This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
The War on Iran (Monologue). Image shows one of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
I just released a long solo episode on the Israeli-US war on Iran and what it might mean for Iran, Lebanon and Israel - on @thefirethesetimes.com
On all podcast apps
Also available on thefirethesetimes.com/2026/03/03/t... and www.patreon.com/posts/tftt-2...
Dan Simmons died and I want to say that being a piece of shit racist overshadowed his amazing work but I can't because Hyperion was overrated anyway
Writer friends: are folks aware of any MFAs in creative writing (not art) where a student could study/create comics, graphic novels, etc? Looks like Ohio State might be somewhat flexible and of course Lynda Barry is at UW-Madison...
1. Yesterday, we broke the story that Kansas drivers licenses for transgender people were being immediately revoked by the state.
This morning, the ACLU filed suit in state court to block that process.
Thousands of trans Kansans watch with horror and hope.
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The issue: St. John's University has decided that unionization is illegitimate and will no longer recognize the union.
After 56 years of unionization...
www.ncronline.org/news/st-john...
get your limited run ICEBREAKER merch at friendsatthetable.shop, proceeds from purchases made on our shop during february and march will go to The Immigration Law Center of Minnesota. 1312.
Hi friends,
I know a bunch of you are probably getting very sick of hearing about me talk about living under occupation instead of my signature Getting Mad About Publishing Stuff but a VERY important MN community hub that is sending out thousands of bags of nourishing, culturally-appropriate foods
Marshall McLuhan
The hottest of hot takes: A blog post that compares a conservative backlash against abstract art in the 1920s to a more recent conservative backlash against literary speculative fiction.
Come at me bro, if you take umbrage at technological determinism.
Post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/08/hot-...
https://academic.oup.com/qje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/qje/qjag011/8490467
Read the Abstract of this New paper by Bilal and Känzig “The Macroeconomic Impact of Climate Change: Global Versus Local Temperature”👇
One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.
Relevant to AI writing, Toni Morrison, Octavia E. Butler, and Sonia Sanchez noted that many want to be writers but don’t wanna write.
As Morrison said, “Writing has become almost a celebrity thing in the sense that people don’t want to write; they want to be authors. And that’s quite different.”
My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...
Came on here for a minute to look for something and immediately got waylaid, LOL. Before I log off, I did want to share this excellent toolkit by @detentionwatchnetwork.org with all of you who want to take action re: Federal warehouses: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn and and Ash talk about communes, what they are, some historical background on them, and some thoughts on relating to them now.
live-like-the-world-is-dying.pinecast.co/episode/fd43...
NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE.
Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.
That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!
And New Mexico did the same last week:
Read and nominate @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org.
The team over there does high-minded, high-brow analysis of SFF with a strong social justice lens. Jake, Misha, Bianca, Zachary, Cynthia, Liz, Lane, and Gary have been knocking it out of the park.
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/05/23/t...
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Look, everyone knows that Andor was great, but what part of the series to nominate?
My plan is to nominate *BOTH* seasons as one entry for Long-form Dramatic, which is allowed under the rules.
It's too integrated a story to pick one episode. Star Wars that grapples with what fascism means.
3/X
Oh, amazing!
"Whoever thought we would live through this ... or that any of this shit would happen?”
The creator of "Andor," the "Star Wars" series centered on a growing resistance to authoritarian power, spoke to @status.news about the show's real-life parallels.
More here: www.status.news/p/andor-ice-...
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
Strange Horizons stands with immigrants in the US as they experience intensified anti-immigrant operations.
We have the opportunity to lend our strength as a global community.
Read our full statement:
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
ICE is getting ready to come for Haitians next week. Help the families JD Vance smeared with his ugly racist lies. This is an organization in Springfield connected to the Haitian community there. They need our help.
ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FUNDVDT...
Springfield Ohio is uniting and preparing.
Across the state, the nation, ICE resistors are reaching out to support us.
Don't let fear mongers or reddit groups tell you otherwise.
The people united will never be divided.
Reach out.
We gon be alright.
granular, practical, well organized info here:
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
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tell your friends, your frenemies, your favorite writers & publishers... only a couple days left to send us the best nature-based speculative fiction you published last year!
We're reading 2025's ecohorror, clifi, solarpunk, anthropomorphic, ecoweird, dystopian, utopian, anti-utopian, ecofuturism!
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
Totally wild!
just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now
