Want to talk about nature and poetry? Sure you do! Join me at the Hilliard Library at 10:30 this Thursday December 11 as part of the Big Read! (There may even be snacks!)

Since today is Cyber Monday, I decided it was the perfect time to go through my emails and unsubscribe from emails I don’t read. 9 down this morning!

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This is the Seahorse Nebula (B150) in Cepheus. It is about 1200 light years away. I took this image last weekend from Minnesota Astronomical Society's Cherry Grove Observatory. There's no mysterious name to explain. This dark nebula really does look like a Seahorse. #astrophotography

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

By far the most important thing on my entire timeline today.

That's right. Jealous?

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

They booted you from Medicaid so they could build ICE Air.

Some Texas Democratic women have torn up their permission slips and will now be hosting a “slumber party for Democracy” on the House floor.

The beautiful Great Grey Owl.. 🦉

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.

You sure about this, Google?

The big problem with being an adult is that there’s no nurse’s office to go to when you just need a little break from it all

Screenshotting for posterity before I block them

Anyone have a favorite science fiction/speculative poetry editor or coach they’ve worked with for collections? Thanks!

Guys, Pee-Wee Herman's bike was bought by The Alamo. It'll be on permanent display. youtube.com/watch?v=tayw...

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

Plotting a novel, editing poetry. Ignoring a super long poetry rejection and moving on!

Meet me at the all new Dublin Barnes & Noble for their grand opening celebration!! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

George Harrison at Apple Studios, 26th January 1969. It is quite frankly, all about the boots.

"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.' The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..." www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

Wrote a thing because I want to yell at writers and anyone who works sitting down to take care of themselves. Thanks for reading! gabinoiglesias.substack.com/p/basic-fitn...

I have just called NJ senators @andykimnj.bsky.social and @booker.senate.gov to express my outrage at the firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and to request their help in restoring her position. Please contact your legislators, too!

I knew it! The White House is considering SUSPENDING HABEAS CORPUS. And here I thought I was being paranoid.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.

Resistance is NOT futile

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

Watch a major campaign being born.

Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating

The lying and the staggering incompetence around this is astounding. And dangerous.

I'll be on CNN at 9pm ET with Kaitlan Collins to discuss today's news of the astonishing security failure at the White House.

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

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Thank you, Candice Nola, for spotlighting me for Women in Horror month! tinyurl.com/4trpc8yu

A definite "Let them eat cake" moment...

It's pretty certain that when the checks start going missing is when it will get ugly.

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

After defending his workforce from Trump’s political revenge tour, James Dennehy was given a choice: resign or be fired. FBI WEAPONIZATION.

For a third straight day, an AP reporter was blocked from attending an Oval Office event, I'm told.

We’re done here. Right?

True.

Hey, what are you doing this Thursday? Come hang out with us on the Bald & Balding Podcast! I'm the special guest. Thursday at 7:00 Eastern. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pta5...