iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

From the archives: Michael Silverblatt explains his 100-page rule for reading, how old-school writers shared a kind of magician’s code, and how he relates his Jewish grandmother to the novels of Samuel Beckett. lareviewofbooks.org/av/radio-hour-p…

A b/w shot of Michael Silverblatt with the text "From the archives" overlaid

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

the fourth estate has been severely compromised.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

BREAKING: Republicans are trying to abolish the estate tax, as part of a bill they call "Making the American Dream Affordable Again." The reality is this would let the super-rich transfer their wealth to the children, and cost the government $281 billion over the next decade.

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

so much depends on our ability to BELIEVE that *this* is happening. and then we can act accordingly.

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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 23/12/2025

wendell berry QUESTIONNAIRE

Questionnaire
by Wendell Berry

How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy

In the name of patriotism and
the flag. how much of our beloved
land are vou willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security;
for which vou would kill a child
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

oklahoma and her sisters, chile… 😩🫠

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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/12/2025

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

this is just so… shameful and sad. all of the adults involved in championing AI as a replacement for thinking and learning should have to account for the harm they have done. 🫠 www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

huffpost.com

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.

"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

google really played in our faces. 😩🤬🫠

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

i wonder if people know that othello would still “work” if desdemona is black… 🤔

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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/11/2025

The Trump administration is breaking the law by transferring critical work to federal agencies that lack the expertise to lead education policy. Congress must immediately intervene to stop this illegal restructuring and protect our students' right to an education.

theguardian.com

US education department reassigns many powers to other federal agencies

Move marks further dismantling of the department and Democrats criticized administration for ‘slashing resources’

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

You can read my reporting on the NC raids today. People of course are terrified, with many undocumented & mixed-status families staying home or otherwise laying low. But all around them community organizers, educators, faith leaders, and local residents are mobilizing to help. It is deeply moving.

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

listening to zadie smith talk about “freedom” in its neoliberalist u.s. american expression. points made. 🫠

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Omg this is so cool Discovered the very first hoofed animal and it isn't a mammal arstechnica.com/science/2025...

arstechnica.com

Wyoming dinosaur mummies give us a new view of duck-billed species

Exquisitely preserved fossils come from a single site in Wyoming.

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

remember that time audra mcdonald was mama rose in GYPSY? 👏🏿💐👏🏿

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i augustus durham @imeanswhatisays.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Although this conversation with Corey Miles happened earlier this year, the timeliness of its posting last week felt like it could not arrive sooner, even with me forgetting that I referenced the recently departed. Issa Vibe for Stay Black and Die. youtu.be/-1TsydT4AWo

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Happiness Is Just a Break from Pain - Augustus Durham & Corey J. Miles at Baldwin & Co.

YouTube video by Baldwin & Co.

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

i resolved an important writing challenge today. 🙏🏿🎉

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

if i still lived in houston, i would not be in here cutting up a cabbage to cook for dinner. 😩

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

collective action forever. ✊🏿✨

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 05/11/2025

Another world is possible, if we fight for it

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

mississippifreepress.org

Democrat Johnny DuPree Flips Republican-Held Mississippi Senate District in Forrest County

Johnny DuPree, a Democrat who served as the mayor of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, for 16 years, has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate seat.

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

let’s hear it for NEW YORK!!!!!! 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

the people are still fighting!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

congratulations to new york city!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

i (think i) love writing these books. but i am sometimes overwhelmed by my own expectations. 🫣

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

y’all… robin gets me every time. lol. i shared on IG about the time i met her in houston and tried (very hard) to flirt with her. 😂 i (think i) started to make some real flirting progress on twitter, but then twitter died. and now here comes david with this very sexy interview, and i… 🫨

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

i have not seen a production of “godot” in more than two decades.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

ACTIVE SHOOTER NEAR SHANNON LIBRARY AT UVA!!

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

surely i am not the only one who did not realize that the academy is *this* fragile. 🫠

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 02/11/2025

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

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Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I admit to being a 1-person PR spox for #JayWright but I'm glad to see his *Transfigurations* (aka Collected Poems Pt 1) is finally out now in the UK. Though he's 1 of the greatest living poets in the English language/greatest living Black poets this didn't happen until he'd reached 91 years of age!

2 versions of Jay Wright's Transfigurations: Collected Poems (Penguin Press, 2025), the 1st edition & the galley version.

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

it is just one evil thing after another. 😩

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The USDA has a contingency plan to keep SNAP running during a government shutdown — but the document laying out that plan has been deleted from the agency’s website. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

notus.org

USDA Quietly Deletes Its Contingency Plan for Funding SNAP

The 55-page “lapse of funding” document for USDA is no longer available online.

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zora • zora @zorahamsa.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

these people went from “please submit your diversity statement with your application” to “if your syllabus does not affirm white supremacist christian nationalism, you will be fired” in record time.

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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 29/10/2025

*find a poet you like with a book out & make them happy today challenge* 😊

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beckytaylor927.bsky.social @beckytaylor927.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social

A pile of Maryland edition zines of How to Report Ice to Help Keep Your Neighbors Safe.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/10/2025

It’s shameful that some law firms have bent the knee to President Trump’s demands — good lawyers don’t give in to political pressure. We’ve filed more than 100 lawsuits so far to protect our rights from the Trump administration, and we'll never abandon ship.

washingtonpost.com

Nation’s biggest law firms back off from challenging Trump policies

The pace generated by more than 390 lawsuits challenging Trump administration actions has lawyers from many firms working around-the-clock.

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