Oh look! Boris Badinov and Natasha Fatale join the aptly monikered Christoper Cocksworth, Dean of Windsor-Lick-and-Spittle, in the culture-laundering of embryonic fascism, full-grown viciousness, and gross malfeasance via a British Royal Family Dysfunction.

TOMORROW: One month out from our next nationwide day of defiance, we’re kicking things off with thousands of activists across the country. Join us, our partners, and this great lineup of guests to learn everything you need to know about October 18: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

"Congress shall make no #law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." #speech #freedom

Our little blue dolphin pool thermometer is now a cetacean out of water. Pool drained and covered. Fall cometh. Sadness. #autumn #signsoffall #omen

You’ve put over 1,000 events on the No Kings Day map in under a week. Find your local peaceful protest, start a new event, and find everything you need to know about the next nationwide day of defiance on October 18: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Class, democracy, false consciousness, mauvaise foi.

It’s almost like there’s a pattern we should watch for more carefully.

At prayer. (From the Old English dative case: on fire; afire; at school; abed; at rest...) Late afternoon reflected sun. #monk #Thai #red

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

"Dictionary Johnson" defines pseudo-, crypto-, fascistical-jingoism.

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When sweet autumn clematis (Clematis paniculata) starts to bloom, you know fall is on its way. The honeybees (and some native solitary bees) know it, too. They're out in force today. If you look closely, you can see how full their pollen baskets are—the little white lumps on their hind legs.

Watch out, folks! Our Dear Leader, Der Fürhrer Don-Adolf Trumpf, is planning to occupy AmeriKKKa with the largest militia in the world. Listen below. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/o...

Iowa Leads The Way statuskuo.substack.com/p/iowa-leads...

A very strong & powerful resignation letter from Dr. Daskalakis calling out RFK jr. “I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.”

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚

🚨 Wolves Need Your Voice! Congress is considering harmful riders in the upcoming Interior appropriations bill that would strip protections for gray wolves in 44 states and weaken the ESA. 📢 Take action to protect wolves and endangered species: engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocac...

"The Democrat Party is a domestic extremist organization," Stephen Miller claims in a FoxNews rant. Is he prepping a Fuhrer Trumpf decree banning the party? The 2026 elections are in peril, folks! @indivisible.org @democracynow.org @housedemocrats.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEe6...

Lovely poem from Jesse Nathan's first book, "Eggtooth." It achieves real lift-off, which is very hard on so short a runway. @unboundedition.bsky.social @aestallings.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social

Hey Russia, if you are listening.....

@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...

"The [last] week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat." — with apologies to "Tuck Everlasting." Sunset over Northport. At one of the highest points in our village.

Tumble-down stone wall and twisted old trunks of Parthenocissus tricuspidata, aka Boston ivy (though it's native to central China and Japan). Kykuit on the Hudson.

Danger Will Robinson! Danger! Creeping Putinization. Toxic Kremlin fungus. Our metamorphosis from America to AmeriKKKa is happening faster than any thought possible. #dictatorship #declineandfall #Trump #Putin #ICE #corruption #kleptocracy

Excited to get my copy of poet Richard Siken's third book, "I Do Know Some Things," which depicts his experience of a stroke & family trauma with stunning brio. His prose poems are like tornados in a bureau drawer à la Emily D. Open at your own risk. @dchiasso.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social

Trump administration petitioned the Supreme Court to halt a federal judge’s ruling that restricts immigration agents from conducting broad, suspicion-less stops in the Los Angeles region.

Suffering from trowel envy. "Compare and despair!" as they say in 12-step programs. #gardener #horticulture #digging #sculptures #outsized #gigantism #sizematters

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

“I would put the Epstein files as one of the most recent, but biggest breakthrough moments we’ve had with a population that largely doesn’t pay attention to politics — and these are people who we desperately need involved.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social with @jenpsaki.msnbc.com

Poet and philosopher María Zambrano believed thought should have rhythm, not just logic. She called poetry “the secret of time.” Exiled by Franco’s regime, she kept the flame of Spanish thought alive in silence and solitude. #BookWormSat

Please repost! Resist el Trumpismo! Resist fascism! Think you'll be safe? Think again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7SO...

Of course they are. Speaker Mike Johnson is planning to shut the House down early for summer recess, just to block an effort that would force a vote on releasing the Epstein investigation files. Because shielding Trump’s secrets matters more to them than doing their jobs.

NSF staff say over 1,600 research grants, including climate, DEI, and public health projects, were canceled under Trump. Peer review has been replaced by partisan screening, with decisions now made by DOGE.

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I felt a catch in my throat when I saw all these little USPS vans, parked like docile cattle in the noiseless shed of a summer Sunday, resting calmly, ticking a bit in the extreme heat but otherwise unaware of their vulnerability to what... time? ... decay? ...the imminent collapse of the old order?

From @theatlantic.com's takedown of Chief Justice Roberts, #SCOTUS & the concocted unitary executive "theory," which is not rooted in the Constitution's text, the Founders' intentions, or the history of the Republic. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... #authoritarian #wetdreams

Worth a read.

Pleased to announce another poem, "Neither Here Nor There"— also from my book-length collection of poems, "Wissahickon Formation"—has just appeared. This time, in the July-August issue of The Gay & Lesbian Review. @macdowell1907.bsky.social @vermontstudioctr.bsky.social @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social

Who made this? 🤣🤣

“Would you appoint a Special Counsel to investigate the Jeffrey Epstein investigation?” “I have nothing to do with it.” Yeah, that’s a *pretty* weird answer to the question that was asked.

🇺🇸 The mall is open , however ~ No one's shopping. Karma . He is coo coo for cocoa cocoa puffs ‼️ #47NeedsToGo ‼️

Happy to announce the publication of "Republic of Sloth," one of the poems in my book-length m.s., "Wissahickon Formation," in The Orchards Poetry Journal: Summer 2025. #poetry #housepoem #gaylove #love #dreamvote

When what's ancient is new and all too relevant again. From Stephanie Burt's wonderful "translation/modernization" of Callimachus.

The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for what could be the most aggressive federal intervention in election administration in modern history.

NEXT THURSDAY: People all across the country will gather together in honor of the late Rep. John Lewis to participate in the Good Trouble Lives On National Day of Action. In the face of an authoritarian takeover, it’s more important than ever that we stand up, speak out, and make some good trouble.

"California Dreamin' on..." a day after the Fourth of July. #fireworks #JulyFourth #warning #california #dreaming #stormclouds #grass #fields #quiet

Manhasset Bay several sunsets ago. (Great Gatsby country). #sunsets #Manhassetbay #embers #endings #beginnings

Just as a reminder to #SCOTUS & #InJustice Amy Coney-Rabbit about the "original" & "textual" foundation of birthright citizenship. Funny how those phony bedrock principles of rightwing judicial "interpretation" vanish when the radical Federalist majority doesn't like what the text actually says.

From the reading last night at The Next Chapter, a bookstore in the Village of Huntington, where I was the featured reader. (I read from my poetry m.s. "Wissahickon Formation.") Pictured below, friends Sarah A., Mary C. and David C.

Trump hasn't put U.S. troops in Iran but HAS has put U.S. troops in California. He insists immigration violations & drug dealing by a criminal gang constitute war but that bombing Iran doesn't. Fake emergencies & war claims are a #dictator's tools to usurp power. #sociopath #chaos #liar #lies