yeah, that's an interesting thought

This is exactly right. It’s not a dilemma though. It’s a line in the sand that will at once once collapse what remains of the rule of law and regulatory infrastructure designed to protect the public.

they were an endless resource of chyll

lol

cold weather can damage the pluming [sic]

I never realized there could be so many 'blime t-shirts til I spent one pleasant afternoon a week in an inland empire goodwill for a whole semester

What he had was a gun.

do not forget that we the people have the power to chart a different path than this

easier for a camel through a needle's eye than to convince a longtime resident of a place that yes, even their friend who is a "good landlord" is not a good landlord because there are no good landlords

The UMich Regent who allegedly spearhead efforts to prosecute student protestors lost his endorsement to the Lebanese immigrant who represented those students in court.

dang, it was here for a week and I thought eh, pretty man space movie I'll pass and now you tell me?? I missed it!

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf was formative for me, too.

me too

that's something I've noticed emerging in the last 3 years or so. I find it distressing, especially in harness with the struggle to imagine that I also witness

every time

“Futurist” is the gentle way to tell you neighbors & colleagues you don’t care whether they live or die.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.

John is absolutely right to see the “infinite patience” for Khan’s failed EdTech creative destruction & the closure of Hampshire as linked.

EdTech has always been dependent on using grades as the foundation for A/B testing, behavioral modification (which they pretend is learning), & tokenization.

spent the morning

making slides for classes on THE RINGS OF SATURN

cutting fragments out of an 1950s gardening book and a copy of ANTIQUES magazine (both deaccessioned from the local library) and reassembling them

planting and watering seeds

baking the bread begun last night

thinking about this some more this morning

about mimesis in student art as a very safe approach to a demanding field

about the (perceived) danger of desiring making branded or recognizable paths both easier and (seemingly) more available than imagining

(thinking about franchise IP and fandoms)

SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Literature and everyday life are not really so far apart. Beginning in autumn 2026, South Dakota Review will send subscribers two issues as slim, bound volumes and two issues that take other forms—…

guess I should also say that a four-issue subscription is $30 in the US and $60 abroad, both including shipping

and you won't regret it*

*non-binding assertion

southdakotareview.wordpress.com/subscription...

it's mass-observation meets "no robot is looking at the clouds" meets "what can a poem be" meets "why are we decorating the already beautiful world"

South Dakota Review Relaunch Are you interested in the future of South Dakota Review? We would love to send you something in the mail in late spring/early summer 2026. Just put your details in below. We will not sell or share you...

not sure yet? I'll send you mail in late summer to convince you, if you like:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

South Dakota Review Weather Report As part of the reimagining of South Dakota Review, we are looking for literature made by people who think of themselves as writers and literature made by people who may not think of themselves as "wri...

please send me your (literal, plain-old) weather report here, for intermittent publication and an issue of weather from all over in (probably) 2028:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

South Dakota Review 100% real handmade literature

hello. I am now the editor of South Dakota Review, a bonus job that came with my job. people keep asking me about "submitting" (huh) "poems" (hmm) but I only want to read about the weather.

southdakotareview.wordpress.com

hi if you live in chicago or know someone who does and they’re looking for a roommate, plz let me know! one of my dear friends is a trans woman in her early 20s and she needs safe, longterm emergency housing. if she can move in within a week, amazing. dm me.

anecdotal, but there were about four snowfalls from October to March here. And about six or eight days of rain between August and April.

In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: “Live in the layers, not on the litter.” Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54897/...

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...