Kristi Noem: How DARE you accuse our glorious ICE agents of racial profiling. Head of the Chicago raids: We are stopping people based on “how they look, how do they look compared to, say,” a tall, middle aged white guy.

Seeing this picture reminds me of how much I loved going to college in Austin when Ann Richards was governor. It’s so heartbreaking to see what those assholes have done to the state. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If you don’t want to be called a Nazi, stop building concentration camps and disappearing people.

"Autism: First diagnosed in 1943. Tylenol: Not invented until 1955. RFK Jr.: Born 1954. Thus RFK Jr. is more likely to have caused autism than Tylenol."

They are literally canceling culture

Suggestion: A strike of musicians, writers, hosts, actors, lighting, electricians--everyone, shutting down all TV studios, until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. This is the kind of action we need, instead of sitting around just waiting to be gutted.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

“Freedom of speech requires navigating disagreement, not murdering those with whom we disagree.” - Paisley Rekdal

Just incase the Nazi shit in Vance’s convention speech wasn’t clear enough for you.

I'm reading for Best American Poetry at the 92 Y on Thursday! blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...

Scheduled my COVID-19 booster for Saturday.

- Contact your congresspeople to support the Housing not Handcuffs Act and ‪@raskin.house.gov‬ and ‪@vanhollen.senate.gov‬'s termination resolution - If you live in a state that has sent troops to DC, demand your governor withdraw them - figure out what your plan is when this comes to your town.

I’m blathering on about needing furniture while Fascism digs in its heels.

The way that Zohran talks about small businesses—really listening to their concerns—needs to be the future of the Democratic Party.

Hegseth authorized the National Guard in DC to carry weapons. This is another escalation that puts DC communities in even more danger. We should not have armed soldiers patrolling the streets of any U.S. city, let alone our nation’s capital. We the people demand federal forces out NOW. #FreeDC

Driving from DC to Newark, seeing how many covers of “Ode to Billy Joe” we can listen to. Maybe by the end, we’ll understand the narrative.

I’m on an AWP panel next spring in Baltimore! “Choice and the Lyric Body”, a multi-genre discussion moderated by Amanda Shaw with Joanna Fuhrman, Sandra Beasley, Kyoko Mohri and myself. Join us for a timely, expansive, and truthful discussion around choice and how it shapes a literary life.

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Thank you to Cassandra Atherton for soliciting these poems for the Australian journal Axion. Oddly, the only other person to solicit poems from me of late Peter Charles Spence is also down under. These are some of my favorites. axonjournal.com.au/issues/15-1/...

My neighborhood farmers market a couple of weeks ago. Just horrible.

Read this thread. This describes the situation my crummy landlord is in. He bought the building thinking he could get rent stabilized tenants to leave but he couldn’t, so he just stopped paying the super or making repairs.

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

My dad is “transitioning” from brain cancer but he loves music, so for a moment a six year old and a bunch of adults are dancing next to his bed to “You can call me Al.”

Proud to be in this minyan of rabbis arrested as part of this protest for food into Gaza, end to the war, return of the hostages organized by @truahrabbis.bsky.social NY Jewish Agenda, @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social @jstreetdotorg.bsky.social @partners4israel.bsky.social Smol Emuni US & others

The nurse said my 92 year old dad is “transitioning” this week. I miss my cat. Please post pics of yours here.

Military service members are speaking out against President Trump's domestic deployment of federal troops to police protests and go after immigrants. If you're a veteran, active duty member, or a family member of someone in the Armed Forces, send a message to the Department of Defense.

More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests. We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.

“Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp by every definition, and just like in Weimar Germany it is unlikely that immigrants are going to be the only group that end up in the camps. Anyone who studies history has seen where this train ends before.

Tell me you’ve never been to Minneapolis w/o saying…..

Consider this: For every one American stripped of food assistance, the government is pouring more than $50,000 into concentration camps, deportations, and state-sponsored terror.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

free buses for everyone, around the world, forever. who the hell cares at this point, it would probably cost what ICE gets in 6 hours

GOP: to have insurance, get a salaried job. Person: I want to but can’t find one. GOP: Then go to college. Person: I actually teach at two colleges! GOP: Sucks to be you 💁‍♂️

The President could deploy troops to help disaster recovery efforts from devastating storms, but instead he sends them to Los Angels to chase fry cooks and landscapers.

they’ve even plowed tens of billions into a man-stealing operation so vast and unaccountable that it makes the fugitive slave act look like a modest and responsible use of federal power

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Fascism is no longer a metaphor.

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

How to get these stories to his “supporters”?

Free busses...or masked police-state goons rounding up law-abiding workers and residents, separating them from their families, and sending them to gulags. Tell me which outrages you more.

Do y’all not see that these attempts to make Mamdani a Jew vs Muslim issue is CLASSIC white supremacy pitting minority groups against each other in order to divide us because we are very dangerous to them when we’re in community?? Are y’all for real gonna fall for that shit!?

Thank you to Mark Statman for featuring poems from Data Mind and a newer poem on his Substack today. He also links to a terrific article from The Forward about the youngster who will hopefully be our future mayor. markstatman.substack.com/p/learning-l...

Best speech I have ever heard youtu.be/yxyXXVoi514?...

Can we now get rid of all of the democratic “leaders” who refused to speak up against Cuomo when he popped up again?

Senate Minority Leader Schumer is urging all senators to support Sen. Kaine’s war powers resolution, which would prohibit Trump from dragging us further into war. We need diplomacy with Iran, not another forever-war. Make sure your senators hear from you ASAP: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...