They have installed the wealthiest man in the world to dismantle the country for himself and his fellow oligarchs. They plan to burn the country down to pay rock-bottom prices for the ashes.

A fire sale.

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For the third year, ProPublica will invite up to 10 news editors from media companies across the country to participate in a yearlong investigative editing training program, led by our newsroom’s award-winning staff.

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Know what might slow down DOGE? If Democrats publicized a campaign encouraging federal workers to record their interactions with DOGE as potential evidence for future prosecution.

Get names, audio (DC and Virginia only require one-party consent), take notes and print out emails.

The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

Ken Klipperstein leaked full passport guidance for trans people:

- X markers will be a focal point
- Existing unexpired passports will remain good
- No guidance on confiscation, but it doesn’t seem like they will
- Renewals less clear but it looks like they will use “a preponderance of evidence”

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

Here's a very useful updated list of form-friendly poetry magazines, compiled by Robin Helweg-Larsen @robinhelweglarsen.bsky.social formalverse.com/2024/11/22/r... 🤩

THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

Since this place seems to finally be active, I wanted to share this recent interview that @hhtahir.bsky.social and I conducted with translator Cal Paule on their recent translated poetry collection of Diana Garza Islas' "Caja negra que se llame como a mi"!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3wv...

REMINDER: Annie Woodford's wonderful micro-collection of poems, WHEN GOD WAS A CHILD, goes on sale at the end of the month (10/24) & if you pre-order now you get it at a special pre-order price! #ComingSoon

My new @sciam.bsky.social column on the most persistent myth in autism research, and how autistic researchers and allies are pushing back. www.scientificamerican.com/article/auti...

Great tip - I did not know this!

National book awards longlist is out! Look at these picks in poetry. José Olivarez! Craig Santos Perez! Monica Youn! Evie Shockley!

Second, there's a call for Assistant Editor Interns for this new online nonfiction antho I'm putting out with SFWA and NEA support: Publishing Taught Me. $2000 each! Here's more details, plus the application: airtable.com/appNdMKXDuFa...

Our friends at Two Lines aren't here yet, but here's the cover reveal for "THROUGH THE NIGHT LIKE A SNAKE LATIN AMERICAN HORROR STORIES"

Including one of my translations of a short story written by the amazing Giovanna Rivero among many other great authors and translators!

March 2024— expect it!

Check out two of my translated poems by Bolivian writer, Guillermo Ruiz Plaza, published in the latest issue of The Ex-Puritan!
Thank you to the magazine and to A. Light Zachary for selecting these pieces.
ex-puritan.ca/two-poems-fr...

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Our next 📚book submissions period for nonfiction nature writing will take place Sept 2–3!🍃

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