Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

There's no such thing as a democracy Roomba. We're going to have to clean all this shit up ourselves. Find an event at the link, and come join millions of your neighbors on October 18 for No Kings Day. www.nokings.org

I know this sounds extreme. It is. I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am. Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever. But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.

Step 5 of the plan: Rig the rules and the information. Tilt the election playing field your way and destroy the idea of truth.

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it. But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan. Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you. And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it. This is not about politics. It's about people. Let’s break it down:

Now online: Our August event with @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social & Monica Lee Weatherly. thenotebookscollective.com/notes/in-con...

THE NATION is accepting applications for winter/spring 2026 editorial internships until October 26! AWP members can find out more and browse additional job openings on our Job List.

Trump's team "are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns.... [creating] the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely." -- Barbara Walter ("How Civil Wars Start") via @tombedsall.bsky.social

A new one from Jesse Welles: Temu Patton In front of the American flag, Saying you're all too damn gay. Yeah, you're all too damn fat. All the golden stars and the purple hearts looked dead, As spray-on Napoleon Commander Casino said, 'Get ready, boys. Look pretty. We're goin into the city.'

I hear *someone* is having a sale next week. I guess they have to try and recoup some of that $2.5 billion they’re forking over for *checks notes* being deceptive? Who would’ve thought? Feels like Oct 7 & 8 will be prime days to support independent bookstores. 😌

#BannedBooksWeek is the perfect time to add a challenged book (or two) to your shelf. We’re partnering with @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social to offer you 20% off select challenged titles from now until October 19: bookshop.org/info/banned-...

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📣 Calling all early career international peace & security professionals! Two(ish) weeks left to apply to the @scovillepf.bsky.social Fellowship. Ploughshares is a proud supporter of this impactful opportunity—don't miss your chance! ⬇️ scoville.org

MacKenzie Cordova is an artist, Tularosa Basin Downwinder, and 5th generation cancer survivor. In this piece, MacKenzie wrestles with a question that defines both U.S. history and its present condition: What happens when we go to war with ourselves? ⬇️ https://loom.ly/mEZdt0Y

Be sure to read Issue 6 of Slant’d this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! This issue exploring the theme of homecoming features a set of poems by I. Buenaventura and much more: www.slantd.com/product/issu...

We're excited to announce that our Writer-in-Residence Terrance Hayes will join us in person for our upcoming January 2026 residency to teach a class and give a reading that will be open to the public. Stay tuned for more details, and check out his bio here: www.lasell.edu/graduate-stu...

Don't miss out on our next virtual information session to get answers to your questions about earning an MFA with Solstice. Get to know us on Oct. 15 at 12 p.m. ET by registering here: applygrad.lasell.edu/register/?id...

For our friends in and around Portland, ME, our founding director @megkearney.bsky.social and faculty member Iain Haley Pollock will read with Myronn Hardy at Print: A Bookstore on Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. Get more details here:

December 31 is the deadline for girls and young gender-expansive artists ages 14-21 to submit fiction, nonfiction, poetry, & art to Girls Right the World for Issue 10. Read up on past issues before submitting. #writers #litmag #callforsubmissions

Grab your copy of Issue 15 of Palooka & consider sending your own chapbooks, prose, poetry, comics, art, & photography for future issues or chapbook publication. Open year-round. Fees vary. #writers #litmag #callforsubmissions

April Update! We have added MORE events to our calendar and we can't wait for you to join us! The In Conversation events are virtual, free, and delightful! thenotebookscollective.com/events/

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Trump in 2013 on how to avoid a shutdown: “You have to get everyone in a room. You have to be a leader.” Trump today: Cancels meeting with Democratic Leaders.

A list that includes our faculty-at-large José Angel Araguz!

Congrats to our alum Jonathan Todd, whose short story comic “Canine Intelligence” appeared in Shenandoah! Check it out here:

How much money is Donald Trump really making off the Presidency? David D. Kirkpatrick spent months tallying up how much the Trump family has pocketed off Trump’s time in the White House—golf course by golf course, crypto deal by crypto deal.

This year’s National Book Awards longlist for Fiction includes five books by writers who have published short fiction in The New Yorker. See the nominees.

Subito Press seeks novella-length horror fiction for its Stephen Graham Jones Horror Novella Competition. Submissions are $20, and the deadline Sept. 30 or whenever the press receives 100 submissions. Winner receives $1,000 and 20 author copies. More details here:

What an incredible line-up (and MFA program)!!!! Solstice is taking applications from poets, fiction writers (for young people or adults), creative nonfiction writers, and comics/graphic novel creators through 11/10 (for a winter/spring start).

Congrats to our Founding Director @megkearney.bsky.social, whose heroic crown of sonnets, Cardiac Thrill, publishes with Green Linden Press today! Read more about the book and get your copy here:

Poets, Green Linden Press is reading manuscripts! greenlindenpress.submittable.com/submit

@isaiahrmartin.bsky.social Isaiah Martin who is a Democrat Congressional Candidate for TX18 Was arrested last night (see thread) Unbelievable he has still not been released Please listen and share This is outrageous (1🧵)

Isaiah has been dragged to the ground and arrested inside of the Texas State Capitol for speaking out against Greg Abbott and Donald Trump’s illegal gerrymandering. We are waiting for more information as it develops.

Alaa’s account remains suspended because this app is actively collaborating in the genocide against Palestinians, but she has a new one that you should follow. She is a vital voice shedding light on the atrocities being committed in Gaza and a human being who needs our support.

Friends in Western Mass: the Grace Lin exhibit at the Eric Carle Museum is fab. There's also an exhibit on endpapers in the middle gallery which includes the roughs for Shaun Tan's endpapers for The Arrival, as well as the finished art. Also Jessica Love's gorgeous endpapers for Julian is a Mermaid.

“You feel like you’ve been abducted by a gang of aggressive, violent people who are trying to manipulate you and who are lying to you. And while you are being abducted, you know that these people are capable of doing anything to you because they don’t care.”

The Netanyahu government’s extermination of Gaza intensifies. Malnutrition is rampant, children are starving to death, people are shot while waiting for meager food rations — and US weapons allow it to happen. Trump and Congress must act NOW. Stop the slaughter. Feed the people.

Lasell University's Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program is on day 8 of its 10-day residency, start of fall semester. What a friendly, supportive, and kind community this is -- full of talented and generous students & faculty. Feeling grateful to be part of it! #SolsticeMFARes

Thanks Dennis- scary times we live in - but the library world is strong, resourceful, and collaborative- but we need to stick together….

Join us for our reading featuring alum & grad assistant Noah Shea, guest faculty member Craig Blais, and faculty member Ethan Gilsdorf on July 13 at 7:30pm ET at Lasell University in Auburndale, MA. Livestream available: lasell.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SolsticeMFARes

Tonight! Great sound on the livestream!

A big welcome back to our students, faculty, staff, and alums for our July 2025 #solsticemfares, which kicked off this morning. We’re looking forward to 10 days of workshops, classes, readings, and fellowship!

If you want to understand how far DOJ had slide into become an agent of the Republican voter suppression machine, take a look at this chart. www.democracydocket.com/timeline-tra...

July 31 is the deadline to submit up to 3 original, unpublished poems to Red Wheelbarrow's 2025 Poetry Prize. Winner receives $1,000, #litmag publication & broadside publication. Final judge: Stephen Kuusisto. $15 fee. #poets #litmag #poetrycontest

While headlines focus on Medicare and Medicaid, the EveryLibrary Institute breaks down what the “One Big Beautiful Bill” means for public libraries, especially property tax deductions, PILOTs, and muni bond financing. Read the mini-brief:

This week in Danger Season had more than its share of terrible news AND some reasons for guarded optimism. In our #DangerSeason Weekly Outlook we capture both.

The Center + other groups warned government agencies in a legal filing today that they’re breaking the law by failing to protect the Big Cypress National Preserve from the increasingly destructive effects of the mass detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” More info: biodiv.us/4nO76a8