She/Her. Poet and sometimes essayist. Poems 👀 in @tin_house @theschooner @poetry_daily @colorado_review @the_rumpus @bestnewpoets.

Joined January 2012
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Meriwether Clarke retweeted
Citing reporting by @propublica and others, nearly 4,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals sent a letter to DHS Sec Kristi Noem calling for the immediate release of all children currently in immigration detention. Full letter: tinyurl.com/yz2amueb 1/
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Shah Alam’s wife said she was sorry her husband got lost on his walk last year and apologized that he couldn’t understand police instructions: investigativepost.org/2026/0…
Breaking: The family of Nurul Amin Shah Alam spoke publicly for the first time today since he was abandoned by Border Patrol and left to die on the streets of Buffalo. Read the words of his grieving wife, who wants only to be reunited with her other sons. investigativepost.org/2026/0…
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Almost double what the US spends on childcare and Head Start.
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents. wapo.st/4rdkbuF
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Crisp summary of the basic facts of Good's murder in @meagankday's article yesterday. There just isn't an intellectually honest way to come to a different conclusion here. That's why every attempt to paint it as self-defense either distorts or omits at least some of these facts.
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What will be the impact of the Trump cuts to Medicaid and other health programs? I spent weeks trying to find out, reporting in the field. One estimate is that the Trump health cuts will kill 51,000 Americans annually--fragile people like a widow and cancer survivor whom I met after she hobbled with her walker for two hours through darkened streets in hopes of getting care. Trump will celebrate the capture of Maduro as addressing drug addiction. But his health care cuts are estimated to lead to 101,000 fewer Americans getting treatment for drug abuse each year. Black men in Mississippi already have a shorter life span than Venezuelans -- and now American health outcomes seem likely to slide further. Here's a gift link to my piece; I welcome your comments. nytimes.com/2026/01/03/opini…
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As of 31 December 2025, MSF is still awaiting renewal of its registration to operate in Gaza and the West Bank under new Israeli requirements, including staff lists. The Palestinian health system is decimated, essential infrastructure is destroyed, and people struggle to meet basic needs. People need more services, not less. If MSF and other INGOs lose access, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians would be cut off from essential care. We currently support one in five hospital beds and the delivery of one in three births in Gaza. In 2025 alone, we provided nearly 800,000 outpatient consultations, treated over 100,000 trauma cases, performed 22,700 surgeries, assisted more than 10,000 births, and distributed nearly 700 million litres of water.
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What’s insane is that 44% American workers are paid less than a living wage by their employers, forcing them onto social safety nets like SNAP. SNAP subsidizes employers who pay poverty wages.
About 15% of Americans (42,000,000) are on SNAP. Am I the only one that finds this absolutely insane?
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Trump demolishing the White House to build a $250 million ballroom funded by Amazon, Lockheed Martin, and Palantir — all during a government shutdown, and as he covers up the Epstein Files — captures it all pretty well doesn't it
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Trump didn't just cancel aid to other countries. He's denying poor Americans food, too.
18 Oct 2025
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived. projects.propublica.org/trum…
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Bodies showing evidence of torture and field execution. Channel 4 is, I think, the only mainstream Western media outlet reporting this.
Israel returns disfigured and unidentified bodies to Gaza channel4.com/news/israel-ret…
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Abolish ICE isn't about an ideal design for border management, whatever you think of that, it's about opposing an incredibly destructive force within our society.
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30 Sep 2025
If you are an American, you paid for those bullets, and all the other bullets and bombs used to kill nurses, doctors, journalists and aid workers in Gaza. Your own personal finances might be rough, the cost of living might be going up, government services might be becoming degraded, austerity might be imposed but there is always more money to kill in Gaza.
30 Sep 2025
The video has been circulating for hours and there are still zero stories about it in Western media.
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These rooms should be filled with newborn cries, the beeping of monitors, pregnant women being cared for, patients finding relief amid a genocide. Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in #Gaza city.
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Meriwether Clarke retweeted
We’re launching a new task force to clear encampments, restore public spaces, and connect people with shelter and services. California is taking action by reducing unsheltered homelessness and outperforming the nation in slowing this crisis.
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is it a tragic mishap if you've been doing it everyday for two years
Israel deeply regrets the tragic mishap that occurred today at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza. Israel values the work of journalists, medical staff, and all civilians. The military authorities are conducting a thorough investigation. Our war is with Hamas terrorists. Our just goals are defeating Hamas and bringing our hostages home.
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Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during this country's cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps. A good time to revisit this @propublica story: projects.propublica.org/home…
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14 Aug 2025
I'm sorry what
Months after a cognitively impaired New Jersey man died while trying to meet up with a flirty Meta AI chatbot, ‘Big sis Billie’ was still romancing users, tests by Reuters show reut.rs/45DQIRj @JeffHorwitz
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Starvation, once in motion, even after food & medical care become availabe, remains irreversible for so many of its victims. It's a greater sin than the sin itself to be have spoken only after the sight of skin-on-bones killed Palestinians. An unforgiveable "theology of empire."
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The Israelis are holding trucks full of food outside while a whole population starves. And they're doing it thanks to the unified support of every element in mainstream American politics.
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