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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mary Ann McFadden, Poet Laureate of Ventura County, Caleb Nichols, Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo County, George Yatchisin, Poet Laureate of the City of Santa Barbara Monday, November 16, 5:30 – 6:30 pm, free and open to the public Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today, on everyone’s screen.

Movie poster a black figure holding a cell phone, a road at night below and the McConnells.
Text: I KNOW
THAT YOU DIED
THIS SUMMER

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's a sign of how shockingly corrupt this country has become that a nominee for Attorney General is given a hearing by the Senate *the very same week* he has been referred by a judge for possible disbarment for unethical behavior. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Arthur🎨 @idreamofentropy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The discord was lit today

The distracted boyfriend meme where Mitch McConnell is the girlfriend, death is the boyfriend, and the other woman is Lindsey Graham

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If you read the scary editorial in the LA Times today that insisted "alcohol should be marginalized" and were hoping for something safer to drink, here's a product line that might help! Over on George Eats I look at FLVR! from Untitled Art. www.georgeeats.com/2026/07/its-...

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It's Easy to SVR FLVR!

Let's put it this way, what Untitled Art's line of non-alcoholic beerish (more on the need for the -ish soon) pours, FLVR!, lacks in vowels...

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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

How dare these damn commies make urban life bearable

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Love it: the night after he was kicked off of CBS for good, Stephen Colbert hosted a public access show in southeast Michigan.

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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Maybe you know you’re the most crime-committing president *ever* when you have to get your Supreme Court to give you immunity for committing crimes and then you have to get your IRS to give you immunity for committing fraud.

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"Poetry on the Plate: Celebrating an Anthology Poems about SB Food & Drink," part of the SB Culinary Experience! Monday, May 11, 5:30 pm. Food by Black Sheep Brasserie; wine from Pali Wine Co. sbce.events/event/poetry...

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Gunpowder Press @gunpowderpress.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

FINAL DAYS! Spacks Prize entries close at the end of April. Send your manuscript! Prize includes $1000, publication by Gunpowder Press, and 20 copies of the published book. Enter via Submittable through April 30. Full details on our website or Submittable: gunpowderpress.submittable.com/submit

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

How soon do you think it will be before Trump and Vance give their fellow authoritarian Orbán exile in the U.S.?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

CONAN: “For the first time since 2012 no British people are nominated for Best actor or best Actress… a British spokesperson commented, ‘Yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles.’" #Oscars

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

When your ID says "James David Vance" and your birth certificate says "James Donald Bowman" do they ask for your passport before you get to cast a deciding vote in the senate?

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Finally have written my review of John Darnielle's magnificent book and you can read it over at the California Review of Books. #themountaingoats #californiareviewofbooks calirb.com/this-year-36...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

"The Peace President."

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

For Trump, a military conflict with Iran would distract from: -Epstein files -His deadly deportation agenda -Losing on tariffs at SCOTUS -Tanking polls -His devastating (and unpopular) budget bill -Millions of people protesting his authoritarianism When he's cornered, he lashes out. Be warned.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Mitch "Turtle" McConnell Deserves Most Of The Blame......

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Paul Myers @pulmyears.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

ICE are paid agitators.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

There are a hundred more important things to say, and I tried to say some of them in my essay for "Thinking About...", but: invading a country for oil is also just atavistic at this point. Even if it worked, which it won’t, it still wouldn’t work.

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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 03/01/2026

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/12/2025

In case you needed one more reason to loathe Russ Vought, the director of the White House’s office and management budget is dismantling a center praised as a “crown jewel” of climate research.

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Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center in Colorado

Gov. Jared Polis warns that breaking up Boulder’s NCAR puts "public safety at risk."

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Stick through it to the very insightful end.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20/11/2025

When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

My latest essay for California Review of Books is Halloween-time appropriate, a spooky tale about sisters in 18th century England who just might turn into dogs.... (Plus, sighthounds on the cover--how could I resist!) calirb.com/the-hounding...

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The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

Holt Review by George Yatchisin Xenobe Purvis can write spooky, but then there are all sorts of haunts, aren’t there? Her debut novel The Hounding, set during the 18th-century in Little Nettlebed …

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

As I write in my newsletter today, there are several reasons why the media is utterly failing in its coverage of Charlie Kirk. These are the big three, however. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

The fact that most media types still live on Elon Musk's fascist-promoting Twitter platform and thus fail to understand just how much of an extremist Kirk was. Post-Musk Twitter is a bubble which showcases and promotes the most extreme voices imaginable which, in turn, gives the media a warped sense of what constitutes normal political and social discourse. It causes them to overreport and underreport a lot of things under the mistaken belief that the online stew in which they marinate is real life and the people who marinate there alongside them are normal and common;
Despite Kirk's extremism, a lot of people in journalism and punditry engage in a professional tribalism which causes them to identify with other people who also spend too much time on social media, who do podcasts, and who show up in cable news green rooms alongside them. On some level they saw Kirk as one of their own even though he was, actually, involved in a completely different sort of project than legitimate journalists or pundits are. It's a more extreme version of what I've observed in sports media over the past 20 years or so in which reporters will almost always overlook the faults of a "fellow scribe" because, above everything else, they belong in the same club. It's an object example of failing to understand that we are what we pretend to be; and

Basic fear. The media's reticence to label Kirk an extremist has made it jarringly clear how afraid the media is of the people in power who share Kirk's extremist beliefs. How afraid of they are of drawing the ire of Trump, Vance, Loomer, Libs of TikTok, and the rest. Reporters and commentators are censoring themselves and are otherwise acting obsequiously so they aren't denied access, won't get sued, won't get fired, won't have their employer's broadcast licenses suspended or investigated, and won't have mobs turned on them. At first this might have been done in response to actual criticism, hostility, or active pushback from those in power, but it has quite obviously become an internalized fear that has dissuaded them from speaking criticially, let alone condemning, racism, misogyny, homophobia, antisemitism and the like. This may be the most significant and the most disturbing explanation of such behavior given the implications it has for democracy and free expression.

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I was given the great honor to guest edit the new issue of ANACAPA REVIEW! Check out these terrific poems. anacapareview.com

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Ah, the writer’s life. Happy to learn that artistic endeavors were rewarded on St. George’s Day, though.

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Hamlet @hamletactual.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Same with this

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Good thing he does, as the Dems in Congress sure don’t.

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

It's been a crazy run of acceptances for me lately, so here's another just published poem. Thanks to Jackdaw Review for including "Duplex for the Days of Dusk" in your new issue. www.jackdawpress.com

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Welcome to my Poet Laureate project Poetry Pick to Click, a weekly podcast that airs on KCSB-FM (in Summer 2025 around 6:20 pm on Tuesdays). Now I have the first 8 segments posted on my website Podcast page. Go and listen up, because we need poetry more than ever. georgeyatchisin.com/podcast/

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Podcast

One project I’ve begun as Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, 2025-2027, is Poetry Pick to Click, a weekly podcast that originally airs on KCSB-FM (in Summer 2025 somewhere around 6:20 pm on Tuesdays). Each ...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A few thoughts on Trump nationalize state nat guard in LA talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...

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Breaking Out of Los Angeles

This is serious enough to break in on the weekend. You’ve seen...

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George Yatchisin @gyatchisin.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Thanks for sharing! And RIP David Thomas.

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