- Prisons absolutely can & should be abolished.
- Defunding police to fund social & educational programs will do more for crime than any amount of funding to police ever will.
- Until UBI, housing, medical care, & food are guaranteed to ALL parents & pregnant folks, adoption is unethical at best.

Donate to Help Karam family to be safe, organized by Karam Alghandour To Whom It May Concern / Concerned Humanitarian Agencies, I am Karam Fathi, a 7-y… Karam Alghandour needs your support for Help Karam family to be safe

There are rains in Palestine. My friends in Gaza need tarpaulins to prevent their tents flooding. Please either give at the link below or send money to my Venmo @mo-martin-1 and I will forward it to them

Mount Kisco reading series on Nov 14th at 7pm. 141 Main Street. Free!

Come hang with me and Adrian Dallas Frandle at Obodo Serendipity Books on Nov 15th at 4pm! 3588 Main St, Stratford Connecticut

A great lineup at 367 E 10th St, NY NY on Nov 16th at 2pm!

Friends! I'll be up near Westchester this Friday night, in Connecticut Saturday night, and the East Village Sunday afternoon. Please come? 🙏❤️

United States skips UN review of its human rights record US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.

US joins Israel as only other country to not show for mandatory process scrutinising rights record of UN member states.

Lit mag friends: I have a couple of undergrads who would be amazing readers for your journal. And one is looking for a summer internship, specifically (for grad hours, unpaid).

Anyone have a spot to offer?

The surprising, infuriating way electric utilities make money It sounds ridiculous, but most electric utility companies don't make money selling you electricity. In fact, many of them don't even produce their own electricity. So what do they do? And how do they ...

Yo, it's my birthday! 🥳

It'd mean the world if you checked out my clean energy newsletter, Green Juice. I work really hard on it.

Clean energy—how it works, why it matters, and who's trying to stop it—is more important than ever.

Here's a good one: www.greenjuice.wtf/electric-uti...

#EnergySky

I ‘Stood My Ground’ — but It Was the Police Raiding My House Diamonds Ford thought she was shooting at an intruder when Florida cops raided her home without knocking. Then she was charged with attempted murder.

Diamonds Ford thought she was shooting at an intruder when cops raided her Florida home without knocking. Then she was charged with attempted murder.

Read her essay ⬇️

There’s a ‘Yellow Line’ dividing Gaza. Is it here to stay? The “Yellow Line” splitting Gaza in two is supposed to be temporary under the terms of Trump’s “peace” plan and the ceasefire agreement. But the fact that those terms were left intentionally...

The “Yellow Line” splitting Gaza in two is supposed to be temporary under the terms of Trump’s “peace” plan and the ceasefire agreement. But the fact that those terms were left intentionally vague suggests that the partition of Gaza was the point.

mondoweiss.net/2025/11/ther...

#Palestine #Israel

Connecticut friends!!! 🥰🥰🥰

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Heleena Darwish, the author of this dispatch from Palestine, is also a qualified English language teacher raising money to establish an educational centre in Khan Younis. If you are able to support, your contribution will help Heleena rebuild a future for children in south Gaza.⤵️

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WE DID IT

THE FLYTRAP MET OUR ANNUAL SUBSCRIBER GOAL

WE CAN PAY OUR FOUNDERS THIS YEAR

WE CAN FUND FREELANCERS NEXT YEAR

MORE MOTHERFUCKIN' WORKER-OWNED CRUNCHY QUEER FEMINIST JOURNALISM FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I think there should be a registry of everyone who said this type stuff and an official bureau in charge of making sure they follow through with it. you have 30 days to vacate the city or your name is legally changed to Little Baby Stinko and then a number indicating which Little Baby Stinko you are

Help Katie get a room!

AT THE MOVIES In this movie, Jesus and my mother are at a bar drinking mojitos. The music swells as Jesus unzips his skin, revealing a metallic endoskeleton. The audience claps politely. Jesus's eyeball pops out, but my mother just pushes it back in with a familiar sigh. I finally rise from my movie theater seat to embrace her. The lights flash red. How did my mother become younger than me? While the curtains close, Jesus fiddles with the drained batteries in his chrome torso. I don't tell him I have some extra AAs in my jeans pocket. We start to walk out of the theater, but Jesus can't make it past the exit door.

ICYMI, I have two micros up at the wonderful @hexliterary.bsky.social! Here’s one:

hexliterary.com?p=2909

THE BACKYARD GRAVE by Marina Manoukian My father dug his own grave. But he didn’t use it right away. For years, the grave lay unfilled and inviting. All he would do was visit it once in a while, stand by its empty feet, and sigh. I don’t k...

we have a story by Marina Manoukian !!

in this story, the narrator’s father digs his grave in the backyard & keeps the open grave there for years. once, the narrator sleepwalked & woke up in the grave…

xraylitmag.com/the-backyard...

Narrower, related question: what’s everyone’s favorite Borges story?

I think about the The Approach to Al-Mu’tasim all the time - that and The Circular Ruins had me hooked when I first read Borges

CONTROL AND THE FUCKTOPUS: A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS KELSO ABOUT ŻUŁAWSKI’S 'POSSESSION' by Alice Chris Kelso is a Scottish writer of dark, weird fiction. I came to his work through Voidheads (Schism), and he’s since published Metampsychosis with Feral Dove, and most recently, a monograph on the f...

Chris Kelso is interviewed by Alice @notveryalice.bsky.social about his book on Żuławski’s 'Possession'

such a smart & insightful conversation !! cop Kelso's book & watch or re-watch 'Possession' this halloween

xraylitmag.com/control-and-...

From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

“When Microsoft opened a data center in central Mexico last year, nearby residents said power cuts became more frequent. Water outages, which once lasted days, stretched for weeks. The shortages led to school cancellations and the spread of stomach bugs…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

Donate to Secure Emily and Chopper's Future, organized by Emily Anderson Hello, My name is Emily and I'm a disabled artist and writer living with my c… Emily Anderson needs your support for Secure Emily and Chopper's Future

We’re getting closer to being out of the woods! I never expected to be in this position and it’s incredibly hard, especially with compounding disabilities. Thank you so much for your support so that we can start November without being behind on rent. #MutualAid

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When Israel bombs Gaza after pledging itself to a ceasefire, we apparently need to say this is a “Test of ceasefire” to avoid saying what is blatantly obvious, that this is a violation of the ceasefire

Again, I’ll keep on repeating this: Israel does not do ceasefires unless forced to.

So grateful to Chris and everyone at @xraylitmag.bsky.social for publishing this piece!