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they / them | Senior Reviews Editor at SmokeLong Quarterly | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor, Split/Lip Press 🍉
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live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

"Don't murder Greta Thunberg and half a dozen other people in cold blood with US made weapons" gets a whopping 11 signatures in the House

Roses timeline cleanse, one of ?

Honey, unfortunately I'm back in the hospital, but look what just arrived at the @coffeehousepress.bsky.social office?! Yes, the galleys for TERRY DACTYL have arrived, and doesn't she look gorgeous?! Out on November 11th, get ready...👠🔥💜🌷⚡🌼🌠

The states that France has been reported to have lobbied for recognizing Palestine at the High-Level Conference from June 17th to the 20th are -The UK -Canada -Australia -Belgium -The Netherlands -Portugal -Luxembourg -Lithuania -Japan

I'm here to get my soul intertwined. And let's make it a tight fuckn grip I don't wanna be back here in two weeks.

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

He didn’t shower for six days. And at EIGHTEEN, he spent his energy helping others. Abolish ICE.

Happening now: twelve activists including Greta Thunberg are en route to Gaza aboard the Freedom Flotilla, with the goal of bringing much needed aid to Palestinians, breaking the Israeli government’s genocidal blockade starving over 2.3 million people.

Bending the knee makes it easier to kick you in the face, exhibit 47489734

*flashlight under chin* some say we never left fyre festival, some say we’ve been there the whole time

I think part of why I get so irrationally mad about people still using substack is like, if the queer and leftist communities can even unite in leaving this one bad and easily replaceable platform, how are we going to fight a united fascist onslaught?

#PVDlocal/#RIlocal: someone drove a car at one of the SEIU 1199 organizers up at Butler Hospital. She's at the hospital being checked out now, not gravely injured, but come the fuck on! If you're able to call the Care New England COO (401-455-6270) & demand a safe & fair contract, today's a good day

put an em dash key on the keyboard you cowards

Hell yeah! Awesome book mail day! So excited to read @arammrjoian.bsky.social's debut novel WATERLINE. Aram is the coolest and kindest. What a gift to sit with his words.

OK, let's ask the journalists what's going on in Gaza—oh, hang on, the IDF killed that reporter, let's—heck, sorry, the IDF killed that one, too, how about—oh, right, the IDF killed that other reporter too, what if we check with—whoops, killed by the IDF, maybe if we try—darn, would you believe it—

He’s a high school student.

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To see everyday people standing up to heavily armed agents of ICE, FBI, every police state agency, just going out on the street & yelling at them & saying shame on you, get out of our neighborhood, & then they do, they turn around & leave, in this case the shouting beats back the weapons💥

This book is out TODAY! I put my whole heart into it. You can buy it wherever you buy books. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725681...

Please, don’t let Jonathan Joss’s story die down. Please, don’t do this to Indigenous people on Pride month. Please, recognize his whole neighborhood was in on his premeditated death and killed his dogs and burned his childhood home. PLEASE REALIZE this is a hate crime against a gay AND Native man.

so tired of watching rich people break everything beautiful

hey if anyone needs another panelist/reader for AWP, hit me up

every queer person I ran into today said “happy pride” in the most deeply sarcastic and exhausted tone on the planet

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These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to. This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented. So ICE took her into custody. The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck. "I can't breathe."

c’mon man I didn’t need a new phobia I’m just trying to watch the fast & the furious

"When you remove a lot of old fish, & you know that the herring acts as a collective, then you actually remove the collective memory of the population” 🐟🐟🐟 Thinking of these beautiful fish & their collective acts of survival, hoping they can maintain their collective memory in spite of overfishing🐟🐟

this handsome fucker

One thing I have learned from the past five years is that a majority of cishet white Americans who consider themselves empathetic and good people will take no meaningful steps to stop mass death as long as the people who are dying are "part of the plan," as the Joker might say.

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