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.

Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation

"Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail"

"About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation"

Sharing this belatedly here but with much appreciation for @oxfordamerican.bsky.social—for everything they do, and for featuring two poems from Might Could and a series of river photos <3

Thanks for the shout-out for Might Could, @clmporg.bsky.social! Just seeing this! 💚

big ruling from the Montana supreme court.

as bolts reported last year, this court in Montana has been a backstop against all sorts of conservative policies: boltsmag.org/montana-supr...

Frankly, the really stupid thing about them latching on to "just war theory" is that this /isn't/ a just war, by anyone's interpretation.

Deere settles US right-to-repair lawsuit with $99 million fund, repair commitments U.S. agriculture equipment maker Deere on ​Monday agreed to pay $99 million into a settlement fund for ‌farms and farmers that are part of a class action over costs and access to repairs.

"Deere also agreed to make available to farmers for 10 years 'the digital tools required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair' of large agricultural equipment, including tractors, combines, and sugarcane harvesters, the filing showed."

Great news!

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Probably not surprising to anybody posting on bluesky but ChatGPT is a surveillance machine. Even queries made outside the US, in French, are getting sent to the FBI.

Attention universities:

The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’

This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is.

So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.

ICE is incompatible with a constitutional democracy and must be abolished.

Thank you for coming, and for this report! <3 <3

An electric tea candle looks almost like a real flame if you don’t pay too much attention, but when I went to a restaurant that had put up a wall of electric tea candles they flickered together in robotic unison. Extruded text always reminds me of that wall.

This is what ecocide looks like.

Seven US Regime Change Wars, Ranked by Disastrousness Trump has killed Iran's supreme leader and is demanding 'unconditional surrender.' But history tells us that US-led regime change efforts abroad almost never bring positive results.

"Many Americans seem to have forgotten just how catastrophic US regime change wars have been in the past. So, with the risk of history repeating itself once again, here is Zeteo’s list of seven of the US’s most disastrous attempts at regime change, ranked"

Anna Lena Phillips Bell at AWP 2026 Wednesday, 3/4 32 Poems/Barrelhouse/Smartish Pace reading 7:00–10:00 pm United Methodist Church, 10 East Mt. Vernon Place Thursday, 3/5 The Anthony Hecht Prize: A Twentieth-Anniversary Reading 9:00–10:45 am Room 326, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center Material Encounters: On Teaching the Multimodal 1:45–3:00 pm Room 315, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center Celebrating New Books 5–6 pm Gallery 1448, 1448 E. Baltimore St.

Anna Lena Phillips Bell at AWP 2026 Friday, 3/6 Ecotone/UNC Wilmington table 12:00–1:45 pm, book fair, T1130/1132 Book signing for Might Could 2:00–3:00 pm, Asterism Books, booth 1266/1268 Siren Songs at Hotel Ulysses 4–6:30 pm, Ash Bar, 2 East Read St. Image/Fairfield University MFA Program reading 6:30–7:30 pm, James Room, Sixth Floor Renaissance Harborplace Hotel Saturday, 3/7 Book signing for Might Could 11:00 am–noon, Terrain.org, booth 751/753 Read the Room featuring The Hopkins Review 5:30–7:30 pm, 2640 Space, 2640 St Paul St.

Might Could and me at AWP. I haven't been in ages and am really looking forward. Come say hi! 💚

What if we just…you know…didn’t use AI, given that we’ve seen approximately 1 billion red flags?

How I wept tonight.

“We can endure this, & be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here.”

This is how turtles flirt. Let me flutter my hands in your face!

Más estadounidenses consideran que Bad Bunny encarna mejor los valores de Estados Unidos que Donald Trump

Más estadounidenses consideran que Bad Bunny encarna mejor los valores de Estados Unidos que Donald Trump dozz.es/8ffmh6

A copy of Might Could, a diminutive poetry book, lying on snowy grass. The cover reads Might Could / Anna Lena Phillips Bell / Winner of the Twentieth Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize, and features a work in glass by artist Amber Cowan: a footed compote with a clear cloche over it, filled with vegetative forms and a vintage glass fox.

Might Could is available for preorder! Thanks to @pomegranate_books you can order a signed copy—at pombookslocal.com or the link is in my bio. Or for an unsigned copy, visit @asterism_books. THANK YOU to everyone who’s ordered the book already, or asked your library to. 💚 Also, m e l t i c e.

Thank you!

Legislation is working its way through the 2026 Va. General Assembly session right now that would end similar *local* 287(g) agreements & other ICE entanglements here.

Virginians, make sure you tell your state reps you have their back in support of these bills! See acluva.org for more details.

BREAKING:

The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering".

It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists.

You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!

#MAGAKidnappers

Alice Oswald in the key of k.

Love her 💚💚💚

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Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

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