A small plug today to consider joining the Freelance Solidarity Project. We're all in this media shitscape together, and it's going to take organizing to rescue its remains from the dumpster fire. freelancesolidarity.org

The state of american politics is that one major party wants to kill you while the other simply wants you to die

"Queer trickster” Kevin Killian was mentor, novelist, memoirist, playwright and and supreme poet, as this astounding essay by #dfelsenthal.bsky.social makes clear: "In these poems, culture is the lens through which survivors understand their own desolation…" www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/176...

“We need to reform concentration camps for children”

I wrote about the baudy, beautiful Kevin Killian—and his collected poems, out now on Nightboat—for The Poetry Foundation.This was a blast to write and I'd be thrilled if you read my essay on this snowy eve! See below for lovely original art by Stella Murphy poetryfoundation.org/articles/176...

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I wrote about the baudy, beautiful Kevin Killian—and his collected poems, out now on Nightboat—for The Poetry Foundation.This was a blast to write and I'd be thrilled if you read my essay on this snowy eve! See below for lovely original art by Stella Murphy poetryfoundation.org/articles/176...

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

The assault on criticism echoes the subversion of free speech, embrace of generative A.I., and hostility toward the press. FSP-NWU is fighting for better rates. nwu.org/join Illustration by @colleentie.bsky.social

My husband @jiweinste.bsky.social , a legend of food writing, is back in @thebaffler.com with this skeptical, humane, hilarious and exuberantly written exploration of a certain class of upper crust east coaster’s favorite supermarket. A critical piece like no other thebaffler.com/latest/wegma...

Let's be clear (and I'm not being cute): this is DHS trying to get ahead of the inevitable moment when they shoot a baby.

Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*. workdaymagazine.org/minneapolis-...

Vibe right now m.youtube.com/watch?v=fMTi...

This is one insane way for federal agents to double down on being absolute disreputable shitheads

1. Why does going to the grocery store have to be so fucking stupid? 2. Not shopping at Wegman’s again gothamist.com/news/nyc-weg...

Criticism is a crucial and democratic counterforce in the face of marketing budgets and recommendation algorithms. Help FSP-NWU fight for better rates! nwu.org/join Illustration by @colleentie.bsky.social

This is a fantastic piece

The muffling of critical voices compromises consumer choice. A dollar a word would help critics make a living wage. nwu.org/join Illustration by @colleentie.bsky.social

Best new books I read in 2025, it's been fun, y'all

Best films of 2025. (Including movies that showed at festivals in '24 but didn't screen theatrically until this year.) Listed by date when I saw them!

Saw a whole bunch of concerts in 2025. These were the most amazing ones.

i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.

Canada will create an accelerated immigration pathway for U.S. H-1B visa holders. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

Absolutely thrilled that @exactingclam.bsky.social asked me to contribute to their Dada issue—you can read my poem “Daybed” in the Winter 2025 edition, available to purchase now! My copy came in the mail the other day :) www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-19...

Wrote about the long-awaited/unexpected Tobias Jesso Jr. record for @pitchfork.com , a collection of quasi-demos that create their own atmosphere pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Wrote about the long-awaited/unexpected Tobias Jesso Jr. record for @pitchfork.com , a collection of quasi-demos that create their own atmosphere pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

A wise and gorgeously written essay about the new MG album: "Death may be inevitable, but Darnielle casts out lifelines in his work, rescuing old motifs in order to refuse simple interpretations, tidy conclusions, and despair."

Wrote about the new Mountain Goats record for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Wow apparently there IS a better political strategy than throwing trans and Palestinian people under the bus to appease centrists.

I’m giving a reading on Saturday night with several fine poets, and a bit of music, too. Catch you at Black Spring Books in Brooklyn, it’s gonna be funnnn

I’m giving a reading on Saturday night with several fine poets, and a bit of music, too. Catch you at Black Spring Books in Brooklyn, it’s gonna be funnnn

This is a concentration camp

Have no idea who put this pristine copy of 11 late-career Frank O’Hara poems—copyrighted by the estate and compiled by Ted Berrigan in 1974—in a little free library box on Cooper Square. But, I think I’m going to hold onto this one…

Bluesky people! Watch this video in which my husband @jiweinste.bsky.social discusses PrEP outreach as part of PrEP Aware Week 2025. So proud that he’s an ambassador for this initiative, which will save lives and help destigmatize conversations about HIV. #PrEPRevolution #PrEPAwareWeek2025

Hello friends! I’m a New York State “ambassador” for PrEP Aware Week.These amazing drugs prevent folks of all genders and ages who have sex from becoming infected with HIV. But with health care under attack, we must fight for access. #PrEPRevolution #PrEPAwareWeek2025 youtu.be/Yc65c2CN7mU

Wrote about the wildly heart-pumping new Sudan Archives album for @pitchfork.com pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

I was so glad to write an exhibition text for Jon Setter and his fantastic new show of photographs, “Sydney Beaches: Saturated Edge,” which is up at 8 Wall Gallery in Sydney until November 1. You can read what I wrote here: 8wallgallery.org/exhibitions/...

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Cops affiliated with @amtrak.com are using Sniffies to lure gay men to Penn Station bathrooms, arrest them, and in certain cases, turn them over to ICE. This is entrapment and no one should stand for it. www.them.us/story/nyc-pe...

Very glad to be supporting this excellent cause and organization alongside my partner in crime/music Max Gordon at Baby’s All Right on October 15. 3 People is joining a true marquee lineup of music and comedy talent! Buy tix here ⬇️ wl.eventim.us/event/asc-be...

As the new semester starts, I want to keep the focus on the ongoing genocide in Gaza (and US complicity in it). Honored to have the chance to co-write this with another parent whose child was suspended from Barnard/Columbia for protest activity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Can't wait to drive around town in my pick-up with two trans flags out the back, breaking traffic laws, breaking my muffler so my celebration is louder, daring the haters, honking my horn

Also perhaps an example of when the review is more liberated and potent than the music itself....it indeed does happen.

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So glad that @pitchfork.com publishes pieces like this one by Jesse Doris, which—like the Terre Thaemlitz music under discussion—provokes thought and offers proof of free speech's power at once. End the genocide in Palestine. Support writing that tells the truth: pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Yeah so the first time AI overview has been unavailable is when I searched for how to get a COVID vaccine

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Wonderful to see this. Essex was my cousin (his father Warren was my uncle) and though I only met him a few times as a young person his spirit has always inspired me. Good time to check out this remarkable performance with other DC artists. Essex Hemphill: From the Anacostia to the Potomac