Brenna Gomez
@brennago.bsky.social
Writer. Inaugural Tin House Reading Fellow. Bi. Fiction in Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly, Joyland, Complete Sentence, and more. She/her. https://www.brennagomez.com/
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The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon
The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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God the number of times I have been through this with the same damned bus of clowns in the senate. They need to go.
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
God the number of times I have been through this with the same damned bus of clowns in the senate. They need to go.
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NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts.
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
November 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts.
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...
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REAL.
Somebody here said joyscrolling sure is a nice change of pace.
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
REAL.
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Teen Vogue has produced some of the strongest and most important political journalism of the past few years.
This is a monstrous development. I am so sorry for everyone.
This is a monstrous development. I am so sorry for everyone.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Teen Vogue has produced some of the strongest and most important political journalism of the past few years.
This is a monstrous development. I am so sorry for everyone.
This is a monstrous development. I am so sorry for everyone.
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The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is open for enrollment for people with Long COVID. More info at visit longcovid.scripps.edu.
Home - Long COVID Treatment Trial
Be part of groundbreaking Long COVID research from Scripps Research. We endeavor to conduct a portfolio of Long COVID clinical trials.
longcovid.scripps.edu
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
The Long COVID Treatment Trial – Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T) is open for enrollment for people with Long COVID. More info at visit longcovid.scripps.edu.
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!!!!!
BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
!!!!!
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To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
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Having now read the Administration's proposed compact with universities, I have two thoughts:
This is not the sort of system set up by an administration that ever expects a different party to be in power again.
It is a "fuck you, make me" moment for universities.
This is not the sort of system set up by an administration that ever expects a different party to be in power again.
It is a "fuck you, make me" moment for universities.
October 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Having now read the Administration's proposed compact with universities, I have two thoughts:
This is not the sort of system set up by an administration that ever expects a different party to be in power again.
It is a "fuck you, make me" moment for universities.
This is not the sort of system set up by an administration that ever expects a different party to be in power again.
It is a "fuck you, make me" moment for universities.
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By my read, the only way for a university to comply with this compact is to gut their social sciences, arts, and humanities, and a good chunk of their sciences, too.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
www.washingtonexaminer.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
By my read, the only way for a university to comply with this compact is to gut their social sciences, arts, and humanities, and a good chunk of their sciences, too.
www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
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On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned
Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.
www.assignedmedia.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
And nobody covered it.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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🎯
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
September 9, 2025 at 3:53 AM
🎯
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📣 applications are open for periplus, a mentorship collective serving writers of color! 📣
if you’re looking for mentorship & more community & you’re a writer of color, you can find more info below. this will be the sixth year our collective is active
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
if you’re looking for mentorship & more community & you’re a writer of color, you can find more info below. this will be the sixth year our collective is active
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
PERIPLUS: An FAQ
PERIPLUS: AN FAQ Updated August 2025 Hi! Thanks for your interest in Periplus, a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. We're glad you’re here. Rea...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
📣 applications are open for periplus, a mentorship collective serving writers of color! 📣
if you’re looking for mentorship & more community & you’re a writer of color, you can find more info below. this will be the sixth year our collective is active
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
if you’re looking for mentorship & more community & you’re a writer of color, you can find more info below. this will be the sixth year our collective is active
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
August 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
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Every day I draw closer to actually planning what was initially a joke of an idea — a private conference where people who feel absolutely insane in our regular life for not believing robots will save us from our ogliarchs can just get together and latent to be normal for 36 hours. Over drinks.
August 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every day I draw closer to actually planning what was initially a joke of an idea — a private conference where people who feel absolutely insane in our regular life for not believing robots will save us from our ogliarchs can just get together and latent to be normal for 36 hours. Over drinks.
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“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”
300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence.
For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...
www.msnbc.com
July 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
“This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of federal policy choices — most immediately, sweeping job cuts across public-sector agencies where Black women have long held the strongest foothold in middle-class employment.”
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Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥
August 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥
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I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
July 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.
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Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
July 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.
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One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not.
—Fanny Howe, RIP
—Fanny Howe, RIP
July 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not.
—Fanny Howe, RIP
—Fanny Howe, RIP
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every 60 days the supreme court reminds us that ... these people suck
June 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
every 60 days the supreme court reminds us that ... these people suck
An incredible thread that I needed to read right now:
Things about mainstream publishing I wish more people knew:
1) The NY Times Bestseller List is a marketing list, not an accurate list of the best-selling books for that period.
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1) The NY Times Bestseller List is a marketing list, not an accurate list of the best-selling books for that period.
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June 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
An incredible thread that I needed to read right now:
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time