Murdering liars.

🚨Dream journal moment!🚨Beyond excited to have a poem in the new issue of North American Review alongside some absolutely rockstar poets and writers! Here’s to poetry, a little imagination, and the bizarre interplay of loss, lineage, and memory. @northamerreview.bsky.social

If you only have time to read one thoughtful piece about this mess, let it be this one.

Poem of the day:

When my grandmother was born in July 1914, her mother planted a rosebush. Granny took a cutting every time she moved, and my youngest uncle took a cutting to his home in SC. Granny's rosebush lives on, 112 years later...

Call me crazy, but I'm not convinced the way to beat fascists is to be more like fascists.

“People don’t like to leave a party / unless the house is actually / on fire.” — Charles Rafferty . . . This poem appeared in The Southern Review, Winter 2026. Shared here with deep gratitude.

They say it has everything to do with money & power, but what they want us to forget is that it is about how we love. Yesenia Montilla

🔥🔥🔥 youtu.be/rnKosV5DkqA?...

I don't want anyone to flagellate themselves or whatever. Just like...go do the reading on Graham Platner red flags, and internalize them enough that next time, you do see it coming and we don't do...this...again.

Good thread.

JFC. Beyond the blatant violation of ethics, it just keeps proving to be all artificial and zero intelligence.

Thrilled to have a poem in this fantastic new issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social alongside so many poets & artists I admire. Many thanks to Rob MacDonald for all the work that went into making this issue so special! Please give the whole thing a read!

I shared this poem with friends over the weekend and they were a tad upset because it made them cry. Well, duh, that's the beauty of it!

I spoke with my old friend Mitch McConnell for almost twenty minutes this morning and he just screamed over and over "WHY IS IT SO FUCKING HOT? WHY IS IT SO FUCKING HOT???" before whoever was in the room with him started chanting in Latin about souls and debts needed to be paid.

If Scott Jennings didn't make a living lying, this might be valuable information.

Universal rule of team sports: the more you employ technology to reduce officiating controversy, the more controversy you create As with all tech, the promise of perfection and greater efficiency is a false one Few know this better than teachers

Oy. Just listening to his voice, you can tell he knows he's full of shit.

Interesting.

Still not voting for you, Rahm

Oh, I remember...

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

Hell, a lot of Americans were rooting for Belgium, me included.

Truth

Sometimes I just want to open my window and yell "Told Ya!"

Objectively speaking the mere presence of his administration increases the number of violent criminals in dc significantly

FIFA Shadow Docket

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

Interesting thread.

Truly if someone wrote the last ten years as a novel you would think it was the stupidest, most ridiculous novel ever written

Wait, now they DON'T want faces covered? I'm so confused. ICE in masks=fine but other neo-nazis in masks=bad? Oh, excuse me, antifa in masks😎🤣

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

He's an agent of chaos. Absolute chaos.

My uncle, Sam, and his granddaughters. I have a real Uncle Sam.

Just looked up "Netflix House." Good lord, we're a ridiculous people.

Some of these same pathetic losers protested against wearing masks to protect themselves and their neighbors during the pandemic, but now, they parade around in masks in heat stroke weather because they always were and always will be cowards. I hope they get what they deserve.

Andrew Hemmert For today, and for all days ♥️💙 “…this I think is what is necessary for survival, pledging allegiance to the heart…” from “I Pledge Allegiance to the Heart” in Waxwing and in NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRESS (Pitt Poetry Series) @andrewhemmert.bsky.social waxwingmag.org/items/issue3...

I took this photo at the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY, last fall. Title: "...And Our Flag Was Still There" Creator: Melinda Bula, 2011 Dimensions: 55¹½" x 33¾" Looks like a painting, but it's a quilt! That museum is a treasure.

Not feeling very celebratory but trying to hang onto hope and manufacture a little joy today. Had brunch out with the parents and later having a make your own pizza night, maybe some games... Thinking about those who didn't give up believing we could be better.

We're pleased to announce that guest editor Carmen Maria Machado will be selecting prose for our Summer 2027 issue! For the chance to have your work read by Carmen, submit to our reading period: https://pshares.org/submit/submit-writing/

We're excited to announce that Hala Alyan is editing our Spring 2027 issue! Submit to our Regular Reading Period to have your work read by Hala: https://pshares.org/submit/submit-writing/

I'm sorry, but when someone takes time to post about something just to say they don't care at all about it... I. Don't. Believe. It.

700k+ people of DC are forced into role as ground-zero for Trump's wanton destructiveness. Again: We pay *more*, per capita, in federal taxes than any other Americans. For real. Greatest tax burden. Zero representation. Statehood for DC needs to be #1 on Dem agenda.

(If you want to hear the full text after watching these amazing young people, Democracy Now! has posted their annual YT video of the late James Earl Jones reading the full text, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6vo... )

Resharing now that it seems photos are loading again...

I don't think any American--regardless of party, despite fondness for aviation (which I share)--would enjoy being under the nonstop low-altitude, high-speed, incredible-volume of the Caligula overflights of our nation's capital right now. It feels and sounds like being under aerial attack.

I uninstalled and reinstalled app. Still not seeing photos. Grrrrr...

Anyone else not seeing photos here right now? I cleared cache, turn phone off/on. Seeing only a very few photos...🤔

How it started/How it's going My maternal grandparents in the 1930s and our family the last few summers. They'd be proud that -so many of us were/are educators -we ALL get together at least once a year (for 30 years now, on a weekend near Granny's bday) -we get together often in smaller groups, too

"See!” he cried triumphantly. “It’s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too — didn’t cut the pages."