#but justice for Muriel Goldman!

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All three big animated shows have a kid with a dead mom.

And all three snubbed us of a good episode focused on that kid’s reaction.

South Park and Family Guy makes sense, but The Simpsons I expected more from.

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Poets 2022

Cristina Holman (she/her) lives and writes on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She was a participant in the 2017/18 Artspeak Studio for Emerging Writers and the 2018 Banff Centre Emerging Writers Intensive. Her debut chapbook, published with Artspeak Gallery in 2018, is titled Stop Wincing/We’re Fine. Her work can be found in Bad Nudes magazine and Poetry is Dead, and her second chapbook, Repeater, was published in 2021 by Zed Press.

Louie Leyson (they/she) lives on the unceded territory of the the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. They have a love poem to Rihanna published on Nat. Brut, but you can also find their work on Red Queen and ArtsOne.

  Dora Prieto (she/ella) is a Mexican-Canadian emerging writer, translator, and cat mami raised between rural Nova Scotia and Chiapas. Her fiction and poetry have been published or are forthcoming in Acentos Review, Catapult, and Room Magazine among others. She currently lives, dances, and writes on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, also known as Vancouver. Follow her on insta @primadora_ or twitter @dorajprieto for cat pics and scribbles.

Erin Kirsh is a writer from Toronto. Her work has appeared in the Malahat Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, EVENT, CV2, QWERTY, Prism International, and more. Her karaoke song is "I Want it That Way" by the Backstreet Boys. Visit her at www.erinkirsh.com or follow her on twitter @kirshwords.

Erin Lindsay is a Montreal-based writer and creator interested in genre hybridity, collaboration and interdisciplinary practices who is currently finishing her MFA at UBC in Creative Writing. She has a a background in Theatre, Ethics and Communications and has worked in non-profit arts for 8 years. Subjects in her work include: mental health, transformation, witchcraft and magic, social justice and revolution, women’s rights, healing, gender and power, and technology and humanity. Erin is honoured to be a part of this project. See her work at www.crowlake.space

Nadia Froese (she/her) is a writer born and raised on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver). She graduated with a BFA from UBC in 2018, and is currently working and completing a degree in Early Childhood Education in Berlin. Her poetry and fiction have previously appeared in Phoebe, Bat City Review and The Temz Review. Her first chapbook, Something Spectacular, was published by 845 Press this fall.

Vivian Li (she/her) is a writer, editor, and musician who enjoys exploring various artistic disciplines. Her creative works are forthcoming or published in The Fiddlehead, CV2, and Vallum, among others. Most recently, she was Longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and received Honorable Mentions from Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize. A MFA candidate at UBC, she currently edits for PRISM international, and can be reached on Twitter @eliktherain.

Kwe (hello!) my name is Atlanta-Marinna Grant (she/her) I am Huron-Wendat from the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Ojibwe, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, and am a present guest on the ancestral and unceded traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) peoples. Growing up writing poetry became a way to tell my stories, my lived experiences, in the ways I envisioned them in my head or other sensory experiences, my metaphorical truths. As a Masters student at UBC, I try to include story-telling and creative writing as a tool for approaching a different way of understanding. I hope I can bring some of the beauty in your life, and your own truths to paper, grateful to be here! :)

Jess Goldman (she/they) is a queer Jewish white settler writer from Tkaronto (Toronto) who is based on the traditional territory of the Sḵwxwú7mesh, Tsleil-waututh and Xwméthkwyiem peoples (Vancouver). Her writing has been published in the CBC, Room Magazine, and Plasma Dolphin, among others. She is also the recipient of the Research and Creation Grant from the Canada Council of the Arts, which she was awarded to expand SCHMUTZ, her collection of queered Yiddish folklore, into a full manuscript of ten stories. See what she's up to @yentlthewriter.

Edie Reaney Chunn (she/they) is a writer based in so-called “Vancouver”, on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She loves love !, and enjoys working collaboratively and inefficiently on theatre projects, and other pursuits. Edie is the 2021 first-prize winner of the Norma Epstein Foundation award for creative writing. 

Jasmine Ruff (she/they) hails from the unceded traditional territory of the K’òmoks First Nation. Her writing has been published in The Puritan, The Waking, Plenitude Magazine, and The Maynard. Recently, her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best Small Fictions Anthology. When she’s not writing you can find her watching campy movies and drinking bubble tea.

Blog header photos by: Melanie Evelyn Photography 

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More Arrests Made Amid New Calls for Investigation of Capitol Attack

One week after an angry mob stormed the Capitol, Congress struggled on Wednesday to make sense of the most serious incursion on its home in more than two centuries as lawmakers called for new investigations and federal authorities fanned out across the country, taking into custody several more suspects, including two police officers from Virginia and a firefighter from Florida.

The flurry of arrests and appeals for inquiry came as the House brought a historic second impeachment charge against President Trump and federal law enforcement officials continued to examine whether the assault on the Capitol included coordinated efforts by small groups of extremists and was not merely a mass protest that spiraled out of control. All of this took place as official Washington remained in a defensive crouch, with much of the city surrounded by protective fencing and armed troops camped inside the Capitol complex.

Led by Representative Mikie Sherrill, a New Jersey Democrat and former Navy pilot, more than 30 lawmakers called on Wednesday for an investigation into visitors’ access to the Capitol on the day before the riot. In a letter to the acting House and Senate sergeants-at-arms and the U.S. Capitol Police, the lawmakers, many of whom served in the military and said they were trained to “recognize suspicious activity,” demanded answers about what they described as an “extremely high number of outside groups” let into the Capitol on Jan. 5 at a time when most tours were restricted because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Separately, the inspector general’s office of the Capitol Police said it was opening a potentially wide-ranging inquiry into security breaches connected to the siege. The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan federal watchdog agency, signaled that it would look into what role, if any, members of Congress may have played in inciting the mob of Trump supporters who breached metal barricades and shattered windows on Jan. 6, seeking to overturn the results of the election.

Banned last week from Twitter, Mr. Trump issued a brief statement on Wednesday, calling on Americans “to ease tensions and calm tempers.” But high-ranking officials, including some at the Pentagon, have maintained that they are profoundly worried about Inauguration Day, when President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. is scheduled to be sworn in.

Seeking to keep their local counterparts informed, Christopher A. Wray, the director of the F.B.I., and Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a senior official at the Homeland Security Department, briefed more than 5,000 law enforcement officials on Wednesday about potential threats across the country. They stressed in particular that violence could erupt this weekend at all 50 state capitol buildings around the country.

For the first time since the riot in Washington, Jeffrey A. Rosen, the acting attorney general, issued a public statement, saying in a video released overnight Tuesday that he would not tolerate violence or other any criminal behavior and that Mr. Biden would, like all of his predecessors, take office on Jan. 20 in a peaceful transition ceremony. Mr. Rosen also vowed to hold those who stormed the Capitol accountable for what he called an “intolerable, shocking and tragic episode,” and asked the public to share with the F.B.I. whatever it knows about the assault.

The federal investigation — an inquiry of widening scope that has already ensnared more than 70 people — continued apace on Wednesday as charges of disorderly conduct and entering a restricted space were filed against Officer Jacob Fracker and Sgt. Thomas Robertson, two members of the Rocky Mount Police Department in Virginia who attended the riot while off-duty.

According to a criminal complaint, the two men broke into the Capitol last week and posed for a photograph underneath a statue of John Stark, a Revolutionary War general, posting it on a social media. The complaint mentioned a subsequent post by Sergeant Robertson who wrote that the photo showed “2 men willing to actually put skin in the game and stand up for their rights.”

The Houston police chief, Art Acevedo, said in an interview on Wednesday that one of his officers, an 18-year veteran of the force, was also under investigation in connection to the Capitol attack and was likely to face charges.

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“It absolutely is clear that he penetrated the Capitol,” Chief Acevedo said, “and we fully anticipate him being charged federally.”

Federal agents made more arrests on Wednesday in New York, Maryland, Texas and Florida, among them a firefighter from the town of Sanford, near Orlando. The firefighter, Andrew Williams, was charged with unlawful entry and disorderly conduct, and his lawyer, Vincent Citro, told a Florida news channel that Mr. Trump was to blame.

“The president and the Capitol Police encouraged despicable behavior,” Mr. Citro said. “Mr. Williams took part in none of it.”

New charges were filed as well against one of the most widely seen figures from the riot: a bearded man photographed inside the Capitol in a sweatshirt emblazoned with the logo “Camp Auschwitz.”

The man, Robert K. Packer, 56, was taken into custody in Newport News, Va., and was charged with unlawful entry and the disruption of official government business. In a complaint filed in Federal District Court in Washington, prosecutors said that a witness identified Mr. Packer because he wore the anti-Semitic sweatshirt regularly as he went about his errands in Newport News.

As more people are charged in connection with the attack, it has become clear that many of those who went to Washington last week were not only angry but heavily armed and, in some cases, dangerous. That point was driven home by court papers filed on Wednesday in the case of Cleveland G. Meredith Jr., who wrote in a text message that he wanted to put a bullet in the “noggin” of Speaker Nancy Pelosi on “live TV,” prosecutors said.

According to the papers, Mr. Meredith drove across the country with a Tavor X95 assault rifle, a 9 mm pistol painted to resemble an American flag and about 2,500 rounds of ammunition, including at least 320 armor-piercing 5.56 caliber rounds. Prosecutors say Mr. Meredith, who has a history of drug abuse and mental illness, also threatened to kill Mayor Muriel E. Bowser of Washington.

“I may wander over to the Mayor’s office and put a 5.56 in her skull,” he wrote in a text message, the court papers said.

This mood of outrage found an echo in the tumultuous congressional debate on impeachment, which stretched throughout the day. The sense of recrimination went beyond the boundaries of Washington as local politicians in other states lobbed accusations at each other.

A group of Arizona state lawmakers released a letter on Wednesday that they had sent a day earlier to Mr. Rosen and Mr. Wray, calling for an investigation into two of their own colleagues, Mark Finchem and Anthony Kern, who, according to social media posts, were at the riot at the Capitol.

The lawmakers also mentioned that two congressmen from Arizona, Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs, both Republicans, had planned the rally that preceded the riot with the organizer of the so-called Stop the Steal movement, Ali Alexander. A spokesman for Mr. Biggs has denied that he had any role in organizing the rally. Mr. Gosar appeared to be on friendly terms with Mr. Alexander, frequently tagging him in Twitter posts. At a rally last month outside the Arizona State Capitol at which Mr. Gosar spoke, Mr. Alexander called the congressman “the spirit animal of this movement.”

“It is vital to any current or future federal investigations, and ultimately to the Arizona public they represent, that we learn what these elected officials knew about this planned insurrection and when they knew it,” the letter from the lawmakers said.

A similar desire for answers — and for justice — was voiced by Representative Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat and Army veteran who led the call for the investigation into whether any of his colleagues in the House played a role in instigating the Capitol assault. At least five people died during the attack and accompanying protests.

“To the extent there were members of the House that were complicit, and I believe there were, we will pursue appropriate remedies including expulsion and a prohibition from holding elective office for the rest of their lives,” Mr. Crow said in an interview. “They will, of course, be subject to criminal investigation and prosecution if that’s what the facts of the investigation show.”

Adam Goldman and Manny Fernandez contributed reporting.

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