To say we're pleased to have poets Kim Addonizio & D.A. Powell read at our fall fundraiser is an understatement. Jazzed, thrilled, gobsmacked is more like it. So come, listen, & be dazzled! FREE! Sunday, Oct. 19, 2-5 pm. Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. #poetrysky #poetry #writingcommunity

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More of this please. America needs to hear more of these voices.

" Don't lose hope" - Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

A tale of a tawny owl and the kind soul who nursed him from the brink. At its heart, a love story.

A lovely story. Thank you for caring for him. I bet you now have a friend for life. We’re you able to get rid of the mites?

Whiteness doing whiteness again. JD Vance is old vinyl—a tired skipped record of white supremacy.

Telling the truth like it is (and was). America is in deep need of a reckoning. Have a listen.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Purify and Destroy | Hurst Publishers 'This book is a major accomplishment in the study of genocide.'  – Professor Omer Bartov, Brown University, author of 'Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity'

historian and political theorist Jaques Semelin’s Purify and Destroy: The Politics and Uses of Mass Killing and Genocide. We are deluded if we think mass killing can’t happen here in the so-called *civilized* US. #propaganda #fascism #stochasticterrorism #authoritarianism

Faces of the enemy : reflections of the hostile imagination : Keen, Sam : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 199 pages : 24 cm

While I truly appreciate the clever, jokey Bluesky responses, I have to say Leavitt’s words are chilling, in effect the language precursor for mass killing. See Sam Keen’s Faces of the Enemy and

Cindy Nichols sums it up for me.

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Dig this! Ukuleles rule!

“Aubade With Birds” is a stellar poem. I appreciate how the parallelism of the *threes*—crows, hawk, magpies; corvid, corvid, raptor; building, building, building—unsettles the poem, an incantatory quality.

One of the wisest, most kind-hearted of souls has left us. I mourn alongside all Earth’s wild creatures.

Everything that Molly said and then some. We had us a good time! #poetrycommunity #poetry #poetnews

Purify and Destroy | Hurst Publishers 'This book is a major accomplishment in the study of genocide.'  – Professor Omer Bartov, Brown University, author of 'Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity'

According to French political/social theorist Jacques Semelin, author of Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide, Trump’s words, especially “a war from within,”constitute the kind of discourse that leads to mass killing. Illuminating book; highly recommend.

I’ve been waiting all week for these words, though I only realized it just now. Thank you.

Top of the ninth. Bases loaded. Monday evening. Be there!

Still I remain deeply suspicious of Vought, Bannon, & Miller’s behind-the-scenes designs. Their cohort reminds me of the three witches of Macbeth: “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter” and “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”

I hope you’re right. Trumpworld machinations are so incomprehensible to me. I keep trying to figure out the reasoning behind their endgame strategies, and it all comes up shitshow, which is exactly as you say: pissbabies squalling.

Given what’s happening in Portland, are Hegseth & Trump gathering the top brass to confirm loyalty to Trump (not the Constitution), weed out those who won’t comply, and then declare martial law? Is this a too obvious question?

Trump's out there yellin’ about immigrants and felons like he didn’t marry one and become the other.

😂

Classic hungry ghost.

it genuinely sucks so much in this country how often you only learn about a super fucking cool person because something horrifying has happened to them

Every day a new *racism.*

This white supremacy shit is turtles all the way down.

If you love fine literature & small, independent presses, or if you're just small-press-curious, #Litquake's Small Press Book Fair @ SF's Yerba Buena Gardens is the place to be this Sunday, September 28, 11 - 4 pm. Sixteen Rivers will have a table there. Drop on by & say hello! #poetry #poetrysky