Steve Mark

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war.

Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

More of this from the alleged “Opposition Party,” please.

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both

5 Calls can help you make the call:

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Illustration of One Battle After Another characters by Chirrikenstein for The New Yorker

Sure, I could have subjected myself to hours of lies, countless attacks, and invented "victories" in the #SOTU, but somehow catching up with Oscar Nominee One Battle After Another seemed like near-perfect counterprogramming. (Illustration by Chirrikenstein for The New Yorker)

Sounds like great winter storm prep!

Copy of Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship

"I thought it was important for people to be in the streets. But that couldn't last. You needed a record. It would be my job to publish the voices, the books, the ideas of African Americans. And that would last."--Toni Morrison, born this day in 1931. #booksky #readthisbook #blackhistory

i am not done yet
by Lucille Clifton

as possible as yeast
as imminent as bread
a collection of safe habits
a collection of cares
less certain than i seem
more certain than i was
a changed changer
i continue to continue
what i have been
most of my lives is
where i’m going

#poems #poetry

A friend reminded me of this #poem by Christian Wiman this morning, and I just had to take some time to re-savor this beautiful take on #love #poetry #valentines #hopeinthedark

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

You are who I love, writing letters, calling the senators, you who, with the seconds of your body (with your time here), arrive on buses, on trains, in cars, by foot to stand in the January streets against the cool and brutal offices, saying: YOUR CRUELTY DOES NOT SPEAK FOR ME You are who I love, you struggling to see You struggling to love or find a question You better than me, you kinder and so blistering with anger, you are who I love, standing in the wind, salvaging the umbrellas, graduating from school, wearing holes in your shoes You are who I love weeping or touching the faces of the weeping

This amazing poem by @aracelisxgirmay.bsky.social , particularly these lines, has been on my mind and heart a lot lately. Full poem at
poets.org/poem/you-are...
#poems #poetry #hopeinthedark #resist #persist

@amandagorman.bsky.social, as always, with her clear-eyed vision and beautiful words that pierce and comfort all at once. #poetry #poems #hopeinthedark #resist #persist

Reading this just broke me this morning. The abject cruelty and misdirected hatred this man witnessed, the callous disregard for this man’s life is, at time when so much is so awful, still shocks and infuriates me, as it should anyone with an ounce of humanity.

Good reminder this morning at the train station. #resist #hopeinthedark

A much needed reminder today.
Thank you, Dr. King.

On this #MLKDay, every single Republican and enabler of the current chaos should keep Dr. King’s name out of their mouths. Spoiler alert: They won’t, cherry-picking quotations out of context to serve a white supremacist agenda that isn’t even bothering to hide in plain sight anymore.

THIS.

Relatable

10/10. No notes. #resist

Members of Congress should be openly stating right now that military action against Greenland will result in impeachment and removal of the President and the Vice President.

It's great to see something so good coming out of the wealth she helped Bezos amass.

They're not even trying to pretend a little that ICE is remotely serving its stated function, or that there will ever be a credible investigation of this murder.

On Wednesday, Jan 7th, Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. The incident happened less than a mile from where George Floyd was killed 5 years ago. Growing up near the ... TikTok video by Kata

@thekatamusic says it quite well.

For Renee Nicole Good Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched & froze. Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been. Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour & bitter anger of our neighbors Is moved by the love & better angels of our nature.

What they call death & void, We know is breath & voice; In the end, gorgeously, Endures our enormity. You could believe departed to be the dawn When the blank night has so long stood. But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone, When they forever are so fiercely Good.

@amandagorman.bsky.social once again giving voice to our grief and anguish and offering clarity, hope, and inspiration #poetry #hopeinthedark #inspiration #resist

January 6, five years on: sustained effort by Trump to rewrite history President and Republican allies have tried to make sure the deadly attack on the Capitol has been erased from memory

There are many of us who will NEVER forget this attack on our government, our free and fair elections, and those law enforcement officers who put themselves in harm's way to prevent an outcome that could have been far worse than the violence and destruction we saw with our own eyes on that day.

Tender Sophie Klahr I spend late morning weeping with the news: a black bear with burnt paws is euthanized along the latest wildfire's newest edge. It was crawling on its forearms, seeking a place to rest. I Google more; reports leak out: the bear had bedded down behind a house, below a pine, to lick its paws. In hours before its end, officials named It Tenderfoot, though some reports report just Tender. Later, I will teach a class where well discuss the lengths of lines in poems. I'll say a sonnet is a little song to hold a thing that otherwise cannot be held: a lonely thing; a death; a bear.

So many terrific #poems in Poetry is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons, like this beautiful little heartbreaker by Sophie Klahr #poetry #nowreading #booksky

It’s a fair question!

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social

it's time to play America's favorite new game, 'what the fuck am I waking up to now'

Great start, and then let’s keep it going well beyond December 1st.

I love them! I would loved this even more if the folks smiling and clapping turned around and returned everything they had bought.