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Chris Santiago

@santisugi.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, professor: poetry, fiction, Asian American lit, sound. CalArts. Books: Tula (2016), Small Wars Manual (a 2025 Lit Hub Notable Small Press Book) Husband + dad. When do I tell dad jokes? When they become apparent. t.co/U0opNqf5yO

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.
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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Orwell never said this. The first usage & attribution was by Richard Grenier (prankster & far-right madman) in the Washington Times, 1993. The closest approximation is from Notes on Nationalism - 'Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.'
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Trump is the first president to wage wars simultaneously on the Mideast and the Midwest.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Nice pull and an important reminder that, no, things haven't always been like this.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
This is what "anti-wokeness" was all about, making it publicly acceptable to be an aspiring genocidaire bsky.app/profile/mehd...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
FIFA watching their inaugural Peace Prize recipient descend into his third war (not counting the wars he’s waging against domestic populations like MN)
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dwight schrute and michael scott are standing next to each other in an office
ALT: dwight schrute and michael scott are standing next to each other in an office
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
“‘Ay’ and ‘Ey’: Fill Spaces and Ad Libs in Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny” In this paper I will
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I am so proud of you, Minnesota. Literally tears in my eyes (though they're not freezing here like they would be there).
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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 11/01/2026
It's three weeks after the deadline to release the Epstein files.
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Poor, poor AI. It’s getting push back from people whose lives and livelihoods are already being dramatically affected by it! Poor AI! Who will ever defend it? Can it possibly keep chugging inexorably along, like the trillion dollar-backed underdog that it is?
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Clearly, the US violation of Venezuelan sovereignty is about oil. But is it not also about Netanyahu? Miller et. al. are so incensed at the idea of an international court (or Mamdani’s NYC) arresting their crony head of state, they do so preemptively with Maduro? (And even put him on trial—in NYC!)
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester. A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
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Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong @misscantbewrong.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
WE CAN TELL
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
At SCI-arc in the '00s,I heard a student speak disparagingly of Frank Gehry's work. "We're 20 years ahead of what he's doing." TLDR: the Oedipal impulse was at work (see J. Halberstam's critique). FWIW, I'm grateful to Gehry for helping me imagine the built world as dancing, leaning, at play. RIP.
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Frank Gehry, whose designs defied gravity and convention, dies at 96
Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. "I've always been for optimism and architecture not being sad," he said.
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Wow! Small Wars Manual is one of Lit Hub's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025!
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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The fact that AI loves to use the em dash is proof that the devs gratuitously fed their LLMs my poems and those of my friends!
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Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The 2026 lit mag rankings are now available from my website! They include an overall ranking, as well as separate rankings for fiction, flash fiction, non-fiction and poetry. If you find these helpful, please show your support by liking & sharing 🙏
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Tr*mp's haphazard efforts to ram through (and market) a peace deal while the Nobel is dishing out prizes has the energy of a shoebox diorama thrown together the night before a science fair by the kid who's going to smash it all to pieces if he doesn't win.
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
What horrible gun deaths yesterday in Colorado and Utah. Gun control now.
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Department of Justice to be renamed Minitrue
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Reading the script for JUNO 17 years after seeing it. A little cutesy with some of the dialogue, but it holds up really well. What are your favorite comedies (not series but feature films)?
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Sassy0210 @sassy0210.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Wednesday Friends #1 @raykwong.bsky.social @dcombes.bsky.social @tntnle.bsky.social @stephen5150.bsky.social @mersyme.bsky.social @eggzbacn.bsky.social @goodplacejames.bsky.social @thecaffeinator.bsky.social @luckyshitt.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social @chillprov1.bsky.social
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poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social @poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
New anthology available now Poetry Is Not A Luxury: Poems For All Season, 2025. bookshop.org/p/books/poet...
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
It bears repeating again and again: for Asians in America, proximity to whiteness will not shield you from white supremacy, no matter how successful or wealthy you become. Solidarity with other oppressed groups is the answer.
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tante @tante.cc · 28/03/2025
OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power. tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-display-…
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Vulgar Display of Power
Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity. About what it means to be a human, about how to care for one another and the world […]
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The Marines are leaving LA, but the precedent is set—the president has deployed the military on U.S. soil in order to silence his political enemies. (If you haven't already, please consider reading my piece in @adroitjournal.bsky.social on the occupation of LA) theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/14/o...
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On Small Wars at Home and Abroad
The day I started writing this essay, hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in downtown Los Angeles, about ten miles from my home in Pasadena. They joined the 2,000 National Guardsmen already in the cit…
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
My latest—an essay on the military occupation of L.A. and its connection to American imperialism in the Philippines and elsewhere. Thank you to @adroitjournal.bsky.social for supporting this work! theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/14/o...
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On Small Wars at Home and Abroad
The day I started writing this essay, hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in downtown Los Angeles, about ten miles from my home in Pasadena. They joined the 2,000 National Guardsmen already in the cit…
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VULKK @vulkk.com · 20/05/2025
In the #Andor finale, Cassian, Melshi, and K-2SO play Rianza. This game was created by the art/graphics department. Heavily inspired by ancient Mahjong sets and dominoes. S2 E10-12 HIDDEN DETAILS & REFERENCES: vulkk.com/2025/05/15/andor-season-2…
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David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
was interesting to track which of Tokyo's metal monuments survived the material mobilization of war: (but not interesting enough to keep in the book!)
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also 1) bad at what it does 2) literally makes you stupider 3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I made this list of Nonviolent Political Actions for Writers for a course I taught during TFG 1.0 on Writers & Resistance. Please share. You do not need to be a writer to participate. "You are here on this earth at this time. Don't act like you're not a part of what's going on."
Nonviolent Political Actions for Writers

1) Writing-speeches, letters, statements, flyers, leaflets, group letters, petitions...plus your poems, stories, plays, and commitment to making art as a person who desires a better world.

2) Banners bumperstickers, t-shirts, protest signs, sky-writing, sidewalk chalk, broadcasts, social media posts, articles, editorials, displays of language in public places.

3) Symbolic Acts-pickets, marches, prayer circles, vigils, mock awards, delivering symbolic objects (pies, dildos, dead flowers, glasses of water delivered by citizens of Flint, MI, to their local politicians, etc), displays of flags or other symbolic objects (in the Polish Solidarity movement, members wore electronic "resistors" from radios), public performances, satire, costumes (pussy hats at the Women's March; nuns' habits worn by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, etc.), disrobings, die-ins, mock funerals, effigies, puppets.

4) Public disapproval-whistles, bullhorns, assemblies, sit-ins, stand-ins, ride-ins, solidarity with those being attacked (Angel Action against the Westboro Baptist Church, US Veterans acting as "Human Shields" to protect the Standing Rock protesters), walk-outs, silence, withholding approval, turning one's back, boycott, sanctuary, total personal non-cooperation, conscientious objector status.

5) Witness-At any level of action, remember that action speaks louder with words. You not only have to be willing to participate, you must be willing to testify. You are here on this earth at this time. Don't act like you're not a part of what's going on.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 12/06/2025
The oppression of the entire Latino community of Los Angeles right now is difficult to convey. Normally vibrant local retail areas of East LA and SELA look like ghost towns this week. People are afraid to leave their homes. Parents afraid to go to work. It's US citizens too. Anyone with brown skin
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𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑏𝑒𝑡ℎ ✨ @alluringnyc.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Trump went to the Kennedy Center and Drag Queens showed up! Yassssssssss ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Stephen Miller represents everything vile about this administration and drawing more attention to him will (a) make it harder for the administration to pretend this isn't creepy white nationalism in action and (b) likely make Trump jealous to the point he shitcans him like Elon. Win-win.
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
When will they be held accountable?
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Re: the DJT-Elon tiff
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Kristen Hanlon @kristenhanlon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I would never ask that you follow me; I will never/ acknowledge a leader. I am my president. But also, I am/ everyone, trying to be with you, because I exist, and always have. --Alice Notley, 1945 - 2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/05/2025
Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope
Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
An American Pope...!
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 07/05/2025
Most NEA translation grants for single books are around $12,500. An F/A–18 Super Hornet costs about $65M. These two jets dumped in the ocean would’ve financed 10,400 book translations.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
@kavehakbar.bsky.social & @thenation.com were kind enough to take the last gesture of Small Wars Manual and give it a home. A bucket list moment for this poet; much gratitude to The Nation! www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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from Small Wars Manual
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
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Chris Santiago @santisugi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
It's literally on my desk right now! :)
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
you should get @santisugi.bsky.social's SMALL WARS MANUAL. (@milkweededitions.bsky.social has a discount w/ the code SANTIAGO: milkweed.org/book/small-w...). I often describe myself as a "grumpy" reader of poetry—I am hard to please. but this book is beautiful, skilfully made, smart. read it!!
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Small Wars Manual | Milkweed Editions
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 15/04/2025
I am sorry to say it, but this is probably one of the most important things you can repost today.
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Wayne Miller @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Twin Cities folks!—I'll be reading tomorrow evening (Tuesday, April 15), 6pm, with @santisugi.bsky.social at Next Chapter Booksellers. (I'll also be visiting with classes at the U of M and St. Cloud State.) Chris' new book SMALL WARS MANUAL is BRILLIANT—go get a copy!
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In Person: Chris Santiago and Wayne Miller at Next Chapter Booksellers | Milkweed Editions
Join Chris Santiago and Wayne Miller at Next Chapter Booksellers for a reading and discussion of their latest works, Small Wars Manual and The End of Childhood.
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