this conversation is tuition for me as a poet. so generative, so fascinating. gosh. thanks once more to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for guiding conversations with writers & respecting the work.

It’s all about sending a message. The raid is the message. It’s all about retribution. He is the retribution president. As with troops on our streets, it’s all about normalizing fascism. This is fascism. Fascism is here. Too many Americans are too “busy” to care. But it’s here.

Chisel it in stone — print it on a banner flying behind an airplane —plaster it on walls.

this is a particularly good Backlisted.

Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies More than 20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform...

This also has all the ingredients.

Thank you for your attention to this matter😂😂

Damn! This is a fine poem (no grim humour intended).

I have to think how appropriate it was to have so many toilet “jokes” —the entire episode reeked

Only thing I really want to say about the And Just Like That finale is that I never, ever want to see that rude, narcissistic, finger-snapping Gen Z Bravo yassss queen stereotype used by anyone again. I want to apologize on behalf of all old gays. Young gays, you deserve better mean jokes about you.

Too soon? Nah

Online now. #raygun

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A woman posed with skis on a snowy landscape, smiling at the camera.

15 August 1919 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Susanne Loebel, was born in Amsterdam.

In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

The Coda #46: It’s gonna be all right Bill McKibben on songs that make a difference

Quite often people ask me 'how do you keep going,' and I did my best to offer a more personal answer than usual in this little podcast, with some help from George Harrison, Nina Simone, the Five Stairsteps, and Kamasi Washington
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Vintage black and white photo of a young girl with curly hair, resting their chin on their hands and looking upward. The image has a soft focus and sepia tones.

14 August 1928 | French Jewish girl, Micheline Fajgenbaum, was born in Paris.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Pithiviers on 7 August 1942. She did not survive.

A vintage black and white photo showing a young girl standing and holding a large ball. The child has curly hair and is wearing a light-colored outfit. Only part of an adult, standing next to the child and dressed in a light-colored outfit, is visible on the left side of the frame. The background shows a nondescript, blurry outdoor setting.

12 August 1941 | A French Jewish girl, Annie Nakache, was born in Constantine (Algeria). She lived in Toulouse. A daughter of a swimmer Alfred Nakache.

In January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her parents. She was murdered in a gas chamber with her mother Paule.

Painting of a girl in a birch wood holding one of the trees. She's wearing a white dress with a pink apron. Autumn colours.

'I would make my home
in the trunk of a birch tree'
-Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social

🎨Jeanna Bauck
#BookWormSat

1/3 My hot wash of yesterday:

Maybe ethical meet on a roof🤦‍♂️🤦🏽‍♀️

Transportation. Housing. Medical care…. Oh wait

Really do hate myself for this but it’s going in the lame joke file

Billionaires are out of touch and much too powerful. The planet is in trouble | Rebecca Solnit The 1% aren’t just the biggest climate wreckers, they also greatly influence how the world responds to the crisis, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

Deciding billionaires must be eliminated for the climate is one of my favorite things about Ministry for the Future. Wrote this one myself (but not the execrable title). www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lucky food pantry!

Do you persevere any of that? My SIL has entered State Fair w/ 182 entries!!! But he doesn’t grow ‘em like you do

The I.C.E. Atrocities Should Be the Final Straw for Decent Human Beings. This should be the final straw for us, America.

There is no difference between this moment and all the others we see in the rearview mirror of history and look back upon in disgust.

Our complacency is the same.
Our apathy is the same.
Our silence is the same.
Our culpability is the same.

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The UN and the ICC Are Under Attack From Trump and Netanyahu Israel and the US are conducting the most systematic assault on international accountability mechanisms in UN history.

“The UN and the ICC Are Under Attack From Trump and Netanyahu”

Three key news stories/scandals you may have missed and what it all means.

Your #mustread of the day from Zeteo.

There will effectively be no OCR, no ALJ, no avenue to legally compel your local district to comply with either ADA or IDEA.

If they don't wanna, they just won't. And even if they want to, the federal money is going to disappear, so the already overtaxed public education system will cut services.

Amid Trump cuts, Senators Warren, Markey call on Congress to fully fund special education - The Boston Globe The Democrats said it was beyond time for Congress to make good on its 1975 funding pledge.

The Trump administration is dismantling our public education system and defunding programs that support students with special needs.

@edmarkey.bsky.social and I are fighting back.

Good night, lovely people and lovely dogs.
I hope that you have a really wonderful weekend.

#5albums50s60s4 #albumoftheday Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (1969) A warm bath of a record. Astonishing musicianship. Intimate, and revealing, it should have resulted in fame & fortune but was ignored by the public. How might his life have panned out if it sold well? Best track - River Man