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Paula Mendoza

@paulajane.bsky.social
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Writer and teacher. ☼: ♉ ☾: ♋ ↗: ♑ paulajanemendoza.com / @pjmendoza on UpScrolled

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
You can’t give ICE a budget larger than all but 15 militaries worldwide and expect the agency to demilitarize its behavior. Yet that’s just what congressional Democrats are doing.
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...
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‘Inhumane conditions’ and death at Miami’s Krome migrant detention center
Growing reports of overcrowding and mistreatment at Florida’s largest immigration enforcement facility have sparked protests and are yet another example of the use of cruelty as a deterrent
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Where I'm at: AWP decompressing. Mentally drafting bulaklak. Conflicted about Ian and Poppy. Why can't friendship be enough? Other Books in LA is a dream of a bookstore. Love is a perpetual motion machine of strength and exhaustion.
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
such a good interview— Adam Plunkett on Frost and the fetishization of difficulty: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/03...
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Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet? - The Paris Review
“Reading Frost requires a kind of modesty and curiosity. Coming to this modesty has been a big part of my own experience with him. At first, I was reading a lot of the poems and thinking, This is dumb...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Collaborators with the fascists.
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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 14/03/2025
The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history. Archive is here: web.archive.org/web/20250304... Page was here: www.army.mil/asianpacific... Disgusting.
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Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders | The United States Army
U.S. Army Heritage Asian American & Pacific Islander Microsite | The United States Army
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Comrades Education @comradeseducation.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Join a community of learning, support & action w/ @huwaida.bsky.social @alissashira.bsky.social @imak48.bsky.social @Labor4Palestine @adalahjustice.bsky.social @uscpr.bsky.social @jvp.bsky.social @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social @surj.bsky.social @catalystproject.bsky.social Details: comrades.education
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Mahmoud Khalil has filed an emergency petition to return to NY. He is being held in Louisiana. “It feels like my husband was kidnapped from home, and at a time when we were supposed to be planning to welcome our first child into this world,” said Khalil's wife, who is eight months pregnant.
Announcement from Center for Constitutional Rights and CLEAR about Mahmoud Khalil's petition to be returned to NY
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
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SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained
"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thrilled to be moderating this amazing panel at AWP this year. If you'll be there, I invite you to join us! #AWP2025 #AWPLA #Filipinowriters #Filipinxwriters
Poster for a panel at the 2025 AWP conference in L.A. called Filipino Writers on Diasporic Subjectivity and Postcolonial Prosodies. Headshots of four Filipino writers against a dark green background. From left to right: Kay Ulanday Barrett, Oliver de la Paz, Kimberly Garza, and Alleliah Nuguid. The panel will be at the L.A. Convention Center, level 2, room 407, on Thursday, March 27th, at 10:35 AM, and moderated by Paula Mendoza.
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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
questions for reflection, journaling or conversation with people in your community:
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Maine Coast Girl @crg64.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The last three weeks in a small coastal town in Maine we have been doing weekly protests. 4 attended the first week 21 the second and 70 the third. I suggest you pic a spot not matter how small a town and make your voices heard! People will join you 💙
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This week in Iowa we may have set a record as an estimated 2,500 people showed up to protest anti-trans legislation. It's certainly the loudest and most well attended protest event I've been to at the Iowa Capitol, and I've been to a number of them over the years. bsky.app/profile/covi...
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Just watched episode 7 of Severance. That was fucking devastating. I'm haunted, heartbroken.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 27/02/2025
The link in this post actually works now...
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Terra Field @rainofterra.gay · 24/02/2025
The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.
federalregister.gov
30-Day Notice of Proposed Information Collection: Application for a U.S. Passport
The Department of State has submitted the information collection described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we are requesting comments on these collections from all interested individuals and organizations....
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I think everyone should apply for a DOGE job. Or at least, you know, fill out the form. Maybe even apply for other people. Fictional people, even. Inanimate objects. In this form right here. doge.gov/join
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Join the U.S. Digital Service (DOGE) | DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency
Drive change that uplifts the American people.
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Surprised myself how happy I was to watch Canada win the Four Nations Face-Off game last night. Damn good game. Binnington's incredible.
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Following a couple of IG accounts of congressional staff & interns (folks taking all our calls) and I have a new (and unfortunately belated) level of admiration, respect, and sympathy for the work they do. They all deserve care packages and gift baskets.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Woke is the favourite gremlin of mediocre men. It's nebulous, it's everywhere, it's why they run companies into the ground and their children hate them and they're getting a divorce. Woke creeps into their rooms at night and leaves skidmarks on their underwear.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025
Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.
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Lindsay Fickas @lindsayfickas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Very happy one of the best forms of resistance right now is through being extremely annoying. I have been training for this moment my entire life.
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Here's another fun one, from @chaninicholas.bsky.social:
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
So, a little dopamine resistance candy for y'all. I've another for the Gulf of Mexico that I'll post after this, but for now, tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" to the Stonewall Monument.
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Seems like a good test to put the brakes on a doomscroll.
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Just saw Karen Solie who read new poems from _Wellwater_. I love her humor and her sentences. Her syntax is quietly enthralling. It was such a beautiful reading and I am so excited for this book.
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I just read the following sentence to describe Emily Dickinson's similes— "She's like a gear freak at the auto show of resemblance." —and had to stop, because. Like. That's a fucking great simile. Go read Srikanth Reddy's _The Unsignificant_. It's delightful.
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Diana Teeter @dianateeterart.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
It is more difficult than I would have suspected to limit my Terrible News™️ consumption. Is this vigilance or am I willing a mental breakdown upon myself?
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Just a reminder, in case it helps: another way to think about "holding the line" and "do not comply in advance" is saying "Fuck you, make me."
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
www.patreon.com/nonamebooks From the About page: "Noname Book Club is a Black-led worker cooperative connecting community members both inside and outside carceral facilities with radical books." Join their Patreon and support this important work.
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Get more from Noname Book Club on Patreon
Creating a space for collective learning
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
SLC folks: Email and call your senators and urge them to vote NO to HB 267!!!: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
actionnetwork.org
Stop HB267! Protect your Freedom to Bargain and Organize!
HB 267 is a dangerous bill put forward by Rep. Jordan Teuscher (R-South Jordan), a direct attack on the rights of all public employees, and therefore an attack on all Utahns who depend on nurses, fire...
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Reading, checking in on loved ones, and coming back to my breath. Grounded in love and locked in on the fight ahead.
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Paula Mendoza @paulajane.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Friends and friends of friends from Salt Lake, Austin, Denton, Dallas, Ann Arbor, Vancouver! Are any y'all here? Whatch'all been up to? I just had pretty good gyūdon at 9Up at the Chinatown market. And called my rep about HB 267. What'd you do today?
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Chris @jazzhandmedowns.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Some bits are dated, but there's an entire field guide of how to resist via ineptitude. When it doubt, just imagine the most incompetent coworker you've ever had to deal with, and ask yourself how they would handle a task. www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...
 (4) Pretend that instructions are hard to understand, and ask to have them repeated more than once. Or pretend that you are particularly anxious to do your work, and pester the foreman with unnecessary questions.

(5) Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment. Complain that these things are preventing you from doing your job right.

(6) Never pass on your skill and experience to a new or less skillful worker.

(7) Snarl up administration in every possible way. Fill out forms illegibly so that they will have to be done over; make mistakes or omit requested information in forms.

(8) If possible, join or help organize a group for presenting employee problems to the management. See that the procedures adopted are as inconvenient as possible for the management, involving the presence of a large number of employees at each presentation, entailing more than one meeting for each grievance, bringing up problems which are largely imaginary, and so on.

(9) Misroute materials.

(10) Mix good parts with unusable scrap and rejected parts.

(12) General Devices for Lowering Morale and Creating Confusion

(a) Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

(b) Report imaginary spies or danger to the Gestapo or police.

(c) Act stupid.

(d) Be as irritable and quarrelsome as possible without getting yourself into trouble.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/01/2025
Trump White House's first trans executive order is out. I'll be reading over it here and going through line by line to help you make sense of it. You can find it here: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/01/2025
These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
BREAKING: Here is the anti-trans sex/gender executive order. It's extensive, it's bad, and it's often lawless. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... And, do not miss in "d" and "e" below, it even tries to put in the beginnings of a personhood argument, for some reason.
Sec. 2.  Policy and Definitions.  It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.  These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.  Under my direction, the Executive Branch will enforce all sex-protective laws to promote this reality, and the following definitions shall govern all Executive interpretation of and application of Federal law and administration policy:

(a)  “Sex” shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female.  “Sex” is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of “gender identity.”

(b)  “Women” or “woman” and “girls” or “girl” shall mean adult and juvenile human females, respectively.

(c)  “Men” or “man” and “boys” or “boy” shall mean adult and juvenile human males, respectively.

(d)  “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.

(e)  “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.
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George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com · 01/01/2025
Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025: 1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it. www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
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2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions
Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat
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Erik Hart @darkkeep.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Summoning the only appropriate vibe for (looks around...) the whole day
The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior appropriately expressing his feelings for supremecists with an upraised middle finger
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