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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"I want John Darnielle to send me sixteen dollars. I don't know why, I just do. And I have a plot so fiendish to make him do it, check it out. I'm gonna do a facsimile edition of a 1957 magazine that ran a Robbe-Grillet piece. This fuckin guy, he won't even care what piece is it. 16 dollars please"

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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Read an excerpt of @livingjelly.bsky.social's GLORY HOLE in @evergreenreview.bsky.social: evergreenreview.com/read/glory-h...

John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I welcome news that, most likely, the universe is largely made up of WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles). Singly we are next to nothing, but together...our mass outweighs galaxies.

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Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange (Gift Article)

A lone signal from an experiment in South Dakota doesn’t fit the profile of any other known particles, physicists say.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

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Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian) @comicslibrarian.com · 17/08/2026

One of those damn federal book banning bills is advancing in the US Senate. Please take the few seconds it takes to do this. 📚

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Tell the Senate: Protect the Freedom to Read!

Our Senators must reject censorship and protect our freedom to read.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"A terror of infection goes hand-in-glove with an obsession for gold, for Trump the only material that will render what is unclean clean, and stay clean," @johnghoakes.bsky.social writes." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-fear-of-th...

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A fear of the unclean and imperfect

John Oakes on Trump, slime, and gold

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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

On Sunday, Benito Miranda, a three-tour Iraq War veteran, was detained by ICE. He'll likely be deported to Mexico. Reported for @aljazeera.com with the support of @pulitzercenter.org. aje.news/bl5ib6

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Deporting soldiers? Why immigrant veterans fear removal from the US

Trump's push for mass deportation has heightened fears that immigrant veterans of the US military could be expelled.

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“Jean’s overzealousness about Christ was the driving factor of her life, and my tame Muslim family was the perfect prey for her, since she’d never managed to convert her husband.” Up now: “The Dark Duality of US-Iran Relations” by Mohammad Hakima. evergreenreview.com/read/the-dar...

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The Dark Duality of US-Iran Relations

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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Link to the full letter: www.lahuelga.com/sos

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SOS: A Letter from Delaney Hall

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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Advocates have published a second letter written from inside the ICE detention facility at Delaney Hall, signed by 300 detained people. “Judges in this detention center…carry out deportations and mass expulsions without properly reviewing cases. We live with anguish and fear of appearing in court.”

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John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

In the midst of so much death, destruction, and despair, a truly inspiring article about establishment of the Phoenix Library in Gaza...: "Every time I held a book I felt immense joy." Well worth the read.

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Gaza’s Phoenix Library Rises

Omar Hamad saved all the books he could from the rubble. Now he’s built a new home for them.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

NEW, FROM ME: The organizers with Community Solidarity Project, a local LA mutual aid group, organized from their main hub at Bernies Coffee Shop for years. Now, they've been asked to move, and are asking for the public's help. They've set up a online fundraiser and Goodbye Party tomorrow, April 19

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They organized mutual aid in the same place for nearly a decade. Now they're being forced to move.

After nearly ten years at Bernie's Coffee Shop on Wilshire and Fairfax, the organizers with LA's Community Solidarity Project have to move—and are asking for the public's help.

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John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

If you're in the BEST BOROUGH OF ALL, Queens, tomorrow, Saturday, 7pm, and in the mood for poetry...email Jee and he'll send you the address.

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“Stan went inside, the sharp night air giving way to the fug of sweat and cigarette smoke, and spotted his four bandmates at the far end of the room, packing up their gear under two giant, hand-painted signs . . .” —“Neighbor” by James Rickman. Art by Laura Bruce. evergreenreview.com/read/neighbor/

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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This exemplifies the underhanded tactics the nyt, and this particular writer, use all the time. They foist their political biases on unsuspecting readers who count of them to be honest brokers🧵

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

NO KINGS NYC! 10.18.25 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF US STAND TOGETHER, PROTESTING FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE, RACIAL JUSTICE, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, GENDER EQUALITY, FAIR WAGES, CLEAN AIR + WATER, AND MORE! 🎵 Freedom NO KINGS, by Ole No Kings @bkindivisible.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social l

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John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

So this Mamdani fellow goes after criminal landlords, strong focus on public transport, education, general well-being, etc., etc. BUT what about stinky weather? worst winter in decades, too much snow, rain, coldness imo. AND a lousy spring, if you can even call it that

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PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Haitians Stuck in Mexico Find Some Comfort Despite Broken Asylum Systems passblue.com/2026/03/08/h...

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Haitians Stuck in Mexico Find Some Comfort Despite Broken Asylum Systems

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

“My honey is blood and my meat is bone. The wilderness is in me. I wander through its hedges, over the sloping hills through the meandering rivers . . . .” Up now: “THE BOOK OF CAIN” and two more poems by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi. Art by Rosanna Bruno. evergreenreview.com/read/the-boo...

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The Book of Cain and Other Poems

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

NO KINGS, NYC 3.28.26 2:00 pm 7th Ave & Central Park South The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption,+ cruelty. Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger> Volunteer via the link below: nokingsnyc.com

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Trump said he was working on something “desperately needed.” He meant the gold-encrusted ballroom for himself and his billionaire friends. Not affordable health care, not housing, not the high cost of groceries. Priorities.

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

“In Dambudzo Marechera’s short story ‘Burning in the Rain,’ an unnamed young man looks in the mirror only to see his reflection given back as an ‘ape.’ ” Up now: “From the Stutter to the Gutter” by Jeffery Renard Allen. Art by Ken Weathersby. evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...

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From the Stutter to the Gutter: Dambudzo Marechera and the “Voluptuous Blackening Image”

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End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

96% of the funds in MAGA Inc. came from donors that gave $1 million or more. Trump is going to flood the midterms with millions so he can avoid accountability at the ballot box and continue advancing an agenda that keeps his Big Money donors rich at the expense of working people.

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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

At Delaney Hall, the privately-run ICE detention facility in Newark, visitors are forced to wait for hours in life-threatening cold to see their loved ones. But those conditions, advocates say, are arbitrarily imposed. Latest for @documentedny.bsky.social: documentedny.com/2026/02/09/v...

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Visitors to Delaney Hall Wait for Hours in an Unheated Tent to See Their Loved Ones - Documented

The tent, purchased by county officials, was installed after complaints about the lack of protection against cold temperatures.

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“I met the famous spinster Hepzibah Pyncheon, described by Nathaniel Hawthorne as so ancient and hopelessly decrepit when really she was only 60-something . . . I became obsessed with her . . . .” —“HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25” by Sibyl Kempson. evergreenreview.com/read/hexalog...

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HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25

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John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"The sacred is not delivered by comfort. It is delivered by stress, deprivation, betrayal, and futility." -- Alice Maynwaring, game designer and philosopher. Read more of her extraordinary essay on gaming at link below: evergreenreview.com/read/das-vid...

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[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] Beautiful Suffering

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

“On June 8th, 2025, I went to my first baseball game at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees were playing against the Red Sox. It was one of the most interesting things I have ever witnessed. I was stunned and shocked.” —“Baseball” by Kathy Joyce. Art by Danny Ische. evergreenreview.com/read/baseball/

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Excellent instructional video pass it on

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John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 08/01/2026

Identifying government officials by name is not doxxing or harassment. Seth Harp merely published information that was publicly available about someone at the center of the world’s biggest news story. Read our full statement: freedom.press/issues/house...

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John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

A friend of a friend in North Carolina sent this pic of a textbook from her nephew's middle school history class. "Unemployment dropped to its lowest in history" under T--not true, of course (that occurred in 1944).

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Anna Oakes @annaoakes.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Amidst bike thefts and ICE raids, delivery workers have been organizing their own self defense networks. I followed one of these groups, El Diario de los Deliveryboys, on their Virgen de Guadalupe procession for @documentedny.bsky.social. documentedny.com/2025/12/16/b...

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Bicycles and Blessings: Delivery Workers Honor Our Lady of Guadalupe in Annual Procession - Documented

Now in its fifth year, this caravan of deliveristas marked the feast day by pedaling to 14 immigrant businesses across Washington Heights, East Harlem, and the South Bronx.

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John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"The Four Stages of Cruelty," an amazing collaboration between @suecoe.bsky.social and William Hogarth:

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The Four Stages of Cruelty (after Hogarth)

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John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Something off here. Masked federal brutes spark fear and loathing nationwide, Trump and minions spew racism, and @nytimes.com runs a front page article on...how it's all the fault of the Biden admin. Time to cancel that subscription?

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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Ep 5 of the PalFest Podcast is out: Randa Abdel Fattah talks to Sara Yasin about DISCIPLINE They discuss Abdel-Fattah's razor-sharp new novel, DISCIPLINE and the navigation of racism and censorship within Western institutions. All your listening links are here: www.palfest.org/podcast

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Palfest Podcast — The Palestine Festival of Literature

The PalFest Podcast highlights new books from and about Palestine, bringing writers together in conversation across borders to discuss new ideas and dig into vital histories. Each episode will featur...

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John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Hey NYC, listen up! You don't need to be a Queens resident to detest the idea of a casino built on park land. Its developer Steve Cohen just sold a golden toilet for $12.1 million at Sotheby's--that's the kind of stand-up guy he is. Read and sign the letter! mailchi.mp/55086ef2e9fd...

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Recapping the No Casino rally and sharing next steps

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Read a new excerpt from We Had It Coming up today at @evergreenreview.bsky.social evergreenreview.com/read/you-are...

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

“Love is forbearing and requires constant revival. Each day, I choose to father my father, even when it feels too difficult for me. Every moment with him alive is a blessing.” New at Evergreen: “Afụnwaelotanna” by @chinonsonzeh.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/afunwae...

John Oakes @johnghoakes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

"...After she showed her New York State driver’s license, officers asked which country she was from and requested to see her passport. 'I laughed,' she said. 'I asked them, since when do people walk around with passports in America?' The agents then moved on."

documentedny.com

'This is Lawless Terror': Chinatown Reacts to ICE's Street Vendor Raid on Canal Street - Documented

Confusion, fear and outrage grip NYC after ICE arrests and detains street vendors, some of whom had legal status or U.S. citizenship.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/10/2025

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true: propub.li/47aawMD

50+: Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

~130: Agents also can arrest U.S. citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

~20: Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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