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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Unhinged liberals, please take your daily zingers for the president to Threads. Bluesky is for Twitter communists.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Spent the morning reading Alice Notley's buoyant, cosmic, utterly quotidian and very funny long poem "The Prophet" and wow it was great to be reminded that such a thing is possible.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Under the Trump administration, an estimated 205,000 children have had one or both parents detained, including about 145,000 U.S. citizen children." This is happening in every state, both loudly and quietly. And it will keep happening until we all put down everything else we're doing and fight.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I need a recurring #SNL sketch where famous poets totally bring down the room with a #poem. Starting with Gerard Manley Hopkins consoling a young girl about the falling of leaves in autumn, causing her to run away in tears.

Spring and Fall
BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
to a young child

Márgarét, áre you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow's springs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Heard this captivating, incredibly well-crafted poem by @jessicapoli.bsky.social in the @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social podcast and I can already tell I will never forget it. "The Duchess of Lightning Drowns" Diving Horse Show, Ocean Park, California, 1927 blackbird.vcu.edu/the-duchess-... #poetry

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is wild. #NYT releasing a map of various immigrant communities in the U.S., in which descendants from Britain are referred to simply as "Americans." Seriously, take a look. This is revisionist nativism masquerading as melting-pot liberalism. Truly alarming. There is no center left anymore.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Gwendolyn Brooks on #AI, in a 1983 poem addressed, presciently, to children

Computer by Gwendolyn Brooks
A computer is a machine.
A machine is interesting.
A machine is useful.
I can study a computer.
I can use it.
Who made it?
Human beings made it.
I am a human being.
I am warm. I am wise.
I have empathies for animals and people.
I conduct a computer.
A computer does not conduct me.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

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Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book

Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

How are they going to argue immigrants aren't subject to the jurisdiction of the U.S but also prosecute them as criminals? What does "jurisdiction" even mean then? They want the right to enact violence but not the responsibility to provide care and protection. #BirthrightCitizenship #SupremeCourt

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

There have been more articles about the price of gas than about the dead Iranian children.

Screenshot of today's episode of the New York Times's The Daily, titled "The view of the war from a Florida gas station," with a photo of a white guy from Florida.

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

As time goes on, Jewish anti-Zionism reveals itself not only as solidarity with Palestinians but also as an anti-antisemitism strategy. We want out of this toxic dialectic, this terrible feedback loop between Israeli belligerence and the Jewish precarity it incessantly engenders

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/02/2026

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Oh, so we're intentionally bringing the dead internet theory to fruition?

From the New York Times: "On the new AI only social network Moltbook, thousands of chatbots are discussing topics such as cryptocurrency sales and the nature of consciousness"

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The darkest thought I've had so far is that the boat strikes to the south and the ploy for Greenland to the north are to create a buffer around the U.S. that could counter European countries and others who might intervene in the event of the government going to war against its own people.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I held my nose to vote for Clinton, Harris and Biden, but if Gavin Newsome is the pick I'm not voting. Something wrong with that guy

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

NYC subway, a mom and teen son are across from a man and pregnant woman. Mom and the man get INTO IT. Other two stay silent. Mom says shit about Puerto Ricans, he insults her hair (she is Black). Then she calls him a d*ck sucker. He says so what I'm bisexual! She says me too!! Fighting continues.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It's wild that a guy who wants to lead the way in AI powered search engines renamed his website in such an SEO-unfriendly way that I still regularly google a person or organization + "Twitter" in order to find their X account.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The Israeli military’s genocide isn’t over, it’s expanding. The Israeli government has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing over 342 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, including 28 Palestinians in the past three days.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Reverse Birthright where we convince Israelis to leave and move to America

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

What is in the water in Kentucky that generates so many good poets and writers?

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

republican president pushing for regime change in an oil-rich country... where have I seen this before? #venezuela

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Getting raptured on bi visibility day

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Patricia Smith did a 3 poem set at the Brooklyn Book Festival today that tore my face off. End lines that made me audibly gasp. Also best dressed.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Kimmel: The assassin was MAGA MAGA: Not possible, he didn't like hatred, racism or sexism – couldn't be us

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This! Federal judges have done their best to push back, but Democratic representatives in Congress and elsewhere have not. Where is the action? Where is the utilization of the few checks and balances that do exist? Look who's not acting and ask why.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

No lies spotted. In the nonprofit space, this has been especially disheartening. I hope leaders take note.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/08/2025

Conservative Man Proudly Frightened Of Everything theonion.com/conserv...

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

If we coordinated to all bang pots and pans at our windows every day at 7 p.m. in praise of healthcare workers, we can coordinate to all scream NO MORE #ICE every day at 7 p.m. for the sake of our immigrant neighbors, yeah?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die
July 21, 2025

AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024.

Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years.

We refuse to watch them die.

One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.”

Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness.

Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.”

Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%.

AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

So many Islamophobes on @bsky.app I thought I had logged into X. What's up with that?

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Being a supertaster is actually a core component of my identity

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

As Jews, we must be able to identify genocide when we see it. It's happened to us and it could again. This is why I'm so concerned that many do not see Israel's actions as genocidal. If the roles were reversed and we were in #Gaza now, you wouldn't call it genocide? If that's the case, we're doomed.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

New political party in the UK! Seems like the time is now in the US... Obviously it's been decades too long of supporting the Democratic Party, time for something else for any of these politicians who claim to have integrity, now or never, not that I believe in politicians, but still💥

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Every human should see wild monkeys at least once. For the same reason I think every dog should get to see wolves in the wild (safely) at least once in their life. An opportunity to put two and two together. Tbh it's kind of gaslighting if we don't show them wolves. They deserve to know the truth.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

This is a holocaust. As a Jew, I can't tell the difference between Israelis and Nazis at this point. As an American with free speech, I shouldn't be afraid to say this. But I am. I speak on behalf of OUR shared ancestors. Listen to us. Listen to scholars, peacemakers, and the rest of the world.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

The footage of #ICE at immigration courts in #NYC jumping people IN PLAIN CLOTHES and kidnapping them is chilling. WE NEED TO ALLOW VIRTUAL HEARINGS. These places are unconscionable traps now. I am scared, as a citizen, for myself. Who is next? #NYCMayor This is not a sanctuary city. It can be.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I too was blown away by how timely Descent of Alette is right now. The tyrant is capitalism and the billionaire class! This series has been so rewarding and comforting, especially this episode, which I'm saving. 🙏🏻

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

I'd love to hear physicist @saraimari.bsky.social, who speaks so eloquently about assembly theory, in conversation with poet Joan Retallack, who writes about complex realism and composition as life. Very much the same wavelength, and the implications for how we think about writing are fascinating.

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

"Murdered without regard for who they were or what they believed" Damn, that reminds me of what happened to this kid—well actually, 17,000 kids...

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I am a poet because someone once showed me Alice Notley. She is my favorite poet. I will miss knowing that she is somewhere in the world, writing. Maybe she's now in Grace's Park, one of my favorite images of hers. That ephemeral place where poems are formed. #AliceNotley

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Not me having couples therapy on Tuesdays, the same day of the week that @couplestherapypod.bsky.social drops...

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I couldn't have said any of this better. In a half hour, @ericblanc.bsky.social lays out exactly what workers, Dems, and left organizers need to be doing right now to fight back, preserve public programs, and make gains. And how bizarre it is that they aren't organizing and doing these things yet!!

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

That commercial with the little girl who's an AI-generated mashup of all the children experiencing hunger? There's a darkness about her.

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