Cortney Lamar Charleston

The work being done by these observers of ICE to document, illuminate, and share what is being done in Minneapolis, in below freezing temperatures, given all that has transpired is so remarkably courageous. They are being killed for that courage, as ICE further reveals their cruelty and cowardice.

A decade ago the warning was: “If they’re not coming for you now, they’ll come for you next.”

Next is now. And if you weren’t listening to those who knew then, it’s a good time to start.

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The respectability policing that goes on after cops or federal agents (who are also cops, y'all) kill someone is always unbearable. Dissecting the actions of the victim, putting them on trial when they cannot defend themselves, declaring they should have done this or that. Did they deserve to die?!

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

A coup and invasion. A military occupation and blatant resource extraction. And an example other autocrats may follow against less-powerful neighbors in the absence of international resistance. America just opened up a dangerous box. Because we couldn’t clean up our mess at home, we’re exporting it.

I need more folks to consciously accept that aiding and abetting genocide with our money and arms made safeguarding democracy exceedingly more difficult than it already is.

You know, this makes me realize I can’t recall the last time I heard any of these so-called leaders refer to themselves as “public servants”

Tomorrow night at The New School in NYC. Come join us!

Oh wow, a powerful man being held to account for breaking the law. Wild concept. Imagine we adopted that here in this country.

I lack trust and confidence in anyone who says “fascism” here and now in the US, but couldn’t say “genocide” then and there about Gaza, or can’t say it now.

If you want to kill the truth, you kill the truth tellers. That’s what they’ve been doing, are doing, will do. With our weapons and approval.

You don’t get spared just because you don’t pay attention to it. In fact, inattention is how you guarantee it.

Hope is on the menu in New York City

My sincere gratitude goes to Tylonn J. Sawyer for allowing use of this gorgeous, evocative artwork!

I'm elated to share the cover for my next poetry collection, It's Important I Remember, due out 2/15/2026 from Northwestern University Press and now available to pre-order. I pray that these words move you; may they be part of a movement toward one another and away from tyranny.

Poets! For the first time ever, I'm available for consultations on your full-length and chapbook manuscripts, as well as assorted packets. You can find details around services and pricing at the link in my bio. I look forward to working with you and delighting in your poems!

Magnitude and Bond that which is betwixt us of the lampooned lips and noses

I'm kicking off National Poetry Month at the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series! You can read my new poem, "Magnitude and Bond," at the link below. Special thanks goes to Willie Perdomo for making space for me and these words this month.
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Barely lol

Poetry is what you find
in the dirt in the corner,

overhear on the bus, God
in the details, the only way

to get from here to there.

—Elizabeth Alexander, “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe”

"Let's drive everyone to the point of starvation, buy up everything, then rent it out at astronomical prices. Profit. Profit. Profit."

On a rocket made of tomato soup cans.

Critiques of capitalism aside for a moment, we should ask why a man of such demonstrable greed is willing to lead a "transition" where the equities markets are driven into the ground and prices on working people are shot to the moon. None of the possible answers are good news.

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

I suspect it's exactly what's happening. The volatility is opportune for a trader who knows what is coming and when. Meanwhile, individual retirement accounts and other retirement funds invested on the market will keep getting hammered as threats against Social Security loom. Fun times.

Whomever is advising the Democrats is on the other team.

That headline is doing nasty work. Yeesh.

Stripping away your healthcare. Going to gut Social Security. Destroying the value of your retirement accounts. And you're clapping for it like a seal because you hate people even more than you love yourself. Couldn't be me.