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Tanya 🧚‍♀️👑 @faeryqueene73.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I'm not one for false optimism. But what I witnessed today in Minneapolis was tremendous, both in scale and exuberance. It was a stunning answer to the federal assault on Minnesota, a show of solidarity that gives us something to hold on to during times that are unforgiving.

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“Everybody Showed Up”: Stunning Crowds at Minnesota Day of Strike and Shutdown Against ICE

Extreme cold didn't stop the shutdown on Friday as some 100 faith leaders were arrested, residents stayed home from work, and an estimated 50,000 or more marched through downtown Minneapolis.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is so fucking haunting.

From Mike Norton on Twitter: Empty car sitting at the intersection of 35th and Pillsbury with its flashers on.
There are these ghost cars all over Minneapolis right now from ICE snatching people out of their vehicle in the middle of the street.

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Just before Halloween, I had the great pleasure of speaking to NYT Bestselling author Ayana Gray! I, MEDUSA comes out next Tuesday and I think everyone should read it. youtu.be/75u1E0v3H_A

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NYT bestselling author Ayana Gray talks about I, MEDUSA, mythologies, & moral relativism!

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

TODAY ONLY! Submit a photo of your “I Voted” sticker OR proof of donation to any food pantry in lieu of our $15 submission fee for the inaugural TIGHTWIRES ANTHOLOGY contest! Enter for your chance to win $500 in both fiction and poetry! For more details, visit: hibatahir.com/the-tightwir...

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This week on Tightwires, I enjoyed discussing intersections of astrophysics and poetry (among other things) with Carey Salerno, poet & executive director/publisher of Alice James Books! THE HUNGRIEST STARS is out now! youtu.be/Lihec72jJh4 @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social @careysalerno.bsky.social

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Poet & Director Carey Salerno talks about hunger, honing, & being haunted by Brigit Pegeen Kelly!

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I’ve been not great at sharing this but that will change this week! Submission deadline THIS FRIDAY for The Tightwires Anthology! $15 submission fee via Venmo; $500 prize in both genres & numerous opportunities for publication! #CallforSubmissions Find all details here: hibatahir.com/the-tightwir...

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Twitter used to be the place where reporter talked to experts in the sciences, humanities, social sciences, law, medicine, etc., but the experts all left but reporters did not. Now reporters only talk to guys who do computers (but haven't coded in at least a decade). It shows.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution

The White White East Wing has a big gaping hole.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10/10/2025

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight. Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist.”👇

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

NOT released yet. Shame on those spreading rumors that it has been. This is disrespect of family and his community.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Hanif Abdurraqib 💙 from A FORTUNE FOR YOUR DISASTER (Tin House) Day 24 - #SealeyChallenge @tinhouse.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

HOW CAN BLACK PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT FLOWERS AT A TIME LIKE THIS

dear reader, with our heels digging into the good mud at a swamp's edge, you might tell me something

about the dandelion head & how it is not a flower itself but a plant made up of many small flowers at its crown

& lord knows I have been called by what I look like more than I have been called by what I actually am &

I wish to return the favor for the purpose of this exercise. which, too, is an attempt at fashioning

something pretty out of seeds refusing to make anything worthwhile of their burial. size me up & skip whatever semantics arrive

to the tongue first. say: that boy he look like a hollowed-out grandfather clock. he look like a million-dollar god with a two-cent

heaven. like all it takes is one kiss & before morning, you could scatter his whole mind across a field.

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Chaski Review @chaskireview.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

💃MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! 💃 Send us your weirdest, coolest work! Submissions close September 9

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I’m so excited to announce that after years of planning, The Tightwires Anthology is officially open for submissions! I’m especially thankful for our two incredible judges— Hanif Abdurraqib will judge poetry, and Hannah Whitten will judge fiction! hibatahir.com/the-tightwir...

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This week on Tightwires, I spoke to Mariah Rigg @riggstah.bsky.social, author of EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-- out today from @eccobooks.bsky.social! Kate Davis, former fiction editor of The Arkansas International and my best friend, co-hosted! youtu.be/7cHaB5_TA6s

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Author, MFA & Ph.D Mariah Rigg talks about colonization, climate change, & the color yellow!

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 03/08/2025

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

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The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

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Joaquín Gavilano @jjgavilano.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

We started a new literary magazine with @colnol.bsky.social and @hhtahir.bsky.social! Send us your work!

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. —Fanny Howe, RIP

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Mere hours before announced he'd ordered strikes on Iran, Trump was loudly complaining that he'll never get a Nobel Peace Prize.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
I am very happy to report that I have arranged, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a wonderful Treaty between the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Republic of Rwanda, in their War, which was known for violent bloodshed and death, more so even than most other Wars, and has gone on for decades. Representatives from Rwanda and the Congo will be in Washington on Monday to sign Documents.
This is a Great Day for Africa and, quite frankly, a Great Day for the World! I won't get a Nobel Peace Prize for this, I won't get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between India and Pakistan, I won't get a Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the War between Serbia and Kosovo, I won't get a Nobel Peace Prize for keeping Peace between Egypt and Ethiopia (A massive Ethiopian built dam, stupidly financed by the United States of America, substantially reduces the water flowing into The Nile River), and I won't get a Nobel Peace Prize for doing the Abraham Accords in the Middle East which, if all goes well, will be loaded to the brim with additional Countries signing on, and will unify the Middle East for the first time in "The Ages!" No, I won't get Peace Prize no matter what I do, including Russia/Ukraine, and Israel/Iran, wh those outcomes may be. but the people know. and that's all that matters to me!

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LauraD-in-Indy @laurad-in-indy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Just. Wow. "In Kocher’s analysis, since January, detentions of immigrants with no convictions or charges have had a relative growth 3 times greater than those of convicted criminals—the 1/ www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

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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.

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

You remember too much, my mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down? —Anne Carson, from "The Glass Essay"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 05/05/2025

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Rosa Castellano was such a delight! The latest on Season 10 of Tightwires. ALL IS THE TELLING is already out from @diodeeditions.bsky.social! youtu.be/f2YKtxoEZkM

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Poet Rosa Castellano talks about magic, community, & creating a packing list for the apocalypse!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

Google search results says: National Institute of Justice (•gov)
https://nij.ojp.gov › topics › articles › undocumented-im..
immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens.
No information is available for this page.
Learn why

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Chris Conroy @conroyforreal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

And this is why we instantly block every single number that ever texts us for money.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

If he goes just a few hours, Sen. Booker will break segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond's record for the longest Senate floor speech in history—Thurmond's filibuster of the 1957 Civil Rights Act (24 hours, 18 minutes).

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"I couldn't help but wonder . . . where *is* Yemen? And how did I get in this crazy group chat about the place? At first, everyone was high-fiving each other. And just like that, everyone was talking about dropping bombs. Funny, how chats, like friendships, can turn like that."

Carrie Bradshaw, surprised to find herself on Pete Hegseth's top secret group chat about bombing Yemen.

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

we fucked up a perfectly good planet is what we did. look at it. it's got billionaires

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Ecstatic to have another Tightwires interview featured by Poets & Writers! And ecstatic to discover this on the release day for WE CONTAIN LANDSCAPES, a searing and marvelous debut collection. ♥️

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This took FOREVER to make, and I felt so bad asking this question all season. But everyone delivered! So grateful to live and write in a world where these poets and their words exist. youtu.be/6i6Vp6_TS1Y

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What can art & writing offer us in 2025? Five poets weigh in!

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Patrycja @patrycjasara.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

“Eros and Sorrow” from We Contain Landscapes online (amidst brilliant work you can read free) at Poetry Northwest. thank you to the editors. WCL is out with @tinhouse.bsky.social in 3 days! www.poetrynw.org/poetry/eros-...

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Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

had an amazing time chatting with Hiba!! <3

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Hiba Tahir @hhtahir.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My FINAL Season 9 guest is the Toronto-based poet & financial analyst @farahghafoor.bsky.social Farah Ghafoor, author of the utterly devastating SHADOW PRICE! Out on April 1, 2025 from @houseofanansi.bsky.social House of Anansi Press and available for preorder now. www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid...

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Poet & financial analyst Farah Ghafoor talks about climate change, capitalism, & complicity!

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…

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