Kyla Houbolt

Wow.

Berks County ICE detention center angers residents Upper Bern Township, PA, residents are trying to figure out how to block ICE’s plan to turn an empty warehouse into a detention center.

www.spotlightpa.org/berks/2026/0...

County executive addresses rumors of ICE office opening in Hunt Valley The Baltimore County Council will convene an emergency session on Tuesday to consider legislation about the purchase, similar to a move that Howard County made to prevent a private detention center in...

"The Baltimore County Council will convene an emergency session Tuesday to consider legislation to ban private persons, corporations, property owners or third-party contractors from gaining permits to operate detention centers in the county...."

www.wbaltv.com/article/balt...

I hope you're okay? Yipes.

FireHorse
WaterDragon
EarthMountain
AirHawk

More info, from the instagram account that posted the video

Affrilachian Poets 35th anny poetry reading

this friday at 6pm
carrick theater,
transylvania university in lexington

nearly 20 of us with 5 mins each to read

featuring Nikky Finney, Crystal Wilkinson, Frank X Walker, Randall Horton, Jeremy Paden, Gerald Coleman, & others

oh, & myself.

This is happening at a far faster pace than we anticipated in the episode. Extremely grim, very enraging

www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

Warehouse owner won’t sell Dallas County property to ICE for migrant detention center The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or...

"The owners of a Dallas County warehouse that ICE had planned to use as a mega detention center said Monday it will not sell or lease the property to the federal government.

“God answered our prayers,” the Hutchins Mayor said after learning of the decision...

www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

I totally don't get the whole thing of identifying with a generation.

YouTube video by Burrns Luciano Let's All go to the Lobby! Intermission Bumper 4K Update

#Earworm Let’s all go to the lobby!

hmm, same here.

How an Enslaved Man Helped Jack Daniel Develop His Famous Whiskey | HISTORY Nathan 'Nearest' Green, who taught Jack Daniel the art of whiskey distillation, went unacknowledged for more than 150...

For #BlackHistoryMonth today my focus is: Nathan “Nearest” Green, the enslaved master distiller who taught a young Jack Daniel how to make Tennessee whiskey.
www.history.com/articles/jac...

First published in the chapbook *Tuned* then later collected in *Becoming Altar*.

Mirror I will continue to clench my jaw I will continue to see a horse in all things I will not be able to ride the horse it is wild it knows better than to take the bit. But sometimes that horse –that stormhorse, firehorse, owlhorse– sometimes that horse will slow enough for me to grasp its mane and then we fly

#Poetry #LunarNewYear #YearoftheHorse
Mirror was published with only the first stanze; the second was added later. Seems appropriate for the year of the FireHorse!

Purple crocuses emerging under green leaves, with brown dead oak leaves around and about.

Yellow and purple crocuses, dead brown leaves, sun and shadow.

Put on my gardening pants today to do just a bit of early clean-up out there. That waistband has gotten a bit tight over the winter. 😒

2 purple crocuses, one just a bud, emerging through overwintered green stochasia leaves and a bit of brown duff.

Comin' through

ugh

Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project

This is such horseshit. We have been talking for a decade about this switch, I’ve gone through all kinds of bullshit because of RealID, and now OF COURSE we are like “never mind, that’s all security theater, but you can’t travel if you are poor”

It did indeed.

Until DJT et al had it taken down.

The back and front jacket of 'The Blue Hour' by Angelina D'Roza. White text against vertical bands of bluish colour, set against a background of green silken folds.

To hell with the small life. I am not exquisite.
Cannot sing like bone china. This is the blue hour.

I swim in it, alone and perfectly.

'The Blue Hour'
Angelina D'Roza

£2 off until 20 February
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Economic Response Fund Grant Guidelines Small businesses in Minnesota that have experienced operational disruptions in recent weeks may now apply for emergency financial support through the Economic Response Fund.

I'm going to promote the heck out of this:

The Minneapolis Foundation has $4 million in grants available to small businesses for everything from rent and payroll costs to legal help and temporary relocation.

More details and the application here: www.minneapolisfoundation.org/stories/comm...

Empty words
do not exist.

Handling: General considerations The cat is faster and has sharper teeth and nails than you do. It has no 'code of ethics' or considerations for its own future. In a fair fight it will win. 1. DON'T FIGHT A CAT 2. USE YOUR BRAIN 3. USE DRUGS

reminder

Matejko’s “Stańczyk”. From Wikipedia: “Stańczyk is shown sitting alone in a dark room, while a ball, hosted by the royal family, is in full swing in the neighbouring hall. His appearance is unlike that one would expect in a jester – gloomy, deep in thought. His seriousness is reinforced by his accessories: his marotte lies discarded on the floor, whereas a holy medallion of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa can be seen on his torso. The wrinkled carpet at Stańczyk's feet could have been formed by his collapsing heavily into the chair upon reading the letter, or through a nervous shifting of the feet thereafter. On the table lies a letter likely announcing that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania has lost Smolensk (now in Russia) to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, causing Stańczyk's sorrow and reflection on his fatherland's fate”

Thought I’d start posting from time to time some of the most famous Polish paintings, so that my non-Polish followers can learn a thing or two about our culture. This one by Jan Matejko is called “Jestermaxxing”, and it portrays a guy who, tragically, jestermaxxed

"Plain dealer", eh? Not so much.

NY Democratic House Candidate Works for Palantir Partners Pushing AI Border Surveillance A former Biden national security adviser hoping to unseat Mike Lawler consults for two defense tech firms that partner with Palantir.

Running in a swing district north of New York City, Cait Conley has walked a fine line on matters of immigration and the national security apparatus.

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When I was starting out as a writer, I listened to hours and hours of archived Bookworm shows. He was the greatest of literary interlocutors, elevating the thirty minute “books show” to new artistic and intellectual levels. Listening to him made me a better writer, and a much better reader. RIP.