Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

#amreading Excellent story in issue number 20 of Stanchion. Exodus Oktavia Brownlow’s “You are the Stranger Here, You are the Unfamiliar Bite of Food"

#amreading I’m enjoying this book so much. It’s giving me a way to critique the world situation in a more humane and occasionally funny way, for myself that is. Aoko Matsuda’s The Woman Dies. Can’t wait to read her earlier book, Where the Wild Ladies Are.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Trump’s thugs murdered an American woman.

"The stranger, lifted from the pavement’s numb oblivion, will not remember who was there. You are glad that it was you." An elegiac, explorative list of loss in this new creative nonfiction from DIHP alum Alice Ahearn | www.doesithavepockets.com/cnf/alice-ah... Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

"You bought a kettle to boil water the Austrian way. A chopper to chop onions Austrianly." Three superlative new #poems from Lucas Wildner @wuucas.bsky.social -- the kind your editor sticks under the nose of everyone she adores | doesithavepockets.com/poetry/lucas...

@thewaxpaper.bsky.social I am rearranging my bookshelves and ran across several issues of this beautiful journal.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

#amreading 2025 Pushcart Prize

#amreading Excited to start reading Jenny Erpenbeck’s collection of miniature prose pieces Things That Disappear.

Just read Ingeborg Bachmann’s The Honditsch Cross: A Tale of 1813 published by New Directions. It’s amazing how history repeats itself. Although, the story takes place during the Battle of Leipzig, the trials and tribulations of regular folks never change.

31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.

Farm workers unearthed these potatoes with heavy machinery. They’ll now be cleaned and sorted by hand for size and quality before being bagged or sent to cold storage for future packaging and shipping.

Yum tamales! This worker is hand weeding organic corn. Organic produce can be labor intensive because no pesticides are used to control weeds.

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

This Monterey Mushroom facility has a strong union contract. The good union wages and benefits make for low overturn, which makes for extremely skilled workers like this.

The Allium Podcast is looking for new work!! Submission deadline is November 30th

#nowreading Guestbook: Ghost Stories by Leanne Shapton

So excited that my short story, “Mothering,” is online at allium.colum.edu/fall-2025-fi... at Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose

So excited that my short story, “Mothering,” is online at allium.colum.edu/fall-2025-fi... at Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose

#nowreading The Collected Breece D’J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters. Published by Library of America.

So I see that a French former president can do prison time. Hmmm.

It’s George Floyd’s birthday. He should be 52.

“.. 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

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/