Need a creativity boost? You can still register for the upcoming workshop offering from Michael Kleber-Diggs and me, as THE MULTITUDES! Workshop this Saturday 8/8 on ZOOM from 10 am - 12 pm CDT! Register: forms.gle/Wh6jamXCA4UZ...
신 선 영 辛善英 Sun Yung Shin
@sunyungshin.bsky.social
🍉 ABOLISH ICE. Author of Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language, The Wet Hex, Unbearable Splendor, + 11 other books. Rep: Tricia Lawrence @Aevitas & bookings: @BlueFlowerArts. www.sunyungshin.com
Thank you, Jennifer Eli Bowen and @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social for this generous interview!
Chicago Review of Books@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · last wk."Understanding the language of race, nation, place has allowed me to become legible to myself, literate in the language of my Korean-adopted immigrant self." Read Jennifer Bowen's interview w/ @sunyungshin.bsky.social on "Heart Eater" (@blacklawrence.bsky.social) chireviewofbooks.com/2026/07/29/h...
I trust @coffeehousepress.bsky.social for excellence but pleased to report this novel by @monicaojeda.bsky.social has BARS. Psychedelic Ecuadorian music festival horror, suffuse with poetry, insight & phantasmagoria “To have a voice is to be alive & kicking, and to be alive is to rejoice & suffer”
interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Excited to announce I started a podcast with my friend @trufelman.bsky.social, where we read classic philosophical works and discuss what they can teach us about why we buy, wear, and value the things we do. It’s basically a podcast for people who love clothes, books, and big ideas.
🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought. JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day. JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.
ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
austinkocher.substack.com
An incredible rally for @peggyflanagan.bsky.social at First Avenue with @ilhanmn.bsky.social, Bernie Sanders, @keithellison.bsky.social and Tina Smith This election is about the many vs the money. And this August 11th, Minnesotans are going to show up for the many!
ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...
ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
austinkocher.substack.com
"I am a journalist from Gaza, and I have documented loss so relentlessly that I have wondered where all that grief goes. It might feel gone, but then one story comes along and unlocks everything that came before it."https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/when-the-story-breaks-the-journalist/
When the story breaks the journalist
I am a journalist from Gaza, and I have documented loss so relentlessly that I have wondered where all that grief goes. I now know it never disappears. It might feel gone, but then one story comes…
mondoweiss.net
Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publicly operated jails. These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the federal government's deportation agenda.
Demonstrators call on Andy Burnham to impose arms embargo on Israel and pressure its government to end genocide.
Thousands rally in London in support of Gaza, demand new PM take action
Demonstrators call on Andy Burnham to impose arms embargo on Israel and pressure its government to end genocide.
aljazeera.com
NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CT
On any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits.
ctinsider.com
This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City. This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.
Nothing in their training and education instilled in them that they should not do this and that is a structural issue that goes beyond these individuals
Heather Cherone@heathercherone.bsky.social · 3w agoBREAKING: A teen Chicago police employee resigned under fire after they wore a Nazi uniform and “goose-stepped” at their high school while performing a “Sieg Heil” salute. Another CPD member was fired for showing photos of the teen dressed as a Nazi at work, records show. @wttw.bsky.social
A bombshell FOIA request has revealed how the FBI and Department of Justice trained its investigators to scrub the Epstein files clean. trib.al/dNbUbM3
Re: the Dek “despite” or “because of” war, etc? “Big Banks Smash Earnings Records, but ‘Tectonic’ Risks Loom”https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/business/jpmorgan-goldman-bofa-wells-fargo-bank-earnings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Big Banks Smash Earnings Records, but ‘Tectonic’ Risks Loom
The largest banks in the United States collectively raked in tens of billions of profits in the second quarter, despite the war in Iran and persistent inflation.
nytimes.com
the wedge live band of all saxophonists is called george and the michaels and they played the sax part of “careless whisper” under a bridge by the mississippi river after we biked here
@haymarketbooks.org is great, and I've got a dispatch in This Is How We Win, coming out in September!! Pre-order now!!
Publishers Weekly@publisherswkly.bsky.social · 4w agoThe radical left-wing publisher is finding success by crashing titles that address timely topics, including playbooks on combatting the Trump administration’s detention of immigrants and organizing working-class collective action.
Latest Substack newsletter! An invitation to an upcoming writing workshop and TWO gorgeous poems by Michael Kleber-Diggs plus some praise and a writing PROMPT! (Always free but all paid subscribers are SO appreciated!) open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...
Hello Bluesky! Acclaimed poet, essayist, and memoirist @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social and I are excited to offer a brand-new creative writing workshop on Saturday, August 8, 2026 from 10 am - 12 pm CDT on Zoom! forms.gle/jVvQ5ZTCvLvz... Space is limited! :) See you there!
Here for all the #vulture content (thx to Paisley Rekdal for posting this over on FB): www.audubon.org/florida/news...
Center for Birds of Prey Launches Haiku Contest for In-Person Storywalk
Free submission. Winners can see their work printed along the storywalk and win a year-long membership to the Center for Birds of Prey.
audubon.org
I just really like this sign on this church. That is all.
There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.
Anthony's Spinning Circles here too!@circlesspinning.bsky.social · last mo.Maga taking shelter in the National Museum of African-American History And Culture!
'They Will Kill You' is utterly ridiculous fun. Like if Kill Bill and the original Evil Dead trilogy had a Zazie Beetz-vehicle baby 😂
ALL Haymarket Books are 40% off through August 21st! ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽
Aaron Goggans, whose work and friendship has meant a lot to me, has fallen on hard times. Many of you have reached out to tell me how helpful you found Aaron’s letter in Read This When Things Fall Apart. If you can help support Aaron in his hour of need, there are links featured here.
Rough Initiation Pt 1: I Need Your Help!
These last few months have broken me beautifully open. I feel raw, new, full of possibility but also unprotected and surrounded by overwhelming uncertainties and risks. There has been so much loss …
wellexaminedlife.com
