What is in the water in Kentucky that generates so many good poets and writers?

republican president pushing for regime change in an oil-rich country... where have I seen this before? #venezuela

Getting raptured on bi visibility day

Patricia Smith did a 3 poem set at the Brooklyn Book Festival today that tore my face off. End lines that made me audibly gasp. Also best dressed.

Kimmel: The assassin was MAGA MAGA: Not possible, he didn't like hatred, racism or sexism – couldn't be us

This! Federal judges have done their best to push back, but Democratic representatives in Congress and elsewhere have not. Where is the action? Where is the utilization of the few checks and balances that do exist? Look who's not acting and ask why.

No lies spotted. In the nonprofit space, this has been especially disheartening. I hope leaders take note.

Tea

Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything theonion.com/conserv...

If we coordinated to all bang pots and pans at our windows every day at 7 p.m. in praise of healthcare workers, we can coordinate to all scream NO MORE #ICE every day at 7 p.m. for the sake of our immigrant neighbors, yeah?

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

So many Islamophobes on @bsky.app I thought I had logged into X. What's up with that?

Being a supertaster is actually a core component of my identity

As Jews, we must be able to identify genocide when we see it. It's happened to us and it could again. This is why I'm so concerned that many do not see Israel's actions as genocidal. If the roles were reversed and we were in #Gaza now, you wouldn't call it genocide? If that's the case, we're doomed.

New political party in the UK! Seems like the time is now in the US... Obviously it's been decades too long of supporting the Democratic Party, time for something else for any of these politicians who claim to have integrity, now or never, not that I believe in politicians, but still💥

Every human should see wild monkeys at least once. For the same reason I think every dog should get to see wolves in the wild (safely) at least once in their life. An opportunity to put two and two together. Tbh it's kind of gaslighting if we don't show them wolves. They deserve to know the truth.

This is a holocaust. As a Jew, I can't tell the difference between Israelis and Nazis at this point. As an American with free speech, I shouldn't be afraid to say this. But I am. I speak on behalf of OUR shared ancestors. Listen to us. Listen to scholars, peacemakers, and the rest of the world.

The footage of #ICE at immigration courts in #NYC jumping people IN PLAIN CLOTHES and kidnapping them is chilling. WE NEED TO ALLOW VIRTUAL HEARINGS. These places are unconscionable traps now. I am scared, as a citizen, for myself. Who is next? #NYCMayor This is not a sanctuary city. It can be.

I too was blown away by how timely Descent of Alette is right now. The tyrant is capitalism and the billionaire class! This series has been so rewarding and comforting, especially this episode, which I'm saving. 🙏🏻

I'd love to hear physicist @saraimari.bsky.social, who speaks so eloquently about assembly theory, in conversation with poet Joan Retallack, who writes about complex realism and composition as life. Very much the same wavelength, and the implications for how we think about writing are fascinating.

"Murdered without regard for who they were or what they believed" Damn, that reminds me of what happened to this kid—well actually, 17,000 kids...

I am a poet because someone once showed me Alice Notley. She is my favorite poet. I will miss knowing that she is somewhere in the world, writing. Maybe she's now in Grace's Park, one of my favorite images of hers. That ephemeral place where poems are formed. #AliceNotley

Not me having couples therapy on Tuesdays, the same day of the week that @couplestherapypod.bsky.social drops...

I couldn't have said any of this better. In a half hour, @ericblanc.bsky.social lays out exactly what workers, Dems, and left organizers need to be doing right now to fight back, preserve public programs, and make gains. And how bizarre it is that they aren't organizing and doing these things yet!!

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

That commercial with the little girl who's an AI-generated mashup of all the children experiencing hunger? There's a darkness about her.

Roy Ayers 😭

poem-a-day intro (house mix)

This is absolutely the problem and it started (like all of the Dems' recent problems) with polling-obsessed Bill Clinton! We should be booing him in every room.

The real hero of halftime

When I like a post on here, the algorithm suddenly decides to show me every post from that person

All these cuts to government, I can't wait to see my tax return be the same

Armed Black Panthers occupy California state capitol, queer activists rise up against cops in NYC, humans set foot on the moon..... just girl things!! 💅🏼