from the one that used to be better & had a blue bird

It turns out that preventing a flesh-eating parasite from spreading across the continent was, in fact, NOT waste, fraud, and abuse. This is the problem with indiscriminate cuts. Some programs exist because they solve real problems before they become expensive crises.

Grunewald forest, Berlin

Judge orders Kennedy Center to remove Trump’s name from building - The Washington Post

tinyseedjournal.com/2026/04/28/y... Thanks Tiny Seed

Does anyone have the magic spell for finding lost rings?

Growingly increasingly bitter that here at end of term, instead of reading student stories, I must prepare remarks for a college panel on whether & how to teach with Anthropic, w/ which my college contracted without faculty consultation. This isn’t a “debate”; they robbed me & my friends. So, no.

Am watching the full moon be eclipsed. Will it really look red? Stay tuned..

Trump is selling out our kids’ future so his fossil fuel billionaire friends can get even richer. The science is clear. Climate change is an existential threat to the planet. We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into sustainable energies.

Thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, Amazon saw its corporate income taxes shrink by more than HALF last year, even as its profits climbed. But instead of investing the savings into their workforce, Amazon just announced thousands of layoffs and plans to spend $200B on AI. Textbook corporate greed.

"Able to morph; adapt. Can I be the cloud?" #TodaysPoem #poetry Head in the Clouds by Marjorie Moorhead (@skybluepoems.bsky.social) (2022 Amethyst Review) amethystmagazine.org/2022/08/19/h...

think of all the college students who were disciplined or expelled for protesting genocide

Fox News is citing outdated polls to argue that Americans are in broad support of the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies, even though Trump’s immigration approval numbers are rapidly tanking.

Someone could make a business of taking people's phones and computers and disabling every "Ai" feature and making it so they can't be re-enabled without explicit permission and confirmation. I would pay for that service.

Tell it, Bernie

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged economic system. To counter Trump’s fake populism and his culture wars, progressives should mount a real battle against economic elites who have shafted America’s middle and working classes.

..that warm, happy feeling when you’ve written a poem 😁😁😁

Reminder: ICE has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world. It has increased its spending on weapons by 700% since Trump took office. Trump is building his own personal military to terrorize American cities, trample on civil rights, and intimidate his opponents.

Wordle in three. Yes I still play. Happy new year all 💫💚

My walk today, Dec 1, World AIDS Day.

So glad this is recorded & on YouTube to watch. BK puts it succinctly when he says “poetry and prayer are similar acts”, and talks about ars poetica. Happy to hear the newer poems as well as the ones from books. Love that there’s time for discussion after the reading. THANK YOU!

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

I’m starting to get the sense that it was a bad idea to put a deeply insecure, sexual assaulting Fox News host with a drinking problem and a crusader tattoo who said he was into war crimes in charge of the military.

It’s clear that the primary interest of the US in “peace negotiations” is to create opportunities for Trump, Witkoff, their family members, business partners and cronies to make billions from business deals with Russia, and Ukraine is just the annoying nuisance in the way.

“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”

Harvard gets its research funding back through defiance and lawsuits.

Meaning every vote would finally come down to accountability, not automatic party-line rubber-stamping. Please vote and spread the word. Flipping this seat won’t be easy.

My first chapbook, photographed in Panama! So cool to see one’s books out&about in the world 😎💕✍🏼

It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.

Wow poet Patricia Smith rocks it at Smith College poetry center this evening. Way to amaze , and keep it real 💕 So grateful for the live-streaming!!!

NEW: Last night, a federal judge issued a permanent block on the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon. This is a win for the rule of law. No troops on our streets – anywhere.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

It was a good evening of poetry sharing & discussion.

Mañana!

Six month pub bday for Into the Thrum 🥳✍🏼💕

Time for simply a nice picture of autumn

Pinch me

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! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💚