Ellen C. Bush

Dutch is a native New Yorker, he teaches kindergarten and he got his apartment through a housing lottery. Dutch is a good person.

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My friend Joe asks for international boycott:

“The U.S. is supposed to be my country, right or wrong. It's so wrong right now that I can hardly stand it.”

Also Accidental by Ellen C. Bush • Read A Little Poetry “the way you flinch / the way you guide someone's fingers to it / the way you stay still / the way that hand pulls back” — Ellen C. Bush

My poem “Also Accidental” gets some love from @rosswhite.com in the “Poem I Carry” series at Read a Little Poetry 💕 readalittlepoetry.com/2025/10/12/a...

Cops lie, part eleventy million

Well done, @merriam-webster.com !

She managed to get a farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse. A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program. Those who get in report doing non-agricultural labor and facing sexual violence and trafficking

I want to do a little breakdown of this investigation I published today for @prismreports.org about gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program.

“Signing up for a protest” was never a thing for 250 yrs and being asked to do so now is all kinds of wrong

The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.

Flagging the deadline again:

Nonprofits are urging people to submit comments by *Sept. 17* explaining how upending Public Service Loan Forgiveness would specifically impact their work and the communities they serve

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Two ways to make the world less fascist today:

1) Use a public library to keep them funded & knowledge accessible. Libby for audio & ebooks, Kanopy for streaming!

2) Wear an n95 in public to reduce community illness, improve accessibility for disability communities, & resist eugenics! Free masks:

Counterpoint: i’m an introvert who started smoking partly in order to have an entry to conversation: got a light?

Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, local restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.

Nevermind: the answer was to knock them all up: thus the baby boom

Talk to @bencollins.bsky.social!

They’re not paper-only but I’m curious to see what happens over time. Establishing subscribers from digital audiences is part of both of those models so far.

Different audiences, but The Onion has recently launched paper, and more recently, Autostraddle. I think there is increasing desire for analog for all kinds of reasons and I say keep pursuing it!

Just started watching Dope Girls on hulu, about this situation post-WWI

A monograph I’d like to read (let me know if it already exists): post-WWII need in Allied countries to send empowered working women back out of workforce

Some good news, for once!

I should clarify that I think prisons should be abolished bc no reform is enough to rid systemic rot. Highlighting counter-effectual policy reported by incarcerated people is part of that project.

Dersh wanted to get a tweet trail in before release of Epstein files.

Also not helping his own case that the list doesn’t exist

I don’t understand why Trump wd be afraid of exposure here. MAGA didn’t care that he’s an adjudicated rapist. They wd dismiss it if Trump were on it. We already know Bill Clinton is on it, so claiming Hillary created it is laughable. Trump is protecting someone other than himself, someone he needs.

“Prison phone calls have been shown to compel good behavior and rehabilitation. . . . Studies have also shown that communication with loved ones and strong family ties lead to decreased violence in prison and make people more likely to succeed and refrain from criminality after release.”

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

Way to go New York!

And on/for his fucking birthday

[Exit King.]

I got called “anti-intellectual” by a prof in grad school. I was an MFA student in a PHD lit class and wanted to talk about the text. Prof wanted to talk about critics talking abt the text. 🙃

A nine-figure salary is by default evidence of harm