Our third panel for Day of Translation 2026 is A RADICAL PROPOSAL: Literary Translators as Workers with Soleil Davíd (@soleildahveed.bsky.social), Kira Josefsson (@kirajosefsson.bsky.social), Frances Riddle, and Jeremy Tiang (@jeremytiang.bsky.social). 🔖 +

Guest editor @soleildahveed.bsky.social introduces this selection of fiction and poetry on the Filipino people’s prolonged fight for liberation. Read “In the Right Place Fighting for the Right Things: Revolutionary Writing from the Philippines”: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

In the Right Place Fighting for the Right Things: Revolutionary Writing from the Philippines - Words Without Borders

Guest editor Soleil David introduces this selection of fiction and poetry on the Filipino people’s prolonged fight for liberation.

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“What ties these six revolutionary works together is their insistence that the people take center stage.” @soleildahveed.bsky.social introduces our latest issue in “In the Right Place Fighting for the Right Things: Revolutionary Writing from the Philippines": wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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I expect to see Schumer's resignation letter on my desk in the morning.

Another world is possible, if we fight for it

If it was a phase, he'd have gotten a cover-up. If it was shameful to him, he'd have had it lasered off. If it was the captured symbol of an enemy, it would be crossed out or altered. He lacks the courage of a chastened Potterhead to admit that was a fucked-up thing to get.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

This is what every ‘young men explain their right-ward turn' sounds like to me

Dionne Brand has the language for this moment. From Ossuaries (2010)

my moment has arrived

🥳🥳🥳 Plus, Nov 5 at Sky Bar: Come drink and dish with the Translators Organizing Committee, a division of the @nwu.org and the United States’ first ever literary translators’ union! Open to members, prospective members, and the solidarity-inclined. literarytranslators.org/event/nwupre...

✨ PRESENTING the @nwu.org Translators Organizing Committee at #ALTA48 ✊ Nov 6: Don’t Mourn, Organize! @nwu.org Solidarity Drop-in ✊ Nov 7&8: Rate-sharing Edit-a-thons ✊ Nov 8: Envisioning the Perfect Contract: What to Know & Where to Learn More *better working conditions 4 literary translators*

American Literary Translators Association@littranslate.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🎉 It's here! The schedule-at-a-glance for our upcoming conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, which will be held November 5-8 in Tucson, AZ, is LIVE! Check it out now to see the panels, workshops, readings, events and more we have lined up for you in Tucson this November! buff.ly/6KmX2u2

Your “homeland” and your traditions

Happy July 4, 5, and every other day for the rest of our lives, inclusive.

fighting traditional media feels like a losing battle. i mean what the fuck is this.

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

President Trump will give a speech in Iowa Thursday night as the official start to a year of events marking the country's 250th anniversary. It comes at a crucial time for his domestic policy agenda.

How do I tell all these programs and apps that I never want to use AI ever.

Oh my God!? We've been added to the Library of Congress. A literary magazine that I make for fun in my basement as my midlife crisis has been added to the historical record, called the uh, ahem, Taco Bell Quarterly. We are the most prestigious literary magazine of all time.

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

The “largest landback deal in California history” was just completed, and it could be a model for the future.

In California's largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River

More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in northern California,have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.

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I’m quoted in this article re: “violence” & “peace” related to the Los Angeles protests. This is LA! Politicians don’t dictate how people are going to act. 1965 Watts Rebellion. 92 riots. 2020 uprisings. The student intifada. This is LA! Either support or sit back & stfu.

Akela Lacy@akelalacy.bsky.social · last yr.

The day after Trump sent the national guard to crush protests against ICE in LA, 75 Democrats voted for a resolution that praised ICE. Meanwhile, only one Democrat has introduced legislation this session to protect protesters: Rep. Ilhan Omar theintercept.com/2025/06/11/p...

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

ChatGPT is down yet, amazingly, I am somehow still able to write.

Both parties contribute to anti-immigration sentiments, and both have been pretty pro-police. This is where that road leads, and I would really love to see Americans as a whole try taking a different path, one blazed by many activists and organizers over decades. Another world is possible.