Erin Belieu
@erinwriter.bsky.social
Copper Canyon poet (Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems coming fall 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her
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Erin Belieu
@erinwriter.bsky.social
· Nov 16
*clears throat nervously* I’m author of five poetry collections from Copper Canyon Press & two poetry anthologies. Long-time feminist rabble rouser & poetry teacher. 200 years old in writer years but don’t look a day over 180. Here’s my recent, available at www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/come-h...
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Karoline Leavitt has evolved into the embodiment of "your face is gonna freeze that way."
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Karoline Leavitt has evolved into the embodiment of "your face is gonna freeze that way."
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TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
November 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
TEN MONTHS IN:
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
The national debt is higher.
The trade deficit is wider.
The inflation rate has worsened.
The unemployment rate is up.
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The only reason Trump got away with it with the Mueller Report is that the press rushed out to publish "Mueller finds no wrongdoing!" headlines. Will they do the same thing with Epstein? (Yes, they will.)
Just a reminder that Trump had his attorney general preempt the Mueller Report with a self-serving “summary” and the media ran with it and it defined everything that came after.
Something to remember as we wait for a probably doctored and scrubbed “Epstein Files” report.
Something to remember as we wait for a probably doctored and scrubbed “Epstein Files” report.
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The only reason Trump got away with it with the Mueller Report is that the press rushed out to publish "Mueller finds no wrongdoing!" headlines. Will they do the same thing with Epstein? (Yes, they will.)
I wonder at what other times in history the news made people feel like taking 10 boiling hot baths in a row while scrubbing with a Brillo pad? The absolute & abject filth of these creatures. The repulsion here seems really hard to beat.
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I wonder at what other times in history the news made people feel like taking 10 boiling hot baths in a row while scrubbing with a Brillo pad? The absolute & abject filth of these creatures. The repulsion here seems really hard to beat.
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On average, it costs 28% more for a household with a disabled adult to have the same standard of living as a household without someone disabled. And that's from 2015 to 2018 data, so it's probably even more now. (Source: a 2020 study from the National Disability Institute)
freelancing in 2025 feels so different than even a few years ago. healthcare premiums are so expensive, being disabled is so expensive. money worries grind down the ability to think creatively or engage deeply with the world outside day to day survival
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
On average, it costs 28% more for a household with a disabled adult to have the same standard of living as a household without someone disabled. And that's from 2015 to 2018 data, so it's probably even more now. (Source: a 2020 study from the National Disability Institute)
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Corporation: Stock prices are way down! If only we could figure out what consumers want!
Consumer: Fair prices, humans in customer service and could you avoid knuckling under to anti-DEI authoritarians, plz?
Corporation: HAVE SOME MORE AI!!!!!
Consumer: Fair prices, humans in customer service and could you avoid knuckling under to anti-DEI authoritarians, plz?
Corporation: HAVE SOME MORE AI!!!!!
November 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Corporation: Stock prices are way down! If only we could figure out what consumers want!
Consumer: Fair prices, humans in customer service and could you avoid knuckling under to anti-DEI authoritarians, plz?
Corporation: HAVE SOME MORE AI!!!!!
Consumer: Fair prices, humans in customer service and could you avoid knuckling under to anti-DEI authoritarians, plz?
Corporation: HAVE SOME MORE AI!!!!!
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a heartstopping detail
November 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
a heartstopping detail
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“The review found that Harvard in 2005 admitted Mr. Epstein as a visiting fellow in the psychology department and readmitted him the following year. And the review concluded “it is likely” that Mr. Epstein visited Harvard more than 40 times after his release from jail, between 2010 and 2018.”
BRO.
BRO.
Harvard Will Open a New Inquiry Into Faculty Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
“The review found that Harvard in 2005 admitted Mr. Epstein as a visiting fellow in the psychology department and readmitted him the following year. And the review concluded “it is likely” that Mr. Epstein visited Harvard more than 40 times after his release from jail, between 2010 and 2018.”
BRO.
BRO.
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“I think most humans don’t really realize how interdependent we are to other organisms. Bacteria, fungi, viruses, bugs—there is still this binary thinking… which really obscures the reality.”
Alice Wong, you will be missed.
Alice Wong, you will be missed.
What Counts as Seeing - Orion Magazine
A conversation between Alice Wong and Ed Yong
orionmagazine.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“I think most humans don’t really realize how interdependent we are to other organisms. Bacteria, fungi, viruses, bugs—there is still this binary thinking… which really obscures the reality.”
Alice Wong, you will be missed.
Alice Wong, you will be missed.
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I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
audacity.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
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Every time I get on this site I learn something else I didn't want to know about Olivia Nuzzi.
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Every time I get on this site I learn something else I didn't want to know about Olivia Nuzzi.
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"Bovino is basically leading a rebel cavalry, a la Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who raided and terrorized communities in...the Civil War. That latter analogy holds up particularly well in one specific respect: Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war."
Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago
Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
November 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"Bovino is basically leading a rebel cavalry, a la Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, who raided and terrorized communities in...the Civil War. That latter analogy holds up particularly well in one specific respect: Forrest became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan after the war."
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just out of frame: a bone saw
Trump on MBS: "We have an extremely respected man in the Oval Office today. And a friend of mine for a long time. A very good friend of mine. I'm very proud of the job he's done in terms of human rights and everything else."
November 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
just out of frame: a bone saw
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It’s all right in front of us, in plain sight
Trump to MBS: "I want to just tell you what an honor it is to be your friend and I very much appreciate the investment of now $1 trillion."
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s all right in front of us, in plain sight
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I have a new poem out. I thought it was coming out next week. A lot I know...
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
A new poem by D. A. Powell. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/24/senescence-d-a-powell-poem
“Senescence”
“Just as I come to know a thing it’s gone again.”
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I have a new poem out. I thought it was coming out next week. A lot I know...
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There is no redemption arc for Marjorie Taylor Greene.
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
There is no redemption arc for Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
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Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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97.4%
'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record
'Worst of the Worst'? DOJ Figures Show 97.4% of 614 Detained Immigrants in Chicago Had No Criminal Record
Of 614 people on list who may have been unlawfully arrested and detained by federal officials, only 16 had a criminal record of any kind.
www.commondreams.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
97.4%
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President Donald Trump eased some of his “Liberation Day” tariffs Friday evening, all but conceding that his trade policy has increased Americans’ grocery expenses despite his administration’s claims to the contrary.
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Trump Quietly Backtracks on Disastrous Grocery Tariffs
The president reversed course on some tariffs on items like beef—something his team promised not to do.
trib.al
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
President Donald Trump eased some of his “Liberation Day” tariffs Friday evening, all but conceding that his trade policy has increased Americans’ grocery expenses despite his administration’s claims to the contrary.
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I might viscerally hate the word “tranche” a little less if all pundits were required to pronounce it “Tran-SHAY” while wearing teensy Poirot mustaches.
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I might viscerally hate the word “tranche” a little less if all pundits were required to pronounce it “Tran-SHAY” while wearing teensy Poirot mustaches.
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
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I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
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Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
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I usually don’t like linking to the NYT, but I think it’s important to know that they wrote and published an obituary immediately for Alice Wong. (It selectively left out parts of her disability activism that they didn’t like, of course.)
“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I usually don’t like linking to the NYT, but I think it’s important to know that they wrote and published an obituary immediately for Alice Wong. (It selectively left out parts of her disability activism that they didn’t like, of course.)
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This hurts.
The irony here is painful.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
Alice Wong wrote a column for Vogue called Disability Visibility. You can still find all her writing for Vogue under her author name.
But *Disability Visibility* - also the name of the advocacy group she launched - has been erased.
Exactly how disabled people often are.
The new owners of Teen Vogue have already erased her column.
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
www.teenvogue.com/tag/disabili...
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This hurts.