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
You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last mo."In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
theguardian.com
I could not be prouder to have a piece included in this remarkable collection. ✊🏽❤️🔥❤️🔥 An excerpt: “This is the worst thing we have ever lived through, but it is also the thing that is forcing us to become absolutely whole — to recognize our own eyes in the faces of others,” 🧵(1/2)
University of Minnesota Press@uminnpress.bsky.social · last wk.Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE, via @literaryhub.bsky.social : lithub.com/heres-the-co...
A different wall sized Ice Out Guernica is on exhibit in NE Mpls starting today theradicalact.com#guernica
The Radical Act of Having Each Other's Back | Minneapolis Art Exhibition
A major Minnesota exhibition responding to Operation Metro Surge through art, public memory, and collective care. Featuring ICED OUT GUERNICA, August 27–September 13, 2026, at Find Furnish in Minneapo...
theradicalact.com
Here's my alt text version from earlier. I just love this art. bsky.app/profile/horr...
Joe Koch@horrorsong.blog · 3w agoPlease sit with this & view full screen if you can.
Someone collected a bunch of these "crop art resistance" works in a PDF Crop Art Tributes to the Minnesota Resistance www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf
cropart.com
It’s time we talked about the REAL statistics affecting young readers and diverse creators today. Here are two that we’ve been monitoring closely at WNDB.
The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle, or, How to Get Over Heartbreak www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/27/s...
The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle, or, How to Get Over Heartbreak
One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course, never breaks.)…
themarginalian.org
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...
Thank you, Jennifer Eli Bowen and @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social for this generous interview!
Chicago Review of Books@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago"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 · 2mo 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 · 2mo 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
