"The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ‘knowing thyself’ as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory;..."
Antonio Gramsci, from “Prison Notebooks“ .
It profits me nothing, me or my clients nothing, to take in the anger, the hatred you bear.
"Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time." the words of Frank Darabont spoken by Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile
I can tell you it will serve you to mend your shoes. Come, wherefore should you be so pashful? Your shoes is not so good.
Pine Trees at Dusk (Loreto Aprutino, Abruzzo, Italy, 2016)
© Michael Kenna.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
The bathwater is grey even though I don't play in the dirt.
Grieving for the four American service members known so far to have been killed in action, and praying for the families of these patriots who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)
We all know the president is starting a war to distract from the Epstein files.
A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.
Yes. It's a coup.
Wow.
the only literary race I’m running is trying to get all these damn books outta my head before the icy hand of Death takes me to that big kayaking spot in the sky
We are still waiting for the rest of the Epstein files, bitch.
“I didn’t realize how much I missed the simple joy of losing myself in words until these massive tranches of sex crime files were released,” said Indianapolis resident Greta Livingston
I don't just want to keep Austin weird, I was weirdness to spread. I'm a prospector for weirdness, an explorer for weirdness, an evangelist of weirdness. I used to live in a weird part of Houston. And Victoria is weirder than it looks.
“Suicides rise following commencement of Daylight Saving Time, compared to the return to Standard Time.”
I don't post enough about the other central pillar of my politics, aside from anti fascism: being anti car
cars are bad in almost every way, especially in cities
if you go to even large, bustling cities that are actually dense, they are quieter than US cities because you can get away from cars
Liked it. It's legit.
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
#authorlife #writerslife #writeitdown #amwriting #writingcommunity
Dems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.
We are now 34 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
Your daily reminder that there have been no new Epstein files released in 2026 and only 1% of the files have been released so far.
RELEASE THE FILES
We are now 32 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
"They say pressure makes diamonds. How the hell am I still coal?"--Dylan Gossett
Everywhere wars and rumors of wars, but no Epstein files.
"The man that hath no music I himself . . ./
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils . . .'
W'm Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, act five, scene one
