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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been sitting with this the last few hours. It’s really hitting me just how fucking depraved you have to be to respond to an inquiry about an abducted child with a screenshot of a post on elon musk’s hellsite smearing this kid who has no ability to defend himself. It’s unfathomable.

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 15h

This really upset me.

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kristamm @kristamm.bsky.social · 15h

So disappointing. Fenway is supposed to be THE location for LGBTQIA care in Boston.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16h

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

"For too long, our leaders have forgotten New Yorkers with disabilities. We have been failed by those with their own agendas, those who care only about holding on to power to remain relevant and serve their own egos." - Quemuel Arroyo

Quemuel Arroyo, in a wheelchair holding a microphone, on stage with "Our Time Has Come" projected behind him.

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

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...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 5d

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this TikTok since yesterday. Sherman was stressing those ladies out.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 5d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 3d

Why do all the mes feel like crying?

Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 4d

I love your punctuation poster!

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 4d

"An artist is supposed to fight against that, to try to make something good even if it doesn't make them a billion dollars. Greed will always destroy good work, because money and art have drastically different priorities." - @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social

Defector @defector.com · 8d

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

defector.com

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Valerie A. Smith, Back to Alabama, Sundress '24 @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Here's the video! Thanks for an Amazing reading with MonicaWeatherly @notebookscltv.bsky.social

The Notebooks Collective @notebookscltv.bsky.social · 6d

Now online: Our August event with @valeriesmithpoetry.bsky.social & Monica Lee Weatherly.
thenotebookscollective.com/notes/in-con...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 6d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 6d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D. @brittrclark.bsky.social · 6d

@theoatmeal.bsky.social absolutely nailing the sadness in AI art and dissecting the myth of “talent” in art/artist discourse.

Art is "emotional nutrition" and "consuming AI art is like eating Styrofoam."

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 6d

This. I decided a few years ago that a lot of art produced by absurdly rich ppl doesn’t do it for me anymore. I’m not saying it’s all bad. I’m saying I’m not attached to or invested in it. I don’t care what their commentary is because it’s so divorced from my everyday life. Rax says it better here

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11d

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

“Eldest Daughter" is a symptom of my overall issue with Taylor Swift: the scale of her music just feels fucking off. In 2025, she's no longer a lovelorn kid singing about Romeo and Juliet; she's a 35-year-old billionaire who's played sold out stadiums all over the world. She's Taylor Swift. That's her name. Damn near every living person knows who she is, and she's singing about the internet? About the fucking comments section? When she sings "I'm not a bad bitch," is she even aware that she's lying, that she's worshipped by more girls and women than almost anybody else? Even her love songs feel incorrect to me on these grounds. When I think about the real circumstances of her life, I just start wondering where the songs are about the housekeepers, the assistants, the cooks, the drivers, and every other person who's changed her life way more than the man in the Musso and Frank's booth in "Elizabeth Taylor." I struggle to trust her as the lyrical steward of ordinary human experiences. I am certain it's been many years since she's had one the way I have them, with all the waiting for a table that implies, and the navigating of customer service phone trees, the dithering over $35 travel insurance that I can never decide if I actually need, the frantic emails about unpaid freelance invoices, the trip back to the grocery store for the thing I forgot when I went earlier in the day, and all the other boring crap I have to do because I can't buy up other people's lifetimes so they have to do it for me.

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 6d

Yes! Her formula that worked so well 15 years ago falls totally flat today, given her wealth & celebrity. How is it possible to empathize with her bullshit?

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11d

i had an opinion about the new tswift record after all
www.patreon.com/posts/140377...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 7d

the body showed symptoms of sinking with all its treasures unrifled

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 10d

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social campaign videos are one of the only bright lights for me right now. Never thought I'd be thankful for something like this.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 12d

How about supporting these amazing poets & buying this anthology of their astonishing poetry wherever u get books?Imagine what they tell us of the human spirit that they put pen to paper under bombardment,displacement, loss of beloveds—being made to live in tents as they are set on fire or starved.

Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 27d

Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of publishing it were immense.

Copper Canyon Anthology Spotlights Poets in Palestine

Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of…

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 12d

The 2025 winners of the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards are:

Robert Sorrell Bynum (fiction) for "Like a Star"
@jessicacuello.bsky.social (literary nonfiction) for "Your Life for Another"
A. D. Lauren-Abunassar (poetry) for "Three Bombardments"

See our site for more! Link in first comment.

Photos of the winners of the Schiff Awards under the heading "2025 Robert and Adele Schiff Award Winners." Each photo gets its own post page, to follow.

White text on a brick-red background: "Robert Sorrell Bynum, fiction, Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner." Photo is A white man with brown hair to his shoulders and tortoiseshell-frame glasses. He's wearing a black jean jacket over a puffer jacket and shirt, and he's standing on a beach in front of a body of water.

White text on a brick-red blackground: "Jessica Cuello, nonfiction, Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner." Photo is a black-and-white photo of a white woman with curly hair. she is wearing a dark sweater and light-colored shirt and sitting oustide.

White text on a black background: "A.D. Lauren-Abunassar, poetry, Robert and Adele Schiff Award winner." Photo is A Palestinian American woman with brown hair and hazel eyes. She's wearing a dark shirt, dangling earrings, and a necklace chain, and standing in front of a white window shade.

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Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social · 12d

It's so discouraging

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 12d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 13d

from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee

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