I haven't posted in ages. HI BLUESKY! Here's my with my Paris besties. xox

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ICE hasn't stopped brutalizing people or shredding the Constitution, it's just that corporate media turned the camera as the call for action got too loud and the Democrats stepped in and made sure the issue got changed. If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.

Hello and very many thanks to @themassreview.bsky.social My poem "Emergency"--on a fraught trip to a Parisian hospital--is online now :

I have a new poem in The Massachusetts Review !! a piece called "Emergency" about a very creepy evening at an eye hospital in Paris. Many thanks to the very excellent @themassreview.bsky.social

Diane Seuss working her genius in Blackbird:

Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts@blackbirdjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Read "In every religion, a purifying" by the legendary Diane Seuss in our latest Flight 23.4. Link in bio and below! 🐦‍⬛ blackbird.vcu.edu/in-every-rel...

I just got permanent residency !!

No Kings at la Bastille, Paris

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I have a new website!! and I'd love to know what you think : marypeelen.com Many thanks to the very excellent digital designer/editor/poet @kristindsanders.bsky.social

LOS ANGELES 💙

I keep rereading this poem by Jane Zwart, finding amazement each time. Every peach / a geode. @poetryfoundation.bsky.social @janezwart.bsky.social

Jane Zwart (she/her)@janezwart.bsky.social · last yr.

Feeling grateful (also floored) to turn to a page in Poetry Magazine & find this poem I wrote, with all admiration, after Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes." Thank you, Adrian, Lindsay, Holly, et al.

RIP Martha Silano, fine poet. You will be remembered.

Astrophysicist Joan Feynman was born #OTD in 1927. She explained the origin of auroras, discovered that coronal mass ejections could be identified by the amount of helium in the solar wind, and elucidated the structure of Earth's magnetosphere. 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Image: Charles Hirshberg

#OnThisDay in 1942, Bainbridge Island's Japanese American residents, the first to be incarcerated under Executive Order 9066, were removed from their homes. historylink.org/File/8277

Vive la France.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last yr.

PARIS (AP) — French judge rules far-right leader Marine Le Pen is barred from seeking public office with immediate effect

Lettre de l’ambassade américaine aux entreprises françaises : « Les leçons de probité ont longtemps constitué un excellent business pour les Etats-Unis »

Lettre de l’ambassade américaine aux entreprises françaises : « Les leçons de probité ont longtemps constitué un excellent business pour les Etats-Unis »

Donald Trump défend une vision rétrograde du mérite, qu’il veut désormais nous imposer. Pourtant, l’inclusion des minorités relève tout autant d’un impératif éthique que d’efficacité économique, constate Isabelle Chaperon, journaliste économique au « Monde ».

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Certains de ces organes ont Une tendance naturelle de ne Plus vouloir leurs propensions. from Poème du stérilet by Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social

Poème du stérilet

Ce poème porte une

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Huge congratulations to @fionalarkin.bsky.social on her UK National Poetry Competition win. Richly deserved for a fine, affecting poem. bit.ly/41Tsq3K

‘Impressive, ingenious and affecting’ poem about missing an absent son wins National Poetry Competition

Fiona Larkin’s poem uses Finnish grammar to explore her feelings about her son’s move from the UK to Brisbane

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Wow: this poem. "Pentimento" by Jenny Molberg on Verse Daily today. @jennymolberg.bsky.social www.versedaily.org/2025/pentime...?

Czarlink

kate conger@kateconger.com · last yr.

A Musk lieutenant ventured onto a roof to install Starlink. The Secret Service didn’t know he was there. The incident triggered a confrontation over conflicts of interest & cyber and physical security www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

Appel pour un accueil des chercheurs américains : « Notre devoir en Europe est de réagir collectivement et de proposer des solutions »

Appel pour un accueil des chercheurs américains : « Notre devoir en Europe est de réagir collectivement et de proposer des solutions »

La censure de la recherche américaine affecte l’ensemble de la planète puisque nombre de projets internationaux incluent des chercheuses et chercheurs américains, alerte, dans une tribune au « Monde », un collectif scientifique, qui appelle les universités françaises et européennes à la solidarité.

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They don't want women to vote.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · last yr.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Call for Applications: Editor-in-Chief, European Journal for Philosophy of Science. Editorship begins 1 September 2025 (negotiable) & renewable term of 4 years. Submit applications to the secretary of @epsaphilsci.bsky.social M. Amine Mansour at epsa@philsci.eu. Deadline is 15 May 2025. #philsci

Poets and writers: this is a true story. I received a 686-day acceptance for a poem today.

"People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization and the Paris agreement on climate change, deletes datasets that do not fit with its ideology, refuses to pay adequate overhead to universities--

Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system

People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...

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BREAKING: German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius brutally shreds J.D. Vance for his utterly shameful speech attacking Europe at the Munich Security Conference: "This is unacceptable." This is a historic takedown of an American vice president...

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