A fun look back on the year hits different when it’s paired with propaganda for Trump’s deportation machine. Fortunately, it’s easy to share your favorite music without doing free promotion for a corporation that recruits for ICE. What songs, albums, or artists helped you keep going in 2025?

We were fortunate enough to print one of the poems in this collection two winters ago. Congratulations Carolyn! rustandmoth.com/work/history...

TODAY IS THE DAY! GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM WE GOT THIS!!!!!!

"Still, he’d have loved me at my most disgusting." This work reads like a deeply personal recounting, ripe with details demanding to be taken as history. Fascinatingly sincere imagery. As somebody who has struggled with suicidal thoughts, this tender presentation of that vulnerability hits deep.

A bit late sharing this poem published in @rustandmoth.bsky.social 's autumn issue. (was I waiting for December?🤔) Grateful it’s out in the world. Big thanks to the editors 💙 rustandmoth.com/work/december/

One of my very favorite publications to read. Absolutely worth your time to read some back issues and consider submitting.

Rust & Moth is now accepting poems for our Spring 2026 issue! We read until the solstice hits (Dec 21st). rustandmoth.com/submissions/

New #poetry from Cora Schipa: "The Love of Someone Who Wants to Die".

New #poetry from Courtney Ruttenbur Bulsiewicz: "Why she makes bread".

New #poetry from Mary Grace Mangano: "Blood Work".

New #poetry from Mary Grace Mangano: "Round Valley".

New #poetry from Edith Krone: "at work, the new guy asks".

Election Day is a week away and @aftynbehn.bsky.social has all the momentum. No matter where you live, you can help us flip a deep-red district and shrink Mike Johnson’s tiny majority: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

New #poetry from Belinda Liao: "cradle this robin (close to your chest)".

New #poetry from Helen Nancy Meneilly: "Alone On The ISS".

The creators of this project used an LLM to convert the House Oversight files into Gmail-like structured text. I don’t know if it’s worth draining a small lake but it’s certainly a good example of data journalism.

New #poetry from Susanna Lang: "Ghost Birds".

Israeli airstrikes kill at least 25 in Gaza, reports of IDF ground operations going beyond the "yellow line" and expanding in Gaza City, so I must ask again: What constitutes no ceasefire, rather than a "fragile" or "tested" ceasefire?

Thanks to @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing this poem! I found the concerto so evocative that I needed to write in response to it. It's available online, and I encourage you to listen to it. rustandmoth.com/work/ghost-b...

New #poetry from Gabrielle Munslow: "Flight Log: Hell’s Waiting Room".

New #poetry from Sunni Brown Wilkinson: "Homemade Snow Globe".

New #poetry from Kate Reider Collins: "Elegy as a Letter to My Dead".

The regime targeted Rep. McIver for conducting legislative oversight at an ICE facility in her district (or doing her job). We hoped the courts would recognize this for the political persecution it is and dismiss the charges. Unfortunately, a federal judge ruled that the case could go to trial.

Republicans are getting worried about the upcoming special election in #TN07, where @aftynbehn.bsky.social has all of the momentum. Early voting is underway, and you can help send this progressive champion (and former Indivisible organizer) to Congress: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

New #poetry from Kacey Martin: "Axis".

We were as real and as pale as the ash.

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.

Aftyn Behn — a social worker, state representative, and former Indivisible organizer — is running in a special election to flip #TN07. If you want to elect a Democratic leader that we can count on to fight, please make some calls to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social GOTV: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Beautiful!

New #poetry from Christy Prahl: "Loose".

New #poetry from DS Maolalai: "Kilbarrack".

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...

Hey litmags -- what services do y'all use/like for mailing lists? We've been using Mailchimp for a long time but we can't absorb their price increases anymore.

In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump spent hours at his house with one of Epstein’s victims

New #poetry from HT Reynolds: "I Never Said".

Your emptying, my emptiness, not the same.

For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes. If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better. This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.

New #poetry from Alisha Goldblatt: "First Smoke".

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.” That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now. Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal... Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...

On Tuesday, we helped score massive wins for our democracy — but we’re not done yet! There’s still one more election to win this year and it’s in Tennessee. @aftynbehn.bsky.social, a state representative and former Indivisible group leader, is running in a special election to flip #TN07.

A wonderful poem about my birthday

New #poetry from Lindsay Kellar-Madsen: "Winter solstice".

Whew. This one builds.

New #poetry from Suzanne Langlois: "Estranged".

The only thing that has improved Democrats’ approval rating among their voters has been fighting back against Trump. We cannot afford another “Schumer Surrender.” Urge your Democratic senators to continue holding the line to keep healthcare costs down and protect coverage for millions of Americans.

Don’t stream fascism. Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, helping tear families apart. Cancel your subscription and make Spotify listen — the power belongs to the people: indivisible.org/canc...

New #poetry from Dagne Forrest: "Poem Beginning with a Line by Bob Hicok".