Small protest in our neighborhood yesterday. #nokings

Thank you for sharing my poem, @literarymama.bsky.social !

I’m excited to have a poem published in the latest issue of @literarymama.bsky.social ! You can find my poem alongside some other excellent pieces here: literarymama.com/articles/dep...

Nina Prater 💙 from UNDER THE CANOPY OF UNPRUNED LEAVES (Belle Point Press) Day 18 - #SealeyChallenge @ninapraterpoet.bsky.social @bellepointpress.bsky.social @sealeychallenge.bsky.social

Here is one of our baby ducks. That is all.

Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.

haha take that *checks notes" us

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

Just me posting an old article for no reason whatsoever… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...

State Sen. "Book Ban" Dan Sullivan will press ahead with bill to nuke State Library Board, after board refuses demand from Jason Rapert to defund libraries that won't adopt censorship policies. Josh Snyder reports in D-G. #arleg #arpx #Arkansas #arnews www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/ma...

Women's Day has been so heavily co-opted by bourgeois feminism but let's never forget that it originated from the labor movement under the organization of socialists like Theresa Malkiel and Clara Zetkin. It was always meant to be the International WORKING Women's Day.

Protest today in #Arkansas Resistance from a red state. ❤️🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

New favorite protest sign from Vermont this weekend. Those are fighting words. #vermont 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Proud of my home state today. 🍁Vermonters showed up to tell Vance what they think of him. (Not my photos, these came from a FB post by Sue Echelmeyer). 🇺🇦💙💛

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

Some pictures from a #stupidmentalhealthwalk I took this weekend.

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

As if you needed another reason to never use AirBnB again: www.newsweek.com/airbnb-joe-g...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement. The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

It keeps getting so much worse than I expected, and I expected it to be horrendously bad.

Hypocrisy

Hey Arkansans who don’t like book bans, sign this petition: www.arrighttoread.org/pass_hb1028_... #righttoread #arkansas #bookban #aabb #authorsagainstbookbans

Once again I would like to remind most of America, Red States have chronically marginalized people in them (i.e. black and native), and by cheering on their downfall, you're also helping to continue to marginalize an already marginalized people.

“Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency full access to the federal payment system late on Friday, handing Elon Musk and the team he is leading a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.”

"Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you're operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you're willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

Last call for submissions for issue 3 of Little Free Lit Mag! <3 We close on 1/31, and won’t reopen til April! Littlefreelitmag.com

More trans panic in Arkansas. So deeply stupid and harmful. 😬 I hope all the students who learned this piece stand up and sing it together anyway.

Hey @kjmatthews.bsky.social am I blueskying right? Since you taught me what a meme was I figured you might be able to help me come out of the dinosaur era once again. 🦕

Deleted my Target circle account. I know this is minuscule in the face of the work that needs to be done, but it did feel good. 🖕🏼Target.

This is becoming absurd—federal employees are now being told to remove pronouns from their email signatures. We will always stand by our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, no matter how many things we’re asked to delete or change. Inclusivity is at the core of who we are.

These might be some of the best cookies I’ve made. My husband says he can’t taste the miso, so it’s very subtle if you’re worried about miso in a cookie being weird. I think the browned butter is what makes it. Just in case you need a little smackerel of joy in your day.

“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence, does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.” - Toni Morrison, 1993

I was asked in a job interview once who was going to take care of my child while I was at work. The casual sexist double-standard is SO prevalent.

“But why do you hate stories so much?” Haroun blurted, feeling stunned. “Stories are fun . . . “ “The world, however, is not for Fun,” Khattam-Shud replied. “The world is for Controlling.” “Which world?” Haroun made himself ask.

I never did the twitter thing so I feel a little at sea with the whole bluesky thing. I guess I’ll just learn by doing? So here’s a tiny mushroom I saw on a walk the other day, being all cute and orange in spite of the cold.

Just to get things started off right, here is my dog Daisy, normally an outside dog, getting to enjoy some couch time. It’s been SO cold. 🥶