Jessie Carver

queer • feminist • writer • editor • stories & poems in various journals • formerly @PSUEnglishDept & @BitchMedia • she/her

[Jessie Carver @Jessie__Paige]

My short story “[SILENCE],” grand prize winner of the 2024 Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction (judged by Margaret Malone), is now published in @WTRlitmag ✨ If you like dark, experimental work interlaced with closed captions, this story is for you! 

https://t.co/L1kr1R5Is0

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Trump didn’t fire Kristi Noem because she failed to respond to the floods in Texas which claimed the lives of at least 100 people.
He didn’t fire her because Americans were murdered by her rabid masked goons.
He didn’t fire her for posing for photos in front of human beings in cages like they were livestock.
He didn’t fire her for racially profiling Latinos, African-Americans, Arab Americans and Asian Americans.
He didn’t fire her because she was arresting legal permanent residents and US citizens and detaining them illegally.
He didn’t fire her because she was keeping children in fetid, rancid concentration camps without access to clean water, fresh food or medical care.
He didn’t fire her for turning our cities into militarized war zones.

He fired her because she made him “look bad.”

That was the red line.
None of the other things were.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Ladies… pay attention!

The SAVE Act would require voter ID to match your birth certificate.

Almost 80% of married women take their spouses name and would be ineligible to vote.

Trump knows this. It’s what he wants.

He wants to stop women from voting.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Rachel Maddow on Venezuela: “There are very few Americans right now who have any idea why the United States did this. If this was about drug trafficking then why did President Trump just pardon the former President of Honduras who was convicted of sending hundreds of tons of drugs into the US?”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Welch nailed it:

“JD Vance is married to an Indian woman. He has mixed-race children. If he won’t even defend them—his own family—from white supremacist jokes and Hitler worship… what makes you think he gives a damn about you?”

If a man won’t stand for his own, he’ll sell out anyone. MAGA included.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: Donald Trump is trying to play this bluffing game of, well, maybe what we're going to do is hold the entire all the federal workforce hostage and fire everybody. Donald Trump has been firing everybody. 

They are completely eliminating the federal workforce. And in order for us to stop this madness, we have to put a stop to it. And we have to stop enabling their abuse of power,

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: The HUD website now has the following message slot the government shutdown in red at the top of the page.

This is absolutely a violation of the HATCH act and must be investigated immediately.

The Hatch Act bars executive branch officials from engaging in political campaign activity while acting in their official capacity. Agency websites, run with taxpayer money, must remain non-partisan and strictly informational.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Hiding his scars won’t change the truth. This nation was founded on slave labor

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️TYLENOL & AUTISM—RFK Jr and Trump are wrong—the largest & best study in the world in 2.5 MILLION KIDS—found no increased autism risk with acetaminophen (aka paracetamol, Tylenol) use by the mother during pregnancy. A crude unadjusted analysis found only a preliminary 5% risk, but once you adjust for family by matching using sibling controls (who didn’t get autism), the even tiny 5% risk vaporizes to 0% 📉. (Fun fact: I used to do drug safety epidemiology and have been whistleblower against big pharma when their drugs were dangerous—so I know a few things about drug safety data). Thread 🧵.

[Jessie Carver @Jessie__Paige]

A first for me as a writer: You can listen to me read “[SILENCE]” & talk about the inspiration behind my experimental short story, thanks to @WestTradeReview!

Fun challenge to incorporate elements like closed captions that were visual cues on the page✨
https://t.co/22wrLiciA8

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel just assassinated the entire Al Jazeera crew in Gaza: fearless journalists and cameramen reporting the truth amid genocide.

This is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

Where are the Western journalists? Will they condemn this, or choose silence and complicity?

[Dr. Melinda Adams @Scholar_Melinda]

Today I celebrate my 200th citation. Here’s to citing more Indigenous scholars writing/researching about Indigenous topics ✅

[₊ ⊹ ₊ ⊹ kinsale ₊ ⊹ ₊ ⊹ @KinsaleDrake]

support a Native student who’s facing emergency room, car accident bills, and a loss of scholarship funding!! https://t.co/44nYOfMx0j

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

We cut $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting just to spend $1.1 billion to upgrade the plane Qatar gave to Trump as a gift, and all of his personal golf trips and vacations.

This is what a corrupt oligarchy looks like.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
-George Orwell, 1984.

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

But hey, at least you can talk to your fake girlfriend and make fake art and read fake posts from fake people on a dead internet that costs increasingly more to engage with while also making you dumber, lonelier, and angrier.

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

Folks, as we lift up Palestinians, don't forget Sudan. The famine in Sudan is in the same critical stage with ppl suffering in the same horrific ways. Pls amplify Sudanese voices -- and if you have the means, give to those who are ensuring Sudanese ppls survival on the ground.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Amnesty International: Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians

Doctors Without Borders: Israel is deliberately starving Gaza

UN expert: Israel is deliberately starving, killing children

Human Rights Watch: Israel engineered mass starvation

Media: Gaza food crisis spreads