Lalo Alcaraz addresses the American crisis of empathy.

I really enjoy when we get one of these “day after the rapture” days. I like to tell people who seem surprised they’re still here that the rapture did indeed take place, but they got left behind with the rest of us and should reconsider their life choices.

I would never run a race just because of what the medal looks li-. . . Well, hello.

You have outdone yourself. If the children are the price of the 2nd amendment, then. . . (And for those who don’t see it, they are on the cloud. He is not. It looks to me like Wile E. Coyote that moment before he looks down.)

Ok, and if he isn’t dead can he just stay disappeared?

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: Slain L.A. Times columnist Ruben Salazar matters more than ever. Share, porfas!

Yay!!! It’s here!!! @nnedi.bsky.social

Please consider not using the word “arrest” to describe what ICE is doing. To arrest is to take them in so they can go through a trial with a lawyer to decide if they have committed the crime of which they are being accused. To go straight from an LA Home Depot to torture overseas is a kidnapping.

Why does anyone feel like they need the Epstein list released? I know what he did. You know what he did. They knew what he did when they voted for him to be President.

Texas is going to gerrymander 5 more congressional districts. Democrats are torn between wanting to fight and win and wanting to play fair. Can they do both? Montana’s at large district has 542k people (CA is 761k). If all CA districts had 542k, there would be 79 of them, +27. No gerrymander.

@tananarivedue.bsky.social , you write trauma responses that are more real than any other author’s. I just had to stop on page 202 of My Soul to Keep where she is reliving trauma regarding her father while experiencing trauma regarding her husband to tell you that. Thank you for everything you do.

I have never loved my hometown more than I do today.

The United States military has no business in Iran. Or Los Angeles.

It’s jacaranda season, motherfuckers! And my grades are turned in.

If you see anything you like here and would have use for an English 101 course this summer, enroll at sccollege.edu

Right back at you. And that was fucking amazing, even if I did see parts of it from behind my fingers.

Saw "Sinners" tonight with one of my favorite people. The movie was even more than I'd hoped for. Plus we got to dissect the movie afterwards.

Writing a C1000 (first-year English) online course for Santiago Canyon College in fall If you need that course and would be interested the topic: “How Speculative Fiction Addresses the Problem of Trauma Porn: Sinners, Ring Shout, and Maus" enroll. If you don’t but you have thoughts, share them!

So much fun and food and drink and art and discussion and happy students! Deep thanks and appreciation to @gustavoarellano.bsky.social and @laloalcaraz.bsky.social

The only moments in our lives that count for anything are those when we do the right thing, when we. . .raise our heads and look each other in the eye. Nothing else matters. —Alexei Navalny

5000+ Hands Off protestors in Santa Ana, Ca—as in Orange County Not bad.

I wrote this so share it!

“Author, art, and audience all adore one another. . . No death is required for this form of life.” Thank you, Nnedi Okorafor. The world has a new favorite book in Death of the Author. @nnedi.bsky.social

Reading for These Black Bodies Are. . . Romaine Washington, Editor Poets: James Coats Eric DeVaughnn Ginger Galloway April Gardner George Hammons Dion Jahmal Stephanie Liggins Thomason’s Sanders Dr. Ahliah D. Sharp Deborah Tarver Waters

I need a little good news toda- www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

If you are in or near the Inland Empire and interested in Black poetry (and independent publishers) come join us Feb. 15 12-2.

Seeing @yourewrongabout.bsky.social with @siouxrowan.bsky.social

This space is kind, supportive, and healing today, and I am grateful. (The only downside is that I have four more books in my Bookshop cart now.) Here’s a shelfie, my current tbr table (each stack about four books deep) and our library in general. How lovely to know so many others value books.

And share these widely too.

Please share widely.

White America must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society. —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “A Testament of Hope”

Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor. —Milton, Paradise Lost 1.250-2

It was a Friday night tradition. Mom served donuts or cherry pie, always coffee. “Damn fine cup of joe”. The last episode landed on my birthday, and we went in costumes to the Saddle Peak Lodge to watch it and meet cast members. I’ll always be grateful for the joyful memories. RIP David Lynch.

Don’t mess with Texas? Texas messed with itself. File this headline under “And find out”. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Hello. Welcome. Hugs all around. Maybe first we can reset social media, and then we can work on (gestures towards everything) all this.