carissa knick
@carissaknick.bsky.social
tip-toeing out of twitter hell (she/her)
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During the Jim Crow era, most Americans were ignorant of the fascism going on in Southern states because mainstream media didn't cover it until the Civil Rights Movement really got going in the 1950s. Today, it's northern "blue states" under fascist attack with the rest of the country in the dark.
I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder.
Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.
Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.
January 13, 2026 at 5:15 PM
During the Jim Crow era, most Americans were ignorant of the fascism going on in Southern states because mainstream media didn't cover it until the Civil Rights Movement really got going in the 1950s. Today, it's northern "blue states" under fascist attack with the rest of the country in the dark.
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this is the funniest thing i’ve ever read. isaac chotiner interviews a resident of the town from the lottery.
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death - Charlotte_Stant - The Lottery - Shirley Jackson [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
January 11, 2026 at 3:05 AM
this is the funniest thing i’ve ever read. isaac chotiner interviews a resident of the town from the lottery.
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436
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For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
Classic Democratic no-win. All of them voted against the OBAA, which supercharged ICE funding and hiring. But they won't say they'd "abolish ICE" so they'll get yelled at (mostly by people who'll vote for them in the midterms after threatening not to).
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
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ICE agent quit your fucking job simulator
January 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
ICE agent quit your fucking job simulator
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As a Brown alum and Providence resident, I have been trying to find the right words to capture the vast grief layered across this community and the people who love it. In the end, I’m not sure if it’s really, fully possible to articulate. But I tried: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Watching Providence retreat into itself after the Brown shooting
What it's like when this uniquely American horror arrives in your city.
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
As a Brown alum and Providence resident, I have been trying to find the right words to capture the vast grief layered across this community and the people who love it. In the end, I’m not sure if it’s really, fully possible to articulate. But I tried: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trying to finish up some last bits of work before the holidays but this weekend finally snapped off the lever in my brain that makes Stuff Happen. There’s nothing left. 2025 won.
December 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Trying to finish up some last bits of work before the holidays but this weekend finally snapped off the lever in my brain that makes Stuff Happen. There’s nothing left. 2025 won.
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I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.
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Happy Shirley Jackson's birthday!
I continue to think that, despite various accolades, she is underappreciated as a short story writer. Here's something I wrote about her story "Pillar of Salt" a few years ago:
mumpsimus.blogspot.com/2022/09/time...
I continue to think that, despite various accolades, she is underappreciated as a short story writer. Here's something I wrote about her story "Pillar of Salt" a few years ago:
mumpsimus.blogspot.com/2022/09/time...
Time for Anxiety: "Pillar of Salt" by Shirley Jackson
Choosing a favorite Shirley Jackson story is nearly impossible. "The Lottery" is of course the famous one — easily among the most famous s...
mumpsimus.blogspot.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Happy Shirley Jackson's birthday!
I continue to think that, despite various accolades, she is underappreciated as a short story writer. Here's something I wrote about her story "Pillar of Salt" a few years ago:
mumpsimus.blogspot.com/2022/09/time...
I continue to think that, despite various accolades, she is underappreciated as a short story writer. Here's something I wrote about her story "Pillar of Salt" a few years ago:
mumpsimus.blogspot.com/2022/09/time...
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Mayor Johnson is cooking
October 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Mayor Johnson is cooking
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it is october 7. for two years hamas has been offering to return israel's hostages in exchange for an israeli withdrawal from gaza to which benjamin netanyahu has said "no," ignoring the hostages' families demands and prioritizing the destruction of gaza over saving the hostages lives.
October 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
it is october 7. for two years hamas has been offering to return israel's hostages in exchange for an israeli withdrawal from gaza to which benjamin netanyahu has said "no," ignoring the hostages' families demands and prioritizing the destruction of gaza over saving the hostages lives.
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as SCOTUS considers conversion therapy (what! is! there! to! consider!) thought some of you may be interested in this choose-your-own-adventure game I released a decade ago, REPARATIVE. you play a therapist at a conversion therapy clinic:
jamforleelah81.itch.io/reparative
jamforleelah81.itch.io/reparative
REPARATIVE by zoewsaldana
You're a new hire at Reparative Faith Counseling..
jamforleelah81.itch.io
October 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
as SCOTUS considers conversion therapy (what! is! there! to! consider!) thought some of you may be interested in this choose-your-own-adventure game I released a decade ago, REPARATIVE. you play a therapist at a conversion therapy clinic:
jamforleelah81.itch.io/reparative
jamforleelah81.itch.io/reparative
entranced by these bits from Edwidge Danticat’s introduction to Hadriana and All My Dreams.
October 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
entranced by these bits from Edwidge Danticat’s introduction to Hadriana and All My Dreams.
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Divest from the "Novel That Wishes It Were a Screenplay" industrial complex NOW
September 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Divest from the "Novel That Wishes It Were a Screenplay" industrial complex NOW
last time I saw him he was going through a phase most accurately called “pirate ska”
September 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
last time I saw him he was going through a phase most accurately called “pirate ska”
I’m watching Hellraiser free with ads so every half hour it cuts to someone opening a can of tuna. Pinhead’s cannery side hustle.
September 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I’m watching Hellraiser free with ads so every half hour it cuts to someone opening a can of tuna. Pinhead’s cannery side hustle.
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HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
September 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED
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obsessed w the medieval origin of harbinger, it's an amazing word:
traveled from Old Saxon through medieval French, conveys in origins harbor, a place of safety. A medieval harbinger was one who provides lodging, as well as one who travels ahead in search of safe dwelling, a herald and guarantor.
traveled from Old Saxon through medieval French, conveys in origins harbor, a place of safety. A medieval harbinger was one who provides lodging, as well as one who travels ahead in search of safe dwelling, a herald and guarantor.
September 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
obsessed w the medieval origin of harbinger, it's an amazing word:
traveled from Old Saxon through medieval French, conveys in origins harbor, a place of safety. A medieval harbinger was one who provides lodging, as well as one who travels ahead in search of safe dwelling, a herald and guarantor.
traveled from Old Saxon through medieval French, conveys in origins harbor, a place of safety. A medieval harbinger was one who provides lodging, as well as one who travels ahead in search of safe dwelling, a herald and guarantor.
the last twenty four hours have made me feel absolutely insane
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
the last twenty four hours have made me feel absolutely insane
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The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.
September 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.
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Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
September 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
and stay out, you little rat fucks
Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.
September 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
and stay out, you little rat fucks
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I actually think "we are not giving the GOP a single vote to fund this govt so long as there are troops in our cities or even could in the future be troops in american cities" is a good message and one easily intelligible to the average american.
September 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I actually think "we are not giving the GOP a single vote to fund this govt so long as there are troops in our cities or even could in the future be troops in american cities" is a good message and one easily intelligible to the average american.