Four of my poems have been published by Sixfold. Here's the link: www.sixfold.org/issues/winte...

While thousands of federal workers, contractors, and servicemembers are working without pay, House Republicans are enjoying a 45-day taxpayer-funded vacation.

Robert Reich's Post... Life in the Gilded Age....

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The Bubble Just Burst Mark Zuckerberg had exciting news to share yesterday—but it went wrong. Very wrong.

The Bubble Just Burst
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The Highway Kind Henry Begler profiles Meaghan Garvey, a writer hitting the road in search of America’s weirder, better half

Best thing I've read in days...
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Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:

$100 billion

Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:

$100 billion

One is decried as "welfare." One is not.

Why?

Simply stated and true.

Customs and Border Protection searched a record number of phones and electronic devices at U.S. border ports of entry over the past fiscal year, according to Wired.

Through the end of September, border agents conducted over 55,000 searches of electronic devices without a warrant — a spike of 17%.

Graphic with text on top: We're Suing the Trump Administration for illegally suspending SNAP benefits for millions of Americans. The graphic has grocery store food aisles and an empty shopping cart at the bottom.

The federal government has the money to continue funding SNAP benefits — they’re choosing to suspend it and harm millions of families across the country already struggling to make ends meet.

I’m leading a lawsuit against the Trump Administration to release these funds immediately.

Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska Real Life Rock, California magazine, November 1982

Greil Marcus with something old and something new:
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11.1% of SNAP recipients are kids under age 5, 27.7% kids 5-17, 41.6% adults 18-59, 19.5% adults aged 60 & older https://www.ers.usda.gov/media/1124/snapparticipantage.xlsx

Did you know?

About 4.5 million SNAP recipients are babies and toddlers under age 5.

About 11.1 million SNAP recipients are kids aged 5 to 17 years, who need food for healthy growth, learning, & development.

The federal government has the capacity to continue funding SNAP during a shutdown.

Raise your hand if you think this is corrupt as fuck! ✋😡

10 Scary Headlines the AI Cult Doesn't Want You to See Forget Halloween—these news stories will give you a bigger scare

You may think that my cautionary (or worse) comments on AI are extreme. Try these ten recent headlines and see if you still think so.

10 Scary Headlines the AI Cult Doesn't Want You to See
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VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester “Your name was brought up.”

"Worked on me."
VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester
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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

Will you entrust your future to this man? It's a trick question, we already ARE entrusting our future to this man and we are paying him for it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I’m sorry, but nothing screams I SWEAR I AM NOT THE ANTICHRIST more than hearing about some billionaire AI-obsessed technofascist’s obsession with the Antichrist. A billionaire whose face is actively melting off before our eyes to expose the digital demon beneath, I might add!

The Rise of Nick Fuentes Should Horrify Us All A neo-Nazi is trying to fill the void left by the failures of the two major parties. Unless Americans are offered a visionary alternative, Fuentes’ toxic ideology may flourish.

The Rise of Nick Fuentes Should Horrify Us All

A neo-Nazi is trying to fill the void left by the failures of the two major parties. Unless Americans are offered a visionary alternative, Fuentes’ toxic ideology may flourish.

Rutgers Antifascism Expert Driven Out Of USA By Very Non-Fascist Death Threats He wrote a book about 'antifa' years ago, so he must be the source of all America's trouble.

What we have done; what we are allowing:
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If only we had a government with three branches.

Six months and counting...https://www.reuters.com/business/us-manufacturing-contracts-sixth-straight-month-amid-tariff-drag-2025-09-02/

A cartoon depicting two soldiers in military attire discussing potential target cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and Portland, while one questions the location of Oslo. An American flag is visible in the background.

Trump’s next target.

Of course.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Actually INSANE that Republicans are so unwilling to stop your health care costs from skyrocketing that they are refusing to even sit down to negotiate… and House Republicans have entirely stopped showing up to work at all.

🤷🏼

STILL OF THE DROOGS FROM A CLOCKWORK ORANGE WITH THE WORD: ICE

Also

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Newsom is Correct ! And Chump's
35 Day Shutdown,during His 1st
Failed Term,Cost an Estimated
$5 Billion Dollars, NOT Chump Change........