Paula Mendoza
@paulajane.bsky.social
Writer and teacher. ☼: ♉ ☾: ♋ ↗: ♑
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You can’t give ICE a budget larger than all but 15 militaries worldwide and expect the agency to demilitarize its behavior.
Yet that’s just what congressional Democrats are doing.
Yet that’s just what congressional Democrats are doing.
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
You can’t give ICE a budget larger than all but 15 militaries worldwide and expect the agency to demilitarize its behavior.
Yet that’s just what congressional Democrats are doing.
Yet that’s just what congressional Democrats are doing.
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The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
Where I'm at: AWP decompressing. Mentally drafting bulaklak. Conflicted about Ian and Poppy. Why can't friendship be enough? Other Books in LA is a dream of a bookstore. Love is a perpetual motion machine of strength and exhaustion.
March 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Where I'm at: AWP decompressing. Mentally drafting bulaklak. Conflicted about Ian and Poppy. Why can't friendship be enough? Other Books in LA is a dream of a bookstore. Love is a perpetual motion machine of strength and exhaustion.
such a good interview— Adam Plunkett on Frost and the fetishization of difficulty:
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet? - The Paris Review
“Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb...
www.theparisreview.org
March 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
such a good interview— Adam Plunkett on Frost and the fetishization of difficulty:
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
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Collaborators with the fascists.
March 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Collaborators with the fascists.
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The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders | The United States Army
U.S. Army Heritage Asian American & Pacific Islander Microsite | The United States Army
web.archive.org
March 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
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Join a community of learning, support & action w/ @huwaida.bsky.social @alissashira.bsky.social @imak48.bsky.social @Labor4Palestine @adalahjustice.bsky.social @uscpr.bsky.social @jvp.bsky.social @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social @surj.bsky.social @catalystproject.bsky.social
Details: comrades.education
Details: comrades.education
March 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Join a community of learning, support & action w/ @huwaida.bsky.social @alissashira.bsky.social @imak48.bsky.social @Labor4Palestine @adalahjustice.bsky.social @uscpr.bsky.social @jvp.bsky.social @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social @surj.bsky.social @catalystproject.bsky.social
Details: comrades.education
Details: comrades.education
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Mahmoud Khalil has filed an emergency petition to return to NY. He is being held in Louisiana.
“It feels like my husband was kidnapped from home, and at a time when we were supposed to be planning to welcome our first child into this world,” said Khalil's wife, who is eight months pregnant.
“It feels like my husband was kidnapped from home, and at a time when we were supposed to be planning to welcome our first child into this world,” said Khalil's wife, who is eight months pregnant.
March 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Mahmoud Khalil has filed an emergency petition to return to NY. He is being held in Louisiana.
“It feels like my husband was kidnapped from home, and at a time when we were supposed to be planning to welcome our first child into this world,” said Khalil's wife, who is eight months pregnant.
“It feels like my husband was kidnapped from home, and at a time when we were supposed to be planning to welcome our first child into this world,” said Khalil's wife, who is eight months pregnant.
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SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.
He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained
"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."
zeteo.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.
He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
Thrilled to be moderating this amazing panel at AWP this year. If you'll be there, I invite you to join us! #AWP2025 #AWPLA #Filipinowriters #Filipinxwriters
March 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Thrilled to be moderating this amazing panel at AWP this year. If you'll be there, I invite you to join us! #AWP2025 #AWPLA #Filipinowriters #Filipinxwriters
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This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
www.npr.org
February 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.
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questions for reflection, journaling or conversation with people in your community:
March 1, 2025 at 2:09 AM
questions for reflection, journaling or conversation with people in your community:
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The last three weeks in a small coastal town in Maine we have been doing weekly protests. 4 attended the first week 21 the second and 70 the third. I suggest you pic a spot not matter how small a town and make your voices heard! People will join you 💙
March 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The last three weeks in a small coastal town in Maine we have been doing weekly protests. 4 attended the first week 21 the second and 70 the third. I suggest you pic a spot not matter how small a town and make your voices heard! People will join you 💙
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The AFL-CIO was protesting in Wyoming today.
Wyoming Workers Rally At Capitol To Protest Legislature, Trump Cuts
Around 150 Wyoming workers gathered outside the Capitol on Friday to protest moves by the Wyoming Legislature and Trump administration cuts.
cowboystatedaily.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The AFL-CIO was protesting in Wyoming today.
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This week in Iowa we may have set a record as an estimated 2,500 people showed up to protest anti-trans legislation. It's certainly the loudest and most well attended protest event I've been to at the Iowa Capitol, and I've been to a number of them over the years.
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Word is "Earliest debate will start on House side would be 1pm. But could be later. Set for time certain vote so can’t go past 11pm...On Senate side no idea."
Chanting for 20 minutes solid past the end of the hearing.
Chanting for 20 minutes solid past the end of the hearing.
March 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This week in Iowa we may have set a record as an estimated 2,500 people showed up to protest anti-trans legislation. It's certainly the loudest and most well attended protest event I've been to at the Iowa Capitol, and I've been to a number of them over the years.
bsky.app/profile/covi...
bsky.app/profile/covi...
Just watched episode 7 of Severance. That was fucking devastating. I'm haunted, heartbroken.
March 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Just watched episode 7 of Severance. That was fucking devastating. I'm haunted, heartbroken.
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The link in this post actually works now...
What Makes for an Effective Boycott? A checklist of requirements for a successful boycott include “a target (who is supposed to change behavior)” and “a demand (so the target knows what they have to do to get the boycott to stop)”. [kottke.org]
What Makes for an Effective Boycott?
From Choose Democracy and Build the Resistance, Boycott Central is a fledgling resource about boycotts. I found this checklist of requirements for effective boycotts really interesting & useful:
a target (who is suppo
kottke.org
February 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The link in this post actually works now...
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The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Application for a U.S. Passport
The Department of State has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on these collections from all interested individuals and organizations....
www.federalregister.gov
February 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.
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I think everyone should apply for a DOGE job. Or at least, you know, fill out the form. Maybe even apply for other people. Fictional people, even. Inanimate objects. In this form right here. doge.gov/join
Join the U.S. Digital Service (DOGE) | DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency
Drive change that uplifts the American people.
doge.gov
February 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I think everyone should apply for a DOGE job. Or at least, you know, fill out the form. Maybe even apply for other people. Fictional people, even. Inanimate objects. In this form right here. doge.gov/join
Surprised myself how happy I was to watch Canada win the Four Nations Face-Off game last night. Damn good game. Binnington's incredible.
February 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Surprised myself how happy I was to watch Canada win the Four Nations Face-Off game last night. Damn good game. Binnington's incredible.