Might might not make right, but it sure does make this country.

wrapping my head around how many problems are made so much worse because a significant percentage of people are very happy for other people to be murdered

Drug smuggling as the fictitious charge that carries the most weight, who will be kidnapped, overthrown, taken into custody next while the so-called free world claps or turns the other way or offers tepid resistance while challenging nothing.

Presidential ineptitude as cover for the kind of brutality that takes decades to perfect.

Surely not a coincidence that Maduro's sham trial is now scheduled to take place in New York right after Mamdani's inauguration, the fuhrer showing who's really the boss in the financial capital.

Survival as a weapon of its own.

Our lives the collateral damage even if we survive.

Anything for permanent war, anything.

Probably not a coincidence that the only person whose career seems to have been impacted by the release of the Epstein files so far is Noam Chomsky.

Yes, everyone likes to make fun of this fascist president for not knowing what he's doing, meanwhile his CIA overthrows a foreign president with no resistance, an inside job so carefully planned that it escapes scrutiny even after the fact.

The war criminals at the Washington Post and the New York Times that refused to report on this impending invasion beforehand because they didn't want to endanger US troops.

The liberal media that created the fascist president. The fascist president that owns the liberal media. The fascist media that enables the fascist president.

So much for the release of the Epstein files doing anything. US history is just one big reduction.

The liberal media in thrall of the fascist president. The Democrats shuffling their feet to line up in his service.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Gore Vidal used to rail about how America murdered its way through Central America in the 1940s on behalf of the Dole and Chiquita companies. It was, quite literally, bananas 😡

What hideous games are these war criminals playing w/us, overthrowing Maduro on literally the same day, 36 years later, as Noriega, splashing this into headlines like a fun fact, US imperialism treated as legitimate strategy, news media just one complicit hack after another, no meaningful critique

Yes, the turn of the calendar is arbitrary, but did 2026 really need to get this bad this fast.

REMINDER! We are open for submissions until Feb. 7 for our next anthology, IDOLS. See our previous posts for more prompts, ideas, and manifestations about the theme 🥀

Imagine being the person brave enough to leak this in the hopes that media attention could stop it and then the media just……buries it.

"We will be monitoring this delicate situation to make sure there is no unnecessary loss of innocent oil” chaser.com.au/world/ally-l...

Drink this wine, and you'll become a rainbow skeleton?!!!🌈💀

I guess we've gotten to the point where there's a TV reporter interviewing a professional photographer about the coyote in Volunteer Park, and now we have a park ranger chasing the coyote around the park to scare it away? (I've never seen a park ranger in Volunteer Park.)

Happy new year, and, get ready, Portland!! Yes, I'll be in conversation with @lenizumas.bsky.social at @powells.bsky.social on Hawthorne on Tuesday, January 13th at 7 pm, my Portland launch for TERRY DACTYL, please spread the word! Masks strongly encouraged, let's take care of one another 💕💕

Let 2026 be the year, we've waited far too long already💥

Seattle, what is this poisonous fog that smells like car exhaust, the inside of a chimney, burning plastic, and who knows what else, this is not what we were looking forward to in 2026, is it.

Today a local conservative and ICE agent who cried bloody murder when asked to wear a mask during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic clarified he’s actually totally fine with wearing masks as long as it’s to ruin lives, not save them: tinyurl.com/3pabcukx

At the grocery store, everyone's buying liquor, and I'm buying Epsom salts, happy 2026.

Delighted to see TERRY DACTYL on this great list, in wonderful company!💞🌺

Delighted to be #132, oh my, thanks for reading so deeply, Rufus! And, here's to taking care in 2026...💞💞💞

Not bad for free furniture, right? Roy and Federal on Capitol Hill in Seattle, in case anyone wants to rescue this delight before the rain returns 💖 @jseattle.bsky.social

Who, me? Currently fantasizing about starting a club called RUNWAY in a long hallway, it would last for 1 hour a week, and one song would play on repeat for the full hour, with everyone walking back and forth the whole time, Seattle, are we ready for this? (Masks required, of course.)👠🔥💫

Don't tell anyone, but I just ordered seven books!!💥

Arah Ko 💙 from @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social

Courage. Integrity. @pw.org Poets & Writers mag turns down $70k NEA grant because federal funding now “conditioned on exclusion, erasure, and scapegoating.” First time in 25 years the NEA logo won’t be on masthead. (Now soliciting private donations to cover shortfall.)

To write like you breathe. I mean breathe like you write. I mean breathe. I mean write.

Delighted to see TOUCHING THE ART included on this amazing list, in great company!!💞💫

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

Ghassan Zeineddine has a beautiful linked story collection titled Dearborn, which might offer you a better sense of the people in that place after so much destructive discourse. Plus it is wonderful. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/825467...

Colors

Here for these sharks🌊💞💫

🎉🎉🎉🎉

Let's vibe. (Glad you're loving it!!)💞💞💞

Yes, thrilled to see TERRY DACTYL on this list of the Best Queer Books of 2025, thank you to @kaylakumari.bsky.social and @autostraddle.bsky.social!! Delighted to be on this amazing list, in great company... Queer books for the win, let's do this together💞💞💞💞💞

“I was jealous, since, in my writing, the slippery subject often got away from me, became swamped with concerns of the contemporary, and slipped out of sight, into my own spiralling digressions. My own work was about the circles I ran around whatever it was I wanted to write about.” – Andrew Durbin

This is the @nytimes.com once again whitewashing violence & genocide. He didn’t end “illegal crossings” — wtf even is that — he ended asylum. He didn’t broker a ceasefire; it’s genocide by another name. It’s wild how rotten the storied institutions of this country are showing themselves to be.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"

Here for this strategy, more bookstores should try it 🌠

Should we try it 😱😱😱