Rust & Moth
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· Nov 12
We just deactivated our Twitter account and wow, that's a weight lifted!
Musk is a problem and he has been for a long time. We've been shifting our weight to Bluesky for a while, but we're no longer content to lurk on the other site anymore. (1/4)
Musk is a problem and he has been for a long time. We've been shifting our weight to Bluesky for a while, but we're no longer content to lurk on the other site anymore. (1/4)
New #poetry from Mary Grace Mangano: "Round Valley".
Round Valley | Rust & Moth
Round Valley Reservoir Hunterdon County, New Jersey 1960. Garden State. Two dams and then a flood. Fears the water would run out. “Go west or go without.” Sixteen houses. Fifty farms, demolished,...
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November 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Mary Grace Mangano: "Round Valley".
New #poetry from Edith Krone: "at work, the new guy asks".
at work, the new guy asks | Rust & Moth
you prefer she, right? i want to say that it is not really a preference, it just is. my life is not made up of preferences but if it was, i would simply prefer to not be here. i would … Read More
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November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Edith Krone: "at work, the new guy asks".
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Election Day is a week away and @aftynbehn.bsky.social has all the momentum. No matter where you live, you can help us flip a deep-red district and shrink Mike Johnson’s tiny majority: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
The Tennessee race that suddenly has Trump world nervous
Democrat Aftyn Behn is putting up a fight.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Election Day is a week away and @aftynbehn.bsky.social has all the momentum. No matter where you live, you can help us flip a deep-red district and shrink Mike Johnson’s tiny majority: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
New #poetry from Belinda Liao: "cradle this robin (close to your chest)".
cradle this robin (close to your chest) | Rust & Moth
it’s mid-March and the clouds have just begun to divorce so arduously you’d swear the purpling sky was bruised by the split. the sun is a needle through chiffon air—catching on your corpse, stiff...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Belinda Liao: "cradle this robin (close to your chest)".
New #poetry from Helen Nancy Meneilly: "Alone On The ISS".
Alone On The ISS | Rust & Moth
From orbit, the sunset is an egg breaking into a black pan. I count countries, pockmarked in the dark by city lights. Pick out familiar coastlines like profiles of relatives. My eyes meet the mediterranean,...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Helen Nancy Meneilly: "Alone On The ISS".
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The creators of this project used an LLM to convert the House Oversight files into Gmail-like structured text. I don’t know if it’s worth draining a small lake but it’s certainly a good example of data journalism.
November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The creators of this project used an LLM to convert the House Oversight files into Gmail-like structured text. I don’t know if it’s worth draining a small lake but it’s certainly a good example of data journalism.
New #poetry from Susanna Lang: "Ghost Birds".
Ghost Birds | Rust & Moth
—Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cantus arcticus, Op. 61 (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra) Humans calling like birds. Humans in black gowns or tails with white shirts who channel their breath through flutes...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Susanna Lang: "Ghost Birds".
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Israeli airstrikes kill at least 25 in Gaza, reports of IDF ground operations going beyond the "yellow line" and expanding in Gaza City, so I must ask again: What constitutes no ceasefire, rather than a "fragile" or "tested" ceasefire?
Israeli airstrikes kill 25 Palestinians in Gaza, rattling fragile ceasefire, medics say
Israel and Hamas have traded blame for what both call violations of the U.S.-brokered truce, the first stage of President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for a post-war Gaza.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 25 in Gaza, reports of IDF ground operations going beyond the "yellow line" and expanding in Gaza City, so I must ask again: What constitutes no ceasefire, rather than a "fragile" or "tested" ceasefire?
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Thanks to @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing this poem! I found the concerto so evocative that I needed to write in response to it. It's available online, and I encourage you to listen to it. rustandmoth.com/work/ghost-b...
Ghost Birds | Rust & Moth
—Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cantus arcticus, Op. 61 (Concerto for Birds and Orchestra) Humans calling like birds. Humans in black gowns or tails with white shirts who channel their breath through flutes a...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thanks to @rustandmoth.bsky.social for publishing this poem! I found the concerto so evocative that I needed to write in response to it. It's available online, and I encourage you to listen to it. rustandmoth.com/work/ghost-b...
New #poetry from Gabrielle Munslow: "Flight Log: Hell’s Waiting Room".
Flight Log: Hell’s Waiting Room | Rust & Moth
People move like a giant centipede gnawing off its own legs. They fold into origami figures, psychedelic paper planes with wings already broken. Astute zombies wait in line, serenaded by safety instructions...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Gabrielle Munslow: "Flight Log: Hell’s Waiting Room".
New #poetry from Sunni Brown Wilkinson: "Homemade Snow Globe".
Homemade Snow Globe | Rust & Moth
Crepuscular light will not reach this mini tree, pre- fab and birthed from a plastic bag. And the absence of fox or skunk, fawn or thrush or the lapidary wind or blade of river means a sedentary hush...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Sunni Brown Wilkinson: "Homemade Snow Globe".
New #poetry from Kate Reider Collins: "Elegy as a Letter to My Dead".
Elegy as a Letter to My Dead | Rust & Moth
Who is to say there isn’t a Post Office in the Afterlife where Spirits hang out, those who left things unsaid, piles of mail stacking up. Envelopes from the Living addressed to the Dead, envelopes from...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Kate Reider Collins: "Elegy as a Letter to My Dead".
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The regime targeted Rep. McIver for conducting legislative oversight at an ICE facility in her district (or doing her job).
We hoped the courts would recognize this for the political persecution it is and dismiss the charges. Unfortunately, a federal judge ruled that the case could go to trial.
We hoped the courts would recognize this for the political persecution it is and dismiss the charges. Unfortunately, a federal judge ruled that the case could go to trial.
Judge denies N.J. Rep. McIver’s request to dismiss Trump administration charges
A judge said U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver failed to show her prosecution was selective and vindictive.
www.nj.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The regime targeted Rep. McIver for conducting legislative oversight at an ICE facility in her district (or doing her job).
We hoped the courts would recognize this for the political persecution it is and dismiss the charges. Unfortunately, a federal judge ruled that the case could go to trial.
We hoped the courts would recognize this for the political persecution it is and dismiss the charges. Unfortunately, a federal judge ruled that the case could go to trial.
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Republicans are getting worried about the upcoming special election in #TN07, where @aftynbehn.bsky.social has all of the momentum.
Early voting is underway, and you can help send this progressive champion (and former Indivisible organizer) to Congress: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Early voting is underway, and you can help send this progressive champion (and former Indivisible organizer) to Congress: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Democrats inject "Epstein files" into special election that's scaring GOP
"The Epstein files are locked away. Matt Van Epps will keep them that way," a new ad says.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Republicans are getting worried about the upcoming special election in #TN07, where @aftynbehn.bsky.social has all of the momentum.
Early voting is underway, and you can help send this progressive champion (and former Indivisible organizer) to Congress: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
Early voting is underway, and you can help send this progressive champion (and former Indivisible organizer) to Congress: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
New #poetry from Kacey Martin: "Axis".
Axis | Rust & Moth
They called it the Black Plague. Cheap casket wine, Pepsi Max, & forgotten distillery remnants. I remember the turning—unsure if it was I or the world that had slipped its axis (it was both). A body...
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November 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Kacey Martin: "Axis".
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We were as real and as pale as the ash.
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
We were as real and as pale as the ash.
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A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
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Aftyn Behn — a social worker, state representative, and former Indivisible organizer — is running in a special election to flip #TN07.
If you want to elect a Democratic leader that we can count on to fight, please make some calls to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social GOTV: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
If you want to elect a Democratic leader that we can count on to fight, please make some calls to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social GOTV: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Aftyn Behn — a social worker, state representative, and former Indivisible organizer — is running in a special election to flip #TN07.
If you want to elect a Democratic leader that we can count on to fight, please make some calls to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social GOTV: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
If you want to elect a Democratic leader that we can count on to fight, please make some calls to help @aftynbehn.bsky.social GOTV: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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Beautiful!
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Beautiful!
New #poetry from Christy Prahl: "Loose".
Loose | Rust & Moth
That year we lost seven teeth between us. One swallowed down my sister ’s throat as she slept. Surviving meant an extra quarter under her pillow and I ached for that overnight visit, the shiny money,...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Christy Prahl: "Loose".
New #poetry from DS Maolalai: "Kilbarrack".
Kilbarrack | Rust & Moth
from the edge between footpath and roadpath, weeds rise in a row of salutes. in one driveway a car sinks to cement on flat tires with the folded-up manner of a cat gone compact on a windowsill. I walk...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from DS Maolalai: "Kilbarrack".
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
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Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...
Hey litmags -- what services do y'all use/like for mailing lists? We've been using Mailchimp for a long time but we can't absorb their price increases anymore.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hey litmags -- what services do y'all use/like for mailing lists? We've been using Mailchimp for a long time but we can't absorb their price increases anymore.
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In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump spent hours at his house with one of Epstein’s victims
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump spent hours at his house with one of Epstein’s victims