Waxing Moon

The nightmare objects in the dreams of those in 1930s Germany struck me as too mundane when I read Charlotte Beradt’s The Third Reich of Dreams—the lamp that tells one woman’s secrets, for instance.

It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Giving public dollars to preschools that openly treat students with LGBTQ+ parents differently is state-backed discrimination. Plain and simple. This case is part of a dangerous, escalating path that takes aim at LGBTQ+ children, parents, and entire family units. This must stop.

Spring Puddle.🍃 #OneWalkADay #MentalHealthMatters

Very on the nose that the institute hiring a grad intern to "integrate AI tools into our research processes," i.e. make future grad labor unnecessary, is funded by at least two separate billionaires, Chase bank, & a student loan collection agency. Its name? The GU Center on Education & the Workforce

Primrose growing in the pavement outside @theul.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Every time a Democrat mentions how to talk to "ordinary people" they mean "how I was told to talk by a handful of weirdo consultants in DC with gross fixations on throwing certain groups under the bus and who would not last a day in an ordinary job interacting with ordinary people."

You, old woman, blessed with blindness, can speak the language that tells us what only language can: how to see without pictures. Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.”

“For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don’t tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief’s wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear’s caul.

...and the other poem, "Paradise," is for the insomniacs. Thank you to poetry editor, Samantha Sharp, and all the editors at Midway. midwayjournal.com/paradise-2/

Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza. A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.

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Just arrived via @bookshop.org (much faster to Maine than Amazon) More people should do what @chanda.blacksky.app did and pitch/write their books to the poets. Can’t wait to read!

I have two poems in the new issue of Midway Journal, one about corporate agreements, "Host Community".... midwayjournal.com/host-communi...

Future generations to suffer for our negligence: "A collapse would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50-100cm to already rising sea levels around the Atlantic."

I have two poems in the new issue of Midway Journal, one about corporate agreements, "Host Community".... midwayjournal.com/host-communi...

Good morning 🌱

Night shifts and day naps “Nap” by Arthur Smith (U of Pitt Press)

Why aren't students protesting?

🗣️ I just read an intriguing post about research using AI to predict intimate partner violence (IPV), including via radiological images and clinical notes. While on the surface this seems well-intentioned, it gives me pause.

Something that I think is really important to recognize about people who persist in using the r-word is that someone as old as I am (50s) can remember teachers in my elementary school telling us not to use it. That was in the 1970s.

BREAKING: Hundreds of anti-genocide protestors have descended on the NYC offices of @schumer.senate.gov & @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social in protest against their voting for Trump’s war on Iran and support for Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza.

can u spot my eliminated job’s salary in her lips

More villages in South Lebanon being detonated by Israel. Israel is the one sharing these videos. They are proud of their war crimes.

Since the war on Iran began on Feb 28, Israel has launched near-daily attacks on Lebanon, Gaza, and the occupied West Bank. In that time, Israel killed at least 107 people, permitted only 8% of medical evacuations, and admitted just 20% of aid trucks into Gaza. 🔗: aje.news/u0qdtx | #Infograph

Except we’ve spent $50 billion, the Strait is closed and 3000 people are dead. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In this TRT broadcast I enjoyed reminding a US Trumpian congressman that China is leading the Green Revolution, leaving the fossil-fuel obsessed Americans way behind..A tragedy for the American people. youtube.com/shorts/I4wMc...

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

Left- Israel destroyed the 2,000 year old village, Aita al-Shaab, in Lebanon yesterday. A crime against humanity. Right- Israel bombed Lebanon yesterday and killing 303 Lebanese...at least one third of them children, women and the elderly.

There wasn't a ceasefire in Oct 2025, and there isn't a ceasefire today. The IOF immediately broke its agreements in both Lebanon and Iran, despite clear terms. There's a massive bombardment on civilians this week. Keep your eyes on the region and keep up pressure to defund IOF terrorism.

Goosebumps at the plane the Iranian negotiators took to Pakistan where they negotiate a peace with the Americans Sharing a picture on social media, Ghalibaf wrote: "My companions on this flight." #Minab168

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

Big job for the right archivist. ICP in NYC.

“Children” by Tove Ditlevsen trans. Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell “The ones who know love best are those who never met it. The sinner knows more of virtue than most would assume.”

Trump has apparently just posted a video of a woman being murdered on his social media account. I am not watching it and you shouldn’t either. You should, however, call your reps and demand impeachment.

Well that took one day. "Far-left" doesnt have a real definition in the United States. Much like "Marxist." So it'll be anyone they consider an enemy www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

So the mostly young people who protested against Israeli genocide "accomplished nothing" AND also you demand that they protest now against the war in Iran... I see.

Security camera captures key moments of yesterday’s large-scale Israeli strike in Beirut.

you hated them while they were happening!!!

Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It's not fair to say that Trump's Iran War accomplished nothing. It made a ton of money for these oil executives: www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Lydia Davis recounting edits she made in her story “In a House Besieged” with her characteristic humor. “Last change: By the time of the final version, I knew how to spell *besieged*.”

Kennedy Owra, a PhD student at UW, and his 13 year old son were deported from Seattle, WA earlier today (4/8/26) after being detained and denied legal counsel. Here is a GoFundMe to help their family with legal costs: www.gofundme.com/f/9wup9u-hel...

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

Israeli War Criminals bombing Beirut, Lebanon right now.

Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. Learn more about his life and see a collection of his stunning astronomical art here: https://buff.ly/2ENtY5g #eclipse #solareclipse

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming