Amy Woolard

Reminds me a bit of when Whole Foods demanded cashiers strike up chit-chat conversations about the particular grocery items a customer was buying as they scanned them, which I imagine had to've been so uncomfortable for those workers—likely even more so than for me having to explain my groceries.

Acclaimed Author Bret Anthony Johnston Flips the Page • The Austin Chronicle On the hard, flat cement of Corpus Christi, Bret Anthony Johnston got his first unconventional lessons in what it takes to be a writer. “As a skateboarder, you spend a lot of time on the ground. You a...

In actual good news: Bret Anthony Johnston—an immeasureably talented writer & also my friend—has a new book out TODAY!—a beautiful story collection called Encounters with Unexpected Animals. It's brilliant, as is Bret, & you should check it out. www.austinchronicle.com/arts/bret-an...

Screenshot of Kyle Maclachlan as Agent Dale Cooper in one of the opening scenes of Twin Peaks, in profile driving his car and speaking into his recorder to Diane, saying "Diane, 11:30am, February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks."

Happy Twin Peaks Day to all who celebrate 🌲🌲☕

Acclaimed Author Bret Anthony Johnston Flips the Page • The Austin Chronicle On the hard, flat cement of Corpus Christi, Bret Anthony Johnston got his first unconventional lessons in what it takes to be a writer. “As a skateboarder, you spend a lot of time on the ground. You a...

In actual good news: Bret Anthony Johnston—an immeasureably talented writer & also my friend—has a new book out TODAY!—a beautiful story collection called Encounters with Unexpected Animals. It's brilliant, as is Bret, & you should check it out. www.austinchronicle.com/arts/bret-an...

I always tell people the skills I use most in my Legal/Policy career come from bartending, not law school.

Did you find it at Daedalus? There used to be crates of them there.

Need this to be made into a "Tr*mp shouting at kid mowing White House lawn" meme

ok who had money down on "nbd just f'ing around with killer lasers" as the reason for the El Paso shutdown

Legislation is working its way through the 2026 Va. General Assembly session right now that would end similar *local* 287(g) agreements & other ICE entanglements here.

Virginians, make sure you tell your state reps you have their back in support of these bills! See acluva.org for more details.

At the end of 2024, Virginia was down to ZERO 287(g) agreements. Just in the last year, we've skyrocketed to more than 30, along w/the state entanglements the Governor is now ending, plus these task force situations that have little transparency—the tentacles run deep & spread fast w/o these checks.

Legislation is working its way through the 2026 Va. General Assembly session right now that would end similar *local* 287(g) agreements & other ICE entanglements here.

Virginians, make sure you tell your state reps you have their back in support of these bills! See acluva.org for more details.

HOW I FAILED I tried to fit the body of light into the body of darkness. I tried to lengthen the last landscape. I tried to unhinge and reconstruct / the language I had been given. I tried to fit the body of darkness into the body of light. —Charles Wright

"How I Failed"—Charles Wright.

HOW I FAILED I tried to fit the body of light into the body of darkness. I tried to lengthen the last landscape. I tried to unhinge and reconstruct / the language I had been given. I tried to fit the body of darkness into the body of light. —Charles Wright

"How I Failed"—Charles Wright.

this reminds me of the way i’ve seen susan bro speak about her daughter, heather heyer. when a fascist murders your child, you aren’t allowed to just grieve. you have to defend their memory, even their very grave.

I could not be more proud of my colleagues at ACLU of MN & their co-counsel for fighting this fight. The courts alone will not save us, we know this, but it's important to take this terror to task in every field we can. These witnesses are so brave & true.

I'm honestly just sick. If you can stomach watching any of this footage & still let the words "more training" escape your mouth, I cannot ever forgive you. These are state-sanctioned street executions. This is the training.

right now:

I'm honestly just sick. If you can stomach watching any of this footage & still let the words "more training" escape your mouth, I cannot ever forgive you. These are state-sanctioned street executions. This is the training.

Federal judge restores thousands of Virginians' voting rights in historic ruling - ACLU of Virginia “Virginia’s government has blatantly broken the law for more than a century by disenfranchising everyone with a felony conviction, disproportionately affecting Black and Brown Virginians,” said ACLU-V...

If you need a way to remember good fights are winnable in these dark times, we've (ACLU of Virginia) got you. Yday WE WON on summary judgement a historic case that will restore voting rights to tens & potentially hundreds of thousands of Virginians with felony records. www.acluva.org/press-releas...

Selma the white & brindle whippet lays in a cream-colored armchair with her head on the armrest & gazes out a window. She is wearing a red harness and a grey collar. She was born without one back paw but she gets around still like nobody's business.

Is anyone making a line of anti-ICE dog onesies? I've been taking Selma the Whippet (who's from Puerto Rico) to some protests & she'd really like to do her part. I would buy the heck out of someone's dog protest outfit line.

Federal judge restores thousands of Virginians' voting rights in historic ruling - ACLU of Virginia “Virginia’s government has blatantly broken the law for more than a century by disenfranchising everyone with a felony conviction, disproportionately affecting Black and Brown Virginians,” said ACLU-V...

If you need a way to remember good fights are winnable in these dark times, we've (ACLU of Virginia) got you. Yday WE WON on summary judgement a historic case that will restore voting rights to tens & potentially hundreds of thousands of Virginians with felony records. www.acluva.org/press-releas...

so apparently there will be a winter storm this weekend & here in Charlottesville we will officially get anywhere from 1"-27" of snow

Stand With Minnesota A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

i found some great places to donate using the list put together by @ziibiing.com

don't give your money to consultants for some vague promise, give it to people who will go out right now, today, and buy a car full of groceries for a family that's too afraid to leave their home.

Despite much of immigration law/policy sitting at the fed level, there are actually a lot of meaningful things state law & gov can/shld do to protect immigrant communities: from disentangling local LE from ICE, to preventing data-sharing, to keeping courthouses from being warrantless arrest traps.

On my way to the Supreme Court where I'll be proud to support 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson, West Virginia's only transgender athlete, as she opposes the state's effort to ban her from playing as herself.

Win or lose, Becky and her family are heroes for standing up for what's right

Selma the white & brindle whippet, sleeps on her side with one paw extended & resting on the face of her brother True, a tan malinois puppy, also asleep on his side right next to Selma’s face. Too much cuteness & beauty for one photo.

Sometimes I can’t believe how fortunate we are that dogs let us take care of them.

Let There Be Flowering let there be new flowering in the fields let the fields turn mellow for the men let the men keep tender through the time let the time be wrested from the war let the war be won let love be at the end —Lucille Clifton

let love be / at the end

Lucille Clifton

“To families of transgender youth in Virginia: you are not alone. You deserve respect, privacy, and the freedom to make informed health care decisions with providers you trust. Our Commonwealth stands with you.”

bit.ly/GACJointLetter

Ghost Days Who was the sixth guy in the Fiat 500 With Giancarlo, Pamela, the two drunken carabinieri and me That New Year’s Eve around 3 a.m.

Today’s Feature:

What Sparks Poetry: Debra Nystrom on Charles Wright’s “Ghost Days” from Scar Tissue published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Read here:

Photo of a wood-boothed videogame arcade booth with red and blue buttons and joysticks; the monitor shows a videogame credits list

Photo of an interactive typewriter art electronics and collective memory mapping exhibit, with an electric typewriter and printer in a red snd blsck marble painted booth with an iridescent acrylic surround

Closeup photo of a wood poetry generator machine, a massive wood barrel made of staves laserburned with short phrases; 3D printed red chains allow three sections of the cylinder to turn at different rates when the crank is cranked, aligning the phrases into new combinations of poetry lines

Photo of a wood poetry generator machine, a massive wood barrel made of staves laserburned with short phrases; 3D printed red chains allow three sections of the cylinder to turn at different rates when the crank is cranked, aligning the phrases into new combinations of poetry lines

Machines in the lab. Retro arcade videogames, a typewriter that types you prompts to type back memories & prints the outcome as a zine; a even wooden generative poetry machine (last 2=by Critical Makerspace Fellows Holly Zhou, Alexa Luborsky; both w/Ammon Shepherd) +