Toni Morrison: "It is more interesting, more complicated, more intellectually demanding and more morally demanding to love somebody, to take care of somebody, to make one other person feel good"

Sheriff Rochelle Bilal calls ICE “fake, made up law enforcement,” and pledges to arrest agents who commit crimes in Philadelphia: “No law enforcement professional wears a mask … You don’t want this smoke.”

August, you're just an erotic hallucination, just so much feverishly produced kazoo music, are you serious?—this large oven impersonating night, this exhaustion mutilated to resemble passion

Jennifer Espinoza (Jennifer Espinoza) in lofi mag (lo🌈fi🌈 mod)

Who is this guy? This is the fucking energy we need. LFG

Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?

Tucker Zimmerman, the cult folk artist who collaborated with Big Thief, has died in a house fire stereogum.com/2485853/tucker…

in college i was in a poetry workshop that culminated in Louise Gück critiquing 1 poem by each student i selected my most gut-wrenching poem about my older sister’s death in a freak accident 2 years before she read it, looked me in the eye, and said “so she died. what else?”

Stereogum The Lemonheads Jimmy Fallon Unless Fallon has sniffed dope in a trap house get this mother fucker off the stage

"refuse to obey"

“Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…

Arresting journalists. Seizing ballots. Murdering protesters. Detaining children. It’s time to decide what your red line is.

X.J. Kennedy, RIP

Love comes quietly, finally, drops about me, on me, in the old ways. What did I know thinking myself able to go alone all the way. —Robert Creeley poets.org/poem/love-come…

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“like the time of the blackout / when fear was my first response / followed by love of the dark.” — Dorothea Grossman . . . This poem appeared in Poetry, 2010. Shared here with deep gratitude.

unwittingly you've met transgender persons whom you have not even noticed. a courteous cashier, a friendly waitress, a relative of a friend. they are human beings like you. they are not demons, villains. you didn't even notice them. really, you don't have to protect women &

ORSON WELLES at a Paris press conference in 1982 calling Oscar-winning director ELIA KAZAN a traitor for giving Joseph McCarthy the names of colleagues who were Communist Party members and subsequently blacklisted as a result of Kazan’s actions.

Fuck outta here with this bullshit