Wow www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

Todd Blanche must NOT be approved as Attorney General He should be sanctioned and permanently disbarred for his cover-up of the Epstein Files and for attempting to STEAL $10 BILLION FROM AMERICAN TAXPAYERS to settle a lawsuit for Trump against his own IRS AND for granting Maxwell a transfer.

Poetry and prose readings at Shelburne Falls Porch Fest Sunday! I'll be reading from my upcoming book, No Edges on a Sphere. www.shelburnefalls.com/porchfest

@rbreich.bsky.social 's video comparing the grievances of the Declaration of Independence to today is eerie, inspiring, and unfortunately spot on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLoR...

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published Oct. 2025)

My favorite Hockney (RIP) is of one of my old haunts...

David Hockney : Nichols Canyon, 1980 acrylic on canvas 84 x 60 inches | 213.4 x 152.4 cm The painting captures the winding roads and hilly landscape of Nichols Canyon in Los Angeles. Further description in the alt text 👇

Our anthology won the 2026 AMERICAN LEGACY BOOK AWARD in the Poetry Anthology Category! 🎉 🙌🙌🙌 to every poet in our anthology; and my amazing co-editors @aicassinetto Aileen Cassinetto and @dhassle1 David Hassler!!! ❤️

and if all else fails, get a printer and some thumb tacks

I'm looking for blurbers and reviewers for my new poetry collection. Suggestions welcome.

Gilead's Colonies + Tuskegee experiments. The sickness starts at the top and infects down.

“levels have been *at least* 575,000 times higher than the limit.”

Michael Torres’s Ars Poetica is uneasy with itself to begin with. It frames poetry as something constructed, strategic, & compromised Later, though his daughter's image, he rediscovers revelation, inspiration and purity I love the images & line breaks #Poetry #Poemoftheday #Nationalpoetrymonth

Environmental groups have sued to stop BP from starting a new drilling project in ultra-deep waters in the Gulf of Mexico. BP was responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, this project is in even deeper water, the technology is new, and the emergency plan is the same as 16 years ago.

NatureCulture®'s Lis McLoughlin introduces On Resilience: Stories of Climate Adaptation Across Washington's Landscapes, a new poetry anthology. https://www.terrain.org/2026/currents/learning-resilience/ #anthology #poetry #ecpoetry #washington #land

Procrastinators! Today's the day! Don't give money to an illegitimate government! Redirect your federal taxes to your state. All together now. #wartaxresisters #taxday #peace

A reading of Sara Teasdale's poem, 'Spring in War-Time,' written in the U.S. during the First World War. I'll also include the text of the poem in the comments. When sharing audio poems, tag #PoemsAloud to help people find them. The art is Camille Pissarro's 'Kitchen Garden, Trees in Flower, 1877'

NEW: Raskin, w/ 50 House Dem co-sponsors, formally introduces a bill which would create a commission to assess Trump's fitness for office under the 25th Amendment. Bill text here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Story TK

Climate change in a nutshell

what protest song rocks your world? this one today, for me youtu.be/F7PxnT5_P5k?...

Sam, please take some time in the deep forest. Lay down. Feel the earth.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with concentration camps and ethic cleansing.

Digital nomadism is the future. We'll carry who we are on our backs and when conditions change we'll move on.

You can use our new database to explore the financial disclosures — and potential conflicts of interest — of President Donald Trump and more than 1,500 of his appointees. Here's what Trump budget chief Russell Vought has disclosed:

I just did this survey. TW for Buddhists: lots of comparing mind! What is more beautiful? ALL OF IT!

good morning amerikkka prisonfreefunds.org/funds?dsc=fa...

next Trump please

🚨 BREAKING: A GOP-controlled House committee votes to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about her role in the DOJ’s release of the Epstein Files. The committee voted 24-19, with five Republicans joining Democrats voting in favor. https://bit.ly/4d1GRd6

Now do Trump.

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

DO NOT LET ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS WALK AROUND THINKING THEIR CONSTITUENTS DON’T CARE

What's the "affordability" of this war, too? costsofwar.watson.brown.edu

what's the "affordability" of this war?

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

From The Essential W.S. Merwin. #poem #books #writing

Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

Check your retirement/investments to be sure you aren't inadvertently funding private prisons/concentration camps with this database from nonprofit As You Sow: prisonfreefunds.org

According to Newsweek Reporters Dan Gooding & Billal Rahman, ICE Homeland Security Investigations officers shot & killed 23-year-old Ruben Martinez in South Padre Island, Texas on March 15, 2025. ICE/HSI refused to publicly admit their involvement in his death.

the best course of action, of course, is often to "delete and recreate the environment."

There’s no President Barack Obama without Jesse Jackson. It just doesn’t happen.

we lost a great today

live! monks pilgrimage arrives in DC youtu.be/HPHDyZlMqe0?...

A fun way to announce you’ve never been on a train.

New York City: The time has arrived. Finally, a chance to tell the city EXACTLY what your landlord’s been getting away with. NYC’s first Rental Ripoff Hearings are happening in all five boroughs, and we want to hear from you. Real New Yorkers. Real stories. Real policy changes. 

Don't ask me if this came through my literary feed or my speaking truth to power feed.

This is a really incredible episode of @revealnews.org, in part bc reporters @artiscuriskis.bsky.social and Nate Halverson are MN natives. Esp love the postal carrier perspective on what has happened to people on his route revealnews.org/podcast/minn...

Check your retirement/investments to be sure you aren't inadvertently funding private prisons/concentration camps with this database from nonprofit As You Sow: prisonfreefunds.org