Kelli

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "If there was ever a time for Republicans to find their spines, it's now, when the Commander in Chief readily admits that he is choosing to put our troops' lives at risk without a legitimate imminent threat to our homeland or our citizens."

Very funny to me, also, that "The Arsenal of Freedom" is the name of an episode in Star Trek TNG where autonomous AI weapons killed an entire civilization and there's a sales hologram still on the planet trying to sell them. it was originally a commentary in the sale of F-14 Tomcats to Iran(!)

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

write your bad poetry yourself. bad poetry by humans who tried is cool.

The people that needed a separate halftime show are the same people that needed a separate water fountain.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

the day they shot the poet they deported the last disposition of a poet that would have told tomorrow of today of how it died in all the brutality of suddenly they have shot tomorrow today and hearts unrelated to this cry for the poet as a person who wrote and wrote but will never do so again we say never again again and again they shoot never again so that they may think they own today but death has folded the list of their wrong doings it is lodged in too many hearts to be extirpated for who will deliver their mail or deliver their take-aways and of course the poem full of their just desserts

for Renee Nicole Good

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Even in decay
SHE offers beauty

You don't need to be great at everything.
Specialize instead.
Become known for writing erotic haiku about moon ghosts, or folding life-sized origami lions and animating them with dark magic.

Elton John's Tiny Dancer and the bus scene from Almost Famous.

An illustration, Autumn Leaves, by Franklin Booth and published as a cover for Collier's magazine in 1911. There are three female figures caught in an autumnal wind, appearing to be women dancing as swirling leaves, perhaps fairies. They are dressed in flowing, warm-toned dresses of orange-brown. The figures are positioned in the upper portion of the image sitting on / against bare, gnarled tree branches. Below them, several individual leaves are shown falling where small trees and birds are visible against a hazy sky.

Autumn Leaves, Franklin Booth, 1911.

A map of the over 2,700 events planned across the US for No Kings Day on Saturday, October 18.

No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Another temporary “Gaza Peace Deal” has been achieved. Hamas and Israel have agreed to cease fighting. In theory Israel should also cease bombing civilians. After more than 60,000 people were killed by Israel, Gaza will be allowed to attempt to rebuild again.

Gemini: Sorry you didn’t get raptured. Jesus was going to bring you until 10,000 people signed a petition against it.

when 2 ICE agents come to abduct our neighbors, Chicagoans can band together and force them to flee. This is deeply embarrassing for ICE/CBP and Greg Bovino and shows how much Trump's war on Chicago relies on their numbers and the willingness of people to look the other way.

Sunday best
the church ladies wearing
fresh gossip
#SenryuSunday #senryu

listening to music in a dark room is a love language

Traffic update:
No matter which route you take in your travels today, you'll still wish you were sitting in a sun-dappled meadow, drinking tea with wild forest folk, and sharing stories from forgotten kingdoms and faraway lands.

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

A reminder that "But what if people on YOUR side are on the Epstein list?" is a bullshit argument, EVERYONE who was raping children needs to get into the bin right now, that's the deal here and it ain't exactly complicated

i watch them with reverence,
the way they float and flicker,
pearl white specks in a sea of black
and i am jealous of the way
they light the night
i have always been more shadow
than shooting star
#poetry

The most alarming thing about the internet is how it kills our capacity for delight. People spend hours scrolling glass-eyed through content that brings only crumbs of amusement. Real joy is found in the real world: in reading, in starlight, in birdsong, in service to others.

Sign reads "slow high pedestrian area"

Watch out for those high pedestrians.

It’s kind of why this GenAI stealing wholesale from artists bothers me so much. People SLOGGED over their art, they skilled up through consistency and showing up every day. It’s like people don’t think art is work. Of course it is work.

Heard and answered
felt and seen

If you aren’t uncomfortable learning our country’s history, you are learning propaganda.

Your daily horoscope:
Today you will feel like a volcano - smoldering and sleepy, but primed to explode.

Trump on TruthSocial: The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of ‘WOKE.’ The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future. We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities where tremendous progress has been made. This Country cannot be WOKE, because WOKE IS BROKE. We have the ‘HOTTEST’ Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums.

If Democratic politicians do not fight this because it's a "distraction," it will simply happen. They need to get in front of every mic and say that we will not allow Trump to destroy American history. He wants a culture war? GIVE HIM ONE. There are no distractions. Have every fight.