Swoon. #NYC #Poetry4Life

Padraig o’Tuama could recite the phonebook and it would be worth listening. O’Tuama reading poetry is sublime. #NYC

Looking forward to the Irish Art Centre's sold out poetry event this afternoon! #NYC #Padraig_ó_Tuama

Last night we saw Pádraig Ó Tuama speak at Duke Chapel and it really drove home for me the stark difference between what passes for consensus-making in US culture ('spirited debate,' 'market of ideas') and the real work of peace: getting in a room, listening, and being surprised by each other.

The other really good poetry close reading podcast I need to catch up on is Poetry Unbound by Pádraig Ó Tuama. Kamran and Pádraig have the top 2 podcasts now for close reading poems after Poetry Foundation threw the baby out with the bathwater trying to be inclusive to a wider variety of voices.

“When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, and let him go.’” – John 11:43–44 (NRSVue)

The sacred container is a clown car.

"Governments never announce that they have become fascist. They announce that the antifascists are now the enemy of the state"

Damn, all those high fantasy novels were right: evil must be defeated in *every* generation and we must be ever watchful for its return

Are we GOING to hell, or are we IN hell?

#Pinks #ProudBlue Protect everyone, protect yourself. That’s how it works.

The Jester plays a role, speaking truth to power through humour. I think we're in the "all bets are off" phase.

HARTFORD #VISIBILITYBRIGADE this am!! Our regular dozen waving and lots of honking in support. We refuse to be enemies! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @rbhubbell.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social @ctmirror.org @repjahanahayes.bsky.social

Colbert gone. Kimmel silenced. Not for lying, but for speaking the truth trump doesn't want you to hear. Mocking the regime is now a punishable offense. All to keep critics quiet. Laugh too loud, think too clearly & you vanish. This is how authoritarianism sterilizes a culture & numbs dissent.

Yesss, gurl.

I got my Covid vaccine 💉 today AND my flu shot. Suck it RFKJr.

Elul isn’t just about “going deep". Some of us live there every day - our whole existence feels like one long Elul. Teshuvah isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about returning to yourself.

TLL

repairman who has brought the wrong tools.

And beware of false flags and planted evidence with this FBI in charge. Skepticism is in order.

Doug Ford tells young job seekers “try inheriting your daddy’s sticker factory”

Here for it. For those of us eating oatmeal, a book club/reading group is starting Radical Mindfulness this Sunday. Free to attend, free PDF, 30% discount on the physical copy. Let's change the world. rowecenter.org/radical-mind...

if we can’t get MAHA to agree that it’s wrong to kill public health workers if they don’t have control over policy, i’m not sure what common ground we can develop because that is categorically the same ideology as fascism, which you can’t work with. i’m glad folks are trying (we need them to) but

Let's go, Team Human!! We can do this!!

White people are fumbling their way through this moment because it’s really hard for them to accept that this is always what this country was about. And they’re mad at Black people for still finding joy because “THE COUNTRY IS BURNING HOW ARE YOU WATCHING FOOTBALL.” Interesting dynamic.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

👏Neurodivergence 👏isn't 👏a 👏disease!!

Can't hurt.

Rethinking my recent, "I need to get rid of some of these books," stance.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inherent to all people and cannot be taken away, surrendered, or sold by any person or government. Thomas Jefferson integrated these principles into the Declaration of Independence, making them a cornerstone of American governmental philosophy.

RFK Jr. told senators they were wrong and making stuff up about Americans struggling to access coronavirus vaccines. The challenges are real. We heard from more than 3,200 readers about this, and these are some of their stories. Gift link: wapo.st/4nbXgO6

Wait, what?? Rand Paul is someone I agree with?? We are living in the Upside Down.

Yes pleas. #booksky #letsread #RoweCenter

Stop wishing death to Drumpf. This is what follows.

The notion that the US has been engaged in an undeclared civil war for years is often bandied about. And now the quiet part is said out loud. Where do we go from here?

Doffs hat. Ken Dryden was a man to be admired. Condolences to his family.

“It is not a radical idea to say that every man, woman and child in America can have a decent standard of living.”

A lost art.

We already know this. Farmers tried to hire out-of-work Americans in the financial crisis of 2008, but they weren't up to the task.

Got my Covid and flu shots at the CVS in the grocery store, I did mark that I have a high-risk condition on my paperwork and got no invasive questions about it- I asked the pharmacist if they'd been having any trouble with insurance and he said he'd expected they might but actually none so far

Mood.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Hanging out with Vern for a couple weeks. He is wondering where I hid the treats.

Fuck yeah.

Swoon.

*head meets desk*

“our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves are frighteningly inert” —Donna Haraway, 1985

We're not going to make it, are we?

Don't let your character get in the way of your destiny.

Resistance looks so good on you.