Next week! Join us for Black Ocean's 20th Anniversary Celebration at the NOLA Poetry Festival on April 18th, featuring Joe Hall, Nathan Hoks, and Carrie Olivia Adams in conversation with Dylan Krieger.
a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate
Janaka asked Andrew Shuta to do it! But love it so much!
So stoked for this one! And what a cover!
My new story "Ponyhenge" just dropped. Come for the ponies but stay for the feral girls...
🎠 🔥 💖 "What fun, this first kiss dazzle, these fingers gripping her hair."
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The Portugal song is such a banger: www.youtube.com/shorts/SCRzc...
There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now
Buffalo Free Rapid Transit on lots of grime
BUFFALO FREE RAPID TRANSIT IS HERE: love, rage, shredded trains, shredded futures, angel ligaments, bus rides, friends on bikes, cruel glittering snow, gardens, years of unnatural disaster, all the rust, all the haywire power structures at the imperial core's edges
www.blackocean.org/catalog1/buf...
What a beaut!
Stoked to see this out in the world! Congrats!
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow
It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker
This was never about woman's sports
See you tomorrow Des Moines!!!
Two stacks of The Phinney by Post Book
Title page of The Phinney by Post Book: 100 Books You Might Not Know About That We Think You'll Love by Tom Nissley, illustrations by Elinor Nissley
Interior page from The Phinney by Post Book, featuring a painted cover of the original edition of Her First American by Lore Segal
Interior page from The Phinney by Post Book, featuring a painted cover of the original edition of Golden Days by Carolyn See
Since I use this place as my news & culture feed I've kind of forgotten that I can also be a person here too, and do what a person does: promotes their own work! I just made a book with my sister (the talented @nornissley.bsky.social ): The Phinney by Post Book, with my words and her pictures.
Excited for this to start! Hope to see you soon!
Oh he’s going to tear it down, isn’t he?
He should get what most Americans get when their data is breached — a year of Experian monitoring, maybe two years if he’s lucky.
“De-escalation”
The answer is for WA to become the anti-MAGA. Invest in higher ed, not cut it as Gov. Ferguson wants. Fund the research and health care that Trump and DOGE cut. Hire all the scientists and experts looking for a good job in a good place. Build a lot more housing so people can afford to move here.
DHS: Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE. If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.GOV/CBPHOME.
straight up Gestapo shit
Wait til she finds out about organizations like the Federalist Society
Here is the same thing but with every downzone area I can see circled. I count 37 total areas. Some are the neighborhood center shrinkage that we knew about, but others are... just entire corridors getting chopped
Here is a "lighten" effect animated GIF so it's easier to see all the individual block downzones en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_c...
Who among us hasn’t walked among the Aurora Corridor Urban Village Bisectes by a Highway™️?
When we lifted
Our eye-lids on Love
A cosmos
Of coloured voices
And laughing honey
And spermatozoa
At the core of Nothing
In the milk of the Moon
- Mina Loy
New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
I’m going on a Midwest book tour for my second book of #poetry, Our Human Shores—hoping to see you soon!
You don't have to watch the video if it's going to paralyze your ability to take action. Remember to be strategic, not reactive.
Organize. Share resources. Talk to others. Let this radicalize you: we have a world to win
"The federal government is killing people in the streets, so sports are canceled," is the point we have reached.
