Dan Schwerin

In Ps.108:1 today: 'My heart is unwavering, God.' Recalling these principles from King: 'the Beloved Community is the framework for the future,' & 'non-violence is a way of life for courageous people.' I believe in the sun even when it's not shining. Unwavering is my work today.

Reporter: You said he would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2nd

Trump: I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news. Whatever Hegseth decides is ok with me… Let me just tell you, you are an obnoxious reporter. Actually, a terrible reporter.

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/memp...

In Ps.109:28 today: 'They may curse but you will bless.' Do we want to live in a world of name calling? What is the fruit of misinformation? Who gains from it? May our words bless compassion and justice. Offer our children a better world. Bless is my work today.

For #smallpoemsunday:

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budget hotel
orienting myself

which wall
to dream against
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For #smallpoemsunday by John Martone in My Afterlife, p.17.

For #smallpoemsunday this by Lorine Niedecker in Hummingbird XXXIV, p.19

Poem called “The Loved Ones” by Wendell Berry in the current New Yorker.

We are the absent ones
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#poetry

The last time Indiana won an outright Big Ten title, 1945, the leading rusher was George Taliaferro.

The next spring, he was the first Black player to be drafted by an NFL team.

Release the Epstein files.
Lock up the war criminals.
Abolish the ICE Gestapo.
Lock up the felon.

Mark Kelly: "They are not silencing me. I'm still speaking out. I still am going to do my job every single day regardless of whether this president wants to kill me, hang me, execute me, or shut me up. I'm not gonna shut up."

Federal judge orders release of Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records in Florida The big question is whether, as another judge suspected, this is just a DOJ distraction.

Flood the zone, I guess? Maybe the DOJ should just release ALL the damn files already.

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.

A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

Woman forcefully detained in Keys was driving ‘illegal’ boyfriend’s car, feds say The woman in medical scrubs, who was a U.S. citizen, was yanked from her car and wrestled to the ground by federal immigration agents in a Key Largo traffic stop Wednesday before she was released.

"As masked agents dragged the woman from her car, wrestled her to the ground and forced handcuffs on her, she yelled, 'I’m a US citizen. Please help me! This is unfair. Why are you doing this to me?'

She was wearing scrubs and appeared to be on her way to work."

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

This is why I’m cautiously optimistic — in the long run.

In Ps. 110:6 today: 'God brings the nations to justice.' Meister Eckhart said, 'God and justice are completely one.' God is not concerned with our culture wars. Is there food insecurity? Due process for the powerless? Just sharing? Resist oligarchy. Justice is my work today.

More of this nationwide please!

When he shows you who he is, believe him.

www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

In Ps.111:1 today: 'I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart in the company of the upright, in the congregation.' For the psalms, giving back to community is a sign of wholeness & healing. Gratitude can heal. Offer perspective. Ripple grace. Thanks is my work today.

fog settled over small lake - reflected trees, and gliding geese at blue hour

Each time,
the found world surprises
- that is its nature.

Jane Hirshfield

Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child

They cannot be given authority to forcibly remove anyone from their vehicle this way. Think about how bad actors would abuse this power.

In Ps. 112:5 today: 'It is well with those who deal generously.' Generosity & well-being are sisters, offspring of justice & mercy. In a moment of rage bait algorithms, & fear of immigrants, deal generously. Consider grace. Generously is my meditation today.

He commits crimes against humanity to stop “drug traffickers” while pardoning a notorious drug trafficker.

He attacks veterans while committing treason.

Make it stop.

Broadview conspiracy defendants want to see if White House played a role in their case A significant legal battle appears to be brewing in the case of six people facing federal charges tied to protests outside an immigration facility in Broadview.

I was told by a reporter in October that the White House was looking to prosecute me because I stood against their inhumane agenda.

Days later, they did exactly that.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Wow. Thank you

Thieving, in snatches at work, readings of Lorine Niedecker poems (out of the Jenny Penberthy-edited Collected Works (2002)). A pleasure: to shuffle variants out of Penberthy’s generous notes. Here’s an untitled 1948 piece, in the version it appeared in the New Mexico Quarterly, in 1950:

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

ABC News and MS NOW reports that a Virginia grand jury has refused to re-indict Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges

NEW: The IG report on SignalGate is out. Hegseth sent classified information out on an unclassified Signal chat and put our troops in harms way. Hegseth says he retroactively "declassified" it so it doesn't count. You can read the findings here: media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...