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Not buying anything for one day, even en masse, might not have much effect on these giant companies. So here are some ideas:
- do this every Friday
- do it at the end of every month
- choose to buy local whenever possible
- buy used
- buy less overall

📚Writing Tip: Reading beyond your genre is essential for your growth as a writer. Read widely. It strengthens your voice, sharpens your craft, and sparks new ideas. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingTips

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

Looking forward to this!

Is it me, or are people posting a lot of biting articles about DOGE et al from Forbes?

Café Muse Literary Salon Online with Amanda Shaw - Amanda Shaw Experience the Café Muse Literary Salon on March 3, 2025, featuring Amanda Shaw, Nathalie Anderson, and Emily Tuszynska. Join us in person at The Writer’s Center or online for a night of lyrical poetr...

📖✨ Join me for the Café Muse Literary Salon reading on March 3 at 7 PM ET. I’ll read alongside Nathalie Anderson and Emily Tuszynska. This is a hybrid event! 🔗 Register & Learn More About the Poets: amandashawpoet.com/poetry-event...

Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.

Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...

I’ve heard the most horrible stories about this, including literally running off life support machines. What’s sad to me is the people losing this aid didn’t matter to most outlets until they could be used as a cudgel against Trump. I’ve been pitching their stories for years and getting nothing back

A Close Reading of Rita Banerjee's poem "Birds on Blue" In which I talk about jazz and nuclear weapons and birds. I also play around with footnotes. I don't know. Things are weird right now.

Check it out! There's a close reading of Rita Banerjee's poem "Birds on Blue" over on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/damncuri...

You can catch Rita reading with @amandacecilypoet.bsky.social on Tuesday, February 11 @ 7:30pm Eastern on Zoom. Register at bit.ly/WTUIFeb2025!

Please please please do not start using FOIA systems as a form of protest. No one outside of a handful of FOIA officers at most will ever see it, and it'll just clog things up for anyone actually trying squeeze valuable information out of the government.

What The Universe Is Reading Series - Amanda Shaw Join Amanda Shaw on February 11, 2025, for a hybrid poetry reading as part of the 'What the Universe Is' series, featuring Rita Banerjee. Attend online for an evening of inspiring poetry.

Excited to join What the Universe Is, curated by Michael Mercurio, on Feb 11 at 7 PM ET! I'll be reading alongside Rita Banerjee. Join us on Zoom for poetry & a safe space. 🔗 Event Info: amandashawpoet.com/poetry-event... #writingcommunity #poetry

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

📝 💭 It’s not simple to face a blank page, but try to remember: There is nothing you can do wrong in a first draft. (You have all the time in the world to mess up down the line.) #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Tips

I have been thinking exactly this. We’ve let go of resistance against the most insidious elements of tech (and the intersecting with unfettered capitalism) because of the good in it, and now we are dependent.

an old book titled “penile injuries incurred through interaction with vacuum cleaners, volume xxii”

sometimes I don’t even need the first paragraph, the title will do

California Fire Facts | Governor Gavin Newsom Get the facts about the Los Angeles fires.

Gavin Newsom made a website to fight the misinformation about the fires. Give it a read.
REPOST

gavinnewsom.com/california-f...

Why do I fuckeeeng sit here?

Canadian MP shoots down Trump offer: 'Sexual abusers don't get to lead our nation' Canadian MP Charlie Angus responded to President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to make Canada the 51st U.S. state by noting that existing laws prevent "sexual abusers" from leading his nation.In a Mon...

Canadian MP Charlie Angus responded to Trump's proposal to make Canada the 51st U.S. state by noting that existing laws prevent "sexual abusers" from leading his nation.

I’ll be participating in an online reading this Thursday with three other debut poets who are also Smith alums. If you live in a cold place, why not curl up with some cocoa and listen as we read to you? Cats, dogs, and pygmy hippos welcome. 🐱🐶🦛 #AmReading #WritingCommunity

tinyurl.com/Smith-Alums

Thanks to Shannon K. Winston for reviewing Amanda Cecily Shaw's debut collection, It Will Have Been So Beautiful (Lily Poetry Review)! Check it out on Brown Bag Lit's #MilkJournal's first review of 2025:
www.brownbaglit.com/milkjournal

It was crazy!!!! The sky turned black and I got very confused about what time it was. But the snowflakes were so huge and beautiful.

I wrote a blog about what it feels like when the milestones in your life don’t match the tone of the year. Here’s to new possibilities for communion in the midst of the unknowns ahead.

tinyurl.com/amanda-shaw-...

#PoetryCommunity #HappyNewYear #Gratitude #WritingCommunity

Revisiting the Marriage Plot Online Class with Politics & Prose - Amanda Shaw Join Amanda Shaw's online class exploring the marriage plot in literature with insights from Hazzard and Groff. Live Q&A included!

Join me for a class with Politics & Prose on The Transit of Venus & Fates and Furies! Starting February 20 online, featuring a Q&A with Lauren Groff. Details: tinyurl.com/Politics-and... #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #AmReading

"Bluesky is awesome now, for how long?" I mean, look, all things change and end, we will all die, earth will be uninhabitable in a billion years, then the sun will expand and destroy the planet, and the universe will die a slow death of proton decay. But BEFORE THAT, let's make this place fun, okay?

Abundance of hope. No direct connection but plenty of friends and friends of friends have been with you. Book reviews editor at Lily Poetry Review, which needs to be on this platform!

3/6 🦋 Block lists. you can mass block by hitting "subscribe" and "block accounts" - it will also block any accounts added to the list later.
I like these to start:
MAGA: bsky.app/profile/skyw...
Right Wing Propaganda and their followers: bsky.app/profile/numb...

#poetrycommunity #poets #booksky

I have seen this play so many times--Frank Langella, Ian McKellan, Stacy Keach, and Ian McKellan. I always start crying in the very first scene.

Macbeth, to me, seems like a better analogy...? I keep thinking "Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself."