Joy Castro
@joy-castro.bsky.social
“I suspect the question the administration cares about is not ‘is this legal,’ ‘is this a war crime,’ ‘is this murder’ or even ‘is this good for America,’ but rather, ‘isn’t this violence delightful?’” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
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December 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“I suspect the question the administration cares about is not ‘is this legal,’ ‘is this a war crime,’ ‘is this murder’ or even ‘is this good for America,’ but rather, ‘isn’t this violence delightful?’” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
My story “No More Beautiful Day,” set in WWII Berlin. theberlinliteraryreview.com/november-2025/
November 2025
OUR FEATURE PICKJoy Castro, ‘No More Beautiful Day’— Short FictionFICTIONTravis Constantine, ‘A Delicious Lie’H. A. Eugene, ‘Brian is Missing’Dr Suvajeet Duttagu…
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November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My story “No More Beautiful Day,” set in WWII Berlin. theberlinliteraryreview.com/november-2025/
“The postsecondary office grants to be moved include TRIO, which supports programs that are designed to support low-income and first-generation college students and students with disabilities.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
Trump Administration Announces Steps to Dismantle Education Department
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November 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
“The postsecondary office grants to be moved include TRIO, which supports programs that are designed to support low-income and first-generation college students and students with disabilities.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...
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Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
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"Smaller discretionary grants, awarded without scholarly review, have so far gone to scholars with ties to conservative or religious institutions... including $30,000 for a project called 'Meritocracy vs. Equity: The Declaration of Independence in Tension With Critical Race Theory and D.E.I.'"
As the top Democrat overseeing the National Endowment for the Humanities, I’ve spent the past few months digging into the Administration’s unprecedented dismantling of the agency.
What I found reveals a disturbing pattern of corruption.
What I found reveals a disturbing pattern of corruption.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Smaller discretionary grants, awarded without scholarly review, have so far gone to scholars with ties to conservative or religious institutions... including $30,000 for a project called 'Meritocracy vs. Equity: The Declaration of Independence in Tension With Critical Race Theory and D.E.I.'"
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"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly."
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 AM
"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly."
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
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Ugh: “seeking romantic advice” from a known sex trafficker. Why would he get to continue teaching?
“I dint [sic] want to be…the friend without benefits,” he whined to Epstein.
Perhaps Harvard’s students will boycott his classes…
#highered #gender #sex
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
“I dint [sic] want to be…the friend without benefits,” he whined to Epstein.
Perhaps Harvard’s students will boycott his classes…
#highered #gender #sex
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Ugh: “seeking romantic advice” from a known sex trafficker. Why would he get to continue teaching?
“I dint [sic] want to be…the friend without benefits,” he whined to Epstein.
Perhaps Harvard’s students will boycott his classes…
#highered #gender #sex
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
“I dint [sic] want to be…the friend without benefits,” he whined to Epstein.
Perhaps Harvard’s students will boycott his classes…
#highered #gender #sex
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
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“…its endowment had swelled to nearly $57 billion during the fiscal year that ended in June, an increase of about $3.7 billion. The university also said it had pulled in a record amount of donations it can use immediately.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Harvard’s Wealth Is Growing, Despite Trump’s Attacks on Its Funds
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
“…its endowment had swelled to nearly $57 billion during the fiscal year that ended in June, an increase of about $3.7 billion. The university also said it had pulled in a record amount of donations it can use immediately.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Ugh: “seeking romantic advice” from a known sex trafficker. Why would he get to continue teaching?
“I dint [sic] want to be…the friend without benefits,” he whined to Epstein.
Perhaps Harvard’s students will boycott his classes…
#highered #gender #sex
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
“I dint [sic] want to be…the friend without benefits,” he whined to Epstein.
Perhaps Harvard’s students will boycott his classes…
#highered #gender #sex
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Ugh: “seeking romantic advice” from a known sex trafficker. Why would he get to continue teaching?
“I dint [sic] want to be…the friend without benefits,” he whined to Epstein.
Perhaps Harvard’s students will boycott his classes…
#highered #gender #sex
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
“I dint [sic] want to be…the friend without benefits,” he whined to Epstein.
Perhaps Harvard’s students will boycott his classes…
#highered #gender #sex
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
“…I tap into my memories of injustice. I remind myself of why I am doing what I am doing and this sustains me. Anger transforms into a battery charger that gives me a boost when it’s sorely needed.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Alice Wong, ‘luminary’ writer and disability rights activist, dies aged 51
Daughter of immigrants advocated for people with disabilities to have full autonomy over their lives
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
“…I tap into my memories of injustice. I remind myself of why I am doing what I am doing and this sustains me. Anger transforms into a battery charger that gives me a boost when it’s sorely needed.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Excited to have my new Berlin story featured! theberlinliteraryreview.com/november-2025/
November 2025
OUR FEATURE PICKJoy Castro, ‘No More Beautiful Day’— Short FictionFICTIONTravis Constantine, ‘A Delicious Lie’Gail Anderson, ‘Rewind’H. A. Eugene, ‘Brian i…
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November 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Excited to have my new Berlin story featured! theberlinliteraryreview.com/november-2025/
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And think of everything that’s happened since May. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:19 AM
And think of everything that’s happened since May. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...
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trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors
Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling.
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Exclusive: Leaked documents detail Trump's plans to open East and West coasts to offshore oil drilling
The Trump administration plans to open whole swaths of the East and West Coasts to offshore drilling, including areas previously protected for environmental reasons, documents show.
www.yahoo.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors
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The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt welcomed all visitors to the White House.
That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.
That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.
October 21, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The East Wing was where Eleanor Roosevelt welcomed all visitors to the White House.
That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.
That must have kept this administration up nights until they could knock it down. To build a ballroom we can't afford, during a shutdown, for a president who just posted himself dropping shit on the country.
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This season on The East Wing...
October 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This season on The East Wing...
“…its endowment had swelled to nearly $57 billion during the fiscal year that ended in June, an increase of about $3.7 billion. The university also said it had pulled in a record amount of donations it can use immediately.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Harvard’s Wealth Is Growing, Despite Trump’s Attacks on Its Funds
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
“…its endowment had swelled to nearly $57 billion during the fiscal year that ended in June, an increase of about $3.7 billion. The university also said it had pulled in a record amount of donations it can use immediately.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Penn and U.S.C. Become Latest Universities to Reject White House Deal
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM
A poet & his politics: Harlem Renaissance author Claude McKay
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London
The long read: Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A poet & his politics: Harlem Renaissance author Claude McKay
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
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“…we proudly take the side of muckraking journalists, constitutional lawyers, and undaunted jurists, of the artists and actors who are fighting for their creative freedom, and above all, of the Constitution-defending citizens who will not yield…” www.thenation.com/article/soci...
We Defeated McCarthyism Before. We Can Do It Again.
It’s easy to feel despair about what looks like a new age of government censorship. But being around for 160 years gives you perspective.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“…we proudly take the side of muckraking journalists, constitutional lawyers, and undaunted jurists, of the artists and actors who are fighting for their creative freedom, and above all, of the Constitution-defending citizens who will not yield…” www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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“In other words, that ‘war’ she declared on her own body is but a microcosm — and a descendant — of the actual wars that, historically, have determined who gets to be considered beautiful. (Hint: It’s always the victors, the powerful and the rich.)”
February 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
“In other words, that ‘war’ she declared on her own body is but a microcosm — and a descendant — of the actual wars that, historically, have determined who gets to be considered beautiful. (Hint: It’s always the victors, the powerful and the rich.)”
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“Ms. Hilal argues that personal aesthetic judgments are neither personal nor ‘aesthetic.’ Instead, our perceptions of human beauty (or its lack) derive from politics, & are determined by wide-ranging, international factors such as war, imperialism, colonial conquest, power hierarchies & economics.”
February 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“Ms. Hilal argues that personal aesthetic judgments are neither personal nor ‘aesthetic.’ Instead, our perceptions of human beauty (or its lack) derive from politics, & are determined by wide-ranging, international factors such as war, imperialism, colonial conquest, power hierarchies & economics.”
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