Dude has had his career invented and enabled by a series of rich benefactors but hey that’s just the meritocracy.

I stand with the people of Chicago chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

CBS News is dead. Long live CBS "News" I expect '60 Minutes' to go off the air any day now.

'The Gay Harlem Renaissance' exhibit spotlights queer Black artists who shaped history gothamist.com/news/the-gay...

Hmm...could things like this be one of the reasons people in NYC and elsewhere are tired of 'politics as usual'? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

New T 🇺🇸

Trump/MAGA are trying to gaslight us into believing that anti-Jimmy Kimmel America is vast and deep, that MAGA's grip on the culture is unshakable, that mobilization is futile. But this episode has demonstrated the opposite. Let's not forget it. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2008...

Social media algorithms push rage and division to keep us scrolling. Here’s how the business model works—and the law that allows it to continue. #Algorithms #SocialMedia #Radicalization #PoliticalViolence #TechPolicy #Section230

Chagrined to report that the new Xgau Sez is marred by an oversight — failed to name the greatest Samuel R. Delany novel: Dhalgren. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/xgau-sez-s...

Nobody knows what they're doing, nobody makes money, and nobody reads it either!! ARE YOU IN OR WHAT?????

The 2026 Lammy Awards call for submissions is almost open! You can share your literary work with us starting on September 15-November 21. The 2026 cycle will consider works published or forthcoming in 2025. Get ready for a hot Lammys summer, coming back to June in 2026! ☀️📚 #LammyAwards #Lammys2026

Don’t comply in advance.

Don’t comply in advance. Exercise your freedom of speech or else they’ll strip this from us, too.

Trumpism combines a promise of blamelessness to its adherents with an obsessive paranoia about contagion and contamination. Nothing is your fault, you are surrounded by agents of infection. Trans people become the ideal scapegoat in this scenario, a perfectly diabolic alien other.

Heads up Baltimore-Washington! I'll be in DC next month 10/16 to talk with poet and professor Kyle Dargan as part of 'The Life of a Poet' series @hillcenterdc.bsky.social. Hope you can make it #poetry www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-li...

To those claiming they're for free speech while punishing and silencing those for exercising that right: You're not pro-free speech. 🤔

Open for submissions for the 2026 Lammy Awards, through November 21st! 📚 #LammyAwards #Lammys2026

Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Our new poet laureate, Arthur Sze. "Because every U.S. poet laureate designs a special focus for their term, Sze plans to explore the art of translation, with the goal of compiling an anthology of translated poems from various languages & time periods." www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Help us turn Poetry into Food...

Keep seeing/hearing news reports of MAGA fury at people celebrating Kirk’s killing (just now, NPR cited Stephen Miller’s outrage about this). But I have yet to see/hear a single example reported of such “celebration” —nothing close to Kirk’s own vile celebration of Paul Pelosi’s hammer attacker.

every time I see a notable media person say something odd about the notable person who was killed this week, I remember how working at CJR taught me many white journalists find it easier to sympathize and empathize with right wing individuals than non-white journalists they actually work with

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

This is fine, as long as he didn’t say any mean hurty boo-boo words about Charlie Kirk, right?

Without comment:

They have never, ever expressed anything close to this level of pain and sympathy for school shooting victims.

rightwing media ecosystem operates by stoking hatred and anger and divisions every single day, they want people to constantly be afraid and want people to hate eachother, everything we are seeing is a result of the destablization the right has profited off of

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

The Far Right has a martyr. I'm expecting an image of Charlie Kirk ascending into heaven (with DJT as Christ or God) to appear on Socials any second now...

Political violence is absolutely unacceptable and indefensible. Unconscionable acts of violence should have no place in our country. Let’s pray for no more lives being lost to gun violence.ll

this is why he wanted to be president btw

We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

Let's just call it by its full name, shall we: The Department of War on America, Peace, and Humanity. Who wants a peace prize only to go renaming things such? Nothing but a madman and his gathering of sycophant crusaders. We are in for it, folks.

I can't stop looking. You can't get over whatever has happened, so shell-shocked that birds could land and roost. Kamilah Aisha Moon, born on this day. @fourwaybooks.bsky.social

Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.

Truly inspiring. Ordinary people are looking at the illegal, unAmerican militarization of our capital city and refusing to normalize it or participate in it.

just write stuff that no one will ever care about, forever

sometimes you really do write a whole poem just to give one beautiful phrase a home

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

Snoop went from Gin & Juice to whining about a lesbian kiss in a Pixar movie. Imagine surviving decades of censorship, police harassment, and being labeled a “threat to society”… only to turn around and fear visibility for others who’ve been marginalized just like you.

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

Just saw a headline called “Maria Sharapova’s superpower” and was genuinely shocked that it wasn’t “losing to Serena Williams”

Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.

This article just reminded me of this old tweet