Apparently, it’s the most depressing day of the year so here’s something to immediately cheer you up - Willem Dafoe saying ‘it’s the creams’

Scenes from the poetry reading @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social last night

I’m faking it by contributing Jackson Browne’s The Pretender and a little story to @major7mag.bsky.social

now playing: volume 23 happy sunday, pals xo www.major7mag.com/post/literar...

I’m faking it by contributing Jackson Browne’s The Pretender and a little story to @major7mag.bsky.social

I became queer at a specific moment in the mid 90s watching the Incredible Hulk burst out of his clothes

Don't forget to rinse out every jar and tin you finish, guys x

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

But you don’t need to stop there. This author interview with @donmexlar.bsky.social is packed with thoughtfulness. templeinacity.com/in-conversat...

This tiny treasure packs a lot of what it means to love and belong in just a few little lines @donmexlar.bsky.social templeinacity.com/poetry-pierr...

More to share soon including poetry by @donmexlar.bsky.social (and a bonus author interview with super thoughtful answers) @ewenglass.bsky.social and still more.

You can’t invent the fact patterns cases will present by accident. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

I have a lil sad poem by myself called “Dear Dad” in @templeinacity.bsky.social templeinacity.com/poetry-pierr...

A little haunting courtesy of @wizardhill.bsky.social templeinacity.com/fiction-sean...

What better way to spend a Saturday than submitting your manuscript?

This moment when some dude whipped out a bagpipe and accompanied a "the people united will never be defeated" chant

If you are an active member of the national guard or the US military and are ordered to violate the constitutional rights of anyone on US soil, call the GI Rights Hotline. You swore an oath to support and defend the US constitution and do not have to follow unlawful orders. 877-447-4487

Scenes from around the house

You’re a king you say? Well I have a bed measured exactly to your specifications!

Retroactive law = no rule of law

Memories of the weekend

After the front came through

a useful analogue is the Anti-Kickback Statute which makes it an illegal bribe if “one purpose” was to induce the improper action; doing what you were going to do anyway isn’t the test

Joy Sullivan

gold star discourser (have never participated)

Who taught you this? The shock when they realize we think

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

When I started working for the government in 2017, I too was surprised how non bureaucratic it was especially compared to many big companies. And nearly everyone I worked with there was deeply committed. I left two weeks ago because I didn’t want to work for fascism.

“I think it’s much more dramatic that two men could be working out their feelings of anger then showing something of gunfire”

The dishwasher running in the evening reminds me there will be a tomorrow

Translucent Lego illuminated by candle

I had some new poems this week in the latest issue of Last Leaves

Why follow someone on the internet if you don’t like them? You could be dancing beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free or whatever, you could be living every day as a child in the sun

I hate to be controversial but, as an adult, big bird’s voice is one of the most annoying sounds I’ve ever heard

The what of your discontent? Bro I don’t think you understand seasons

For the next three weeks No Other Land is available to stream online with a donation!! supportmasaferyatta.com

the most sexual look a man can have is cutoff jean shorts so short you can see the pockets hanging out, and also they have been washed so many times that the fringe is like an inch long and has never been trimmed back. there is powerful virility in this look.

this 1996 commercial for claritin sent me into flight or flight. an absolute psycho directed this

New poem & mini-interview up at BRAWL this morning. Let’s go Team Taylor! www.brawllit.com/2025/eleanor...

really brutal chotinering right here www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Reactionary politics is always aesthetic

Send us your stranded darlings, the flash, poems and art you love that fall in the gaps of what’s most popular now. The defiant, tender, aching, oddballs. Open for submissions now. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

‘We have to go further because we’ve already gone too far’— the logic of fascism

[Bush kindergarten meme] Hegseth has started a second signal chat

Just wrote a poem about a salmon pan soaking in the sink, AMA

Christ didn’t ask Us to pile stones Into a pyramid But men often help In ways they want Not the ways You need

[poem about bubble gum] pop magnanimous swirl gut-check overstory in the basement dream sequence wrought orange cloth engineered loafers

the #cost of it, on my hands & knees on a sticky Starbucks table was dignity, I expect. Two weeks in tangled sheets, tears, and a sort of real wildbright grin, like Mona Lisa, if hoisted frameless, nameless, breathless, up against a wall, in a posh hotel the night before. #vss365

Nate silvers shocking prediction of AOC ‘28 is among the least shocking things I’ve ever heard