Rebecca Pickard

poet and person of God. // independent researcher of the South River Quaker meeting and Virginia abolitionism.

[Sophie Haigney @SophieHaigney]

We need to return to time, mere days ago, when there were soccer games all day every day

[Academy of American Poets @POETSorg]

7/6/26 “I didn’t know it had rained,”

[emilia 🍒🥇🏆 @lexiescarina]

“they paid fifa off to get balogun back” and if they asked for donations i would have contributed

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

One thing I think is really grotesque about this whole discourse is how fast it went from "no one died because of DOGE" to "it's actually fine people died from DOGE."
That was not the original terms of the debate. The term was "did DOGE's cuts kill people?" The answer is

[Rebecca Pickard @ThePickard]

yeah... it's beautiful 🥹

[antifa honeypot @mformorphine]

struggling to form a coherent take on moby dick because it’s just 4 pages of beautiful and profound character writing exploring the human condition followed by several straight chapters of autistic whale facts

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

"An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Musk’s DOGE has quietly rebuilt some of the federal government’s most sensitive websites – for passport applications, voter registration, prescription-drug pricing and children’s savings – in ways critics say appear to violate federal law"

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

This is perhaps one of the most worthwhile scholarly projects in existence right now. For comparatively little money, especially compared with research in the natural sciences, we could totally transform our understanding of antiquity.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Untitled, by Alma Thomas, 1968 (slightly rotated), 📸 by Justin Setterfield

[Jay Bookman @jaysbookman]

The Texas screwworm story is a version of this. The Reflecting Pool fiasco is a version of this. The Iranian war is a very large and ongoing version of this.
Everywhere you look, incompetence is having its natural consequences, with more to come. Much more, I'm afraid.

[Charlotte Lee @cljack]

it's so cool how anyone can decide to questmaxx their life simply by flying American Airlines and thus turning every mundane trip into an Odyssey-style epic journey of taking 10 years and infinite diversions to get home

[Rebecca Pickard @ThePickard]

Herman Melville wrote America's epic poem; he is our Homer.

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

Who Is America’s Homer?

If England has Shakespeare, Spain has Cervantes, Italy has Dante, and Russia has Pushkin, then who do we have? Do we have a great poet who captures the American spirit, the American story, the American identity? We asked for contributions from ‍@fxxfy, @DanaGioiaPoet, @zenahitz, Emily Wilson, @ae_stallings, @_Zeets, @JcScharl, @amjuster, @RossBarkan, Christian Wiman.

https://t.co/o7J1tcN6rV

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

It’s funny, motocross at the White House is, like, fine with me. But here’s an example of something that is genuinely unforgivable but that a lot of people seem to have moved right past.

[Georgie 💫 @hagiosgeorglus]

Joan Didion was so real for this

[Negro Libre @NegroLibre1]

This is one of those decisions that I actually thought was not only the right call, but that a lot of Biden critics were completely unprepared for what was coming with Trump 2.0. Anyone who sees what's happening now and thinks it was a bad call is unserious to say the least.

[John Slaughter, Esq. @JSlaughterEsq]

A couple of Germans on a road trip have done more to inspire patriotism ahead of America’s 250th anniversary than the entirety of the U.S. government.

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

AI: "It looks like you're reading a lengthy document. Would you like to read a summary—"

ME:

[Malcolm Yarnell @MusingsOnChrist]

If you have to reconstruct your doctrine of the Trinity in order to preserve your peculiar doctrine of humanity, then maybe, just maybe, there is something wrong with both your doctrine of humanity and your doctrine of God. Oh, and also your theological method.