My #cat looks very presidential today, don't you think? #PresidentsDay

If you missed my #poetry reading on Feb. 12 (I read from my newest #book of #poems, THE EXHAUST OF DREAMS ADULTERATED from Broadstone Books), you can catch a video of it here; thanks to Malaika King Albrecht for including me in her monthly book celebration! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwIw...

"You can't shrink your way to relevance," Jeff Bezos told @polgreen.bsky.social but he apparently changed his mind. #journalism @washingtonpost.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/o...

#DHS asks tech companies for info on those who post criticisms of #ICE on social media. People have a #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress right to do this, right? Maybe #Google #Meta / #Facebook #Discord #Reddit & our own government have forgotten. Yeah? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

#Art installation -- recreation of a Botanica store w/messages criticizing #ICE and #DHS -- shut down at the #University of North Texas. #Artist heard about it through #students on social media. #FirstAmendment #censorship #highereducation www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/a...

Just thinkin' about #fascism and its sex scandals today. No reason. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blomber... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_P... www.contexttravel.com/stories/arti...

#TONIGHT! #FREE #FANTASTIC virtual #POETRY reading on Zoom with open mic! 7 pm EST. I'll be reading from my new book of #poems, "The Exhaust of Dreams Adulterated." You can buy it here: www.broadstonebooks.com/shop/p/the-e... and the details for the reading are here: www.facebook.com/events/35257...

You gotta "align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America" if you want a grant to help children #read, add a science lab, or digitize historical material, w/the help of a government agency Trump tried to shut down last year. Is it #fascism yet? www.propublica.org/article/inst...

#Bibliotherapy: sign me up. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Jeepers! Golly gosh gee whiz! #Language #slang www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

Is the #SuperBowl over yet? Is it safe (a relative term) to discuss something else?

Guess I should have told this story earlier. Once someone was giving me a huge scoop about mob infiltration into the local carting business (it was a long time ago) and told me to wear "shorter skirts" when I said I wasn't sure I could get that story. #journalism

CEO and #publisher @washingtonpost.com Will Lewis is out. Gone. (I heard it on the BBC World Service.) Like we used to say in college, "so long, chief." thehill.com/homenews/med...

#Kitties on #Caturday

Seven principles of #journalism once practiced by @washingtonpost.com and an elegy for all that's lost, from Carlos Lozada: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Goodbye to all that; and mass market #paperback #books too: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b... #publishing

Don't really know what to say since so much has already been said, plus this isn't the first time I've said this. But at this point it's all we've got left. constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

1 week from today, 2/12, I'll be reading #poems #poetry in a virtual event thanks to Red Headed Stepchild magazine & Malaika King Albrecht. 7 pm EST, includes open mic, details here: www.facebook.com/events/35257... including link to Zoom meeting.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Poetry News → boingboing.net/2026/02/01/d... #PoetryNews #PoetrySky

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

"A society that claims to value our #democracy cannot criminalize those who document threats to democracy....If we as a nation fail to defend that principle (also known as the #FirstAmendment)...we may soon that there is nothing left to defend." #GeorgiaFort www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...

Here's a palette cleanser: www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Layoffs forecasted for February begin today at @washingtonpost.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Weaponized wit and #writerly flare in judge's opinion that released father (Adrian Conejo Aras) and son (Liam Conejo Ramos) from ICE detention: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump administration using #propaganda or "brazen #disinformation from the top level of government" (an AI-edited or "manipulated" image) to break opposition; sounds like fascism to me. Because fascism never works. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

Everyone says I read too fast when I read my #poems #poetry at a performance. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/a...

Picked the wrong presidential administration to stop sniffing glue, is all's I can say.

Been gone for a while traveling, but I hope you'll read my #poem #poetry "How Many Miles High" appearing in the new issue of GINGERBREAD RITUAL today. Thanks. selfeducatingpoetsnetwork.org/one-poem-by-...

My first remarks since being arrested last night.

This is Georgia Fort as she’s being arrested by federal agents. Apparently, they had a grand jury indictment in hand. She was arrested for being an independent journalist who filmed the Cities Church protest.

🚨 CPJ strongly condemns the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for their reporting on a protest in Minnesota, arrests which mark a serious escalation of attacks on the press in the United States. Read more: cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-...

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

Wondering if the arrests of #journalists #DonLemon #GeorgiaFort are a sign the Trump administration knows it's flailing & they're searching for new targets &/or distractions but man oh man what a burden to place on two of our fellow Americans. #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress

Who is #GeorgiaFort? She's the #journalist arrested today in Trump's fascist America. #FirstAmendment #FreePress #FreeSpeech www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

FOUR journalists were arrested. Proving again that this administration isn’t “pivoting” or “turning down the temperature.” By targeting independent journalists instead of the murderers of Pretti and Good, this is ramping up. Not winding down. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

This is from Georgia Fort’s video. DEA?!? Gotta be a “task force.”

The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Never thought I'd be living in a country w/ethnic cleansing AND the arrest of #journalists at the same time but here we are. #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress oh yeah that applies to #protesters too #GeorgiaFort #DonLemon www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/p...

Late stage capitalism and or capitulation comes for @washingtonpost.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/b...

Posting this trailer for "Network," the 1976 movie my mother absolutely loved and I think foretold the future....at least where the #CapitulationBroadcastingSystem #CBS Evening #News is concerned. Do you think #BariWeiss has seen it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAwQ...

Some good ( #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech ) news about teachers reading #books to school children: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

When all else fails, there's always buyouts. #CapitulationBroadcastSystem #CBS #BariWeiss #legacymedia #broadcastjournalism variety.com/2026/tv/news...