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Sun, 16/11/2025 - 01:10
Why don’t we get to grips with the climate crisis? Partly because most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th November 2025 If this were just a climate crisis, we would fix it. The technology, money and strategies have all been […]
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Sat, 15/11/2025 - 14:31
~by Sean Paul Kelley Good heavens, the economic bad news is piling up like a bad car wreck. So, let’s do some serious rubbernecking, folks, because there is a lot of fucked up shit to watch. Just don’t step in it, okay? We begin with widepsread reports of large institutional investors (hedge funds, investment banks, […]
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Sat, 15/11/2025 - 05:02

4:50 a.m. — Carmen arrives at the airport for her 6:15 a.m. flight.

4:53 a.m. — Carmen heads to security early, because she doesn’t have TSA PreCheck, CLEAR, or the subscription service where a man in a suit carries you, piggyback, to the front of the line.

5:03 a.m. — Carmen fills a plastic tray with her laptop, beeper, wallet, trench coat, and part of an ancient tombstone she stole back from England and is supposed to deliver to [REDACTED] before getting found by the kids on the show.

5:05 a.m. — Carmen’s luggage is flagged, and she has to go to the manual inspection table in only her leggings and the Backstreet Boys T-shirt she’s wearing under her trench coat, while a security team member inspects her belongings.

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Sat, 15/11/2025 - 01:03

PART I

THE BELIEVER: You’ve been in the poetry and publishing worlds for some thirty years now. What changes have you seen in that time?

KEVIN YOUNG: I think poetry itself has broadened and deepened. What I see, having edited The New Yorker anthology, is the way that poetry really, in the past forty years, has exploded in terms of who’s publishing and who’s able to publish and the outlets for publishing. At the same time, it once felt like there was a different kind of robust, smaller-press life, and you had these different outlets and magazines, some of which I miss. But in general, I think there are a lot of people writing who were always writing, but who are now getting published more.