New poetry! #poetry #experimentalpoetry #atheism

Witch’s Ascension #art #drawing #witch

Trump claims he is "a dealmaker." Well, Mr. President: Let’s make a deal today. Stop the doubling of health care premiums for 20 million Americans. Stop 15 million from losing their health care. Immediately reopen the government. What are you waiting for?

1. The Supreme Court just let Trump’s order banning trans people from updating the sex marker on their passports go into effect. If you were planning to change yours, that window is likely closed until at least 2029.

Listen to Recordings of Allen Ginsberg & Other Poets on Phone-a-Poem, the 1970s Poetry Hotline

Pennsylvania borough elects first out trans mayor in the state's history: 'Deeply meaningful' https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/06/erica-deuso-makes-history-as-first-out-trans-mayor-pennsylvania/?utm_content=1762507200&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Culture wars have left UK more divided than ever, poll finds, and right-wing extremism is rising https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/07/britain-divided-immigration-trans-culture-war/?utm_content=1762537202&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Study shows majority of Americans support same-sex marriage, as Supreme Court decision looms https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/07/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage/?utm_content=1762540803&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Vast majority of LGBTQ+ New Yorkers voted for Zohran Mamdani, but the straights were split https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/06/zohran-mamdani-lgbtq-voters/?utm_content=1762552800&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Zohran Mamdani handed the Democratic Socialists of America their biggest win in the organization's 43-year history. Here's a look back at socialism’s presence in American politics.

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity. https://to.pbs.org/4hLMA7f

Kendrick Lamar is up for nine trophies at February’s ceremony: record, song and album of the year — marking the third time he’s had simultaneous nominations in those big categories — as well as pop duo/group performance, melodic rap performance, rap song and rap album. https://to.pbs.org/43le9yp

Denmark’s government on Friday announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15, ratcheting up pressure on Big Tech platforms as concerns grow that kids are getting too swept up in a digitized world of harmful content and commercial interests. https://to.pbs.org/3JSdg9T

A call to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide is on the agenda Friday for the justices’ closed-door conference. https://to.pbs.org/4oxc4YG

gender affirming cigarette

babby's first xmas

ANMLY #41 is here! We’re thrilled to share new translations, fiction, a double issue of poetry, CNF, with a folio on autistic protest poetry! >>> anmly.org/ap41 And we're open for new work until February 1 >>> anmly.submittable.com

Babe, come over, we can pirouette down into the deep dark velvet hush of a music box together like tiny plastic ballerinas after the lid is closed

Hello!

The beaver moon rises over Minneapolis as seen from Bde Maka Ska on Wednesday. November's supermoon is the closest moon to Earth since 2019. 📸 Kerem Yücel | MPR News.

Powerful Democratic former speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t seek reelection to the U.S. House. Pelosi’s announcement Thursday brings to a close her storied career as not only the first woman in the speaker’s office but arguably the most powerful in American politics.

Here's what's coming to the American Swedish Institute next year. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

New month, new playlist: Here are the local songs we're spinning, including Now, Now, Dessa, Heart to Gold, and more. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

In its next evolution, FashionMSP reimagines fashion through community. mspmag.com/shop-and-sty...

Two musical legends with strong ties to Prince—Bobby Z, drummer for The Revolution, and Morris Hayes, keyboardist and musical director for the New Power Generation—helped shepherd his songs to the Broadway stage for the Purple Rain musical. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

Windows give up their secrets, Not mirrors. Laura Riding Jackson #poetry #writer

12 great films of the past 100 years, with similar threads in tone, theme, or focus… 2/12: Vampyr / Carl Theodor Dreyer, dir., 1930 More related to the metaphysical than to horror - but one of Dreyer's best films. 🎬📽️

So it has come to this – insomnia at 3:15 A.M., the clock tolling its engine like a frog following a sundial yet having an electric seizure at the quarter hour. The business of words keeps me awake. Anne Sexton #poetry #writer

The late evening crow of deep autumn longing suddenly cries out Yosa Buson #poetry #writer [Tr. Sam Hamill; art, Landscape with House by Buson ]

LOAMY ASCENDERS Rose / Rose / Rose

Lavish Botanics Still Life Rendering Its Centrepiece

Another world is possible, if we fight for it

mapledeathrecords.bandcamp.com/album/flower... Listening to...Laura Agnusdei

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

caring is punk! Empathy will win!!!

St. Paul makes history with its first Hmong American and woman mayor, while Mayor Frey becomes the second Minneapolis mayor to win a third term. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

Echoes of the Live Wire by Kerrie music.apple.com/us/album/ech... #electronicmusic #techno

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Etel Adnan, Lilith’s Return, 2004.

Our First Lady Cole Escola to Play Gender Nonconforming Role in Netflix's 'One Piece' https://www.them.us/story/cole-escola-gender-nonconforming-netflix-one-piece

#MorningEarworm, a melody softly soaring through the atmosphere.

Let the things you love rewrite your brain.

More than usual at the first overtures of frost I want to burrow into my covers & hibernate & winter & poetry

How the museum's curators brought new life to the novel through visual art. mspmag.com/arts-and-cul...

American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe #RobertMapplethorpe #BOTD One of 8 photographs Mapplethorpe was commissioned to create for the 1986 new translation of Arthur Rimbaud's prose poem A Season in Hell (Un saison en enfer). Translated by librettist, poet, and actor Paul Schmidt (1986)

Patti Smith on the balcony of the Chelsea Hotel, 1971 #PattiSmth #ChelseaHotel

i have seen hell and it is an overcrowded grocery store blasting the pitch perfect cast cover of “starships” at a profane volume level.