Reposted by Jake Cline
Trump’s obsession with demonizing the Somali community is dangerous and reprehensible.
Hate to break it to him: Somali Minnesotans are resilient. We will not let Trump intimidate us. Our neighbors have our back.
Jake Cline
@jakecline.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, book critic. Bylines, etc., at jakecline.net. I live in Miami.
![Patti Smith: “I'm not a real complex writer. There are poetic aspects, and I think the reader might have to deal with a lot of references, but they can easily look up [Japanese novelist Yukio] Mishima if they don't know who Mishima is. I've never really thought about how difficult or easy it is for the reader. I'm not a heavily descriptive writer like Faulkner or somebody. I always think of my writing as quite simple. The other books, like Year of the Monkey, which is 60 percent fiction, are like autofiction. People have to just go along with it, go with the flow. In M Train, Year of the Monkey and this book I'm writing now, you just take a little journey with the narrator, who's like a vagabond version of myself.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jhuh66uoa2w3zrejneli46xx/bafkreialm6eklwh3uai4ick47alkwq45q4bncmsrl2i4oytrd3zh47f3iq)
![Dreher: [Chuckles.] No, but I believe that there is a world of the demonic. I’m well acquainted with exorcists and spiritual warfare, and if you know any exorcists and have spent time with them, you know how real this stuff is. I believe that A.I. is going to be used as a vector for the demonic. It’s not to say every instance of A.I. is demonic, but I believe that people will come to see it as an oracle.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jhuh66uoa2w3zrejneli46xx/bafkreicgwaigyvo3jwrskegmj27uhbze72lrileocvrzvklhlw3t7gv6me)
