Hettie Jones

EPIC #ArtWork. The New American Gothic, 2017, by Criselda Vasquez Just… amazing. ❤️

or I knock my head against a wall of my own appetite for despair - Frank O'Hara, "Poem"

Never trust Autosave. Manually save 6 times and still question whether or not you saved, like a real gamer.

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Five years. Thousands of bans. Countless students impacted. Read what we’ve learned from five years of book ban data & why the fight for the freedom to read is far from over. The numbers tell a powerful story about censorship, access & who gets targeted most. bookriot.com/5-years-of-b...

A pop-up has opened in New York City displaying every page and timeline from the Epstein files. Anyone can now walk in and read them for themselves.

When the state is disenfranchising its Black voters, there's zero question why ROOTS was just banned in Knox County, Tennessee, schools. "Age-Appropriate" my ass. www.wbir.com/article/news...

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

BREAKING: The DOJ is now 146 days overdue in releasing the Epstein files.

This needs to happen. Otherwise it will become a forgotten blip among the other ridiculous things he says.

A fine poem by Ricky Monahan Brown up at Rogue Strands today, first published in his recent pamphlet from Broken Sleep... roguestrands.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-po... @rickyballboy.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

This is some Gilead level shit. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

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Sometimes it feels like Trump could brag at the State of The Union that he rigged the election, and Dems would just furiously shake their heads, "No! No! Not okay!" and then pass a budget that installs more amenities at the concentration camps.

Other than discovering that I’m apparently John Oliver’s son, @lastweektonight.com’s deep dive into the shadow docket is really quite good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeq...

While I realize Americans broke the world by electing Trump and it is up to them to fix this, I believe there needs to be much greater international pressure put on the Trump regime to stop this. Other countries should stand together and stand against these extra judicial murders. #Sheshed

I don't think this gets said enough. Charting trans safety (or lack thereof) purely by laws on the books and protections on paper just simply does not provide an accurate picture of many trans people's experiences or what we face on the ground.

Jessica Valenti reports that Child Protective Services has targeted mothers in multiple states who helped their daughters seek out abortions. This represents a new and largely unexamined consequence of the end of Roe. The government is using family separation as an anti-abortion weapon.

Trump Has a New Terrorist. It's You. open.substack.com/pub/barbaraf...

I had so much fun painting this, so I have to share it again... #cats #artsky #kleineKunstklasse

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

I think the "X had ribs removed to suck their own dick" meme is so enduring because it speaks to a secret desire that we all have, which is having access to medical care that is not contingent on constructing a socially acceptable narrative for why you desire and/or require it

The courts are a huge point of weakness for the entire US democratic system. Lifetime appointments and small pools of justices on higher courts is a recipe for disaster. We should not have 5 partisans who decide how laws get interpreted for 300 million.

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

At this point, I think he is just trolling us.

I love how this poem moves from funny to serious I've seen this. The bar in Belfast International Airport. We heard the alarm, could smell the smoke & sat on & finished our pints. I have witnessed the second half of the poem too. It's time to pour our pints on the fire #Poetry #Poemoftheday

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

Thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt. I won't blame them for my response, or indeed for the state of the world currently. #PoemsAbout #AfterTheSirens.

Anybody else notice that gmail specifically marks any kind of class action lawsuit notification as spam? I've had to specifically set up filters for "class action" and "settlement" to catch these. This does not happen with emails from other providers.

FYI: Fascists *would* make it illegal to call fascists fascist. Walks like, talks like. 🦆

Life of a poet: Burnt out from editing Write 6 poems in 1 day Watch an hourlong documentary on finches for a poem you throw away Mysterious takeout box Seasonal depression Editing when you should be sleeping Thought spiraling "Yah I'm a writer. No, I'm a poet." Recount random finch facts

Day 27 poem 2 National Poetry Month ~ Susan L. Leary Threshold From- Dressing The Bear —the last place we were each other before you died. ❤️

A new search engine that allows users to search Nazi party records in order to find out whether their ancestors were card-carrying members has been accessed millions of times since it was launched earlier this month. edition.cnn.com/2026/04/17/e...

This is the last magnolia of the season and my favorite. The tree was so slender and had a heavily damaged trunk but it was also very alive and tossing beautiful big blossoms into the sky.

"Conservatives gonna donner party like it's project 2025." —Poetry scraps from my book straight off the cutting room floor.

Guys, I think the billionaires are becoming sentient.

the horrors persist but still I wordle

No one: Literally no one: ... Palantir: forced military service u up?

Philip Whalen

Wow. I really hate targeted ads more now.

Got myself a poetry birthday present. The title was too good to not get it!

Hegseth really puts the Pete in for Pete's sake.

Learning another language as a poet is insane. I've spent all of my life becoming an expert in this one language, I'm not okay with being just average in another.

“when something actually goes right, when the people in charge do their jobs well, speak in full sentences, make decisions that protect people instead of endangering them, the reaction can feel strangely emotional.”

There are few people I truly hate more than this piece of shit

impeachtrumpagain.org #unitedagainstwar