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)
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨 We’re hearing that Senate Democrats are on the verge of caving to Trump in another “Schumer Surrender.”
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
That means your Democratic senators need to hear from you right now.
Call: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/funding...
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On Tuesday, we helped score massive wins for our democracy — but we’re not done yet! There’s still one more election to win this year and it’s in Tennessee.
@aftynbehn.bsky.social, a state representative and former Indivisible group leader, is running in a special election to flip #TN07.
@aftynbehn.bsky.social, a state representative and former Indivisible group leader, is running in a special election to flip #TN07.
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
On Tuesday, we helped score massive wins for our democracy — but we’re not done yet! There’s still one more election to win this year and it’s in Tennessee.
@aftynbehn.bsky.social, a state representative and former Indivisible group leader, is running in a special election to flip #TN07.
@aftynbehn.bsky.social, a state representative and former Indivisible group leader, is running in a special election to flip #TN07.
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A wonderful poem about my birthday
New #poetry from Lindsay Kellar-Madsen: "Winter solstice".
Winter solstice | Rust & Moth
No, I will not yield my darksome teeth into the candlewick hours. We burn the whole yard in our living room, while desiccation skitters through the front door. Rowan. Holly. Hawthorn. A coven bleeds into...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
A wonderful poem about my birthday
New #poetry from Lindsay Kellar-Madsen: "Winter solstice".
Winter solstice | Rust & Moth
No, I will not yield my darksome teeth into the candlewick hours. We burn the whole yard in our living room, while desiccation skitters through the front door. Rowan. Holly. Hawthorn. A coven bleeds into...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Lindsay Kellar-Madsen: "Winter solstice".
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Whew. This one builds.
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Whew. This one builds.
New #poetry from Suzanne Langlois: "Estranged".
Estranged | Rust & Moth
There’s only one ghost in this story, and the story is complicated by the fact that she’s still alive, despite trying really hard not to be. She wears a hospital gown carelessly left open in the back....
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November 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Suzanne Langlois: "Estranged".
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The only thing that has improved Democrats’ approval rating among their voters has been fighting back against Trump. We cannot afford another “Schumer Surrender.” Urge your Democratic senators to continue holding the line to keep healthcare costs down and protect coverage for millions of Americans.
TELL YOUR DEMOCRATIC SENATORS TO KEEP HOLDING THE LINE IN THE FUNDING FIGHT
With historic healthcare cuts and cost increases looming, Republicans chose to force a Trump Shutdown rather than address the healthcare crisis and limit Trump’s lawless manipulation of federal funds....
act.indivisible.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The only thing that has improved Democrats’ approval rating among their voters has been fighting back against Trump. We cannot afford another “Schumer Surrender.” Urge your Democratic senators to continue holding the line to keep healthcare costs down and protect coverage for millions of Americans.
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Don’t stream fascism. Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, helping tear families apart. Cancel your subscription and make Spotify listen — the power belongs to the people: indivisible.org/canc...
November 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Don’t stream fascism. Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, helping tear families apart. Cancel your subscription and make Spotify listen — the power belongs to the people: indivisible.org/canc...
New #poetry from Dagne Forrest: "Poem Beginning with a Line by Bob Hicok".
Poem Beginning with a Line by Bob Hicok | Rust & Moth
Where we are now, I have this theory developed over all the dinners we no longer have together, and at night when I wake to a brief forgetfulness, or while waiting at the light in town, my son in the...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Dagne Forrest: "Poem Beginning with a Line by Bob Hicok".
New #poetry from McLord Selasi @@MclordSela64222: "Snowmelt, Returning".
Snowmelt, Returning | Rust & Moth
The river loosens its jaw in February, all ice-teeth unclenching. I walk out to the overpass, boots loud against the iron ribs, and below me a crow lifts from the carcass of a deer, spine bright as a...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New #poetry from McLord Selasi @@MclordSela64222: "Snowmelt, Returning".
New #poetry from McLord Selasi @@MclordSela64222: "The Apartment Above the Laundromat".
The Apartment Above the Laundromat | Rust & Moth
Each spin cycle is a heart pounding through the concrete floors. I fall asleep to shirts and socks colliding like planets, to lint rising in secret constellations. Neighbors argue in curses about the...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from McLord Selasi @@MclordSela64222: "The Apartment Above the Laundromat".
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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Congratulations to Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on convincing millions to believe in politics and the future of the Democratic Party! His seemingly-longshot win represents a stunning rejection of the outdated, loser version of the Democratic Party that brought Trump to power twice.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Congratulations to Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on convincing millions to believe in politics and the future of the Democratic Party! His seemingly-longshot win represents a stunning rejection of the outdated, loser version of the Democratic Party that brought Trump to power twice.
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My latest work. The title is a true fact, if my daughter's science fair project can be trusted.
New #poetry from Cam McGlynn: "9 out of 10 Creatures in the Deep Sea Bioluminesce".
9 out of 10 Creatures in the Deep Sea Bioluminesce | Rust & Moth
using that fallen angel’s chemical, luciferin. Some creatures make their shine through photosynthesis, then sink down to the abysmal depths, bringing a piece of the sun with them. Some evolved that...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My latest work. The title is a true fact, if my daughter's science fair project can be trusted.
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Today, we get to show our movement’s strength with a tool authoritarians fear deeply: Our vote. And we’ve got to wipe the floor with them.
Here are the elections we’re keeping an eye on. 🧵
Here are the elections we’re keeping an eye on. 🧵
It’s Election Day! Millions of us have a chance to elect leaders (lawmakers, judges, school boards, and more) who are vital to defending and rebuilding democracy. Please make a plan to vote if you haven’t already.
And ignore the hot takes — our one goal is to electorally crush the Trump regime. 🧵
And ignore the hot takes — our one goal is to electorally crush the Trump regime. 🧵
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November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Today, we get to show our movement’s strength with a tool authoritarians fear deeply: Our vote. And we’ve got to wipe the floor with them.
Here are the elections we’re keeping an eye on. 🧵
Here are the elections we’re keeping an eye on. 🧵
New #poetry from Veronica Tucker: "Withdrawal in Winter".
Withdrawal in Winter | Rust & Moth
The patient shivers beneath the thin blanket, skin salt white, eyes lit with a kind of desperate electricity. I have seen this body before, nerves firing like faulty wires, a hunger no one names without...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
New #poetry from Veronica Tucker: "Withdrawal in Winter".
New #poetry from Lauren Delapenha: "Ama".
Ama | Rust & Moth
What to do with time married friends make the mistake of calling free? One idea is searching out hard things. Japan, for instance, where a shrinking corps of aging women dives for abalones. I don’t...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New #poetry from Lauren Delapenha: "Ama".
New #poetry from Michael Lavers: "Opposites".
Opposites | Rust & Moth
I love waking up early, but today I slept in late, which I love too. I love the clock’s slow blinking from an outage overnight, reminding me that time is relative, not absolute, and love my phone for...
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November 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
New #poetry from Michael Lavers: "Opposites".
New #poetry from Sammy Bellin: "Cows in fog moored".
Cows in fog moored | Rust & Moth
The road unspools slowly, revealing cows in fog, moored to the hillside’s anchorage— with gentle sway, the world’s calm like I’ve never seen before. If I enter this tranquility the spell is broken:...
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November 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
New #poetry from Sammy Bellin: "Cows in fog moored".
New #poetry from Kate Kadleck: "Ovulation Testing".
Ovulation Testing | Rust & Moth
The thirty-something woman pees in a small green paper cup, then dips the test strip in the liquid for 5-10 seconds, after which she waits for five minutes before she can analyze the lines. During this...
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November 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
New #poetry from Kate Kadleck: "Ovulation Testing".
New #poetry from Emily Kedar: "Aftercare".
Aftercare | Rust & Moth
When you don’t text this morning, It’s clear you don’t know what it’s like to fill the hollow pockets of your body with another’s flesh and need. The sacrum curved like an emptied cup, twinned...
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November 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
New #poetry from Emily Kedar: "Aftercare".
New #poetry from Morrow Dowdle: "Confidence".
Confidence | Rust & Moth
—for my stepfather An earthquake hits his nervous system, tectonic plates in full break. He’s not particularly bothered. I’ve lived a good life, he says—husband, father, foreman at a small business....
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November 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
New #poetry from Morrow Dowdle: "Confidence".
New #poetry from Cam McGlynn: "9 out of 10 Creatures in the Deep Sea Bioluminesce".
9 out of 10 Creatures in the Deep Sea Bioluminesce | Rust & Moth
using that fallen angel’s chemical, luciferin. Some creatures make their shine through photosynthesis, then sink down to the abysmal depths, bringing a piece of the sun with them. Some evolved that...
rustandmoth.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
New #poetry from Cam McGlynn: "9 out of 10 Creatures in the Deep Sea Bioluminesce".
New #poetry from Lisa Angelella: "Effervescence".
Effervescence | Rust & Moth
How mold holds mayo is a miracle, there in the cold, there beneath lids, without hands, a whole-body bloom of a grip. How is it one moment smaller than pilling, than pollen, than sparkle, then frothing?...
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November 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
New #poetry from Lisa Angelella: "Effervescence".