The first piece in Issue 1, "blessing for molly grue." by @thefoxmother.bsky.social, is a melodic and haunting ode to unicorns, queerness, and collision 🦄 Read it here: othersidespec.com/pieces/bless...

And now for poetry! 🤖 “Ignore All Previous Instructions” - @robotleblanc.bsky.social 🍽️ “Eat It Out” - Cypher 🦄 “blessing for molly grue.” - @thefoxmother.bsky.social 🐝 “Vulture bees transfigure the man I tried to be” - @mimulus.bsky.social 🐟 “Electrolysis” - Nico Santana (4/6)

Grateful to @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing this new poem. It's a difficult one—part of my new manuscript. This is one of a series of Alzheimer's sonnets that appear throughout the manuscript. XOXO. rustandmoth.com/work/her-obs...

Republicans never pay a price. Flood relief to victims is on the back burner or probably dead because Trump called Abbott and said he wanted 5 districts, and Abbott asked if Trump wanted his dick shined and his balls rubbed too.

Subs are open for Issue 4! Send us your best prose, visual art, and poems. We can't wait to read! asteralesjournal.com/submissions

There is no version of the story in which collusion with white supremacy & dominant power is anything but a devil’s bargain for which you will pay … everything that matters like your heart, soul, heritage, culture, tradition CC: white Jews who haven’t figured this out yet.

Will Meet The Press ask random other white politicians to condemn Trump's antisemitic language this weekend? Or does that only apply to Mamdani?

📊The new Quinnipiac poll asked voters about antisemitism — and it turns out the more that a group believes antisemitism is a serious issue, the less likely they are to approve of how Trump is approaching it.

If you’re a senate dem, and due to personality or professional obligation you consider yourself friends or friendly with a Republican senators or congressman at what point do you go to them and ask what they’ll do if Secretary Eva Braun Barbie’s goons throw you in a cell.

Be on tv, be on social media, be at their press conferences, filibuster everything. Speak at rallies in blue cities and in deep red states. Stir good trouble. Make every single thing they want to do difficult, slow, and miserable.

The complete eradication of Rafah - a city with a quarter of a million residents - should and will be remembered as a crime against humanity, amongst the worst modern urbicides

This has been the thing missing from all anti-Trump commentary for a decade. He's a terrible economist, a terrible diplomat, & a terrible human being, but he succeeds because he excels at the only thing a dictator has to be good at--he provides a living, human embodiment of the spirit of the nation.

Trump is less a philosemite than someone who loves money and assumed the Jews were the rich ones

someone tell me which olive oil is best, i have no more ability to make choices, it is may and i have small children and i am a high school teacher, i am lucky that i can still from sentences. @hels.bsky.social please advise? save me from myself?

Guys wait til people find out that religiously anti-Zionist Hasidic say “next year in Jerusalem” at their seders

The story of the Sea of Reeds teaches us how to move through fear: Face it. Stand still. See clearly. Get quiet. Then move forward. We can take action together. Read and subscribe at:

I am NOT eager to hear what The President has to say about a Jewish Democratic governor getting arson'd in his home during Passover

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

…well. i wish i could say i am surprised. f$&@.

Israel’s military says it will fire air force reservists who signed an open letter that condemns the war in Gaza for mainly serving political interests while failing to bring home the hostages.

When Jews talk about intermarriage and how it can be a problem oftentimes we’re not talking about “diluting the bloodline” or some such nonsense we’re talking about this shit, which happens WAY TOO OFTEN in interfaith marriages.

submission grinder is playing with my feelings.

One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so

Republicans are the anti-voting anti-democracy party.

It's so much fun because UH is a great school, with a huge commuter student population. It's a bunch of Houston kids. Dancing on the graves of all those Duke failsons. Poetry. -OS

This goes right for the throat nymag.com/intelligence...

You are no longer a Texan, for your heresy against the buttered tortillas. Also, if you have a Gonzales Flag, you must shove it up your ass like a suppository. You're gonna "cum and take it," alright. -OS

Every person who flies the Lone Star Flag on their property, but didn't consider what tariffs might do to H-E-B now must take the flag down, rub it in dog shit, and then eat the flag with a knife and fork. If you fail to comply, you must self-deport back to Fresno, CA. -OS

Thank you Val, for leading us out of Egypt

A third bar has appeared. Unfortunately, it’s a fundraising text

"AS IT SAYS IN HEBREW HENEINI, HE. NEI. NI. - BEHOLD, HERE I AM." ok Cory Booker can come to the Seder

People who are circulating videos of anti-Hamas protests, like some sort of gotcha: were you not listening when we told you that Palestinian approval of Hamas was at a low prior to Oct 7? Palestinians have as diverse of a political life as anyone else - now stop bombing them so they can live!

SCOOP: The ADL quietly sunsetted its flagship anti-bias program and is shifting its educational material to an emphasis on antisemitism only amid broad right-wing attacks on DEI. Senior Reporter Alex Kane spoke to multiple former ADL education employees: jewishcurrents.org/adl-shutters...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

🚨NEW: Major development. German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet. ‼️It includes details of Signal accounts. “It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”

Since 2016, a lot of people have @'ed me with the theory that "Netanyahu is learning from Trump," and I really cannot emphasize enough that Trump is learning from Netanyahu. See: bsky.app/profile/emil...

note: the nosferatu perfume from heretic is a delight.

This wins the internet for today

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.

It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal *honor* to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.

The arrogance, hubris, and stupidity of thinking that The Atlantic wouldn’t just publish the full thread if they tried to deny what was in it… And the responsibility the Senate bears for confirming these yutzes to such important national security positions in the first place…

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that ATF's restrictions on the sale of ghost guns does NOT violate federal law, reversing the 5th Circuit. It is 7–2, with Gorsuch (!) writing the majority opinion. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

a thing that makes me feel queasy: people who, when confronted with goldberg’s very obvious journalistic bravery, argue that his courage or patriotism in this moment is irrelevant, because he deserves to burn in hell for his service with the israeli army.

I regret joking about Jeffrey Goldberg because I think he may be in genuine danger.

Well, they lied. Obviously.

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.