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Jesse Welles Mark Twain

💯 Every. Fucking. Word.

New-ass poem on commoncrofts. commoncrofts.blogspot.com/2026/01/ogre...

Excellent read! Fascists Are Pathetic - defector.com/fascists-are...

I'm with @pearlmania500.bsky.social on this, and just as angry—as we all should be. A wife and mom was murdered by an incompetent ICE agent, and the first thing the government does is vilify her—labeling her a domestic terrorist. Do not let this go, America. #EverybodysBlack #ReneeGood 😢

🔥 @timmiller.bsky.social: “You’re telling me he was scared for his life? Are you sh*tting me?? The car is barely moving. He orphaned her child, then called her a ‘f*cking bitch’… it’s not a tough call. This was murder.” Full @thebulwark.com video: youtu.be/oc9gwMDxYAQ?...

Jesse Welles doing that thing he's really good at

Hny! #illustration #design #artwork #watercolor

As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.

Delighted ( and slightly dazed and confused ) to report that Sir Tristrem is out. All my thanks to IMEMS Durham Press and the editorial team at B&B!

Auden: Poetry makes nothing happen. Poetry: Hold my fucking beer Wystan. www.wired.com/story/poems-...

“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”

Tommy Smothers at 0:38. But also the song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjAO...

I repeat, their souls are in hell.

Their souls are in hell.

A Medieval Cat’s Paw Print: How a Mischievous Feline Made its Mark on History www.medievalists.net/2024/10/medi... #Cats

Hard truth: Most people in the US see the reality of mass deportation, and are horrified. But more than half of all white folk in the US *support* mass deportation. And everyone: stop lying to me and pretending that you didn't know that it would be this. You knew. Lie to yourself. Not to me.

Cato Institute’s Director of immigration studies 👇🏽

Nicanor Parra translated by Miller Williams

Sharon Olds

Nice people do not notice their country is fascist all at once... Ukranian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska.

So to be clear - in Tennessee unidentified white men in hoodies can grab any immigrant that "looks" undocumented, and if officials even as much as vote to protect them it's a felony. This is where we are now. Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AQh...

I don't deserve you, Onion.

Man. Wherever history goes, some poet got there first.

Nicanor Parra: basta de profecías apocalípticas ya sabemos QUEL MUNDO SE ACABÓ

W. H. Auden:

Friends, I'm looking for poems from the immigrant experience, esp. with outsider's insight into the dominant culture: blind spots, amnesia, clueless comedy, etc. Any period, any geography, any language. Thanks in advance!

'TOXIC ATMOSPHERIX, or THANKS A LOT' commoncrofts.blogspot.com/2024/11/toxi...