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btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

This is so cool! Order a book, get a poetry EP too.

Malarkey has a lot of fantastic books and zines. Everyone I've shared with a friend/family member has had great responses. If you have the means, consider subbing to their book club or picking up a few short stories.

Really juiced for this. Always wanted to join forces with Malarky and my fav dude @danielmiller.bsky.social is providing all the art. Too cool.

NEVER NOTHING ships in October. Buy all the books!

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I’m so, so excited to share Sick Sad Queer with Malarkey Book Club subscribers! If this isn’t you, it probably should be.

Support — Malarkey

Understand that we’re not for everyone and not everyone can buy books and especially that no one can buy every book—but, we have a lot of expenses coming up rapidly and every bit of support, from big to small, helps:

malarkeybooks.com/support

Very happy to say that this year we’ll publishing poetry EPs (micro-collections, if you will) by Rachel King, Lotte Mitchell Reford, and Stephan Antoine Viau, @paulwrites7.bsky.social and @lyfaulk.bsky.social.

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I fucking love indie lit. I love what @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @thirtywestph.com @gameoverbooks.bsky.social @malarkeybooks.bsky.social @kithbooks.bsky.social @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social Autofucus and more are doing. And how they are doing it. A god damn inspiration, every single day.

You should do this

Back again with a book video.

Here are some of the novels and authors that inspired my upcoming debut “The Walls Are Closing In On Us” from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social.

This book club is a crazy bargain, and I LOVE just knowing the next Malarkey title is on its way to me without having to remember to order it.

What was that rotisserie chicken commercial slogan? Set it and forget it? That, but with good books from a good press.

There's a great one in Washington, DC, that focuses on DC-area authors www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...

Instagram picture by @larrydn7 of Nance in a hat, chain, and with a black t-shirt saying "all my homies hate ICE" with three angry cartoon ducks in between these large words. below that on the shirt in smaller type: "no one is illegal on stolen land immigrants make america great"

Larry Nance Jr., forward for Cleveland Cavs

Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether. "We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.

Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

Soft times cause weak men

Ghost Rider on his motorcycle dragging one ICE agent along the ground and forcing his head to the pavement while he holds a second ICE agent by the neck. Text reads: FUCK ICE

"When the facts change, I change my mind. Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus. Fascist best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse."

not, let's say, perfectly contrite. but could be worse

Never forget that the reason they are so convinced you’re all getting paid is that they are all getting paid.

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It's Sunday & you know what that means: new poem with an accompanying (free) writing prompt!

This time it's a transformative poem from @clairehopple.bsky.social

Three texts to understand our world:
The Pardoner’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer
Confidence Man by Herman Melville
The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O’Connor

Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number --
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you--
Ye are many -- they are few.

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.

It's all white supremacy and greed.

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Will share names of poets soon but we are happy to say we’ll be putting out some really cool poetry zines this year. No full collections on the schedule but still but lots of good poems.

what the ai art IS art temper tantrum tells us is that being curious and creative and daring and putting in the effort to learn and expand your ability to convey are all enviable skills. you're basically magic in the eyes of these fools. keep it up.

you've got ONE WEEK to apply for kith crit