Kari Nguyen
@knguyenwrites.bsky.social
Best Microfiction 2020, Best of Boston Literary Magazine, America's Emerging Literary Fiction Writers. MFA at SNHU. Former Nonfiction Editor at Stymie Mag. She/her/hers. karinguyen.wordpress.com.
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Kari Nguyen
@knguyenwrites.bsky.social
· May 18
The mushrooms by the shed stand united in their messaging 🤎
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So happy that WITHOUT CONSENT is one of Library Journal’s Best Books of the year!
Stellar Selections | Best Books 2025
Throughout the year, LJ’s expert reviewers consider thousands of books, reading titles across a myriad of genres and subjects. These are the nearly 800 works they judged as the best, most notable, sig...
www.libraryjournal.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
So happy that WITHOUT CONSENT is one of Library Journal’s Best Books of the year!
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I'm not sure if calling your reps and just asking over and over how many dead babies are enough is the move... but it's the one I've been making.
December 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I'm not sure if calling your reps and just asking over and over how many dead babies are enough is the move... but it's the one I've been making.
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There is blood on the hands of Donald Trump, RFK, and every Republican who has allowed this sham to go on for far too long. When kids die unnecessarily and once-eradicated diseases darken the doors of terrified families and pediatricians, Americans will know who is responsible.
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
There is blood on the hands of Donald Trump, RFK, and every Republican who has allowed this sham to go on for far too long. When kids die unnecessarily and once-eradicated diseases darken the doors of terrified families and pediatricians, Americans will know who is responsible.
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I know so many great people who are doing so much. If you are isolated from people who are trying their best, I can understand feeling like no one's doing anything, but really, you just need to find the people who are trying and try with them — or maybe encourage some new folks to try alongside you.
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I know so many great people who are doing so much. If you are isolated from people who are trying their best, I can understand feeling like no one's doing anything, but really, you just need to find the people who are trying and try with them — or maybe encourage some new folks to try alongside you.
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people like Sabrina Carpenter saying essentially "decent people don't want the stench of ICE or this White House anywhere near them" to an audience of millions that includes a lot of young people helps empower them against ICE while reminding ICE agents that everyone hates them, both big wins
look deleting the post is obviously stopping the actual ICE raids but every single bit of pushback matters bsky.app/profile/airb...
Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
people like Sabrina Carpenter saying essentially "decent people don't want the stench of ICE or this White House anywhere near them" to an audience of millions that includes a lot of young people helps empower them against ICE while reminding ICE agents that everyone hates them, both big wins
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Remember how I've said AI is an attack? This is what I meant
Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Remember how I've said AI is an attack? This is what I meant
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Did the earth give him permission or did he just grab
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Did the earth give him permission or did he just grab
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On behalf of the people who bribe and flatter Trump, he is more than willing to give in to his most base and disturbing impulses, which are cruel, fascistic, and abusive, meaning he will hurt anyone anywhere and use the full force of state power to serve the interests of those manipulating him.
December 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
On behalf of the people who bribe and flatter Trump, he is more than willing to give in to his most base and disturbing impulses, which are cruel, fascistic, and abusive, meaning he will hurt anyone anywhere and use the full force of state power to serve the interests of those manipulating him.
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Even Orwell would think this was outlandish
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Even Orwell would think this was outlandish
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For @publisherswkly.bsky.social, I shared 6 of the most fascinatingly suppressed women writers I discovered while researching A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS — out next week! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Adam Morgan on 6 Suppressed Classics by Modernist-era Women Writers
The author of 'A Danger to the Mind of Young Girls' describes how canonical works by Djuna Barnes, Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others faced censorship, critical condemnation, or rejecti...
www.publishersweekly.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
For @publisherswkly.bsky.social, I shared 6 of the most fascinatingly suppressed women writers I discovered while researching A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS — out next week! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Justice Department ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
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You guys, if your kid gets liver disease you just have to cash out your Dell bucks that are invested in AI slop machines and Trump crypto coins and you should have more than enough to cover the bill for the hospital that’s 3 counties away and any prescriptions through Trump Rx
December 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
You guys, if your kid gets liver disease you just have to cash out your Dell bucks that are invested in AI slop machines and Trump crypto coins and you should have more than enough to cover the bill for the hospital that’s 3 counties away and any prescriptions through Trump Rx
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Apparently fact-checking is now considered a threat to national security.
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
The order is focused on applicants for H-1B visas, which are frequently used by tech companies and is part of a campaign by the Trump administration against online content moderation.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Apparently fact-checking is now considered a threat to national security.
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
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RFK Jr’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back keeping your children alive
RFK Jr.’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back recommending all newborns get vaccinated for hepatitis B
CDC Panel Of Vaccine Skeptics Votes To Delay Hepatitis B Shot For Most Babies
Public health officials warned that the decision by advisers picked by RFK Jr. will result in more infants being infected and experiencing lifelong liver diseases.
www.huffpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
RFK Jr’s handpicked CDC panel rolls back keeping your children alive
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there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
there are of course many examples of political constituencies that have in fact killed scores of children (en route to some other evil goal), but I can't offhand think of any historical examples of a political constituency organized for that specific purpose
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“People are hurting, families are torn apart. Kids are growing up without their parents."
But the work of El Refugio, a two-story house in a tiny Georgia town where volunteers provide meals, beds, and gas money to anyone visiting someone detained in the area, offers rare refuge.
But the work of El Refugio, a two-story house in a tiny Georgia town where volunteers provide meals, beds, and gas money to anyone visiting someone detained in the area, offers rare refuge.
In the Shadow of an Immigrant Detention Center, a Small House Offers Refuge
Amid rising ICE arrests, volunteers provide aid — a meal, a bed, gas money — to anyone visiting someone detained in remote rural Georgia.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“People are hurting, families are torn apart. Kids are growing up without their parents."
But the work of El Refugio, a two-story house in a tiny Georgia town where volunteers provide meals, beds, and gas money to anyone visiting someone detained in the area, offers rare refuge.
But the work of El Refugio, a two-story house in a tiny Georgia town where volunteers provide meals, beds, and gas money to anyone visiting someone detained in the area, offers rare refuge.
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This is the third newsroom (at least) with an FBI leak about the suspect being a Trump supporter. Seems some FBI folks — presumably not the political hires —are very eager to get this out there.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.
Brian Cole Jr., the suspect accused of being the Jan. 6 pipe bomber, confessed to agents that he planted the bombs and has indicated he supported President Trump, according to two people familiar with his interview.
December 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This is the third newsroom (at least) with an FBI leak about the suspect being a Trump supporter. Seems some FBI folks — presumably not the political hires —are very eager to get this out there.
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I AM IN THIS BOOK! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social says, "I spent a year of my life writing collaborative fiction with eleven incredible writers; each story is followed by a collaborative deep-dive into the craft of our stories/work and the techniques we used, as well as what worked and what didn't."
December 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I AM IN THIS BOOK! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social says, "I spent a year of my life writing collaborative fiction with eleven incredible writers; each story is followed by a collaborative deep-dive into the craft of our stories/work and the techniques we used, as well as what worked and what didn't."
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
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Not yet but we’re working on it!
Hath all his ventures fail’d?
December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Not yet but we’re working on it!
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This is a damning article of what is going on with power-hungry ICE.
Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Tortured in Small ‘Box,’ Amnesty International Says
Migrants were allegedly sent to what detainees described as a four-by-four-foot "box" as punishment.
Migrants were allegedly sent to what detainees described as a four-by-four-foot "box" as punishment.
Alligator Alcatraz Detainees Tortured in Small 'Box,' Amnesty International Says
Migrants were allegedly sent to what detainees described as a four-by-four-foot "box" as punishment.
www.miaminewtimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This is a damning article of what is going on with power-hungry ICE.
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Orwell read about it in Eugene Lyons's book Assignment in Utopia, which he reviewed.
December 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Orwell read about it in Eugene Lyons's book Assignment in Utopia, which he reviewed.
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This essay makes the contradictions smash into each other: they renamed the Dept. of Defense the Department of War while Trump got his name smeared (yes, literally) across the gutted Institute of Peace.
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This essay makes the contradictions smash into each other: they renamed the Dept. of Defense the Department of War while Trump got his name smeared (yes, literally) across the gutted Institute of Peace.
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The racism is just cartoonish. I can’t stand it. Honestly
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The racism is just cartoonish. I can’t stand it. Honestly
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Child, still holding a sippy cup of milk & stuffy on his way out the door with his dad to go to Pre-K says as his goodbye to me: "bro, keep it metal."
December 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Child, still holding a sippy cup of milk & stuffy on his way out the door with his dad to go to Pre-K says as his goodbye to me: "bro, keep it metal."