I’ll do this too, what the hey

Always a thrill waking up to email w/poetry acceptance. I’ll have a poem in the lovely Amethyst Review in November. 💕✍🏼

Thrilled to see my latest poetry collection, out this past April, front&center featured with other local authors. Thank you, Norwich Bookstore 💕✍🏼📚

High point of the weekend: hearing poet Matthew Olzmann read his work (new as well as published) at a VT state park, for VT Humanities’ Words in the Woods series.

Trump once called COVID vaccines “one of the greatest miracles in the history of modern-day medicine.” Now, his health secretary RFK Jr. cancelled $500 million in promising vaccine research. Trump was right. RFK Jr is wrong. Vaccines save lives.

Revlimid has its origin in a pill that cost patients $7.50 each. Decades later, the cancer drug costs more than $18,000 for a month’s supply — even though it still only costs about 25 cents to manufacture. (Published May) By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

Lee Zeldin, Trump’s EPA chief, plans to revoke the 2009 “endangerment finding”, the EPA’s legal basis for regulating climate pollution. This isn’t rollback. It’s sabotage. Without it, the EPA can’t limit emissions from cars, power plants, or industry. Decades of progress gone.

While Trump played a round at his coastal golf course, thousands across Scotland took to the streets in protest. Bagpipes blared, signs waved, and the message was clear: he’s not welcome here. Love you, Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💚

The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check. That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year. If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.

Thought bubble

This is a horrific abdication of their responsibilities to students, alums, faculty, staff, to themselves, their peers.

I’ve donated archival material for Nuyorican artist Jorge Soto Sanchez (1947-1987) to the Archives of American Art. It will help people to learn about him.

Americans’ electricity bills are predicted to rise by as much as 18% over the next decade, thanks to cuts to clean energy production in Trump’s big, ugly bill. Red states are likely to see the biggest increases. Trump put his Big Oil donors over his own voters.

1985 Jorge Soto Sanchez. Typed&collaged page was part of El Paquete (look it up!). Painting was on paper bag. 💙

Will you join me and sign the petition to Etsy CEO Josh Silverman, demanding his company take down all merchandise glorifying the Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp in South Florida? act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/no_hate...

I lived with an artist in the 80s, until his death in 1987. A beautiful soul.

Etsy refuses to remove Alligator Alcatraz merch from their website. Flood them with emails and social media posts. Demand they take down the listings. The disappearing, kidnapping and torturing of others is not a merchandising opportunity. This is life and death.

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage. Their priorities couldn’t be clearer. We must stop this devastating bill.

There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American. A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

and for that matter, Los Angeles. but 100% co-sign this, so much of media's power bias is in letting those in power name and rebrand actions/ ideas rather than calling things what they are. See also: "free" speech, CRT, woke, "culture wars" (when it's really about civil & human rights).

If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each. The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

If you’re looking for additional examples of the environmental cost of AI, there’s also the fact that xAI’s data center in Memphis is currently causing HORRIBLE air pollution. They’ve been releasing so much methane gas that residents are having trouble breathing www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Every 7-figure founder I know still makes things w their hands. Woodworking. Cooking. Gardening. Something analog Your brain needs texture that pixels can’t provide. The solutions hiding in that clay might solve your biggest business problem. #founders #creativity #analogthinking​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

3) A bottle of water per email www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also 1) bad at what it does 2) literally makes you stupider 3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

Want to see some beauty, some wonder?

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

Sounds about tRump

The plans to cut healthcare for millions of Americans to further enrich billionaires is still despicable even as Trump hopes to distract us with his escalation in LA.

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

Amen

LA is my home. I grew up here, then lived for years out of state, then returned bc I love this place with my whole heart. Immigrants are vital to every aspect of our city's existence. These ICE raids are cruelly insane. Trust me, there is NO INVASION, and NO ONE demanding that we "get them out."

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

We can't afford cancer care for veterans, school lunches for kids or Meals on Wheels for seniors because Trump is spending: • $1 billion to retrofit a hand-me-down Qatari plane • $330,000,000 to play golf • $100,000,000 to build a new ballroom • $92,000,000 for a birthday parade But DOGE

Not going to lie it is a thrill to see my book on display at our wonderful bookstore. 🥰😎🙏🏼💕✍🏼

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

Medicare for All isn't radical. What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right. Don’t believe me? Listen to what these nurses have say:

Remaining an uncrushed human is a huge contribution to the eventual repair work we will all be undertaking

16 Democrats joined Republicans to advance crypto regulation that's been rubber stamped by the industry — as Trump profits off his own memecoin. Why? Crypto corporations have shelled out huge campaign contributions to both parties. Big Money has corrupted the system.

Caught Ocean Vuong on PBSnewshour :)