Joyce Beatty, the lawmaker fighting Donald Trump’s control of the Kennedy Center, says she feels vindicated with recent rulings in her favor—but saving the center legally may be easier than restoring it institutionally, Janay Kingsberry reports:

Temporarily un-lapsing as a Catholic to avoid using Microsoft Copilot

Just let him sleep

Please for the love of G-d stop ranking causes. Stop creating hierarchies of marginalized people. Because "x group is more important than y group" just means "sorry, x group has to be willing to die until we get to them."

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My top 2 strengths are writing and consuming Taco Bell. Just add living más to your other talent and watch yourself take off in flight

probably not the first person to say this but I just realized van gogh‘s paintings are what the world looks like through tears.

I’m sorry… “government Flickr account”???

(inventing Ken Jennings) "We need a nerdy Mormon twink for the left"

"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.

Replacing "60 Minutes" with "The Ivermectin Hour With Joe Rogan" could bring more young viewers to CBS. by Brian Stelter

This right here.

If you scroll through the comments, you'll see that the police soon after surrounded him with riot shields, attacked him, pushed him onto the ground, and broke his cello.

saw a truck for a company called Absolute Chimneys and I can’t stop saying that to myself as if I’m an English soccer announcer calling a free kick that sailed over the crossbar

Member of @authorsabb.bsky.social @jerroldconnors.bsky.social came through in the best way and assembled this for us all! Know thine shitty bills!

Goodnight blue.

me, a woman, every day

Casar: "The problem we face right now in the US is the govt is doing nothing on AI. The govt is doing nothing to stop AI from taking your jobs, from exploiting your kid, from giving advice to a terrorist, from being a cybersecurity threat. It's bc these AI companies have funded massive super PAC."

capping off an unusually busy month with a little tiny micro in scaffold lit! I hope you will take a look. It won’t take long. You should do it www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

Participation is voluntary, and all responses will remain confidential. Any woman aged 18 or older who lives in the United States is eligible to participate: shannonwatts.org/survey/

"Let's be honest. Your cornhole setup is an EMBARRASSMENT. You've gotta do better!" - Podcast ad interrupting my deep dive into the unspeakable crimes against humanity by King Leopold in the Congo

3 great Katherine Garrison shories today! "It’s Monday morning and I’m weaving to avoid the frogs who are jumping across the road, spurred from their overwinter burrows by these warm rains—a sure sign of spring, and the melting of a blue-grey winter." https://www.havehashad.com/3ytzn

Again, this is not “reparations,” it is an advance.

Dismiss me. Enough.

My 1st chapbook published this week! 12 micros & flash: lost ghosts, immortal siblings, amorous trees, and undead pandemic parents. For any reviewers interested, I’d be happy to send an e-copy. I’m so proud to have this collection out in the world! ✨ bottlecap.press/collections/...

It’s been easy to switch to DuckduckGo.

Happy World Goth Day. Rock the gloom.

With DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP I didn’t worry about plausibility. I worried that it could become true before the book’s release. www.science.org/content/arti...

“Holy is whatever unpins us from the dartboard, or whatever keeps us there“ ❤️‍🩹

“to catch his gaze that day replaced the old habit of religion…” This week’s #flashbackfriday is “Saw River Phoenix Driving in Oregon” by Justin Howerton. It appeared in the Spring 2023 print edition. Read the full poem at the link below: buff.ly/tTZY6dw #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Why is this so funny 😆

Congratulations to Doric Literary contributor, @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social, whose work from the journal will appear in the New Stories from the South anthology alongside literary greats such as @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social & @emilynemens.bsky.social ! Pre-order link: blairpub.com/shop/p/new-s...

If this was African and African Diaspora Studies being mandated we’d see entire issues of prestige magazines pondering the disastrous implications.

proud to have a story in the young but already tremendous burial mag. I sincerely hope you will check this out! Many thanks to @burialmagazine.bsky.social of whom an almost inexhaustible number of good things could justly be said burialmagazine.neocities.org/youroriginal...

Funny how so many folks are defending having AI slop on the bookshelves at B&N but have been silent when queer, BIPOC, debut, and indie authors are pushed out of those same shelves…

Friendly reminder that this is the best deal in indie lit—and ALL of these books were written by real people, edited by a real person, & their covers were designed by real human designers. Support real people. Support independent lit. Support independent publishers! malarkeybooks.com/store/returns

Many thanks to @burialmagazine.bsky.social for giving this poem a home!

Delighted to be back in @hexliterary.bsky.social!!

“a softening in the earth like something exhaling from below…” This is too fucking good

Planning our Portland, OR road trip this summer. What are some PDX sites and experiences we don’t want to miss? Especially stuff most outsiders might not know about.

she walked me through all the wild flowers saying their names

I finally get to announce my second novel will come out next spring! 🎉

In case you missed it earlier this week, CJ's released the newest novel from one of our heroes, one of our founders, Sheldon Lee Compton. Get yours: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/the-old-invi...

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cw murder, transmisogyny rest in peace, juniper blessing. this happened on a university campus. </3

This oneee 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

Boston freed up zoo cap space. Smart move. I'd get 2 yaks from the development zoo tbh.

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.