The house passed the SAVE Act last night. If you need to know more about why that’s bad and why we need to stop it in the senate, let me explain it to you (in comic form)! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/the-save-act

I am way too excited by the melting snow

I am good. I am loved.

Cradle made by an unidentified enslaved person https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.46.3

on the lookout for a new labor columnist. feel free to message me or drop a comment if you know of any local writers who might be a good fit.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Oh I love this. Brava!

you guys you guys! I was selected as one of the Top 50 Lawyers for 2026 despite not having practiced law since 2019! All I need to do is pay $499.99 to accept my nomination! 😍

one chatbot told a participant in this study to go lay down in the dark when he was presenting with a brain hemorrhage... what are we even doing www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...

Dearest hivemind: I'm gearing up for a brief residency and wanting to actually make some progress on my new project on faith, faithlessness, and the spiritual. Who are your favorite poets / books even tentatively related that you'd suggest? Queer and non-Judeo-Christian even better!

"Can you imagine doing something so horrible that Bruce Springsteen feels compelled to write a song about you?" - my husband, after listening to "Streets of Minneapolis"

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

I have been invited to read at the @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social / @malarkeybooks.bsky.social and friends AWP off-site reading. I'm absolutely honored. If you are free on Thursday March 5, 2026 at 7pm, come see this absolutely knockout roster of readers (and me) at Golden West Cafe

Rook and Carrion Crow, Basil Ede, 1960.

BURN by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social is out today from CJ Press! Grab an ebook or paperback and take the ride--it's a novel you won't soon forget: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/burn.html

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

It’s actually really easy to not be in the Epstein files, some of us do it every day

"if Dan’s overheating, it can only mean one thing. That we don’t have much time." I love this piece from @doesithavepockets.bsky.social by @jekwriter.bsky.social www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/jess...

My wife has been building an alliance with our neighborhood crows. She feeds them when she walks the dog in the morning. This morning I did morning walk and did not have treats. The crows followed me. They swooped at me and screamed their eldritch crow curses. Friends, this is how I disappear.

I am thankful for the English speaking programmes on TV including DALLAS.

I have problems with seaweed in the propellor.

I’ve got a new poem up @therumpus.net today. Thank you to Saeed Jones & editors for giving it such a wonderful home.

MY BOOK! MY BOOK! MY BOOK!!

I'm not a nonfiction girl, but "Why I Write" taught by @the-big-quiet.bsky.social might have converted me. If you have a chance to take a class with Steve, do it. larksongwritersplace.org

Reminder about "They're here ILLEGALLY" Being undocumented is a civil offense, not a criminal one. That's why they're not entitled to a court-appointed lawyer, why it's "civil detention" not a jail, why it's not in the criminal code, etc. Other civil infractions are things like parking tickets.

🌸 Happy Pub Day 🌸 to MORE FLOWERS! None of this happens alone & I’m grateful to so many for their support in bringing this book to life! In honor of the release, I’d also like to offer some light where we need it most, so please consider donating or ordering a book from @triohousepress.org! ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance. They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along. They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.

Our submissions close tomorrow friends. There might be snow heavy on the tundra but there is also a fierce heat in our hearts. Love is a muscle, pain the road we travel to break out into a thousand points of light. If it were easier, it wouldn't come out singing. And shining. heroinchic.weebly.com

In her short story, Joanna Theiss’ characters wrestle through bleakness to get to the long slow work of reaching toward hope. Read “Not About a Threesome” in ARTWIFE Magazine. @joannatheiss.com

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

IN THE MEANTIME subs are open right now for our spring issue (and maybe beyond.) Details in link. We’re always open for Joy and TiaC timely submissions. There’s so much to write about! Subs are free and writers of all stages and experience welcome templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

If you're going to @awpwriter.org in Baltimore, I highly, highly recommend participating in their Writer to Agent program. It's how I ended up signing with my agent conference.awpwriter.org/writer_agent...

The EU has delayed its vote on ratifying the trade agreement with the US.

Finally worked out a way to get over from Ireland for AWP (thanks in no small part to good friends) so if any mags or presses are interested in me reading please hit me up. Here's a picture of me with my arms out (Plz RT???)

Me, learning that everyone else in the preschool parents anti-ICE patrol is getting paid

Today's shortlisted story is "Pattern" by David Anson Lee. A micro that uses anadiplosis to such great effect: www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-stori...

Kind of a big day for me, folks. I never thought my first published book would be a how-to guide for parental death, but here we are. It’s well-researched, it’s funny, and it’s officially available for pre-order: www.deadparentswhatnow.com/book

oh no, are publishers getting squeamish about buying queer books right now for some impossible-to-guess reason?? sounds like our books need to get even more queer, relentlessly queer, battle-axe queer, cackling queer

Massive congrats to our Best Small Fictions (shoutout to @altcurrent.bsky.social ) nominees for 2026 | @spencerwriting.bsky.social, @nomad-sw18.bsky.social, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @joannatheiss.com, & @kathyhoyle.bsky.social <3

New writing up at @artwife.bsky.social today! Thank you for including it CW: sex, dog poop www.artwifemag.com/short-storie...

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This seems like a cool opportunity, for Baltimore City writers @hopkinsreview.bsky.social hopkinsreview.com/fmri-writing...

In case you haven't heard, the National Portrait Gallery has deleted reference to Trump's first-term impeachments. Thankfully, Citizen Historians is out here preserving the original: www.citizenhistorians.org/exhibit-chan...

Ancient archaeological sites inadvertently provide refuges for wildlife & plants 🌺 I love this! "In Italy, rare orchids flower around an Etruscan necropolis. In the ancient Greek religious centre of Delphi, researchers found what they believe is a new species of snail.." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Absolutely delighted to be nominated for Best Small Fictions 2026. Huge thanks to the editors at Does It Have Pockets for choosing my work!! And congratulations to my fellow nominees. 🎉🎉🎉 You can read my story here - www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kath...

Thank you thank you to EIC Camille Griep & the team at @doesithavepockets.bsky.social for nominating my story for Best Small Fictions 2026. It's set in East Berlin and celebrates the night the Berlin Wall came down: www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/cole...

Things are largely shitacious today except this is not: a Best Small Fictions nomination from @doesithavepockets.bsky.social along with these lovely writers!!

KNM-ER 64061, most complete Homo habilis skeleton yet (Koobi Fora) shows primitive limb proportions: long forearms, thick cortices, small body mass & ~160 cm stature. Upper limbs like early Homo, but proportions differ from H. erectus Grine et al anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...