Reposted by Laura MullenThe Daily Britain @thedailybritain.bsky.social · 15/10/2026"By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we are learning how to fight for life on earth"thedailybritain.co.ukSally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK because of Palestine Action supportSally Rooney says UK royalties could expose her to criminal liability because of her support for proscribed group Palestine Action. 26318
Reposted by Laura MullenRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026 is Navi Pillay, a brave extraordinary woman who has served at the International Criminal Court prosecuting genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Immediately after being notified she had won, she mocked the orange felon on video. Love her. 💙👊 22275132096
Reposted by Laura MullenFreethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026 6257101280
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 11/10/2026www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukAnne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the windThis is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like... 033
Reposted by Laura MullenAlejandro De La Vega @alejandrodelavega.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026Isn’t it oxymoronic to, on one hand, say certain books must be banned because too graphic/violent for students - but on the other hand decide to televise firing squad execution on live tv where said students can watch and be traumatized? 1167
Reposted by Laura MullenBanned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Whether you're a librarian, teacher, or student like me...you have a place in this movement." Youth Honorary Chair Marshall Romero reminds us that we have a voice in the fight against book bans! Join Marshall & other youth advocates TONIGHT, 7pmET: bit.ly/whose-story #BannedBooksWeek #LetBooksBe 420669
Reposted by Laura MullenBrilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Countries That Have Public and/or Live Streamed Executions Context: www.reuters.com/world/us-li... 5238138
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Actually, we're still in the "training period." 000
Reposted by Laura Mullenvijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Three years of livestreamed genocide and more than a dozen years of live-documented extrajudicial killings by police and vigilantes have trained you for the coming era of state-sponsored public executions 1269103
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Ask not for whom the firing squad comes--they come for you. 010
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Can Americans get used to seeing Americans murdered? This administration hopes so! Do you understand the implications? Let me put it this way: "Ask not for whom the firing squad comes: they come for you." 000
Reposted by Laura MullenDeidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Everyone employed at a postsecondary institution (& esp deans of students) should read Kate Manne's powerful essay: "Cease to be a place where sexual assault is often subject to less punishment than protesting and plagiarism. ... become a place where our sons are not initiated into rape culture." 010837
Reposted by Laura MullenLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Now reading & enjoying Nicholas Boggs's massive Baldwin: A Love Story, which tells James Baldwin's life story through his intimate relationships with four men. In an interview, Baldwin said about Giovanni's Room, "If I hadn't written that book, I probably would have had to stop writing altogether." 1358
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026We've spent over $38 billion killing schoolgirls and wedding guests in Iran and putting HUGE profits into the pockets of fossil fuel companies while widening our circle of enemies and WtF why can't we STOP this?! 000
Reposted by Laura MullenShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Resonant, and even more striking: Torkwase Dyson’s Seeing in Blue — the geometry of perception, surveying, plumb lines, compasses… 2349
Reposted by Laura MullenDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026One more example of how a personalist regime they cannot conceive of a bipartisan institution to the point they would prefer to destroy it if they cannot repurpose it to their ends. See, also, much of the rest of the federal government, our military, science, higher education etc. 422036677
Reposted by Laura MullenAnil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026Apropos of nothing, sharing this little except from Prince’s memoir, “The Beauiful Ones”: “…they keep trying to ram […] Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it.” 518957
Reposted by Laura MullenCanadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis." Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.canadiandimension.comThe university is the crisisThe crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ... 316979
Reposted by Laura MullenGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/09/2026@attackerman.bsky.social reported on the Amnesty report at the time, and astutely compared it to the torture boxes at Gitmo, where Ron DeSantis, as a young military lawyer, oversaw the torture. So once again, mainstream media is months behind independent media. www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...forever-wars.comTorture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator AlcatrazAmnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison 51150469
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026www.thetinymag.com/current-issue check it out 🩵thetinymag.comCurrent Issue — the tiny 010
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Bhanu Kapil! www.labiennale.org/en/art/2026/...labiennale.orgBiennale Arte 2026 | Holy SeeThe Ear is the Eye of the Soul 000
Reposted by Laura MullenCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Same thing would happen, is happening, in the U.S. 1165
Reposted by Laura MullenScott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026New Yorkers asked City Hall for 25 years what it knew about the air downtown after 9/11. Records requests. Lawsuits. They got almost nothing. Then a mayor eight months into the job went looking. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news... 724573
Reposted by Laura MullenNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comNaomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui... 6639051331
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026And remember the innocent lives we TOOK, when a President (Bush) LIED us into a violent and foolish response. Pause to honor those lives, and the lives of veterans sent out to fight and die because we are dishonest, because we did not have the sense or strength to be thoughtful in our grief. #No2WAR 010
Reposted by Laura MullenAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Salvador Allende's final words, recorded on September 11, while US backed right-wing forces attacked and invaded the capital. 721482
Reposted by Laura MullenSuz @lily2748.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Yes, it is illegal under U.S. federal and state laws to offer money or any valuable incentive to influence someone's vote or to pay them to vote. 011
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Get the headline right @theguardian.com IS bribery. No scare quotes, no "decried." Really. 110
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Yeah--this seemed big...until he started promising (remember, TACO: don't believe ANY promise) to give people $$$ to vote the way he wants 'em to vote (against their best interests)... 000
Reposted by Laura MullenOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 08/09/2026New poetry coming soon from Canisia Lubrin and @tianareid.bsky.social I know I'm excited. www.cbc.ca/books/25-can...cbc.ca25 Canadian poetry titles we're excited to read this fall | CBC BooksFrom debut poets to some of the most celebrated writers in Canadian literature, we've got you covered with a list of the must-read Canadian poetry titles publishing this fall. 0113
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026God yes--always felt that way: his people look like marzipan candy (ick). 130
Reposted by Laura MullenJennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 08/09/20261/2 Lonnie Bunch is leaving the Smithsonian after Trump spent months trying to strong-arm America’s museums into laundering his whitewashed nostalgia as “history.” Exhibits. Wall text. Social media. Museum directors. Nothing was off limits. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...nytimes.comSmithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Is Resigning (Gift Article)In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart. 912688
Reposted by Laura MullenI Resist Fascist Trump @harrypotterresists.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The US Government has been utterly taken over by an international crime family. Our nation has become a Mafia state. Trump has been selling out the US all along and won't stop. We must organize our resources and connect to our communities in real life to stop him in November ! #USMidterms 715069
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Studio Channel Islands Saturday (September 12) at 1:30 pm. Lecture title: Night Sky with Stars Meet some contemporary practitioners—lit and living stars—who show us how wide the poetry heavens are, guiding us on our way(s) across darknesses we might want or need to explore. Stay for SLAM after! 011
Reposted by Laura MullenBradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Just got Thinking with the Poem: Essays on the Poetry and Poetics of Rachel Blau DuPlessis (U of NM P, 2024), ed. Andrew Mossin. So happy to see this out, and I was delighted to peer review it! (I'm thanked in the acknowledgments, so am not outing myself lol). www.unmpress.com/978082636721...unmpress.comThinking with the PoemBroad-ranging and pluralistically investigative, the essays in Thinking with the Poem document Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s authorial interventions as a poet, s... 084
Laura Mullen @afteriwasdead.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Lean into the loss--and all that she left us: this is where that wonder lives now.💔 020
Reposted by Laura MullenPattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026In this interview, Rachel Blau DuPlessis says: "I was lucky enough to have George Oppen’s intransigent eye on my very early work." I was lucky enough to have Rachel's intransigent eye on my very early work. Rest in peace— dear fierce brilliant generous Rachel 1163
Reposted by Laura MullenAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026US national debt just hit $40 trillion. Why? HINT: It's NOT because the government is trying to provide its citizens healthcare or childcare. 332129943981
Reposted by Laura MullenOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20/08/2026And then there were four! Alchemy Lecture books that is! 1913522
Reposted by Laura MullenJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social. 6168141780
Reposted by Laura MullenMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/08/2026🚨BREAKING: The US Postal Service announced late Friday night that it intends to move forward with its final rule on changing how mail voting is administered. The new rule was created to enact Donald Trump’s executive order, which seeks to restrict mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comUSPS pushes final rule on restricting mail voting forwardThe federal postal service acknowledges the new rule will impose burdens on states, but says its necessary to help law enforcement hunt for voter fraud. 35624781601
Reposted by Laura MullenThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Playing in our faces 509118485386