Christine O’Connor

I Want This Poem Read Aloud at My Funeral Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs its depths.

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After the rain

How Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions Many of President Trump’s actions have been seen as benefiting Russia either directly or indirectly, so much so that Russian officials have celebrated some of his moves.

“It’s hard to see how Trump would have acted any differently if he were a Russian asset than how he has acted in the first 100 days of his second term.”

Huh. You don't say.

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Loved ‘Living Mountain’

What a joyful day! I sold my (gulp) Tesla! No longer do I have to drive a symbol of racism, greed and ignorance! Life is suddenly so much better!!

Checking on the patient post-opt…

Trump administration eviscerates maternal and child health programs Alarm over ‘the health of the nation’s children’ follows federal workforce cuts by health secretary RFK Jr Multiple maternal and child health programs have been eliminated or hollowed out as part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) layoffs, prompting alarm and disbelief among advocates working to make Americans healthier. The fear and anxiety come as a full accounting of the cuts remains elusive. Federal health officials have released only broad descriptions of changes to be made, rather than a detailed accounting of the programs and departments being eviscerated. Continue reading...

Trump administration eviscerates maternal and child health programs

This was….five months ago

From this week’s New Yorker

Already done several things that are unconstitutional. Guess what? It doesn’t seem to bother him one bit…. January 6th

"The five o’clock bus is nearly full by the time it leaves Tralee eight minutes after the hour."

That's the opening line of contributor @sean-carlson.bsky.social 's excellent new poem "Bus to Ballybunion," published in the winter/spring 2025 issue of Trasna. Read the piece here: buff.ly/RAdZ6Cr

Here’s what a mandate looks like

And his toddler too apparently

I wonder what all this means for his promise to “America great again”? I’m guessing not so great, in fact, really awful.

Everyone needs a favorite rockstar. @mstirk.bsky.social

Trump’s Putin-Like Cull of the White House Press Pool “It's something that is at the top of the authoritarian playbook list,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says. “You know, go after the independent press.”

On a new episode of our Political Scene podcast, the hosts discuss the Trump Administration’s attempts to diminish the freedom of the press, and what journalists can do to meet this moment. Listen here.

This conversation between @theferocity.bsky.social and @roxanegay.bsky.social was full of wisdom & humor. It was also a generous window into a nourishing friendship — something we all need to cultivate.

It's been a bruising month. This will breathe a little life back into your tired soul.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

After Lives with Megan Marshall  — Concord Museum After Lives with Megan Marshall Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Megan Marshall turns her narrative gift to her own art, life, and the people in it in After Lives. In conversation with […]

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Colm Tóibín · Seagulls as Playmates: Where the Islanders Went In 1954, the islanders left the Great Blasket. It has been empty since then. What does ‘empty’ mean? What happens...

‘This is a narrative about what has been lost, about strange, chthonic richness succeeded by erasure and silence.’

Colm Tóibín on peasants and the evacuation of the countryside: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

When Minnie dreams she sees herself in a different light.

Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies “Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t Homeric in length: “Michael was a miniaturist.”

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Delighted to share the Winter/Spring issue of @Trasna_ with poetry and prose from writers @seancarlson @SeanMcNicholl @maighreadmedbh Megeen R. Mulholland, Máire T. Robinson, @jenherron N.K Woods, Neil McCarthy. #poetry #prose #literaryjourna

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Agreed. It was the same thing when as president and his first term, he kept trying to agitate NFL players taking a knee during the pledge of allegiance. He was beating them into taking any. I think it was a hole with the hopes of starting race wars.

There is evidently something to be said about wearing comfortable shoes…

On a cold day when it looks like this, it’s a good day to do this.

Can you get some republicans in the senate to caucus with the democrats?

Judge Paul Friedman on Trump proclamation Jan 6 prosecutions were grave injustice:

“There has been no 'grave national injustice.' And just because the proclamation was signed by the President does not transform up into down or down into up as if peering through the glass in 'Alice in Wonderland.'"