'the slip of the skis the only
sound between us.'

What a poem, and what a book ✨🫶✨

#MidwestGothic by Laura Donnelly (Ashland Poetry Press, 2020).
And you could be her press mate! Submit to the Snyder Prize, Ashland Poetry Press, here: ashlandpoetrypress.com/guidelines/s...

House passes GOP-led Antisemitism Awareness Act — which mandates the Department of Education to use contested IHRA definition of antisemitism — by bipartisan 320-91 vote.

70 Dems voted against.

Here’s why ⬇️

forward.com/fast-forward/6…

This is Palestinian American professor Samer Alatout. He had just asked the police to leave the students alone. He later said he saw & heard the cops point at him and say “we want him”.

On a cabinet door used as a headstone:

The martyr is unknown.
A plump, tall man wearing a burgundy and navy training suit.

Do you see the tents? This is in Rafah just now.

Swiss German translation by poet and translator Burgi Zenhaeusern Burgi Zenhaeusern (on bsky mostly) added:
ifimustdie.net/gsw/

#IfIMustDie

Catalan and Estonian translations of Dr Refaat Alareer Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸's poem 'If I must die' added to ifimustdie.net, translated with love by SaidCDuch & ELLA 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

WE HAVE LAUNCHED OUR SECOND ENCAMPMENT ON CROSS CAMPUS ‼️

Please share the horror in Gaza.

In an air strike yesterday night, a mother and 8 of her children were killed in their house in Rafah. Here are the names:

1-Tagheed Ashour (44) mother
2-Tamer Ashour (27) son
3-Atta Ashour (26) son
4-Raneen Ashour (20) daughter
5-Haneen Ashour…

Friends!!!

I invite you all to support Adel, Refaat’s brother, and his family to evacuate to Egypt in order to get medical treatment.
Rafiq, Refaat’s nephew, ten years old, suffers from posterior tibial tendon dysfunction, a progressive foot and ankle disease. Despite the…

The problem with PEN America is that they CAN express full solidarity & HAVE. They’ve done it before, condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with their whole chest. Palestine is just the blaring exception. You can’t pretend now to be an org above politics. You just can’t!

We are still #ConnectingGaza everyday. Keep donating. Keep saving lives. Connecting Humanity

Students prostrate in prayer while faculty & allies form a line of defense around them as police rampage in full riot gear smashing heads——is an image that will hopefully reveal to people who don’t think this affects them that the state will not protect them, a 🧵

This!!!🧵 👇

This is why I liked a chant that I heard at an action recently: “From EVERY river to EVERY sea Palestine and all of us will be free” So, I say, let’s not be content, don’t slow the momentum. Now is the time to raise the heat. Be loud, imagine what we don’t even have the words for

🚨 JUST IN: Internal UN investigation on Israeli claims 12 UNRWA staff took part in Oct 7 attack: UN Office of Internal Oversight - has concluded one UNRWA employee whose contract was terminated after allegations has been cleared and case closed due to no evidence provided by…

I just returned from the encampment at GWU, organized by hundreds of students from campuses across the DMV. Some initial thoughts: the students are more than all right. They’re teaching us another world is possible.

👇🔥🔥🔥

These students are on fire when so many are asleep. And their fire is contagious. May these encampments spread to every campus—they have much to teach us & are an unequivocal sign that learning is taking place.

We appreciate our readers so much, and we love to see our books being enjoyed and shared. Thank you, Burgi Zenhaeusern, for highlighting Jennifer K. Sweeney’s HOW TO LIVE ON BREAD AND MUSIC and its poem “How to Tune a Xylophone”. 📚♥️ Jennifer K Sweeney Burgi Zenhaeusern (on bsky mostly)