deborah poe

I like the part where Wole Salinka calls him “Idi Amin in white face”

Need hope in this mess In Americ? Don’t know what you can do? Professor @hcrichardson.bsky.social has sage advice right here:

1 in 8 Americans are on SNAP benefits. a line for your east wing valediction.

“Don’t want to lose SNAP? Tell the Dems to reopen the government!”

SNAP assistance gets cut in the big beautiful bill too.

Healthcare is slashed as well.

They’re withholding food for 40 million Americans to try and force the Dems to sign off on cutting food AND healthcare!

poem called Library of Congress by Poet Laureate Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze, “Library of Congress,” New Yorker

This is just to say

I have bulldozed

the East Wing

that you were probably

hoping to pass down

to future generations

Well, fuck you

it was in the way

so inconvenient

and so old

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

“If you only purchase one chapbook in 2025, order COPIUM by Nada Gordon.”

untitled from the collection of Indigenous Creatives Roster untitled from the collection of Indigenous Creatives Roster

www.artworkarchive.com/profile/indi...

untitled, Ash Frantz

As always, Mike Masnick has a good take on the news.

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

Catherine Bresner poetry morsel, with pines in background.

I, a comma
inserted numerically
into an empty space
between capitalist gory holes

Catherine Bresner, from can we anything we see (Spuyten Duyvil, 2025)

A completely full Chicago on Michigan Avenue protesting Donald Trump.

Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.

Katie Wilson and a large group of volunteer canvassers for her mayoral campaign pose for a picture in front of the El Centro De La Raza building.

Thank you to our amazing volunteers for coming out to canvass yesterday! When we fight, we win!

yes.

the brothers—and a happy Caturyay to you

Koda the grey tiger cat kickin' his chops

Koda!

Some remarkable quotes from these CDC resignation letters:

I know Democrats are overwhelmed (or rudderless, if you are less charitable) by the sheer volume of Trump authoritarian moves, but I’d like to see them unified behind specific goals like “RFK Jr is a threat to public health and needs to go.”

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

photo of Brown Pelicans in various stages of landing in the ocean along the waves and flying above them.

didn't know until last weekend that Brown Pelicans migrate through and hang out along the coast in late summer, early fall. then they fly to Mexico. #OlympicPeninsula #birbjoy

Life comes at you fast

Trump expands his control of a police state People who are homeless, be gone!, he rants

“It’s both a ruthless power grab and yet another distraction by a man who badly needs the populace to be dizzied into inaction in order to realize his despotic ambitions.

unwantedpersons.substack.com/p/trump-expa...

@mkaiasand.bsky.social

Overpass banners saying Stop the Cruelty and Democracy Needs You

Overpass banner saying Stop the Cruelty

Overpass banner saying Democracy Needs You

Scenes from today's overpass banners with @westseattleindivisible.com (we had two signs going!)

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson Forms of Resistance and Reasons to Believe It’s Working | Explainer

resistance and the Heathers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=263F...

poets.org/poem/what-he...

panicle

Headlines: "Judge Orders Halt to Construction at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' Detention..." "Trump Administration's 'Alligator Alcatraz' Suffers Legal Blow" "Judge stops work at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz.' What are they building there?"

Alligator Alcatraz has been halted because of the Miccosukee Tribe. But look at how it's reported.

Native people constantly fight for not only the land, but human rights -- and their contributions are consistently erased.

And everyone does it. Erasing Native voices is the true American pastime.

yeah I unfortunately heard part of this at work. I generally avoid going into the kitchen at all for just this reason—as if this was even real news. the most disgusting example of humanity you can think of is President Pedophile. idiot.

Generational public health sabotage

Shi Shi

I love this land and sea.