if you're an American & read one article today, read this one

Folks, I’m very proud of this (long) new story. If you can find a spare half hour today, I’d love for you to tuck into Basking in Glory. @courtlandavenue.bsky.social was such an incredible editor to work with! FFO: glory holes, bugs fighting, Midwest sex shops

A Sunday evening acceptance after one of the worst weeks I’ve had in a while.

waking up to wars I oppose: a memoir

Incredibly honored to have the featured nonfiction spot in the latest issue of Zone 3. I was unaware of the 1918 suffragette pamphlet “Advice on Marriage” when I wrote this piece - just came across it for the first time a few weeks ago, and it resonated like a mother***ker. Link below.👇

Thanks to @aaronburch.bsky.social for writing a beautiful little book and celebrating with a call for beautiful little stories!

me: no my first person narrator is not me. reader: oh good, I didn’t really like her. me: well she doesn’t like you either

Lenin lays out that super-monopoly is the inevitable end result of capitalism, and this acquisition by Paramount of Warner Brothers brings us to a media landscape almost totally dominated by two major players, one rabidly fascist, the other a corporation disinterested in art.

This account will continue to be a mixture of lit, politics and grief until the end of time.

The cats that live in the tower can move through the walls. A cat steps through the kitchen wall and steps out in the attic. We're too afraid to ask how they do it. Instead, we read flash fiction: "Cats Can't Live on the Moon" by @lkardos.bsky.social crowcrosskeys.com/2026/02/25/c...

Rent is due on Monday and many in our Twin Cities community are still trapped at home, meaning they can't work to pay rent. Can you help us keep our neighbors housed? Donate $10+ to one of these rent relief funds & we'll send you a free zine as thanks. 💌 Fund links: linktr.ee/paranoidtree

as long as folks are enthusiastically donating to state level trans orgs today, figured I'd reup this list the @them.us team and I put together a few years back: www.them.us/story/orgs-f... (some info may be outdated, but use this as a jumping-off point!)

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Sounds like I was right to watch French feminist horror instead. I highly recommend The Balconettes on Kanopy.

Bourbon Penn 38 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!

I Want to Be Tabitha Stephens by Susan Cossette maudlinhouse.net/i-want-to-be...

Grief doesn’t always want to remain buried in @clhellisen.bsky.social’s haunted new story “Magie Vol, Ogies Toe.” kaleidotrope.net/winter-2026/...

Last night I learned that a dear friend from undergrad died of a heart attack. I thought we had so many more years ahead of us. Call your people today.

"My mind, at times a speakeasy teeming with fascinating ideas, now had been raided by the vice squad." Kim Addonizio, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life #SundaySentence

On this day in Horror History, QUEEN OF THE DAMNED was released in 2002.

I don’t want to go back to regular authoritarianism without ice skating breaks. 💙

hey if you like birds maybe you'll like this class I'm co-teaching with poet Laura Da' over at Nightjar Arts Collective. it's a multigenre class built by bird lovers for bird lovers!

Submissions are open for our April issue. We're seeking poetry, stories, essays, and photography/artwork on that condition known as human. We look forward to walking down the road with your work awhile and getting to know the places you come from and the places you are going. heroinchic.weebly.com

Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known to the world as Nina Simone, was born on this day in 1933.

Having Nirvana with my coffee and I hope you do too.

Today’s Kurt Cobain’s 59th birthday. A few years back I got to write the "official" government dedication for Nirvana and grunge. Probably the one thing that I've done that'll still be read 200 years from now. www.loc.gov/static/progr...

No cheating: your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist. Honestly, dream team.

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is 100% existential horror

“That’s what I’m f—ing talking about!”
 Alysa Liu as she leaves the ice 🔥

I wrote about how there are no pure platforms or publishers and how there are very few ethical media diets. Which leaves those of us who know we can’t consume ethically but still want to try, left to navigate what feels right, or, at least, less bad. lithub.com/what-do-you-...

Check out this weird little guy called "The Faceplant."

new new: THREE MICROS, by Elena Zhang: wigleaf.com @ezhang77.bsky.social

Today's #FolkloreThursday theme is watery folklore, my fave kind, so a wee thread of some Scottish folklore for you! First up, the Ceasg - half salmon, half woman, she swallows men whole when they wrong her and keeps them trapped in her stomach 🧜‍♀️ If you capture her egg, you may be granted a wish...🌊

We have a great new piece today by @emmabolden.bsky.social! Check out “At Young Writers Camp Six Weeks After My Second Laparoscopy.” lost-balloon.com/2026/02/18/a...

If you're doing new year, new you, then this one is for you! I'm immensely proud of this @100wordstory.bsky.social! Thank you to the editors for publishing it! Thanks also to @alinaetc.bsky.social whose @bendinggenres.bsky.social workshop inspired it! #micro #flashfiction #flash

Tom Noonan, unpublished photo, 2008, from the set of THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. Noonan was the first actor I ever saw asking what focal length lens was on the camera, and then adjust performance accordingly - completely aware and controlled.

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

Just tell me how many days I have left.

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

Happy lunar new year & Chinese New Year & Mardi Gras & Paczki Day & Pancake Day & Huey Newton's birthday & eve of Ramadan & eve of my birthday. Yes, I know those aren't paczki in the picture but what do you even want from me.

Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico. Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

"Your journey begins with… ☐ a stranger ☐ a damsel in distress ☐ a sticky situation demanding you skip town until it resolves itself ☐ all of the above..." New hex! @amadolaila.bsky.social leads us far from the land of Scantron. Please select choices carefully and let us know your results! 📝💯

Just watched A Star Without A Star on Kanopy. Tremendous.

RIP Robert Duvall: as central to American film as anyone in his generation

Proud to be included in University of Nebraska Press' powerhouse list of books celebrating Black History Month! @univnebpress.bsky.social

A new substack post on why I wrote THE LUNATICS' BALL and what "lunatics" are included. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

“I keep telling young people: keep a diary, get a camera, learn to print your own photos. Don’t put it all in your phone, because everything in your phone belongs to someone else." www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A good Valentine’s Day with hailstorm, trip to the library (where I saw @karenpalmer.bsky.social’s book), Chinese dinner, and sunset.

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

Happy Valentine’s Day. Here’s one from the archives.