Emily Jo Scalzo
@ejscalzo.bsky.social
Purdue and Fresno State alumna. Poet and writer. Sapphic demiromantic asexual. Nonbinary. They/them. Agnostic apatheist. Disabled. Long Covid since June 2022. Huge Cubs fan. Pretty darn liberal. No TERFs or SWERFs. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿️
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Emily Jo Scalzo
@ejscalzo.bsky.social
· Nov 19
The Politics of Division: Scalzo, Emily Jo: 9781944355289: Amazon.com: Books
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My chapbook, “The Politics of Division,” was awarded honorable mention in the 2018 Eric Hoffer Book Awards. Consider buying it: www.amazon.com/Politics-Div...
The United States federal government has invaded the city of Chicago.
Let’s be blunt about what is happening. The Invasion of Chicago.
Let’s be blunt about what is happening. The Invasion of Chicago.
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The United States federal government has invaded the city of Chicago.
Let’s be blunt about what is happening. The Invasion of Chicago.
Let’s be blunt about what is happening. The Invasion of Chicago.
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ICYMI on Thursday: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. They call the Roberts court “pretend law.”
The latest? A ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations, with more shots at SCOTUS from Hawaii Justice Eddins.
The latest? A ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations, with more shots at SCOTUS from Hawaii Justice Eddins.
Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS - Bolts
The justices ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.
boltsmag.org
September 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
ICYMI on Thursday: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. They call the Roberts court “pretend law.”
The latest? A ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations, with more shots at SCOTUS from Hawaii Justice Eddins.
The latest? A ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations, with more shots at SCOTUS from Hawaii Justice Eddins.
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Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
September 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
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The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
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Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”
Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?
www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...
Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?
www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...
Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN
A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.
www.cnn.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”
Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?
www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...
Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?
www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...
August 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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"I find myself troubled by Mamdani’s ties to Uganda" ok well I find myself troubled by my ties to America but unfortunately I was also not in control of where I was born
I want to support Zohran Mamdani. But he needs to stop supporting Uganda. - buff.ly/ngF8CJs
August 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
"I find myself troubled by Mamdani’s ties to Uganda" ok well I find myself troubled by my ties to America but unfortunately I was also not in control of where I was born
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Published a #villanelle #poem this week!
Jaded Thoughts Cascaded | Dissident Voice
I’d likely describe myself as jaded as I take the world with a grain of salt kept sanity hard with thoughts cascaded so often I feel all hope has faded body politic resembles a cult I’d likely describ...
dissidentvoice.org
July 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Published a #villanelle #poem this week!
Published a #villanelle #poem this week!
Jaded Thoughts Cascaded | Dissident Voice
I’d likely describe myself as jaded as I take the world with a grain of salt kept sanity hard with thoughts cascaded so often I feel all hope has faded body politic resembles a cult I’d likely describ...
dissidentvoice.org
July 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Published a #villanelle #poem this week!
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so is it the official view of the white house that race is a biological reality?
I’m not linking to the damn thing, here:
![For example, the Smithsonian American Art Museum today features “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibit representing that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.” The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f4d76fjna5nxqsy2fu6cgmp3/bafkreihc3vsdrvtmlyrp4aix3zpcbqvgeplnz3vis6p5itlxtmo5b5lwpy@jpeg)
March 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
so is it the official view of the white house that race is a biological reality?
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truly reagan's heir
NEW: Per a source with knowledge, the entire HHS Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy, or OIDP, was just fired.
March 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
truly reagan's heir
At what point am I required to stop considering myself a professor. Because I’m still hoping there’s treatment that makes it better enough to teach one class a semester. But it’s been since Fall 2022. How long am I allowed to still claim professor as part of my identity? #longcovid
March 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
At what point am I required to stop considering myself a professor. Because I’m still hoping there’s treatment that makes it better enough to teach one class a semester. But it’s been since Fall 2022. How long am I allowed to still claim professor as part of my identity? #longcovid
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these folks are unreconstructed segregationists and it isn’t even speculative or a difficult argument at this point
“An Army webpage from 2008 that lauded the 60th anniversary of President Harry Truman’s 1948 integration order has disappeared. It was available as recently as last year, web archives show” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pentago...
Pentagon Removes Webpages Celebrating Racial Integration of the Armed Forces
Several webpages that celebrated the armed forces’ history of racial integration have...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
these folks are unreconstructed segregationists and it isn’t even speculative or a difficult argument at this point
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Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.
March 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.
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Is the Democratic leadership suggesting now is not the time to be disruptive? If not now, when? Because it really seems like now is the time…
March 7, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Is the Democratic leadership suggesting now is not the time to be disruptive? If not now, when? Because it really seems like now is the time…
Trump forgot he’s the President, not the host of The Apprentice.
March 1, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Trump forgot he’s the President, not the host of The Apprentice.
Yes, a draft dodger is qualified to say what is incompatible with military service.
March 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Yes, a draft dodger is qualified to say what is incompatible with military service.
Failed the screening for the clinical study. One arm could hurt me, the other arm likely wouldn’t help me. Oh well.
March 1, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Failed the screening for the clinical study. One arm could hurt me, the other arm likely wouldn’t help me. Oh well.
Got into the clinical study for long covid. It involves exercise intolerance, and I find out Wednesday whether I’m in the active or control group.
February 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Got into the clinical study for long covid. It involves exercise intolerance, and I find out Wednesday whether I’m in the active or control group.
I feel like I’m constantly grieving the person I used to be. #longcovid
February 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I feel like I’m constantly grieving the person I used to be. #longcovid
You know, I think one reason I’m bitter about having long COVID is that, when long COVID was first announced as a thing, I said to myself, “I’ll wind up with long COVID if I get COVID. It would just be my luck.”
Can’t I have good premonitions?
Can’t I have good premonitions?
February 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
You know, I think one reason I’m bitter about having long COVID is that, when long COVID was first announced as a thing, I said to myself, “I’ll wind up with long COVID if I get COVID. It would just be my luck.”
Can’t I have good premonitions?
Can’t I have good premonitions?