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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

i know i'm in a draft's eleventh hour crunch time because i felt the ol' Poster's Urge to stir shit on here and have, thankfully, resisted it ... the angels are watching over me 😇

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

"The legislature did not include a grace period."

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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

i've been in the city for 13 years and this might be the snowstorm that finally--physically and psychologically--annihilates me

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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

it's beautiful that turning off "smart" "features" on gmail totally fucked the organization of my inbox up and the only fix is prostrating myself before and submitting to their ai system

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One little thing you can do if you’re feeling helpless tonight: throw a few bucks to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. They’re reportedly stretched thin for obvious reasons and could use some help if you can offer it. www.ilcm.org?ref=badfaith...

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Home - Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 21/01/2026

Eight minutes matters. A pulse matters. Denied medical care matters. Doctors don’t speak out like this for politics or optics. They speak out when a line is crossed, when an oath is violated, when someone who could have been helped is instead left to die. It’s utterly vile they have to do this.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

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Sludge @sludge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

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The Companies Behind ICE

Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

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george 💿 @deejaygeejaygee.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

one year since David Lynch passed, happy friday and RIP big dawg

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away. Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

“I will be blind for life. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, plastic in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.” Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Imagine doing a PhD in electricity, just so you knew how to blow up nuclear power plants and heavy water-producing facilities. “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist.” A profile in absolute courage.

The A.N.C., in a statement, called Dr. Christie’s role “in disrupting and exposing the apartheid state’s clandestine nuclear weapons program” an “act of profound revolutionary significance.”

From the doctoral dissertation he had written at the University of Oxford on the history of electricity in South Africa, Dr. Christie provided the research needed to blow up the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station; the Arnot coal-fired power station; the Sasol oil-from-coal facilities that produced the heavy water critical to producing nuclear weapons; and other critical sites.

Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I know that our attention is being pulled in so many directions, but if you have a few bucks to spare for my friend Ramzi, I would be so grateful. He needs to buy a water tank so that his family has access to clean water, and donations have stalled. If 12 people donate 10 euros, he’ll have enough.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 15/01/2026

“The development of a feminist consciousness, for Kraf, is the fall from Eden, out of a blissful, childlike ignorance and into the unbearable knowledge of the impossible condition of womanhood.”

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Language Arts | Meghan Racklin

The women of Elaine Kraf’s novels are all, in some way, trapped—in a madhouse, or in a man-made world.

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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

i reviewed a book on sexual violence that utterly baffled me in its final section newrepublic.com/article/2042...

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The Perplexing Twist in Jen Percy’s “Girls Play Dead”

An intimate inquiry into the effects of rape has a questionable twist.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Second piece of 2026! For @theatlantic.com, I wrote about Kay Cicellis’s brilliant, brutal short story trilogy, The Way to Colonos, which consists of three modern retellings of Sophoclean tragedies. This one is for all the Greek mythology girlies. ❤️ Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

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Why Authors Can’t Let Go of Greek Myths

The fascination with these stories reflects an existential interest in what in life is inevitable, and what we can control.

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niina pollari @niina.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

For #smallpoemsunday, from i Was Working by Ariel Yelen

What devastates me is me

A small
Militarized form of life
Spending time on a Stairmaster
Walking uphill
For an ass

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Here’s my first piece of 2026! For @washingtonpost.com’s Book World, I had the pleasure of reviewing Trina Moyles’ fascinating, deeply sensitive memoir, Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival, which recontextualizes humanity in a compelling way. Gift link: wapo.st/3L1SDc5

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Review | A woman’s life among black bears taught her a lot about being human

Trina Moyles’s memoir, “Black Bear,” examines her experiences in wilderness and her contentious relationship with her brother.

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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

2026 in: me never worrying about money again / me having the most hot rod little bod of all time / my bf loving me even more deeply with each passing day / me being universally praised and possibly given a nobel out: anything bad

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rio 🦐 strurgling @radicrow.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

happy birthday all horses (northern hemisphere)

All thoroughbreds have the same birthday so that their ages can be standardized for comparison because of the historical lack of records of actual birthdays. january 1 in the northern hemisphere and august 1 in the southern hemisphere

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Ramzi is struggling to raise the money he needs to buy food for his family. If everybody who sees this donates just 5 dollars, he’ll have what he needs. chuffed.org/project/1319...

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Help ramzi from Gaza

My name is Ramzi from Gaza, I am 20 years old. My house was destroyed and we are living the most difficult days of our lives. My family consists of 4 members and we suffer every day. We have been disp...

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2025 was an excellent year for books, if nothing else...

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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

every >6 minute joanna newsom song 💜

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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

rewatching to see if true detective season 2 is still bad, and baby, you guessed it ...

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 26/12/2025

Gay hockey show and Trauma Plot by @veryhotmomm.bsky.social - seems like a solid morning to me 🩷

Trauma plot by Jamie Hood sitting on the keyboard of my laptop

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

JAMES MERRILL
CHRISTMAS TREE
From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks,
That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me,
The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep
Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining —
Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver,
A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song
Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead
Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals
Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear,
Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin.
Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting
About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully!
No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's
Dusk room aglow For the last time
With candlelight. Faces love-lit,
Gifts underfoot.
Still to be so poised, so
Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

accidentally walked in front of a bunch of teens making a tiktok video last night and they yelled YOU FUCKING BITCH YOU FUCKING WHORE at me for like five minutes while i waited to cross the intersection ... baby, the kids ARE alright :)

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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

maybe santa will bring me the thousands of dollars in freelance payments i'm owed before i pay rent in 10 days ♥️

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

That we need the files of a dead man to corroborate the reported trauma of over a thousand women - and that even those files need to be cartoonishly redacted - pretty much says everything about whose experience is considered real.

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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

i finalized the manuscript of trauma plot in june '23; by the time it published 9 months later, we'd re-elected a man convicted of sexual abuse to the presidency; 9 months after *that* we're here (not that we ever weren't, but the shamelessness of this kind of talk feels appalingly normalized)

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Nushaa @nushaa.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

watching this in public was a huge mistake, oh my god. the fact he's still eating like he isn't being violently thrown around is killing me.

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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

what is almost certainly my last newsletter of the year, on hope, ego, and some recent films: proustproject.substack.com/p/xix-on-hope

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XIX: On Hope

; or, Staying in the Ring

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Voicemail Poems @voicemailpoems.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

“I wanted heaven But space spat me out. I heard earth girls are easy. I’m so easy I only learned how to fight Back last week. I didn’t win. But I cured my depression By making the bed!” - Jamie Hood (@veryhotmomm.bsky.social) voicemailpoems.org/2025/11/07/m...

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jamie @veryhotmomm.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

pretending you're going to take a big chomp out of your dog is one of life's most wondrous experiences

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