“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For a group that doesn’t want to spend a nickel on so-called illegals, they’re sure spending a lot kidnapping and imprisoning them.

Republicans shut down the government—and real people are paying the price. Join me Wednesday for a tele-town hall. We’ll talk about what this shutdown means for Texas families, and how you can get the information and resources you need.

Our executive branch is inciting violence against our judicial branch. Our democracy is not okay. Stephen Miller should be fired for his incendiary & dangerous remarks.

I’m trying to calm down. Here are the books I bought the other day. My favorite thing is supporting independent bookstores.

I am unable to express how angry I am about this regime. And I am extremely saddened to learn that our system appears to be so f***ing weak that this regime cannot be stopped.

#nowreading Hunter by Shuang Xuetao

#nowreading The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett It’s nice to read a story about place and people instead of all of the current trash going on in the US.

Happy Mexican Independence Day!

#nowreading Best Literary Translations 2025 published by Deep Vellum Publishing in Dallas, TX So far, my favorite story is “Of Wood and Hallucinatiton" by Mansoura Ez-Eldin, first published by The Markaz Review @markaz-review.bsky.social

Wonderful news! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...?

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*Phenomenal cosmic prose ... itty bitty living space.* In our latest issue, a brand new micro #fiction from the incredible @sfreligh.bsky.social |https://www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sarah-freligh Artwork @anchalastudio.bsky.social

Our addiction to oil is fueled by our addiction to material wealth, defining success as ever increasing "growth." It's at odds with reality.

Just asking. Shouldn’t masked people in unmarked cars kidnapping people be the ones arrested and imprisoned, of course, after they have been afforded due process?

Chekhov's dog

When reality slaps you down…👇 HARD! Don’t. Be. Fooled. By. The. Rich. 😎✨

Remember when Vice President Harris bought a few quality cooking items at a French cookery store with her own money and legacy media melted down? J.D. Vance literally used the Army Corps of Engineers to manipulate a public waterway, so he’d have an easier time kayaking and it’s a blip on the radar.

#nowreading @octoberhillmag.bsky.social LindaAnn LoSchiavo’s story “Sitting on the Santa Shift” favorite line: “Because it’s better to give than be in the box, where heaps of correspondence wink, thinking “pick me."

NEW VIDEO: As the DOJ is collecting sensitive voter data around the country and the GOP ups the stakes with their gerrymandering efforts in Texas, I am concerned what is going on is being overlooked. I lay out my concern and what we need to do now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2E3...

Our annual contest opens for submissions August 1st! This year's guest judge is Andrew Porter. Keep an eye out for our Q&A with Andrew soon. Find more details about our contest here: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/

@octoberhillmag.bsky.social new issue drive.google.com/file/d/1XC8F...

#nowreading Latest issue of Nimrod

Just finished reading. Can’t recommend it enough! Jakuta Alikavazovic’s Like a Sky Inside

#nowreading Simone de Beauvoir’s The Woman Destroyed

Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.

The vote was 211 to 210.

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest opens Aug 1st! www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

Donald Trump does NOT WANT YOU TO WATCH THIS. Watch and share!

Ten years ago today, Sandra Bland died. She was murdered in Texas. A cop turned his car around when he saw the out of state plates and a black woman driving. He tailed her. He stalked her. And, she ended up dead, in jail. She’d done nothing wrong. I wrote this poem for her.

We seriously need a crowdfunding campaign to put a billboard up like this everywhere

This week our Editor @ovillalon.bsky.social was on Bibliocracy Radio with Andrew Tonkovich. Give it a listen!

A political assassination on US soil www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

#nowreading Hayden Casey’s Show Me Where the Hurt Is People finding themselves in predicaments, self-inflicted or not, but somehow come out okay, mostly, usually, on the other side.

#ObamaAppreciationDay (Portrait by Kehinde Wiley, 2018)

Just read James Purdy’s short story “Cutting Edge.” I highly recommend seeking out his work. A tome including every single story was published in 2013. “Cutting Edge” can be found in the 1957 issue of Evergreen Review which is available as a facsimile.

“I had a press ID round my neck, a large camera, a video camera … I was making a point of making myself visible as media.” ~ Nick Stern, REPORTER

out and out TYRANNY!

The beautiful Breonna Taylor should have celebrated her 32nd birthday today. Never forget her. ❤️🕊️