Writing poetry is so strange. I can't write at all for awhile, and then I start and I can't stop.

A student is writing about a kind of gelato made of pine nuts and oh my god that sounds amazing. The essay takes places in Italy. I wonder if I could find it somewhere closer. I really need to try that.

(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

My train is late and I’m sitting outside in the freezing cold, but the station is blasting a really good version of “A Fine Romance” so it helps. Maybe Sarah Vaughan.

I never shared this little interview with me. It was posted last year, but I didn't see it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv96...

I love how she connects everything in this letter, and ends with a ray of hope. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

My favorite part of the Melania movie is when she uses her stilettos to poke out her eyes.

Teaching license revoked for sharing a library QR code. This country is nuts. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u...

We are so excited that The Becoming Game by Paula Cisewski is a finalist for the Minnesota book award! (Link to buy in comments) thefriends.org/minnesota-bo...

I have been teaching this story for the last couple of years, and sometimes my student don't get the basic plot. Typed it into ChatGPT, and the f-ing machine summarized it perfectly. Sigh. www.instagram.com/p/BqmjcDtHAKp/

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Hilton: ICE OUT NOW. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

One email or call a day. You can do this!!

One email or call a day. You can do this!!!

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

Went to dinner in my neighborhood tonight and had to ask the restaurant to change the station on the giant TVs on the wall because seeing images of a man being murdered by our government on a “fun night out” is too much. #abolishice

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

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Of course!

Special thanks to @ziibiing.com, whose work putting together the Stand With Minnesota web site informed where I put my donations. www.standwithminnesota.com

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE. There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it. Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance. 24 hours. Go. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

I’ve never watched anything on Tubi before but this show is amazing.

This is Minneapolis: I’m at a major healthcare clinic (just here for a friend) and overheard the front desk staff mention they’ve had 97 missed appointments today. People aren’t getting medical care bc they’re afraid to leave home.

This directory of places to donate to all comes from activists on the ground, plugged into the situation. Everything is vetted, with the exception of individual GoFundMes #StandWithMinnesota

I talked to a thoughtful high school student about a poem of mine in Best American Poetry. ashberyland.com/2026/01/15/3...

ICE are paid agitators.

Over 50 Dems have signed on to co-sponsor articles of impeachment against Noem. Use the link below to demand your members of Congress to get behind this!

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

If you know anyone who voted for this, ask them what they think of this.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

1. Call and/or e-mail your Senator and your House reps. Demand Noem be impeached and removed; demand that ICE be defunded. (They're only funded through the end of January!)

Wearing a mask during a pandemic was not tyranny. Having to get vaccinated during the same pandemic was also not tyranny. Shooting people point blank for not exiting their vehicle IS tyranny. Supporting state sanctioned murder is tyranny. Learn the difference.

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

All of the names. All of the stories.

This is an incredibly upsetting day for all of us. Call your reps and go to protests tomorrow but for now just post your cute animal pics and videos here.

If Renee Good is a "a domestic terrorist" according to Kristi Noem it means the label is meaningless and will be used by the Trump Administration to murder anyone it wants. From Venezuelan fishermen to anti Trump protestors in the No Kings Rally. Eyes wide open, friends.

Calling my Rep to urge him to support.

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From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Anyone else pick their mammogram location based on thrift store proximity?

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

Reading the new Harryette Mullen book and it’s funny to me that she has a poem about a Rabbit Duck because David Shapiro & Richard Hell wrote a chapbook on the same topic. I don’t have a copy. Can someone with a copy post it here to compare? Maybe @jordandavis.bsky.social

There's an amazing HUGE orange cheshire cat smile moon low in the sky, but I can't get a picture of it. Did you? If so, please share. I need proof.