Marianne Villanueva

From 4-5pm EST today, @kesemmel.bsky.social will be signing copies of his novel, THE BOOK OF LOSMAN, at booths 527 & 529 at #AWP26!

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Greetings from Kyiv.

I’m having a warcoffee and reading updates about Kharkiv.
Ten people have already been killed in the night attack.

The life I see through the window and the tragedy I read about in the news seem to blend into a wild dance.

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Thank God cnn has an experienced news team on the ground in Teheran.

#handsoff
#nokings
#ReleaseALLthefiles
#EpsteinFiles
#lovemyGov
#itsthefuckingguns
#midterms26
#getridofElectoralCollege
#TheEpsteinBallroom
Release ALL the files NOW
25th Ammendment NOW
Abolish ICE NOW

Wtf? 🤬🤬🤬

Sundas Naqvi, a US Citizen born in Evanston IL, was arrested by ICE at O'Hare Airport n has been held in ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois for over 30 hrs. Family has no info on her whereabouts n ice is claiming she has been transferred. They can't find her. Pls contact IL AG n Reps.

Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez and her two kids—one of whom has severe disabilities—were kidnapped by ICE last Tuesday. Ms. Gutierrez is a Colombia asylum-seeker. She was arrested after reporting for her check-in at the Tehama St. ICE office.

Lawyers have been unable to locate Gutierrez or her children.

wtf I just got back to my room and the first piece of news is Trump again: now he's threatened Cuba. This is so crazy.

We are all so joyous. Celebrating Maw Shein Win's George Garrett AWP Award for Outstanding Community Service. #awpbaltimore #writingcommunity #awpaward #mawsheinwin #outstandingcommunityservice

#amreadingjohnmcphee #nonfiction #tabularasaessays #essaycollection #booksky #sentenceoftheday #growingup "When I was fourteen, a recurrent vision would enter my mind as I drowned fruit flies in the Guyot basement."

The Republican Party could have/should have put a stop to this madness LONG AGO. I'm wondering what their red line is.

Xenta who lives in Kyiv posted this a couple of hours ago. No words except sadness and heartbreak.

I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS SUPPORT THIS WAR. What cowards. If their own sons and daughters were in danger of being sent to the Middle East, they would have passed the bill to curtail POTUS's ability to conduct war on Iran.

To be surrounded by books and everyone who loves books -- more grateful than ever for this little space. I wish I didn't have to check the news (but I do)

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

Every day of this literary conference, I've woken up to progressively worse news. This is not normal, to feel as if our country is continuously in crisis mode. And, folks, we did it to ourselves. We elected a madman. TWICE. Now he's about to put boots on the ground in Iran.

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Reuters: Trump Demands that Iran Surrenders
What is going on? Surrender? What? This is crazy. I don't know what's happening anymore.

Now, THAT Kennedy is definitely a madman.

Now, THAT'S a speech.

Yeah, he's too "good ol' boy" for me. But only a Republican could have caused her ouster. The GOP can still act to save us from this peril, if they choose to. The fact that they blocked the war powers resolution bill is bad. Noem is low-hanging fruit. They're still sticking with Dear Leader.

It appears John Kennedy (no, not the deceased President, the other 1) asked the question that tipped the scales AGAINST Kristi Noem, abt whether the Pres. had personally approved the ads Kristi Noem had spent $220 million on. The contract went 2 a friend of Noem's who'd only been in business 2 WEEKS

Before we get too excited about Kristi Noem disappearing forever from our lives, her replacement, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, is one of these macho types who famously challenged the president of the Teamsters to fisticuffs on the Senate floor in 2023.

I learned about it on cnn. They showed the desks that were scattered about, the broken walls. How many children died? I head 160, and 14 teachers.

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Fox just interrupted noems goodbye speech to go to Mullin walking down a hall
And friends, i have to confess this administration has made me truly petty because i was overwhelmed with mirth

Trump cut off supplies of Sidewinder missiles for Ukraine’s F-16s, which limited their ability to prevent Russian strikes on Ukraine’s cities during the dead of winter when Putin ramped up attacks. And yet, when we need help with interceptor drones for Iran, Ukraine offered them without hesitation.

Get off my screen, Hegseth. You're so full of it.

He sounds like a happy man.

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