A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning -John Donne

Joseph Campbell on how those who persevere with the inner journey may eventually savour the hard-earned fruits of rebirth.

The executioner's face is always well hidden

WeRateDogs breaking pupopticon Ring surveillance apart (with a horrifying surprise kicker toward the end). It’s so obviously not about the dogs.

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i wrote about the pup-opticon

Nelly Sachs was just an incredible incredible poet Your Origin Nelly Sachs You sow yourself the grain of each second into the undreamed-of The resurrections of your invisible springs are bathed in tears.

Poetry borrows astonishing contrasts that occur by chance. It disorientates; it accidentally establishes a new order. - Jean Cocteau on the accidental new orderings created by poetry (in "The Secrets of Beauty")

For context re Ring: techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...

The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life

Ring cameras are literally the panopticon DJ Manning & George Orwell warned us about “there was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment/you had to live/in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard & except in darkness, every movement scrutinised"

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”

My favorite Super Bowl: this poem from Mary Ruefle 💙

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Mary Ruefle, with the bunny content you didn't know you needed

Castro Theater reopening weekend!! The best

things keeping my five remaining dopamine molecules intact 1. @weratedogs.com 2. Jordan Jensen 3. Walking in the morning 4. That one friend in our group who’s beautifully & blissfully unhinged 5. Our motley crew of Marin County hot-tubbers preparing to be 🧊 rapid responders 6. Ilia Malinin

Rilke—forever sublime.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Mmm-hmmm

More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.

Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes. This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

All faith requires action When you pray, move your feet

or the deer all lowering their heads Linda Gregg

Listening to the rules of a board game

Dear Echo -Kyle Dargan

From: Singing Resistance Twin Cities Minneapolis www.instagram.com/singingresis... Every one oh every one oh every one of these people are ours just like we are theirs we belong to them and they belong to us Words from a Nikita Gill poem “Every bombed village is my hometown” - James Baldwin

Left: Tao te ching #36 Red Pine Translation Right: Tao te ching #36 Stephen Mitchell Translation

Good

Reading the news in 2026 so far

To fully, clearly know what is arising in the present is to encounter freedom

Cooper’s hawk! 🪶

I believe

Walking in the rain just now Two white cranes flew into the tree overhead Happy Sweet New Year