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Anjali Enjeti
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Atlanta-area author of Southbound, The Parted Earth, and Ballot, out from Bloomsbury on 2/5/26; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; proud poll worker. linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
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While you were sleeping, the administration changed the language on the CDC website regarding autism and vaccines. So many people are going to die or become disabled due to this disinformation.

“[S]tudies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.”
The conspiracy theorists in the administration are having a field day. How many people will die or become disabled because of this disinformation? Screenshot 1: an article in the Wall Street Journal today. Title: HEALTHCARE CDC Changes Webpage to Say Vaccines May Cause Autism, Revising Prior Language. The text on vaccines had been a focal point for concerns about RFK Jr.’s views By Liz Essley Whyte Follow and Sabrina Siddiqui Sign for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta Photo caption: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention building in Atlanta ALYSSA POINTER/REUTERS Screenshot 2: a page from the CDC website entitled: Autism and Vaccines. Rest of the text: QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. Link in comments
November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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I’m broken hearted over the passing of Alice Wong. What a human.

In her memory, I will be donating to the project she co-founded, Crips for eSims, which has raised over 3 million dollars so that Palestinians in Gaza can stay in contact with the world & one another. chuffed.org/project/crip...
From Alice’s X account: “This is Alice’s friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice’s wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. ‘Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I’m honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.’”
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Ruwa Romman, candidate for Georgia governor!
Selfie with Ruwa Romman, candidate for Georgia governor. I’m wearing glasses and a pendent with a brown shirt. Ruwa is wearing a tan hijab.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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What a dream endorsement for Ballot from Alexander Chee, one of my favorite writers!

You can pre-order Ballot, anywhere books are sold! bookshop.org/p/books/ball...
"Anjali Enjeti has written a moving and brilliant autobiography of her vote that intersects with the history of the right to vote, speaking all the while to the subtext of the times: that bound up in our votes are our lives, and what we mean to each other, our future and our past, our possibilities. I found a renewed commitment to democracy. I want this book everywhere." Black book cover with purple ballot box and white ballot with the title Ballot, Anjali Enjeti, and Bloomsbury.
November 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I will be staring at this map for the next several days.
A map of Georgia in red and blue showing which countries voted for the Democratic or Republican candidates for Public Service Commission.
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Let this be the final nail in Cuomo’s coffin…
Mamdani’s instagram post stating that Trump endorses Cuomo. The campion reads: Congratulations Andrew Cuomo. I know how hard you worked for this.
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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The Weather Channel has labeled the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America on their map tracking Hurricane Melissa.

We are living in multiple hells at the same time.

Link of coverage here: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8DdRXn2/
October 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Mainstream media doesn’t even try to hide its fascism problem anymore.

Threads post from the Associated Press:

“Anti-abortion pregnancy centers offer much more than free ultrasounds and diapers. Here's why they're expanding as Planned Parenthood clinics close.”
Headline: “Anti-abortion pregnancy centers are looking to offer much more than ultrasounds and diapers” Photo of a pink sign outside an anti-abortion center. I’m intentionally not sharing the link to the article.
October 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Tweet from @a_abdulruhman “I do not wish to hear the voices of analysts, smug know-it-alls, or war profiteers. What I long for is to hear, see, and feel the lives of the survivors of genocide, to connect with their voices, their eyes, their sense of betrayal, their anger, their tears, their reproach. Everything about them, and only them. Let the spaces be reserved for them alone, and steer clear of what we've mentioned.”
October 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Did I have Ms. Rachel taking on Obama on my bingo card in 2026?

No, I did not.
Dear @barackobama, I saw in your statement you said “Israeli families” & “the people of Gaza.” Palestinians have families, too. This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide. I’ve sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world. Love, Ms Rachel
October 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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This is the kind of poetry that should never have had to be written. Tweet from Gaza doctor Dr. Ezzideen (@ezzinggaza).
Two years ago, on a Friday that now stands outside of time, my father prepared a feast. It was meant to honor life, my graduation, my return, the promise of a future. The table was full, not only with food, but with faith: the quiet, unspoken faith that tomorrow would exist. How easily we believe in continuity, in the mercy of another morning. We gathered as one family, laughing, speaking over one another, breaking bread with careless joy, pouring juice into glasses as though it were the wine of peace itself. Each gesture was a prayer, though none of us knew it. My father’s hands moved as Christ’s once did, blessing the bread, dividing it among those he loved. And somewhere, though no one could name it, there hung in the air that same fragile foreboding that filled the upper room in Jerusalem, when love spoke its last words before betrayal. The air trembled with that kind of happiness which only later reveals itself as farewell. And then, silence. The silence that only the dead can teach. When I look now at the photographs, I see the faces of the condemned, though they did not know it. More than half of them are gone, devoured by what men call war and what truth calls murder. The homes that once contained our breathing, our prayers, our smallest tenderness, crushed. The gardens that smelled of oranges and evening, erased. I walk in memory as one walks through ruins, touching the stones of vanished laughter. October 7 was not the birth of a war; it was the death of illusion. On that day, history tore itself open, and the wound has not closed. It bleeds through every surviving soul. And in that blood I see not only the crime of one nation against another, but the crime of humanity against itself, the old, endless betrayal that men repeat while invoking God. If justice still exists, it must weep. If God still looks upon this earth, He must avert His eyes. This day should be marked forever, not as an event of politics, but as a revelation of the human abyss. Let every flag descend into silence. Let every tongue fall still. Because what was taken from us was not only life, but the very rhythm of being alive, the rustle of bread torn by a father’s hand, the sound of a child laughing before she learns what grief is. They took from us the ordinary, and left us with eternity. And yet, I remain. I, who ate with them, who still taste that bread in my mouth as though it were guilt itself. I live, and I do not know why. Perhaps only to remember. Perhaps only to tell the world that history is not written in treaties or speeches, but in the trembling of hands that once passed a dish across a table, in the laughter that did not know it was bidding farewell to the world. There was a feast once, and it became the Last Supper of my people. And the world, indifferent, learned, self-satisfied, did not attend. But it must remember. Because if it does not, then we, the living, will have died for nothing, and the dead will have died twice. #GazaGenocide
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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It's starting to get real. T-minus 4 months until my third book, BALLOT, enters the world. You can pre-order Ballot anywhere books or sold. Support independent bookstores by pre-ordering through Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/ball...
White title page with the words Ballot, Anjali Enjeti, Bloomsbury Academic.
October 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Do not tread on another person's hope. It is the least we can do as human beings.
Tweet from @nahed_hajja99
September 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Un-fucking-believable. Israel just bombed the food distribution center of The Sameer Project. There are a number of martyrs and people still trapped under the rubble. Please, please donate to their North campaign if you are able. chuffed.org/project/help...
A building is one fire. Several men are trying to help, one is carrying a child out of the flames. A small room showing the food packages.
September 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Today is the birthday of the late great Refaat Alareer, the Palestinian poet and teacher killed in Gaza on December 6, 2023, at the age of 44.

Honor his memory by donating to the link. It will be matched up to $5,000 for The Sameer Project's Mass Displacement Response Campaign! bit.ly/match4gaza
The Refaat Mobile Library is matching up to $5,000. Help us send $10,000 toward The Sameer Project's urgent new Mass Displacement Response Campaign. Donate now and your money goes twice as far. All proceeds will be sent to the expansion of the Refaat Alareer Medical Camp, Batoul Camp, bathroom and water tanks for the North Gaza Team, Sawarha Medical Point Camp, as well as funding toward toilets, fencing, tarps, and supplies to other camps in the Central area and South of Gaza. You can donate here: http://bit.ly/match4gaza
September 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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This is from my essay, "To the Extreme," in my collection, Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change. The book was published in 2021, but I wrote this essay, and this passage in particular, years earlier.
"As our country embraces authoritarianism and fascism, it is vital to acknowledge the myriad ways we contributed to it. For too long, too many of us assisted supposedly good, decent people at bake sales to raise money for the preschool and cheered alongside them on soccer friends and carpooled with them to work, all the while looking the other way from the toxic ideals they harbored and proliferated. It was too uncomfortable for many of us, myself included, to call out their beliefs at a neighborhood party or unfriend them on Facebook. We found ways to justify our own inaction. They're old. They'll die off soon anyway. Or, They're entitled to their own opinion. We failed to take a more aggressive stance to confront the malicious forces in our midst because confronting it oftentimes means confronting our own complicity in it. And complicity is like the sun. No one can start at it for too long."
September 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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He did not support the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval that would have blocked weapons to Israel late last year. If he's changed his mind, I'm happy to retract.
Yoav Gallant post thanking Senator Booker for their discussion the alliance between Israel and the US. This statement and photo of Gallant and Booker was posted in December.
April 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM