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abujaber.bsky.social
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submitted 4 days ago • 708 comments

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

submitted 5 days ago • 390 comments

We're reading My Antonia in my English lit class-- the students love it and it gives us such hope for the ways nature can restore so much in us.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

No words. But, I’m not surprised. I am a military veteran. I’m a former congressman. I cannot in good conscience follow or support this administration. Anyone voting for her is complicit in the downfall of this country. Tulsi Gabbard is an abomination. apple.news/A01S4jqQSSK-...

submitted 19 days ago • 1115 comments

Honored to serve on this accomplished jury for such a great prize. ♥️

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

submitted 27 days ago • 67 comments

Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

submitted 29 days ago • 2784 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 775 comments

Perfectly captured.

submitted 29 days ago • 1487 comments

Brilliant.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.” - Julia Child

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

At the park, a woman told us: "Excuse my sister, she doesn't care for children." And Kidlet: "But I can't help it. I'm not on purpose." 😂 #kids

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Kiddo just ran into my office, shouted, I SMELL GIRL SCOUT COOKIES, sniffed my hands, my keyboard, then announced: You're clear. 😆

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Letting you know that the digital edition of The Language of Baklava is currently on sale - including recipes! www.amazon.com/Language-Bak...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Let’s go.💙 Fall 2025.

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

Happy 16th to my lovely one. ♥️

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Oh right. What was I thinking? "Honey, want to help me make the rice Krispy treats?" 5yo: "no, I want to learn how to make beer." 😂

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

submitted 52 days ago • 46 comments

Wishing you a New Year of strength, peace, and joy - for all of us.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech? We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!

submitted 65 days ago • 2440 comments

submitted 77 days ago • 520 comments

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

submitted 84 days ago • 338 comments

Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now. If it's a handful, throw it. If it's a fingernail full, scrape it out and throw. Get in the way however you can. The elimination of the Palestinian people is not inevitable. ~ Rasha Abdulhadi

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submitted 85 days ago • 502 comments

“I trained 4 years to run 9 seconds, and people give up when they don't see results in 2 months” ~ Usain Bolt Anything substantial and deep-rooted takes time, practice, & discipline. If you're feeling impatient, I see you. And it will come. Step by step, if you keep going, you will arrive.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

"One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this." —Omar El Akkad, October 25, 2023

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

A novel is a mirror walking down a road. —Michael Ondaatje,

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submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

Well played. And frighteningly accurate.

submitted 94 days ago • 1603 comments

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“It is impossible to say just what I mean.”

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Grandma's post-modern Christmas tree is up.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

#CrossedSignals Daddy: Want to go see the Christmas tree lighting? 6 year old, wildly excited: On FIRE? YES. 😂

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Two Arab American writers won National Book Awards last night, @lenakt.bsky.social and Shifa Safadi. Others were finalists. Both winners gave impassioned speeches about the genocide in Gaza. Arab American writers have struggled so long. I’m proud of how far we’ve come, and we’ll keep going.🧿🧿🧿

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

We are all witnessing anticipatory obedience in real time.

submitted 104 days ago • 2741 comments

Just finished revising a novel I'd written about a Palestinian woman suffering from PTSD who loses her memory when she immigrates to America. I'd kept it in a drawer for over 20 years. Sent it to my agent today.

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

😂

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to be here. 😘

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments