The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Eating after a colonoscopy feels like walking on a just-mopped floor: I know I have to, but it’s so clean!

IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE

There is an incredibly long and growing list of eventual graves I want to piss on.

@durbin.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov if you’re a leader, even if you think you’re going to lose, you have to fight so the people you’re leading see you fight. No on cloture. No on the CR.

I hope you suffer an incurable, fiery genital rash for the rest of your days, you traitorous bag of dried turds. You are a less than worthless thing. Total appeasing garbage.

The Dem party is not for us, not for the people. They are center-right at best.

Louise Glück, from “October,” in Averno.

Always lots to learn…

“And then we are going to share some fun recipes for Super Bowl Sunday, and after that, I might take a nap.”

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

When it’s -2F in the morning, the only blooms are inside. 🌱 #zone5b #illinoisgardening #midwesterngardening #damnitiscold

It’ll be some time before I need you again, gardenhat. This is just about the only sunshine you’ll see. 🌱

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57937/... “with nobody listening we are saying thank you thank you we are saying and waving dark though it is” 💙 📚 #poetry #wsmerwin

Chuck Schumer sends the Dems to the locker room with time on the clock. Senate Democrats drop 4 appeals court picks so they can confirm 12 judges

One from the vault for beersky. 🍻 #bourbonbarrelaged #BCBS

I was lucky enough to take a few classes with Reginald Shepherd when he taught at Northern Illinois University. Man, he was good. Anyway, I’m glad for this book.

"Then you hold life like a face…”

94 allium bulbs planted, leaves collected into the bin to make leaf mold…November gardening in zone 5b 🌱🍂 #illinoisgardening #zone5b

I live in the stupidest country, at its stupidest time.