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Pichchenda Bao @pichchendabao.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The government leaked the killer’s video bc they think we all hate women as much as they do.

Pichchenda Bao @pichchendabao.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Big poetry weekend coming up! Can’t wait to join the lineup at A Persistence of Cormorants in Brooklyn. This is such a cool reading series and space. Come out to Brooklyn! Next Sunday! 1:30 PM. 165 2nd Street. Brooklyn. I’ll be trying out some new poems!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

This times a thousand, and it's messed up how a political assassination just kind of fell out of the news right away.

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Lauren Rankin @laurenarankin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

White supremacist terrorism and anti-abortion terrorism serve the same goal—solidifying white, cis, male power—and they work in tandem, bleeding into each other. And until we take anti-abortion violence seriously, it will continue to be a training ground for broader white supremacist terrorism.

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Pichchenda Bao @pichchendabao.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I’ve been so privileged to work with a few young Palestinian writers through We Are Not Numbers (WANN). One of them, Taqwa Ahmed al-Wawi, has gone on to publish more pieces in other venues since then. I am so proud and in awe of her spirit and determination to make her own future.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/05/2025

murder is bad and if you feel that way then hopefully you also agree mass murder is bad

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.

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Pichchenda Bao @pichchendabao.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Free at noon tomorrow at AWP in LA? Come to our offsite reading at the Arts District Brewery Company! I’ll be trying out some new poems with Nancy Agabian, Catherine Fletchers, Jared Harél, Mary Lannon, & Vaughn Watson. I love these writers so much. I hope you’ll join us.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The important thing to understand about the Trump administration is that it is always lying. It isn't simply indifferent to the truth; it has contempt for it and for those who tell it. This must be broadly understood.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 20/03/2025

It’s important to understand that when a white person says “this has never happened before” or compares some oppressive behavior to a foreign regime, but it *did* happen here to Black/brown people for years/decades/centuries, it represents a massive blow to solidarity. It’s selfish.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/03/2025

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

People convince themselves that animals can’t feel or think but desperately believe that a computer program that spews out summaries is something magical and intelligent

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Pichchenda Bao @pichchendabao.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Dear LA, I’ll be in your neck of the woods in a couple weeks!

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

OF THE EMPIRE
We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Not hearing enough noise about Mahmoud Khalil from folks who like to quote the "first they came for" poem. Y'all get that the point is that they came for controversial, easily othered groups first, right? Now, it's trans people, immigrants, and student activists. Your turn will come. Fight now.

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/03/2025

Fuck — and I truly mean this from the deepest well of my spirit — Hakeem Jeffries

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PoetNotaRockStar @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

WTF?! Watch the WH start revoking citizenship. Dangerous Times. @aoc.bsky.social

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/03/2025

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

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Hannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

All those science fiction and YA dystopian books I read as a kid didn’t prepare me for how mundanely cringe the current authoritarian power grab is. no style, panache, or sauce. Just a bunch of morally bankrupt weirdos with awful fashion sense and outdated troll humor.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Trump here is is referring to pro-Palestine protests so you won’t hear a peep from conservatives or even pro-Israel liberals. But just imagine if this was Biden referring to ‘illegal protests’ by conservative students or pro-life groups. Free speech brigade would be going mad!

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Apparently the reason the left "always loses" is because some of us are annoying and put people off. The far-right, of course, are a bunch of cool chill guys that are fun and normal 24/7.

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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

In recalling all the abusive behavior, please don't sleep on the fact that Cuomo was ALSO corrupt, dishonest and bad at his job!

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Pichchenda Bao @pichchendabao.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Hoping this will get the randos who follow me on here to unfollow

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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 28/02/2025

From @yepicurus on instagram

Toxic positivity, be damned, Herman Hesse reminds us that true optimism is not the denial of suffering. It is the will to perceive beauty amidst the suffering, and to conceive compassion despite suffering: “because the world is so full of death and horror I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell“

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Martha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.

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Nelini Stamp 🐺 @nelini.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The best thing New Yorkers can do to say F you to Trump is ensure that neither Eric Adams or Andrew Cuomo are mayor in Jan 2026.

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Pichchenda Bao @pichchendabao.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Join us! I won’t let you forget we’re in the middle of a fascist coup, but I’ll let you know we have each other.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. —James Baldwin

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Hey NYC poets! Poets of Queens is hosting a reading from our anthology Poets of Queens 2 next Thursday at Astoria Bookshop at 7pm. Come join @jaredharel.bsky.social @pichchendabao.bsky.social Maria Lisella Olena Jennings and me!

Promotional material with same info against a chain link fence over a rail yard with images of Jared Harél Maria Lisella and Pichchenda Bao.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17/02/2025

NY City Council speaker Adrienne Adams: "With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign."

ADRIENNE ADAMS
NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER
CITY HALL, NY, NY
Statement from Speaker Adrienne Adams on the Resignation of 4 Deputy Mayors and Calling on Mayor Adams to Resign
Feb. 17, 2025
With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign. This administration no longer has the ability to effectively govern with Eric Adams as mayor.
These resignations are the culmination of the mayor's actions and decisions that have led to months of instability and now compromise the City's sovereignty, threaten chaos, and risk harm to our families. There is too much at stake for our city and New Yorkers to allow this to continue.
We have endured enough scandal, selfishness and embarrassment, all of which distract from the leadership that New Yorkers deserve. This is the opposite of public service. Our city needs a leader totally committed to protecting New Yorkers and improving their lives.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/02/2025

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

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