Nate
@nfako.bsky.social
he/they // poetry editor at IOE // poems findable
The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)
A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.
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since April, I have received 44 litmag rejections, but I pretty much only submit to aspirational or moonshot journals. at some point near the end of my MFA I realized I was killing ideas in my head that didn't feel "publishable," whatever that means. don't be like me! free yourself! write everything
Up today in @essaydaily.bsky.social's L*STS series are 3 Fallout poems by @toddkaneko.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/3-es...
same advice I got from Eduardo C. Corral and Diane Seuss. Write the weird stuff!!!
✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine)@skymagpie.bsky.social · 4w agoI was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰
just had my first 12+ hour shift at the post office Mail is SO dirty everyone. Wash your hands!
This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate... www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-44-fal...
Issue 44 / Fall 2026
This Fall 2026 issue feels so tender and intimate. Although the writing contains many common poetic images and topics (the moon, birds, fear, loss, love, and language itself all make appearances), …
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I can't afford to live, and even if I could, most of the food is poisonous, and even if it wasn't, the world is burning as billionaires suckle the last pennies from its corpse, but tell me more about how a trans person playing field hockey is the greatest existential threat of our time.
POEM 367: "Henrietta Leavitt Reads An Astronomical Glass Plate Negative" by Brian Evans-Jones "she angles glass to throw what light the low sun shares onto these black stars—blotched on white like speckles on an egg, a void from which knowledge might hatch" stonecirclereview.com/henrietta-le...
Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
what if, and I'm just spit balling, we didn't have a severe t-storm warning every saturday-monday?
A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 2mo agoThe only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.
moved all my furniture to dust and vacuum and wow this room is so big if no one ever has to enter, sit, or eat in here
“What nation has the most robust economy? // Death. // And on what is that economy built? // The end of pain. // What are Death’s most notable exports? // Incompletion, oil, / and the arts.” — @waynemillerpoet.bsky.social, “The News” @milkweededitions.bsky.social
Trampoline #33.3 is excited to have poems by Joshua C. Pipkins, Jason Ryberg, and @leepottspoet.bsky.social. www.trampolinepoetry.com Take care.
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Trampoline Poetry
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Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
it's not why *everything* sucks, but having all three branches of the federal government captured by thieves, abusers, bigots, and cowards is definitely why a lot of things suck
‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 2mo agoDystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
The story isn’t “ICE got someone killed by hiring a bipolar guy,” it’s “ICE kills people, that’s what it does and what it will do until it’s abolished”