Susanna Cassisa
@susannacassisa.bsky.social
Mississippian, writer, alleged podcaster. Living & pondering in Omaha. she/her.
new project 🚨😈
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
new project 🚨😈
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October 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
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The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video
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Between 75 and 80 workers at an Omaha meatpacking plant were detained in an ICE raid on Tuesday, officials said. The raid sparked confusion, anger and fear throughout Nebraska. 🔗 buff.ly/5nChMLF
June 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Between 75 and 80 workers at an Omaha meatpacking plant were detained in an ICE raid on Tuesday, officials said. The raid sparked confusion, anger and fear throughout Nebraska. 🔗 buff.ly/5nChMLF
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Is True Crime Keeping Me in Prison? TV producers exploited the worst decision of my life. I’m not the only one. Story via Vulture.
Is True Crime Keeping Me in Prison?
TV producers exploited the worst decision of my life. I’m not the only one.
www.vulture.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Is True Crime Keeping Me in Prison? TV producers exploited the worst decision of my life. I’m not the only one. Story via Vulture.
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Kasper Eriksen has never been charged with any crime.
He has not been accused of being a member of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua.
What led the government to rip Kasper out of the arms of his family was a single document: Form I-751.
buff.ly/LiPjJj9
He has not been accused of being a member of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua.
What led the government to rip Kasper out of the arms of his family was a single document: Form I-751.
buff.ly/LiPjJj9
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
www.mississippifreepress.org
May 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Kasper Eriksen has never been charged with any crime.
He has not been accused of being a member of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua.
What led the government to rip Kasper out of the arms of his family was a single document: Form I-751.
buff.ly/LiPjJj9
He has not been accused of being a member of MS-13 or Tren de Aragua.
What led the government to rip Kasper out of the arms of his family was a single document: Form I-751.
buff.ly/LiPjJj9
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This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.
May 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.
I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom.
Dark, dark stuff.
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UPDATE: Judge Sessions just entered a written order reaffirming his earlier order that Ozturk be immediately released without travel restrictions.
Order implies that, as of 4:50 p.m. ET, Ozturk had not yet been released.
Order implies that, as of 4:50 p.m. ET, Ozturk had not yet been released.
May 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
UPDATE: Judge Sessions just entered a written order reaffirming his earlier order that Ozturk be immediately released without travel restrictions.
Order implies that, as of 4:50 p.m. ET, Ozturk had not yet been released.
Order implies that, as of 4:50 p.m. ET, Ozturk had not yet been released.
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"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured.
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
prisonjournalismproject.org
April 4, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured.
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
Perhaps. But then there were kittens."
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"Why should protesting Israel’s indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians result in the erosion of my constitutional rights?"
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Mahmoud Khalil: What does my detention by ICE say about America?
A democracy for some is no democracy at all.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"Why should protesting Israel’s indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians result in the erosion of my constitutional rights?"
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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>reading the David Brooks Op Ed about mass strikes and seeing him quote the communist manifesto at the end
April 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
>reading the David Brooks Op Ed about mass strikes and seeing him quote the communist manifesto at the end
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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
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the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied
April 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied
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You don’t have to love or even like people to work with them effectively. I don’t think there will be one effective strategy of resistance against Trump; I think there will be MANY. An overwhelming rainbow of pushback and outrage.
But again, I ain’t saying nothing. I’m minding my business.
But again, I ain’t saying nothing. I’m minding my business.
April 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
You don’t have to love or even like people to work with them effectively. I don’t think there will be one effective strategy of resistance against Trump; I think there will be MANY. An overwhelming rainbow of pushback and outrage.
But again, I ain’t saying nothing. I’m minding my business.
But again, I ain’t saying nothing. I’m minding my business.
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The thing about ACT UP, as Sarah Schulman notes, is that there wasn’t time for protracted disagreements over strategy; people were dying of AIDS left and right.
SO, if some folks want to do X strategy for a protest but you wanted to do Y, ACT UP’s approach was to say “you do X and I’ll do Y.”
SO, if some folks want to do X strategy for a protest but you wanted to do Y, ACT UP’s approach was to say “you do X and I’ll do Y.”
April 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The thing about ACT UP, as Sarah Schulman notes, is that there wasn’t time for protracted disagreements over strategy; people were dying of AIDS left and right.
SO, if some folks want to do X strategy for a protest but you wanted to do Y, ACT UP’s approach was to say “you do X and I’ll do Y.”
SO, if some folks want to do X strategy for a protest but you wanted to do Y, ACT UP’s approach was to say “you do X and I’ll do Y.”
I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was 9 or 10. This year, I published my first paid piece. It took 9 months of follow-up emails for me to receive the $150 payment.
March 21, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was 9 or 10. This year, I published my first paid piece. It took 9 months of follow-up emails for me to receive the $150 payment.
Swearing off school lasted all of 3 months LOL, just submitted my application for the advanced writing certificate program in creative nonfiction at UNOmaha 📝📚
November 9, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Swearing off school lasted all of 3 months LOL, just submitted my application for the advanced writing certificate program in creative nonfiction at UNOmaha 📝📚
we ❤️ the Midwest
August 20, 2024 at 12:43 AM
we ❤️ the Midwest
Today I passed my MA thesis defense, with support from friends, family, and colleagues from across the globe, from Mississippi to Germany. Onward to Omaha & editing this podcast!
June 20, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Today I passed my MA thesis defense, with support from friends, family, and colleagues from across the globe, from Mississippi to Germany. Onward to Omaha & editing this podcast!
I remember I have this app like once a month but popping in to show yall my new tattoo 🐅
June 9, 2024 at 10:35 PM
I remember I have this app like once a month but popping in to show yall my new tattoo 🐅
Probs one of the most eye-opening things about living in Vancouver has been witnessing how people up here talk about the US. It’s the macro version of how the rest of America talks about Mississippi.
May 12, 2024 at 4:12 AM
Probs one of the most eye-opening things about living in Vancouver has been witnessing how people up here talk about the US. It’s the macro version of how the rest of America talks about Mississippi.
For the centennial anniversary of the “crime of the century,” I wrote about Leopold and Loeb and the rise of the nonfiction novel crimereads.com/leopold-and-...
Leopold and Loeb, 100 Years After
“What a rotten writer of detective stories Life is!” By the time he wrote these words, Nathan Leopold, Jr. was middle-aged and balding. But in the American consciousness, he was forever immortalize…
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April 11, 2024 at 2:46 PM
For the centennial anniversary of the “crime of the century,” I wrote about Leopold and Loeb and the rise of the nonfiction novel crimereads.com/leopold-and-...