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keithjebb.bsky.social
Writer, poet, reviewer, sometime creative writing lecturer, turn left at Labour and keep going.
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Thanks to Rupert Loydell for publishing this poem in International Times: internationaltimes.it/blue-labour/

www.rte.ie/news/uk/2025...

Scientists are close to developing a potential cure for epilepsy. DOGE and the GOP's cuts to the NIH and other medical research funding threaten to stop that cure in its tracks. My latest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzoD...

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books

Good morning, Americas! Here's an image of Taiwan's morning sun rising over the Asian Pacific. 🌞 East Coast Sunrise Hualien, Taiwan Canon EOS 6D Mark II Tamron SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD #landscapephotography #landscape #naturephotography #nature #seascape #sunrise #asia #taiwan #photography

Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡

Gotta love a postcard with a sense of humor.

Review of Billy Mills A Book of Sounds here on the Tears in the Fence blog: tearsinthefence.com/blog/

Yikes.

Folklore is a Palimpsest, a physical reminder that the past holds space in the presence. A living, breathing continuum. It calls out from the ephemeral, 'we were here. We lived, and we loved. We weren't so different from you' #Folklore #Shropshire #History

Helping the U.S. gets you banned, being white gets you a welcome mat. Got it.

Spare a minute for this brief Substack post: millsbi.substack.com/p/a-note-on-...

Can we impeach the Con-Men-in-Chief already? Nations facing tariffs pushed to approve Elon Musk's Starlink, cables show - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... #DecryDenyDefyDepose #NeofascistMoronsTrumpAndMusk #ApartheidElmo #SpaceNazi #FeedBillionairesToStarvingPolarBears

The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

To celebrate the publication of Wayne Holloway’s brilliant third novel, Commedia Mortale, his previous two novels – Bindlestiff and Our Struggle – are half price until end of next week (May 9th)! Grab all three here: www.influxpress.com/wayne-hollow...

the trump administration, obviously concerned with racial equality, thinks its illegal discrimination to spend federal dollars protecting a predominantly black community from raw sewage

An actual Enemies List of journalists and academics is circulating around the State Department. It appears to target, in part, anybody said a bad word about Alex Jones or Glenn Greenwald.

After nearly 5 years, our anthology of disability poetry and poetics, EVERY PLACE ON THE MAP IS DISABLED, is being published with @nupress.bsky.social in early 2026: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014973...

. Schützengraben = Schtzngrbn = "trenches" —Ernst Jandl (1957) #poetry #poem #poems

Wow—15 international students at the University of Central Florida have had their visas revoked as a result of the school's signed partnership with ICE. One was detained. Literally handed over to immigration cops by their own university. Despicable.

Happy St George' Day!

To celebrate Shakespeare Day, here’s a poem about being in an exam and panicking that you can’t remember any Shakespeare quotations.

"I learned that beloved Sweet Briar faculty and staff had been forced out of the school as a consequence of their dissent from this policy, that emails were being monitored, that language was policed, that faced with the unpopularity of their policy the administration’s primary tool was repression."

The Labour Government insist they're carrying out the will of the people because of their manifesto. It's complete nonsense. People voted to get the Tories out, not because of Starmer's non-inspirational manifesto. There's only one way to prove that. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Coming to a UK HEI near you.

My colleague Ben Robinson is the first IU faculty member to be investigated under SEA 202, the law that mandates faculty can be fired for the appearance of “political bias,” which ofc in this context means left wing opinions the administration does not like. 1/4

The government has published no evidence to suggest that cutting disability benefits will get people back to work. The evidence it has published found that these cuts would plunge hundreds of thousands of people into poverty. I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the gov’t to rethink

Brexit costs and red tape denying NHS cancer patients life-saving drugs, report finds www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Glad House Dems are demanding a full briefing—because immigration agents showed up at L.A. elementary schools, and DHS lied about it. Watch the video. Hear the truth from L.A.’s superintendent. Then ask why the hell Homeland Security is targeting kids. Don’t let this go!!!

Fifteen years ago my parents bought a bunch of birch and willow saplings for €1.50 a piece and planted them on a small patch of land behind their home. Now, they're 30ft tall and home to a lot of very noisy willow warblers. Pretty cool.

Isn’t this the Supreme Court that the last President Trump loaded generationally in his own favour?