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Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Ever wondered why you can see underwater bubbles: invisible air in invisible water?
It's because light bends slightly at the boundary between air & water, so light coming from behind the bubble is diverted away from your eye. The resulting dark line shows you the bubble must be there. Beautiful!
These are companies working with ICE that are publicly traded and/or consumer-facing, plus info on how they're involved: www.boycottcitizens.org/ice
Haven't updated it in a month or so, so it's missing some of those involved in selling warehouses, etc. but may be a good start.
I never, ever tire of seeing David Hockney’s exquisite work up close & so yesterday’s trip to the Serpentine Gallery was a treat: his year in Brittany paintings morphed into one long, Bayeux-type piece!
This winter-into-spring section will especially resonate today!
Wishing you a super special day!
Poems for Lent (Day 21)
• Mary Oliver •
Take a look at my visit to Glass Door's night shelter at St Barnabas' Church in #Battersea 📹
While it is abject failure that night shelters like this one have to exist, I'm bowled away by the fantastic work they do to support the most vulnerable people in our communities.
Search-and-rescue crews were “flying blind” trying to rescue survivors from deadly tornadoes that hit the Midwest last week.
Why? Because Kristi Noem hadn't approved FEMA’s $200,000 contract with a tornado-tracking tool.
But she had time to spend $220 million on anti-immigrant ads. Priorities.
I’ve figured out what is so compelling: your writing is fearless. Thank you.
I keep rereading your sentences trying to figure out how you connect so many lived emotional realities to physical landscapes & characters. So cool.
To mark #YoungCarersActionDay yesterday, I met with a really impressive group of young people to listen to how they are campaigning for proper support in schools for young carers, and the need for more funding so they don’t miss out on education because of their responsibilities at home.
Just wanted to give a shout out to @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social for her beautiful short story collection. It is an absolute #MustRead. Her writing breaks your heart & mends it a the same time. Utterly gorgeous #writing. www.lilliputpress.ie/products/fou...
Submissions for this year's Poetry Prize close at midnight tonight.
Further details and entry link here: thelondonmagazine.org/the-london-m...
While we are distracted…our democracy is being dismantled.
#dontbedistracted
#pinks
"Democrats should keep things simple: It’s Trump’s war. It’s Trump’s mass-deportation regime. These are Trump’s tariffs. Republicans have supported and enabled them all.
End the war. End mass deportation. End the tariffs. End Republican control of Congress."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
I was on BBC Radio Wales this morning to discuss the impact of PTSD, on behalf of @mindcymru.bsky.social. After bouts of PTSD due to my military service, and then later my stroke, I shared what it feels like, what the signs are, and avenues of support.
I'm on at 42:40: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
By turns surreal, funny, and devastating, reaper in a headlock is a book about trying to outlast the inevitable, and learning, again and again, what it means to stay in the room.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
I see there is a celebratory deal on, with 10% off everything on the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social website with the code WINNERS2026, so now would be a great time to order some books (you could even order my poetry collection New Famous Phrases!).
Just out @propublica.org: How did the Pentagon make the horrible mistake that left more than 150 school children dead? Perhaps because it cancelled an effort to limit such harm in favor of Hegseth’s lust for “lethality.”
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“Community is how people with Long COVID are going to survive,” Fantastic data driven article from @thesicktimes.org #longcovid #chronicillness
clinics.thesicktimes.org
But apparently… it is real. Donald Trump reportedly has a footwear fetish. He’s testing the loyalty of his lieutenants by whether they’ll lace up in the same black shoes he wears. And yes, it’s creepy.
www.defiance.news/p/the-dictat...
I don’t think people who aren’t regularly covering the reproductive rights beat realize how common it is for women to be incarcerated for miscarriages.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
Are you a mid-career historian researching 17th & 18th-century British Protestant dissenting traditions? 🏛️ Apply for the Dr Williams's Trust Library Bursaries at the IHR! Three awards of £3,500 are available to support your research in London libraries and archives www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
U.S. Air Force officer adopted baby girl 53 years ago—now ICE wants to deport her to Iran.
Being a Christian & daughter of U.S. military—sending her to Iran is a near certain death sentence.
Her birth certificate names both legally adopted U.S. citizen parents—has Real ID & social security card.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they would not allow ‘one litre of oil’ to be shipped from the Middle East if US and Israeli attacks continue, prompting a warning from President Trump that the US would hit Iran much harder if it blocked exports from the vital energy-producing region reut.rs/4bwHKJw
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
People who speak up honestly like this in an effort to help others are heroes:
"I feel disappointed in myself that I fell for something," said Burgess. "But need to share my story with other people, so that it doesn't happen to others."
...and journalists who do these stories are close to it.
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My copy has just arrived!! Cannot wait to dive in! So exciting! Bravo!!!!
