A week or so ago, I was looking for a couple books by an author from 10 and 15 years ago and my library didn't have them. I requested them via a library form. Today I got a notification in Libby that they purchased both titles. Asking your library for writers' books is an amazing way to support us.

Another Reason to Like the future Senator…… “Once you learn that Talarico was a middle school teacher, it becomes easier to understand why he's so good at ignoring MAGA insults. He's heard smarter taunts.”

“In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.” 🦋 I am reminded today that I never would have arrived at this sentence in Chapter 22 if it was not for the opportunity to read this very-dense book (we're not even halfway through!) slowly and in community with others.

Trump having to be his own backup for a cancelled Milli Vanilli appearance, about sums up his second Administration.

Thank you, @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Always read her! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/overriding...

How about instead of selling tickets to watch people beat each other up on the White House front lawn, we fund food pantries, education, healthcare, and childcare

Texas will now choose between rage or hope, spectacle or substance. One man sells grievance like snake oil from the back of a burning truck, the other asks whether government can still belong to the people. The ballot is a mirror, look carefully at what you become when you mark it.

Republicans want billions for ICE's unchecked terror—no oversight, no rules, no accountability. I will continue to say NO. That money could be used for: ✅ Schools & child care ✅ Healthcare ✅ Housing ✅ Jobs

The same Senator Andy Kim who voluntarily cleaned up the trash left by J6 insurrectionists at the nation's Capitol. #SheShed

There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts.

Jared Polis is so completely full of shit. His commutation of Tina Peters' sentence has nothing to do with freedom of speech. What a joke. What an insult to the law-abiding citizens of Colorado. What an assault on free and fair elections. An embarrassing profile in cowardice.

"Arthur Miller did not write The Crucible as a history lesson. He wrote it as a warning. It is not just about McCarthyism, but about every period that looks like it....history is watching us. The crucible is a test, and it’s on all of us to make sure we pass it this time." An excellent read:

THANK YOU to all the hard-working nurses and teachers out there. No jobs are more important. We appreciate all that you do. #NationalNursesDay #TeacherAppreciationWeek

We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

oh do news reporters know what it's like to be a public school teacher now

If you live in Los Angeles, please join me and my coeditor and our incredible LA-based contributors for our launch party for the Bachelor anthology on May 6, 7pm, at The Hoxton in DTLA!

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

If not for Trump, what's the emoluments clause for? What's impeachment for? What's the 25th Amendment for? What's section 3 of the 14th Amendment for? What are checks and balances for? The baddies are cherrypicking the Constitution the same way they do the bible: for their own benefit.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

I struggle to find words. This is wrong on so many levels. Healthcare in the US is punitive on so many levels. Particularly towards women, though the skyrocketing insurance premiums are affecting all. #HealthcareForAll #Pinks #ProudBlue

"Calm down. He won't be that bad." "He won't go after political opponents." "He won't try to overturn an election." "He won't start a stupid, costly war." "He won't purge the military." "He won't use nukes." <--- We're currently here.

Y’all, I’m seriously having a hard time seeing the world’s good bones right now. Can we not finally trash this man?

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Barack Obama secured a deal with Iran without ever threatening a war crime!

War. And after that? War. And now? War. War. History might as well be water, chastising this shore. -Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, written on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War. #everynightapoem

"Who can be serene in a country where both the rulers and the ruled are without principle? The remembrance of my country spoils my walk" - Henry David Thoreau

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While today is traditionally about getting tricked and feeling foolish if you fall for it, in the world of 2026 we can perhaps think about the power of foolery, cleverness, creativity to keep us resilient and light-hearted, indeed to keep us sane

“I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.” Seamus Heaney

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see you there

Thank you, @thebloggess.bsky.social

"The weakening of public schools and the devaluing of teachers and the dismissal of the Liberal Arts are part of a deliberate effort to reshape America into a place where fewer people can think critically or organize collectively or question the power of those in power" @piperformissouri.bsky.social

There’s one thing stupider than spending 1.5 trillion to lose a war to a middle power in the Middle East, and that is spending 1.7 trillion to do so.

He warned us he would run our country like his businesses.

I will never use AI to write anything. Even if it weren't ethically dubious, using AI to write is like having a robot do the reps during weight lifting. Your writing skills will deteriorate. Your voice will atrophy. I genuinely don't understand why any writer would do it. Makes no sense.

I really enjoyed Beings by Ilana Masad.

The evil that men do lives after them

We are not at war with Iran, although we have been for the last 50 years.

Do you ever just go back and think what if Al Gore would have become president?

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

ALT Text: America will never correct its mistakes if teachers are not allowed to teach about them.

We have lost a decade of our life to an evil idiot…a dolt. A moron. One of the most racist and dumbest humans on the planet. 10 years.

“But are there not many Fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.” - Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)