The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

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thank you, Pattie!! 💘

I LOVE THIS POEM & our continuing proximity 💘

I have a poem called Fear in the new issue of Blush. You can also listen to an audio version. It's an incredibly stacked issue with new work by luminaries @alinapleskova.bsky.social @sad13.horse and so many more
www.blush-lit.com/journal#/nii...

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i have two poems (w/audio!) in the new issue of blush, ft. so many great poets!

been thinking about “productivity” & “achievement”, referring to poems as “work”, artist statements, lexicon i often saw when working at an art school, how to stay loose & silly, etc

🎡 www.blush-lit.com/alina-plesko...

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

i’m a writer whose book is On There (& make a point of linking elsewhere on my site, etc.) & i didn’t even know these stats (granted, i’m a poet & an air sign, so show me where i’m capable of math—)

💿 join us on the auspicious date of 11/11 for the next TRACK CHANGES ft. a very auspicious lineup:

@ginabird.bsky.social (Philly) + Ryan Skrabalak (Kingston, NY)!

it’s giving cosmic alignment, it’s giving big admiration, it’s giving we do not dream of labor

🎟️ track-changes-november.eventbrite.com

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

💿 join us on the auspicious date of 11/11 for the next TRACK CHANGES ft. a very auspicious lineup:

@ginabird.bsky.social (Philly) + Ryan Skrabalak (Kingston, NY)!

it’s giving cosmic alignment, it’s giving big admiration, it’s giving we do not dream of labor

🎟️ track-changes-november.eventbrite.com

Today is pub day for Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine! However much writing can be a solitary act, putting a book out definitely isn’t. Thanks to Stillhouse Press and all of Tell Me Yours’ many champions.

My first book is out now. I hope you like it.

real Lindaheads know 💕💕 so glad to be reading your work again!

this is beautiful, Dina!!! got a spiritual echo of the last line from one of my fave Linda Gregg poems: "That moment is what I will tell of as proof / that you loved me permanently"

from your lips to the branding consultancy’s ears… 😭

it’s so beautiful, & that beauty is the only lure needed! they could just ask their trustee board for some loose millions & lower the entry instead of asking $30 admission during a precipitous economic downturn & attributing that to a need for more DJ nights in the atrium. but what do i know!

such a consultant industrial complex parody…. also, the whole thing was done by a Brooklyn based design studio. hashtag Philly pride!! hashtag Rocky cheesesteak!!!

PMA looked at their declining attendance—in the second-poorest big city in america, with a deep connection to labor movements—& instead of making the museum more affordable & not union busting, they went “name shuffle, yassify security guards, microbrewery font”

www.inquirer.com/arts/philade...

this makes my heart warm even though, obvi, none of it should be happening at all

We will also hear a lot about Washington's "diplomatic achievement", a travesty of a framing. The US could have pulled the plug on Israel's genocide at any point over the past two years, and chose not to. The basis of a ceasefire has long been there, but Israel and its allies weren't interested.

The discourse in the West for the next few days will be e.g. "for all the caveats, let's just be relieved". And no, let's not. That's a feeling for Palestinians, not us.

Palestinians are human beings who deserve much better than the choice we've given them between genocide or colonial subjugation

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair