Today’s Featured Poet:

Ian U Lockaby is a poet, translator, and editor of the online journal mercury firs. He’s the author of Defensible Space/if a crow— (Omnidawn) and A Seam of Electricity (Ghost Proposal). He lives in New Orleans. He has a website: ianlockaby.com

Happy New Year

2025 will be tough

Nevertheless, I will do my DAMNDEST to fight for

Reproductive freedom
Climate justice
Immigrants rights
Voting rights
Affordable healthcare
LGBTQ rights
Racial equity
And democracy

I’m grateful for the community-right here-that I KNOW will fight alongside me

My friend Keti. Absolutely harmless. Just the other day she was telling me how careful she is at protests, albeit persistent in her determination. She has been released already but she’ll have a sham trial anyway. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests #NewElectionsforGeorgia
📷 MOSE

#FoxOfTheDay 🦊

A Red Fox listens out for mice scurrying beneath the snow before diving head first into the drift to snap up its prey.

🎦 Credit: BBC Earth

#WildlifePhotography #Wildlife #Nature #Foxes

"They said yall white and lazy that's crazy"

I hate to be the middle wo/man/ here🤣🤣🤣

Bannon comes out hard against Elon and Vivek.

Trump sides with Elon in the Tech Bro vs White Nationalist civil war.

Christmas was a record-breaking day for Netflix and the NFL, with an unduplicated audience of nearly 65M US viewers according to Nielsen.

Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has invited Ana Maria Archila to be her guest at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.

Nikki Haley implies that Vivek and Elon are secretly liberal Democrats, who are just pretending to be conservative.

She is not taking her decline into political irrelevancy well, folks.

Beyoncé telling Shaboozey “come get everything you came for” was chefs kiss

So chuffed to be one of the winners in the @poetrysociety.bsky.social winter member’s competition on the theme of ‘birds’ judged by Pascale Petit! Lovely to read all the poems, and brilliant articles by Vicky Gatehouse and Roz Goddard, amongst others. ❤️🎄
#poetsonbluesky

We are WEAK!!!

The good news is that despite the sharp increase in litigation, pro-voting forces continued to win, notching three times as many victories as losses with most of those victories coming in the presidential battleground states. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

sunrise

Everything was going so well.