Marianne Boruch won the 2026 Jackson Poetry Prize, which recognizes an American poet of exceptional talent and carries a generous monetary award. A favorite line from Boruch: "Look, it’s standard. No one but / a divine being or two makes perfect copy." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Don't let the Trump administration hoodwink you. They either withhold information or they present false information.

The water rich environment of northern Minnesota is the worst place to begin a copper sulfide mine. This is the Tamarack mining project, not the BWCA one. Neither should happen. www.minnpost.com/environment/...

"I turned rebellion into poetry; rebellion turned me into a poet." -Najwan Darwish www.najwandarwish.com

EXCLUSIVE: Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/t...

225,000 ACRES OF PUBLIC LANDS AT RISK. Senate votes tomorrow on HJR 140. It would strip protections from the Boundary Waters watershed and open the door to toxic sulfide mining near one of the most protected wilderness areas in the country. Call your Senators: 202-224-3121

A conservation group has listed a major river in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area as the third most endangered river in the country on its annual list of threatened waterways.

Public libraries are democracy's great equalizers.

Join Bill McKibben's Third Act. It mobilizes people to defend the environment and protect democracy. thirdact.org/act/reject-t...

The regime had no idea what it was going up against when Trump decided to invade Minnesota. #NoKings

Jeannette Rankin was the 1st woman elected to Congress, in 1916. She was a women's rights advocate, & she introduced legislation that would become the 19th Amendment. She championed civil rights causes over her 60 year career. #WomensHistoryMonth #Pinks #ProudBlue history.house.gov/HistoricalHi...

Everybody, go to a No Kings Rally on Saturday. Also read this about the scientists who witnessed a group of whales assisting the mother whale deliver her baby. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c...

Amazing story about moving on: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/m...

Trump appointees at the Dept. of Energy used their personal email accounts to evade transparency laws in their efforts to make it easier to pollute, and EPA was in on it.   We are demanding answers and accountability for this blatant disregard for the law.

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.” -Virginia Woolf

Demonstrate for democracy and human rights. Attend the No Kings Rally on March 28 in a community near you. In November, vote!

In the Epstein files:

We have high-quality water in Minnesota. It needs to be protected from copper-sulfide mining. www.northernnewsnow.com/2026/03/20/n...

Protect fresh water resources. Stop copper-sulfide mine proposals in Minnesota. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Minnesota has the power to stop Twin Metals, but will the DNR use it? www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/colu...

Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stops

"Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war." - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.

"At a time when civilization is hurtling toward irreversible climate breakdown, to overlook the climate consequences of three of the deadliest militaries on earth going to war would be journalistic malpractice." newrepublic.com/article/2073...

Protecting wild rice also protects water quality in Minnesota. riseandrepair.org/protectwildr...

LOFGREN: Are agents trained to break the windows of people whose cars they encounter and drag them out forcefully without asking questions? KRISTI NOEM: Our officers are all trained for situation where they are interacting with the public and detaining someone

Lying seems to be the main strategy of this administration.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Interesting spin. By this logic, shouldn’t we be seeing tons of young Christian men volunteering to go to Iran? I mean, if it’s God’s plan and all, aren’t you eager to meet him, dudebros?

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

After Khamenei, What Now? Iranians want democracy. Trump wants a brief conflict. Neither seems likely by Hanna Rosin Atlantic Gift Article Before strike killed Khamenei nuclear deal was ultimate objective, now maybe regime change but Trump has no plan on how that might come about bit.ly/4aLUyeQ

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Singing can de-escalate tense situations. open.substack.com/pub/neinast/...

We oppose H.R. 7661: Tying federal education funding to restrictions on certain books & educational materials pressures schools to remove titles that discuss identity, history, and lived experiences that some politicians find controversial. action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661

I'm so pleased to have my poem "Surface Displacements" in this collection of great writers!

From Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

It is even a bigger indictment of the GOP that the sex offender in the White House continues to hide evidence. #ImpeachTrump

Minnesota's two US Senators are pressing Justice Dept to reverse decision and allow local investigators to have access to materials in the killing of Alex Pretti by a federal agents last month ===>

From floods to wildfires, communities are feeling the impacts of climate change, but the Trump administration just took its most extreme step ever to dismantle federal climate protections—ignoring science and unnatural disasters.

Tick Tock #Resist #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinFiles

Ignoring climate science is stupid. It will only hurt the quality of life . The Trump & White House propaganda doesn't serve our country. www.startribune.com/trumps-epa-r...

Her work crosses genres and audiences and centers Hmong children and families who live in our world, who dream, hurt, and hope in it. Yang’s writing and speaking are concerned with the plight of refugees from around our world, ideas of belonging, and the depths of the human experience.

"There is no credible, independent, scientific consensus stating that the risk of acid mine drainage ... would be “zero.” ... sulfide-ore copper mining in this particular watershed poses a high risk of irreversible harm." edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn...