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Nonsensical Trump word salad about China, magnets, etc.

Gonna be amusing to see the historians grapple with how we were forced to pretend anything this dipshit jackass said should be taken seriously. Fucking magnets, how do they work?

We're going to be closed to new work for a while so the editor can take a mental health break. We'll update here and on our guidelines page when that changes.

We'll continue to publish our existing queue of poetry features.

The mainline Democrats deeply worried about electing a progressive mayor of New York City are the same ones who came up with the strategy of attaching Kamala Harris to the repugnant Liz Cheney for weeks on end before the election.

A knock on the door deep
into night, the door of a house
deep in a field, in trees, not
a house where one would stop...

The latest $ feature is three poems by @carolynguinzio.bsky.social!

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The combination of billionaires and massive multinational megacorporations is a disease

New York Post headline acting aghast that Mamdani would call his older cousin his aunt.

I have multiple friends whose kids call me "Uncle Steve" even though we're not related AT ALL! I demand an investigation!

who wants to remember how we sat in the rain
after playing soccer
and could not tell
tears from rainwater

Today's $ feature is two poems by Jeremy Teddy Karn!

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South Dakota Review cover

"Townsfolk mutter to one another" poem by Steven D. Schroeder

Lovely new South Dakota Review with three of my poems.

Well, for starters, we eat, we sleep. If we’re going to know it,
we’re going to know it this way. It feels like a trick
sometimes, how we start and then start again.

The new $ feature is by John Gallaher!

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$ Nominees for Best of the Net Christy Lee Barnes – If I describe in detail the girl who flew away with the cranes, do you think we could find her? Ava Chen – Pre-Apocalyptic Rivka Clifton – Consult J-T Kelly – Vocation Larissa Martins – Brazilian Gringa Lizzy Ke Polishan – Novena for the Year of the Bumblebee on the Spaceship at the End of the World

Congratulations to our nominees for the Best of the Net Awards!

I saw a large Confederate flag lowered half staff today, driving through rural North Carolina. Lower to the ground, baby.

In the booths lining the exterior they form
a protective barrier, write down the worst things
they think they’ve ever said on napkins embossed
with tiny dots in the shape of a flower.

The latest $ feature is by Holly Amos!

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When did "quoting a political activist's own words and correctly describing their political positions is offensive!" become some agreed upon rule?

New York Yankees hold moment of silence for conservative activist Charlie Kirk after his death

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

On TV, the investment firm ad says
there are three hundred and thirty million dreams,

all American and therefore all special.

The newest $ feature is by Tim DeJong!

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An event I wrote a blog post about included the note "Catered by Count Porkula" with no further explanation, and I hope it's a guy rather than a restaurant.

"what it must mean / that someone lost their kicks to the telephone wire / or was it relinquishment? / was it banishment? / were they freighted by birds?"

The new $ poetry feature is by Elisa Luna Ady!

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I'm onboard with a long moratorium on cishet white dudes writing sex scenes. Woof.

As a longtime Colorado Springs resident, I'd like to send a special "rot in hell" to hateful old bastard James Dobson. I bet Satan's already tired of your smug bigot face.

In all fairness, Markwayne Mullin is flying under the radar as a contestant for Biggest Shitsack in the Senate. He's roughly as Cherokee as my various white acquaintances who "have Cherokee blood" somewhere in their family tree they can't identify.

FearDorian and osquinn Announces New Album Before You Press Play: Hear The Clairo-Sampling “bags”

Guitar Announce New Album We’re Headed To The Lake: Hear “Pizza For Everyone”

villagerrr – “Ride Or Die” (Feat. feeble little horse’s Lydia Slocum)

The Belair Lip Bombs Announce New Album Again: Hear “Hey You”

I know quite a lot of music and am dedicated to discovering more, but reading Stereogum headlines is still an exercise in WTF hilarity.

Every mother’s nightgown has a sill and a jamb.
Has a child who touches her face and walks through.
Each nightgown dreams it’s made of glass
or is hungry for a name to hold the wind inside.

The latest $ feature is by Sally Rosen Kindred (@sallypoet.bsky.social)!

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Norm MacDonald, RIP

I hear you. Same back this way, please.

One of my issues I'll always have to deal with is that I hate the things I know are wrong and injust with a rage that many other people find offputting and that also tends to damage the other, softer parts of me.

Congratulations to @kcbrattpfotenhauer.bsky.social, whose poem "IT ISN’T UNTIL I’M LECTURING MY STUDENTS ON FIRE SAFETY AND THEY’RE ALL LOOKING AT ME LIKE I’VE GROWN TWO HEADS THAT I REALIZE MAYBE I’M NOT TAKING YOUR DEATH AS WELL AS I THOUGHT" from $ was a finalist for Best of the Net!

“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable… Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.” —Cormac McCarthy, THE ROAD

Were I to guess one thing right-wingers will end up surprised by, it's how many leftists have guns and know how the fuck to use them.