This isn’t law enforcement doing its job. It’s the escalation of a culture of fear that punishes anyone who dares to document it.

Title reveal! Tonight a fabulous group of actors will table-read my next play! 🐐

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

The other day in Kendall Square

The cat is no longer crouching in Hunter Mode in front of the fridge. This means that there is a very good chance someone in this house has a dead mouse in their shoe.

The regime in the White House is making devastating cuts to the social safety to finance tax cuts for the super rich. And the richest man in the world, who used his wealth to get this regime elected, is on track to be paid $274 million every day for the next 10 years. Oligarchy.

“You have made progress.” “You are not a danger to yourself or others.” The denial letter from Geneva Moore’s insurer directly contradicted her therapist’s words. Cut off from her treatment program, Moore slid into a monthslong downward spiral. (Published Dec. 2024)

"Can I believe the magic of your sighs? Will you still love me tomorrow?" #motown

She still stands for justice.

It is easy to miss the cloud reflections in the puddles when the drones are perching on the telephone wires and boats are exploding off the coast of Venezuela. It’s easy not to notice the flirtatiousness of the wind when there is black smoke over Palestine and everything’s coated in oil.

Maybe there will be a secret industrial spy working for the airplane companies who gets sent on a mission to end the shutdown and relieve pressure on the official economy's flight sector? Or maybe I am just a really imaginative author?

Simultaneously, poetry is both an observation and an incantation.

There is magic in those friendships where you can drop onto a barstool months after last meeting, catch up for 5 minutes each, and then spend hours talking like no time has passed.

One big reason to support @wonkettemedia.bsky.social is their Ding Dong The Wicked Witch Is Dead obituaries. open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...

Trump says he's sending the National Guard to crime-ridden "hellholes," but homicide rates across major cities have been falling. In Portland, murders were down 39%. In Chicago, they were down 22%. Trump's deployments are about authoritarian control, not "law and order."

Jennifer Siebel Newsom shows the way forward for parents.

I wrote this 2 years ago, but today it somehow feels appropriate. _Rites_ Dig a hole. Dig it deep. Lay a heavy stone. We do not wish Him back again. Not brow Nor breath Nor bone. #poetry #incantation

The loss of the politics staff at Teen Vogue is an absolute travesty. In a media marketplace that has been decimated by billionaires, tepid takes, and AI slop, Teen Vogue often stood out as a bastion of principled, purposeful journalism.

Ahem. New York is a donor state + massively so. We subsidize red states because we generate more wealth at higher rates than they do. Mike Johnson appears to be confusing "abuse" with "use". We might call it taking care of people in need. Contemptible. If unsurprising.

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

An anti-CRT movement targeted an accomplished educator — driving her out of two Georgia school districts. The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance. (Published June 2022) By @nicolefcarr.bsky.social

📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers. ➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

This dark time should wake us up to the bankruptcy of the corporate Democratic party. It should mark the birth of the people’s Democratic party. Zohran Mamdani and others like him are its future. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/28/zohran-mamdani-democratic-party

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

On the note of "The Bride of Frankenstein", if you have not witnessed the power of Billie Piper in "Penny Dreadful", please, do yourself the favor. youtu.be/i7OZeoVN6DY " #brideoffrankenstein

Venice Bakery is remembering those that have died in ICE custody this year by adding them to their community altar for Dia de Los Muertos. By @eltragon.bsky.social

One cannot sing When breathing is Restricted. However, With just a little air Still one can hum. Humming is vibration Harmonic vibration Which, If amplified, Can drop a plane From the sky, Shatter a building And possibly... Topple a regime. #poetry

You sought to access her private gynecological records,” Mamdani said, re: what Cuomo's legal team did as part of the defense... “She cannot speak up for herself because you lodged a defamation case against her. I, however, can speak. What do you say to the 13 women that you sexually harassed?”

Her autobiography is back in print due to fan effort. It's a grand read. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/elsa-lanch... #ElsaLanchester

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

It is both terrifying and galvanizing when you realize that all the stuff you learned through channeling and spirit-board work back in the earliest '90s is actually coming to pass. #witchtok #theshift

Empty park at dusk, the swing moves without your weight, creaking like my heart. #haiku #poetry #swing

Trump’s “war on antifa” was never about public safety. It was about consolidating power and silencing dissent. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-anti...

Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

updated my lego white house with the paved rose garden and demolished east wing

We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.

higgledy-piggledy bones in a pile which were beloved which were reviled sort them and stack them like nobody cares craft chandeliers for the supplicant's stares #poetry #SedlecOssuary #Halloween

NEWS: GM said today it will end production of BrightDrop #EV delivery vans.

Vajra Chandrasekera's Rakesfall has won the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Award for Fiction. Congratulations!! reactormag.com/vajra-chandr...

If they truly believed their policies were popular, they wouldn’t try so hard to win by gerrymandering the maps everywhere.

Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents. “Abject lies,” he wrote. Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases. Because...we do our homework. propub.li/4o2eeiL

NEW: Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins. By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social