Laura Tanenbaum
@ltanenbaum.bsky.social
poetry, teaching, good trouble. proud member PSC-CUNY and JVP. all my humor is situational. Poetry collection, Dear Mother, out soon: https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/dear-mother-laura-tanenbaum/
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Laura Tanenbaum
@ltanenbaum.bsky.social
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Dear Mother / Laura Tanenbaum | Main Street Rag
mainstreetragbookstore.com
Just a few more weeks to pre-order my debut collection Dear Mother from Main Street Rag! think grief, motherhood & middle age but with jokes. thanks to @carrieconners.bsky.social @daniarajendra.bsky.social @blbalthaser.bsky.social & @jwmason.bsky.social mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/dear...
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This conversation between @arielleangel.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social about the Epstein files is the best thing I've listened to or read recently about that topic and also the general state of things
What do we do with a story whose real-life details are so fitted to antisemitic conspiracy? @arielleangel.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social on the Epstein files:
Epstein and the Capitalist Conspiracy
Naomi Klein discusses what to do with a narrative that mirrors the worst anti-Jewish theories and the importance of holding our depraved elites…
jewishcurrents.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:09 PM
This conversation between @arielleangel.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social about the Epstein files is the best thing I've listened to or read recently about that topic and also the general state of things
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Antisemitism is literally a strategy going back centuries to distract people from the real enemy, the aristocracy. This is extremely well documented.
Skin in the Game
Antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism.
politicalresearch.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Antisemitism is literally a strategy going back centuries to distract people from the real enemy, the aristocracy. This is extremely well documented.
JFC, all the ironies intended. www.democracynow.org/2026/2/12/be...
“I Was Just So Disgusted”: Jewish Rep. Balint Walks Out of Hearing After Bondi Calls Her Antisemitic
As we continue to look at Wednesday’s contentious hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, we speak with Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint, who walked out after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused h...
www.democracynow.org
February 13, 2026 at 5:11 PM
JFC, all the ironies intended. www.democracynow.org/2026/2/12/be...
important thread
To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like:
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/
Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate
Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!
February 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
important thread
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IIRC Howard Zinn said after the tide had turned on Vietnam, people would say "we all know the troops need to leave, but that's to simple, you have to say how they would leave," and his reply was "on planes"
“He doesn’t agree with the phrase ‘abolish ICE’ because he said there are too many interpretations for it…”—we have been here before. “Abolish ICE” is a demand; it is clear. Don’t let electeds turn a policy question into a comms strategy debate so they can dodge stating they oppose the demand.
Stay for this bonkers interview with Rep. Adam Smith about his financial support from Palantir, facilitators of the ICE panopticon.
prospect.org/2026/02/11/p...
prospect.org/2026/02/11/p...
February 11, 2026 at 7:38 PM
IIRC Howard Zinn said after the tide had turned on Vietnam, people would say "we all know the troops need to leave, but that's to simple, you have to say how they would leave," and his reply was "on planes"
Everyone speculating the boy was him has never cared for a 5 year old. Insane to think such a traumatized kid would be in shape to be the center of this spectacle. Praying his family is able to help heal these deep wounds as much as possible
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Everyone speculating the boy was him has never cared for a 5 year old. Insane to think such a traumatized kid would be in shape to be the center of this spectacle. Praying his family is able to help heal these deep wounds as much as possible
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“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
February 7, 2026 at 11:20 PM
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Leqaa was arrested for activism against the genocide and is now ill. Please join me to write a letter to Free Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Free Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention!
Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman from Paterson, NJ, who courageously protested the genocide in Gaza, has been held in ICE detention for nearly 11 months. The Trump administration and IC...
actionnetwork.org
February 8, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Leqaa was arrested for activism against the genocide and is now ill. Please join me to write a letter to Free Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them.
The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
February 6, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them.
The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...
By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
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Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Every American needs to watch this:
turns out all that Pomo theory I read in the 90s about "the death of the real," the map and the territory etc. was actually useful
While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
February 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
turns out all that Pomo theory I read in the 90s about "the death of the real," the map and the territory etc. was actually useful
Someone is always doing the work.
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Someone is always doing the work.
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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
A Day for Gaza
Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.
www.thenation.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
someone has probably made this point before but: in an attention economy, "cancel" as elites use it means a redistribution of attention away from them and they respond the way the wealthy have always responded to redistribution
complaining about “cancel culture” in 2026 is like those WWII guys on an island still fighting in 1963
Imagine writing these words, in February 2026, regarding the most vicious McCarthyite of the modern era: "Bari Weiss Hates cancel culture"
February 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
someone has probably made this point before but: in an attention economy, "cancel" as elites use it means a redistribution of attention away from them and they respond the way the wealthy have always responded to redistribution
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American policies from an American government leading to American police unjustly killing American citizens. in America
American media: “what are we, a bunch of Arabs?”
--@NC_Renic
x.com/NC_Renic/sta...
American media: “what are we, a bunch of Arabs?”
--@NC_Renic
x.com/NC_Renic/sta...
January 27, 2026 at 3:42 AM
American policies from an American government leading to American police unjustly killing American citizens. in America
American media: “what are we, a bunch of Arabs?”
--@NC_Renic
x.com/NC_Renic/sta...
American media: “what are we, a bunch of Arabs?”
--@NC_Renic
x.com/NC_Renic/sta...
The weather is frightful, but poetry is delightful. . .So thrilled for my book launch tonight at Lofty Pigeon. www.eventbrite.com/e/laura-tane...
Laura Tanenbaum launches "Dear Mother," w/ Carrie Conners and Arden Levine
"A tender, moving collection...'Dear Mother' emphasizes how we seek poetry 'because the words matter or nothing does.'" —Nicole Callihan
www.eventbrite.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:35 PM
The weather is frightful, but poetry is delightful. . .So thrilled for my book launch tonight at Lofty Pigeon. www.eventbrite.com/e/laura-tane...
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Green card holders get free, confidential, in-person help with naturalization applications at CUNY Citizenship Now! Sat Feb 7 P.S. 50, 143-26 101st Ave, Jamaica. For eligibility, req'd docs & registration call 646-664-9400, text 929-334-3784 or request a callback: www.cuny.edu/about/admini...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Green card holders get free, confidential, in-person help with naturalization applications at CUNY Citizenship Now! Sat Feb 7 P.S. 50, 143-26 101st Ave, Jamaica. For eligibility, req'd docs & registration call 646-664-9400, text 929-334-3784 or request a callback: www.cuny.edu/about/admini...
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And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
January 24, 2026 at 10:36 PM
And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
Ok @blbalthaser.bsky.social who should write and star in the screenplay version of this?
incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
(spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)
Greenland’s only Jew hears a familiar pattern in Trump’s annexation talk
Paul Cohen, Greenland’s only Jew, explains how Jewish history shapes his response to Trump’s renewed talk of annexing the island.
forward.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Ok @blbalthaser.bsky.social who should write and star in the screenplay version of this?
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My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day).
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
January 21, 2026 at 11:51 PM
My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day).
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance
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Now this is nice to see. lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...
January 21, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Now this is nice to see. lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...
paging @badgayspod.bsky.social
incredible stuff
January 20, 2026 at 7:15 PM
paging @badgayspod.bsky.social
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damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
Yet another connection to Palestine, where people are denied the right to grieve
One of the things that genuinely shocked me as I read through surveillance logs for the police is how much of their energy and attention is dedicated to shutting down vigils and other ceremonies of remembrance.
Anyway ICE was filmed desecrating Renee Nicole Good’s memorial & doing violence to people who found that distasteful. Might be too soon to say if this falls into some kind of pattern of behavior if you’re the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
January 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Yet another connection to Palestine, where people are denied the right to grieve