If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

Drove to all the way to DC to watch the game tonight and not so sure it was a good idea at this point! Down 3-0 after 7 minutes! #LetsGoBuffalo ?

The longest playoff drought in NHL history is over. The Buffalo Sabres have clinched a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

#petalpalooza in DC today. It’s a hot one! 🌸

On the NASA #Artemis II livestream just now: "... and the song you heard was Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan to kick off the crew's day" 🩷🐴🌈

One of my most favorite pubs.

This is the type of content that speaks to me.

Help this library hero get to 100K!

I’m no Columbo, but I think I’ve cracked the case.

Read our full call for submissions for our forthcoming issue on Documentation here: open.substack.com/pub/themassa...

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

Whom to believe? 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) ~Sylvia Plath

I gotta tell you, every time an official govt account tweets this hyper-religious stuff, I get strong "opening montage to dystopian movie" vibes Like what in the Handmaid's Tale is this post

wish I could buy a bag of like 12 black jelly beans

People are dunking on the headline but the article is pretty clearly tongue-in-cheek: the reporter interviewed people at different Waffle Houses asking if they had observed teleportation www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/u...

You may find yourself Behind the wheel of a large federal department And you may find yourself in a Waffle House With a beautiful waffle And you may ask yourself "Well ... how did I get here?"

#NationalPoetryMonth prompt day #3: write a poem based on a time when you were teleported to a Waffle House

Folks, I give you the New York Times

Happy Weekend! Join us in celebrating this week's SWWIM #Shoutouts! #SWWIMEveryDay #SWWIMWithUs #Poetry #ItsLit #WomenWriters #WomenPoets #WomenPublishingWomen #Ciswomen #TransWomen #Nonbinary #Intersex #GenderExpansive #Inclusive #Community #WeeklySpotlight #ShoutOuts

The White House has released its 2027 budget proposal – including an astonishing $1.5 trillion in military spending, an unprecedented increase of 66% over the previous year. 🧵

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy

NEW: air permit applications for a data center being built with investment from google shows it would rely on a natural gas power plant that emits more than 4.5 million tons of greenhouse gasses each year google has publicly touted its commitment to renewables but appears to be privately eyeing gas

“8 Hours of Ambient Leaf Blowers to Sleep To”

—Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit — Peter Cottontail

Fundraiser for librarian Luanne James, who stood up to her rightwing library board that demanded she remove kids books with any trace of LBGTQ+ characters or content. "I will not comply." They sacked her and cops escorted her out. She's a hero. This banned author just donated.

Continuing to work with Payne's gray and titanium white this week. Using value and texture to express how I'm feeling about a particular moment. Tisha Mark ©2026, Wavering, oil on gessobord, 8"x8" Original is available (needs 2-3 weeks to dry): tishamark.com/shop #art #painting #SciArt

Drain the swamp.

As you continue hearing about the new COVID-19 variant (the “cicada” variant) in the news, remember the protection remains the same! Wear the best mask available to you, keep indoor air clean, & stay up to date on vaccines to protect yourself & others from infection & serious illness from COVID-19!

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The first sentence of the Fourteenth Amendment reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

Between January 20, 2025, and March 6, 2026, we tracked and categorized 562 unique attacks on science… and we’re still counting. UCS’s @jbd-phd.bsky.social breaks down the impact of these attacks and how you can help defend scientific integrity:

Just wild to me that pretty much everyone agrees that women are rapidly losing rights and status and that almost no one thinks this is important enough to cover.

When writing poetry, the words must always be separated from the self. Otherwise, the words become oppressed by the brain. -- Lee Seong-bok, Indeterminate Inflorescence (trans. Anton Hur)

[The poet] has to begin as a cloud of all the other poets he ever read. Robert Frost

April’s ways

Got a new poem up at the always-affecting @rogueagent.bsky.social -- one about being a #fat in a world that does not tend to accommodate. www.rogueagentjournal.com/lahl-2

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

My post-No Kings Day thoughts over on Substack. open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...

I don’t think people should have to pay for parking when they are a patient or with a patient at a medical facility of any kind. This is one of those American things that we take for granted but is actually bullshit. It’s bad enough that we have to pay for medical care (AND insurance AND copays AND)

It’s poetry month! And I have a poetry book! TIME TRAVEL IS EASY examines Deep Time, queerness, childhood traumas, dinosaurs, and the dread of the late Anthropocene. It includes my Rhysling-nominated poem “Toward a Cladistic Analysis of Hauntings.” Available here: mimulus.weebly.com/books.html

Seven years ago, I did the greatest April Fools Prank I've ever done. This is what greeted my wife when she groggily opened the fridge that morning:

Salty teeth, cold briskets, and tart & sweet… RA issue 133 is here! All new poetry including @surlyacres.bsky.social @clayrebenz.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @melaniemccabe.bsky.social @amymiller.bsky.social with art by @rachelturney.bsky.social🌻 // rogueagentjournal.com/issue133

Washington square west in Philly - I never saw that mural before!

Our Spring Issue is live! A special issue in celebration of National Poetry Month with 32 poets, interviews, the poet laureate of Westchester County NY, and even stained glass. Enjoy here: www.westchesterreview.com#/spring-2026/ #nationalpoetrymonth #poetry #ekphrastic #matisse #chagall #spring

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.” —Audre Lorde April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate, we put together a list of poetry books that tell stories of resistance, sorrow, solidarity and hope in our struggles to change the world.

And in horrifying news, Idaho's governor has signed the felony bathroom ban, with 5 year penalties for second offense bathroom usage, into law. This is the most significant criminalization of trans people to date. On trans day of visibility no less. It will require a new "Do not travel" warning.

California clinicians gather for Long COVID forum. Recent guides offer direction. David Putrino outlined 10+ “drivers” of Long COVID—like viral persistence and mitochondrial issues—urging clinicians to treat the “drivers” not just symptoms, and manage each case individually due to its complexity.