this conversation is tuition for me as a poet. so generative, so fascinating. gosh. thanks once more to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for guiding conversations with writers & respecting the work.
this conversation is tuition for me as a poet. so generative, so fascinating. gosh. thanks once more to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for guiding conversations with writers & respecting the work.
It’s all about sending a message. The raid is the message. It’s all about retribution. He is the retribution president. As with troops on our streets, it’s all about normalizing fascism. This is fascism. Fascism is here. Too many Americans are too “busy” to care. But it’s here.
Chisel it in stone — print it on a banner flying behind an airplane —plaster it on walls.
this is a particularly good Backlisted.
This also has all the ingredients.
Thank you for your attention to this matter😂😂
Damn! This is a fine poem (no grim humour intended).
I have to think how appropriate it was to have so many toilet “jokes” —the entire episode reeked
Only thing I really want to say about the And Just Like That finale is that I never, ever want to see that rude, narcissistic, finger-snapping Gen Z Bravo yassss queen stereotype used by anyone again. I want to apologize on behalf of all old gays. Young gays, you deserve better mean jokes about you.
Too soon? Nah
Online now. #raygun bsky.app/profile/rayg...
15 August 1919 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Susanne Loebel, was born in Amsterdam. In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
Quite often people ask me 'how do you keep going,' and I did my best to offer a more personal answer than usual in this little podcast, with some help from George Harrison, Nina Simone, the Five Stairsteps, and Kamasi Washington strengthandsolidarity.substack.com/p/the-coda-4...
14 August 1928 | French Jewish girl, Micheline Fajgenbaum, was born in Paris. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Pithiviers on 7 August 1942. She did not survive.
12 August 1941 | A French Jewish girl, Annie Nakache, was born in Constantine (Algeria). She lived in Toulouse. A daughter of a swimmer Alfred Nakache. In January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her parents. She was murdered in a gas chamber with her mother Paule.
'I would make my home in the trunk of a birch tree' -Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social 🎨Jeanna Bauck #BookWormSat
1/3 My hot wash of yesterday:
Maybe ethical meet on a roof🤦♂️🤦🏽♀️
Transportation. Housing. Medical care…. Oh wait
Really do hate myself for this but it’s going in the lame joke file
Deciding billionaires must be eliminated for the climate is one of my favorite things about Ministry for the Future. Wrote this one myself (but not the execrable title). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Lucky food pantry!
Do you persevere any of that? My SIL has entered State Fair w/ 182 entries!!! But he doesn’t grow ‘em like you do
There is no difference between this moment and all the others we see in the rearview mirror of history and look back upon in disgust. Our complacency is the same. Our apathy is the same. Our silence is the same. Our culpability is the same. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-ice-at...
“The UN and the ICC Are Under Attack From Trump and Netanyahu” Three key news stories/scandals you may have missed and what it all means. Your #mustread of the day from Zeteo.
There will effectively be no OCR, no ALJ, no avenue to legally compel your local district to comply with either ADA or IDEA. If they don't wanna, they just won't. And even if they want to, the federal money is going to disappear, so the already overtaxed public education system will cut services.
The Trump administration is dismantling our public education system and defunding programs that support students with special needs. @edmarkey.bsky.social and I are fighting back.
Good night, lovely people and lovely dogs. I hope that you have a really wonderful weekend.
#5albums50s60s4 #albumoftheday Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969) A warm bath of a record. Astonishing musicianship. Intimate, and revealing, it should have resulted in fame & fortune but was ignored by the public. How might his life have panned out if it sold well? Best track - River Man
Disability in LIS Journal Seeking Peer Reviewers! Volunteer form, contact information, and links to related content are available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
A new book about Argentina’s disappeared shows how difficult it can be to reckon with atrocities of the past. Julia M. Klein on lessons from a nation caught between "the drive to forget and the obligation to remember":
Well described in Atwood’s Oryx and Crayx
I like Thrift Books but my go- to is Biblio Books—too many indie booksellers to count. Thanks to them my book budget is RIP oh well
“Solution” might be the exact word especially if partnered with “final”
Practically my favorite genre to read/ use as an instruction manual
With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
This is a campaign I can heartedly endorse
Late night listening: Keith Jarrett's 1999 album "The Melody At Night, With You" album.link/y/OLAK5uy_n2...
Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.
Happy birthday Mel! Happy Birthday Dean! Both bring joy
Wishing Mel Brooks a Very Happy Birthday today! 🎂🎉 📷 Andrew Eccles "My movies rise below vulgarity." Mel & I share a birthday! 🎂🎂
Ron DeSantis on his new camp for migrants: "We've got showers. There you see the shower and bath facilities."
Our current President is a traitorous, convicted felon, and a court-adjudicated rapist who lacks the intelligence, character, decency, and cognitive ability to lead. His presence is doing us irreparable harm. We should not normalize him, but normalize stating the truth about him.
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
#iowa #weallaregoingtodie #mmm
Hey let’s boot hinson please please please
It is SO different from the IA I grew up in also … at this moment in my life I won’t be moving so fight it is!
It’s a true task suitable for Sysiphius
Watch "Inside Tracks II: The Lost Albums" on Bruce’s official YouTube channel to learn more about all the lost albums now!
So sick of the preformative BS
#HeyIowa and especially voters in IA 2 - read what Rep Ashley Hinson posted about Trump’s War, which was started without Congressional approval. Then call or email Hinson to remind her Trump promised no more war.
Some of us do fight but alas the battle is entirely uphill— and yes I’m pretty sure they are pumping Round-up straight into the waterways bc that’s where “ Fashly””et al get her money.
"In nature’s infinite book of secrecy a little I can read" Antony & Cleopatra 1.2 #ShakespeareSunday
I read it AND listened to it—wonderful both ways
Happy birthday Anne Carson 🎂 📷 Terence Burns "Carson is like a scholarly Joni Mitchell in cut-off denims & a billowy white shirt, & when she talks it's in a faint, hippy-ish voice that makes it hard to tell if she's joking." - Emma Brockes @emmabrockes.bsky.social
That’s the essential tool kit
Françoise Sagan by Burt Glinn, 1958 Everything you need to be a writer: a typewriter, a cigarette, a black turtleneck & a cat #caturday
God and good men hate so foul a liar.
Petty man smallcock should be on his lapel
Yiyun Li reads her story “Any Human Heart,” from the June 23, 2025, issue of the magazine.
Little ole Dubuque?! ( blushes)
#HeyIowa - www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
"It’s just a fact that human beings, especially when they are oppressed and under fire, find ways to talk to each other in ways that their oppressors won’t understand. Whether you’re Black or white, in the death camps or enslaved. People find a way to talk to each other that’s safe."
And better looking
We could have right now a steady growing economy -a plan to educate more people regardless of age -a more robust caregiving system that made life better. Instead we get daily horrors and malfeasance (at best) . An unforgivable political system
I would say ABC should be ashamed of themselves but I spent enough to time in TV to know networks have no shame. What they have are shareholders & corporate owners. We have a POTUS who refers to a Governor as ‘Newscum’ and it gets accepted by news orgs but calling out evil isn’t.
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
I held off on what I had planned to discuss in “The Week Ahead” tonight to try and give us some baselines for understanding what is happening in Los Angeles. And in the White House. There is a lot of territory to cover here, and it’s complicated, so bear with me. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
6/context from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
2/ A little background in a different context here joycevance.substack.com/p/the-insurr...
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE 🥹 Presenting the book cover of “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” written by myself and illustrated by my friend Lorraine Nam. Published by Random House Children’s Books 🐧💚 Preorder at bit.ly/ISHYH-Reveal 📖✨
I wish them both the worst.
They are at the top of all horrible people with a very narrow set of mental skills & 0 emotional intelligence. Rather predictable & may the justice they both deserve arrive
To add another great line from VEEP: it’s like explaining gravity to a chicken
It’s like veep but much much much stupider
I hope that every American understands that this is what the Republican Party and Project 2025 want. “By statute or regulation, CDC guidance must be prohibited from taking on a prescriptive character”. Project 2025, page 454.
"This is a moment in history personified. This is not just people buying favors. This is about who controls this country, and everyone else is just a formality, and that is the worldview that we are up against right now." Interview: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
OMG! Our first Basset was a Bess—great minds!
Midterm elections are still 17 months away, but Republicans have already unveiled their campaign slogan: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
Are Iowans ready for someone who WILL work for us? Print out the petition form and let’s get Nathan Sage on the ballot! www.sageforsenate.com/platform
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I can’t believe the media covered up the fact that a clear mental incompetent was running the government while out of his mind on drugs, despite it being widely known in DC circles, to preserve their access to the White House. There should be huge recriminations for this.
Juliette Greco by Gjon Mili, 1957 "Her voice is like a warm light that revives the embers burning inside of us all. It is thanks to her, & for her, that I have written songs. In her mouth, my words become precious stones." - Jean-Paul Sartre www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQ2...
He dishonors the office and all of American history with every breath he takes
I was at this town hall and saw her say this live. My jaw almost hit the floor. I am running against her to get her the hell out of the senate.
First declared Democratic candidate for #IASen in 2026. (I expect others to join the field this summer)
NATHAN SAGE and JAKYRA BRYANT will be guest speakers at the June 14th NO KINGS nationwide day of action. At noon in Washington Park, Dubuque, IA 52001. This event is hosted by Indivisible Dubuque County. We will have petitions available for getting NATHAN SAGE on the ballot to replace Ernst.
Iowans really ***really*** need to apologize who lives up to the nickname phoney joni every minute of the day
That does look good
So SO obvious they have never had to apply for any of these programs themselves. Talk about feeding off the public trough: Exhibit A
This is the person who won a campaign by talking about wearing bread bags on her feet & my fellow Iowans thought that meant something. Remember you silly Iowans she can go in ‘26! Make it so!
Oh I think the lobotomy is already in progress
Waste fraud abuse your name is Ashley Hinson. SO obvious they never applied for these programs themselves
Ed lives in the Quad Cities (part of #IA01). He's already received two mailings hitting Mariannette Miller-Meeks for voting to lift the SALT cap.
Ikr? Just upload a google doc , that way we all will know
Remembering Peggy Lee on her birthday 🎂 📷 Ray Whitten, 1946 "She makes her listeners feel cherished. Her singing lulls you, and it is easy to forget how daring it is." - Whitney Balliett Her fabulous Cole Porter: youtube.com/watch?v=9e77...
