Beyond humbled & grateful to be entrusted by The Academy of American Poets with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation, to join 22 other outstanding poets laureate across the US. More on the many inspiring initiatives here: bit.ly/4l4NhZe

Cuomo & Adams will likely compete for an overlapping group of similar voters, thus enhancing Mamdani’s odds.

How many critics lambasting Cudahy, CA Vice Mayor Gonzalez’s extreme comments are likewise speaking out against the political violence advocated for and operationalized by the president and his criminal cabal?

And what if local law enforcement protected its citizens from ICE’s reign of terror?

Juneteenth 2025 dispatch

Surreal to watch & hear LAPD officers audibly threaten a local news reporter covering the scene in downtown Los Angeles followed by newsroom anchors sanitizing the police aggression & shifting the narrative to focus on protecting the city from a small group of unruly protestors.

True in 1776. True in 2017. True today. Freedom now! Today’s assembly and countless others are peaceful acts of resistance being misrepresented & distorted by the criminals in power to justify their expanding efforts to turn the US into an oligarchical authoritarian police state. Free David Huerta!

youtu.be/SwdvBgwDCn8 •“Phantom Tongue” by Raffi Joe Wartanian •“ERASURE: THE MESSAGE OF THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN ON THE EVENTS OF 1915” by Raffi Joe Wartanian •Monday, April 21, 2025 •Alex Theatre •Glendale, California

“Our future survival is predicated upon our ability to relate within equality.” -Audre Lorde We gather on March 28th to reaffirm that our solidarity together and against genocide is a simple expression of our commitment to the fundamental human rights that all people deserve.

Siranush Sargsyan reports on the plight of artists in Artsakh and how they are trying to rebuild. “Sometimes I want to recreate the paintings I left behind,” said Artsiv Lalayan… “but it’s impossible to recreate what you’ve lost.”

Seeking submissions for Volume 2 of our poetry anthology, Jewel City Review. We’re seeking poetry (one or multiple pieces) from writers who are interested in sharing their work with others in a publication that will be available physically and digitally.

Writers! Next wkshp-reading's on 3/29/25, 11a-2p at Glendale Central Library with CA Poet Laureate Lee Herrick! All experience levels welcome. Free, with light refreshments & 🎵 by Paul Sprawl. Optional reg.: bit.ly/41FYyZV. Submit poems by 4/4: bit.ly/43jSlDW

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

Elon Musk isn’t a genius—he’s a government-funded grifter under investigation. Every contract, every dollar, every scandal—it all connects. Keep this: It’s a roadmap for every move Musk and DOGE make.

You can’t script this better.

Elon updated DOGE, claiming to have fixed the mistakes we all pointed out. But instead of correcting them, he just added more false claims. He even inflated his so-called “savings” total from $55 billion to $65 billion, when in reality, the actual increase is only from $2 billion to $2.3 billion.

If the market continues to trend down, and the Atlanta Fed turns out to be right, the midterms will be very interesting. The battle between republican self preservation and MAGA will be intense

❗️When America has your back: The Economist on the background of recent events

Today’s Oval Office fracas struck me as a staged ambush by the JV autocrats in office seeking media attention with low-hanging fruit to distract from their domestic economic and administrative woes

The censorship, bullying, and fear are real. “No Other Land,” about the destruction of a village in the occupied West Bank, keeps being praised but won't be released. Inside the Oscar-Nominated Film That No Studio Will Touch www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/m...

Captures it perfectly.

Gaza as it was before

This time, we should demand to read the notes from Trumps meeting with Putin. Last time- in Helsinki, they met for 2 hrs- no American staff allowed, the translator notes were destroyed. This time I bet they will scheme to divide up Ukraines valuable minerals. Putin is a murderous war criminal.

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

IDIOT! Bureaucracy & democracy aren’t mutually exclusive. You’re the center of a visionless & destructive autocratic bureaucracy. Nobody elected you or requested your asinine lectures on workings of a gov’t you’re trying to destroy for your own financial benefit & to serve your empty, wounded ego.

"Pam Bondi is the first attorney general in history to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. She also just disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

LA River Arts, El BiciCrófono, and Los Angeles Poet Society invite you to join us in honoring the resilience of our community while raising vital fire relief funds. Together, we’ll bike the LA River alongside poets from across Southern California, uniting through poetry, music, and shared space.

This new administration functions like a mob: a crooked boss at the center dispatching enforcers to exact revenge, seize physical and intellectual property, and flood the zone with diahrea hoping the stench and volume of shit will be enough to stifle dissent and dismantle norms.

For the visual learners...

Sociopath-in-Chief exploiting the tragedy in Washington to float a half-baked anti-DEI screed.

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