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Poet, editor, musician’s muse. Impatient. Chapbook HIRAETH available now from Longship Press. She/her. Buy my book: tinyurl.com/52an4d8x
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9 am Friday meetings where everybody is peppy and excitable should be a crime.

“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.” ~ Salman Rushdie #resistance #art #poetry #literature #truth #philosophy

New poem of mine up at Dusie! Thanks to the lovely @robmclennan.bsky.social for publishing it!

If Trump is going to cut federal funding to the states, we all need to stop paying federal taxes.

Bird protocol. Take a bird, leave a bird.

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

Just heard that my chapbook will have a prominent position in a poetry display in two local bookstores!!! 💕

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

I love sitting in cafes eavesdropping -- such good fodder for writing

Jesus, teenagers are mean.

Sexy springtime poem from moi: merliterary.com/2019/03/14/s...

the trend of ‘explain this to me like I’m five’ is a direct consequence of defunding education. functional illiteracy is a national crisis, one that this administration relies on to maintain power

If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.

in the latter days of a corrupt world cherry blossoms Issa

Melanie Stansbury is no joke. 🙌🙏💪👏👊👇

Watermelon La Croix is vile. Avoid, avoid!

New poem of mine up at Dusie! Thanks to the lovely @robmclennan.bsky.social for publishing it!

Sexy springtime poem from moi: merliterary.com/2019/03/14/s...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) has a bill to return tariff authority to Congress. If it were to pass, the purposeless tariffs would end. Speaker Johnson is blocking it. Call your member of Congress, R or D, & urge a discharge petition on the bill, which forces a vote. U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

This is perfect. Absolutely perfect.

This is utterly delightful. Read and enjoy.

Keep your eyes open for troll farm/bot accounts following you in the next days-- they're going to play on your resistance outrage but they aren't real people. Block, block, block!

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people. We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests

5000 protestors in San Rafael, CA! #HandsOff

Show your protest pics! #HandsOff

Patti Smith lights our way. #HandsOff youtu.be/pPR-HyGj2d0?...

exhausted by my anger—angered by my exhaustion—exhausted by my anger—angered by my exhaustion—exhausted by my rage—the ouroboros of living in this country goes on & on & on

Should I get this hat? It's a bit rude but it makes me laugh

ALOCASIA is now accepting previously unpublished creative writing for an all-Indigenous issue to be published this summer. ALOCASIA publishes writing about plants by queer writers. Our honorarium is $50 per contributor. Deadline: May 31. More details: alocasia.org/about-send-w...

beestung is now open for new work by two-spirit, genderqueer, and non-binary writers! we're usually only open for a few days or so! beestungmag.com/about/