Shit is fucked all the way up.

Such an important story: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the U.S. and the fear of what comes next. @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Didn't watch the game (what, you kidding?), but I did just finish watching Mr. Bad Bunny's halftime show! It was amazing! Tonight, I'm going to watch it again with one of his biggest fans (my daughter) and ask her to interpret the banter for me. Her Spanish is great as a 4th year learner!

Mostly, I like the closing song.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Thinking of that account on here yesterday that said it was wrong and anti-poor to criticize this industry and told everyone to ‘read Fanon and Du Bois’ to get on ‘their level of analysis’

“After baby Amalia had been hospitalized for 10 days, ICE thought this baby should be returned to Dilley, where she was denied access to the medicines that the hospital doctors told her she needed."

Congrats to the fascist anti-"woke." warriors. You've successfully identified the real threat to Western civilization, sociologists.

Since I have 240+ mutuals with @ogre.red, sharing this information. May want to take note of the EIC’s responses to questions and concerns in the comments, as well. #poetry #writing

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Again, Wordle disappeared my streak for no reason. 😔

Amazon dropped $75M on the Melania doc — with a big chunk going into the Trumps' pockets. Since then, Amazon Web Services got a $580M Pentagon contract. And this week, Pete Hegseth visited Blue Origin facilities as the DoD overhauls how it hands out defense contracts. Always follow the money.

This year, #TakeYourChildtotheLibraryDay will take place on Sat, Feb 7, 2026, and libraries nationwide are planning special programs. Please check the event's website to see if a library near you is planning events to mark the day. takeyourchildtothelibrary.org

An excellent project - documenting these erasures of history at federal sites is a vital part of the #resistance.

Holli Carrell will visit Fitchburg State U. this week to discuss the intersections of poetry & research w/ their community. On 2/3, she’ll discuss her debut collection APOSTASIES & 2/4, she’ll meet with students & Prof. DeMisty Bellinger. 📖 @hollicarrell.bsky.social @demisty.bsky.social

Grateful to @clmporg.bsky.social for including my poetry collection Peculiar Heritage on their reading list for Black History Month! @masonjarpress.bsky.social

My book, TACOMA, is out next week! Heard from a few people over the weekend that they got their preorders! I'm excited for people to read it! It was some of the most fun I've ever had writing. I think it is a kinda uniquely fun read. Thanks. 🧨 🎆 autofocusbooks.com

So apt right now! "To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. The human race Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised Against injustice, ignorance, and lust, The inquisition yet would serve the law, And guillotines decide our least disputes." --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

In December, I inspected the ICE facility in Burlington and demanded answers about the conditions the detainees were facing. ICE has not responded. We need transparency now. The inhumane conditions and actions of ICE in Massachusetts must end. I will not stop fighting.

Not sure how so many of these disgusting people are still in power. Don't understand how some of them walk free. What _can't_ money do? Still, if that's what it takes to be super rich, count me out. Between ICE and Epstein, y'all, I'm going to lose my grasp on reality.

So, according to Maxwell, Bill Clinton is hung like a horse. Jfc, the rich and powerful are icky eyes-wide-shut people.

that moment when the odometer is about to turn over

I'm trying to understand how people define intelligence. I don't think there's a consensus. I know there is no agreement when it comes to technophiles and fine artists. I worry about feeling, too. What is feeling to a technophile? What is it to a writer? A digital artist? A composer?

Unsubscribing from your Substack because of AI slop art

After two snow days, this is the second day of classes for me. It’s now my office hours and instead of facing the butt-ton of work I have to do, I would like to curl into a little ball, please.

YES WE ARE DOING THIS AGAIN, but this time, it's for our brand new Multigenre + Chapbook team: our MG/C editor, @erinvachon.bsky.social, is looking for readers to join their 2026 MG/C reading team! Readers are COMPENSATED! More details forthcoming on the app, which will be available on Fri Jan 30!

Jew in Amsterdam here. Please use Anne Frank as a comparison point to explain how state persecution of scapegoats impacts children, that is the point of her example, thanks

These are the deaths we're not hearing about. This neighbor was even younger than Renee Good and Alex Pretti. I know nothing about him except that he didn't deserve this. Our future must include justice for all those who've been terrorized, tortured, and murdered, here in MN and elsewhere.

New post. It's a poem.

Devin is one of my favorites for many reasons. Here's yet another reason. @legaleagle.tv

Advisors for undergraudate lit magazines: Submit your students' magazine to AWP for the Prize for Undergrad Lit Mags! This year, the judge is poet, editor, and professor Marianne Kunkel. I love Marianne's work and her thinking. This is an awesome opportunity!

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

Cancel the World Cup and Olympics. No one should be coming here. It’s not safe at all

I’ve been thinking a lot about poem titles lately, so here’s an essay I wrote about it for @chillsubs.bsky.social in 2022, complete with advice from @toddedillard.bsky.social @demisty.bsky.social and the rest of literary twitter (rip) www.chillsubs.com/blog/accordi...

First day of Spring 2026! The USA is an embarrassment and the fascists are at large in MN, IL, and D.C., &etc. but there's learning about writing to be done! We must create! Art now more than ever!

here's a poem from my book which won the Birdwhistle Poetry Prize from Noble Gas Qtrly back in the day

I keep wanting to compare Noem with Ilsa Koch, but. . . hmm. Koch was horrendous and I in no way want to downplay the horrors she committed in Nazi Germany. Still, Noem is well on her way to something nearly as disgusting. I'm going to nickname Noem "The Witch of Immigration Detention Centers."

I talked to the guy who wrote the "don't say 'Abolish ICE'" memo for @prospect.org. He's an advisor at Antony Blinken's shadow lobbying firm WestExec who consults on immigration and won't say who his clients are.

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

We made a zine about how Black women artists were targeted by the Red Scare. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2673-r... - so many parallels to this moment

Listening to Murder Ballads which mentions this song. Originally, it was "Black Girl," sometimes "My Girl," "In the Pines," and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night." Of course, Nirvana did it. I like both versions. I like all versions. Cobain died by suicide a few months after his performance.

remember that, without exception, everyone who signed up for ICE was excited about killing someone they’ve been killing the people they detain now they get to shoot someone on the street they’re so excited, they love this

Abolish ICE

I will be speaking at this tonight.

The world is horrible and I want to get off. Now. I hear Saturn is nice this time of year.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

Broke my leg learning how to ride a bike. Really, a million little pieces or more. On a bike trail. In grad school for my PhD. ahem. Knee still hurts when it weathers outside. Sometimes, can't walk. Tried to use a cane, but got tired of people asking what's wrong with me. Sigh.

I feel very uncomfortable about these smiling white men in suits with too much power and money and greed and not a care in the world for their fellow people. Ugh. I debated on including "white" here, but damn it, it's part of it. It's the modern colonialism!

I should have known that what kind of teenager I'd be because this was my favorite Cameo song as a kid. Teetering on punk. . . youtu.be/1owYJQjBA1Q?...