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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 11h

LOL and now Taylor Lorenz is defending millionaire Twitch streamer. She's even adopted the stupid "Democrat" (instead of the appropriate "Democrats" or "Democratic") tic adored by right wingers

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 20h

Katie Porter, we hardly knew ye but holy fuck

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah I think Katie Porter is done.

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Kat4Obama @kat4obama.bsky.social · 11h

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 13h

Girl, you have a refrigerator in your background and you’re screaming at a staffer to “get out of your fvcking shot” 😬

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/08/katie-porter-tears-into-staffer-new-video-00598942

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 11h

💀😭😂😂😂😂

I keep trying to tell people that California does not want Porter as our governor. We didn’t want her as our senator either.

Once again…BW warned y‘all about her when she lied on Aunty Maxine🤷🏾‍♀️

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 1d

“Alone in my room, imagining
your shirt opening, my big hands
finally useful in the twilight,
I reestablish you atom by atom.”

Up now in our Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “Whom I Have Loved So Long” and two more poems by Jeremy Radin. Art by Julia Schwartz. evergreenreview.com/read/pattern...

Patterner and Other Poems

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2d

When LA was invaded, it shifted the local ethos from a focus on our problems to a declaration of love for our city. That love-of-place remains even as the invasion has receded.

Portlanders and Chicagoans are doing the same bc no matter how much we complain, America's cities are fucking great.

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

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Joy A. Garnett @joyamina.bsky.social · 3d

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 5d

“A hush falls on the class as you are wheeled in one morning, your neck frozen in a cervical collar, both legs and an arm in a cast.”

—“My Heart and the Parts of You That Break” by Michelle Enehiwealu Iruobe. Art by Christopher Schade. evergreenreview.com/read/my-hear...

My Heart and the Parts of You That Break

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 8d

“What unified the different works in ‘See-saw’ may not be a set of decisions but rather an overarching sensibility and aesthetic, applied to discoveries and happy accidents. This rather than that, not there but here.”

Up now: Adam Simon on artist Carrie Yamaoka evergreenreview.com/read/carrie-...

Carrie Yamaoka: See-saw

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Lara Alonso Corona (they/them) @laraacorona.bsky.social · 12d

So happy that my piece is out at the evergreen review (such an iconic name in the game). I'm very fond of this one, I have performed variations of it live, but I'm quite happy with this text incarnation

The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 12d

“Copyright laws are great if you are a rumored-to-be-cryogenically-frozen racist in America, but thieves like us we know how the song goes.”

Up now our Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian” by @laraacorona.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/if-bruc...

If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 12d

“Copyright laws are great if you are a rumored-to-be-cryogenically-frozen racist in America, but thieves like us we know how the song goes.”

Up now our Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian” by @laraacorona.bsky.social. Art by Carol Bruns. evergreenreview.com/read/if-bruc...

If Bruce Springsteen was a lesbian

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 15d

“Crocodiles serve as our lunch and/or as our supper. For breakfast which is also spontaneous, we usually go for ants. Eat them raw and ask me what else you know about yummy meals.”

—“A Kilo of My Husband” by Helsea Ikwanga. Art by Senon Williams. evergreenreview.com/read/a-kilo-...

A Kilo of My Husband

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 21d

“Hunger be dumb as money, drum against dome,
a thunderous dumpster diver
mistaken for a male runway model.
Body through the stage door just in time to expand form.”

Up now: “Hammer Strike” and two more poems by the late Thomas Sayers Ellis (1963–2025). evergreenreview.com/read/adult-a...

Adult and Other Poems

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Michael A. Gonzales @magonzales.bsky.social · 22d

"Frankie Five Hundred" was published in the spring/summer 2025 edition of Evergreen Review. The story of young Frances coming of age in 1959 Harlem follows her from high s to adult shenanigans. @evergreenreview.bsky.social @aalbc.bsky.social @electricliterature.com
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastword.msnbc.com · 6d

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: We are clearly seeing madness pouring from the darkness of Donald Trump's mind youtu.be/PGIxLFGUnUg?...

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell with white text over his shoulder: Disaster in Chief Day 3

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Joy A. Garnett @joyamina.bsky.social · 20d

Pls stop muddling: cancel culture and censorship are not the same thing.

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 26d

“When the head is imagined as a house, in the ancient way, it is often received as a story, a compendium of humiliations, and—most readily—as a keepsake.”

From our brand-new Fall/Winter 2025 issue: “Boxthorn” by Jason Schwartz. Art by Lyne Lapointe. evergreenreview.com/read/boxthorn/

Boxthorn

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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social · 29d

“back in the day
before I was slick
head and gray
minds grew hair
leaping free
from conk and jheri
curl captivity . . .”

F/W 2025 issue unrolling now!: “P-Funk Peoples and Afro Metaphysics of Sun Ra” and five more poems by Gregory Powell. Art by William Downs. evergreenreview.com/read/biolumi...

Bioluminescence and Other Poems

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Joy A. Garnett @joyamina.bsky.social · 29d

We're back!
Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social
F/W 2025-26 has launched with poems by Gregory Powell and artwork by William Downs
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S/S 2025 archived here:
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Cover image: Cemetery Flowers by Don Tinling

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · Sep 7

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excellent summary.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Sep 5

News Analysis: By ordering the U.S. military to summarily kill a group of people aboard what he said was a drug-smuggling boat, President Trump used the military in a way that had no clear legal precedent or basis, according to specialists in the laws of war and executive power.

Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.

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Joy A. Garnett @joyamina.bsky.social · Sep 2

Such a great doc ❤️

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · Sep 2

My impression of Ed Sullivan was formed by rock music; the conservative scold who censored rebellious performers. I was far less aware of how this working-class Harlem-born journo was at the forefront of putting Black artists on US TV. This Netflix doc educated me.

www.netflix.com/title/82048609

Watch Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan | Netflix Official Site

Ed Sullivan broke barriers by booking Black artists on his Sunday night variety show. This documentary spotlights the TV pioneer's legacy of equality.

www.netflix.com

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · Sep 2

My impression of Ed Sullivan was formed by rock music; the conservative scold who censored rebellious performers. I was far less aware of how this working-class Harlem-born journo was at the forefront of putting Black artists on US TV. This Netflix doc educated me.

www.netflix.com/title/82048609

Watch Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan | Netflix Official Site

Ed Sullivan broke barriers by booking Black artists on his Sunday night variety show. This documentary spotlights the TV pioneer's legacy of equality.

www.netflix.com

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