Privatizing prisons and detention facilities is one of the worst public policy decisions this country has ever made. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Time for all the rest of us non-Maga to decide how to celebrate the 4th of July this year in a meaningful way.

ICE Delaney Hall center — Trump flags can be clearly seen behind the police officers when they should without the shadow of a doubt be removed and trashed.

This should bring down the government. Like, this afternoon.

An indelible image from outside Delaney Hall last night. (📸 by Dean Moses) www.amny.com/news/delaney...

Honored to have this #senryu make the latest installment of Haiku Dialogue, with the theme of Intoxication - Sports. Thanks so much to Guest Editor Deborah Karl-Brandt, and congratulations to all featured poets. Jill, this one is for you 💕 thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...

Li-Young Lee, “One Heart” Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, open at either end of day. The work of wings was always freedom, fastening one heart to every falling thing.

#poetry #writesky #poem #poetsofbluesky

‘What is love but the mother of the god gene?’ A poem inspired by #WallaceStevens for TopTweetTuesday on Twitter. #love #muse #touch #lovers #modernism #americanpoetry #poetry

I listen to sounds in shells a snapshot of the wider sea a drop, the ocean #NaTankaMo #MayTanka #tanka #TankaPoem #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #5lines

These facilities MUST be shutdown, ICE continues to act without any oversight. Not even government officials can reign them in, this is why we must ABOLISH ICE Credits: @hereswhykevin

#HaikuSaturday #haiku 5/7/5: lettuce sprouts are tucked in a blanket of dead leaves-- autumn's gift to spring short form: bluebell shoots stir under decomposing beech leaves-- sun-drawn monoku: dead maple leaves on greening grass autumn's bones Please add a version if y'd like.

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Still dangerously unhinged, but now also super stale and boring 🥱

youtube.com/shorts/6RHPb... Spot on, as usual.

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

Something helpful that we can all consider #USDemocracy

Librarians literally saved my life

If black children have the strength to deal with how they are treated by white people; than white children need to read the truth.

This. We can no longer rely on the data. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

Nina Simone

Check out the California Sea lions sunning themselves in Noyo River at Noyo Center for Marine Science live cam. 💙 Go to: www.noyocenter.org See Live Cams at top of opening page. #livecam #sealions #fortbraggca

I am a nyc teacher and would love baseball hats for my students to autograph in June as a fourth grade memorabilia. Please repost. Thanks www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

🚨 Trump’s new National Counterterrorism Strategy identifies the “left-wing” and “anti-Fascists” as terrorist threats equivalent to jihadi groups like al Qaeda and ISIS. This follows the recent federal terrorism conviction of nine anti-ICE protesters in TX www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

This is why I find this regime so abhorrent. The world's richest country is killing the world's poorest children. This is a gift article and well worth the read--though the truth is ugly. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

Experts warn that Trump’s destruction of the country’s data infrastructure will have lasting impacts on all aspects of life – whether it’s the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to extreme weather, (cont.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...?

For months, Trump has said his ballroom was courtesy of patriotic private donors.🙄 Now, Sen. Grassley has released a funding bill that includes $1 billion earmarked for security improvements accompanying the overall ballroom project. Call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 Say NO !

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

Minnesota charged white supremacist Jake Lang with felony property damage after he vandalized a “Prosecute ICE” sculpture at the state Capitol. It’s a state case, so no presidential pardon is coming to bail him out this time.

Trump tore down nearly half the White House, without approval, then told you this ballroom would not cost any taxpayer money. Now, Republicans are requesting $1 Billion of your money for security features related to it. #ballroominflation https://bit.ly/4tdZaAg

And we are open to submissions for the month of May! Come join our incredible authors at River River. Full guidelines below, @duotrope.com / @duosuma.com 🌊 🌊 📚 duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...

carolina wren returned today and i thought of you, gone three turns almost #poetry #grief #death

I was led to believe that nationwide injunctions were beyond the scope of the judiciary and therefore bad

Wow, #deanblundell is full of breaking news today! BEAKING: The Trump DOJ Filed a Truth Social Post in Federal Court Demanding The US Taxpayers Pay for Trump's Ballroom, Citing "TDS." open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Republicans in Congress are now proposing legislation to use $400 million of taxpayer money to fund Trump's ballroom. With a nation in financial turmoil, there are countless programs to fund other than a dictator's vanity project. Call your reps. 🔥📞🔥 5calls.org/issue/white-...

Thanks for the reminder. 🙄😡 What are we doing about it? Trump says Sat. night's attack "proves it's necessary," but the National Trust is fighting back with all they've got. One very useful thing you could do is send them a contribution. thehill.com/regulation/c...

Paris urban biking investment helps cut pollution in half: “Between 2005 and 2024, levels of nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter — 2 of the most harmful pollutants to human health — have been slashed by 50% and 55%, respectively.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/paris-proves...

Hi @janpsolivagant.bsky.social Jan. Here my first response to your blazing #promptcombo #TotemTree:

A real honour to be a small part of the wonderful lineup for this great #live event organised by the brilliant @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Do try to make it if you can - and even if you can’t, please download the #UnwhisperedLegacy PDF and make a contribution to MSF #poetrycommunity #poetryislife

BIG MOTHER JONES SCOOP: There are lots of unresolved health and environmental concerns with glyphosate (a.k.a. Roundup), yet the government keeps letting farmers, companies, and public agencies spray it all over—including, as we recently learned, in America’s forests.

not to be pinned down fuscia follows her own path wild and uncontained #haikufeels #haiku #fuscia #flowers #blooms #poetry #bloomscrolling #photography

What a shitshow.

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

Trump’s morning posts: — Let’s kill Iranians who don’t want a deal — I’m ordering the Navy to shoot any boat putting mines in the Strait — We actually have full control over the Strait — I don’t need a deal

Congress is about to vote on renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Originally meant to monitor foreigners overseas, it’s been abused to surveil Americans. This is a chance to finally protect Americans’ privacy. bit.ly/4tASUmW