#BannedBooksWeek is October 5-11

Giving people only two choices then declaring their selection is just how things are now is such pundit brain. Is there no money to be made telling people that 51-49 is basically even?

Honestly, I never thought much of 1984 as a novel, so it really sucks to end up living in an even crappier version of it.

This is not normal political discourse: this is further incitement to violence & further justification for weaponizing the legal and electoral systems against MAGA's "enemies." Do not brush this off as something so extreme it's not worth taking seriously. www.foxnews.com/video/637738...

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

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Putting together a new project! Masc Anthology. Please share around. 🤙😎 #poetry #writing #cnf #writingcommunity

this is “stuff pillows under the blanket to make it look like someone is sleeping in the bed” levels of cover up

One of the things the Nazis did when coming to power was push propaganda that Jews were criminals and prone to violence by focusing on crime committed by Jews or fabricating crime they falsely attributed to Jews. The last 36 hours on X has been this on a massive scale against trans people.

I also think we need to keep hammering home that you don’t go to college to “debate.” You go to learn, which is not the same thing.

"I need to decide what leaving means losing" 💛 beautiful piece

We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to [email protected] by Tuesday, September 2nd!

Here and Also There . . . substack.com/@bradrichard...

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Hard to put into words how bad things are getting

After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.

jesus fucking christ man

Writers & educators of New Orleans! Check out poet-teacher wunderkind @bradrichard.bsky.social 's new suite of curricular & manuscript consultation services on his newly revamped website. Definitely vouch for this altogether capable & brilliant human, who you shan't regret working with....

Hey, friends! I've launched a Substack. 2 posts up: 1) why I named my Substack after the genus of all goldenrods; 2) the afterword to the second edition of Motion Studies, reflecting on how Katrina and writing that book changed me as a poet. Right now, everything is free. Thanks for checking it out!

ANTI-VAXXER: (n) Someone who prefers anecdotes to antidotes

Cowrie's essay is one of the best things I've read about where we are and how we got here. "The defense of white freedom in U.S. history might more accurately be thought of as racialized anti-statism, in which the federal government is understood as a usurper of individual and states’ rights."

the lesson you can learn from the CRM is not one about nonviolence but one about discipline

Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.

harron walker (not on here) posted this on ig

Referring to my imaginary friends as my dissociates

This sort of parallel reality has actually been integral to white supremacy bc the goal is to apply state violence on the basis of magical thinking abt racialized groups. Their aim is to deny a framework of rights & procedures & to replace it with racist fantasy & violence.

It was a joy to be interviewed by Nicole Cooley for @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social. Thank you, Nicole, for asking great questions that made me think harder about my work; and thank you, Christine Rice, for giving our interview a beautiful home. www.hypertextmag.com/to-attend-to...

The deadline for nominating poets for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection is May 15! Please let me know if you have any questions. wordworksbooks.org/submissions/...

State of the world. People sympathetic to Postmodernism, Social Construction and Pluralism insisting on historical facts. People professing that there is a single true version of reality deliberately suppressing historical facts, and making stuff up.

The deadline looms to nominate poets to submit to the Hilary Tham Capital Collection, an imprint of The Word Works devoted to the work of poets who volunteer their labor for a literary nonprofit organization or event. Please contact me if you have any questions! wordworksbooks.org/submissions/...

Very excited to be reading tomorrow night with Elizabeth Burke at Octavia Books! We will be celebrating the release of Elizabeth's beautiful new book, Unmoored. Hope to see you there, on the eve of Jazz Fest Weekend #2. www.octaviabooks.com/event/elizab...

Current and former CFPB staffers: We want to hear from you. 👉 Get in touch with our reporter Jake Pearson securely on Signal at 917-512-0276.

“Acts we once took for granted as virtuous, routine, safe—telling the truth, representing those oppressed by the state, providing legal aid to the powerless, volunteering to work at a polling site, basic journalism—now carry some risk. They now require some courage.” Read @radleybalko.bsky.social:

Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed. Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs: • Africana Studies • Asian Studies • Disability Studies • Middle East Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Women's/Gender Studies And… • Spanish

SATURDAY!!!! Listen to these amazing readers and give to a great cause. Get more info and register for the zoom link: beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com/april-26.html

I love this homophonic misquote I just found in the notes I took during a panel at the New Orleans Poetry Festival: "decentering an eye"

SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

The Hilary Tham Capital Collection is an imprint of The Word Works dedicated to the work of poets who volunteer their labor for non-profit literary organizations & events. Nomination deadline 4/30, submission deadline 5/15. Please share widely! wordworksbooks.org/submissions/...

Don’t love that this got relegated to “the other side,” but I stand but what I said; this is utterly illegal and a violation of the basic principles of American rule of law.

File under: you can't make this shit up. George Zoley, CEO and founder of GEO Group, which operates "100 secure facilities, processing centers, and community reentry centers," including the ICE detention center in Louisiana, is a past recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

We are very close to having a rogue Supreme Court that works on behalf of a fascist president and we have to deal with the ramifications of that, even if they're inconvenient. If this comes to pass, once again, the options are: 1) go along with it 2) resist outside the law 3) leave the country

This is a wonderful book, so glad to have played a part in bringing it into the world!

New Orleans should take control of the port and refuse to collect federal tariffs. That would be exciting and fun.

More of this, please:

My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.

Glad this is getting some national attention, & I want to underscore this important point: it was grassroots activists, NOT our state Dem party, that made sure this bullshit was defeated.