Today sucks, so wanted to share this poem that I wrote while "walking it out" a bit ago. I'm filled with mourning for the people who will suffer and/or die as a result of today's bill. To those also grappling with our ever-darkening reality, I love y'all.

#NewPoem #TodaySucks #SomedaySeeds #Poetry

Tune in this Wednesday at 7pm PDT for live poetry readings from Cirque Press authors, including myself, in celebration of national Poetry Month!
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‘A Very Gay Thing to Do’ shares insights on my premier poetry collection, Bury Me in Cherry Blossoms!

(one small correction: I studied nonprofit management at the University of Oregon 😅)

ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests -- he literally tweeted that this was his next move. His dictatorship does not operate on secrets and we need "free speech" politicians from the left and the right to start SPEAKING THE FUCK UP.

Powerful, pointed, intentional, and grounded. Give it a full listen if you haven't yet.

At what point will the "Free Speech" advocates on the right acknowledge this is a direct infringement on those very rights? None of this is subtle. This is the direct precursor to our own version of the Tiananmen Square protest and massacre.

During Trump's CFPB Director nomination hearing, it broke that the agency is dropping lawsuits against companies accused of cheating American families out of their money.

This wasn't a coincidence. It shows exactly who is in charge right now: Elon Musk.

I got to spend the weekend with this sparkle of a human as we took time in Pendleton, Baker City, and Bend spreading the good news of the Oregon Arts Education Collective! Of course we had to stop by and check out the Painted Hills and Kam Wah Chung along the way. 🏞️ #BestColleague #BringConsulting

This premier issue of Tethered Literary is out, and my poem "Obsidian and Pumice" (written on the shores of East Lake in the Newberry Volcano National Monument) is included! You'll have to visit the journal to read the whole thing! 😉 www.tetheredliterary.com

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

NEW non-clarifying clarifications about Elon Musk's employee status filed just now in a NM-led lawsuit:
—Musk, as a presidential senior adviser, "has no actual or formal authority to make government decisions himself." He is also not DOGE's administrator.
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A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:

A moment of appreciation for the view from the cozy Kokanee Inn. 🗻

This first round of my Fishtrap residency has paid off! Sunday evening I was finally able to draft a story I've been trying to write for YEARS (since 2010?!). Something shook loose as I looked out over the snowy mountains... 😌

Jacobs: It's so funny to me that my colleagues on the other side spent 30 minutes talking about how we don't want unelected bureaucrats making these rules when they're literally allowing a unelected Elon Musk run roughshod over congress' power of the purse

"Never Met You / Remember You" by Eric Braman
a reflection on Queer ancestry, in/visibility, erasure, legacy, inheritance.

#Fishtrap #WriterInResidence #FiresideReflections #QueerAncestry #AgainAndAgainAndAgainAndAgain

A moment of appreciation for this view out the front doors of Joseph High School, please... 😎

Just wrapped day one of teaching with Fishtrap, focused on 10-minute plays and Where I Come From poems. Tomorrow, theatre games with a Building Healthy Families...

This place is gorgeous, y'all. 🗻

In Germany over 200,000 protestors in Munich gathered against the Musk backed far-right / neo-Nazi AfD ahead of the German election.

Thousands chanted "Save Democracy" and "Oppose Nazis" #3E

Greetings from the road! I'm on my way to Enterprise, Oregon for my first two-week run of being the @fishtrapwrites Writer in Residence! This is the first of three trips I'll make between now and the end of June!
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Here's hoping for clear roads the rest of the way...