I know everyone's citing Octavia Butler's work as prophetic. But it's important to note that she was able to accurately predict what's happening now by observing all the unmet needs around her and imagining what the natural result of that looked like in 30 years. This is it.

NYU just suspended, for one year, students who participated in a peaceful sit-in demo and Columbia just fired a tenured a law school professor. In both instances because they spoke on behalf of Palestinian rights. This is getting very ugly.

People need to find someone to blame the fires on because they don’t want to face that this is reality from now on. There will be the historic natural disasters for the rest of all of our lives. It’s too late.

Today I was granted access to speak with incarcerated firefighters. They told me: - they hadn’t showered in 5 days - they were not provided regularly meals - they were working 24 hours in a row - they feel under appreciated and underpaid

And baby makes three. Publication date: February 18th (Toni Morrison’s birthday) ⁦The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social⁩

Honored to be a 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow 🦋 Every day I wake up mind-blown at the path my poetry journey has taken. It almost feels like I’m living out a story written for my life long before I was born 🌈 ✨Full list of fellows here: arts.gov/impact/literar…

If you’re upset about Michelle Obama’s decision not to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration, wait until I tell you about the time Donald Trump refused to accept the results of the election he lost, plotted a coup & incited an insurrection before deciding not to attend Joe Biden’s.

There is not a single Cabinet nomination under consideration who is not there specifically because they will put the needs of Donald Trump above all else. Not. One.

30,000 human beings are going to be “detained” in Guantanamo Bay by the United States government. Days after Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is what we are doing. I’m going to throw up.

Just going to continue emphasizing that this, detaining a bunch of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime and incarcerating them en masse in a fortified location against their will because they are part of a specific ethnicity or other group, is a concentration camp

a reminder for all of us: the incessant deluge of horrible & demoralizing news stories is a tactic to exhaust & deplete those who would resist take a break from doomscrolling. help someone in a small way. look for little pockets of love. we must remember what we’re fighting for.

in retrospect maybe it was a mistake to tell young people that reading, the arts, the humanities weren’t important and that “learning to code” was sufficient for a good life.

people say The Great Gatsby is “no longer relevant,” but careless people have never been more brazen, or more prominent

Governor Tim Walz is doing exactly what Biden and Harris should have been doing. He's speaking out. He's holding Town Hall meetings. He's doing the news shows. He's condemning Musk and Trump. He's DOING what great leaders do.

Good morning,

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

Funny how Donald Trump is saying the federal government shouldn’t have a role in our public schools when he’s trying to control the curriculum and freedom of speech at private colleges and universities at the very same time. It’s almost as if this isn’t about education at all.

I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all. —Ada Limón poets.org/poem/instructi…

YUP.