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@israology.bsky.social
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Pushcart Prize-Nominated Poet, Writer

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jamellebouie.net
a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
www.theatlantic.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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theverge.com
Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.

Read more from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/66568...
A headline from The Verge reads "AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state." A 3D illustration depics a person lounging in a therapy chair, looking at a phone while a dozen security cameras spawn from the phone to monitor the person.
May 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
If you want to avoid long term health issues, wear a mask

If you care about disabled people, wear a mask

If you care about being able to resist & fight back, wear a mask

If you know that raw milk, vitamin A and green juice aren’t cures, wear a mask

If you want to fight fascism, wear a mask
May 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Ableism is hard to fight because it’s entrenched in everything we do.

We all have internalized ableism, and dismantling it is hard work.

Capitalism pushes us to disregard the value of a human life, especially a disabled human.

It relies on us believing worth is tied to economic output. It’s not
May 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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hubcitypress.bsky.social
Well. Despite the NEA nonsense (more on this tomorrow), in good news, it's pub day for WORLD WITHOUT END: ESSAYS ON APOCALYPSE AND AFTER by Martha Park! We're so proud to be publishing this necessary book and hopeful book, something we think folks could use these days. hubcity.org/worldwithoutend
copy of WORLD WITHOUT END by Martha Park nicely placed in a bush with white/pink flowers
May 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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brtom.bsky.social
Teju Cole in Human Archipelago (Steidl, 2018)
The fire is not in the future, so don't ask when it will be. The fire is not yet to come, for it has happened already. Describe the problem properly. There is no "news." There is only the material manifestation of aspects of an already established reality. There is nothing in the papers today that does not follow on from such-and-such a person being in such a role, such-and-such people having such access to power. If we have limited energy to expend, best not to spend it on the theater of surprise. Don't wonder how far they'll go, you already know the answer: as far as possible. And so this is a time for a precise enmity. Describe the problem properly. The fire is not in the future.
April 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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literaryhub.bsky.social
“Do you remember, fifteen years ago, when I used to consult you about everything?” Read from @atahualpavasari.bsky.social’s novel Perspective(s), translated by Sam Taylor.
Perspective(s)
Giorgio Vasari to Michelangelo Buonarroti Florence, 2 January 1557 This time, my dear Master, I am not writing to you on behalf of the duke to beg you to return to Florence. Alas, it is a very diff…
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April 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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grist.org
An oldie but goody.

The Climate Fiction Issue

In this issue, explore the power of climate fiction to help far-off visions become realities, and experience what happens when you live in someone else’s imagined future.

grist.org/fix/october-...

#ClimateFiction #Fiction #Solarpunk #Futurism
The Climate Fiction Issue
Explore the power of fiction to bring far-off visions to life, and experience what happens when you live in someone else's imagined future.
grist.org
April 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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jillbles.bsky.social
Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment?
It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.
April 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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ruthmarcus.bsky.social
This week I left The Washington Post after 40 years, 6 months and 6 days. Today I have a piece in the New Yorker explaining my heart-breaking decision, and including the column that was spiked. I wish I never had to write it. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...
www.newyorker.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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leighherenow.bsky.social
Thank you, Isra! So thrilled to share this with our readers, with deep gratitude to you for writing what so many of us are feeling.
February 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
israology.bsky.social
my first post gets to be this scathing #poem published by the ever so wonderful KHÔRA. thank you @leighherenow.bsky.social for your belief in my work and seeing it for what it is 🥹
Poem that reads: “America’s sticky fingers, linger, tracing constraints so affectionately, because how else does one impress rupture? Grapes of wrath, coddled by broken thumbs, yearn for the untouchable. Do screams toil? Compulsion’s needs replenish the sway.” TEETERING written by Isra Hassan.
February 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM