Thank you to Ashna Ali, Heather Gluck, and the entire editorial team at @epiphanylit.bsky.social for their care and dedication in the production process, and for featuring “Bolaji Badejo” in their Spring Summer 2025 issue, Desire & Dread! 🙏🏽😍🥹👽

The passive voice. Like the tear gas just appeared, magically. It fired itself.

Laura Boswell, contemporary printmaker based in Scotland specialising in wild landscape and coastal prints in linocut & woodblock

If only the White House press release describing NPR as "the trash that passes for news" were critiquing NPR for the right reasons, I mean NPR has moved so far to the right that it's nearly indistinguishable from corporate crap but only KKK 24/7 would please this administration.

My favorite dog meme 🤣

This McPherson quote has never left me since I read “Gold Coast” in Best Am Short Stories of the Century like two decades ago. I was once curious about it and now can confirm it’s very true.

“He tried to kill his own Vice President. Do you think he cares about you?” -Barack Obama

Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? Just realized what is covered up is the terrifying threat of one being unable to sail, to handle. What does it mean to surrender

From Robin Becker's book, Giacometti's Dog. #poem #books #writing

"I'm Just A Girl (Because Gender Is An Immutable Biological Category)"

My heart is so full over what Brother Cory @booker.senate.gov has done. The symbolism of it—breaking Strom Thurmond’s record. The physical resilience. The intellectual imagination. The love for our nation. For the first time in 2 months, I’m allowing myself a bit of hope instead of despair.

tl;dr: I have long said that we cannot trust the government to have the power to kill as a punishment. Now, we have an administration that will undoubtedly be eager to prove my point.

when sleep/naps became solutions and a GOAL, not a inconvenience to be reluctantly and quickly if at all

everything we’re experiencing today is compatible with entitled Jan 6 cis yt male rioters being welcomed into the Capitol Building instead of shot en masse, hogtied, or otherwise denied entry as literally any other imaginable demographic would have been

my higher power rly did its big one by not exposing me to cruising until after I aged out of it. cos i will not be in trees amongst a young generation milling by me as symbols of innocence my mortality and the irrecoverable past, as older bodies standing together turn into ghosts

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:

This is why they hate DEI. The Senate has confirmed John Phelan, an investment banker and Trump supporter with no military experience, to be Secretary of the Navy. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The media mostly takes for granted that some attacks are in bad faith, e.g. on judges and the media itself. In other cases (civil service and especially higher ed) they are more willing to adopt Trump's framing that he is responding to institutional failings, rather than using them as an excuse.

Beautiful poem by Najwan Darwish from his recent Selected Poems, 2014-2024. #NajwanDarwish #poetry

“Subcity” should be highly coverd and going viral right now 🥺💔💙

Been watching X Files lately as a ritual cleansing of preternatural dangers. Save us Scully

Did someone say a breathless search for intimacy and connection, I'm blushing!! 🫧✨💎💫💜

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

i’m pretty sure some state reps are in their offices looking to us, the people, to do something, while we look to them, our representatives. as if it’s entirely out of their hands now. they are just at windows staring out blinds hoping we do something so they won’t have to. (1/2)

this is analogous of so much 🫂

someone really needs to take the steering wheel out of his hands. he’s been driving off road. but how can you ask the car that’s driven to take control of its wheel? as political pawns not political subjects who enjoy power? how will we give the car life to resist its own destruction?

serious problem with democratic lawmakers (and supreme court justices) believing that they are absolutely indispensable

ONCE I KNEW THE PLOT ??????

if it takes more energy to hate than to let live were an administration. a truly dedicated, committed level of bigotry.

the full quote here english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Mikey 17 had other priorities than being good. I expected a Life and Death are Wearing Me Out type story but it was just mess. Hollywood movies ultimately just about Hollywood movies have priorities other than being good. They lean on film history not as resource but as rationalizing crutch.

2 podcast episodes this week that have given me hope - Between The Covers with @davidnaimon.bsky.social : Omar El Akkad : One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This tinyurl.com/2kxzkndu How the Media Walked us into Autocracy (w/ Ralph Nader) | The Chris Hedges Report tinyurl.com/4whypmuu

It’s hard to think of a statement that more totally sums up the white nationalist, racist, genocidal intentions of this WH admin. How aren’t more people screaming out loud against this part of his lil address last night?

Honored to have "Give Me Proof" included in @oxford_poetry Issue 98.

To be clear I loved Anora and think Mikey Madison was terrific just felt a bit on the nose

this is depraved and ultimately stupid, to assume that by controlling reporting you can make it matter less for others. when the action is so cruel and thinly veiled, that’s just magical thinking. ie outrage doesn’t require reporting

the way most minorities know what it’s like to be zelensky in that yellow chair. and even more what it’s like to be that yellow chair.

Here is this heart-wrenching Roberta Flack cover along with a favorite story that features the song, Edward P Jones’s The Night Rhonda Ferguson was Killed. Happy BHM, despite the White House. 🖤 Story here: tinyurl.com/rhondaferg youtu.be/k90ILIe3p_U?...

the lethal incompetence of tr***p’s cabinet ironically stands as a decent argument for dei programs

President Musk wants federal employees to share 5 things they accomplished this week. Here's mine ⬇️ Ps. Don’t worry Elon every day I’m going to fight against your billionaire con man agenda to slash Medicaid & SNAP while you give billions in tax cuts to yourself & your friends.

In danger, the holothurian cuts itself in two. It abandons one self to a hungry world and with the other self it flees. - Wislawa Szymborska www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/2/25/white-bare-white-body-fixed-ping-elsewhere

@yungwerther.bsky.social, Evan Bell, Lulu Liu, Mary Angelino, Kami Nzeribe, Marisa Celina Tirado, and John Howard <3

also omg? if i saw this as a wee ghey i’d probably have enlisted????

ok it’s definitely being canceled for this june at the kennedy center damn 😂😭🇫🇷

inside the ouroburo of greed that is the republican party I’m just holding out for the political avarice of those surrounding tr*mp to surface as second it is politically feasible to turn against him