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Afaa M. Weaver

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A devoted husband, septuagenarian, father, grandfather, big brother, son, uncle, cousin…friend. Wordsmith. Chancellor at Academy of American Poets. Born, raised in Baltimore MD.

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Supreme Court strikes down Trump's sweeping tariffs The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.

FINALLY!!! One step in the right direction…a lot more to go.

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20.02.2026 17:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents Forum members have discussed their discomfort with mass deportation efforts, debate how federal agents have interacted with civilians, and complain about their working conditions.

“Members have also had heated discussions about the shooting of two protesters in Minneapolis, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the ways immigration enforcement has taken place around the US.”

www.wired.com/story/hsi-fo...

17.02.2026 19:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

“SINCE PRESIDENT DONALD Trump took office in 2025, ICE has more than doubled in size. DHS claims the agency now has 22,000 officers and agents stationed around the country and is still in the process of hiring more.”
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

16.02.2026 15:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Woodie King Jr., a Driving Force in Black Theater, Dies at 88

I sat in my room at the Ramada Inn on Lake Shore Drive, watching Woodie King and Ron Milner crossing the parking lot. They were living history for me. Ron died quite a while ago. Now Woodie has left us.

Woodie King Jr., a Driving Force in Black Theater, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/t...

05.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Man killed in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse Alex Pretti: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

ICE… as we live through a winter storm that could be historic, the idea of coldness as lack of feeling and coldness as a result of global warming are intertwined. The corporations are taking the idea of being persons quite literally by enabling these atrocities.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

24.01.2026 23:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Man killed in Minneapolis by federal agents identified as VA nurse Alex Pretti: ‘He wanted to help people’ Alex Pretti, 37, worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System and had assisted on scientific research

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

24.01.2026 23:14 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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‘This Is Our Time’: Acclaimed Poet to Honor Mamdani With Inaugural Poem

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@shayla Jupiter is awesome 😊❤️

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"The Plantain Lilly" and Two Other Poems by Afaa Michael Weaver "Nothing / broken should be thrown away, / as if we can do that to the created."

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03.12.2025 18:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Fortnightly Interview: On Daoism, Poetic Dimensions, and A Fire in the Hills Afaa Michael Weaver is interviewed by Chloe Phillips.

Chloe Phillips interviewed me toward the subject of my engagement with Daoism and my most recent book, A Fire in the Hills. Thank you.

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03.12.2025 18:41 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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China doesn’t want to take lead on climate policies alone, senior adviser warns Exclusive: A top official in Beijing’s Cop delegation says China is committed to clean energy – but America’s absence is a problem

“So that’s why China would like to do our best to steer in this kind of direction towards low-carbon or green transition, but in cooperation with other countries. We don’t want to take the lead alone. We need comprehensive leadership.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

19.11.2025 11:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Past Is the Present Revived bitterness

Marianne Moore 🥰

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14.11.2025 16:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
On Heartbreak: The Beautiful Half of a Golden Hurt Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

03.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Willie Perdomo on heartbreak… my read for today. Amazing…

03.11.2025 18:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘I need to do everything now’: the Ukrainian combat medic-turned playwright Since Alina Sarnatska’s first play premiered a year ago, she has documented wartime Ukraine with unflinching frankness

“I hate theatre,” she said. “OK, by now I have seen some interesting things. But it’s not something to do in my free time.” Her writing god is, in fact, the novelist Stephen King. “If you write a good story, it will work on the stage,” she said.

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

16.10.2025 08:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#birds A pushme-pullyou mourning dove.

03.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 24    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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China’s most infamous ghost town is now training ground for driverless trucks The empty boulevards that once symbolized the mainland’s property bust now serve as testing grounds for hundreds of autonomous vehicles.

New from @kinlinglo.bsky.social: A look at how the ghost town that once symbolized China’s property bust became an ideal place to train self-driving vehicles.

03.10.2025 16:16 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 2
Pikachu (thiccachu) pokemon dragging bag it cash thru Halloween New Yorker mag

Pikachu (thiccachu) pokemon dragging bag it cash thru Halloween New Yorker mag

How somethings haven't changed from 1999

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September 17, 2025 (Wednesday) This evening, John Koblin, Michael M.

An excellent overview of the establishment of the U.S. Constitution.

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18.09.2025 16:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate

Congratulations Arthur!!! 😊❤️
Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

17.09.2025 23:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Harvard’s Mixed Victory A resounding win for the university in court still leaves the Trump Administration with plenty of ways to force schools into submission.

A lower-court judge has sided with Harvard in its lawsuit against the Trump Administration, concluding that the Administration “used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities.”

06.09.2025 17:06 — 👍 241    🔁 66    💬 8    📌 1
The End of 500 Years of Western Power and the Rise of Multipolarity|Jeffrey Sachs
YouTube video by Global Insight Hub The End of 500 Years of Western Power and the Rise of Multipolarity|Jeffrey Sachs

The overview I’ve had for sometime:
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06.09.2025 16:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Immense and Inclined to Pulse There is a webby and / exalted state of

“Immense and Inclined to Pulse”
a poem by Kay Ryan

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02.09.2025 15:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kay Ryan
photo by Kay Ryan
Academy of American Poets

02.09.2025 15:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Crisis in Sudan: What is happening and how to help | The IRC Sudan is the biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded. Here’s what you need to know about the crisis in Sudan and what you can do to help.

“Sudan now represents the largest and fastest displacement crisis in the world. It is also the largest humanitarian crisis ever recorded.”

www.rescue.org/article/cris...

01.09.2025 15:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
YouTube video by The Highwaymen - Topic Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)

Resistance comes in many forms ❤️

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01.09.2025 09:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lola Ridge Born in Dublin on December 12, 1873, Lola Ridge grew up in mining towns in New Zealand and Australia.

“Born in Dublin on December 12, 1873, Lola Ridge grew up in mining towns in New Zealand and Australia.
Ridge first received critical attention in 1918 when her long poem “The Ghetto” was published in The New Republic.”

poets.org/poet/lola-ri...

01.09.2025 02:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From “IV. The Stone” [The morning came like primroses] The morning came like primroses

From ‘Four the Stone” by Lola Ridge

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