I just noticed this book came out a month before Data Mind and has an almost identical cover and a similar theme. www.versobooks.com/products/286...

Is the farce too broad to be funny?

I bought a cute strawberry plant at Trader Joe’s. Do you think polymarket wants to give me the odds on whether I can keep it alive long enough to make a berry?

Watering plants in our backyard, a neighbor’s kid shows me his gun. I tell him that if he turns it upside down he can pretend it’s a microphone.

Lina Khan helped Joe Biden set this up, but he never pushed it hard to take credit for it. Now, with Khan working for Mamdani, he's doing it for NYC residents. And actually telling them he's doing it. Good policies aren't good politics unless you take credit constantly for them.

Speaker Johnson, we are calling on you to bring the House back to DC IMMEDIATELY! The Cabinet needs to invoke the 25th Amendment. But Congress can’t just sit on its hands and wait for that to happen when the President is threatening to commit war crimes TONIGHT.

I'm going to make a seder for the first time with the Passover plate I inherited from my parents. Thinking about my family seders, where every year when we said "Next year in Jerusalem," my dad would make a face and remind us it doesn't have to be literal. This poem is from my book Data Mind.

Any good sites for downloadable and printable posters for Saturday? I don’t have time this week to think.

Walked around the lake in honor of David Shapiro and Joe C today. It’s kind of a dumpy park. Not sure I need to go again. Maybe nicer with the leaves out.

Maybe obvious but smart take. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQcM...

Missing Donna Brook today.

“I’m no tongueswallowing yogi” poets.org/poem-a-day?f...

Call your senators. Especially if you live in a red state.

Are you from the writing conference or the tobacco conference asks the Lyft driver?

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stop the Cuts in SAS . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

We hope to see you in Baltimore!

Wow.

Should you get snatched out of your home on April 21st because you didn’t file your taxes on time? The government is focused on immigrants now but if you set the precedent that people should get kidnapped over paperwork there’s a whole lot of people who can get taken next

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...