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Beckett's trilogy. If I remember right, they're Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamed. The books were so pithy and full of crunch at a time when I needed that in my head.

So happy when people can get their kids enrolled a good care center. It's tough!

We can't ridicule while knowing that daycare workers in this country are dangerously underpaid. In many communities you might find they are barely vetted. It was just as bad when we had to send our kids to daycare.

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Breaking News 2m ago Federal workers are not entitled to back pay after shutdown, White House budget office argues in memo

This government’s hatred and disdain for its employees is astounding

Lol I didn’t realize Johnson had already gone on record with this fucking disastrous bullshit. What in the world are they actually even thinking? It’s mind boggling.

This is insane. We won that furlough pay in 2019. We all agreed that the workers deserve it, and we're keeping it. No more trying to undo our democratic and legislative social achievements, wo won't have it!

I remember when that scandal was first in the news.

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

Busy day yesterday, when shopping at local Truckload Rejects Store, my kid picked out this giant tote for 25 cents. just actually looking at it now. Angular Jank-o-lantern. In the text, only the 'n' in "HALLOWEEn" is small case. spooky. Our front door halloween decoration for 2025. Hate it with me.

We can demand investigation, demand answers, by strike. Can you imagine the mayhem in aftermath of even staggered general striking? Like 2 hours Tuesday, 4 hours Wednesday, just time for the people to remind everyone of our seriousness and demands.

My first read of this magazine. Was pleasantly surprised at the abundance of poetry-

A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic

Hey siri let me speak to your father or husband

Shut down ICE.

Did- you mean to say the behavior is being encouraged openly by people?

My neighbors say they're hungry too.

Anyone else here kinda gettin hungry?

Bystanders tried to step in, someone heard phone number from the child, called mom as her 12 year-old was arrested for...riding his bike? And released same day. The conduct of those police is awful. I've seen this same thing happen to others. Criminy we've got to do something about the police.

Glad that the boy was released to his mother the same day. The conduct of those police is awful. I've seen this same thing happen before. Criminy we've got to do something about the police in USA.

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Lawyers need to be more scared of being reminded that they are officers of the court.

To read over lunch.

Flower background with honey yellow. Text that reads "beestung issue #24. i mentioned them in a poem / i compared them to cat shit -- / something i've never put in my mouth, / never let inside of me. by sterling-elizabeth arcadia."

Poet wings & wormholes in the wood. A $150 emergency room copay & The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. Bloody buckteeth & lizard-tongues. Slabs of muscle & slicing the roast.

beestung #24 is here!

beestungmag.com

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

despite all my rage
I am still just Denim Nic Cage

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

Appreciate you sharing this out! We dropped a few subscriptions as a family and now I try and make donation each month to entities fighting the dangerous ignorances of our time. Beestung is now on that list.