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The Book of Cain and Other Poems Evergreen Review

“My honey is blood
and my meat is bone.
The wilderness is in me.

I wander through its hedges,
over the sloping hills
through the meandering rivers . . . .”

Up now: “THE BOOK OF CAIN” and two more poems by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi. Art by Rosanna Bruno. evergreenreview.com/read/the-boo...

28.02.2026 22:48 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
NEW YORK CITI
SAYS NO KINGS
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NEW YORK CITI SAYS NO KINGS 3.29.2026 AI 2PM 7TH AVE & CENTRAL PARK SOUTH NOKINGSNYC.COM

NO KINGS, NYC
3.28.26
2:00 pm
7th Ave & Central Park South

The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption,+ cruelty. Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger>

Volunteer via the link below:
nokingsnyc.com

02.03.2026 12:37 👍 42 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 5
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Resist and Unsubscribe

My, this is interesting:

22.02.2026 22:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump said he was working on something “desperately needed.”

He meant the gold-encrusted ballroom for himself and his billionaire friends.

Not affordable health care, not housing, not the high cost of groceries.

Priorities.

19.02.2026 18:39 👍 205 🔁 50 💬 4 📌 0
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From the Stutter to the Gutter: Dambudzo Marechera and the “Voluptuous Blackening Image” Evergreen Review

“In Dambudzo Marechera’s short story ‘Burning in the Rain,’ an unnamed young man looks in the mirror only to see his reflection given back as an ‘ape.’ ”

Up now: “From the Stutter to the Gutter” by Jeffery Renard Allen. Art by Ken Weathersby. evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...

15.02.2026 20:30 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

96% of the funds in MAGA Inc. came from donors that gave $1 million or more.

Trump is going to flood the midterms with millions so he can avoid accountability at the ballot box and continue advancing an agenda that keeps his Big Money donors rich at the expense of working people.

10.02.2026 18:10 👍 30 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 0
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Visitors to Delaney Hall Wait for Hours in an Unheated Tent to See Their Loved Ones - Documented The tent, purchased by county officials, was installed after complaints about the lack of protection against cold temperatures.

At Delaney Hall, the privately-run ICE detention facility in Newark, visitors are forced to wait for hours in life-threatening cold to see their loved ones. But those conditions, advocates say, are arbitrarily imposed.

Latest for @documentedny.bsky.social:

documentedny.com/2026/02/09/v...

09.02.2026 17:16 👍 79 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 3

oh my god

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HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25 Evergreen Review

“I met the famous spinster Hepzibah Pyncheon, described by Nathaniel Hawthorne as so ancient and hopelessly decrepit when really she was only 60-something . . . I became obsessed with her . . . .”

—“HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25” by Sibyl Kempson. evergreenreview.com/read/hexalog...

25.01.2026 20:48 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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[DAS VIDEOSPIEL] Beautiful Suffering Evergreen Review

"The sacred is not delivered by comfort. It is delivered by stress, deprivation, betrayal, and futility." -- Alice Maynwaring, game designer and philosopher. Read more of her extraordinary essay on gaming at link below: evergreenreview.com/read/das-vid...

28.01.2026 15:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Baseball Evergreen Review

“On June 8th, 2025, I went to my first baseball game at Yankee Stadium.

The Yankees were playing against the Red Sox.

It was one of the most interesting things I have ever witnessed.

I was stunned and shocked.”

—“Baseball” by Kathy Joyce. Art by Danny Ische. evergreenreview.com/read/baseball/

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Excellent instructional video pass it on

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On the other hand, he deserves admiration for his courageous and very early critique The Israel Lobby

12.01.2026 18:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

12.01.2026 00:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Identifying government officials by name is not doxxing or harassment.

Seth Harp merely published information that was publicly available about someone at the center of the world’s biggest news story.

Read our full statement: freedom.press/issues/house...

08.01.2026 18:14 👍 90 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 3
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A friend of a friend in North Carolina sent this pic of a textbook from her nephew's middle school history class. "Unemployment dropped to its lowest in history" under T--not true, of course (that occurred in 1944).

23.12.2025 15:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
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Bicycles and Blessings: Delivery Workers Honor Our Lady of Guadalupe in Annual Procession - Documented Now in its fifth year, this caravan of deliveristas marked the feast day by pedaling to 14 immigrant businesses across Washington Heights, East Harlem, and the South Bronx.

Amidst bike thefts and ICE raids, delivery workers have been organizing their own self defense networks.

I followed one of these groups, El Diario de los Deliveryboys, on their Virgen de Guadalupe procession for @documentedny.bsky.social.

documentedny.com/2025/12/16/b...

17.12.2025 23:57 👍 24 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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The Four Stages of Cruelty (after Hogarth) Evergreen Review

"The Four Stages of Cruelty," an amazing collaboration between @suecoe.bsky.social and William Hogarth:

09.12.2025 19:51 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Four Stages of Cruelty (after Hogarth) Evergreen Review

"The Four Stages of Cruelty," an amazing collaboration between @suecoe.bsky.social and William Hogarth:

09.12.2025 19:51 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Something off here. Masked federal brutes spark fear and loathing nationwide, Trump and minions spew racism, and @nytimes.com runs a front page article on...how it's all the fault of the Biden admin. Time to cancel that subscription?

07.12.2025 14:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Palfest Podcast — The Palestine Festival of Literature The PalFest Podcast highlights new books from and about Palestine, bringing writers together in conversation across borders to discuss new ideas and dig into vital histories. Each episode will featur...

Ep 5 of the PalFest Podcast is out:

Randa Abdel Fattah talks to Sara Yasin about DISCIPLINE

They discuss Abdel-Fattah's razor-sharp new novel, DISCIPLINE and the navigation of racism and censorship within Western institutions.

All your listening links are here: www.palfest.org/podcast

01.12.2025 15:27 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Recapping the No Casino rally and sharing next steps

Hey NYC, listen up! You don't need to be a Queens resident to detest the idea of a casino built on park land. Its developer Steve Cohen just sold a golden toilet for $12.1 million at Sotheby's--that's the kind of stand-up guy he is. Read and sign the letter! mailchi.mp/55086ef2e9fd...

21.11.2025 15:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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You are in a museum Evergreen Review

Read a new excerpt from We Had It Coming up today at @evergreenreview.bsky.social evergreenreview.com/read/you-are...

13.11.2025 13:21 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Afụnwaelotanna Evergreen Review

“Love is forbearing and requires constant revival. Each day, I choose to father my father, even when it feels too difficult for me. Every moment with him alive is a blessing.”

New at Evergreen: “Afụnwaelotanna” by @chinonsonzeh.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/afunwae...

27.10.2025 12:39 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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'This is Lawless Terror': Chinatown Reacts to ICE's Street Vendor Raid on Canal Street - Documented Confusion, fear and outrage grip NYC after ICE arrests and detains street vendors, some of whom had legal status or U.S. citizenship.

"...After she showed her New York State driver’s license, officers asked which country she was from and requested to see her passport. 'I laughed,' she said. 'I asked them, since when do people walk around with passports in America?' The agents then moved on."

24.10.2025 17:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
50+: Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

~130: Agents also can arrest U.S. citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

~20: Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

50+: Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130: Agents also can arrest U.S. citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20: Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD

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