attachment” – ALOCASIA
alocasia.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
ICYMI - my poem about caring for plants & self in @alocasiamag.bsky.social
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And, again, if you have remote leads in writing, editing, marketing, teaching, publishing... I'd be very grateful!
Job hunting is definitely making me irritable. Just saw a job posting for 40k a year and asking for 15 years of fairly niche experience.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
And, again, if you have remote leads in writing, editing, marketing, teaching, publishing... I'd be very grateful!
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THE PROPHESY CAME TRUE
ONE SNOWSTORM AND THEN...
ONE SNOWSTORM AND THEN...
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
THE PROPHESY CAME TRUE
ONE SNOWSTORM AND THEN...
ONE SNOWSTORM AND THEN...
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i’m not sure the US can still produce national vital statistics (live births, deaths, etc). this is a shocking thing to say for a high income nation. very short thread.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
i’m not sure the US can still produce national vital statistics (live births, deaths, etc). this is a shocking thing to say for a high income nation. very short thread.
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Communities & courts neuter feds in Chicago. Feds will withdraw.
News: Feds are said to be on their way out of Chicago in the near future. Via @jmetr22b.bsky.social and me www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/10/f...
Federal Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and agents said to be leaving Chicago, sources say
Cmdr. Gregory Bovino was expected to depart Chicago within days, while most Border Patrol agents under this command would soon be redeployed elsewhere, three sources told the Tribune Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Communities & courts neuter feds in Chicago. Feds will withdraw.
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A true sentence that's still hard to believe: "After New York and other states said they would fund the SNAP program, the Trump administration ordered the states not to." But NY went to court and won, and resumed payments starting yesterday. www.wwnytv.com/2025/11/10/s...
SNAP payments arriving now through Thursday, local officials say
SNAP payments have started to arrive on people’s cards after New York state stepped in to provide the funding, given the federal government shutdown.
www.wwnytv.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
A true sentence that's still hard to believe: "After New York and other states said they would fund the SNAP program, the Trump administration ordered the states not to." But NY went to court and won, and resumed payments starting yesterday. www.wwnytv.com/2025/11/10/s...
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If you want – need – an argument as to why Reform and this incarnation of the Tory party are just horrible, look no further than this: they want shot of Poems on the Underground: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
'TfL 'splurges £72,000 on poetry in Tube carriages instead of driving down fares
EXCLUSIVE: Transport for London has defended the ‘Poems on the Underground' scheme despite criticism over spending priorities.
www.express.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you want – need – an argument as to why Reform and this incarnation of the Tory party are just horrible, look no further than this: they want shot of Poems on the Underground: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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For anyone who was sleeping, major political news last night: a judge chose a new map for Utah that will deliver a seat to Democrats.
Major point in Dems’ favor that effectively neuters the GOP’s move in Missouri, much like California countered Texas.
Major point in Dems’ favor that effectively neuters the GOP’s move in Missouri, much like California countered Texas.
Just now: The plaintiffs who were arguing that Utah GOP's congressional map is illegal won in court.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
For anyone who was sleeping, major political news last night: a judge chose a new map for Utah that will deliver a seat to Democrats.
Major point in Dems’ favor that effectively neuters the GOP’s move in Missouri, much like California countered Texas.
Major point in Dems’ favor that effectively neuters the GOP’s move in Missouri, much like California countered Texas.
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Happy pub day to @sarahweinman.com and her deeply important book Without Consent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
She Was a Victim. She Became a Headline. Here, She’s a Person.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Happy pub day to @sarahweinman.com and her deeply important book Without Consent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
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Tonight in DC! Details and tickets at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof... . @wamu.org.web.brid.gy @wtopnews.bsky.social @wpgc955.bsky.social @washingtoninformer.com @washingtonian.com @hillragdc.bsky.social @thehillishome.com @thehoya.bsky.social @pqliving.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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My book was one the books these kids saved. They are absolute heroes. But I'm so enraged that ignorant adults put them in this position.
Last month, eight books were removed from Georgia's statewide reading book for students. It was teenagers who brought this censorship to the spotlight–even though it's not their job to clean up grown-up messes.
Get to know 3 of those teens here.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Get to know 3 of those teens here.
bookriot.com/teens-who-ov...
Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025
A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
bookriot.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
My book was one the books these kids saved. They are absolute heroes. But I'm so enraged that ignorant adults put them in this position.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I have this on my car
Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
November 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I have this on my car
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Look I’m not cheering per se I’m just saying it’s important to let folks find their moment
Jesus christ, Joyce
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Look I’m not cheering per se I’m just saying it’s important to let folks find their moment
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Let’s start naming it. This isn’t an “admin,” a government,” a “president,” it’s a Dictatorship, and a Dictator fleecing all for profit. We are just watching all vanish while journalists and Dems normalize them, or use “fascism, autocracy, kleptocracy” (which most of the US can’t define). 🌱
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Let’s start naming it. This isn’t an “admin,” a government,” a “president,” it’s a Dictatorship, and a Dictator fleecing all for profit. We are just watching all vanish while journalists and Dems normalize them, or use “fascism, autocracy, kleptocracy” (which most of the US can’t define). 🌱
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Okay well this is a first for me. Donald Trump shared a video clip from my radio show interviewing Rep. Ilhan Omar. Of course Trump is using the clip to taunt her. Spoiler: She is not in any way concerned what Trump says! www.foxnews.com/politics/whi...
White House taunts Ilhan Omar with McDonald's photo, suggests she can go back to Somalia
President Donald Trump continues sparring with Rep. Ilhan Omar over her Somalia origins, and has suggested recently she should return to her birth country.
www.foxnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Okay well this is a first for me. Donald Trump shared a video clip from my radio show interviewing Rep. Ilhan Omar. Of course Trump is using the clip to taunt her. Spoiler: She is not in any way concerned what Trump says! www.foxnews.com/politics/whi...
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damn. That woulda been a good pitch last week
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
damn. That woulda been a good pitch last week
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate passes bill to end the now-41-day government shutdown, sending it to the House for a final vote this week.
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate passes bill to end the now-41-day government shutdown, sending it to the House for a final vote this week.
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
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who are the comms people letting the cavers and their supporters get this much media time/thread posting? They somehow managed to lose the left, the center, third way, and Cilizza in the same moronic play and we're supposed to listen to how quite literally everyone is wrong actually?
November 11, 2025 at 1:32 AM
who are the comms people letting the cavers and their supporters get this much media time/thread posting? They somehow managed to lose the left, the center, third way, and Cilizza in the same moronic play and we're supposed to listen to how quite literally everyone is wrong actually?
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Health insurance is about to get even more expensive for artists. Even bands you’d assume are doing well financially will likely struggle to afford healthcare.
If you can, buy yr favorite artists’ records.
If you can’t, add their stuff to playlists, follow them on streaming services, spread the word
If you can, buy yr favorite artists’ records.
If you can’t, add their stuff to playlists, follow them on streaming services, spread the word
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Health insurance is about to get even more expensive for artists. Even bands you’d assume are doing well financially will likely struggle to afford healthcare.
If you can, buy yr favorite artists’ records.
If you can’t, add their stuff to playlists, follow them on streaming services, spread the word
If you can, buy yr favorite artists’ records.
If you can’t, add their stuff to playlists, follow them on streaming services, spread the word
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The absolute fuck???
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The absolute fuck???
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Is that the promised vote? Does that count as fulfilling Thune's pledge?
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Is that the promised vote? Does that count as fulfilling Thune's pledge?