The new and selected from @erinwriter.bsky.social is guaranteed 🔥 🔥 🔥! Out this fall!

I still think they’re just trying to distract from the Epstein files

Text of poem titled “Before You Wreak Havoc On Your Life

Oh! One of two new poems from my forthcoming Cocklebur: New & Selected. Copper Canyon 2026. Thank you for the excellent company, Copper Nickel. My best advice for the youth. Lol. ❤️

“the laughing owls / that squat in the trees above / your neighborhood // still cackle to themselves nightly, / a synchronized posse / of madwomen // committed to the skeletal pines.” — @erinwriter.bsky.social, “At Last” @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social www.versedaily.org/2007/atlast....

This is the kind of news that repels dooming

‘Royal sources’ insist that it’s up to Andrew Windsor to testify about Epstein www.celebitchy.com/960154

And I insist I am a supermodel. Neither statement is true.

Nine More Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files Through coffees, phone calls and private flights, at least nine more academics are linked to Jeffrey Epstein in the latest disclosure of documents from the Justice Department.

This is a harrowing look at Epstein's connections to academia. It shows how Epstein was able to woo high-profile scholars with witty banter, promises of research funding, and help from a well-connected literary agent, despite not having a degree himself.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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One of the things bothering me about how people are responding to the Epstein files is that there are tons of conspiracies being created and spread about what’s in them, rather than people just believing the victims like they could have been doing for years now

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Border Patrol agents pepper-sprayed, tackled, and handcuffed people on the grounds of Minneapolis’s Roosevelt High School on Wednesday—just hours after ICE officers shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. trib.al/hDj7ofo

Domestic violence.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."

The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"

"Learned what?" she asks

Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

Three Members of Congress showed up to inspect the actions of federal officers in their state and the federal officers drew their weapons?

They don’t need to pick apart your life. These kind of folks used to kill Black folks for their facial expressions—for “reckless eyeballing.”

Lol

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

Five years ago.

Everything Charlotte writes is worth reading, but please give your time to this.

“The country needs to understand the career that Hegseth is so shamelessly slandering in his quest for political retribution.”

Trump is deploying his DOJ in a defensive stance designed to protect him at all costs, while calling the files a Democratic hoax. But really, he could do the survivors a great service by sharing what he knows. joycevance.substack.com/p/he-looks-l...

Finding myself included in the Heated Rivalry mix, thx to syntax, wasn’t anywhere on my end-of-2025 bingo card, but I’m absolutely here for it…

Yup

If none of your cousins have weed, you need to be the cousin with weed. Be the family you want to see

Be terrible if something happened to that sign. Every. Single. Day. A real shame…

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

The minute it dies, we hold a national march to scrub, topple, & pave over everything it put its shitty name on. Go full pharaoh and wipe its name from history.

I'd love to see every Democratic state and local official start a Get Tough On Wage Theft campaign. Start doing some perp walks, distribute the mug shots, toss criminal employers who steal from their employees in the slammer. And loudly point out that Republicans are "soft on crime" if they object.

And the obscenity of our lawmakers just keeps rolling along…

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I cannot comment on Trump’s Rob Reiner post because I didn’t read it. And when reporters read it aloud to me, I couldn’t hear it because I was plugging my ears.

by Mike Johnson