Zohran Mamdani 💙🧡

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

He really is just trying to kill everyone.

Mother is a verb as well as a noun, so I hope everyone can honor whatever mothers them and whatever capacity to mother they have, or the equivalent in whatever gender language works for them.

the new york sewer rats have finally elected a new rat pope

I share this because though I’m not in Seattle, these are favored tactics in my book! I’m cheering from afar!

this administration is so clearly trying to decrease/shut off access to art and increase access to propaganda

By the way this isn't an obscure act; it was the one used to justify the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, the one never overturned by the Supreme Court or US District Court, even when Fred Korematsu's case was appealed in the 1980s.

@lenamschmitt.bsky.social and Martha Park share an illustrated conversation.

I wrote a letter for the Action Network letter campaign: Restore Legal Services for Unaccompanied Children This week, the government froze legal services for unaccompanied children, leaving over 26,000 children without access to their legal counsel Send a letter: actionnetwork.org/letters/rest...

Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

Instead of filing taxes we should be dumping tea in the harbor (except tea is way too expensive and the harbor is a fragile ecosystem)

Living in my apartment feels like I’ve been given an impossible task by the gods, and if I somehow, someday complete it, I will be handsomely rewarded. The task is always just: find anything.

Can't wait!!! Join us...🌠⚡

This is what the so-called war on “woke” was always about it, convincing people that what happens to the marginalized can’t happen to them. It can, it will. First, challenge citizenship by birth. Then, unconstitutionally expel citizens from their own country. “Deport” is the incorrect word, btw.

Listen up. The Department of Homeland Security is scraping your social media for "antisemitism." If you have posted anything in support of Palestine and you are on a visa, have a green card, or are undocumented, take steps. This is serious. www.uscis.gov/newsroom/new...

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

Seattle! Join @mbsycamore.bsky.social, @gabriellebates.bsky.social, and me tomorrow evening at @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social. This is the last stop on my ~*~west coast tour~*~ for my Cosmic Tantrum book launch! Hope to see you there 🪐💅🖤⚡️

I want to celebrate each instance of refusal. How each NO makes the next one more possible.

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

I thoroughly enjoyed Sarah Lyn Roger’s book launch party tonight at Bishop & Wilde in #PDX. Witty, bratty, and fantastical poetry! Splendid work, @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social Check it out! nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014793...

Portland! Come briefly take your mind off of the nation falling apart! This reading is TONIGHT 🪐🖤⚡️💅

2025 is just me screaming “what the FUCK” at my phone again and again

can we take a moment to celebrate the magnificent economy of the phrase "dipshit sex pest failsons asking chatgpt to regurgitate a trade policy for them"

This is today! Come see me at the @nupress.bsky.social, booth 315, #awp25 ! I’ll be there from 1:00-2:00 pm today to sign books and say hey

L.A.! Come hang out at the Marriott *tonight* to celebrate the latest @nupress.bsky.social books with me & my press mates 🥂

The Guardian interviews Black Panther Cubs. The children of the activists the U.S. government declared an internal war on. This whole interactive package is worth engaging

They are rounding up the students. Anyone acting like this isn’t a 4 alarm fire is deluded.

I think most of who have worked in writing or entertainment know that piracy is a fact of life, and has been for a long time now. But there’s a difference between a broke student downloading a PDF of your book, and a multibillion dollar company stealing your work for its own bullshit purposes.

"A book as deeply critical of interpersonal codependency as it is on labor-exploitative late-stage capitalism, this collection asks us to question our relationships and how they serve us." A pleasure to chat with Gabrielle Grace Hogan for @therumpus.net! therumpus.net/2025/03/19/s...

Can't wait for the COSMIC TANTRUM book tour to celebrate @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social stunning debut⚡ @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social in Seattle on April 10, 7 pm, w/the mesmerizing @gabriellebates.bsky.social. I'll be reading a preview of my next novel, TERRY DACTYL, masks required because we love you💞

4/2, SF: At The Booksmith w/ Preeti Vangani, Joe Wadlington, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Sage Curtis & Sally Ashton 4/4, Portland: At Bishop & Wilde w/ Ellee Achten, Genevieve DeGuzman, Julia Gaskill & Jessica E. Johnson 4/10, Seattle: At Open Books w/ Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore & Gabrielle Bates

L.A.! Tucson! San Francisco! Portland! Seattle! I am coming to visit! 3/27, L.A.: @nupress.bsky.social's AWP offsite event 3/29, L.A.: I am signing books!! At NUP's booth, #315! 3/31, Tucson: Book launch at The Ninth House. In conversation with Jes Baker sarahlynrogers.com/events

This is horrifying

The travel ban is so absurd & the only purpose of it will be to further isolate the US. Once you get past red none of these countries have given the US any quarrel except they stay mad Haiti's Black & free, & Vanuatu? The few thousand South Pacific islanders are a security threat to America?

I found the book angle on much of my discontent with my elected officials, and I went off. lithub.com/shilling-boo...

Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.

I don’t understand why the president is allowed to spout nonsense about colonizing another country and the 25th amendment isn’t being invoked in addition to all the other horrors this is insane. It’s absolutely insane. It isn’t funny or even weird.

Many thanks to @electriclit.bsky.social and @summ.bsky.social for the chance to talk about my poetry collection, humor as a form of resistance, and not automatically complying with vague/indirect requests 😊

John Taggart

John Ashbery

Fantastic poetry reading @sarahlynwrites.bsky.social! Love this podcast reading series from @debutiful.bsky.social

Thank you for having me, @debutiful.bsky.social! On today’s podcast, I read these poems: “Fate Myth with Manufactured Need” “NO ONE WANTS TO VOLUNTEER FOR AN EMBODIMENT ON EARTH ANYMORE” “Ars Poetica with Need and Wild Cats”