Wonderful Portuguese cows, near the site the Cromeleque na Herdade dos Almendres, one of the oldest megalithic sites in Europe circa 6,000 B.C., in the Early Neolithic. (Photo taken on January 2, 2025.) #cows #magic #megaliths #Portugal #cromlech #travel

From Amy Clampitt's "What The Light Was Like." #cats #interiors #catpoems #gardens

The Waterfall," by Amy Clampitt... from her book, "Archaic Figure," 1987. But it could have been written yesterday or a minute ago or will be... next year. #amyclampitt #poetry #enduring #ephemeral

Afternoon narcissus. #daffodils #April #spring #lightslant #beauty #flowerporn

And so it was written. #sentences #Zeno #architecture #poems #prose

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

Questions for American VP J.D. Vance. #morality #PopeLeo #Pope #justwar #war #Iran #stayinyourlane #unitedstates #america #vatican #theology

Even in the late afternoon and past its prime, the star magnolia is still gorgeous. "Death is the mother of beauty." — Wallace Stevens #flowers #stars #magnolia #beauty #belatedness #endings

New: ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

Support for Abolishing ICE Hits Record High in New Poll | Truthout truthout.org/articles/sup...

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English poet, Edward Thomas. 1916 Friend of Robert Frost. #smallthings #weeds #nettles #farmlife #bigthemesinlittlespaces

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"If you give a chimp a #crystal, she might not return it. Researchers gave quartz, calcite & other crystals to captive #chimps. They were very interested & the researchers had to trade #bananas & #yogurt to get the largest crystals back. Others never turned up." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...

Just collateral damage, bub? #LIES #HYPOCRISY #GUILTY #IRAN #SCHOOLS #GIRLS #MIGRANTCHILDREN

#War as #distraction from #domestic woes. Zero case made for Iran attack. No public debate or discussion. No congressional authorization. Sham and shame. #Trumpstein @mark.fornes @npr @wnyc @maddowmaddow @onthemedia @lawrence_odonnell @micah_loewinger @ezraklein @chrislhayes

Adapted from a dictum of Teresa de Lauretis, coiner (and critic) of "queer theory," as found in her NYTimes obit: www.nytimes.com/.../teresa-d... #poems #poets #poetry #queerness #difference #topography #mentalgeography #beyondcategory

The Blob That Ate Trader Joe's. February 18. #berg #pile #creature #mountain #monster @traderjoesss.bsky.social @traderjoesunited.bsky.social

Read—and hear—my latest poem under the sun. In Issue 44 of "Radar Poetry." www.radarpoetry.com/world-class-... Many thanks to Rachel Marie Patterson & Dara-Lyn Shrager #poetry #villagemuse #locality #placepoem #summer

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On my moody mood board tonight. (from the Cathedral of St. Andrew, Amalfi, Italia. October 2025.) #grumpysaintly #seentoomuch #hopedtoolong

An Irish man held by ICE for five months despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

The miraculous floating Christ in the Cathedral of Saint Andrew. Amalfi, Italia. October 2025. #jesuschrist #crucifix #miracle #amalfi #saintandrew #basilica

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Authoritarian regimes make you feel like shit because they will never admit they’re losing. But Trump is losing — and it’s because of the organizing work you’re doing.

From @deanbrowne.bsky.social's wonderful debut, "After Party." @picadorbooks.bsky.social #Irish #Irishpoetry #donegal #gametheory #wizarding

Dachshund sweater. Isle of Capri. Fall 2025. #dogs #dachsund #sweaters #dogfashion #fashionisto

“How many times, then, will Western journalists allow themselves to be fooled by Israeli propaganda – by military denials that later collapse under the weight of evidence?”

"Hands of Marionette Player," 1929 Italian-American-Mexican photographer, Tina Modotti. #modotti #hands #photographer #photography #marionettes #puppets #work #artistry

A street portrait by the amazing Vivian Maier, an astoundingly gifted photographer unknown until after her death in 2009. This photograph was taken in Chicago on May 16, 1957. In a bus or train waiting room perhaps? #streetscape #photography #character #empathy #personality #textures #composition

Leather goods and footwear accessories. Street scene in Naples. October 2026 #Italy #Napoli #streetscape #hair #men

Right now, it seems a good moment to recall the famous last stanza of Sir Richard Lovelace's poem, "To Althea: From Prison." Lovelace may have been a royalist, but his poem speaks to the a spirit of defiance in all those who oppose tyranny and injustice, whether crowned or empty-headed.

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So glad to see one of my favorite poets, Karen Solie, the ambitious and gifted Canadian poet, has just won a big award: www.theguardian.com/.../karen-so.... Not enough of my American poet friends have read her work. #poets #Canada @bdralyuk.bsky.social

Late night at the Eagle. Bondage, sweet bondage. Oh San Pantaleaõ, my pantless saint! Martyrdom has never seemed so calm, so sweet. Even Modesty's rumpled napkin is decorous, symmetrical, replete. #martyrdom #sweet #bondage

#Greenland #Healthcare

Mad King Donald's letter to the Prime Minister of Norway. It should be EXHIBIT #1 in removal of a mentally incompetent President under the 25th Amendment. EXHBIT #2 King Don's punishment of American consumers by instituting new tariffs (sales taxes we pay) on the products from Europe we want.

@indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @maddowblog.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @democracyforward.org @democracynow.org

A lonely Perrone in Naples. October. #napoli #birra #shadows #autumnal

#Chaos #Dementia #Madness #Trump

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As #Trump threatens today to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy U.S. troops in #Minnesota (after having provoked civil unrest by surging 3,000 #ICE agents to that state), it would be a good idea to educate ourselves about this dangerously vague legislation. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

#Trump's claim to be the "Acting President of Venezuela"—and his plan to steal its oil & sequester oil revenue in a private bank account—grossly violates the foreign #emoluments clause of our #constitution. @maddow.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @warren.senate.gov

It was never about the drugs.

Greenland strikes back! "To tear the foul spirit from our coast..." #trump #greenland #Imperialism #militarism #folly

One key difference... #Germany #Amerikkka #Adolf #Trump

Monument to Charles Turner Torrey at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. A Yale graduate and abolitionist, Torrey went to Baltimore to help enslaved people escape. He was stalked by the police, captured, convicted, and died in prison in 1846. One of the few white abolitionists John Brown respected