Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about. Their stories should be known:

Yeah I won’t be using Canvas anymore.

Frustrated? Intro to communism reading list with pdfs, online text, and audio books for each aliciastuff.notion.site/Communist-Be...

Well, well, well. I’ve got a new piece up on effy literary, a lit mag I found on @chillsubs.bsky.social. They’re doing awesome stuff, including publishing this odd non-fiction number about AI, listening and sight, and fungus that takes over the brain. Enjoy: effyliterary.art/2026/02/13/o...

Well, well, well. I’ve got a new piece up on effy literary, a lit mag I found on @chillsubs.bsky.social. They’re doing awesome stuff, including publishing this odd non-fiction number about AI, listening and sight, and fungus that takes over the brain. Enjoy: effyliterary.art/2026/02/13/o...

The level of embarrassment felt after putting research for a demented story about addiction into a group chat (instead of texting yourself)? Let me tell you: mortification-level.

Man, Owning Mahoney is a masterclass of utilizing trope and genre to encourage great performances. Scaffolding for diverse effects. Not perfect, but that’s a plus.

Hiring - en mask! @theonion.com

The combination of the image and headline

Here is a new poem. Already revised, alas. But for what it’s worth: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Many thanks to Jeff Shotts and Kevin Young.

No better feeling than being back in the classroom with an engaged group of students.

Live forever by refusing to die. Become a writer

Nice acceptance today. Hope to share a link soon.

Here's a peek at our community favorites of the day... Featuring: @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social @3lobedmag.com #writing #writers #writingcommunity

protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed. disgusting.

I love it when @majorityreport.bsky.social gets fired up. With Chuck Schumer out there enabling funding for paratroopers in the streets, it's not hard to be mad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_epY...

The folks at @majorityreport.bsky.social shared this link that drafts an email (that you can edit) to send to elected officials in your area. Worth checking it out, and it's super easy. Takes less than 2 minutes of your time and could have a massive impact 🖖🏽 act.nilc.org/page/92508/a...

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

I’m remembering how once, at a residency, a writer I was talking to claimed that REAL writers don’t teach, and now I’m arguing with them about it in my head.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Currently reading Techno Feudalism by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social and really enjoying the structure: a beginner’s guide to capitalism in the front, a deep dive into everything wrong with today’s finance driven economy (led by tech industry bullying) at the back. Accessible, but full of insight.

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

You like MMA? I’m a hot yoga guy.

Joanna Ruocco @bigothermag.bsky.social

The deadline for your chance to win a 2025 BIG OTHER Book Award is approaching! The awards aim to recognize excellence in literature in 2025 and to promote and support the work of innovative writers and adventurous presses. Deadline is 12/31/25. bigother.com/2025/06/23/a...

It was a 2025 goal of mine to send new work to @aaronburch.bsky.social for Short Story, Long and I'm so happy he liked "Home is a Relative Term" enough to give it a, well, home! It's a story of suburban existentialism, queer panic, and a desire for connection. open.substack.com/pub/ashortst...

🎶 made an IG account for the series: www.instagram.com/track_change...

I have a bad habit of forgetting to sell my poetry collections. My newest chapbook, Tricks, is available here and comes with a trigger warning: it is highly gay and should not be read by anyone who may not be prone to frequent arousal. www.cutbankonline.org

My latest with @ichotiner.bsky.social.

Iraqezuela. Saddam Maduro.

Psssst! We’re open across five categories on Submittable. Catch us while you can!

Discussed Moby Dick tonight with a friend and we both got a bit emotional about the scene where a harpooned whale thrashes around dealing mortal wounds to their pod. Seems like a good enough metaphor for the world right now …

Want to be a better writer in 2026? You'll be AMAZED at these 5 simple bits of clickb Oh. Is this thing on?

Nothing like a New Year’s cold to assure that 2026 is going off the rails just as splendidly as 2025.

I wrote about why this is terrible journalism a few months back www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...

“Why are Americans mistrustful of AI?” asks the morning briefing thing I’m skimming while I “no” through literally a dozen questions being asked to me by a robot who stands between me and the person I need to talk to to schedule the x-ray that I really, really need

If you’re a flash writer, please come join @smokelong.bsky.social’s The Village With All The Flash Writers. And make sure you read the inimitable Zach Doss’s story on which the name of this new community is based. I’ll link it in the thread.

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

Woody Guthrie’s New Year's resolutions for 1943. “Wake up and fight.”

There are so many December 31 deadlines.

Say no to AI-generated slop. Support human work by donating to Mason Jar Press today! All funds directly support the work of our very real, very human authors: masonjarpress.com/support-us #poetry #poets #writers #fiction #memoir #independentpress #smallpress #nonprofit #donate #noai #noaiart

There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Episode five of The New Years, a Spanish episodic about a couple navigating every January 1 of their courtship, has one of the best on-screen arguments ever written/performed. Seriously good.

It’s “catch up on all the unread New Yorkers” season, apparently.

2025: Another year of celebrating tsundoku …

The Holdovers is my new Christmas movie tradition. Any movie where the hero smells like fish and is generally unapologetic about it …

It’s amazing to find, after so many years writing, novel approaches to drafting something new and how almost always those exciting methodologies require a sense of play. “Fun” is the operative and generative word.

a good time to bump this

A screen recording of a 60 Mins segment about the CECOT prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be aired today but was pulled last minute for "unclear reasons." Despite being pulled, it aired on Global-TV in Canada anyway: archive.org/details/60mi...