Preorders are open now for Folly Journal’s Eros issue which will be publishing my piece Fin De Siècle: Out September 4! www.follyjournal.com/buy/p/smut-c...

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Preorders are open now for Folly Journal’s Eros issue which will be publishing my piece Fin De Siècle: Out September 4! www.follyjournal.com/buy/p/smut-c...

a glaring omission from much of the convo about the Delaney Hall labor and hunger strike imo is the fact that *these people shouldn't be laboring in the first place* this is slavery, & even the 13th Amendment's 'punishment for a crime' exception doesn't apply! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis

The Delaney Hall Strike participants haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.

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got some nonfiction with a pop culture angle? or still need some motivation to write it? check out @barrelhouse.bsky.social !

Tom McAllister@tmcallister.bsky.social · 2mo ago

full guidelines for Barrelhouse NF subs below. We'll be open till 6/28 or 500 subs, whichever comes first

Catastrophe can be plausible without being preordained, and treating every danger as destiny does not make us more prepared. My latest.

Pessimism Is Not Prophecy: On Declining Invitations to Surrender

“Public opinion is not a self-enforcing political mechanism; it’s a mood. If we want public disapproval to become public action, we need to extend worthwhile invitations.”

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Nuair a éiríonn sibh ball Tabatha’s nó cairde Bhríde, gheobhaidh sibh o idea ó mo yhinteán. Cláraigh anois do lascaine ag úsáid an nasc i mo bhio // when you become a Tabhartas or Brigid’s member, you will get recipes from my hearth 🔥. Sign up now for a discount using the link in my bio

Baking No-Knead Bread for Your Offerings Is a Practice in Ritual

What magically mundane practices can you maintain in the complicated web of your life?

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Nuair a éiríonn sibh ball Tabatha’s nó cairde Bhríde, gheobhaidh sibh o idea ó mo yhinteán. Cláraigh anois do lascaine ag úsáid an nasc i mo bhio // when you become a Tabhartas or Brigid’s member, you will get recipes from my hearth 🔥. Sign up now for a discount using the link in my bio

Baking No-Knead Bread for Your Offerings Is a Practice in Ritual

What magically mundane practices can you maintain in the complicated web of your life?

whogivesafocal.ghost.io

These people deserve to be hounded out of society and kept out for the remainder of their worthless lives.

Fascist Dem Tracker@fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And the 8 Dems are: Henry Cuellar (TX), Don Davis (NC), Cleo Fields (LA), Laura Gillen (NY), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), Marcy Kaptur (OH), Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA), & Eugene Vindman (VA).

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

ACLU@aclu.org · 3mo ago

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students.

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

Instead of voluntarily recognizing our union, they've forced us into a redundant and drawn-out election process, rather than listening to the overwhelming majority of employees who signed our initial letter to management.

WOTC and Hasbro can still voluntarily recognize our union at any point up to the NLRB election. We encourage you to sign our letter of support, and make your voice heard. cwa.org/uwotcletter

Tell Wizards of the Coast to Recognize Our Union!

The workers at Magic The Gathering: Arena have voted overwhelmingly to form the union: United Wizards of the Coast - CWA (UWOTC)! We are asking Wizards and Hasbro management to voluntarily recognize ...

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They’re trying to characterize Talarico as effeminate and gay. That’s what this is about (because “real” men supposedly always eat meat). It’s part of a larger messaging campaign against him. The @nytimes.com should be embarrassed for engaging,

Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 3mo ago

Ken Paxton is historically corrupt, John Cornyn is a MAGA traffic cone, and Talarico might be a SECRET VEGETARIAN WITH MID TACO ORDERS. Which one has the best case to be elected to the Senate? WHO CAN SAY?

Congratulations to Okay Donkey’s Best New Poets nominees! 🥳 Chrissy Stegman for “Breaking News: Barbie Eats Trump During Baltimore Pride Fest,” March 2025. (okaydonkeymag.com/2025/03/14/b...) Maxwell Minckler for “Hot-Desking,” September 2025. (okaydonkeymag.com/2025/09/26/h...)

OKD is happy to announce that our very own Fiction Reader, Samantha Borek, is now our Newsletter Editor! Read her full message to the community in the second image (or alt-text) below.

Today in news that should both terrify and enrage us:

Derek Seidman@derekseidman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The U.S. Army is planning to give 50-year leases to the world's biggest private equity firms to build and operate data centers on Army land to service the military's growing use of AI. For @truthout.org.

This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people 3 people are producing most toxic content Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive and amplified by engagement based algorithms. The other 97 quiet voices disappear thenoisyroom.com

Burn it to the ground.

Ben Goggin@bengoggin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Oracal ó Bhríd do Bhealtaine — The Volunteer How have you been of service to those who give care lately? Are you of too much service to others? Who can you call on? The 19 fire-tenders, even Brigid herself, couldn’t tend the eternal flame alone. Nasc i bhio // link is in bio

If you haven’t yet gotten a print copy of Bruised Knees and Gardenias — consider these raw musings ofchildhood mixam.com/print-on-dem...

This is a ruling purporting to halt telehealth prescriptions of mifepristone NATIONWIDE. Louisiana asked the Fifth Circuit for a decision by Monday, May 11. That they dropped it on a Friday afternoon feels intentional to keep it in effect for longer. Expect emergency appeal to SCOTUS shadow docket

Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com · 3mo ago

NEW: The ultraconservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked the 2023 rule change that allowed for telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone—nationwide.

I talked with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about hope, backlash, political memory, and how history can help us understand our own power.

Hope Is Not Naive: Rebecca Solnit on Backlash, Power, and Political Memory

“What if changing the world looked more like care than like war,” asks writer Rebecca Solnit.

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Iranian forces have caused far more extensive damage to U.S. military assets than Trump administration officials have admitted to in public and private, new reporting finds, as Germany’s chancellor says the U.S. is being “humiliated” by Iran.

Trump Administration Covering Up “Extensive” Damage Done to US Bases By Iran

Meanwhile, Germany’s chancellor has said that the US “is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership.”…

truthout.org

My first ever published poem “Swamp Caoin” is out now from Fish Girl collective’s “Bruised Knees and Gardenias” issue. It’s an honor to be included with this gutwrenching issue on childhood fishgirlcollective.squarespace.com/blog-1/swamp...

I'm already seeing people say "hey, give the journalists who are there a break" and I thought we JUST established that they are in fact all amoral fools.

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

Seems reasonable, think about everything that the attendees needed to deliberately ignore in order to show up in the first place

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The dinner will resume, announces WHCA President Weijia Jiang.

ICYMI:

As Fuel Protests Sweep Ireland, the Left Points to Imperialism as the Culprit

Activists in Ireland are refusing the co-optation of fuel protests by the far right and demanding government action.

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