If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

What if we just cleared Congress of all the abusers and sex pests this week

what is stopping us

who cares what party they are in

1777: Some ring-ousels appear on their spring-migration. Cucumbers swell.

Starting out on a new poem

Image: 'Outdoor Test' by Hungarian artist Endre Tot, 1980

Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?

These people call themselves patriots. Almost invariably, they turn out to be stooges of foreign powers. goodlawproject.org/orbans-pay-c...

So glad to see someone so beautifully articulate what I think about almost every day….

“Vanilla ice”, our president really gets the top tier celebrities to hang out with him.

One good use of the supposed two-week ceasefire is to get back to talking about the Epstein files

If you go hunting, you’re not on the left. Hunting is for people with sick minds.

Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 14 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

Poets on NaPoWriMo and much more @suefinch.bsky.social @jntod.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @renee-emerson.bsky.social 2/4
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 14 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

This week in the poetry blogs with @alinaetc.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @beckyltuch.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social 1/4 www.vianegativa.us/2026/04/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 14 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

War vs. spring with poets @garybarwin.bsky.social @pfanderson.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @roguestrands.bsky.social 3/4
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 14 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

Nursing a dying animal, unfolding layers of meaning, committing poems to memory, and much more with
@robmclennan.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social @loriaustex.bsky.social 4/4
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Picked a ton of wild garlic yesterday. Bastard thieves stole it overnight.

They didn’t even leave a ramson note.

Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5tn on 'Defense'.

$1.2tn would provide Universal Healthcare.

No more stupid wars and no more poverty and death.

Get a President who will choose Healthcare and not War.

Britain tells the UN that Iranian strikes on regional countries “represent a direct threat to international peace and security”.

But not apparently the illegal war of aggression being prosecuted by his allies the US and Israel, which he doesn’t mention.

When you use an Oxford comma, you're doing your part to make the world beautiful, meaningful, and understandable.

Male Emperor Moth on grass

Saturnia pavonia. Emperor Moth
First time using pheromone lures and within 30 minutes three males circling. Record shot then packed away.
VC13 #TeamMoth.
Mill Hill LNR Shoreham-by-sea.
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Obviously a lifer for me. 😀

This photo.

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️

It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

Diane Abbott at the Together Alliance march

"Our message is not the. message of Nigel Farage or the right wing press"

"Our message is that refugees are welcome here"

*Zack Polanski waiting to speak, joins in the clapping*

Nigel Farage’s farming adviser calls for wheat prices to double Exclusive: critics warn Reform UK use of trade policy would increase food costs amid cost-of-living crisis

Yet another position that's almost identical to the policy promoted by English fascists in the 1930s. There seems to be a kind of ideological homing instinct at work. Before long, the entire package will be back in place.
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Half a million strong. Together.

The biggest march against the far-right in British history.

Hundred of thousands of people marching against the far-right in London today and not a mention of it on the BBCNews website. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Unison marching together against the far right. 28 March London. Love, hope, unity.

❤️ Marching for love, hope and unity and standing up to to hate and division 💜

✊Join us on the union bloc, Park Lane London 12pm. Move off at 1pm unsn.uk/UNISON28March

I’m honoured to be a part of this York event for Andrew’s brilliant Blue Diode Publishing collection Little Griefs.

Step one: colonise half the planet
Step two: steal their art
Step three: charge them entry to see it

POETS! 1 place left & bursary apps closing soon✍️🤗Join myself & Vanessa Lampert @nessalampert.bsky.social
this May for a magical poetry retreat at the stunning Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre in Wales! Plus guest Luke Worthy. Both fledgling & on well on the wing poets welcome🙂 tynewydd.wales/course/journ...

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

This is utterly jaw-dropping.

A school that bans Atwood, Zadie Smith, Terry effing Pratchett and *literal George Orwell* is actively harming its pupils.

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