It had been a while...

Visited the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz/Birkenau in Poland yesterday and I've come to tell you that we in the US are well on our way to recreating this at "Alligator Alcatraz," etc. unless we stop and reverse course at once. "Never again" means not even once again.

Visited the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz/Birkenau in Poland yesterday and I've come to tell you that we in the US are well on our way to recreating this at "Alligator Alcatraz," etc. unless we stop and reverse course at once. "Never again" means not even once again.

Yay!

O illegitimate construction!

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

My kind of used bookstore.

Excellent poetry reading at the Pratt Street Ale House in Baltimore on March 6th with readers from @brackenmagazine.bsky.social and Passager.

This is excellent by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Another anti-Jewish hate crime, this time in the Netherlands.

It's not just the US that's having trouble getting their citizens safely home from the debacle that Trump and Netanyahu have unleashed on the Middle East.

We bombed them. To do what? So we can bomb them. To do what? To facilitate strikes. To do what? To enable kinetic operations. To do what? To shape the battlefield. To do what? So we can bomb them.

A painting that was a Rembrandt, then wasn't, and now again is a Rembrandt, goes back on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

They are too polite to say it this way, but Norway is a "hell no!" to Trump's shakedown, the so-called Board of Peace of authoritarian nations.

Shopkeeper in the Highlandtown neighborhood of Baltimore facing off against ICE and possibly other masked criminals.

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social What am I missing that "concomitant" is not accepted today by our beloved Spelling Bee?

I'm happy to report that...

Karma bit a right wing Colombian congresswoman, a Trump supporter, when her 22-year old son in the US legally was snatched by ICE. Now she's pleading for his release.

In the Netherlands, a very different approach to immigration and to the status of resident foreigners. The polar opposite, in fact, of the Trump administration's cruel anti-immigrant position.

This is how it's done, @govwesmoore.bsky.social. Marylanders want this. No concentration camps in Hagerstown or anywhere else in MD. We're counting on you.

Trump is destroying everything, even our alliances with our oldest partners.

Look, Maryland and @govwesmoore.bsky.social. It can be done. Do it. Ban ICE "detention centers" (concentration camps) in Maryland.

Again so soon?!

I was due...

@govwesmoore.bsky.social's principled opposition to an ICE "facility" (concentration camp) in Hagerstown, MD might have something to do with being disinvited.

Many of us want to retaliate. This Bruce Cockburn song says it well. But we don't because it's wrong and people get hurt. And it hurts our righteous cause. Let's be the good guys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Lz...

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

The "soccer moms" becoming "wine moms" tells you a great deal about how dire the situation in the US is right now.

The Dutch got a copy of Trump's crazy letter too. www.dutchnews.nl/2026/01/dutc...

From the Canaries to the Caribbean by sail in just under 5 days. Amazing! rorctransatlantic.rorc.org/argos-record...

Which Democratic leaders will stand up and say this clearly and loudly and repeatedly? Yes, it's hard to do, but your constituents and Americans generally will reward you for it. Do it. You'll feel better.

Vigil for Renee Good, Baltimore, McKeldin Plaza

Ehem...

My first Queen Bee of 2026!

Be merry, be merry.

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

Slop vs reality

I was due.

Two of our giants of poetry--Charles Wright & Mark Strand,conferring in,& toasting,the late light. Masters of the line,masters of the image--(& if Merwin & Simic had been there that Oct 9,2014,you'd basically have the corner on the"deep image"in the mid 20th C).We miss Mark, gone 11 years. Read him.

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

"Let me tell you about the time I hit for the encyclical."

beautifully said

Seems likely to backfire as Kelly is widely admired and respected both professionally and for standing by his wife when she was horribly injured in an assassination attempt. Also, can we drown the Dept of War in the Gulf of America?

While Trump reverses US climate initiatives, the world moves on without us. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/neth...

Well, OK!

The Dutch aren't putting up with the Trump administration's anti-DEI crusade. www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/mayo...

👏👏👏

A National Votes for Women Trail plaque in front of the former Women's Industrial Exchange Building on N. Charles St in Baltimore. The NVWT "seeks to recognize and celebrate the enormous diversity of people and groups active in the struggle for women’s suffrage."