Shuchi Saraswat

In a time of fiefdom and hubris and fill-in-your-blank, it is good to read AGNI.

If a legal permanent resident can have his green card revoked for exercising his first amendment rights, there’s nothing to stop them from going after citizens, too.

Dispatches from Palestine In its fifty years AGNI has worked to “bring our readers into the living moment, not as tourists, but as engaged participants.” As we expressed in Against Silence: A Collective Statement toward…

"Gaza—We Are Not All One" by Najlaa Attallah (trans. from the Arabic by Andrew Leber) is our latest Dispatch from Palestine. Read it here 👇

I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. The first full draft of the assessment, on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife, was weeks from completion. The project leader called the study “too important to die.”

Let us speak of this & help
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Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

We’re alarmed and outraged that two of our key partners, Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna, have been arrested in Jerusalem for the crime of selling books.

The Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem has been raided by Israeli security forces. Mahmoud and Ahmad Mina have been taken to custody. Anyone who’s visited Palestine knows how serious this is for freedom of speech and cultural organising in Palestine and Israel.

Guys, WIRED has been scooping every other publication and has been bravely covering this assault on our government, our Constitution, and on the rule of law. They are worth your attention and support.

Well this was satisfying.

Bondi's Justice Department looks poised to prosecute blue state doctors who mail abortion pills into red states, probably under the Comstock Act.

She's also very likely to restrict access to medication abortion WITHIN blue states by declaring that *all* mailing of abortion pills is unlawful.

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Been wanting to use that Meena Alexander quotation in an essay for years!

Begin Again I wake up out of a terrible dream and into a dark early morning.

Thanks to the Museum of Fine Arts for asking me to write this essay, response to Rana Begum’s site-specific installation.

www.mfa.org/article/2025...

100%.

Grateful to have this poem featured on @poetrydaily.bsky.social ! Originally published in @agnimagazine.bsky.social

Dispatches from Palestine In its fifty years AGNI has worked to “bring our readers into the living moment, not as tourists, but as engaged participants.” As we expressed in Against Silence: A Collective Statement toward…

My land is renowned for the anemone;
its bright red heralds the spring.
In a realm of bright blossoms and rebirth,
the sun ravels its golden chains across the sea,
playing mischievous games with the waves.

~"Anemones" by Haya Abu Nasser is our latest Dispatch from Palestine

Dispatches from Palestine | AGNI Online In its fifty years AGNI has worked to “bring our readers into the living moment, not as tourists, but as engaged participants.” As we expressed in Against Silence: A Collective Statement toward Peace,...

Or rather,

warplanes split the air

and the dawn slumped
in flame.

Or rather,

you can steal bodies

without being called a thief.

- A Gazan Child Plays on an Occupied Beach by Ayesha Asad @agnimagazine.bsky.social

👀 ICYMI 👀 Our online Submission Manager closes from December 15th through January 15th. Looking for a reason to submit? This is it! Send us your work by TOMORROW at 11:59 p.m. Hawaiian Time.
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‘They were torturing to kill’: inside Syria’s death machine | Garance le Caisne The long read: Caesar, the Syrian military photographer who smuggled shocking evidence of torture out of Assad’s dungeons, tells his story for the first time

1/? In 2015, a Syrian military photographer, code named Caesar, escaped the country with tens of thousands of photos he'd smuggled from a notoriously sadistic prison...

www.theguardian.com/world/2015/o...

Announcing the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. Literary Hub is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, an annual award given to a first-time, first-generation immigrant author that includes a $…

Congratulations to AGNI contributor Sofi Stambo, winner of the 2024
@literaryhub.bsky.social Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her collection of short stories, A Bunch of Savages, to be published in spring 2026.
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Submit to AGNI | AGNI Online We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” We seek out writers who tell their…

⚠️ AGNI's submission period closes in one week! ⚠️ We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” Learn more here👇

To our new followers: we've been organizing for Palestinian families in Gaza since July of this year. We are closing in on 2,000 workshop participants (since we started keeping track). Can you help us achieve our goal this long weekend of 100 new sign-ups? We have 12 workshops and 1 trans. consult ⬇️

This powerhouse poem by DeeSoul Carson will blast off your Monday (any day, really!): agnionline.bu.edu/poetry/good-...

Inside Project Esther, the right wing action plan to take down the Palestine movement The Heritage Foundation’s “Project Esther” claims to combat antisemitism but in fact, aims to destroy the Palestine solidarity movement as a first step in a crusade against all domestic dissent in the...

Do you know what Project Esther is? It’s a plan to crush Palestine solidarity, smear activists as terrorists, and revive McCarthyism—wrapped in the guise of fighting antisemitism. mondoweiss.net/2024/11/insi...

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Today marks day 60 of Laila Soueif's hunger strike and day 20 of our consecutive one-day hunger strikes in solidarity with her.

Today I start a 24-hour hunger strike in solidarity with Laila, a 68-year-old Math professor and one of the revolutionary icons of Egypt’s left. 🧵

Amazon workers in 20 countries are going on strike on Black Friday. Don’t cross the picket line.

Framing matters. It’s not a “refugee crisis”, it’s a humanitarian crisis. Refugees don’t create the problem, inhumanity does.