Emily Jo Scalzo

The Invasion of Chicago by Emily Jo Scalzo - VISIBLE Magazine They zip-tied the children and tore them from their parents, half naked in the dead of night, Black Hawk helicopters shrieking overhead, ICE rappelling down buildings like a military strike force. Sep...

New #poem published! #poetry #fuckice

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The United States federal government has invaded the city of Chicago.

Let’s be blunt about what is happening. The Invasion of Chicago.

Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS - Bolts The justices ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.

ICYMI on Thursday: Hawaii's Supreme Court keeps releasing opinions that denounce the U.S. Supreme Court. They call the Roberts court “pretend law.”

The latest? A ruling that requires the police to record all interrogations, with more shots at SCOTUS from Hawaii Justice Eddins.

Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM

(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Man in custody after 3 killed, at least 8 injured in shooting at a waterfront bar in North Carolina, officials say | CNN A 40-year-old man is facing murder charges after allegedly pulling up on a boat to a waterfront bar in North Carolina Saturday night and opening fire, killing three and injuring at least eight others.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”

Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?

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From New Verse News. #poem #poetry #politics

don't let them
gaslight you
we're at war

the moment
ICE stormed in
for our kin

they became
the people's
enemy

❤️🤍💙

#tricube #poem #poetry

"I find myself troubled by Mamdani’s ties to Uganda" ok well I find myself troubled by my ties to America but unfortunately I was also not in control of where I was born

FREEDOM ON FIRE The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.

This #poem is pretty apt for the current #political situation. #poetry

Published a #villanelle #poem this week!

Published a #villanelle #poem this week!

so is it the official view of the white house that race is a biological reality?

truly reagan's heir

At what point am I required to stop considering myself a professor. Because I’m still hoping there’s treatment that makes it better enough to teach one class a semester. But it’s been since Fall 2022. How long am I allowed to still claim professor as part of my identity? #longcovid

these folks are unreconstructed segregationists and it isn’t even speculative or a difficult argument at this point

Screen grab of Twitter post my pundit Matt Yglesias saying that California governor Newsom is not only correct on merit to oppose trans athletes, but that it's bizarre to see the Democratic party line up on an issue that is opposed 70-30.

Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.

Is the Democratic leadership suggesting now is not the time to be disruptive? If not now, when? Because it really seems like now is the time…

Trump forgot he’s the President, not the host of The Apprentice.

Yes, a draft dodger is qualified to say what is incompatible with military service.

Failed the screening for the clinical study. One arm could hurt me, the other arm likely wouldn’t help me. Oh well.

Got into the clinical study for long covid. It involves exercise intolerance, and I find out Wednesday whether I’m in the active or control group.

I feel like I’m constantly grieving the person I used to be. #longcovid

You know, I think one reason I’m bitter about having long COVID is that, when long COVID was first announced as a thing, I said to myself, “I’ll wind up with long COVID if I get COVID. It would just be my luck.”

Can’t I have good premonitions?

I’m so sorry, Cathy.

Oh .. oh no .. the Chinese internet plagiarism toy plagiarized the original American internet plagiarism toy .. how .. how could this have happened .. I feel sick rn ... t .. this goes against everything the plagiarism toy community stands for

I really don’t want my long Covid to define me, but it’s not giving me much choice. It is my entire life right now.

Lmao

I drove there during rush hour and home during rush hour, too. Ugh.

So I am exhausted. Two appointments turned to three. I’m to go on a bevy of vitamins re: neurologist, will be screened for a clinical study (passed part one) soon, and the neuropsych described me as a Porsche getting the wrong gas. Basically I’m not broken in the brainpan. I just have long COVID.