Coco Owen

Psychology and poetry.

[Coco Owen @CocoOwen]

@wassuphifza @ultravioletilya "Re: hi" starts with Shane and Ilya as childhood penpals and goes on from there!

[Buzzing Pop @BuzzingPop]

Luxury fashion brands were in a bidding war for Connor Storrie that “went through the roof,” before Saint Laurent ultimately signed him, EVP of Purple PR Andrew Lister reveals to Vogue.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

ICE is now using a Palantir tool to map neighborhoods and assign “deportation scores” in “target-rich environments” fed by HHS data.

Today it’s immigrants. Tomorrow it’s dissidents.

If you think this won’t be repurposed for activists or protesters, you aren't paying attention.

[Chill Subs @chillsubs]

Went down a New Yorker research rabbit hole and now we’re all gonna get FAMOUS, friends!

Read the full list here: https://t.co/6u17oVOOxB FULL DISCLOSURE THOUGH - that is one of our paid pieces.

#writing #writingcommunity #litmags

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

[Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim]

For the past two months, Iran had been in diplomatic negotiations with the Trump administration, and both sides appeared to be getting closer to a deal that would drastically curtail Tehran’s enrichment of uranium and prevent any path to the bomb.

Then Israel attacked. It acted less to preempt an Iranian bomb than to preempt American diplomacy. A new nuclear deal would have lifted sanctions on Iran’s battered economy, helping it to recover and grow. A deal would have stabilized Iran’s position in the Middle East and potentially strengthened it over time. Precisely by succeeding in preventing Iran from going nuclear, a deal would have advanced Iran’s integration into the region, accelerating the wary rapprochement Tehran had achieved with its historic rival, Saudi Arabia, over the past two years.

The specific deal under discussion, which envisaged bringing Iran into a regional consortium to enrich uranium, would have kick-started the process. From there, who knows: perhaps the United States might normalize relations with Iran and, having rid itself of its main regional enemy, finally act on the desire of successive bipartisan presidents, Trump included, to pull back from the Middle East.

This was the outcome that would have best served the interests of the United States. This was the outcome Israel acted to prevent. To Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a formidable, normalized, and non-nuclear Iran was the threat that mattered most. Attacking Iran, by contrast, presented an opportunity—to cripple and perhaps even overthrow the Islamic Republic, whose best air defenses Israel had disabled the previous year, after Iran’s strongest regional allies in Lebanon and Syria crumbled in spectacular fashion.

Israel does not know, because no one can, what kind of Iran will emerge from the wreckage: whether it will be more aggrieved or less, nuclear armed or not, a functioning state or a cauldron of chaos. Netanyahu took a gamble nonetheless, figuring the United States would finish his job, clean up his mess, or both.

[Coco Owen @CocoOwen]

@lasleuth @KTLA Saw it!

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

What stage of capitalism is this?

https://t.co/DAMtxH0qXF

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

ICE relentlessly pursued this Fulbright scholar and forced her to flee the country because she had liked some pro-Palestine posts and signed onto a letter calling for Palestinian liberation.

Even the most basic expressions of support for Palestinian human rights or critique of Israel can make you a target for destruction by the Trump regime.

[Patrycja @jej_sen]

a sonnet crown from We Contain Landscapes (out with @Tin_House 3/18) is in the latest issue of The New Yorker 🖤

https://t.co/IcT5FJBPUB

[Coco Owen @CocoOwen]

A documentary poem by scholar and friend, Vaheed Ramazani.
Some forty-five civilians / had been residing / in the three-story house in Rafah / when it was destroyed by an Israeli air strike / at 11:45am on December 14, 2023. https://t.co/wBa7SfqhdN

[David, Historian Martial Artist🥊 @DavidLeftyMA]

Kurt Vonnegut said “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective” and damn if that isn't exactly how this is all playing out

[the hot dam historian (phd) @hotdamhistorian]

1) get to know your community.
2) start volunteering anywhere
3) find an antifascist group (recs anyone?)
4) join an advocacy group outside of electoral politics
5) brace yourself

[Fence Magazine and Books @FenceBooks]

The Fence Modern Poets Series book prize opens for full-length poetry manuscript submissions on November 1, 2024! The awarded poet will receive $2,000 & a two-week residency at the T.S. Eliot House, & Consortium will distribute the awarded book throughout North America. 📖

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

“We Have Lost All Credibility”: Hala Rharrit on Quitting State Dept. & Ending U.S. Complicity in Gaza https://t.co/xXzeaHjkIT

[Alex Shephard @alex_shephard]

listing “mass deportation” as a housing proposal is literally fascistic

[Coco Owen @CocoOwen]

Another notable poem today:

Daria Ukiyo-e https://t.co/iBxEhEdwDV

[Coco Owen @CocoOwen]

A marvelous, poignant series of poems.

[Conjunctions @_conjunctions]

"Heed this: I riot yellow."

NEW this week online: poetry by Radha Marcum inspired by Mary Stamos's collection of mutant blossoms from the Three Mile Island meltdown.
https://t.co/8ffGpx81ID

[DEI speedwagon (all eyes on Cuba) 🌹🇵🇸 〽️ @uhshanti]

“is she Black or Indian” Trinidadians must be losing their shit right now

[Jen 'now @jenrubin9' Rubin @JRubinBlogger]

Media: This is a test. Will you keep Trump's racism on page one for 3 weeks, demand he exit the race, press every R to comment on it, consult African American studies experts, talk to communities of color ? You know, do your job as resolutely as you did on Biden's age. Try it.