finally some feel-good news

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

i’ve become a salad on top of pizza guy who also eats salad with a spoon

I got very choked up in class today showing my students what James Baldwin had to say about Shakespeare: “the greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. he could have done this only through love…”

i’ve never seen so many heroes in one place at one time before

Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries. Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood? FUCK ICE forever and ever.

man i wish the communist agitator, helen keller, was leading the pitiful democratic party! they should be so blessed

Just shared this one Facebook, because I had to get the words out. Sharing here in case its in any way useful to you.

if this bitch gets greenland for real istg

personally pretty sick of being ruled by the dumbest people in the universe, but if anyone from france asks: it’s going great, mon ami! hon hon hon!

me (bursting open my apartment window like ebenezer scrooge): you there, boy! did it happen? boy (gloomily): no sir

This paragraph explains a lot of what's happening right now.

The stink of cooked flesh rises from Davos. The Cannibal’s Feast has begun!

“we’re all thinking the thing we cannot say, waiting for catharsis that’s also just as likely never to arrive. my version came to me in between dreams. an image: the president appearing in the exit hatch of air force one.”

okay brooke, do it

there's no answer to the question 'what's it gonna take?' but that doesn't stop it from popping into my head every goddamn time I look at the news

can of baked beans is $2.50 5lb bag of russets is $7 block of cheese is $4 small volume of sour cream could maybe squeak under the limit. now i can eat baked beans and potatoes forever

getting in on the “this sucks!” train early

thanks for your input!

incredibly easy. now let’s make it a plate of spaghetti every mile.

...I made this 7-video series on poetry in times of crisis + a workbook with writing prompts, example poems, and more. Could work as an independent study, or supplement to other ELA lessons. It says $20, but it's FREE for anyone who fills out the form for scholarship access: guante.info/anthemic

Who are the Venezuelan immigrants Trump sent to CECOT? Last July, we published a first-of-its-kind, case-by-case accounting of 238 Venezuelan men who were held in El Salvador. These are their stories.

among every other lesson we should be learning right now, seems like there should be a new international norm concerning how far one country’s military spending is allowed to outpace everyone else’s

gonna check out the discover feed for the first time ever brb

idk if this is real or not but I need to believe that it is

americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys

My favorite speech by MLK, and possibly his greatest.

can't like all these great posts fast enough, you guys

i was unaware of this specific detail, so i went and found an article about it, and now we can all learn together: lithub.com/how-bayard-r...

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

drag these pharisee motherfuckers

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

otoh, pretty clear that chatgpt did NOT write this particular email

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

Two community members stand on the street corner of Central Ave and 18th St, watching over a local business in 5° temps with a wind chill of -15°. They are patrolling the area, keeping an eye out for ICE activity, doing what they can to protect their immigrant neighbors.

among every other lesson we should be learning right now, seems like there should be a new international norm concerning how far one country’s military spending is allowed to outpace everyone else’s

Alan Watts discussing why poets are so often at their best when speaking of change.

all he does is eat hot chips and read kant

in my understanding of geopolitics, this is when the community of nations should start dropping big ol bombs on the white house, with cute stuff written on the side of them like “tanks for the memories” or “this one’s for don”, etc

"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval." www.ms.now/opinion/minn...

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration. readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

we will win because we must win. no other option.

And it’s pretty clear that people think of nonviolent as simply being passive, when nonviolent was a larger umbrella that encompassed agitative demonstrations. A sit-in at a whites only restaurant is nonviolent but it’s not passive. Occupying buildings, cars, etc are all nonviolent.

in addition to the infrastructure here which is obviously mindblowing (for americans), it must be noted that this dude, chu weimin, is an incredible photographer

everything ai proposes to do comes down to “we’ll turn you into the least capable person on the planet” i can order a fuckin pizza just fine, thank you