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Dani Janae

@danijanae.bsky.social

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Poet. Journalist. Lesbian of note. Author of Hound Triptych (Sundress Publications, 2026) ✨ https://linktr.ee/danijanae

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Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · Jan 23

Hi Bluesky my book comes out next year!

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Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 1h

THIS IS CRAZY 🥺

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 1h

lord why’d you have to take D’Angelo!!

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social · 5d

Subs are open and our Autumn issue is here!

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Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 7d

New in @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social
This week

www.kitchentablequarterly.org/dani-janae-o...

About 3 — Kitchen Table Quarterly

www.kitchentablequarterly.org

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 7d

justin phillip reed
OPEN SEASON
from his collection, The Malevolent Volume

OPEN SEASON
for Jayson

What they wont do is enumerate
the ever-fresher types of way I've learned
to live beneath the gun. Amid this country's
latest crazed nostalgias, my body
has been quickest to choreograph a future.
This body didn't teach them all they know
about gore, but damn if it didn't try.
I fashion from my panic a corona
of divergence, and they want my head
as trophy for its danger heirlooms.
What they fear in my father is already
breath in my chest. Other than my mother
who else can braid a wealth from rain and smoke?
What they don't know is this work.
Remember I was dinner theater, mug-shot
and mounted and made to serve face.
I haven't been hunted to anybody's brink.
I am the brink. Fuck what they heard.
My whole herd has chewed the cud of toed
lines and had it with their hoarding borders,
heaping triggers but can't even get a grip.
What they can catch are my cloven hooves:
I'll be all kinds of demon. Put that on
a list of shit for which I am now here.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 10d

Former and current drug user anthem lmao

Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 10d

SiR’s John Redcorn got brought up on threads yesterday as just a damn good song and I love it but my vote is for D’Evils as his masterpiece

Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 10d

LMAO

Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 10d

Goodnight

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 10d

Also hey I’m not a musician but doesn’t sticking to the same sound for a decade of your career get kinda boring?

Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 10d

But he’s not T Swift big so he can afford to veer off course I guess? Her music has never been it for me and I know I’m not the target audience but it’s weird to see her work so lauded.

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Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 10d

Call me a snob but I like it when artists still take big swings in music. Two of my favorite records came from the same person this year: Destin Conrad. One is pretty dance-forward R&B and the other is jazz. They both rule! wHimsy was his first jazz album. He took a chance and it paid off

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Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 10d

And this is really the crux of it folks! Re: T Swift from @raxkingisdead.bsky.social

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Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 10d

Bluesky is the only place it’s safe for me to repost this lmao

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 10d

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

“Eldest Daughter" is a symptom of my overall issue with Taylor Swift: the scale of her music just feels fucking off. In 2025, she's no longer a lovelorn kid singing about Romeo and Juliet; she's a 35-year-old billionaire who's played sold out stadiums all over the world. She's Taylor Swift. That's her name. Damn near every living person knows who she is, and she's singing about the internet? About the fucking comments section? When she sings "I'm not a bad bitch," is she even aware that she's lying, that she's worshipped by more girls and women than almost anybody else? Even her love songs feel incorrect to me on these grounds. When I think about the real circumstances of her life, I just start wondering where the songs are about the housekeepers, the assistants, the cooks, the drivers, and every other person who's changed her life way more than the man in the Musso and Frank's booth in "Elizabeth Taylor." I struggle to trust her as the lyrical steward of ordinary human experiences. I am certain it's been many years since she's had one the way I have them, with all the waiting for a table that implies, and the navigating of customer service phone trees, the dithering over $35 travel insurance that I can never decide if I actually need, the frantic emails about unpaid freelance invoices, the trip back to the grocery store for the thing I forgot when I went earlier in the day, and all the other boring crap I have to do because I can't buy up other people's lifetimes so they have to do it for me.

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Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 11d

Yikes

Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 11d

If AI has no haters, I am dead

Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 11d

Idk yall I think the fact that our president loves posting AI videos of himself is proof that shit is for fascists

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Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 13d

I’ve always been wary of bill burr. I feel like he’s just like that other white comic married to a Black woman but with better PR. This quote? No notes!

“I went to the land of brown savag-oops I mean PEOPLE and they got a McDonalds yall!”

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 14d

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one

I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things

It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

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Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 14d

A stand up guy

Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 17d

We want to blame someone for the current state but let’s blame the responsible parties. Not leftists you disagree with online.

Dani Janae @danijanae.bsky.social · 17d

I understand people are scared and angry but Harris still got secret service detail. She doesn’t need you to shout down strangers that question her record. Her campaign.