"I open my jaw wide, rub my arms until the friction burns, let the heat down my throat like molasses. I begin to cook myself, until I can only be caked off the road with a spatula."

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so grateful my CNF piece on misery and snaking skin in North Carolina heat finally found a home!!

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turns out writers love it when your hair harmonizes with your lit mag

poetry matters more than ever and Ada Limón's warmth and wisdom was a joyous gift

REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration.

So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY.

Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.

now that I am safely away from Los Angeles I would just like to say thank you to all the hot men who came to AWP, your aesthetic service was deeply appreciated.

cowards. that is foul.

so sorry to hear this! what happened??

easy to want to hate on #AWP25 or find it cringe but unfortunately it is a fucking delight every time. I just got home, it's 3:10am and I left my airbnb at 9am and nesrly ever minute fed my soul

I want to note that the database used to train Meta AI included books on every topic you could ever think of, my mother’s monograph of her architecture was in the database, so were articles my aunt wrote 20 years ago on South American economies.

This is not just a problem for novelists.

My dad was a contributor on NPR for over 30 years and I remember like 10-12 years ago, he commented on how much more pushback he got on the content he wanted to talk about, how much more “careful” NPR was about having “measured” responses. He found it infuriating.

online leftists think the worse possible thing that could happen to them is someone calls them a democrat or a liberal

update: 5calls reported over 100,000 calls through their app alone

so many people have called their representatives today that many phone lines calls are distorted and garbled. 💓

We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests This is "We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests" by MediaTank on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

Screenshot of a New York Times opinion piece in which Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar states her belief that Americans want her to work with Republicans and find common ground.

I encourage Minnesotans to give Sen. Klobuchar's office a call: 202-224-3244

Let her know what you think about her strategy of finding common ground with the Nazi authoritarians currently dismantling our government and attempting to disappear trans & intersex folks and immigrants.

50 protests 50 states February 5th - your state capitol !

Please hit share

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#USprotest
#endimpunity

February 5th - Your State Capitol

I am sure it will bode well that airlines are upgrading their wifi to use starlink systems

Michigan Quarterly Review having a contest for AI generated/LLM texts isn’t surprising but it’s still disappointing. Claiming that you want people to subvert expectations through using software that is unethical is not subversion.

badly planned my reading week—I do not recommend reading these in a row if you’re feeling powerless against the structures of society

maybe I will just make this the front page of my syllabi from now on

It seems like ADL forgot to unfollow us.

😭 😭

Can't imagine the youth will be too bummed about their high energy video app being banned when they can just log onto blue sky and read sentences written by elder millennials

interesting that the breaking news ecosystem of Twitter is rehoming itself on Bluesky and feels largely absent on Threads

reunited with my best bud after 11 days apart 😭

nothing is more destructive to the cause of leftism in the US than online leftists—grateful to the IRL radicalized community for the work they do, the way they continuously educate me and the community resources they provide

Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case The report, which said the special counsel’s office stood “fully behind” the merits of the prosecution, amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of the president-elect.

Special Counsel Jack Smith said in a final report that the evidence would have been sufficient to convict Trump in a trial, had his 2024 election victory not made it impossible for the prosecution to continue.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

trying 2 forget I’m flying back to the US two days before inauguration