7 Letter Poem, 5-16-26 PANTHEON A paean to the pantheon, A heathen ape pope at the pen, Pent to tap a teapot o’ nepenthe. No hate, none! Anon, Potoo, peahen, Opt to tooth an oat penne, A pontoon to a nap, A phone to Pan, E’en an Eno tone tape, Hope open, one AE eon phaeton! Hone! Hop! Pop! Happen!

7 Letter Poem 5-15-2026 CAMPING I’m imagining camping again Pimping a Panana, a map, an amp, Gaming in a mining gap. Pan piping Pan, gimp miming, Impinging an imp, Managing a mangina pang, Nagging an aging gang! Naming Cain, aiming a cap, Caging a minging, gagging MAGA pig. Paging Agni!

I geek out on natural history. www.youtube.com/shorts/1bjIY...

7 Letter Poem 5-14-26 BOOKMOBILE I’m like emo Lomboko Eloi, I keel, I ebb, I lie ill in boil mill, Moil, bile blob, lobo kibble, oil bilk… BOOM! Bomb-like bookmobile! Belle biblio-biome! Mobile book loom, Belie lie! I’m OK, book kook!

The probability of this level of musical cohesion occurring by chance is negligible. His skill is…evident.

RICK RUBIN on why Hollywood keeps making soulless movies: "So many big movies are just not good because they're being made by people trying to make something they think someone else is going to like. That's not how art works. That's commerce."

The anniversary of the MOVE bombing. America attacking Black people in a city with brutal imperial force.

7 Letter Poem 5-12-26 NONCOMBATANT At noon, A baton, A cannon on a Conoco boat, A MOAB, An atom bomb, “Cotton!” At bottom, camo can’t coat a moon. A catacomb canto, a common tomb. Ant, banana, bat, boa, bonobo, cat, Coot, mamba, manta, mata-mata, Oat, tobacco: noncombatant. Man: combatant.

True, but just TRY to get something like this past the GOP.

Delia Derbyshire ought to be a lot more famous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NWC...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

The foundation of our democracy is burning to the ground. The conservative Roberts Court did not light the match, but it has repeatedly declared fire hydrants, sprinklers and smoke detectors illegal. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

This shows 2019 US wealth distribution and how the top 400 Americans have so much money that everyone else looks like ants. Abstract: asherdvirdjerassi.github.io/wealth_thres... Interactive chart: asherdvirdjerassi.github.io/wealth_thres...

Spelling Bee poem, 5-10-26 Deluxe POTUS Edition FONDLING Don Doof Dolf, ongoing gigolo, Golfing, gooning dog, Diddling dingdong, loin gong! Giggling, fondling, fiddling, Flooding lido in dong fog. Idling, ogling, goggling, flogging, Old gold digging loon, No good, no lion, dig? No fooling God.

Spelling Bee poem 5-9 MEGAHIT A Tahiti mage hit Miami. At a MAGA hate meet, Emet met, a meth megahit Hath met them, A hamate agate gat At Gath height. A game gamete, A tight heme ham thigh At a gait gate gam, A meat ate a meat. Egg, age, gita, egg, time gem; I image a theme: I image a them.

Spelling Bee poem 5-8 LOGICALLY Logically, I call a cool, icy glacial goal. Illogically, I lag, clog, lollygag. A lacy, yogic Gallic gal A gill, a gig, a lily, Collocal ally? Golly! I’ll go googly agog, lay logy, A gay glögg gala. Cyclically, I alloy a logical coil. Oil, coal, all illogical clay.

Thank you @justinjpearson.bsky.social

Your cult sucks. Our cult rules. We're immanentizing our eschatons every ding dong day and twice at full moon! Join the Illuminati, ya fuckin basic normie square! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eFd...

Druids out here looking for new converts. www.youtube.com/shorts/k-ZWN...

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Spelling Bee poem 5-7-26 IMMUNIZED Dime Zine, Mind Memed In Dunedin, Zuni denizen mended denim. Eden dude denuded, mime medium needed. Mummu demined! Minimum nine, nun deemed immunized. Midden mizzen, indeed! Ziz dined in dim zen mine.

In a world of creepfluencers, be a goonmaxxer.

One thing I have to say that's actually important: Governing is making decisions that will affect a whole society. Who pays, who gets paid, what allowed, what's not, who lives, who dies. That's all it is. Just making decisions. Politics is deciding who gets to decide. All else is commentary.

The man was never boring. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gt...

Journalists need to clearly and assertively put this in the context of Trump's attempts to replace democracy with autocracy. See: presswatchers.org/2026/05/jour...

Spelling Bee poem 5-6-36 VIRTUAL A La Traviata, Viva tu vult, ruat lava! A virtual vault, A rural Ural travail? A rat lair! Rail at all at trial, Tilt at a trivial rival, Till tall at a lit trail! Viva La Traviata!

Spelling Bee poem 5-5-26 ABUNDANCE A, B, C, D, E! Abundance? A bun dance! A dub cadence! Add a Canada cub, A Cuban cabana, And a nude banana. Need a bandana? Deuce, dude! Bed an undead babe, Daub an undead end!

When you get tired of exclaiming "Great Caesar's Ghost!" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_d...

I forgot that the first 20 minutes of Star Wars is essentially a gay couple on vacation bickering.

Spelling Bee poem 5-4-26 My shortest and probably worst so far. FLIGHTY Yiff, filthy gilf! Flighty hi fi titty tilt! Thy thigh fit giggly hilt! I highlight tight, figgy gift.

Electing Republican presidents is like tumbling down a long set of stairs until you your skill splits open. Sure, it's the bottom stair that kills you, but it could only have achieved that because of all the ones above it.

5-3 TURNCOAT A truant actor at court, to a rattan tattoo, A curt narc, annotator to an urn, Can’t count a Cantor attractant account. Turncoat! A runt toucan can croon a cant To nut, currant, or carrot, or, au courant, To court a cat to a tuna torta. Run, truant, run, cat, run, toucan, To Croatoan.