75-year trend of October temperatures. It's as if something has changed. 🤔

Vote OUT every corrupt, Trump-enabling, pedophile-protecting Republican!!! #Project2026

“We won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now it is something that we do.”

"Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left." Hey, @governor.ca.gov are you listening?

Vista stradale di Napoli. So kewl there's a condom dispensing machine easily available in the public roadway. Near a church, by the way. So sad it's not working. Seems emblematic of so much in public life, here & abroad. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. #naples #napoli #condoms

Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.

Happy Election Day! One goal today: ezralevin.substack.com/p/one-goal-t...

Good Questions!! Why not answer them?? 🧐🤨👇🏼

TELL YOUR DEMOCRATIC SENATORS TO KEEP HOLDING THE LINE IN THE FUNDING FIGHT act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...

Cynthia Cruz is one of the most stimulating poetic voices in the air today. I could not be more excited to hear her read from her new book, SWEET REPETITION (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) in Tulsa on Thursday, Nov. 20. Come out, Oklahomans! www.eventbrite.com/e/sweet-repe...

What is it about the depiction of bodies in marble that so arouses one? A promise of immortality? And dance, music, centaurs, satyrs, wine, and desire? (Detail from a Roman sarcophagus, Museo Archeologico di Napoli.) #representation #marble #erotics #

"Atwood... reveals how the Canadian literary scene was at times a hotbed of vicious gossip, jealousy and back-stabbing, particularly among poets." “'Poets are not, generally speaking, a fully balanced or unenvious lot,' she writes." Me: Quelle surprise! #poets #Canada #poetry #pobiz #littrashure

A carpenter bee died in the night holding a lantana flower in our front yard. There are less lovely ways to go. #flowerreport

The anomalous, extended dramatic scene in this sonnet (the first 12 lines are just 1 nearly breathless sentence) enacts—at the level of syntax and stanzaic structure—the tragi-comic uncatchability of the mother/Dark Lady. #craft #sonnets #shakespeare #laronde #futile @bdralyuk.bsky.social

Vista stradale di Napoli. Una ragazza cat/bat con un amico. #Naples #Napoli #graffito #graffiti #Italy #Italia

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Happy Hungerween from Donracula von Trumpf, our Dearest Vampyre Leader! @marycurtis.bsky.social @maryltrump.bsky.social #halloween #hunger #terror #scary #creepy

Despite decades of work to restore wolves in California, the U.S. still lacks the tools and support needed to help people and predators coexist. CA's decision to kill 4 wolves recently, highlights why proactive coexistence measures are more vital than ever. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/o...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Two of my translations of award-winning French poet, Robert Marteau, have just appeared in Blackbird. (Part of a larger project of translating his book, "Praise-Songs, Liturgy II," a diary in sonnets.) Marteau hasn't been translated into English in the States since 1979. @marycurtis.bsky.social

Boop incoming in 3...2...1 #MexicanGrayWolf

Eros riding a crab. Detail of a wall painting in Pompei. How well they knew love, those ancient Romans. LOL. #eros #love #crab #cancer #Pompei #Roman

Inflation is now at its highest rate since January.

"Trump's destruction of the White House is precisely the point: a performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat." @adamgopnik.bsky.social @newyorker.com @eugenerobinson.bsky.social #malice #DictatorTrump bit.ly/whdestroy

At the oldest house in our village, from 1767, a primal Halloween evil walks toward me, clutching an unholy child. I can SO relate to the monster mother & the hapless, faceless puppy-critter. LOL. Terrifying. #Halloween #Scary #Primal #Scene #Freakish

I have a poem in the current issue of "Banshee," a Dublin magazine. My first international publication. Very proud, since 2 of my teachers (Seamus Heaney & Thomas Kinsella) were Irish. More publications in "Blackbird" & "Nimrod" forthcoming. @bdralyuk.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social

Surviving metopes from an ancient Greek temple dedicated to the cult of Hera at the amazing, ancient city of Paestum, south of Salerno, Italy. #women #goddesses #statues #Greek

Billions of dollars pumped into one Latin American nation, gunboats deployed off the coast of another—it all brings to mind a 1918 anglophone poem by Nicaragua’s Salomón de la Selva (1893-1959), with whom Millay, by the way, “had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.”

Mamdani vs Cuomo. Their debate in 3 minutes. From Zeteo. zeteo.com/subscribe

When the torch you hold in your hand casts a dark, petulant shadow on your face. #cherubs #torch #torchsong #egyptian #contraposto

La donna-gato degli ATM. Ravello, Italia. Animale sacro-fiscale. @georgetakei.bsky.social @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social @jessicacuello.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @katieroiphe.bsky.social #cats #gods #patron #saints #money #strangegods

Here's an example of the 8th type of ambiguity (not covered in William Empson's famous monograph): creepy, radically uninterpretable. From a neighbor's garden. (That's a lovely "weeping" redbud next to gas-masked Santa.) What should we take from this juxtaposition? @christopherpatton.bsky.social

Where are the House Republicans? NOT in D.C., that’s for sure. Speaker Johnson won’t even seat Rep. Grijalva because of the Epstein files.

17 wolves have been killed in MT's hunting season. These wolves are more than just numbers - they each played vital roles in their packs, symbolized resilience, and served as keystone species. This is an important reminder of what could happen in other states if wolves lose federal protections.

The Trump Shutdown is happening because Republicans (who control the White House & Congress) refuse to pass a funding plan to stop health insurance costs from doubling this winter. Let’s hold the GOP accountable & encourage Democrats to keep protecting our healthcare: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

My poet-friend and gifted colleague, Casey Elizabeth Newbegin, makes a striking debut with "The Eucalypts," out now from @gameoverbooks.bsky.social Buy it hot off the press!

Miracle! We managed to catch our night-blooming cereus in flagrante delicto. If we had scent-er-rama on Bluesky, you'd be in heaven right now. The perfume is an opioid. This complex flower also looks very sci-fi, like an alien from outer space. I think it attracts moths, bats, nocturnal beetles.

Mass shootings in the US, per Gun Violence Archive: 2015: 332 2016: 383 2017: 347 2018: 335 2019: 414 2020: 611 2021: 689 2022: 644 2023: 659 2024: 503 So far in 2025...324 mass shootings in just 272 days. We do not have to keep living like this.

No, he does not. Only himself and his cronies. x.com/gavinnewsom/...

A rare—and beautiful—Heaney poem with an American setting (Massachusetts). #poem #walnuts #Heaney #premonition #Irish #Massachusetts

Lolabelle Lee, Sleep Influencer! Stay tuned for the movie, due out next year, from Marvel. #dogs #sleep #influencer #marvels #superheroes

What is Fürher Trumpf so desperate to hide?

Another iconic New Yorker cover by illustrator and cultural critic Barry Blit.

Oh look! Boris Badinov and Natasha Fatale join the aptly monikered Christoper Cocksworth, Dean of Windsor-Lick-and-Spittle, in the culture-laundering of embryonic fascism, full-grown viciousness, and gross malfeasance via a British Royal Family Dysfunction.

TOMORROW: One month out from our next nationwide day of defiance, we’re kicking things off with thousands of activists across the country. Join us, our partners, and this great lineup of guests to learn everything you need to know about October 18: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

"Congress shall make no #law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." #speech #freedom

Our little blue dolphin pool thermometer is now a cetacean out of water. Pool drained and covered. Fall cometh. Sadness. #autumn #signsoffall #omen

You’ve put over 1,000 events on the No Kings Day map in under a week. Find your local peaceful protest, start a new event, and find everything you need to know about the next nationwide day of defiance on October 18: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...