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Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

This is worth reading. I’d add that the right’s promulgation of the NPC meme is classic fascist dehumanization of the other—and that to the broligarchs, everyone else is an NPC.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

On Feb. 14th I try always to give honor to one of the greatest contributors to American democracy in our nation’s history, Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery, Douglass never knew his actual birthdate, and adopted Feb. 14th as the day. His penetrating insights about our country inspire me daily.

submitted 9 days ago • 401 comments

350 Rabbis took out a full page ad in the NYTimes today opposing Trump’s plan for Palestine and calling it ethnic cleansing.

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

In honor of Tu B’shvat (Jewish holiday of the trees), here’s a poem by me, “The Tree Line” (published in A Gathering of the Tribes)

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This is a useful (but day-ruining) post on the current situation (it’s a self-coup), including a list of likely outcomes (civil war is possible, but unlikely). Also, @liberalcurrents.com is clear-eyed and becoming part of my daily reading rotation. www.liberalcurrents.com/is-it-a-coup/

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

Maybe someone with the means to do so should take out a full-page ad in as many newspapers as they can that just says “ELON MUSK HAS YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER”

submitted 19 days ago • 132 comments

New England gave the President only 1 of its 33 electoral college votes and is going to be absolutely steamrolled by the tariffs on Canadian goods and Canada's (100% justified) response to those tariffs. Best of luck to NH's Trump supporting governor with this imminent omnishambles.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Musk's seizure last night of the federal payment system must be understood as a coup. Even if Musk/Trump don't abuse this staggering power, they now possess it. There may be legal ways to attempt to restore it to nonpartisan function. There may not be, in the near future, actual means to do so.

submitted 22 days ago • 50 comments

This is a good rundown. I would add militias, on out outside, waiting to be deputized.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Heroes

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Do not believe we don’t have power. Trump needs to be popular, most of all. When he senses that is threatened, he blinks.

submitted 25 days ago • 33 comments

New OMB memo has definitive statement that SNAP is not being paused. (I urge everyone to stop rushing to scare the fuck out of people who rely on SNAP)

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Hi that was a coup last night in case no one mentioned that to you. The executive branch seized the power of the purse the Constitution gave to Congress, which is a pretty authoritarian / illegal consolidation of powers move. Time to go yell at your reps, the media, etc.

submitted 26 days ago • 64 comments

...I haven't forgotten you, it's just I've been distracted, between the sound of birds singing somewhere and this inability to keep any song left inside me from ruining everything, or so I tell myself... —Carl Phillips, "Dangerous Only When Disturbed"

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Wondering how my institution’s new policy of official restraint is holding up this morning

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This whole thread is incredibly important, but this post really jumped out at me. What the GOP and the right are trying to do is undermine actual meritocracy and replace it with white patriarchy (which is in no way, shape, or form meritocratic) and cronyism.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

A 🧵 about the history of honey and bee-keeping: 1/? Bees first began to make honey about 200 million years ago, long before there were any people.

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

The simplicity of this message does not take away from its importance. We are in an era of propaganda, gaslighting, and information overload. It is vital we say things that are true, and say them over and over, so the truth is not buried in lies.

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

On one hand, Elon’s Nazi salute is about establishing the sole right to establish and enforce what is and isn’t considered real and acceptable, and we shouldn’t concede it. The other hand, meanwhile, is giving a fucking Nazi salute, so fuck Musk and every other fucking Nazi who defends him.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

pretty crummy day to be a person with thoughts and/or emotions

submitted 34 days ago • 13 comments

oh wow

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Not everything has to be justified as medicine. Poetry does not have to be medicine for our souls, it can be poetry. It can be art. It can be itself. That's all it has to be. Music does not have to be medicine, fiction does not have to be medicine, a walk in the woods does not have to be medicine.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

I’ll be participating in an online reading this Thursday with three other debut poets who are also Smith alums. If you live in a cold place, why not curl up with some cocoa and listen as we read to you? Cats, dogs, and pygmy hippos welcome. 🐱🐶🦛 #AmReading #WritingCommunity tinyurl.com/Smith-Alums

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

We have allowed a small number of people to accumulate unfathomable wealth and power and now they're using that power to enable the rise of fascism. We can have concentrated wealth or we can have democracy, but we cannot have both.

submitted 48 days ago • 15 comments

Time gets stretchy at the junction of years. Something to do with the light, the preponderance of blue, open sky in spaces that otherwise seem closed

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

I would 100% watch a biopic of Toshi Seeger

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

The wind enters the pine forest. It sighs heavily and lightly. Likewise the Baltic sighs in the island’s interior; deep in the forest you’re out on the open sea. —Tomas Tranströmer (trans. Patty Crane)

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning, Bluesky! I’m happy to have a poem in the new issue of Crab Creek Review

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

when you have anti-DEI proponents openly going after black military officers for recruiting from HBCUs and suing schools for their black and Hispanic enrollment even after the schools ended any racial preferences then the only honest label for these people is "segregationist"

submitted 63 days ago • 338 comments

winter solstice eve

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️

submitted 67 days ago • 270 comments