In 2020, Lauren Parker was driving through the desert listening to David Bowie’s 1976 album “Station to Station,” starring one of Bowie’s most haunting characters, the Thin White Duke. “I didn’t even know if I liked the album,” she writes. “I just couldn’t shake it.”
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I can’t stop writing about Bowie it seems
DEAD RECKONING SEASON TWO IS STARTING!
Do you have a favorite cemetery and, if so, why is it City Cemetery, which currently lies hidden under Lincoln Park Golf Course and the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco? You know the one, with 20,000 people lying unmarked and invisible?
BREAKING: The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Packing for a trip and my trip to be read pile is the new Lindy West and Tierney’s northeastern gothic
Happy 3rd birthday to my first chapbook We Are Now the Thing in the Woods! My wistful, witchy, spooky baby is something I’m very proud of.
Today, a week of action against ICE begins in the Twin Cities.
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We can't just try to mitigate the worst effects of their bad behavior. We have to take the initiative—to make it impossible for them to continue doing harm.
If you can't make it to the Twin Cities, act where you are.
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
I’m not sure how much is breaking through the sunday news cycle about Mexico but remember the USA puts all this pressure to get the cartel leaders and provides absolutely no support with aftermath like this. Who buys the drugs? USA. Who supplies their guns? USA also
3 copies of Spells for Success are on the Goodreads Giveaway list!
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I never want Emerald Fennel to discover Moll Flanders
I asked my neighbor if I could harvest these in trade for the simple syrup recipe I’m trying
“Unless it’s bad, in which case I will spare you”
And another neighbor jumped in and said “I love the energy of this ask”
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)
This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
3 copies of Spells for Success are on the Goodreads Giveaway list!
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related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter
we live in the ruins of a greater civilization
A screenshot from the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/us/politics/dhs-shutdown-impact-ice-tsa-coast-guard.html) reading: “D.H.S. essential missions and functions will continue as they do during every shutdown,” the department said in a statement. “However, during a shutdown, many employees will be forced to work without pay, putting strain on the frontline defenders of our nation.” The last sentence is highlighted.
Everything we do to protect communities, we do for free, as willing volunteers. That goes for the vast majority of those who resist ICE.
Everything ICE agents do to terrorize communities, they do for money, and that money comes out of our pockets.
The longer they go without paychecks, the better.
Alex Pretti's parents keep a box crammed with 200 letters and cards that have poured into their Denver home since their son was shot and killed by immigration agents.
"He's my first born," Susan Pretti said. "He's the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day."
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
Scifi authors thought AI would kill us by being too smart, but because we live in the strangest timeline AI is going to kill us all by using all of our water to manifest a solution to a nonexistent problem it hallucinated
I got influenced and now this is my life
My essay on death, cancer, and Duolingo is in Candlelight magazine. I wrote this essay the week of my father’s funeral and I’m proud it’s out in the world.
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Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?
This is a good time to emphasize just how much the US still exploits Puerto Rico beyond just not letting Puerto Ricans vote.
First, we sold the island's sovereign debt to private equity, then forced them to privatize their infrastructure in order to collateralize that debt.
congratulations to my downstairs neighbors for at 5am fucking so vigorously they broke something big and loud but also I am vacuuming today and I better not hear a fucking peep about it
I hope this happens every day for the rest of his miserable life
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Internal White House meetings going on, like, "Hopefully the racism will distract from the pedophilia which will distract from the killings which will distract from the pedophilia again which will distract from the economy which will distract from the pedophilia a third time"
So much of writing is pitching. This is something that was hard for my brain to solidify when I got into writing professionally. It’s not waiting to be asked. It’s cover letters and pitches - for books, for programming, for panels. Add pitch writing to your skills list.
