শুভ নববর্ষ ১৪৩৩!! 🥳🌺🍀🎉✨
Happy Bengali New Year 1433!! 💖🍀🌸🎊✨

#শুভনববর্ষ

Thank you, Anca!!! 💖🍀✨

Sleep What does it mean to be so still?

E is for ECHO IN FOUR BEATS by @ritabanerjee.bsky.social ( @finishinglinepress.bsky.social 2018)

“What does it mean to be so still?
to glide along the ocean floor
like some black-tongued electric eel”

From “Sleep,” also in The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day

poets.org/poem/sleep-2

Stop despairing. Start building My conversation with Rebecca Solnit

I got to talk to one of my north stars last night, and he posted the conversation this morning. So many thanks, @anandwrites.bsky.social .

Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

Documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY exposing how ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

I am honored & delighted to have my #essay "American Caste" debut in Isele Magazine! My essay explores the kinds of caste systems, or social hierarchies, which invisibly structure, stratify, and thus, harm American society.

iselemagazine.com/2026/03/16/a...

#AmericanCaste #AbolishICE #anticaste

The MFA Program for Writers just celebrated its annual winter residency & our #MFA Faculty lectures are online. If you'd like to learn about #weaving, #braiding, & #spinning nonlinear #narrative design, check out my craft talk:

www.warrenwilsonmfa.org/product/rita...

@warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social

If you're at #AWP2026 Conference in Baltimore, MD from March 4-7, 2026, stop by these events featuring me & the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College!

More info: ritabanerjee.com/2026/02/28/m...

@warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social

During the "Innovation & Empowerment: A Workshop for Writers" (July 10-28, 2026), I'll be teaching a workshop on “Classical Greek and Indian Approaches to Poetry, Dramaturgy, and Storytelling” on July 18-29, 2026. Join us at: ionionartscenter.gr/2026/01/14/i...

ritabanerjee.com/2026/02/21/c...

I'm delighted to be teaching at the "Innovation & Empowerment: A #Workshop for #Writers" in #Kefalonia, #Greece this summer. If you're looking for an inspiring writing retreat, please join us at the Ionion Center for the Arts from July 10-28, 2026. More info here: ionionartscenter.gr/2026/01/14/i...

new jersey is part of the worldwide latina belt

No topo, um tweet de "inga ✨ (@_thotology)" diz: "Vou encerrar essa discussão sobre 'latina' de uma vez por todas: se a CIA escolheu seu 'presidente', você é latina." Abaixo, há uma resposta de "Paris Thielton (@contrarianbimbo)" que inclui um tweet compartilhado de "the wayward fool (@protestantwind)". Este tweet compartilhado tem o texto "Worldwide Latina Belt: todas as pessoas desses lugares são latinas" e apresenta um mapa-múndi com manchas vermelhas destacando várias regiões. As manchas vermelhas no mapa não seguem as divisões geográficas tradicionais da América Latina. Elas cobrem: Quase toda a América do Sul, América Central e México. Partes do sudoeste dos Estados Unidos. O sul da Europa (Espanha, Portugal, Itália e Grécia). Uma larga faixa que atravessa o Norte da África, o Oriente Médio (incluindo Irã e Iraque) e segue pelo Afeganistão e Paquistão. O sudeste asiático, incluindo as Filipinas, Indonésia e Vietnã.

BREAKING: After we sued, DHS withdrew a subpoena seeking personal information about our client who criticized DHS' treatment of a man seeking asylum.

This is a win not just for our client, but for everyone’s First Amendment right to speak out without fear of government retaliation.

Tell Congress: Impeach DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Contact Congress today!

And let’s not forget about impeaching this absolute awful excuse of a DHS Secretary, Kristi Noem!

Take away Spanish and there's no San Francisco or Los Angeles or Sacramento, no San Diego or Santa Rosa or Sierra nevada and actually there's no California, because that's a Spanish word...

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency.

She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

The EPA has reapproved the herbicide dicamba for use on genetically modified cotton and soybeans, adding “new limits on when and how it can be sprayed”. Dicamba is used to control tough weeds that can hurt crop yields, and the updated rules are intended to

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

A picture of bad bunny with the word love

Bad Bunny understood the assignment…

The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass. As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.

When I check on the British politics page for @the-independent.com, my politics reporter colleagues are all Epstein all the time (as they should be). But in the U.S., the closest thing to accountability is... Bill Clinton testifying before Congress.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Mainstream outlets are now confirming that the FBI has called state election officials into an unusual midterm briefing.

Trump removed his post that included a racist video portraying former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. Simply deleting it is not enough a public apology is warranted.

Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible

As ICE uses Palantir tech to find neighborhoods to raid and Flock cameras track people across the US, how can you protect yourself?

@jasonkoebler.bsky.social + @josephcox.bsky.social take your questions in an AMA today at 12 pm ET.

Get your questions in now:
www.reddit.com/r/technology...

This is civic action.

Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.

130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.

Seems 💯 accurate.

Where did these Epstein folks find the time to do anything given the volume of their emailing? It’s almost parodic how much they liked to chat about crimes in their dumb emails.

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.