Steve Westby

Ugh, this hurts my heart

Horrific

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Rainbow

we dream of technicolor happiness
aching for glow and calling it love

but love is here now
in messiness and morning sighs

love hides her face
where Garland's voice fades

#vss365
#rainbow

#vss365
#laugh

we have it
boiling up inside us
in giddy reminder
of response itself

they have monsters in masks
stealing children
and selfish buffoons
playing at strength

always remember
they cannot erase
cannot suppress
what they fear the most

you

perhaps we do not see it
shrouded by uncertainty
but kindness is there
Charlotte biding her time to
spell gentle truths
on tender lines of silk

#vss365
#spider

Jayne Converse
@jayneconverse3.bsky.social

Ken Paxton just filed a lawsuit to remove me from office.

But this seat doesn’t belong to him or me — it belongs to the people.

My message to Ken Paxton:

Come and take it.

This

Prank

in fear's eyes
love's a prank

maybe a con
or deluded wish

because everybody hears
i love you

yet somehow
everyone weeps

alone

#vss365
#prank

Ugh. Hope you're feeling better soon.

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

Odd, how South Park is covering Kristi Noem and her ICE hooligans more accurately than The New York Times.

ICE is hiring! US immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking for highly motivated, morally indifferent individuals to join our team. Open positions include: Senior Goon Racism Enforcement Office Unmarked Van Driver (Part-Time) Experience with children a plus usajobs.gov

From this month's edition of The Onion.

Mental Health Wars

we ride to battle on Japanese steeds
perform morning Haka in grunts as we stoop
activating whirs of silence
communing with starlight and mantle in caffeinated pauses
to sit with fellow souls
and wave hello

#poetry

Yes. More this. America would be well served by a re-emergence of punk in the face of fascism.

Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War.

“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”

Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.

Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect.

According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.

Written by : Jennifer Harper Bowen 3d • My husband and I were talking last night about how a 12 pack of drinks is $9 now and how in 2020 I used to buy them 4/$10. I decided to go back into my Walmart app and see what I was paying for a random grocery order. In January 2020 l paid $70.20 for 30 items, I added all of them to the cart again and repurchased them today. Today those 30 items were $165.42. That's a $95.22 price increase in four years time. That's a 135.6% inflation percentage. We can't go on living like this. I can't be the only one who feels this way. 8:28 PM • 8/5/25 From Earth - 5.7M Views

She summarized this succinctly and powerfully.

Raskin: "What we have is the Trump Justice Department organizing itself not around the interests of the survivors -- the people who were victimized by Maxwell and Epstein -- but rather organizing itself around protecting the perpetrators."

once I could indulge
take the chewy sweetness
into my very being

but something essential shifted
my body balks
at this becoming

and insists
I be satisfied
with crumbs

#vss365
#brownie

rules are necessary and
often stupid and -
and!
the very flowering of poetry lies
in seeing them
and shrugging

#vss365
#rules

Fascism is expensive.

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

What Do I See When I Look Up?

starlight
genesis
oceans
us

#poetry

Thoughts Driving Along Hwy 75

when times are dark
find me in cemented cracks
I shall speak to you
through vibrant flowers defiant
as they seek the sun

#poetry

Thank you, my friend. Most kind.

in the face of horror
sass is just hope's defiance

#vss365
#sass

Yes. But how can we discuss this topic without acknowledging how Trump's narcissism drove this?

I dreamed of angels
until I realized
dreams could never hold hands
and sat down softly
with grumpy you
to fall in love

#vss365
#angel