AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

Many people loved & took advantage of the Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal I ran all weekend at the NYC Poetry Festival, so I'm extending it to online orders too! Use code BOGOBOOKS to get 1 free book (or copy of Issue 18) for every 2 in-stock books you buy! & it'll all ship immediately! StanchionZine.com/shop

"Instead of holding my wife's hand in the delivery room, I was crouched on a detention center floor."

"I listened to her pain, trying to comfort her while 70 other men slept around me."
#USA #Gaza #Palestine #Incarceration #Deportation #Genocide

SCOOP @motherjones.com: Republicans want to ban pets from domestic violence shelters through a proposal in the budget

Advocates say the program is small but critical: “Survivors won’t leave, they can’t leave [abusers], if they’re going to leave their pets behind"
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

The tenth installment of The Unpublished here:
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The seventh installment of The unpublished on my substack can be read here: open.substack.com/pub/dorothyl...

The tenth installment of The Unpublished here:
open.substack.com/pub/dorothyl...

The ninth installment of The Unpublished can be read here:
open.substack.com/pub/dorothyl...

The ninth installment of The Unpublished can be read here:
open.substack.com/pub/dorothyl...

Identity Theory is launching a new blog called "Full Catastrophe Writing" to document and investigate current events as well as what it means to be a writer in these times. See below to pitch and be part of it.

www.identitytheory.com/full-catastr...

Remember, this stuff is designed to come across as silly stunts. To lull you into ignoring it because it's so over the top. All the while, this shit erodes your ability to distinguish the major dangers they impose from the seemingly minor ones.

It's all part of the standard authoritarian playbook.

The highest compliment from someone who disagrees with you is not “You were right.” It’s “You made me think.”

Good arguments help us recognize complexity where we once saw simplicity.

The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It’s to promote critical thinking.

David Lynch spoke openly of being isolated from community and the communal art-making he loved because of society's abandonment of covid precautions. Mourn him, be inspired by him, and mask up.

"She feels it, as though the last bit of linen had frozen in her hands. / She looks at her hands—how old they are. It’s not the beginning, it’s the end."

The Paris Review has unlocked Louise Glück's poems in their archive.

"...its own planet on their own
accord, in his face is petal republic
good as desire: peony, dahlia, oblivious
rose, chrysanthemum..."

—Dorothy Lune

The seventh installment of The unpublished on my substack can be read here: open.substack.com/pub/dorothyl...