I'm doing Summer's essay camp again. It's fun, low-pressure, and helps you create a place to play with ideas you might have otherwise left moldering in your notebook. I always come out the other side having discovered something unexpected on the page.

Some days the only thing for it is to take your grown-up money to the corner store to buy yourself some shitty candy.

If we’re meeting our community on the streets with direct resources and a place for them to go that fits their need – what they ACTUALLY need – I’m all for that. But that’s not what’s happening when people are swept.

El profesor Guillermo Lorenzo y un servidor celebramos un cincuentenario con una novela/venganza de 200 páginas. Una verborragia imparable/impagable al alcance de vuestras orejas. En la librería Matadero Uno (Oviedo/Uviéu) el martes 18 a las 19h. Avisadas quedáis. @tramaeditorial.bsky.social

tfw you’re interviewing an unhoused person to write a profile about him, and you ask him for a hope he might have for the future, and before answering he whispers to himself, “Do I still have hope?” and what remains of your embittered little heart shatters

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I try to sound measured about this but I actually want to scream in a lot of people's faces. The mayor is deliberately ignoring so many experts to appeal to the barely concealed libidinal cruelty of business dorks and it's so fucking cowardly and awful and BUMBLINGLY INEFFECTIVE AND SELF-DEFEATING

I spent last week reading and re reading and diving deep into the worlds Patti Smith recreated for her new memoir, Breqd of Angels: www.salon.com/2025/11/11/p...

Ken Paxton is trying to shut down one of my favorite Texas orgs so you know they must be doing something right. Link to the org and their donation page in the next post. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...

Oh no, we're starting a war with the feral hogs.

Walked out of my annual exam with my doctor today with a pneumonia vax, a just-in-case MMR booster, and an rx for HRT for these fucking hot flashes. I’m feeling like a superhero who just got kitted out by the team who makes her rocket booster boots or whatever.

A joyous @faberbooks.bsky.social re-release of my gory angel baby with a new cover that's also the OG cover to all who celebrate. Namely me. I'm celebrating.

My kingdom for a parliamentary system with a no confidence vote.

They aren’t cowards. They’re collaborators.

Some of you seem to have failed to cultivate a thirst for vengeance. It's not how I raised you.

even when the democratic party has leverage and one of the craziest election swings the party intentionally self immolates it’s just so exhausting what is even the point of these people

Senate Dems: actually it’s totally fine to make life worse for Americans as long as you promise us a performative vote

If your position is that Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the Democrats are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party fascist state.

CALL YOUR DEMOCRATIC SENATORS NOW

Get yourself a man who’ll sing The Sweater Song to your chihuahua as he dresses him to go for a walk in the rain.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

Very excited to see @councilormorillo.bsky.social introduce an amendment to the fall budget adjustment to shift funding from sweeps to other critical city functions! That is half of one of our demands in our Finding Home petition linked in my bio. Show up and support Morillo’s amendment!

A huge thank you to @kellylink.bsky.social for visiting with my novel workshop students last night, and being wise and generous and also scaring the hell out of us with ghost stories!

[Exit Clown.]

mamdani is human. he'll fuck up and fail, especially with a hostile press and the giant mess that is nyc's politics. but today is a great day for the brave women who told what cuomo did, and for those of us who care that it should matter. that power shouldn't go to those who hurt the poweless.

You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.

Americans have never wanted a king. Not at the founding. And not now. trib.al/tTSGwj9

Sweeps aren't the answer and neither are mass shelters without a clear path to housing. Please sign this petition to demand a Housing First strategy in Portland: actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QE...

I oppose the resumption of sweeps beginning tomorrow. They are costly, ineffective and cruel. At a time when our Federal government is literally starving our most vulnerable neighbors, we add to that by violently taking from them what little they have? My statement attached.

Ah, that very American feeling of surviving the thing you needed an ambulance for (my husband last night. He’s totally fine) and then starting to stress as you wait for the bill even though you have “good” insurance.

BATTLE STATIONS PATRIOTS, CAESAR THE NO DRAMA LLAMA HAS BEEN DEPLOYED IN PORTLAND REPEAT, THE LLAMA IS LIVE AND ARMED

Sweeps aren't the answer and neither are mass shelters without a clear path to housing. Please sign this petition to demand a Housing First strategy in Portland: actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QE...

We all need to fight Trump's plan for voter suppression and election subversion. We need to recognize that it has multiple dimensions. We need to educate ourselves and our communities and then take action.

Este jueves 30 de octubre a las 19:00 tendrá lugar un singular acontecimiento en la Llibería Calders de BCN. Comprueben los detalles en la imagen adjunta. @miquiotero.bsky.social @tramaeditorial.bsky.social #HanDeCaerDelTodo

State Supreme Court elections are *super* important for the rest of our democracy. Don't sleep on them.

Last night in Portland, Portland city council person @candaceavalos.bsky.social woke up to her car and home on fire from suspected arson. She has been a target of the far-right for months, by people like Andy Ngo, who has admitted on court record that his posts targeting people can lead to violence.

“if you make anyone feel defended, or aware that they’re not alone, if you make space for hope, if you engage in acts of solidarity instead of stewing in the rancor and alienation that’s killing us—that matters, and it will always matter.” Just a brilliant, essential article. Read it and breathe.

ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.

Try this one weird trick to pull yourself out of the digital quicksand of despair! (Seriously. Works every damn time.)

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Yes, it's my book launch for TERRY DACTYL, this Saturday, October 25, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum, please spread the word 🎉🎉🎉 Books on sale 2 weeks in advance of pub date 💐💐💐Masks strongly encouraged, let's take care of one another 💕💕💕 Can't wait to see you there!

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

It’s just real bad that we take it as written, built into the operating system, that people on oversight committees just obviously do whatever the person who appointed them wants. That’s not oversight. That’s corruption. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

They gave away the game when Trump gave Chevron their license to export from Venezuela in July. The Navy arrived & started murdering people in August.

It’s not about drugs; it’s about Venezuela’s oil. It’s always about oil. How stupid do they think we are?

Apparently I have raised my son in such a way that he’ll FaceTime me at nearly 11pm as he walks across his college campus just to show me his new eyebrow piercing. I’ll take my wins where and how I can get them these days.

Perhaps I’m over simplifying things, but if you’re running as a Democrat at a time when the Republicans are embracing Nazi ideology, and you claim you don’t know your Nazi tattoo is a Nazi tattoo, you should be disqualified: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.