Carleton Whaley
@carletonwhaley.bsky.social
Writer, Boston based. Work in Black Warrior Review, X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House, and more.
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- Prisons absolutely can & should be abolished.
- Defunding police to fund social & educational programs will do more for crime than any amount of funding to police ever will.
- Until UBI, housing, medical care, & food are guaranteed to ALL parents & pregnant folks, adoption is unethical at best.
- Defunding police to fund social & educational programs will do more for crime than any amount of funding to police ever will.
- Until UBI, housing, medical care, & food are guaranteed to ALL parents & pregnant folks, adoption is unethical at best.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
- Prisons absolutely can & should be abolished.
- Defunding police to fund social & educational programs will do more for crime than any amount of funding to police ever will.
- Until UBI, housing, medical care, & food are guaranteed to ALL parents & pregnant folks, adoption is unethical at best.
- Defunding police to fund social & educational programs will do more for crime than any amount of funding to police ever will.
- Until UBI, housing, medical care, & food are guaranteed to ALL parents & pregnant folks, adoption is unethical at best.
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There are rains in Palestine. My friends in Gaza need tarpaulins to prevent their tents flooding. Please either give at the link below or send money to my Venmo @mo-martin-1 and I will forward it to them
Donate to Help Karam family to be safe, organized by Karam Alghandour
To Whom It May Concern / Concerned Humanitarian Agencies,
I am Karam Fathi, a 7-y… Karam Alghandour needs your support for Help Karam family to be safe
www.gofundme.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There are rains in Palestine. My friends in Gaza need tarpaulins to prevent their tents flooding. Please either give at the link below or send money to my Venmo @mo-martin-1 and I will forward it to them
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Friends! I'll be up near Westchester this Friday night, in Connecticut Saturday night, and the East Village Sunday afternoon. Please come? 🙏❤️
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Friends! I'll be up near Westchester this Friday night, in Connecticut Saturday night, and the East Village Sunday afternoon. Please come? 🙏❤️
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US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.
United States skips UN review of its human rights record
US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.
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Lit mag friends: I have a couple of undergrads who would be amazing readers for your journal. And one is looking for a summer internship, specifically (for grad hours, unpaid).
Anyone have a spot to offer?
Anyone have a spot to offer?
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Lit mag friends: I have a couple of undergrads who would be amazing readers for your journal. And one is looking for a summer internship, specifically (for grad hours, unpaid).
Anyone have a spot to offer?
Anyone have a spot to offer?
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Yo, it's my birthday! 🥳
It'd mean the world if you checked out my clean energy newsletter, Green Juice. I work really hard on it.
Clean energy—how it works, why it matters, and who's trying to stop it—is more important than ever.
Here's a good one: www.greenjuice.wtf/electric-uti...
#EnergySky
It'd mean the world if you checked out my clean energy newsletter, Green Juice. I work really hard on it.
Clean energy—how it works, why it matters, and who's trying to stop it—is more important than ever.
Here's a good one: www.greenjuice.wtf/electric-uti...
#EnergySky
The surprising, infuriating way electric utilities make money
It sounds ridiculous, but most electric utility companies don't make money selling you electricity. In fact, many of them don't even produce their own electricity. So what do they do? And how do they ...
www.greenjuice.wtf
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Yo, it's my birthday! 🥳
It'd mean the world if you checked out my clean energy newsletter, Green Juice. I work really hard on it.
Clean energy—how it works, why it matters, and who's trying to stop it—is more important than ever.
Here's a good one: www.greenjuice.wtf/electric-uti...
#EnergySky
It'd mean the world if you checked out my clean energy newsletter, Green Juice. I work really hard on it.
Clean energy—how it works, why it matters, and who's trying to stop it—is more important than ever.
Here's a good one: www.greenjuice.wtf/electric-uti...
#EnergySky
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Diamonds Ford thought she was shooting at an intruder when cops raided her Florida home without knocking. Then she was charged with attempted murder.
Read her essay ⬇️
Read her essay ⬇️
I ‘Stood My Ground’ — but It Was the Police Raiding My House
Diamonds Ford thought she was shooting at an intruder when Florida cops raided her home without knocking. Then she was charged with attempted murder.
www.themarshallproject.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Diamonds Ford thought she was shooting at an intruder when cops raided her Florida home without knocking. Then she was charged with attempted murder.
Read her essay ⬇️
Read her essay ⬇️
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The “Yellow Line” splitting Gaza in two is supposed to be temporary under the terms of Trump’s “peace” plan and the ceasefire agreement. But the fact that those terms were left intentionally vague suggests that the partition of Gaza was the point.
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/ther...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/ther...
#Palestine #Israel
There’s a ‘Yellow Line’ dividing Gaza. Is it here to stay?
The “Yellow Line” splitting Gaza in two is supposed to be temporary under the terms of Trump’s “peace” plan and the ceasefire agreement. But the fact that those terms were left intentionally...
mondoweiss.net
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The “Yellow Line” splitting Gaza in two is supposed to be temporary under the terms of Trump’s “peace” plan and the ceasefire agreement. But the fact that those terms were left intentionally vague suggests that the partition of Gaza was the point.
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/ther...
#Palestine #Israel
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/ther...
#Palestine #Israel
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Connecticut friends!!! 🥰🥰🥰
CT & Tri-State friends, please join us!
Very much looking forward to this book talk with @writesloud.bsky.social in a few weeks!
obodoserendipitybooks.com/event/2025-1...
Very much looking forward to this book talk with @writesloud.bsky.social in a few weeks!
obodoserendipitybooks.com/event/2025-1...
November 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Connecticut friends!!! 🥰🥰🥰
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this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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Heleena Darwish, the author of this dispatch from Palestine, is also a qualified English language teacher raising money to establish an educational centre in Khan Younis. If you are able to support, your contribution will help Heleena rebuild a future for children in south Gaza.⤵️
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Heleena Darwish, the author of this dispatch from Palestine, is also a qualified English language teacher raising money to establish an educational centre in Khan Younis. If you are able to support, your contribution will help Heleena rebuild a future for children in south Gaza.⤵️
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WE DID IT
THE FLYTRAP MET OUR ANNUAL SUBSCRIBER GOAL
WE CAN PAY OUR FOUNDERS THIS YEAR
WE CAN FUND FREELANCERS NEXT YEAR
MORE MOTHERFUCKIN' WORKER-OWNED CRUNCHY QUEER FEMINIST JOURNALISM FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE
THE FLYTRAP MET OUR ANNUAL SUBSCRIBER GOAL
WE CAN PAY OUR FOUNDERS THIS YEAR
WE CAN FUND FREELANCERS NEXT YEAR
MORE MOTHERFUCKIN' WORKER-OWNED CRUNCHY QUEER FEMINIST JOURNALISM FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE
Freakingout Crisis GIF
Alt: Freakingout Crisis GIF
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
WE DID IT
THE FLYTRAP MET OUR ANNUAL SUBSCRIBER GOAL
WE CAN PAY OUR FOUNDERS THIS YEAR
WE CAN FUND FREELANCERS NEXT YEAR
MORE MOTHERFUCKIN' WORKER-OWNED CRUNCHY QUEER FEMINIST JOURNALISM FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE
THE FLYTRAP MET OUR ANNUAL SUBSCRIBER GOAL
WE CAN PAY OUR FOUNDERS THIS YEAR
WE CAN FUND FREELANCERS NEXT YEAR
MORE MOTHERFUCKIN' WORKER-OWNED CRUNCHY QUEER FEMINIST JOURNALISM FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE
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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 7:52 PM
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.
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I think there should be a registry of everyone who said this type stuff and an official bureau in charge of making sure they follow through with it. you have 30 days to vacate the city or your name is legally changed to Little Baby Stinko and then a number indicating which Little Baby Stinko you are
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.
nypost.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I think there should be a registry of everyone who said this type stuff and an official bureau in charge of making sure they follow through with it. you have 30 days to vacate the city or your name is legally changed to Little Baby Stinko and then a number indicating which Little Baby Stinko you are
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Help Katie get a room!
70/100 to get a motel in Mississippi
So close
If I sleep in the hospital parking lot you bet your ass there will be cops
Pls help ca/v kseniadeville
So close
If I sleep in the hospital parking lot you bet your ass there will be cops
Pls help ca/v kseniadeville
October 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Help Katie get a room!
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ICYMI, I have two micros up at the wonderful @hexliterary.bsky.social! Here’s one:
hexliterary.com?p=2909
hexliterary.com?p=2909
October 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
ICYMI, I have two micros up at the wonderful @hexliterary.bsky.social! Here’s one:
hexliterary.com?p=2909
hexliterary.com?p=2909
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we have a story by Marina Manoukian !!
in this story, the narrator’s father digs his grave in the backyard & keeps the open grave there for years. once, the narrator sleepwalked & woke up in the grave…
xraylitmag.com/the-backyard...
in this story, the narrator’s father digs his grave in the backyard & keeps the open grave there for years. once, the narrator sleepwalked & woke up in the grave…
xraylitmag.com/the-backyard...
THE BACKYARD GRAVE by Marina Manoukian
My father dug his own grave. But he didn’t use it right away. For years, the grave lay unfilled and inviting. All he would do was visit it once in a while, stand by its empty feet, and sigh. I don’t k...
xraylitmag.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
we have a story by Marina Manoukian !!
in this story, the narrator’s father digs his grave in the backyard & keeps the open grave there for years. once, the narrator sleepwalked & woke up in the grave…
xraylitmag.com/the-backyard...
in this story, the narrator’s father digs his grave in the backyard & keeps the open grave there for years. once, the narrator sleepwalked & woke up in the grave…
xraylitmag.com/the-backyard...
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Narrower, related question: what’s everyone’s favorite Borges story?
Okay, here’s a prompt: what’s your favorite short story by someone primarily known for their novels
October 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Narrower, related question: what’s everyone’s favorite Borges story?
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Chris Kelso is interviewed by Alice @notveryalice.bsky.social about his book on Żuławski’s 'Possession'
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
CONTROL AND THE FUCKTOPUS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS KELSO ABOUT ŻUŁAWSKI’S 'POSSESSION' by Alice
Chris Kelso is a Scottish writer of dark, weird fiction. I came to his work through Voidheads (Schism), and he’s since published Metampsychosis with Feral Dove, and most recently, a monograph on the f...
xraylitmag.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Chris Kelso is interviewed by Alice @notveryalice.bsky.social about his book on Żuławski’s 'Possession'
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween
xraylitmag.com/control-and-...
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“When Microsoft opened a data center in central Mexico last year, nearby residents said power cuts became more frequent. Water outages, which once lasted days, stretched for weeks. The shortages led to school cancellations and the spread of stomach bugs…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:27 AM
“When Microsoft opened a data center in central Mexico last year, nearby residents said power cuts became more frequent. Water outages, which once lasted days, stretched for weeks. The shortages led to school cancellations and the spread of stomach bugs…”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
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We’re getting closer to being out of the woods! I never expected to be in this position and it’s incredibly hard, especially with compounding disabilities. Thank you so much for your support so that we can start November without being behind on rent. #MutualAid
gofund.me/306736ac0
gofund.me/306736ac0
Donate to Secure Emily and Chopper's Future, organized by Emily Anderson
Hello,
My name is Emily and I'm a disabled artist and writer living with my c… Emily Anderson needs your support for Secure Emily and Chopper's Future
gofund.me
October 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
We’re getting closer to being out of the woods! I never expected to be in this position and it’s incredibly hard, especially with compounding disabilities. Thank you so much for your support so that we can start November without being behind on rent. #MutualAid
gofund.me/306736ac0
gofund.me/306736ac0
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When Israel bombs Gaza after pledging itself to a ceasefire, we apparently need to say this is a “Test of ceasefire” to avoid saying what is blatantly obvious, that this is a violation of the ceasefire
Again, I’ll keep on repeating this: Israel does not do ceasefires unless forced to.
Again, I’ll keep on repeating this: Israel does not do ceasefires unless forced to.
BREAKING: Israel strikes southern Gaza in test of ceasefire.
Israel strikes Gaza in first major test of ceasefire
Israel said it struck Hamas militants in Gaza on Sunday after they shot at Israeli soldiers who were inside the area that is still under Israeli control, according to the conditions of the Oct. 10 ceasefire.
bit.ly
October 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
When Israel bombs Gaza after pledging itself to a ceasefire, we apparently need to say this is a “Test of ceasefire” to avoid saying what is blatantly obvious, that this is a violation of the ceasefire
Again, I’ll keep on repeating this: Israel does not do ceasefires unless forced to.
Again, I’ll keep on repeating this: Israel does not do ceasefires unless forced to.
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From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.
So grateful to Chris and everyone at @xraylitmag.bsky.social for publishing this piece!
we have a story by Carleton Whaley @carletonwhaley.bsky.social !
it’s about two brothers who are going through the final steps of their brother’s death – following the funeral hearse that goes to the crematorium. a great story – read it !!
xraylitmag.com/following-th...
it’s about two brothers who are going through the final steps of their brother’s death – following the funeral hearse that goes to the crematorium. a great story – read it !!
xraylitmag.com/following-th...
FOLLOWING THE HEARSE by Carleton Whaley
Driving through the Detroit suburbs, cutting through traffic, honking and cursing at other drivers, the brothers make their way to the crematorium. It is difficult to keep up with the long hearse. Tra...
xraylitmag.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
So grateful to Chris and everyone at @xraylitmag.bsky.social for publishing this piece!