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So excited to have a poem in @rustandmoth.bsky.social‘s autumn issue!

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New #poetry from Oliver Brooks: "Finding Lake Lindsey’s Dinosaur".

More attention here please.

So thrilled to see my friend Kathy’s first poetry pub! And in @rustandmoth.bsky.social no less! Love this one ( and Kathy).

Therianthropy | Rust & Moth Perhaps in my past life, I was a salmon. Belly ablush with lustful yearnings, my pursuits drive me ever upwards against currents of opposite intention. Brackish desires, primally quenched. An exhausti...

New #poetry from Abigail Lilith Ravenheart: "Therianthropy".

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I left that snake at the island hotel room | Rust & Moth so I could visit the zoo, where the animals are caged. A low metal fence pens in the giant tortoise, big as a coffee table and as far from the Galápagos scrub and sand as I am from what I … Read More

New #poetry from Kathy Ray: "I left that snake at the island hotel room".

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For the Queen of Stone Fruits | Rust & Moth In Tehran, you handed me chilled apricots— their flesh spilling, rust-colored, skin blushed with heat. Nimble, they lodged between my thumb and forefinger, as if I were their queen, smelling of nectar...

New #poetry from Leila Farjami: "For the Queen of Stone Fruits".

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First post in weeks (months?) and it’s to ache over this gorgeous poem. Read it and ache with me.

YouTube video by cpac PM Mark Carney makes announcement on Canada's intention to recognize Palestinian statehood

Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine at the UN General Assembly in September 2025 based on certain conditions being met by the Palestinian Authority, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced at a news conference in Ottawa.

⬇️Watch the full news conference

#cdnpoli

Time Breaks Everything | Rust & Moth Rain softens the Earth’s leathered skin. It comes down in sheets and still the world burns—it is so beautiful watching it go up in flames, no one does anything to stop it. Last year, sink holes bloome...

New #poetry from Svetlana Litvinchuk: "Time Breaks Everything".

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Statuary Garden | Rust & Moth Some were out stone-cold, content with sleep, while others seemed frozen mid-wince, undead the very instant of the chisel’s bite. The victors, she said, write their history, while the losers must carr...

New #poetry from J Kramer Hare: "Statuary Garden".

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Tweet from Jordain Carney saying: New: Thune says Rs have given Dems a list of nominees they want to prioritize pre-recess and leadership staff is talking Open to a deal (Dems say they need to get things) but "if nothing else the incentive ought to be to at least maintain some sort of precedent" on noms

Republicans rammed through a MAGA murder bill and unilaterally slashed bipartisan funding for foreign aid and public media. Now they’re whining about Senate rules and want help confirming Trump nominees? Don’t hand arsonists more matches.

This Afternoon at My Mother’s | Rust & Moth My mother’s little dog won’t go up to the field with me anymore, not past the shed with its fishing boat growing a green shadow, not even past the mountain ash with its berries shaking their flamboyan...

New #poetry from Chris Dahl: "This Afternoon at My Mother’s".

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Most House members are home for recess after Republicans prematurely fled DC to avoid voting on the Epstein files. That means you might have a chance to pressure your GOP representative in person at a town hall, office visit, or other public event. Use our toolkit for tips and top questions to ask.

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw”

Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

Lawmakers seek to ban federal agents from wearing masks ICE says its employees have good reasons to hide their faces from protesters who want to dox them online, but Democrats say masked federal agents evokes "secret police," and the practice should be ban...

Federal agents must be accountable for their actions.

We're calling on Congress to pass the VISIBLE Act, which would require that ICE agents wear visible identification and stop hiding behind non-medical face coverings.

We have the list. The list is coming.There is no list. The list is a hoax created by the Democrats. Why didn’t Biden release the list? I’m not on the list. Bill Clinton is on the list. I’m going to show you names on the list.

How fucking stupid do you have to be to believe a word of this shit?

Trump’s lapdogs in Congress are engaged in a massive scandal. They’re fighting, fibbing, floundering, and doing anything they can to distract from Trump’s Epstein cover-up. Turn up the heat on your Republican representative by demanding the release of the Epstein files.

‘It’s really theft’: the Republican plan to redraw Texas maps – and grab more power Democrats are livid over the governor’s plan to redraw districts at a time when Texas officials are supposed to be focused on recovery from the floods

Greg Abbott doesn’t give a shit about Texans. In the wake of his failed preparation for and response to a catastrophic flood that killed dozens of children and families in central Texas, Abbott is making his priority clear: Protecting Republicans from voter backlash. 🧵

The Republican Party exists right now for the single, sole purpose of protecting the rich and corrupt.

Justice Department Told Trump in May That His Name Is Among Many in the Epstein Files Bondi told president at the meeting that Justice also decided to not release more Jeffrey Epstein documents because of the presence of child pornography and the need to protect victims.

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

Cancer patients are being kicked out of clinical trials that could save their lives because Donald Trump thinks scientific research is too woke.

“Furious” Trump Vents at Epstein Mess as Allies Admit He’s Vulnerable As Trump privately seethes over his staff’s failure to tame the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, a sharp observer of political media explains the deeper reasons he’s lost control over this story—and how Dems ...

The media manipulation moves aren’t working like they usually do, and as
@taraemcg.bsky.social notes in convo with @gregsargent.bsky.social, the signs of White House frustration and internal divisions over the Epstein story are mounting.

It’s not going away. And everyone can help by bringing it up.

I think I've found a kindred spirit.

Rust & Moth – A Journal Of Poetry And The Arts A Journal Of Poetry And The Arts

The Rust & Moth Summer 2025 issue is now available in print! Possessed of grit and blood-sense, these poems are hymns of the bent world. Alight with us as each page gathers to a greatness. (Also available in PDF and ePub.)

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St. Christina | Rust & Moth Today, March 13th, is my name day, along with all girls named for Christina. In Poland, my father told me, the streets were flooded with daffodils for the other Krysias. In her honor, I consider how t...

New #poetry from Krysia Wazny McClain: "St. Christina".

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Excited to soon reappear in the pages of @rustandmoth.bsky.social, a forever favourite 💜
Sharing 'Ode to Em Dash' that found a home with them five years ago :)
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We have been warned about this moment for all our lives. Now it's here. What will you do about it?

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Melania Trump pose for a photo in 2000.

Don’t let Trump bury the Epstein files. Trump’s regime wants to flex its power to sweep this story of abuse and corruption under the rug, but we won’t let that happen: indivisible.org/epsteinfiles