Brian Spears
@briankspears.bsky.social
Senior Poetry Editor at The Rumpus (Ret.), author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011) and Another Poem to Love https://brian-spears.com I also crochet stuff.
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Brian Spears
@briankspears.bsky.social
· Nov 16
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing millions of people that what they really wanted to do was argue with complete strangers on the internet 24/7.
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There’s a “great disturbance in the Force” vibe online tonight.
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
There’s a “great disturbance in the Force” vibe online tonight.
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Elected Dems really need to accept that there are options beyond us and them. I think it’s fine that MTG is pissed at Trump. That doesn’t mean she’s on the same side I am.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Elected Dems really need to accept that there are options beyond us and them. I think it’s fine that MTG is pissed at Trump. That doesn’t mean she’s on the same side I am.
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New scarf, this one with a Severance feel
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
New scarf, this one with a Severance feel
Elected Dems really need to accept that there are options beyond us and them. I think it’s fine that MTG is pissed at Trump. That doesn’t mean she’s on the same side I am.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Elected Dems really need to accept that there are options beyond us and them. I think it’s fine that MTG is pissed at Trump. That doesn’t mean she’s on the same side I am.
It’s gonna be a hell of a thing if the QB’s in the AFC Championship game are Daniel Jones and Bo Nix in a division that also has Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Alexander and Josh Allen.
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
It’s gonna be a hell of a thing if the QB’s in the AFC Championship game are Daniel Jones and Bo Nix in a division that also has Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Alexander and Josh Allen.
New scarf, this one with a Severance feel
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
New scarf, this one with a Severance feel
The Changing Light at Sandover and my book.
Prompt: if you had to performatively display two books that you wanted the NYT writer profiling you about your career ending scandal to notice, what would they be?
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The Changing Light at Sandover and my book.
The parenthetical is my favorite bit of the article
November 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The parenthetical is my favorite bit of the article
If you see this post a bird
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If you see this post a bird
I’ve never been a pickup line type but while walking across campus just now my brain hit me with “do you work at Starbucks because you are striking” and now why am I admitting this to the whole world?
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I’ve never been a pickup line type but while walking across campus just now my brain hit me with “do you work at Starbucks because you are striking” and now why am I admitting this to the whole world?
I think DC Republicans have been legitimately surprised by how willing, eager even, Democratic voters are to throw any Dem politician in the trash if they’re named in the Epstein files.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I think DC Republicans have been legitimately surprised by how willing, eager even, Democratic voters are to throw any Dem politician in the trash if they’re named in the Epstein files.
If egg prices are actually down, it’s because chicken flocks have recovered from the culling that resulted from bird flu which is what made prices high in the first place.
COLLINS: When Trump says grocery prices are down, what numbers is he basing that off given it's not true?
HASSETT: Inflation is down
C: But grocery prices are up
H: Not everything. Egg prices are down. Why haven't you covered egg prices?
C: We certainly have. But grocery prices are up about 1.4%
HASSETT: Inflation is down
C: But grocery prices are up
H: Not everything. Egg prices are down. Why haven't you covered egg prices?
C: We certainly have. But grocery prices are up about 1.4%
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
If egg prices are actually down, it’s because chicken flocks have recovered from the culling that resulted from bird flu which is what made prices high in the first place.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
I will not yell on the internet today.
No that’s crocus. Caucus is the Roman god of getting drunk and having orgies.
No, that’s the Caucasus Mountains. Caucus is the name of those brightly colored spring flowers, kin to irises.
No, that's a cactus. Caucus is the name of a mountain range in Eurasia.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
No that’s crocus. Caucus is the Roman god of getting drunk and having orgies.
Auto racing and soccer are the two biggest sports that are better without a playoff system.
November 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Auto racing and soccer are the two biggest sports that are better without a playoff system.
So you’re telling me that the Saints, Giants, Dolphins and Jets are all winning handily right now? In 2025.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
So you’re telling me that the Saints, Giants, Dolphins and Jets are all winning handily right now? In 2025.
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Two things. First, Trump really did post this. Second, the royalty payment idea comes from a satirical site called the Dunning-Kruger Times. Lol.
November 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Two things. First, Trump really did post this. Second, the royalty payment idea comes from a satirical site called the Dunning-Kruger Times. Lol.
Mamdani is going to institute buneary law. Floppy-eared rabbit Pokémon for everyone.
Mamdani is going to institute birria law. Mandatory delicious beef tacos for all.
Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Mamdani is going to institute buneary law. Floppy-eared rabbit Pokémon for everyone.
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It’s easier to focus on the effect of the decision to appeal this, which is that lots of people will unnecessarily go hungry, but recognize that the agenda here is to make it so that the executive branch is not bound by laws passed by Congress and signed by a President, past or present.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It’s easier to focus on the effect of the decision to appeal this, which is that lots of people will unnecessarily go hungry, but recognize that the agenda here is to make it so that the executive branch is not bound by laws passed by Congress and signed by a President, past or present.
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Target is gonna hit their employees with Smilex when they clock on for the day.
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Target is gonna hit their employees with Smilex when they clock on for the day.
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I’m not what you would call fashion-forward, but I’m matching my earrings and socks today.
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I’m not what you would call fashion-forward, but I’m matching my earrings and socks today.
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