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Hannah Silverstein

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MFA poetry, Warren Wilson College. She/Her. Black Lives Matter. Zero tolerance for fascists. https://linktr.ee/hannahsilverstein

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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · Apr 1

Thank you to the editors at @passagesnorth.bsky.social for publishing one of my Negative Psychology poems!

Cat feet on a wooden desk walk past a copy of a literary journal being held open to a poem called “Negative Psychology 2”

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Day 24 of Emmanuel Garcia being in federal custody.

He’s a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing 4 weeks ago. Houston PD found him, contacted ICE & his Mom is fighting to get him back

She’s not allowed to visit him.

They’re keeping a disabled kid from his family & the media is largely silent

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 8d

“You guys”—ok, Art. Give me a socialist who doesn’t sport SS tats and we can talk

Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 9d

This is the absolute minimum I expect of my electeds

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9d

I fucking hate Nazis, which includes hating their actions, philosophy, culture, regalia, and fucking stylistic choices.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect anyone I vote for to feel the same.

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 10d

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean
Total reported killed: 34 people
Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL
September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View
September 15, 2025 3
“in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View
September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View
October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View
October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View
October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View
October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View
October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View

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Absolutely Petrify Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 13d

Read the whole things, but some highlights:
- Their new median estimate is *5.5 million* people protested yday
- protest levels are 4x what they were in Trump's first term
- at least 12.8 million people, or 3.7% of the population, have demonstrated against the president since he took office

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14d

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 13d

Wait, her name is Moriarty?!

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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 14d

The Good Place Frog Guy GIF

Alt: The Good Place frog guy saying “I’m a frog guy”

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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 14d

White River Junction VT had a narwhal 🐋🦄

Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 14d

Beautiful!

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 14d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 14d

I always forget to take pictures at these things, but I did get this cutie from the #NoKings White River Junction, Vermont

A dachshund in a hot dog costume that says “weenies not meanies”

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 14d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14d

We are Americans.

We are free.

And we do not do kings here. #NoKings

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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 19d

Spoilers are good, actually.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 19d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19d

Listen to my pal @bethmacy.bsky.social brilliantly tie it all together on Fresh Air! Then check out her critical new book, Paper Girl. Not just another rant; real reporting about real people. 'Dopesick' author Beth Macy on escaping poverty -- and then going back home

www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

'Dopesick' author Beth Macy on escaping poverty -- and then going back home

Macy returned to the Ohio factory town where she grew up to find jobs have left, families are struggling and old friends now embrace conspiracy theories. Her new memoir is Paper Girl.

www.npr.org

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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 19d

Warmongers who tire of war do not magically transform into peace mongers.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20d

Abolish ICE.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 20d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 22d

Matched perhaps by Doris Lessing’s response to winning the Nobel for literature: a tired look, ‘Oh Christ’ and a dismissive hand wave. youtu.be/vuBODHFBZ8k?...

British author Doris Lessing reacts to Nobel win

YouTube video by ReutersLC

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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · 22d

I feel this in my soul

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 25d

Oooh the Nobel Prize is out today, so it's time for my yearly round of ignoring that news and reading about many of the women who were snubbed of the prize in the past and who the Nobel Prize committee refuses to apologise for. 🧪🔭

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 29d

Speak up. Speak out. Don’t be silent about the injustices going on in our nation.

op: thekoreanvegan (via IG)

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Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · Oct 1

The comedians were only invited because the poets refused

Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · Sep 29

"second butt" is my new term for "fanny pack"

Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · Sep 29

After years of intensive study, I have determined that the most consistently important writing prep I can do is open the damn file.

Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · Sep 27

So wholesome!

Hannah Silverstein @hillhannah.bsky.social · Sep 23

Today’s gender is fascism