Ryan McIlvain

A tableful of donated groceries at my son’s Tampa middle school — bags, boxes of them . . .

And thinking that if we can elect #Mamdani and a growing cohort of socialist Democrats, donate a bunch of food to help people in need, in Tampa Fucking Florida, then goddamnit the revolution is happening!

Daisy in quiet light

The Leaf Rake - Image Journal Why did Jesus make the nights here so beautiful, soft to the touch? And did I really have a substitute explanation to offer my son?

A brief, brief essay of mine (five-minute read!) in the latest issue of Image. I've loved this magazine for years and very proud to be a part of it.

The Deep Engine of Witness | Los Angeles Review of Books Ryan McIlvain finds the truth worth telling in Rickey Laurentiis’s “Death of the First Idea” and Geoff Bouvier’s “Us from Nothing: A Poetic History.”

Trying to say something constructive about a deeply destructive time, with the help of two remarkable poets.

Good god

Mamdani blasts World Cup ticket pricing model New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is calling on FIFA to make it cheaper for New Yorkers to attend the World Cup.

Fucking love this guy

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Tuesday tableaux: car into the shop for a genuine laundry list of things to fix, but a good espresso afterward and a nice walk back along Bayshore. Tampa’s not entirely irredeemable

YouTube video by ABC7 Video shows millionaire snatch signed hat from child at US Open

The Trump Administration just hired this guy to disperse aid to children’s organizations

Daisy and me writing together. Or really Daisy’s window hunting, and I’m dreaming in my own way

'Cruel political act': Pulse Memorial rainbow crosswalk in Orlando removed overnight "We are devastated to learn that overnight the state painted over the Pulse Memorial crosswalk on Orange Avenue," the mayor said.

Really owning the libs again, Florida. Nice one.

By now that trolling rationale doesn’t hold anymore and it’s just a bunch of bullies getting off on their cruelty

Back in Tampa and readjusting to the heat. Dig the light, the green, the efflorescence of the place. Could do without the unchecked developer capitalist greed, etc., etc., but it’s home

This is a great country

Daisy, getting ready for a Zoom interview, apparently. With all those books in the background she’s never read

Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied one of succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida

Visions of the Bush-era torture program. Which Trump has said he’d like to bring back

NYC: Data For Progress Poll Gives Zohran Mamdani (D) A 16 Point Lead Over Andrew Cuomo Some more good news today out of New York City: A Monday poll by Data for Progress gives new insight into the 2025 New York City mayoral election as the field of candidates for the November general el...

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With the fam (Sharon behind the camera) and about to see a very creepy and very good Macbeth at our local botanical garden

Exactly, Daisy

Feels strange to heart that, but you get my meaning. At least we’re angry and scared together

On the docket for today: a charity road race, a parade my kid and his soccer team walked in . . . Also a suffusing sense of guilt: survivor’s guilt, white guilt, national/imperial guilt, you name it.

About right

In re the freak-out over Mamdani —

I think I’m realizing just how much a class of polite neoliberals thought they’d survived Bernie and hadn’t banked on a movement of younger Bernies

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.

Cat/seal

Predictable, utterly predictable at this point

LA RESIDENT: “The cruelty is staggering. People are hiding in their homes from the federal government like Anne Frank.

If you’re a Christian and you’re still supporting this you’ve lost your mind. You’re not gonna get a job because of what they’re doing. Absolute brutality.”

Dispatch

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Surf’s up in Heaven, Brian. We’ll miss you.