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America by Robert Creeley America, you ode for reality! Give back the people you took. Let the sun shine again on the four corners of the world you thought of first but do not own, or keep like a convenience. People are your own word, you invented that locus and term. Here, you said and say, is where we are. Give back what we are, these people you made, us, and nowhere but you to be.

Peter Baker of the NYT writes "With Canada, Mexico, China, Colombia and the Middle East, President Trump has wasted no time threatening to use American might to force recalcitrant countries to back down and do what he wants."

The New York Times is so blatantly in the tank for Trump.
Calling Canada and Mexico "recalcitrant" is just beyond the pale. It's straight up propaganda.

seems fine

From Wendy Cope's book, If I Don't Know.

#poem #poetry #wendycope #books #authors

I genuinely need to know why not a single one of these companies is pushing back by stating that their DEI hires still have to be qualified. They are still hired by merit. Why are we just pretending that rhetoric is true? Oh wait, they didn’t want to be inclusive to begin with.

Yeah same 😂

Once upon a time in Dahiyeh: Israel’s destruction of Lebanon’s communities Israeli attacks on Dahiyeh this time clearly aim to tear apart the communities living there, residents and experts say.

Swathes of Beirut’s southern suburbs - referred to collectively as Dahiyeh - have been destroyed over the last month.

At least two expert sources have called it ‘Urbicide’

I tried to write about it
www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...

From Mashable: can we keep politics out of literature booktok is divided

Anyone who wants to keep politics out of art is a fascist who seeks to keep everyone else’s politics out of art and/or a dilettante who understands neither politics nor art.

Darwinian Christmas

These are the poets and writers who have been killed in Gaza. One of my dreams is for my books and my writings to travel the world, for my pen to have wings so that no unstamped passport or visa rejection can hold it back.  Another dream of mine is to have a ��...

if nothing else to read and know their names and that they wrote and made and wanted more life that is now gone

Bernsen has one of the largest snow globe collections in the world, with 9,000 globes

Me looking at the Wikipedia page for Corbin Bernsen and uh not expecting this.

a screen on a machine with 2 selections which read: “I want to: -make ice cream -get help”

spiritually i’m here

Tightwad, Missouri
Population: 60
Photos from Google Places API
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tightwad,_Missouri

man hank hill would have hated tim taylor. he would not have been allowed to hang out with those guys. the second tim started trying to pull the al borland shit on bill hank would have kicked his ass

supposedly

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LeVar Burton is a literacy campaigner and child advocate and should be treated with Fred Rogers levels of reverence and if he's not, people havent been paying attention, they're racist, or both.

That man is a national treasure.

"There are childern in Africa starving."

Yeah, they are but they are CHILDREN HERE THAT ARE STARVING! Why are you so focused on Africa when you can help feed children in your own neighborhoods???!!! The people in Africa don't need another white savior.

There is a great book written in 1969 by a sociologist who warns hippies & other revolutionaries that if they wanted to remake American society, they had to be aware of how getting married & having kids would socialize them.

He explained that it is the main way America keeps people in line.

Two images from insane a McDonalds. The top image is a vintage one, featuring a large decorate tree, a mural of ronald mcdonald in a in a wild west scene, and colorful tables. The bottom image is of a modern day Mcdonalds, featuring plain white tables and walls and ordering kiosks

Never forget what they've stolen from you.

by that I mean I saved it at some point and see it every time I clean out my photos. it’s my own fault

I really need to stop stumbling across this poem

This is the thing that gets me about Kissinger: very little of the blood he shed advanced US security interests in any way.

screenshot passage by David Klion
newrepublic.com/article/1772...

Fucking incredible