Writing Today

A collaborative effort to promote the power, importance, and relevance of writing--in all of its various forms--in our schools, communities, and world today!

[Writing Today @Writing_Today]

How is AI Changing How We Write and Create? Three English Professors weigh in https://t.co/Rfj8ETDB63 #TComp #AI #writing #teachingwriting #teachwrite #write

[كريم صفي الدين - Karim Safieddine @safieddine00]

There's nothing normal about pro-Israel accounts repeatedly threatening to destroy an entire people/country. There's nothing normal about genocide becoming a weapon one announces with pride. There's nothing normal about the fact that such content has not been taken down yet.

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

The Israeli government has shut down Al Jazeera’s Ramallah office. A good response would be for all international news organisations with suitable resources to immediately dispatch correspondents there to report while Al Jazeera is silenced

[Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom]

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the Israeli army’s raid and closure of Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah. 👇

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

boat tours for ethnic cleansing…jfc

this is utterly depraved but not entirely unprecedented

remember Sderot ‘cinema,’in 2014, when Israelis gathered to watch the bombing in Gaza, all while cheering, eating popcorn & posing for selfies?

it’s dehumanization in its purest form..

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

Let’s talk about racism! Most white people at prestigious magazines don’t ever want to talk about race or diversity at all. Why? It's primarily because they’ve been allowed to exist in a world where their mastheads resemble member registries at Southern country clubs circa 1950..

[Erin Overbey @erinoverbey]

i often revisit this Ta-Nehisi Coates interview (nov ‘23) where he spoke out on Gaza—& put the whole silent literary/media world on notice🔥

“dropping bombs on children, on refugee camps.. i worry for the souls of people who can do this & sleep at night”

[Big Nasty ☭ @keepaustinnasty]

The fact that the USA is about to execute an innocent citizen - they know is innocent, the DA now says is innocent, the evidence proves he is innocent, should be enough for everyone to tear the system down.

Marcellus Williams could be any of us.
Marcellus Williams is all of us.

[Leigh Claire La Berge @marxforcats]

Fredric Jameson has passed--what an unmatched American intellectual presence for the last 50 (at least) years. "Marxism and Form" is his best book, imho, but my favorite line of his comes from "Brecht and Method": "History puts its worst foot forward." Rest in Power, Fred.

[The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine]

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts In Dr John’s Gris-Gris (@strangepress), David Toop follows anthropologist turned writer Zora Neale Hurston into the New Orleans of the late 1920s:

https://t.co/PdJneI7RnI

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

This might be a good time to bring up Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban that reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire - mass shooting deaths jumped 239%.

Why TF would anyone need an AK-47.

[Make Lying Wrong Again @LyingWrongAgain]

In the debate, Trump claimed he he fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper because he “did a bad job”

Trump fired the Iraq war vet & lifelong Republican by tweet on Nov 9, 2020

Here’s the real reason. This is how close we came at the end of Trump’s term 👇

[Leah Greenberg says NO KINGS ❌👑 @Leahgreenb]

Amber Thurman was 28 years old. She loved being a mom to her six-year-old boy.

Her last words to her own mother: "“Promise me you’ll take care of my son.”

Her son will grow up without his mom because of Donald Trump's Dobbs' decision and Georgia's MAGA abortion ban.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

If women can't travel to receive care, or for any other reason they choose to, then we are truly relegated to second class citizenship. This is what the future will look like for yourself, your daughters, your loved ones, if Trump and Vance win.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder:

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning leak, Donald Trump gave the keynote address at the Heritage Foundation where he announced the work the foundation did (Project 2025) would be crucial to his policy goals. Retweet so all Americans know Trump will enact Project 2025.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This woman is spot-on about the loathsome piece of shit. 🙌🙏👏👊🌊🇺🇸

[Santa Claus 🎅🏻🎄🦌🛷 @Old_Santa_Claus]

Maybe Trump should stop messing with the Haitians

Just saying 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

This is a huge deal that needs more attention. Gov. Tim Walz’s biggest super weapon: Persuading young white men, who tend to lean more Republican, to vote for Kamala Harris. Just watch this video & see.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Wow.

When almost 750 NatSec experts are telling you that Trump is the wrong choice, you should probably pay attention.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

741 former high-ranking national security officials (233 general and flag officers) signed letter endorsing Kamala Harris for president. 15 four-star generals, 10 former cabinet secretaries, 10 service secretaries, and Repub leaders who served under Trump. https://t.co/I0clmLZOAL