Love this! For more of Eric's great writing check out his new book: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Yet it & its siblings are projected to use 9-20% of ALL US ELECTRICITY by 2030. For a creepy industry that kills jobs & benefits very, very few. Letting them use all our power & water is a choice we don't have to make. In fact, it's a choice we CANNOT make if we want a healthy future.

I loved hearing @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social recently read from her book of poetry. I finished it this weekend. What a delightful, thought-provoking journey to where science meets soul. (Bonus cameos from crows, Bill Buckner, Dr. Zizmor and even my elementary school's namesake. 😊) Highly recommend!

So sad to hear this news, my sentiments exactly. I have wonderful memories of taking film and Spanish classes there while a student at Amherst -- the educational freedom and openness was enlivening, as well as the politicial activism that encouraged.

Absolutely this. The 2028 Dem nominee has to pledge this same thing, a total housecleaning and prosecutions for those in power who committed all the crimes we’re seeing.

Helen DeWitt on turning down a $175k Windham-Campbell Prize because she wasn't able to handle the prize's mandatory publicity requirements. Imo a moving, deeply relatable, and darkly funny story about money, obligation, mental health, & executive dysfunction paperpools.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-l...

Vote BFF!

go vote for Ani and Susanna!

Today, global scientists called on regulators around the world to address glyphosate's well-documented harms to human health and its links to cancer and other chronic diseases. #Glyphosate is the world’s most widely used herbicide and the active ingredient in Roundup. deohs.washington.edu/news/sgs

I'm thrilled that this simple, groundbreaking tongue-swab method for TB testing has gained endorsement from the WHO. I've been following this story for about 6 years, and the progress that Jerry Cangelosi and team have made is monumental. #WorldTBDay

cc: everyone in Washington State

DEOHS Professor Karen Levy applauds the recent federal judicial decision to strike down RFK Jr.’s vaccine plan in an op-ed in @seattletimes.com. @uwsph.bsky.social @uwnews.uw.edu www.seattletimes.com/opinion/judg...

Excited to read with my Cornerstone Press mates this Saturday, March 7 at Motor House in Baltimore. I'll also be at the Cornerstone Press booth (#525) at the book fair on Friday noon-1 pm, with copies of An Introduction to Error! #AWP26

I've been sharing this Adrienne Rich poem with a lot of folks as we move closer to the collapse of first amendment freedoms. Please read, understand, share. It is not an answer. It is, instead, the very question we must ask and keep asking. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51092/...

Tomorrow!

Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended "This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime" "I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

This is so good!

March Sadness 90s Edition Bracket is Live: marchxness.com

From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT: "Trump covers up crime with scandal. That is his main propaganda tactic, the one few seem to be able to discern...The crimes are much worse than the scandals, but the media will always take the scandal bait."

There's a request for $5 million in the WA state budget to help fund Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network's deportation response hotline. Might wanna let your legislators know this is a good idea... southseattleemerald.org/news/2026/01...

Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

I’m so excited to read with incredible poets and fellow former fellows Bill Carty, Laura Da' and Shankar Narayan at Hugo House in Seattle on February 25. Come out and join us - followed by drinks at the HH bar! ❤️📝🥤 hugohouse.org/event/_2026-...

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

The brave people of Minnesota have shown us the way – to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN. We join their call to expand Friday's general strike across the country. On Friday, January 30, join a nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping.

The administration that spent the first half of 2025 telling us there was nothing wrong with coordinating literally classified war plans on Signal now is saying that it believes it’s a crime to post publicly available information on Signal.

Direct accounts from Minneapolis @wired.com ❤️ Postal worker, teacher, protestor, etc. www.wired.com/story/how-ic...

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

If you read one thing today, let it be this: “An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good: Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness” ❤️💔 www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

archive.org/details/ceco... a higher quality version.

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

In Seattle and beyond, hyperlocal community fridges give neighbors a chance to feed each other. @uofwa.bsky.social faculty member Emily Hovis is working to ensure the food is safe in collaboration with the Urban Freight Lab and other partners. deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/com...

I love this idea so much: Washington Dept of Fish & Wildlife just released an anthology of poetry and art exploring how each of the state's ecoregions is being affected by climate change, and how fish & wildlife managers are responding. I just ordered my copy.

Can't stop hearing "It's Giving Tuesday" as "It's giving...Tuesday"

Looking forward to reading with @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social and many other wonderful pressmates at the Cornerstone Press virtual reading this Thursday eve, Dec. 4 at 4 pm PT! I'll post the link below when it's available.

Hey Seattle voters. The mayor's race may come down to a slim margin of votes, so check TODAY to make sure your signature was validated and ballot was counted. There are easy steps to correct things if your ballot was rejected: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

I loved working on this story about UW undergrad Leo Diaz's work in Yijie Geng's lab. They are studying how pesticides influence autism, and how a chemical naturally produced in our gut might have promise as a future treatment.

We are just one day out from the Seattle local elections! Only 17.6% of King County voters and just under 20% of Seattle voters have returned their ballots. So far, only 1 in 17 young gen Z voters have voted, compared to more than 1 in 3 boomers. Don't forget to vote if you are eligible and want to.

I address the first scandal of my political life—Momgate.

Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

just no

Thanks so much to @lynnelamberg.bsky.social and @sciencewriters.org for featuring my chronicle of trial and error in creating AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR and finding a wonderful publisher in Cornerstone Press. Also a glimpse of the many books that inspired mine. 🙏🏻📚 www.nasw.org/member_artic...

Join us tonight! 🎉

AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR is out today from Cornerstone Press! Join me in celebrating mistakes and uncertainty. 🙈Thanks a million to Eunice Kim for the beautiful cover art, Rosanna Warren, and everyone who has supported this book making its sidewinding way into the world. ❤️

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

Some good news: *everyone* is eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine in Washington State, and it *will* be covered by your insurance!

"So yes, the governors of the west, of Washington, Oregon, and California, will take up the efficacy of science."

I'm so excited to be launching my debut poetry collection, AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR, in conversation with the brilliant Sarah DeWeerdt! Come out and join us at Elliott Bay Book Co. on Sept. 18 at 7 pm. Cosponsored by @nswa.bsky.social. www.elliottbaybook.com/events/47800