Unfortunately as an Arizonan I am all too familiar with ICE purchasing warehouses to use as detention camps. The incredible @drjudystone.bsky.social takes on this cruelty in her latest.

This week, we are featuring work by Kate Kadleck paired with art by Vidya Murali 🍂 Read the full piece in out newest issue, V2.2, here: turningleafjournal.com/2025/12/15/k...

We've published over 50 amazing writers so far! You can now browse and search them in our brand new Writer Index ettereview.com/index/

Issue 7 is now live! With new work by: Lauren Camp Theodore Heil Marc Kaufman @yukondawn.bsky.social @nataliemarino.bsky.social Adam McOmber www.ettereview.com/winter2026/

Minnesota needs impartial investigations into the shootings of American citizens on our streets. Trump’s left hand cannot investigate his right hand. The families of the deceased deserve better. www.keyc.com/2026/02/16/f...

We should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that terrorizes children and forces them to spend their dying days trying to see their father one last time.

So freedom is not slavery?

I mean, doesn't that seem unsafe? Just how many innocent people are they planning on killing? Elementary students run from bus stop during ICE operation at NJ apartment www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

So delighted to announce that today is #PubDay for our book. Every Place on the Map is Disabled is now in stores and available online. Wonderful poets in here including Eli Clare, Ilya Kaminsky, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Raymond Antrobus. #disabilitypoetics #poetry #disability #publishing

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Most families have no idea their child can develop Long COVID. They aren’t hearing it from pediatricians, schools, or public health agencies. Parents can’t advocate for their children if they don’t know there’s something to advocate for.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #PediatricLongCOVID

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Tom Snarsky 💙 from LIGHT-UP SWAN Happy #smallpoemsunday! @tomsnarsky.bsky.social @ornithopterpress.bsky.social

ICYMI: In 24 years, only 77 “illegals” have voted — representing 0.00000764% of total votes… And the research comes from the far-right Heritage Foundation electionfraud.heritage.org/search?combi...

I’ve seen the critique that making these hats isn’t “doing anything” but I’d say raising 3/4s of a million for their local food shelf and rent assistance org seems like doing a lot.

Wow.

The Five-Two is full for February but has five slots open for March. Also, April is Nat'l Poetry Month, when I hope more eyes will be on the site. poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/p/guidelines...

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. www.state.gov/releases/off...

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

They’re jumping up and down, waving their arms and yelling “white supremacy” and people are just now beginning to hint at what’s happening

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

A valentine for my sweetheart as it first appeared in The Literary Review of Canada

Happy Valentine’s Day (?) #collage

"Understanding the battle that’s been brewing off the East Coast is important because, at its heart, it is a battle over who gets to decide our energy future and how disinformation is being used to preserve fossil fuel dominance," writes UCS's Delta Merner.

You like love poems? Anti-Fascist love poems? Erin Vachon and I have been working on organizing this reading to take place during AWP this year—hope you can join us. @erinvachon.bsky.social 🖤 💪

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies.    Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York.     Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

Dr. Oz emailed an invite to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 to Jeffrey Epstein. Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.

I’m thrilled to share that my latest guest post, “18 No Fee Lit Mags Elevating Disabled Voices,” is now live on the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s blog. The list explores a wide range of no-fee literary magazines actively seeking work from disabled poets, writers, and artists.

ASK A SCIENTIST: What is Big Oil and Gas’ beef against offshore wind? UCS's analyst Susan Muller responds.

The story of the Endangerment Finding has been, at times, an obscure one—but this critical finding underpins our nation’s very capacity to demand action from fossil fuel polluters and deliver a safer, more secure future. UCS stands ready to defend the Endangerment Finding in court and beyond.

Today, Administrator Zeldin took a chainsaw to the Endangerment Finding, undoing this long-standing, science-based finding on bogus grounds at the expense of our health.

By repealing the EPA regulation that underpins all US regulation of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is sacrificing our global climate so that fossil fuel companies can make even greater profits. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Trump is yet again sacrificing our future to protect polluters' profits. He just decimated EPA's power to protect our planet and public health from climate change—and it will hit underserved communities hardest. He's lining billionaires' pockets, and we're paying the price.

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

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The Trump administration is dramatically expanding an effort to revoke U.S. citizenship for foreign-born Americans as it works to curb immigration, according to two people familiar with the plans.

work in progress 🐦✍️

I am sure Vinay Prasad must be very happy now. Drunk on power and outrage, thwarting scientific progress on his merry way. What an awful legacy for a physician to choose.

This is cutting your nose to spite your face. Defunding hiv prevention and surveillance benefits no one regardless of who you voted for. Public health and disease prevention should not be partisan. abcnews.com/Health/trump...

This will be the last piece posted for a while. [only a short while I hope.]

This is great on the “SAVE” act. “Don’t be fooled by my name, I suck.”

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files: Donald J. Trump Melania Trump Howard Lutnick (Commerce) John Phelan (Navy) Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center) RFK Jr. (HHS) Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom) Mehmet Oz (CMS) Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE) Steve Bannon (Fmr WH) Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor) Bill Barr (Fmr AG)

Jamie Raskin not only graduated from Harvard with his JD, (editor of the Harvard Law Review)...he is so dedicated to our country and our constitution that this man BURIED HIS SON, came into work the next day to experience an insurrection, and started writing articles of impeachment THAT DAY. 1/

I’m sure the lawmakers who were outraged that their toll (phone) records were obtained in the course of a predicated federal investigation through a subpoena are going to back Rep. Jayapal in being outraged at just lawless surveillance of her (and likely others’) search history, right?

Just a brutal and dehumanizing racist attack on families, on our dime. This is exactly the kind of story I grew up reading about from WWII

I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race

This is a pogrom

“Parents and children were zip tied at gunpoint, and agents subjected people to hours of violent and degrading treatment…”