Anyone over forty here ever see their parents drink a glass of water?

Today's Poetry Thread: LOVE Feel free to add love poems. ❤️

she was so real

Right into the subtitle hall of fame

I am “I have a favorite Grateful Dead song and it’s ‘Black-Throated Wind’” years old

Sometimes I think phones are the reason we write slowly and feel unfocused but then I read Kafka’s journals

Small town Iowa Next Door app is getting weird

I’ve been lucky to have a very good summer as a TV creator working with great producers/studios. I also got to spend a few weeks writing a pilot about the marriage of Anton Chekhov, a true passion project that I am now obsessed with getting made. obermann.uiowa.edu/news/2024/08/l…

There is something devilishly helpless in a policy of just expecting Vladimir Putin to show reason and de-escalate the war on Ukraine and giving his bombers a comfortable safe haven to devastate Ukrainian cities unpunished. Historians of the future will have to write tons of

GOODBYE IPR – This breaks my heart: Today is my last with the fine folks at @iowapublicradio. Years ago, I was burnt on journalism. A long 2020 had me looking for jobs anywhere but. A dear friend told me about an opportunity in public radio, and it changed my life. 1/12

CAITLIN CLARK!!!!! HI HATERS

Veronika Kozhushko was an artist. She lived in Kharkiv. Yesterday, she was killed as Russia was bombing the city again. She was just 18.

Idk I feel like selection will be poultry

I’ll be upfront with you guys and say something deeply personal: I have always felt it my bones that Ukraine would win. I was so confident that I had my second child last spring, amid the missile strikes and drone attacks. Today I’m genuinely afraid the world wants us to lose.

I had a call with Justin Trudeau, during which I informed him about the rescue operation after the Russian shelling of Poltava. The Prime Minister of Canada expressed his condolences to the families of the deceased and to the entire people of Ukraine. During our conversation, we

LFG, NIGHTBITCHES

This is one of the most heartbreaking pieces of art in American history.

Kharkiv stays blue and yellow forever 💛 💙

I am grateful to President Biden Joe Biden, both parties in Congress, and the American people for the security assistance package announced today. Its items are critical to Ukraine's defense, particularly air defense, artillery, and armored capabilities. American assistance has already