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Prism @prismreports.org · 1d

“Every story is an opportunity to revive Rama’s dream of writing & keep her alive between the lines.”

During the genocide, writing has become an ultimate form of resistance, allowing Eman Ghassan Abu Zayed to tell the stories of Gaza, ensuring their histories live on forever.

For Rama, my partner in dreams. I write because she cannot.

During the genocide, writing has become an ultimate form of resistance, ensuring the histories of Gaza and our people live on forever

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad, like many Gazans, lost her home in the first days after October 7. unable to reenter her homeland, stuck watching the horror continue, she’s publishing her diaries from reporting on the ground.

full interview @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/plesti...

Pic of Plestia Alaqad overlaid with text from interview: Plestia Alaqad: I can't believe that it's almost — [she pauses] no, it's not almost, it's actually two years. Okay, I can't believe that it's been two years of this ongoing genocide. When I was reporting in Gaza for 45 days, these 45 days felt like 45 years. And now it's 200 days feeling like 200 years for the people who are actually still on the ground facing bombing, displacement and starvation, which is being used as a method by Israel. Israel is literally ethnically cleansing people in Gaza, and we're watching a genocide unfold live on TV.

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 1d

“We are writing from the event horizon of another world. And thus, the times are filled, terrifyingly, with possibility.”

- George Abraham and Noor Hindi, from the intro to “Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry” (@haymarketbooks.org)

Heaven Looks Like Us

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 1d

Got to have a great conversation with Shannon TL Kearns about his new book: “No One Taught Me How to Be a Man: What a Trans Man’s Experience Reveals about Masculinity."

We also talked about masculinity discourse, and then of course masculinity discourse discourse, and more:

In Conversation: Kyle Tran Myhre & Shannon TL Kearns

A conversation on masculinity and culture with Shannon TL Kearns and Kyle Tran Myhre

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 1d

A private challenge over the years has been trying to convince people that "poetry workshops" can also be useful for people who don't think of themselves as poets.

This kind of work is about approaching the issues we care about with creativity and intentionality. Here's my new asynchronous class:

Meeting the Moment: Political Poetry and the Anthemic Impulse (New Workshop!)

Some information on KTM's new asynchronous writing workshop exploring political poetry and the anthemic impulse.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close.

They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say.

Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Adrienne Novy @adriennenovy.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all @buttonpoetry.bsky.social added 10 more signed preorders of my book since the first 25 sold out!!! 🥹🥹🥹

buttonpoetry.com/product/good...

good luck in the real world - Button Poetry

Adrienne Novy. Forthcoming Spring 2026. Runner Up of the 2024 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. 25 signed copies are available while supplies last!

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

A protester tackled and arrested by state police for trying to block an ICE vehicle.

A protester tackled and arrested for trying to block an ICE vehicle.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 4d

Plestia Alaqad’s new book features her diary entries reporting on the ground in Gaza for 45 days after October 7. after a hospital is bombed on day 10, she uses the word genocide.

2 years later—as the UN has finally called it one—she says, “turns out, that's only the beginning.” @teenvogue.com

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"

"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”

www.teenvogue.com

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 5d

...on a lyric-nerd level, this song is written without any end-rhyme until the very end: Build tension for 23 bars, and then release it on the 24th with that last rhyme. A fun creative writing challenge, but also mirrors movement work: it is possible to lose and lose and lose and then win.

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 5d

"it's a marathon, not a sprint / it's 92 degrees in October, in Minnesota / they cancelled that marathon yesterday..."

Sharing partly because it is again too hot out, and partly because it's Bandcamp Friday, the best day to support underground music: guanteandbigcats.bandcamp.com/album/all-dr...

"Look On My Despair, Ye Mighty, and Work!" by Guante & Big Cats

YouTube video by KTM aka GUANTE

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Jason Garcia for MPRB District 4 @jason4parks.bsky.social · 5d

Very excited to announce this endorsement from Take Action MN! I have so much respect and appreciation for Take Action, this really means a lot to me.

A lime green background with a blue starburst design and photo of Jason Garcia. Text reads: Take Action MN Endorses Jason Garcia for Minneapolis Parks District 4

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 5d

“It’s a scary moment, but it’s also a moment that bears no equivocation. At this point you are either on the side of protecting our neighbors and protecting our community, or you’re on the side of this administration. There is no neutral ground. There is no center left.“
- @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 6d

For anyone else out there who thinks in grids and continuums, this is a visual from ep. 3 of my asynchronous course, “MEETING THE MOMENT: Political Poetry and the Anthemic Impulse,” and it’s a good peek into what the rest of the class/workshop is about.

More: guante.info/meetingthemoment

A four-part grid: at one end of the y-axis is “Art makes no material impact on the harms people are facing and is therefore useless, even (or especially) when it has radical characteristics.” At the other end of the y-axis is “Art is inherently, actively revolutionary and if you just write good enough, it will wake everyone up and usher in a magical new era of enlightenment and radical change.” At the left end of the x-axis is “Meeting the moment” as a destination. At the right end of the x-axis is “Meeting the moment” as a direction. A small pink star with the word “try” is in the middle of the y-axis, toward the right end of the x-axis.

Text: What does that pink star on the field represent? (1) Humility. We know art won’t magically solve all the problems of the world, but we cannot see what impacts/ripple effects it might have. An arts practice is bigger than the individual pieces of art it produces. (2) Perspective. Art isn’t the only thing we need in this historical moment, but there is no version of victory in which art, storytelling, and culture work are not elements of the struggle. (3) Intentionality. Some work moves the floor, and some moves the ceiling. Some work plants seeds, and some plants crops. Some work preaches to the choir, and some invites new people in. Some work is for you, and some is for others. All of it matters.

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 6d

The lovely folks at Boneshaker Books have a campaign to help them move to their new space, and it includes fun perks. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Help Boneshaker Move to Our New Home!

After fourteen years in our current space, we have made the decision that it’s time for Boneshaker Books to move. While we treasure the time we've spent in Seward, and will miss existing as a communit...

www.zeffy.com

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 11d

MEETING THE MOMENT: Political Poetry and the Anthemic Impulse, an asynchronous class/workshop featuring videos, audio files, and a workbook full of additional writing prompts, examples, readings, resources, and more. @guante.info #poetry

guante.info/anthemic/

MEETING THE MOMENT: Political Poetry and the Anthemic Impulse

Welcome. This is the landing page for this resource: an asynchronous class/workshop featuring seven videos (over two hours of content), audio files for those who prefer to listen, plus a workbook full...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 7d

A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.

after kent state
only to keep his little fear he kills his cities and his trees even his children people
white ways are the way of death come into the black and live

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 7d

RE: that sign:

Fred Beukema @beukema.bsky.social · 7d

PSA: Moon Palace Books has a stack of these Mpls For The Many yard signs.

A "rank all three" yard sign for the mayoral campaigns of Omar Fateh, Dewayne Davis, and Jazz Hampton.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 8d

thank you!

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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 8d

Pulled together some MPLS election 2025 resources for friends who aren't super tuned into local politics: endorsements, voter guides, etc. Thumbnail is the "rank all 3" sign via @mplsforthemany.com.

Those friends maybe aren't on bsky, but feel free to share this on FB or LinkedIn(??) or whatever:

Election 2025 Minneapolis: Resources for Those Just Tuning In Now

A few links and resources related to the 2025 Minneapolis mayoral race, city council races, and other races.

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: At The Square Gallery, nestled inside George Floyd Square on September 14, 2025, a gathering of community members, anti-ICE activists, and leaders rallied behind Isabel Lopez against her legal case.

Full story: unicornriot.ninja/2025/minneap...

Minneapolis Community Rallies Behind Isabel Lopez to Demand Feds Drop Charges - UNICORN RIOT

Minneapolis, MN — At The Square Gallery nestled inside George Floyd Square on September 14, 2025, a gathering of community members, anti-ICE activists, and leaders rallied behind Isabel Lopez against ...

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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 16d

We’re just 6 days away from our last big fundraiser before the election!

If you’re not already excited by our news that @omarfatehmn.com, @dewayneforminneapolis.com and @jazzformayor.bsky.social hold a 10-point lead over Frey, we’ll have Ranked Choice Voting Mayoral yard signs on Sunday!

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