so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Jimmy Kimmel is a fellow heart dad whose son has had 3 open heart surgeries.

Andry & the 252 other men sent, without due process, to a torture prison in El Salvador feels like the epitome—the soul, moral center, & quintessence—of this administration. I will never forget it or him. Also, if you don’t know the definition of grace, now you do. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Thank goodness Andry is finally out of that hell, but this should have never happened in the 1st place. It only happened due to the sheer cruelty of this administration. He deserves an apology and more from our government!!

All 3 of us have shed tears the past couple weeks over our hero/ines passing on. Me, performance poet Andrea Gibson. Teen, Anne Burrell. Hubs, Ozzy Osbourne. These were all such unique individuals who embraced life & lived out loud with courage. Rest in power.

Perfection.

"Ideals are like stars. We never reach them, but like mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them." --The Solace of Stars

Venezuela says it will investigate El Salvador officials over alleged abuse of Cecot detainees deported from US | CNN share.google/o1xIdEPrMzg0...

Still missing, no one knows what happened to him, other than those who are deliberately trying to erase his existence. Free him immediately.

Devastating. I don't understand the callous cruelty. www.advocate.com/news/immigra...

I should start writing again. Yes. But

"When you remove a lot of old fish, & you know that the herring acts as a collective, then you actually remove the collective memory of the population” 🐟🐟🐟 Thinking of these beautiful fish & their collective acts of survival, hoping they can maintain their collective memory in spite of overfishing🐟🐟

Emotionally I’m somewhere between “let it go” and “write a 17-part essay about it”

Poets 🤝 autistic people - mourning the limits of language - dreaming of being fully understood - living a never ending quest for the right words, the right structure, the right images to get your message across

Being a mom these days is checking your phone until all your people are home and then putting said phone on "do not disturb" until next day.

Another man in that deported group sent to El Salvador prison who seems to be completely innocent of all crime--a musician, Arturo Trejo: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I have sincere doubts that all of the men they deported to that horrible place are in fact gang members or criminals.

Just a reminder that Kristi Noem shot a family goat and puppy in a fit of rage I don't have any confidence in her character

Can writ of habeus corpus be filed for Andry Romero? I read Venezuela and El Salvador don't have consular ties so Venezuela can't provide aid to its citizens there?? We shouldn't be deporting anyone to a nation that isn't their own IMHO!! Let alone to this meat grinder mega prison!!

Andry Hernández Romero: disappeared "four Democratic members of Congress went to El Salvador... they sought proof of life for Hernández Romero. They didn’t get it. “No one has actually heard about Andry at all since the abduction, including his lawyers and family” " www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/o...

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Why are masked men with no i.d. or warrant in hand allowed to snatch people off the street and take them away? That's kidnapping. Why can't they follow the law?

Submit public comment until May 19th on the harmful proposal to redefine the definition of "harm" in the Endangered Species Act: www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...

Our school district had to lay off a bunch of full time educators a week ago. 1 of them is my son's school librarian. He went to say he'd miss her & she started crying. We live in a privileged town in a wealthy county in a wealthy country Yet we can't afford a school librarian?

"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants." The best resistance piece I've read to date. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

My years of experience at this point with disability and education advocacy have taught me: Find common ground. See regular people as human. Demand respect and good faith actions. Encourage empathy on all sides. Make people see that your policy suggestions & ideas benefit the greater good.

I don't know how else to say this but our only hope is for regular people to stop fighting with each other. Focus on the powers that be. The left has such a problem with pettiness and infighting and arguing over particulars and words. Attacking and eating their own, making us not stand a chance.

Everything up for grabs, eh? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/c...

I wish to inform you that

There will always be a House of Brolta. No matter how deep hate digs its ever-spreading trenches. 🏳️‍⚧️ on.soundcloud.com/rLPxTMrBkpep...

Neurodivergent people are inherently worthy and deserving of care, dignity, and respect, no matter their perceived value to a capitalist dystopia.

But I guess most fundamentally, autistic people are simply people just like everyone else. It's a very diverse umbrella, we're all individuals and that includes autistic and non-autistic people RFK doesn't seem like a great individual.

Lol that RFK claims to know the love lives & poetic lives of autistic people When his own love life is no upstanding example When I doubt he knows much about poetry or writes it himself You have no idea how ND people love & write but so often it's greatly, Greatly

Hey RFK, you say autistic children are suffering? Consider that they suffer because of an ableist society that isn't built for them. You say many of them won't pay taxes? Consider initiatives for inclusive workplaces.

….and breathe 💕 #nature #photography

Early spring woodland flowers! Skunk cabbage, hepatica, spooky bog woods! Special shout-out to hubs, who tolerated me singing John Lennon and Chappelle Roan songs in a very lively way 🤣.

It's amazing how much line dancing class lifts my mood each week! So fun. I'm going to be lost over the summer, I think, when they're not having class.

An incredible thanks to Pigeon Publishing of Heidelberg, Germany, for publishing my poem on World Poetry Day in their special edition, "On Intimacy." You can read the full poem/hear my audio of it here: www.pigeonpublishing.de/poetry-speci...

I have to accept that at this point, all these life advice Internet pieces are written by people 20 yrs younger than me at least Hahah

I am doing something I learned early to do, I am paying attention to small beauties, whatever I have—as if it were our duty to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world. —Sharon Olds

"You never did put pen to paper for fear of ruining the perfectly white page of your life, so you left it blank." --Dylan O'Sullivan

I think I'm officially done with "X." I hung on as long as I could, longer than reasonable. My video autoplay was supposed to be off but the setting was changed. I can't unsee people being graphically murdered in Syria now. A video autoplayed of that & I just... I can't.

If you swear fealty to authoritarian rule, you (& our nation) will live on your knees. Nationalism and bluster will not make you free. It will make you a slave to the myth. Exactly what they want--false pride in a make believe story.

I am doing something I learned early to do, I am paying attention to small beauties, whatever I have—as if it were our duty to find things to love, to bind ourselves to this world. —Sharon Olds

"You never did put pen to paper for fear of ruining the perfectly white page of your life, so you left it blank." --Dylan O'Sullivan

"Summer comes, winter goes Spring, I skip, God knows Summer comes, winter goes Spring, I sleep, Heaven knows" --Lana del Rey

I hope MAGA realizes that 30% of the federal workforce are veterans. Federal government is the largest employer of veterans in our nation. They bang on about taking care of our veterans, yet cheer as they're losing their jobs or being threatened with firing.