Rhen Kent-Jaynes
@kj7704.bsky.social
MASKS Poetry Prize; featured @ Angel City Review, OROBORO, COAST | noCOAST, & Storyfort Fest.
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We’re basically watching a civil war, but you still have to pay rent, walk your dog, care for your kids, heal your broken heart, go to your appointments, send those emails, and all of it just keeps going. The personal victories and failures still exist, while our government executes people.
January 25, 2026 at 10:03 PM
We’re basically watching a civil war, but you still have to pay rent, walk your dog, care for your kids, heal your broken heart, go to your appointments, send those emails, and all of it just keeps going. The personal victories and failures still exist, while our government executes people.
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News: The Washington Post is preparing to slash upwards of 300 staffers, incl sports, metro and foreign desks @nataliekorach.bsky.social reports.
“The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news
www.status.news/p/washington...
“The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news
www.status.news/p/washington...
Post Parting Depression
Looming cuts at The Washington Post threaten to decimate key coverage areas as staffers question the motives and commitment of billionaire owner Jeff Bezos.
www.status.news
January 26, 2026 at 1:53 AM
News: The Washington Post is preparing to slash upwards of 300 staffers, incl sports, metro and foreign desks @nataliekorach.bsky.social reports.
“The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news
www.status.news/p/washington...
“The newsroom is being punished for absolute incompetence from the owner and publisher,” one staffer told @status.news
www.status.news/p/washington...
As a Seattleite and avowed Patriots detester 2/8 is going to be the most stressful day of my life
January 26, 2026 at 3:05 AM
As a Seattleite and avowed Patriots detester 2/8 is going to be the most stressful day of my life
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We create. They can only destroy.
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:08 AM
We create. They can only destroy.
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Let’s ring in the New Year with union-made products and the workers who make every celebration possible. 🎉
Union-Made in America New Year's Eve | AFL-CIO
Find New Year's Eve supplies that carry a union label and are made in America.
aflcio.org
December 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Let’s ring in the New Year with union-made products and the workers who make every celebration possible. 🎉
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2025 recapped
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
2025 recapped
I for one welcome my cuticle painfully cracking right where it hits when typing two days before a writing retreat. Make me work for it.
December 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I for one welcome my cuticle painfully cracking right where it hits when typing two days before a writing retreat. Make me work for it.
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Thank goodness Larry Summers’ wife Elisa New, a literature professor at Harvard and founder of Poetry in America, recommended the book to Epstein.
She and Summers honeymooned on Epstein Island.
She and Summers honeymooned on Epstein Island.
the Epstein files include several pictures of a naked woman with the opening of "Lolita" written on various parts of her body.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cl62l...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cl62l...
Dropbox
www.dropbox.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thank goodness Larry Summers’ wife Elisa New, a literature professor at Harvard and founder of Poetry in America, recommended the book to Epstein.
She and Summers honeymooned on Epstein Island.
She and Summers honeymooned on Epstein Island.
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Question: Are there any good studies on the economic effects of the widespread addition of tipping screens to payment systems? Have all these new tipping prompts increased workers earnings or no?
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Question: Are there any good studies on the economic effects of the widespread addition of tipping screens to payment systems? Have all these new tipping prompts increased workers earnings or no?
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"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl
December 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
Goodbye Harrell, I will always be insulted at you referring to “rebuilding Seattle” during last year’s Westlake tree lighting. Seattle isn’t rebuilding, Seattle is growing.
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Goodbye Harrell, I will always be insulted at you referring to “rebuilding Seattle” during last year’s Westlake tree lighting. Seattle isn’t rebuilding, Seattle is growing.
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Starbucks baristas at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney store - and across the country - are getting strike-ready unless Starbucks finalizes contracts and ends union-busting by November 13th.
It would take less than ONE DAY’S SALES to finish these contracts.
It would take less than ONE DAY’S SALES to finish these contracts.
November 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Starbucks baristas at Disneyland’s Downtown Disney store - and across the country - are getting strike-ready unless Starbucks finalizes contracts and ends union-busting by November 13th.
It would take less than ONE DAY’S SALES to finish these contracts.
It would take less than ONE DAY’S SALES to finish these contracts.
There’s a big apartment block and a little plot of townhomes being built on my street and the difference between the corporate crew following safety codes and the little guys drilling an unmarked trench at 7am on a Sat is why I don’t treat small biz like precious little underdogs
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
There’s a big apartment block and a little plot of townhomes being built on my street and the difference between the corporate crew following safety codes and the little guys drilling an unmarked trench at 7am on a Sat is why I don’t treat small biz like precious little underdogs
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When you recount this election day:
November 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
When you recount this election day:
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dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
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this is a very clear and throrough explanation of how election night results in Seattle/King County are never truly final for at least a couple of days.
(also Mike Baker is very good at everything PNW for a nat'l outlet person IMO. it matters!)
(also Mike Baker is very good at everything PNW for a nat'l outlet person IMO. it matters!)
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has a 7-percentage-point lead (53.3% to 46.2%) over progressive challenger Katie Wilson.
But there is a very good chance he will end up losing.
🧵 1/7
But there is a very good chance he will end up losing.
🧵 1/7
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
this is a very clear and throrough explanation of how election night results in Seattle/King County are never truly final for at least a couple of days.
(also Mike Baker is very good at everything PNW for a nat'l outlet person IMO. it matters!)
(also Mike Baker is very good at everything PNW for a nat'l outlet person IMO. it matters!)
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Him: u are sofa king hot
Her: what
Him: what
Her: what
Him: what
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Him: u are sofa king hot
Her: what
Him: what
Her: what
Him: what
Honestly I’m just so thankful the Taylor Swift album everyone turned on was the one cluelessly aligning itself with working class entertainers so they didn’t drag me off for a lobotomy while I yelled about stolen valor
October 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Honestly I’m just so thankful the Taylor Swift album everyone turned on was the one cluelessly aligning itself with working class entertainers so they didn’t drag me off for a lobotomy while I yelled about stolen valor
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"Disney could have avoided this entire debacle by refusing to cave to transparently illegal pressure from the government last week. But in some sense, Disney set itself up for this shakedown when it settled Trump’s weak defamation suit last year." — @lizdye.bsky.social
FCC's Brendan Carr fails to cancel Kimmel
You can put lipstick on that pig, but it's still censorship.
www.publicnotice.co
September 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"Disney could have avoided this entire debacle by refusing to cave to transparently illegal pressure from the government last week. But in some sense, Disney set itself up for this shakedown when it settled Trump’s weak defamation suit last year." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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We knew this was coming.
Trump, RFK Jr and the GOP were just getting warmed up with Tylenol...
RFK Jr. launches FDA review of abortion pill
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Republican states this week that the FDA would conduct a new review of abortion pills.
abcnews.go.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We knew this was coming.
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Faculty, students & unions at the University of California are suing the Trump administration, charging violations of academic freedom & free speech after UC handed over names of 160 people to federal officials.
Teachers and Unions Fight Back as UC Campuses Prepare to Fuel Trump’s Witch Hunt
A coalition of University of California faculty, students, staff, and labor unions is suing the Trump administration.
inthesetimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Faculty, students & unions at the University of California are suing the Trump administration, charging violations of academic freedom & free speech after UC handed over names of 160 people to federal officials.