I keep trying to do these newsletters monthly, and then life happens. The latest in gratitude and news and holiday musings...

Migraine today destroyed me. Not just the migraine itself but the pain before and the exhaustion after. I'm wiped.

Reflecting. Moon-spun.

theonion.com/come-on-ligh... "Why does no one want to take a chance with my friend?" The friend in question:

I'm on the eve of turning 50.

Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

We could have UBI, so human artists could make art without fear of starvation, and people could investigate anything they wanted to, leading to better journalism. But the wealthy few don't actually want good things, they would rather pay whatever it costs to eliminate human creativity.

Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments. I couldn’t possibly love this any more.

Sending thanks to our awesome distributor Asterism for their Thanksgiving post highlighting Indigenous stories, including Through a Red Place by Rebecca Pelky (Perugia, 2021). Check out all these amazing books at asterismbooks.com. 🍁📚♥️ @asterismbooks.bsky.social @rebeccapelkypoet.bsky.social

also here are two I like very much for those gatherings where like a tasteful, moderate quantity of Jesus energy is not inappropriate

I have a serious nerds gummy clusters problem

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?

Just awash in sadness for reasons such as: medical insurance, darkness at 4 pm, recent poetry rejection, reading the account of my daughter's ALICE drill & autistic burnout that never seems to get better.

answer is great but also it's telling that the guy who's been saying this since day 1 has to answer about whether he's an antisemite for 5 min every interview while the same people grin vacantly at the jewish space lasers lady and call her a brave warrior

"You know, mushrooms resist capitalist logics. They just resist it." - Ross Gay. I am currently prepping for an evening of sharing his work at the library, and loving this conversation and how it goes everywhere and back again.

Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.

oh i will be making this my WHOLE personality

a gentle reminder of patience and trusting the process for the week, my friends

BREAKING: Protesters both in and outside the annual Fenway Health Gala decried the LGBTQ community health center's recent decision to end care for trans youth and young adults. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

@sbworkersunited.org 💪💗 @profciara.bsky.social — you always have the best birds to share. Care to post one for a good cause?🤗

In light of the Trumpists instantly pivoting to "yeah maybe he did it but who cares":

Sure. Here’s a wood stork & three ibises. #birdsky #starbucks

Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org & warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the strike

its 9 am and so far today we have learned that jeffrey epstein was advised to blackmail donald trump who spent lots of alone time with children at epsteins house

Listening to @nicolecallihan.bsky.social & @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social read their collaborative work is so cool. So inspiring! (I know I'm biased but this @notebookscltv.bsky.social event is so dope.)

when you're putting a crew together, but the heist is destroying an oligarch on a spiritual level

Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here

Senator scolds the voters for daring to think that he and his colleagues might be accountable to them.

it's just nice to see how many people want him to gooooooooo

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

"The storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism."

Senate Dems: actually it’s totally fine to make life worse for Americans as long as you promise us a performative vote

they avoided talking about fascism all year by being like “healthcare healthcare healthcare” and then they blew up our healthcare??? and you think you’re entitled to my vote why exactly???

Every personality trait rich people are lauded for is also a symptom of sociopathy.

Oh I do Spotify. And I did.

VIGIL TONIGHT AT 6PM! Support our neighbors detained by ICE on Tuesday in Allston. Union Square, intersection of Brighton and Cambridge streets. Wear white and Bring signs!

NAWP November reading has a powerhouse lineup with @victoriawrites.bsky.social, @taylorbyas.bsky.social, and @toosiewatson.bsky.social! To join us, hit that RSVP link below. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

I feel so seen. "You’re 50 and still underemployed, because Gen. Fucking. X."

Just one week until our last event of 2025! Please join us when we welcome @nicolecallihan.bsky.social & @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social to The Notebooks Collective. The event is free - register to receive the link! We'll see you on 11/11.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

It's not only Cuomo who got trounced here, it is Third Way and Ezra Klein, Bari Weiss, No Labels, David Brooks and Bret Stephens, the Lincoln Project, the whole great hulking mass of horrible politics knowers

[Exit Clown.]

I yearn for a political party where not endorsing Mamdani while praising Dick Cheney gets you automatically booted out

Woke up today to the news

Fondly remembering the time I tweeted that poets shouldn’t get driver’s licenses because we’re always distracted by birds and the moon and half of Twitter yelled at me that people NEED driver’s licenses to get to their JOBS

Want to know why population is declining? Because capitalism is a death cult. So jot that one down.

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives