sbpoet.com/2026/05/29/t... *Is* this a poem?

The difference between having a cat and having a dog is staggering. Having a dog is like having child who’s disgusting. Having a cat is like having a painting that’s mad at you.

#AnimalSky #DogSky @Sassafrass_84 All Abord! 🐶 Doggie Bus

The intrusive thoughts overwhelmed my last two brain cells

I once heard the phrase "abusers are either grooming you as a victim or a character witness," and it has lived in my head since then.

You mind your own business, tending your own garden, expecting nothing, until, inevitably, someone is kind. —Nancy Lemann, The Ritz of the Bayou

the fact that christians were more upset about this ai generated trump pic but not when he said he was gonna wipe off an entire civilization shows how bankrupt white evangelicalism is

We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

Is it possible that today’s “truth” posts aren’t from trump at all?

It's like America's parents caught us smoking authoritarian, racist, evil incompetence, and now they're making us smoke the whole pack to teach us a lesson.

L.E. Bowman

Well, you knew there wouldn’t be books

Today, I'm introducing my wealth tax — and more than 50 members of Congress are joining me. It’s time for the government to start working for American families, not just the ultra-rich.

The bird even realized he had won.

Right wing men desire a world ruled by hierarchy and domination, and the way they treat women and girls is an extension of that principle. Left wing men desire a world ruled by equality and dignity, and the way they treat women and girls is an exception to that principle.

Opinion: No, Gov. Gianforte, you cannot cancel our First Amendment rights - Daily Montanan apple.news/AQ7tDye0gQM6...

Did you ever think there would be a far worse FBI director than J. Edgar Hoover

Another INCREDIBLY ADORABLE baby fishie 😻😻😻

Very cool how every day the tension in my brain between “how the fuck can you care about dumb shit that makes you feel a little better at a time like this” and “this dumb shit is providing a sense of meaning and staving off total emotional collapse” is rising toward truly untenable levels

A friend once looked up a word - "tchotchke", IIRC. His dictionary defined it as a "trumpery gimcrack". We knew neither of those words, so he looked up "gimcrack". It was defined as a "trumpery knick-knack". So a tchotchke is a trumpery trumpery knick-knack. BTW I love that "trumpery" = "cheap crap"

It's felt for months now that the fed govt is doing everything it can, including acts of violence, to make the Twin Cities unlivable. Vance's announcement shows that effort continues even if Trump's thugs aren't killing people in the street rn. I just don't see how this can go on for 3 more years.

People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless. - Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

fun fact: the practice of putting automated roadblocks between the customer and customer service is called “call deflection”

Wow.

Usually that’s up to the voters, but not when political parties become cults.

i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.

This makes absolute intuitive sense.

my pappy sent me a little haiku he wrote for a contest, about my auntie that died of cancer. he’s never wrote poetry before but i think this is a pretty great haiku: potato salad. frybread. now she’s in heaven— no one knows the recipe.

The Year of the Fire Horse is a time to speak up and speak out and to remember the people who did so much to build America. The oldest Chinese restaurant in America is not on either coast, but in Butte, America. open.substack.com/pub/monicatr...

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

KOTZ , the public radio station in Kotzebue, made Valentine's Day memes and I fricking love them so much

2/12/2026 - Lindenwold, NJ ICE agents chase children who were waiting at a bus stop for an elementary school These are elementary school-age children running from adult federal agents attempting to kidnap them

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

Don’t tell Pam Bondi, but the Dow fell under 50,000, which means we get to talk about the Epstein files now.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen said he will investigate the city of Helena for stating that it will not assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.