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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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blessed to see Allison Russell & her dynamite band last night; double-blessed w a surprise performance of Wedding Song with Anaïs Mitchell. here’s to the artists using their voices to name the violence & destruction in the world & urging us toward better. here’s to the artists. here’s to better.

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When I started having good sex again, there was a new problem: I could not stay in my body. I wanted to, now. But I couldn’t; I found myself disconnecting, dissociating, floating above myself, unable to feel.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

spring means foraginggggg - nettles, violet leaves, & dandelion greens w/ local eggs and @aleshire.bsky.social’s ramps pesto, which is pretty much the most delicious thing in the goddamn world

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

a particular bitter sadness to learning about actual good my government has been doing only through news of those programs’ dismantling

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

submitted 22 days ago • 691 comments

how I mean how how is a person how is a person supposed to I mean, how can a person just with everything, how do you still I don't know how to keep did you see the how can I just how do I still?

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

oh god, he’s alive

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Seems like it's everyone's patriotic duty to report men getting hair plugs and erectile dysfunction meds, as those are both gender-affirming care

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

@sanders.senate.gov @balint.house.gov would love to see you join this effort

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

everything is on fire but some heartwork art I’ve been deep in creating for months just got installed in a gallery & I about cried to see it in place. I’ve never made anything so conceptual or so personal — how we store trauma in the body, how maybe we can integrate it, what else a body can be for

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Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

submitted 28 days ago • 321 comments

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

From Danusha Laméris book, Bonfire Opera. Published by @upittpress.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/bonfireoperaBK #poem #books #writing

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: A federal court ruled the lawsuit of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Ph.D student detained for writing an op-ed, should proceed in Vermont — denying the Trump administration's motion to move the case to Louisiana. We will not stop fighting until Rümeysa is home.

submitted 38 days ago • 17 comments

If you're protesting this weekend, know your rights when interacting with law enforcement, including immigration agents.

submitted 37 days ago • 39 comments

After detaining Rümeysa Öztürk at ICE’s field office in St. Albans the night of March 25, court records state, ICE officials put her on a flight out of the airport in Burlington.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

oh hey, forgot to tell you here that my poem with a very long title won the Editor’s Prize from @birdcoatquarterly.bsky.social! it’s about feeling like an outsider to the poetry industry, so its winning a prize tickles me greatly. will be out in their summer issue. ❤️

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

"I am not fragile. I am whore made holy by your prayer." a new poem of mine is out today in Gather, an online lit mag & writing community!

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Mahmoud Khalil's rights should be defended for their own sake, and for his unborn child's sake, but they should also be defended on principle and for all of our sakes. The slope is slippery; the rights are crucial.

submitted 63 days ago • 7 comments

had an artichoke half the size of my head for dinner. (plus an ungodly amount of mayo mixed with dijon.) the last time I had an artichoke, I painted it first.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Just restating the simple point: President lacks the constitutional authority to close a department created by Congress. Full stop. Both the creation and on-going funding of these Depts are LAWS not suggestions. This is criminal conduct. www.wsj.com/politics/pol... via @WSJ

submitted 67 days ago • 219 comments

My scoop from Monday has been confirmed (with only difference being that McMahon’s letter came out before the EO.) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 67 days ago • 29 comments

1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster. Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture. S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 69 days ago • 168 comments

greedy New York media moguls, corrupt politicians, abusive cops, rigged courts. and maybe, maybe, collective action enough to beat it all.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Actually, I think we got all of them in here, explicitly or in context, no? War is peace.✅ Freedom is slavery.✅ Ignorance is strength ✅ Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. ✅

submitted 72 days ago • 10 comments

I am 100% Toad

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

family at the bookstore cafe: a preschooler enthusiastically narrating a picture book; a tween engrossed in a graphic novel, soup spoon held in mid-air for as long as I was watching; dad bouncing a happy baby; other dad engrossed in a novel, coffee cup held in mid-air. the future libs want.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

glad & grateful to be hearing from Tammy Duckworth and Tony Coelho, real heroes of accessibility, at this specific moment in time. #axecon @deque.com

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

at my annual exam yesterday. my (wonderful) gyno: “and are you having any feelings of being down, depressed, or hopeless?” we look at each other gyno: “yeah. more than you can handle?”

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

Here is an easy thing you can do today to support trans people and fight authoritarianism: 👇

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

From Cameron Awkward-Rich's book, Dispatch: bookshop.org/a/862/978089... #poem #poetry #books #writing

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments

Incredible news! The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order. The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care. ACLU statement here:

submitted 88 days ago • 68 comments

also sent an email to my credit union asking them to fight this.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

If you're looking for a concrete action to take today--and you're a Visa cardholder--take 2 min and send an email to them today. 👇

submitted 91 days ago • 125 comments

in case you needed, for no particular reason, a reminder that cops can’t handle a determined mob, even if it’s got no agenda beyond LET’S GOOOO

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I squealed when I saw Sha'Carri

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There’s something unimaginably bleak about the world’s richest man unilaterally deciding to stop food aid and medicine going to the world’s poor ‘to save money’

submitted 96 days ago • 14 comments

If you are a Vermont organization that can no longer access federal funding a result of the OMB memo and the funding freeze, this is a violation of a court order, and we want to hear from you. Report it to our office at [email protected] or 802-828-3171.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments