What a lovely description! Thanks for reading, Billy.

Happy National Poetry Month! Many thanks to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for including my prompt on collapsing the phenomenal, aka time traveling through juxtaposition 💫

I’m looking for people who have moved multiple times for work. Have you lived in five cities in four years? Moved across state lines? I’m compiling stories for a project about the costs of repeated relocation. If you’re interested in chatting, please email me through the link in bio or DM me here.

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

Please stop saying TACO. We’re talking about an ungodly number of people who could die or maimed. It’s not time for cutesy little internet slang. We have to get away from this bizarre desensitization.

We're all being held hostage by this administration.

Trump signs order imposing 100 percent tariff on brand name drugs President Trump signed an executive order Thursday targeting imported brand name drugs with a 100 percent tariff, citing the U.S.’s “import reliance” as reason for the decision. &…

Disabled people live on fixed incomes that keep them well below the poverty line.

They are often on more medication than their non disabled peers.

A 100% tariff on prescription drugs will break people, many of whom are already having to choose between medicine and food.

The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.

Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

today’s slice of seattle

“A poet is someone who saves and is saved by the dead.”

-- Anne Carson

Son and brother of Afghan man who died in ICE custody demand answers: "I want to know why he died" The family of an Afghan immigrant who died one day after being taken into custody by ICE in Texas says it has received no answers as to what caused the man's death.

Another innocent person killed in ICE custody.

And these are the stories we know about.

Imagine the names that are buried, lost and forgotten?

www.cbsnews.com/news/son-and...

Book graphic featuring 12 titles by women-identifying authors at RRB

Happy WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH from River River Books! 🎉🎉🎉

Check out these beautiful poetry and nonfiction titles today! 📚💙

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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

ICE isn't just building detention centers. It's engineering an entirely new industrial infrastructure for mass deportation; modeled explicitly on Amazon's supply chain. Here's the full architecture of what's being built. 🧵

today’s slice of seattle

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‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Even masks are becoming difficult to find. This is a huge mistake. I ask those who have the ability, especially foreign media, to reflect on this situation. What are people supposed to do under these conditions? This is truly a crime against humanity.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Humans can only survive about 3 days without water.

The tit-for-tat attacks on desalination plants and other water infrastructure in the Middle East are the scariest part of this war.

If you’re at AWP, swing by and visit the incredible team at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social! While I’m not able to be there this year, I’m thrilled that my collection, Field Notes, is there in my stead, alongside some truly phenomenal work from fellow River River authors.

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

You also need a valid ID to rent a Uhaul, get a new job, get an apartment, open a new bank account, etc. This effectively imprisons trans people in Kansas.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

god help me, the details of this story

An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license.

This is pure cruelty.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

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