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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

But I was told this was alarmist thinking based on over exaggerated math.

Somewhere in Henrico County, Virginia, a teacher is being asked to shut down a computer at night so the county can shave a few bucks off its electric bill. Meanwhile, 37 data centers hum along across roughly 2700 acres of county land, each one drinking power at a scale that makes your home energy use look like a nightlife — a demand surge accelerated by projects like the Stargate project. On June 26, county manager John Vithoulkas emailed thousands of employees, including staff—with the news: electricity rates jump 25% on July 1, adding 5 million in annual costs. His fix? “Collectively make small adjustments.”
The math nobody did out loud
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Centers now drive the majority of electricity price increases in your region and your bill reflects it.

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

went into detail on writing desk essentials! Here’s everything @ingridrojasc.bsky.social & I need* at our desks for writing to happen ☺️ we’re taking applications at The Ministry of Words for fall workshops, there are just a few seats left so we’ve opened a third workshop theministryofwords.com

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Movie night is back! We’re thrilled to return with Litquake for ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social The first installment: @tkiramadden.bsky.social joins us to watch and discuss Alfred Hitchock’s Strangers on a Train. Tickets: tinyurl.com/4psr6py4

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/02/2026

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Your regular reminder that since August of last year, Mr. Abrego has agreed to be deported to Costa Rica, but the Trump admin refuses to do so because they want to instead punish him by sending him to an African country that will most likely detain and then deport him to El Salvador for the admin.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The Trump administration’s attacks on H-2A wage protections make it harder than ever for farm workers to earn fair pay. This #ValentinesDay, remember: Love means justice. Love means protection. Stand with farmworkers. Show love to the hands that feed us. ❤️#WeFeedYou

A photo of a farm worker in the field with her hands making a heart with a Valentine's Day frame with little hearts around it and the words over the photo love the hands that feed us. Protect farm workers.

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Rebecca Solnit as brilliant as always ✨✨✨✨

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Happy bad bunny day to all who celebrate 🪩

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

A survey of the Epstein files and how #metoo , eugenics, and fascism interconnect this was so well done

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Join us next week to toast our newest issue ZYZZYVA 131! Ft. readings from contributors @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social + @mawsheinwin.bsky.social + Suzanne Rivecca. Thursday, 2/12, 6:30pm @ Local Economy, Oakland

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

When you’re writing a novel and have multiple chaos lines going this is called a chaosii

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Hi friends, very excited to go to the West Coast and talk about “The Earrings of Madame de…” by Max Ophuls. I’ll be showing the film and in conversation with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social, a fundraiser for the literary magazine @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social.

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Hi Bay Area 🚨🚨🚨 @alexanderchee.bsky.social is coming 9/6 at 12:30 pm the Roxie! This is @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social movie matinee, where you get to watch a movie with a famous author and hear them chat about it after! Alexander Chee will be telling us about glamor and how glamor figures in his own work

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Here's what a police detective wrote about this sweatshirt in 2019.

observed he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie with rolls of money covering the eyes, ears and mouth of the presidents on the separate denominations. Officers know such clothing to be indicative of the Hispanic gang culture. The meaning of the clothing is to represent "ver, oir y callar"

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/05/2025

The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1

Children and young men, reaching for food, extend arms holding pots and pans. A headline reads: "As Israel's Blockade Grinds On, Gazan Children Go Hungry And Patients Die" Photo by Saher Alghorra for The New York Times

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

We’re going to have to step up to protect and support our literary journals, independent presses, and institutions. This just happened to everyone. I’m thinking through this ❤️

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Have you bought your tix yet? The first ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social kicks off Monday, April 14, at the Roxie Theater. Featuring @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation w/ Jenny Odell, right after the screening of "Rivers and Tides" (in 35mm). roxie.com/film/zyzzyva...

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ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid Rojas Contreras: Rivers & Tides (35mm)

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with a book signing. Movie introduction starts promptly at 6, followed by a conversation at the end of the screening. Books! Banter! Cinema! ZYZZYVA Movie Night with Ingrid…

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"Other countries that have previously been featured on the watchlist in recent years include Zimbabwe, Argentina, El Salvador and the United Arab Emirates." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms

Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Time for my incredible tax expenses system where I’ve left the expense as an unread email in my inbox along with all my other unread emails 💀

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Lygia Navarro (she/ella) ♿️ + 🏳️‍🌈 💜 🏳️‍⚧️ @lygianavarro.com · 07/02/2025

Beautiful prose from @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Many things are hard to see through. ... Something has happened to language. Things are becoming interchangeable. President. Autocrat. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you are freaking out, engage with trusted groups like @detentionwatchnetwork.org. Allow them offer some guidance about what you can do and how you can help.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Trump just took 500 Marines on standby to help with escalating California wildfires and sent them to the border instead, where migrant crossings have been at the lowest level they’ve been in years since July. Unbelievable. And apparently armed, which is new. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

X post from Jennifer Griffin at Fox News, at 6:10 PM. “100 US troops are already en route to the border. A senior Marine official I spoke to said:
The 500 Marines being sent from being on stand by to help with the California fires will be armed and have magazines in their weapons, unlike during past border missions. The Marines are planning for up to 2500 Marines being sent to the border if requested. The Marines, I am told, are treating this deployment as they would any other emergency contingency (evacuating an Embassy, deploying to a war zone). “Our response will be immediate. We are going in ready to respond. If the cartels shoot at us we will not stand by,” this Marine official told me. "We will be taking whatever equipment we would send if a Marine Expeditionary Unit or MEU were deploying overseas."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I don't think people quite grasp how much danger the media is in.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Good morning. You are still here. Do something kind for someone you love today--and if you can, for someone else in your community, even if they're a stranger. We're in this together. ❤️

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Tracey Baptiste @traceybaptiste.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Excuse me? They can't have their OWN books???

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This motherfucker here.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 22/01/2025

Wikipedia is a great achievement of our era, and (of course) it’s under attack by the far right. If you use it frequently like I do, consider donating: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation

Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...

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Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

“The language of pain allows those who suffer, those who acknowledge their suffering and share it with others, to articulate an inexpressible experience as an intrinsic criticism against the sources that made it possible in the first place.” —Cristina Rivera Garza giving us reasons to write

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Today is my birthday, and the greatest gift I could possibly get on this desperate, hopeless, futureless day is a future as a writer. I’m allergic to promoting myself, but if I can earn out my advance, hopefully, I can write another book. bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

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Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders a book by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Longlisted for the National Book Award A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture--from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones--to excavate and reimagine what has bee...

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Brian Gresko @briangresko.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

100 Days of Creative Resistance launched today, with R. O. Kwon. Even if you haven’t signed up, you can read Kwon’s post here: mailchi.mp/c5a285e83b27... @writingco-lab.bsky.social

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

It's not just undocumented immigrants. The Trump birthright citizenship EO says that every child born to a parent here on any non-immigrant visa (including student visas and other visas which allow people to live in the US for years) is not a US citizen. Unconstitutional in the extreme.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

To mark "Trump will declare a national emergency for mass deportations" day: here is the initial spreadsheet of our crowd-sourced *local* immigration advocacy/support organizations. Please share widely, put to good use, and keep letting me know about more organizations folks can connect with.

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Local Public-Facing Immigrant Support/Advocacy Groups

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Tomorrow noon east-coast time, 9am Pacific: we'll be here to talk about beloved community, power, storytelling, and enter this next era of US history together, heads held high, friends held close. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf_y...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/

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Immigration Policy Tracking Project

A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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.

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 10/01/2025

Anyone have a debut book coming out this spring? Tell me about it — it’d be nice to hear about something nice! Your first book only happens once, friend!

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