@amandagorman.bsky.social once again giving voice to our grief and anguish and offering clarity, hope, and inspiration #poetry #hopeinthedark #inspiration #resist

There are many of us who will NEVER forget this attack on our government, our free and fair elections, and those law enforcement officers who put themselves in harm's way to prevent an outcome that could have been far worse than the violence and destruction we saw with our own eyes on that day.

So many terrific #poems in Poetry is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons, like this beautiful little heartbreaker by Sophie Klahr #poetry #nowreading #booksky

It’s a fair question!

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

it's time to play America's favorite new game, 'what the fuck am I waking up to now'

Great start, and then let’s keep it going well beyond December 1st.

I love them! I would loved this even more if the folks smiling and clapping turned around and returned everything they had bought.

We are now one of the few countries that will no longer honor World AIDS Day We join with Russia, Iran, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Libya, North Korea You know all the countries that hate humans rights www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As a longtime community college professor and a state college grad, I co-sign on this idea!

Every regional public university should be blasting this message in every possible medium.

Only the now near-pathologically out-of-touch NY Times could turn a pedophile sex trafficker's emails into a sort of wistful love letter for a "protected realm [that] vanished into the mists of time."

The schadenfreude is real, folks. 😏😎

This article is an excellent takedown of the ridiculously reductive “both sides” approach that has brought us to this terrible moment.

Oof. This beauty. #poetry #poems #inspiration #hopeinthedark

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

So on brand for this would-be emperor and his callous cronies.

This "therapy," widely discredited by medical professionals, is literally killing queer kids. As Schraeder Rodriguez notes, "Queer youth who have been threatened with or subjected to conversion efforts are twice as likely to have suicidal ideation."

THISSSSSSSS

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

Same

Of all the great signs I saw at yesterday’s #nokings in New Haven, this is the one that will stay with me. #nhv #gscia

‘Nuff said. #nokings 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Great turnout in New Haven, CT for the #nokings rally and march. #gscia #nhv

In protesting peacefully we reclaim our cities and communities from state brutality. These are our spaces, our homes.

Timely #reading and rereading before and after joining #nokings protests today. #booksky

Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.

A friend sent this important reminder to me this morning in honor of my birthday, James Baldwin once again speaking necessary truth across the years, in a time when showing compassion, care, and love, to “magnify each other’s light” is critical work. #hopeinthedark #wisdom #inspiration

Underreported in most of the stories about the silencing of Jimmy Kimmel, Sinclair Broadcasting has snapped up hundreds of local stations with an eye toward promoting conservative talking points pre-packaged as "news." Media consolidation is a key tool of autocratic governments.

How I wish this Mary Oliver poem was not so prescient about this terrible moment we are all living through #poetry #poems #truth

So funny, and not funny at all.

A little something to soothe the soul in these crazy, crazy times.

We're three lines into "First they came..."

On nutrition, Jeffrey Dahmer has broken sharply with the mainstream.

"Life in the United States is profoundly changing, is profoundly different than it was even six months ago, because we do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge." Rachel Maddow, August 4, 2025

Get great content, support my local public broadcasting, and stick it to the thought police all at once? Oh yeahhhhhhhhh. I am so in.

The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.

👏 Also, Prime Day sales were down 41% on the first day, according to Bloomberg. #dumpAmazon

We are literally living through the absolute dumbest moment in history.

Need another reason to avoid Amazon? You're welcome.

“As a nation we are as close to autocracy as we’ve ever been. It seems like fascism is basically a war on consensus reality and we need to put a pin in those points where it’s so obvious that it’s not true...We need to flood the zone too but with the truth.”

Love this #poem and the way it meets this particular, difficult moment #poetry #hopeinthedark #wisdom #inspiration

I'm probably never going to know the details of the floods in Texas because I can't stand reading about them. But I do think two things can be held true simultaneously: -no voted for this, no one deserves this -extreme weather shows why we need government, why rugged individualism is not enough

From a scholar who ought to know. #neveragainisnow

Here's a friendly reminder. 📣🇺🇸

I needed this @nikitagill.bsky.social #poem this very difficult #independenceday and the clear-eyed #inspiration it provides. #hopeinthedark #poetry #persist #resist

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

May our anger at this abomination of a budget bill be the fuel that fires us up to win back the House and Senate in 2026.

A friend sent me this moving beauty of a #poem yesterday, which gets it so right about our relationship with dogs and why I love them so. #poetry #doglover #poetrylover #dogsofbluesky #dogs #doglife