Okay, everyone. It's time to do this and only this because this is who we are. @emergencemagazine.bsky.social #nature

A few (rare) moments of pure comedy from the #UnitedNations general assembly. Even funnier because when I try to imagine the videographer, he appears as John Cleese silly walking escalator stairs three at a time. TY Farnaz Fassihi & @nytimes.com

"Because here in Gaza, sometimes the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end."

. . . how to listen to wailing . . .

"As we take a stand to unequivocally condemn political violence—including Kirk’s killing—we must also recognize that the rhetoric which Kirk and the MAGA movement have championed and profited from has exacerbated the violence woven into the fabric of American society."

Congratulations Emelie! And TY @blacklawrence.bsky.social for working so hard to give small collections a larger life. @booksky.club

How do you know you're #reading (and #writing for) a principled publication? When the #VicePresident calls it out by name. For 160 years, @thenation.com has defended free speech for heads of state & for everyone else. Subscribe now: bit.ly/4moTZtL And TY @politico.com for telling the story.

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the National Endowment for the #Arts + #Humanities, founded to sustain "freedom of thought, imagination, and inquiry". The operative word here is #freedom. To think. To ask. To disagree. In social democracy, an asset. In competitive autocracy, a threat.

Thank you @yalereview.bsky.social for providing revelatory analysis of the social system rather than redundant criticism of the individual operator. bit.ly/4nxrATk

Very grateful to @blacklawrence.bsky.social for listing my small #poetry collection "Around the Country a Chasm" among nine other finalists for the 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition.

"They are unleashed. 'Go.' A single syllable that tears them open like wolves. Five hundred boxes. Ten thousand men. And they fight. Not out of cruelty, but because hunger is older than kindness." Please read & share Shehab's poem on the genocide in Gaza with an intro by ‪@carolynforche.bsky.social

Please take some time to read this poem, written by a doctor working in Gaza.

Whether reasonable or not, most #commentary amounts to #complaint. Elsewhere, JoAnn Wypijewski reminds us why the word 'incisive' can be used to describe what happens on a butcher block and on a blank page. For the @thenation.com on how "Empire disfigures every American . . ."

Elevating these words from @medicalaidpal.bsky.social's Gaza Medical Coordinator with hope that others will share & donate. The Israeli military now routinely murders people standing in line for flour, forcing even children to chose not between life or death but between starvation or massacre.

The new Chief Justice of Montana's nonpartisan Supreme Court taking time away from the third branch to applaud Trump's bombing of a "bad neighborhood".

Deeply heartened to be part of @thenation.com's 160th anniversary issue - a compendium of 50 writers reporting from 50 states - and deeply disheartened by the wreckage documented there. I keep thinking if we do not turn away then we will still lose many things but never the truth. #mtnews #mtpol

never not wild to see our government sharing overtly white nationalist propaganda. stuff that was on Stormfront and The Daily Stormer a decade ago.

“Carol and I are in love,” Pat Williams told me during an interview for MT Quarterly 6 years ago. But what matters as much, “is that we respect [and] usually listen to each other.” “That’s [how] to grow and be a better person,” he said. “Having respect for other people’s views.” #mtnews #mtpol

A vital question from @seywarddarby.bsky.social over at @longreads.com: "What took so long for a writer at a legacy media publication in the West to muster that evidence and say what is so plainly true?"

New to @bsky.app & excited to share "Grandfather Clause" published @tahomareview.bsky.social last year. An #essay on the precision of #privilege that tells the story of my great-grandfather, the man he killed, and a 1921 manslaughter trial. bit.ly/3Y0Iq3D

Thanks to @matthewfrank.bsky.social and @thepulp.org for sharing the surprises at #mtleg, which lately feels like its own place again with less predictable politics than other states. I seem to care more when I have wonder why or how first. #mtnews #mtpol bit.ly/3ESxQVm @nickbowlin.bsky.social

New bipartisan maps are the main reason #democatic lawmakers in #wisconsin & #montana broke #GOP supermajorities & rebalanced state houses. The opposite is true elsewhere. Politicians draw their own boundaries in 23 red states, 9 blue states, and 1 purple state. #mtleg #mtpol @highcountrynews.org

“I’m not elected by my party. I’m not elected by a single person in charge of something,” said Rep. Ed Buttrey, R-Great Falls. “I’m elected by the people of HD21, and as long as I’m working hard for them, they seem to want to send me back.”. #MTPol #MTSen #MTRep #MTLeg bit.ly/MTTUSS

My latest for @highcountrynews.org: "A New Majority in Montana Defangs the Far Right". #mtleg #mtpol bit.ly/MTTUSS