Majda Gama
@majda.bsky.social
Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com
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Poets in the Conversation Room - Majda Gama and Zeina Azzam
events.sjc.edu
Free in #Annapolis on 12/6/25! I join poet Zeina Azzam in the St John's College conversation room. The audience will choose a poem from each of us to interact with after a short reading. Such a unique opportunity for us, to have this collaborative experience. events.sjc.edu/event/poets-...
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If you're scrolling right now, we don't need to tell you what day it is.
Fight back against the e-commerce giants with @freedcproject.bsky.social's shopping guide, which features dozens of local businesses that have pledged to support D.C.'s autonomy.
Fight back against the e-commerce giants with @freedcproject.bsky.social's shopping guide, which features dozens of local businesses that have pledged to support D.C.'s autonomy.
Shop local with Free DC's holiday shopping guide
A new shopping guide features dozens of places that have pledged to support D.C.'s autonomy.
51st.news
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
If you're scrolling right now, we don't need to tell you what day it is.
Fight back against the e-commerce giants with @freedcproject.bsky.social's shopping guide, which features dozens of local businesses that have pledged to support D.C.'s autonomy.
Fight back against the e-commerce giants with @freedcproject.bsky.social's shopping guide, which features dozens of local businesses that have pledged to support D.C.'s autonomy.
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Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
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Defenestration
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Defenestration
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Do we need to point out that a permanent pause is not a pause?
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Do we need to point out that a permanent pause is not a pause?
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
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Asked what Somalis have to do with the shooting in DC, Trump admits “nothing, but then claims they “cause a lot of trouble”
November 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Asked what Somalis have to do with the shooting in DC, Trump admits “nothing, but then claims they “cause a lot of trouble”
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Asked what Afghanis in the US legally should be thinking, Trump talks about how Somalis are allegedly taking over Minnesota
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Asked what Afghanis in the US legally should be thinking, Trump talks about how Somalis are allegedly taking over Minnesota
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The two work in tandem to create a terrible synergy: people will believe images/video they want to believe while disregarding those they don't.
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The two work in tandem to create a terrible synergy: people will believe images/video they want to believe while disregarding those they don't.
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
Congratulations to humanity for building a cognitive bias confirmation machine. 🥳
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This statement is way outside of CIA’s lane and erosive of the ethical norm that intelligence should be non-partisan. If that norm vanishes, intelligence loses a very large portion of its value.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This statement is way outside of CIA’s lane and erosive of the ethical norm that intelligence should be non-partisan. If that norm vanishes, intelligence loses a very large portion of its value.
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“It's human nature to want to know for oneself, not only to trust in the knowledge of others," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social says during episode 1405 of The Slowdown.
Read "Entry” by Chet’la Sebree and our full episode transcript: https://bit.ly/48abvgj
📖: @tinhouse.bsky.social
Read "Entry” by Chet’la Sebree and our full episode transcript: https://bit.ly/48abvgj
📖: @tinhouse.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“It's human nature to want to know for oneself, not only to trust in the knowledge of others," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social says during episode 1405 of The Slowdown.
Read "Entry” by Chet’la Sebree and our full episode transcript: https://bit.ly/48abvgj
📖: @tinhouse.bsky.social
Read "Entry” by Chet’la Sebree and our full episode transcript: https://bit.ly/48abvgj
📖: @tinhouse.bsky.social
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The Damned
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Kraftwerk
Iggy Pop
X
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Kraftwerk
Iggy Pop
X
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The Damned
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Kraftwerk
Iggy Pop
X
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Kraftwerk
Iggy Pop
X
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I am passionate about this because my father in law almost died from HPV-related throat cancer. He had about an 80% chance of dying from it. He got lucky. Many people do not.
Vaccines give us the opportunity to avoid suffering and dying in so many ways. They are modern miracles. Get them
Vaccines give us the opportunity to avoid suffering and dying in so many ways. They are modern miracles. Get them
November 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I am passionate about this because my father in law almost died from HPV-related throat cancer. He had about an 80% chance of dying from it. He got lucky. Many people do not.
Vaccines give us the opportunity to avoid suffering and dying in so many ways. They are modern miracles. Get them
Vaccines give us the opportunity to avoid suffering and dying in so many ways. They are modern miracles. Get them
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If you are an adult under 45 in the US who never received the vaccine, you are also eligible for it. (You can also get it if you’re older, but insurance might not cover it). HPV is a very common infection, but it’s not inevitable. Let’s wipe it out!
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
If you are an adult under 45 in the US who never received the vaccine, you are also eligible for it. (You can also get it if you’re older, but insurance might not cover it). HPV is a very common infection, but it’s not inevitable. Let’s wipe it out!
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This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news:
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.
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If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
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The U.S. has suspended all immigration requests from Afghans after two National Guardsmen were shot in Washington, D.C., in an attack described by Donald Trump as an “act of terror”.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Trump suspends all Afghan immigration requests after National Guard shooting in DC
The president had called for authorities to re-examine Afghan immigrants who entered the country during the Biden administration
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The U.S. has suspended all immigration requests from Afghans after two National Guardsmen were shot in Washington, D.C., in an attack described by Donald Trump as an “act of terror”.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
Trump himself is fundamentally an AI-generated meme”
AI slop demonstrates not just the technological flexibility of Trump’s fascist aesthetics — it is the ultimate example of it, the culmination of the hateful dream of eliminating the human entirely.
The Algorithmic Presidency
Just as 20th-century fascists deployed radio and film, today’s ideological descendants use memes, social media, and above all, artificial intelligence.
hyperallergic.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Trump himself is fundamentally an AI-generated meme”
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Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Trump's speech about the shooting in DC veered into him attacking the Somali community in Minnesota, which of course had nothing to do with the shooting. Gives away his bigoted game.
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“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/27/i_m_not_going_to_give
Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & More
www.democracynow.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/27/i_m_not_going_to_give
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BURN THE WITCH.
Cranberry sauce straight outta the can is trash—either make a cranberry salad or save that 89 cents, love. We don’t need your ridged cranberry gelatin on the dinner table.
5. What’s a controversial food take that you’d stand ten toes down and defend at all costs?
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
BURN THE WITCH.