Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com. I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team. Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

CNN: The ratings are in for the first day. 6.26 million viewers on ABC. That was four times Jimmy Kimmel's average. And that's despite the show not even being available in a quarter of all American homes.

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I went to Catholic school, and we even knew the Bible isn’t a history book. Oklahoma just turned indoctrination into state policy: mandating classroom Bibles while pretending amendments 11 - 27 don’t exist. Public schools should teach real history, not change it in order to fit a political agenda.

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One morning you woke with a sinking feeling you couldn’t face that your soul has vanished without a trace. Got no more of your soul to give away. Stripped. Left empty and dead inside. #Booksky #poetry #poet #poems

Thought you were doing so well but you’ve slipped off track Gave away pieces of your heart and soul at work until you felt like a lifeless phony jerk Forgotten what you’re worth #Booksky #poetry #books

Stranded out on the road tonight Feeling so disowned Left pieces of your soul in too many hotel rooms Aching like a dying flower that has never bloomed Once you lose pieces of your soul you can’t get them back amzn.to/3xyRsqB #Booksky #poetry #book

Spend your life quoting others. Never realizing that the most important quotes reside inside your soul. Listen. You might discover something inside yourself worth quoting. #booksky #books #poetry #micropoetry

I live where dreams go to die. Everyone here is haunted by promises of the good life, just out of reach. Not even hope survives here for long. #booksky #books #poetry #micropoetry

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Sunset haunts me like no other time. All of my hopes, memories, dreams reflected in the golden sky. Projected in my mind's eye. Heartache lingers. #booksky #poetry #books

Hollow minds. Hollow hearts. Hollow souls living for hollow tomorrows. #booksky #books #poetry #micropoetry

It’s a death whitewash. All flaws ignored or forgotten, even for the most rotten. It’s a death whitewash. All dark edges smoothed over. It’s so strange when people die. #booksky #poetry #books #theHollywoodHomeless amzn.to/3drSj5x

The same people who wouldn’t raise a finger to help when you were alive, now gush effusive praise and cry. It’s so strange when people die. All criticism fades and a silence pervades. More than your soul, your legacy is saved. All of your dark shadows forgotten and buried. #booksky #poetry #books

Funny what happens when people die. All bad behavior and flaws are minimized. All talents are inflated and lionized. It’s a death whitewash. All dark edges smoothed over. #booksky #poetry #books #theHollywoodHomeless amzn.to/3drSj5x

Stuff ballot boxes with our dreams. Forget about us in their corporate schemes, as we watch our hopes come apart at the seams #booksky #poetry #poem #books

The day you became an untouchable American King the head of a criminal organization that extends to Moscow, our votes and democracy became marginalized by the Kremlin's hand Our only way forward now is impeachment or the ballot box which you may try to steal again #booksky #TheTrumpYears #books

Instead of hope we have a rope Instead of justice we have blind lies Instead of unity we have a great divide Where’s our country? Where are our voices? Gone without a trace www.amazon.com/dp/B09NZ7M592 #Booksky #books #poetry #poet #poems #ebook #poets #reading #read

All their good advice won’t help you get any closer to peace of mind Only a conceit that gives you a temporary reprieve from your heartbreak in the middle of the night amzn.to/3xyRsqB #Booksky #poetry #poet #poems #books

Disconnection Disaffection Disillusionment underneath our gestures conceits, and beliefs How long can you keep up your nerve with all the heartache you’re convinced you deserve? Say it’s the only way you’ll learn amzn.to/3xyRsqB #Booksky #poetry #books

Going from wreck to wreck Never knowing what to expect On our own So all alone at the end of our days Tell you what love is but they haven’t a clue Nothing but an illusion. A sweet confusion. Distracts us from what is really going on in our souls amzn.to/3xyRsqB #Booksky #poetry #books

Tell you what life is even though they haven’t a clue Say living is just a dance. Ignore the truth that no one knows what the music is So, we stumble and fall Struggling to learn the steps Dancing in silence amzn.to/3xyRsqB

You yearn for respect but don’t respect anyone else not even yourself. Lost in the state of our disunion Fractured in despair A widening gulf of suspicion and miscommunication The true state of the nation Divided we fell to languish in our private hells www.amazon.com/dp/B09NZ7M592 #Booksky

A poverty of the spirit invades our souls Lost in the state of our disunion Heartbreak everywhere you look A sinking feeling we’ve been taken. This is the state of our disunion Any trace of unity dissolved into ruin Divided we fell, retreating to our private hells #books #booksky #poetry #poet

This is the state of our disunion. Divided we fell All that’s left are the stories and lies to sell You’d rather embrace some kind of hell Fearful of being alone. Fail to connect Delusions you erect to camouflage emotional defects www.amazon.com/dp/B09NZ7M592 #Booksky #poetry #books

Tongues laced with ignorant poison infecting all we cherish Democratic ideals corrupted on contact Fools in high places making a mockery of everything we believe Torn and twisted in a white supremacist’s ugly dream #poetry #TheTrumpYears #poets #booksky #books

There’s darkness festering underneath your platitudes of God and country while spreading economic misery all over this nation Your insincere sincerity leaves me cold There’s a darkness underneath your words that burns everyone but you www.amazon.com/dp/B09NZ7M592 #booksky #books #poetry #poet

You may be a politician, or even the president. You may be a rock star. or even a movie star. Doesn’t matter who you are. One day you’re going to fall. One day you’re going to crawl. Remember stars fall from the sky. You forgot the laws of gravity #booksky #poetry #books #theHollywoodHomeless

Each of us crawls across broken glass to reach some form of peace, while those around us keep shattering the windows of our soul. #booksky #books #poetry #micropoetry

The blows you never see hurt the worst. Life’s sucker punches leaving you broken, reeling for years. Wishing for the good old days that never were. #booksky #poetry #micropoetry

Patriotic fascists talking about freedom? Freedom? They really want is to deny you freedom from your vote your dreams your rights your bodies land of the free? home of the brave? no more #booksky #poetry

erasing history whitewashing genocide banning books again drowning out the truth in endless lies trying to bury us too soon in an unmarked grave #booksky #poetry

no justice from so-called justices years of history precedent erased by religious zealots hiding behind black robes fundamental freedoms rights futures denied stench of greed dark money infects the court its legitimacy has become a sad bitter joke we are choking on #booksky #poetry

where's the liberty? where's the freedom? for too long we've pledged allegiance to a freedom lie in the land of greed and home of the corrupt cowards our phony independence reeks of stolen dreams and broken hearts #poetry #poet #booksky

Throughout history, it’s a light, a passion, they could never snuff out with their fascist stomp. America, the beautiful? It is never more beautiful than now as we face losing all we cherish before the darkness falls… #booksky #poetry

Before the darkness falls. Remember when it all didn’t feel so wrong. In the calm before the ugly storm. before the darkness falls, remember our freedom dream – so bright and burning in our imaginations. #booksky #poetry

Before the darkness consumes us. Remember, the light, the passion, the freedoms you once took for granted. Before the darkness falls remember it all. It could be all that keeps us from falling into despair. #booksky #poetry

Before the darkness falls and consumes us all with the coronation of a raging, criminal madman. Remember, the kindness, the decency, the days of joy and hope, and the smiles and eyes bright without dread and fear. #booksky #poetry

#Writers, #artists are the soul and conscience of our country and the world… When they cave and obey the powers that be, dictators, fascists, a little bit of our souls are lost..our hearts are cracked our dreams of freedom, our hopes feel tainted our voices haunted

A fascist and oligarchs conspiring stealing away the years and years we toiled cutting our safety nets... setting fire to our futures... Leaving We The People out in the cold again Somewhere #WoodyGuthrie is turning in his grave and #AllenGinsberg is howling from the heavens #booksky #poetry

You voted for a dystopian nightmare as the lies that went down easy Now, you're choking on the horrible consequences You flirted with disaster one too many times Sadly, there are no do-overs for elections as with life #poetry #booksky #books

Beyond callous, a greedy ugliness we can’t easily explain away. All done in our name in the end. A haunting reality to face. Visions of borderlines. Everywhere divided, inside and out. #books #poetry #TheTrumpYears #poets #booksky amzn.to/3Bsr0jj

This is heartbreak in reverse your lies no longer hurt bad memories have been dispersed past feelings spurned finally learned This is heartbreak in reverse Got no one left to blame for all the love I threw away letting go of all the heartache shedding all of my shame #booksky #poet #ebooks #books

Death can’t be bargained with as celebrity means next to nothing in the end Listen closely out in the distance you can hear the low rumble of the coroner’s van waiting for your time Put it off for as long as you can amzn.to/3drSj5x #booksky #poetry #books #ebooks

No way to dance around it nothing lasts can’t regain the past this short time is all we have Even the king gets lowered into the coroner’s van eventually for all the world to see The end of the line comes too soon Your body put in a cold drawer in the coroner’s room #booksky #poet #books

Whether the King of Pop or king of the paupers we all get lowered in the coroner’s van eventually Life is finite not infinite King of Pop or not hard to avoid the ultimate rot amzn.to/3drSj5x #booksky #poetry #books #ebooks