Such a beautiful elegy by Danez Smith. Renee Nicole Good should be alive right now www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

this is clear-eyed and brave

soldiers are mostly young people who want to do something else with most of their life. They generally don't want to live the rest of their lives with the knowledge that they executed an unarmed mom cops want to spend thirty years with the nickname "killer"

My hybrid baby is up at Bending Genres, published by some of the best people out there in lit land! Love them. Thank y’all so much! @bendinggenres.bsky.social bendinggenres.com/pyre/

She can’t discern the deer from the woods, but she can feel branches scratch the way some people feel cold while watching snow scenes in movies. Leave No Trace by Frances Badgett For full story visit: 100wordstory.org

I love 100 Word Story! It’s always so exciting to be published with them. Here’s my story, “Leave No Trace.” 100wordstory.org/leave-no-tra... @100wordstory.bsky.social

Post this on FB so all your relatives can see it I am so serious

I spoke to an expert in authoritarianism, who explained to me that things like this are extremely meaningful and they help protect democracy, even if there’s not a straight line between this and actual legislating

I loathe Josh Hawley, but nothing I can say about him is as brutal a takedown as this fact-based recap of his resume by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is what happens when people speak up.

Drop every single thing you’re doing and read this story.

Princess and the Frog wrecked me yet again.

Well… today I have my first DOGE subcommittee hearing along with a Judiciary hearing, all while DC is snowed in! If I had normal coworkers & the country wasn’t going to hell lead by DOGE Douchebags, I’d say, “nothing to see here,” but something tells me, today is going to be pure insanity…

How is it I just saw two owls today for the Supurb Owl? Amazing how literal life is sometimes.

This is Curtis Yarvin’s plan to “delete” the government and “get people over” their “fear of dictatorship.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

I’m more than a little obsessed with New Orleans on a regular day. New Orleans in the sneaux has me like.

Jenna loves me.

Anyone else feel as if we’re just sliding down a muddy slope into a pit that is 2025?

I love Ghost Parachute so much. Of all the bad things that happened this month, this was a glittering moment of joy for me: ghostparachute.com/issue/novemb...

My printer is working. Is this a bad omen or a good one?

Planet toadstool

Night walk.

Little arrangement I found

L’eclisse

I think I have summeritis. Is that a thing? Work feels like…work. Would like to be back in NOLA.

1988 I saw her in the airport and asked her the time and she said in her beautiful brogue “I don’t speak English” and I loved her even more for that. RIP Sinead. I loved you well.

My little flash is up at 100 Word Story! https://100wordstory.org/false-stars/