just ICE collecting the DNA of children www.wired.com/story/ice-dn...

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

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screensaver & wallpaper for my dream OS is an enormous pile of e-waste. this can be swapped out for data center, rare earth mine tailings, or moderators modding some real dank stuff.

Fighting for and winning the right to free movement of all people is fundamental to any chance survival of our species and our world. Borders will increasingly mean extermination, genocide and treating people as expendable

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2d ago

“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”

I really really love interviewing authors and am trying to transmit that enthusiasm to my students. What author interviews that have really flipped your lid? What makes for a good/bad author interview? I'm also interested in interviews that appear to have flown off the rails...

I've been asking over at Substack, but want to throw the question out here too: what makes a "good" book review in this day and age? When do you read book reviews (before or after reading the book)? Do you discover books through reviews?

for Sealey challenge, @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social is selling 31 titles for $169, which is <rattles abacus> a stupid low price/book. My new one--Buffalo Free Rapid Transit-- is part of the deal, along w/🔥📖 by Sadie Dupuis, Aase Berg, Bill Knot, & Zach Savich. www.blackocean.org/catalog1/the...

The Sealey Challenge Package — Black Ocean

The Sealey Challenge is a community challenge to read one book of poetry a day for the month of August. Kickstart your reading list with 31 books at 70% off cover price! We choose the titles; you com...

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i'm so stunned and heartened and happy with the inaugural issue of coastlines review -- so many evolutions of docupoetics, so rad poets. feel like this'll be just the first of a few thoughts on it. coastlinesreview.org/issues/one

Straight up class war.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d ago

1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

"She writes that 'I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script,' which is a really weird thing to say when you didn’t work on a script and were not invited to do so" "It’s okay to enjoy a stupid movie. And stupid movies aren’t always bad ones." Yes. Very good.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 5d ago

I am here to defend the noble action movie from the classicist Emily Wilson: aftermath.site/the-odyssey-em...

i'm extremely (regrettably) online & it still took six weeks for this to slide across my screen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBmr...

Roger Waters & Mona Miari – Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Roger Waters

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It appears the 100+ AWOL soldiers at the Sde Teiman torture camps left because their commander destroyed what appear to be wildly racist public 'heritage boards,' emphasizing, again, that racism is glue, it's what coheres the apartheid state (duh)-- www.israelhayom.com/2026/07/30/m...

" It’s as if those elected Democrats who don’t oppose ICE per se but merely want it to produce better optics, got their wish—"

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 7d ago

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

“There is so much collaboration happening between ICE and local law enforcement." Another case for abolition.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 7d ago

I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.

👀 Leaked video from inside ICE detention. Multiple woman report physical & sexual assault by officers. Video recorded on a tablet inside the Basile ICE Detention Center in Louisiana. 👀

feeling wildly lucky to get such a personal and insightful response to BUFRAT in Matthew Bookin's review at Zona Motel zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-buf...

REVIEW: Buffalo Free Rapid Transit by Joe Hall

How do you truly claim a place as home?

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something tells me its in the pacific northwest with components made in williamsville and fort worth.

Nathan Daniel Hernandez@natedhernandez.bsky.social · last wk.

Gotta shut down the factory that makes this kinda guy

using this data breach settlement 50 bucks to buy a sweet engineers hammer. all is right with the world for about 3 hours.

Shaouqi, Ahmad, The Nakba of Damascus (1926) “As for freedom, it has a red door Where hands stained with blood are knocking.”

THIS.

Dr. Han VanderHart@hanvanderhart.bsky.social · last wk.

Begging y’all to post somewhere besides substack. On my KNEES.

#WATCH | Israeli settler terrorists have begun carrying out coordinated pogroms across the West Bank, vowing to murder Palestinians and burn families alive. This video is from the village of Urif, where Israeli settlers set homes on fire and attempted to burn families alive. (Ihab Hassan)

"A new report by the Palestinian Feminist Collective... documents Israel’s systematic use of sexualized and gendered violence against Palestinians, across detention centres, homes, military operations, and systems of surveillance, from the Nakba of 1948 to the present." predatorystate.org

A Predatory State

A new report by the Palestinian Feminist Collective, supported by Progressive International, documenting Israel’s systematic use of sexualized and gendered violence against Palestinians across decades...

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Zach Peckham, As If And robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/07/zach...

Zach Peckham, As If And

my review of Cleveland poet, editor and publisher Zach Peckham's full-length debut, As If And (Queens NY/Buenos Aires, Argentina: New Mund...

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The institutional crackdowns on speech following the deaths of Kirk and Graham are practice for the great wave of exuberance that will follow the death of ________________________.

Here's PEN America lamenting cuts to U.S. state propaganda channels.

PEN America@penamerica.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵 PEN America released the following statement in response to President Trump's executive order that would slash funding to the United States Agency for Global Media, which oversees Voice of America, as well as Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, the Office of Cuba Broadcasting, Radio Free Asia...

Dinaw Mengestu noting PEN's failures to protect boycotts as speech is a good start but PEN's constant legitimization of imperial intervention (and continued ties to the military industrial complex and foreign policy blob) should always be on the table as well. otherwise.

social surrealism puts de-familiarization and re-familiarization into dialectical motion

a recent poem in @sixthfinch.bsky.social about the house next door being on fire for a day where the world is one fire + lv lv lv for C

ppm creeping up to 200. watered the plants in a respirator today.

well WNYs Craig Mokhiber isn't messing around mronline.org/2026/07/16/n...