Trish Grisafi, PhD

it is a sign of a failed society that Mr Beast was ever allowed to exist

You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”

Homeland Security v @DHSgov•14h It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo. Attacks and demonization of ICE and our partners is wrong. ICE officers are now facing a 413% increase in assaults. Our message is clear: DO NOT come to this country illegally. If you do, we will arrest you, deport you and you will never return.

Why is the comparison wrong? What about ICE or how ICE operates demonstrates that it’s wrong?

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

Highlighted text form THE NEW YORKER The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.

Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-

Only Mystery: Poetry & the Enigmatic — Brooklyn Poets In this five-week, generative online workshop, we'll explore the intersection of mystery and poetry, exploring how to use mystery in our work to evoke and provoke, and to discover why questions are of...

I'm doing a fully online poetry workshop for the first time in three years, starting in June.

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

This constant use of "little girls dolls" as a placeholder for all of world trade, is doing a lot of really weird work here...

Unlikely I would ask for help if I was about to pass out on the street. Finding someone to help me get shampoo? No.

NEA Literary Grants Terminated, Staff Depart as Trump Proposes Eliminating the Agency At least 38 publishers and a number of literary organizations received letters from the National Endowment for the Arts saying their grants were withdrawn or terminated, while four literary arts staff...

the nea just canceled grants ALREADY AWARDED for presses/mags that, according to the letter, do not “reflect the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President.”

support small presses. support literary mags. we have to find ways to keep literature alive.

Silent Hill is spring movie, it just is.

Deeply weird that goons expect the people they're arresting to treat them with nothing but deference, but I guess when all you've tasted is boot you start to doubt anyone else less eager to partake.

Young people SHOULD “have it easier” than you did. I’m sorry you got the strap up hill both ways and paid your debts with pounds of flesh, but the reason we work for progress is to make growing up and growing old gentler, easier, kinder, freer. Struggle isn’t necessary in a healthy society.

I am seeing too many recipes calling for cottage cheese...why is cottage cheese back? My mom ate that shit in the 80s bc Weight Watchers told her to.

Stop Fetishizing 2000s Pop Culture Emily Gould interviews critic Sophie Gilbert about her new book ‘Girl on Girl,’ and why pop culture in the 2000s was so gross.

Emily Gould interviews critic Sophie Gilbert about her new book ‘Girl on Girl,’ and why pop culture in the 2000s was so gross.

RFK Jr wants us to believe that chronic illness is a moral failing. That people should “try harder” to be healthy.

He doesn’t want us to realize that poverty, food insecurity, lack of universal healthcare, poor public health and other government failures cause more disease than lifestyle ever will.

More money in public schools, including towards free meals and after care programs. Flexible work hours. Cheaper tuition and more scholarships for higher education. Vaccine advocates. Disability services and IEPs.

I know this has been said to death, but if you want people to have more kids, you need to give them social services and support. Paid leave for both parents for at least three months. Screening for postpartum depression. Visiting nurses or doulas for aftercare. 1/2

You're telling me Bella Ramsey gonna spend this season looking for that boring ass bitch? No thanks, bye.

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The Pope literally used one of his last moments on Earth to scold JD Vance for his unchristian policies towards migrants and refugees. This lapsed catholic appreciates that more than I can verbalize.

The people running our country are evil.

If your Rep or Senator isn't capable of doing Van Hollen-style stuff — for cowardice reasons, or because they're infirm, or they're belatedly sucking up to a dying Trump movement, or really any other reason — you should primary them. It's gonna take a lot more stuff like this. All hands on deck.

Stevie Nicks’ New Album Will Bring Some Fleetwood Smack Stevie Nicks announced she’s working on a new album, and a chill just went down the spines of certain men she knows: ‘They’re autobiographical, real stories where I’m not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life.’

Stevie Nicks announced she’s working on a new album, and a chill just went down the spines of certain men she knows: ‘They’re autobiographical, real stories where I’m not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life.’

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet. "I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."

RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.

Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

I can’t help but think something has gone wrong in your life if you’re spending your morning off work holding a sign that says “Large Gametes”.

I wrote some stuff about faux feminism, consumer capitalism, Katy Perry, and Blue Origin www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating."

Love finding my books at The Strand because it meant somebody needed to sell them for two bucks 🥰