J Tarwood

William Stafford

Homer

The legitimacy of the government depends on the continuous exercise of an act of forgetting.

Begoña Aretxa

William Stafford

William Stafford

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Politics involves genuine relationships with people who are genuinely other people, not tasks set for our redemption or objects for our philanthropy.

Bernard Crick

Ezra Pound

Once ain’t for always
And two ain’t but twice.

Bessie Smith

Can Fascists Still Be Shamed? A conversation with Chris Mathias, author of "To Catch a Fascist"

“There’s a battle over shame in the country, and what should be considered shameful.” A conversation with @letsgomathias.bsky.social, author of “To Catch a Fascist.”

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/can-fascis...

William Stafford

Meet the Newest Domestic Terrorist Group: V.A. Nurses “Responding to videos that suggested their son [VA nurse Alex Pretti, who was killed by federal immigration agents] was a ‘domestic terrorist,’ Pre...

"As everyone knows, nurses are basically superhuman by nature and incredibly versatile, expertly gliding from performing chest compressions to holding a dying patient’s hand to building the best domestic terrorist organization in the nation."

Silent and antisocial, if the Basques want to communicate with others, they sing.

Pío Baroja

When I was ten years old I felt intense patriotic feelings, only I didn’t know what my country was.

Sabino Arana