I would say RIP Barney Frank, but it's common sense that Democrats will lose if we focus on such unpopular issues as Mr Frank's death. So instead I would recommend incremental grieving in this case.

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

Boston University, where I teach, has been taking down Pride Flags from faculty and office windows because of a new “content neutral” ban on public-facing flags and banners. This is a bad policy that infringes on free speech. Faculty are protesting. Today the President defended these actions. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The New School announces a faculty and staff bloodbath

You all may be having a fancy time over at AWP or CCCCs this week, but back here at home I just got selected as one of 7 Finalists for a Foreword INDIES Award, in the category of Women's Studies no less! Fingers crossed that the book could win! I'm so thrilled about this wonderful turn of events.

Kansans must present a photo ID to vote.

Friends in Western Mass: I'm reading at Amherst Books this Weds 2/11 at 7 PM with the excellent poets Ted Pearson and Martha McCollough!

Thrilled and honored that my book The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep has been reviewed by master of the genre Rob McLennan. This is the first review anyone has written of the book so far, and hopefully it portends good luck!

People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:

We are entering peak flu season, and a new variant is spreading quickly across the country, driving a sharp rise in illness and hospitalizations. https://to.pbs.org/45BmT4l

. #SeasonsGreetings #NORAD #Xmas #Christmas #TrumpFiles #EpsteinFiles #Epstein #Fascists .

It's our annual poetry reading and fundraiser! tinyurl.com/SBFR2025 This Thursday, December 4 @ 8pm EST/5pm PST Via Zoom www.eventbrite.com/e/saturnalia...

One funny thing happening every time I do a poetry reading from this new book is the next day on social media I get bombarded with a barrage of Jamie Lee Curtis content. I guess that's happening because Jamie Lee Curtis' name appears in several poems in my new book, & the apps are hearing me say it.

Friends in Providence, RI (and nearby)! Kristin Prevallet and I will be reading tomorrow at Riffraff Bookstore! Local celebrity Darcie Denngian will be introducing us. Come out and join us for this TRANS/TRANCE new book extravanganza!

Good mail day yesterday feat. @tracepeterson.bsky.social , Mark Francis Johnson, and Emily Martin.

It's Trans Awareness Week, so drink lots of coffee

Now up at Boundary 2: I reviewed Charles Bernstein's new book of criticism (link in comments)

It's Trans Awareness Week, so drink lots of coffee

Very psyched that I submitted an article to Boundary 2 and it was accepted.

57% of all ad spending by Republicans in the Virginia governors race was on anti trans ads. Just an incredibly mismanaged campaign. Anti-trans politics are a losing issue.

"Donald Trump, because I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn The Volume Up." That is how you do it.

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Rot In Place to our 43rd President Dick Cheney, torturer & hunting companion extraordinaire

Had a dream last night where I submitted my academic CV and job search materials to a faculty member at a major university for constructive feedback and criticism. After two days, the faculty member responded by writing back just one sentence: "It's important to be a millionaire."

Looking forward to reading with Darcie Dennigan and Stine An at P&T Knitwear in NYC this Tuesday! We all have new books out and we're all excited to share them with you. Unfortunately there is a $5 cover charge, but I assure you that we are worth it!

The Epstein Ballroom it is

From finding out about this new book by the terrific poet @tracepeterson.bsky.social and having it my hands: less than five days. Can’t wait to read it!

Happy Birthday to my new book The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep, out today from @saturnaliabooks.bsky.social ! (link to order in the comments)

The mainstream media loves making it seam like dysfunction in Washington is coming from both parties. Hello? Much of the GOP no longer accepts the rule of law, or the norms of democracy, or the legitimacy of the opposing party. Enough of the false equivalence.

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

In a court filing, the White House says it may fire more than 4,000 federal employees amid the government shutdown. That’s thousands of Americans on the unemployment line, just because.

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April)

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

I couldn't imagine a more perfectly poetic example of saying the quiet part out loud than "we took the freedom of speech away"

It was the first time members of Congress were put on record about whether they supported or opposed the president’s war in the Caribbean.

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Have been trying to come up with a good joke about the "Riyadh Poetry Festival" but things seem so genuinely bleak that I just wasn't able to get it done.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health, wait until you see what guns do.

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

These jerks don't seem to realize how much they are making "trans girlfriend" into an ontological reality for practically the first time ever in mainstream society