Amy Baskin
@amybaskin.bsky.social
Poet. Connectress. Aunt Beast.
SKULL (The Poetry Box, Dec 2024)
NIGHT HAG (Unsolicited Press, 2023)
HYSTERICAL CAKE (Dancing Girl Press, 2022)
SKULL (The Poetry Box, Dec 2024)
NIGHT HAG (Unsolicited Press, 2023)
HYSTERICAL CAKE (Dancing Girl Press, 2022)
Beautiful tribute to Andrea Gibson —The Poet Who Advocated Radical Tenderness www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o... @ambertamblyn.bsky.social
Opinion | The Poet Who Advocated Radical Tenderness
www.nytimes.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Beautiful tribute to Andrea Gibson —The Poet Who Advocated Radical Tenderness www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o... @ambertamblyn.bsky.social
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It seems to me an important aspect of the sidelining of Stephen Colbert by the pressures of this regime is not only to restrain his political views and criticisms, but also to silence one of the very few mass media personalities occasionally giving voice to actual Christian theology
July 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It seems to me an important aspect of the sidelining of Stephen Colbert by the pressures of this regime is not only to restrain his political views and criticisms, but also to silence one of the very few mass media personalities occasionally giving voice to actual Christian theology
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Not the first head of state who "wrote a picture"
July 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Not the first head of state who "wrote a picture"
Justice Brown is accurate and correct.
No she’s not.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called yesterday's decision about nationwide injunctions "an existential threat to the rule of law."
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
June 29, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Justice Brown is accurate and correct.
I'm attending MoveOn's event, “Phone Bank to Save Medicaid!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
Phone Bank to Save Medicaid! · MoveOn
Congress will soon vote on whether to advance a budget resolution that would take away nearly a trillion dollars of support and assistance from everyday people, including the largest proposed cuts to ...
www.mobilize.us
June 29, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I'm attending MoveOn's event, “Phone Bank to Save Medicaid!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...
Come read with me at One-Page Wednesday open mic on 6/4 at @literaryarts.bsky.social ! Thanks to author/host @emmelund.bsky.social for the invitation 💜
June 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Come read with me at One-Page Wednesday open mic on 6/4 at @literaryarts.bsky.social ! Thanks to author/host @emmelund.bsky.social for the invitation 💜
Progress!
WHAT. THE ACTUAL. FUCK.
Chicago Sun Times seems to have used AI to write its summer reading list of BOOKS THAT DO NOT EXIST. I did not write a book called Boiling Point. @rumaan.bsky.social and Min Jin Lee and Percival Everett etc. etc. did not write these books.
WTAF
Chicago Sun Times seems to have used AI to write its summer reading list of BOOKS THAT DO NOT EXIST. I did not write a book called Boiling Point. @rumaan.bsky.social and Min Jin Lee and Percival Everett etc. etc. did not write these books.
WTAF
May 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Progress!
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Thinking about how the Pope is going to vote for President in 2028, same as I will, and my vote will count the same as the Pope’s. Yours will too. It’s so weird.
May 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Thinking about how the Pope is going to vote for President in 2028, same as I will, and my vote will count the same as the Pope’s. Yours will too. It’s so weird.
Where we’re at.
Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?
🧵
NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.
Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.
NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.
Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.
May 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Where we’re at.
I don’t think a creepy molester of 78 needs to be in office. He can step down now.
Trump: "I don't think a beautiful baby girl that's 11 years old needs to have 30 dolls. I think they can have three dolls or four dolls ... they don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five."
May 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I don’t think a creepy molester of 78 needs to be in office. He can step down now.
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This man's mind is a broken-down ride in a haunted carnival set up in the parking lot of an abandoned K-Mart.
RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."
May 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This man's mind is a broken-down ride in a haunted carnival set up in the parking lot of an abandoned K-Mart.
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Me when my wife asks what I accomplished at home while she was away for three days
lmao Hannity's Trump accomplishments ticker got even more pathetic
April 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Me when my wife asks what I accomplished at home while she was away for three days
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BREAKING: A federal judge blocks Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their union rights.
The White House tried to end collective bargaining for workers at numerous agencies by invoking national security.
A U.S. District Judge just shot them down.
The White House tried to end collective bargaining for workers at numerous agencies by invoking national security.
A U.S. District Judge just shot them down.
April 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
BREAKING: A federal judge blocks Trump from stripping hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their union rights.
The White House tried to end collective bargaining for workers at numerous agencies by invoking national security.
A U.S. District Judge just shot them down.
The White House tried to end collective bargaining for workers at numerous agencies by invoking national security.
A U.S. District Judge just shot them down.
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you know things are bad when the tech magazines are putting this out
April 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
you know things are bad when the tech magazines are putting this out
Me, too!
So thrilled to be reading with these powerhouse women tonight! 7:00 @boldcoffeeandbooks.bsky.social. Link in bio! @amybaskin.bsky.social @gendeguzman.bsky.social @astrapoetica.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Me, too!
Where my patriots at?
April 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Where my patriots at?
@gendeguzman.bsky.social @boldcoffeeandbooks.bsky.social Excited to nurture with y’all!
April 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
@gendeguzman.bsky.social @boldcoffeeandbooks.bsky.social Excited to nurture with y’all!
Grow some spine, folks. Don’t let the Pud-Whacker-in-Chief step on people. Step on your souls.
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Grow some spine, folks. Don’t let the Pud-Whacker-in-Chief step on people. Step on your souls.
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Senator Sanders and Reps. Ocasio-Cortes, Jayapal, and Khanna rising to the occasion.
April 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Senator Sanders and Reps. Ocasio-Cortes, Jayapal, and Khanna rising to the occasion.
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Eugenicists are so stupid.
The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
That is dangerously false.
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments
The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
www.medscape.com
April 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Eugenicists are so stupid.
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Aum Shinrikyo tactics used 30 years ago are being used today! I was in the Moonies in NYC and was brainwashed to believe Sun Myung Moon was sinless and the messiah. Please read and learn!
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/So...
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/So...
Aum's cult tactics echo in scams 30 years after Tokyo sarin attack
Online swindlers, multi-level marketing schemes use similar mind-control methods
asia.nikkei.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Aum Shinrikyo tactics used 30 years ago are being used today! I was in the Moonies in NYC and was brainwashed to believe Sun Myung Moon was sinless and the messiah. Please read and learn!
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/So...
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/So...