I've been watching Stranger Things. The advisory warning on this show is a tight little poem: Fear Language Gore Smoking

THE LOCUST TREE IN FLOWER Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again --William Carlos Williams

Haiti’s Winter Olympic uniform is a statement of history and perseverance.

House Republicans should bring in the person who is named the most in the Epstein Files, Donald Trump.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

A true giant. Nobody matches the extraordinary texture of the Fifth Dimension vocals. McLemore, Townson, LaRue, Davis and McCoo. 💜💜❤️❤️❤️ Also, best album photo ever 🫡

You don’t have to be an artist or have shown in an art show to make a piece of art. Art is freedom from definitions and the boundaries of expectations. #art #freedom #sculpture #ceramics

I keep an electric kettle in my office and a teapot so I can have tea while I work. Right now my tea of choice is Jing Mai Old Tree Red from the Two Trees Tea House in Occidental. This was a gift from my friend @cciavonne.bsky.social who has excellent taste in tea and friends.

From Revel No. 4: Flatness & Depth by Jason Schneiderman Revel: UEPlit.short.gy/Revel #literaryjournal #literarycommunity #revelliterary #writerscommunity #prose #artmuseum #jamesturrell #illusion #literarymagazine

Shadows on snow (from Sunday)

Beauty and melancholy and wit and life itself courtesy of @dapowell.bsky.social. ❤️

When people say "winter sports" they're basically talking about frozen water sports

They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

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I wish the boat was bigger.

"One must dare to be happy." --Gertrude Stein (born 3 February, 1874)

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

I'm no expert on rural medicine, but I can immediately think of a better way.

While everyone else in the city is preparing for the super bowl, I am actually sitting down to a super souper bowl.

Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."

Everything he touches rots.

Bad Bunny accepts the #GRAMMYs award for Album of the Year.

Trump's ear grew back, but he continues to file down his horns and clip his tail.

Greatest tv comedy ever.

Finally! Batman steps up. Hear him out 💜🦇 kmph.com/news/local/m...

Wait, they are they in Italy??????

Minneapolis, MN - One man is out here handing out 3D printed eyewash stations to anyone that needs them “as long as they’re for non-commercial use.” Quickly demonstrated how to use them.

Steering Wheel by Jorie Graham

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. --Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

More than 300 anti-ICE protests planned across US this weekend

No wonder he's busy killing people any way he can. Fucking criminal.

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My favourite way of saying “we’re on it” or “we’ll take care of that for you” is the Dutch we zullen dat varkentje wel even wassen. It means “we will certainly get that piglet washed.”

On Toni Morrison’s 95th birthday (Feb. 18) I will be in conversation at the 92nd St. Y in NYC w/ archivist, poet & professor Kevin Young and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts about Morrison’s impact & a new edition of her lectures. You can attend in person or stream from afar! www.92ny.org/event/toni-m...

We can do things!

Donald Trump has sowed fear and chaos in our cities, fueled by federal agents who have beaten, detained, and killed in the service of a mass deportation agenda that is tearing families and communities apart. Enough is enough. Not one more dime for ICE.

Please call your senators and tell them to demand rescission of the ICE/CBP funding under the BBB.

Winter plum tree

May we all have such courage. 🎖️🙏🏼

We are delighted to announce The Poems of Sylvia Plath. The definitive edition of Plath’s poetry, drawing on decades of research and almost doubling the content of the previous edition of Plath’s Collected Poems. Out 7 May 2026. www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

With the same six letters you can be silent and listen

Five expressions that are used when bumping into someone in an unexpected place… 1. It’s a small world (English) 2. How round is the earth (Ukrainian) 3. The world is a village (German) 4. The world is a handkerchief (Spanish) 5. What an odd place to find a lobster (Irish)

This short final paragraph of Grace Paley's short story "Conversation With My Father": _________________________ “How long will it be?” he asked. “Tragedy! You too. When will you look it in the face?”

Quoin 133: of the ſame (1978 D)

ICE members self-escalated their own violence, giving themselves permission to commit what they knew to be illegal acts, including murder. The whole organization is rotten at its core, and the leaders should be charged with state crimes which DJT cannot pardon.

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Children are crying out to us from prison. Let them out. Let them out. How cruel does Donald Trump have to be in order to receive his peace prize.

So grateful to the folks in Minneapolis-St. Paul.