@mooncitypress.bsky.social author @tms2072.bsky.social reads this coming Wed., Sept. 24, at 7 p.m., CT, via Zoom! Or if you're in Springfield, come watch her on the big screen! Where and how on the attachment, but the Webinar link is missouristate.zoom.us/j/87080217436.

Sherrilyn Ifill documents--and encourages--persistence with her excellent new essay: "this terrifying time of Trump must result in a true transformation of our national soul. It must create in millions more Americans an understanding that we rise or fall together."

Absolute stunner of an essay by Tiffanie Kim weaving quantum physics with adoption in @tahomareview.bsky.social: tahomaliteraryreview.com/selections/s...

"Ask ICE agents how they sleep at night. Record their actions. Ask collaborators if they recognize themselves. Emotional sabotage matters" because "fascism cannot prosper where empathy exists." Sarah Sophie Flicker on WWII-era Danes' resistance tactics: www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Grateful that my essay collection was included among the semifinalists!

"Imagine that we had no word for cancer and no recognition of the varieties of ways it manifests, so that we just had occasional lurid news stories about strange and sometimes fatal growths in various parts of various people...": Solnit's brilliant analogy about the systemic reach of rape culture.

Sherrilyn Ifill on how "ICE" agents' concealing their faces recalls Klan tactics: excellent historical & legal perspective sherrilyn.substack.com/p/masked-ter...

but who is going to write the poem

Love this! I wrote my dissertation on Dawn Powell 30 years ago, just as Tim Page was editing her diaries and Steerforth Press was preparing to republish her novels. Later, Powell largely disappeared from public view again. Thank you for bringing this worthy author's short stories back into print!

see what you need to understand is that they’re coming hard at california bc if they can take us down then it tells the smaller states there’s no point in fighting. we’re the bellwether. that’s why it’s so important we stop this shit NOW.

The comment period for this ends in 3 DAYS. Please leave a comment telling them EVERYONE should be able to get covid boosters. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

“Despair, in its own strange way, is a form of false confidence. It’s a sense that the future has already been decided and there’s nothing we can do about it. In fact, the future is something we make in the present.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Much gratitude to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for publishing my poem "Our Lady of the Cascades" today!

Rebecca Solnit on war, fast and slow: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-rob-you...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Rest in peace, Martha Silano, poet, editor, and friend to all who put pen to page. You'll be dearly missed.

We're so sad to learn that Martha Silano has passed. It was an honor to publish her work. "Because solving’s just another word for letting go." - from "Why I'd Make a Great Chemist" by Martha Silano www.whaleroadreview.com/silano-2/

Devastated to hear the news of Martha Silano's passing. She was a wonderful person and poet. Condolences to her family and her loved ones.

My friend @jenniferbullis.bsky.social has an amazing poem up over at Bracken Magazine. Check it out! "Each crimson globe shining with its burden of sweetness and regret." www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xii/se...

The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.

9/ The tariffs are DESIGNED to create economic hardship. Why? So that Trump has a straight face rationale for releasing them, business by business or industry by industry. As he adjusts or grants relief, it’s a win-win: the economy improves and dissent disappears.

Last Syllable is launching an Annual Post-Publication Book Award Contest! 📚✨ 🏆 $1,000 cash prize and ✈️ up to another $1,000 travel expenses to PLNU, and 🎤 a headlining feature in the PLNU M.A. in Writing program’s Visiting Writers Series! Check lastsyllablelit.com/book-awards for details!

Much gratitude to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for publishing my poem "Easter"!

This thread is therapy

Omg, can this be real or have I gone to heaven? After 50 years of being a published poet, my poems are up at poets.org! poets.org/poet/martha-...

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

Hey, Bluesky! We're new here. If you don't know us, we're a literary journal focused on the Pacific Northwest! We haven't done much on social media in a long time, but are looking for new ways to stay connected with the beautiful PNW literary community. Follow along for updates & more!

"It Is Not Enough to Fight. You Have to Meet the Moment": Sherrilyn Ifill's admonition to media owners, corporate chairs, and university leaders--a call to action in the absence of Democratic congressional leadership open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

I have always wondered what China would be like today if it didn’t persecute and marginalize academics, scientists, and educators during the Cultural Revolution and now I’m wondering whether the US is headed down the same road.

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

Fascinating Atlantic article on patrimonialism as Trump's style of authoritarianism: "running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business." Vulnerabilities: incompetence and corruption--this is a message Dems should hit back with.

Rebecca Solnit on "Using your voice ... to encourage others to stand up and speak up, to remind them we don't have to accept this and we do have power. Courage and hope are as contagious as their opposites." From her latest newsletter: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/wreckage-a-r...

What we are all experiencing is called "resilience targeting." It is a deliberate attack favored by many of todays shitlords, and is a fairly well known theory in disinfo and climate circles; it's just that everyone seems to be in denial that it's an attack. Today might be a good day to read up

From Rebecca Solnit's current newsletter: "These three horsemen of the MAGA-tech-bro apocalypse are in the position of penthouse dwellers who think their top floor apartment doesn't rest on all the floors underneath." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows...

You are welcome, you are welcome, you are welcome. Omotara James

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

Whole mood

Sherrilyn Ifill's latest newsletter on refusing despair and how to take action is, as always, galvanizing: sherrilyn.substack.com/p/democracy-...

So cool that there’s gonna be real guys playing football on a field during this online betting event

Loving Issue 1 of this new journal!

Honored to have my poem "Self-Portrait with Eve" in the new issue of Bracken

Love this!

Honored to have my poem "Self-Portrait with Eve" in the new issue of Bracken

If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.

As someone who had to deal with an employer insisting on accommodation negotiations over the phone, the move is documentation via email. “Hi, Karen, I just wanted to confirm the conversation we had via phone this afternoon. You asked me to [x activity] despite my doctor advising [y]. Is that right?”

Elon Musk is committing a lot of felonies. He belongs in jail, and so do his criminal associates. He may not comprehend that. And if and when he does it may make him more reckless. No assumptions about where we go from here.

Starting to think the tariff shitstorm was timed to serve as cover for Musk's Treasury coup

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Trump is so predictable: Step 1 — Create artificial crisis. Step 2 — Make phone call. Step 3 — Announce end of crisis. Step 4 — Declare victory.