It looks as if we will be starting World War III soon. The American Experiment is on the verge of failing. "But this I will say to you: your quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the company is true."

I have never been featured by a magazine before, but the Boston Literary Magazine (which had been on a hiatus) will be returning in 2026 with 12 monthly issues each of which features a single writer or poet in depth. I am going to be the first of the twelve, in the January issue.

FIVE YEARS & he has not been held accountable for one of the most disgraceful events in this nation's history. Trying to overturn a fair election in an attempted coup against his own government is the very definition of TREASON. We can never move forward until this is fully adjudicated. #ShameOnUS🇺🇸

Why *did* Obama let this happen?

"Everything is PERFECT because of ME and TERRIBLE because of BIDEN!"

AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.

"Americans must learn to adjust to a lower standard of living." --President Donald Trump

Just discovered this little gem by Ukrainian composer George Perlman.

Recent favorite short stories: “A Madman's Diary” (1918), by Lu Xun “Hell Screen” (1918), by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke “In a Grove” (1922), Akutagawa Ryūnosuke “Silent Snow, Secret Snow” (1932) by Conrad Aiken “Jordi” (1960), by Theodore Isaac Rubin

I have a new book out, featuring short stories and poems from 2022 to 2025. The title story is the sequel to 2021's "Wilma". www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0G2...

Thanks to Simpering Mike Johnson slandering American patriots, I am going to participate in the No Kings demonstration this Saturday. Join your local demonstration to remind the GOP America is not a monarchy.

Why aren't all the Republicans in Oregon or rightwing outlets such as FOXNEWS, Newsmax, or OAN posting video and pictures to provide "the truth"? There is nothing stopping them from showing the World war-ravaged Portland. Come on, guys. Let's see some Antifa violence! Where is it?

Because my drive home from work today brought me past Portland's ICE facility, I shot this video for your edification. As you can see, the radical-leftist reign of terror continues unabated in our war-ravaged city.

"Let us commemorate a free-speech advocate by attacking free speech," said no free-speech advocate ever.

We need to see TR's violence in its proper context: the right is eating its own. There will always be someone who is not sufficiently fascist, and there will always be someone who is more fascist than everyone else. Evil begets evil, and evil eats its own.

Those who promote guns are outraged that one who promoted guns got shot.

Happy Friday!

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Bad people with bad policies. Sad!

"Fake It Until You Make it" does not address the real problem and in fact makes the real problem harder to solve. Once people think you're fine they will have a hard time accepting the problem. "You're fine." If you succeed in coping, they punish you for succeeding.

Two recent shots from Portland, Oregon.

*The Handmaid's Tale*, a great story, is about the Patriarchy and theocracy. The Havian Quartet removes the sexism to focus on theocracy and religion itself. If you wish to read the ultimate anti-religion series, I have endeavored to provide it.

I did not have a home. I did not have two psychologically healthy parents. I am alive and doing my best. That is enough.

To dominate or be dominated is all Donald understands. A child rapist, he surrounds himself with child rapists. He wishes to dominate the entire World and will do anything necessary to pursue that goal. He is the most insecure man on Earth.

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

I have no idea what kind of business this is.

REMINDER: Donald Trump is an evil, insane, stupid criminal working to destroy the World and all that is good on it. Do not let his toadies and him succeed.

We all have rights and deserve respectful treatment.

“Backroads” by Grant Haffner

My son, Lucas, and me in January.

A quick reminder that once we are all in concentration camps, in El Salvador or here, you won't be able to read my (or anyone else's) work. If you don't have money to spare, I will send my work to you free upon request. Just read something important and political today!

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" --Emma Lazarus

Everyone has had enough. Everyone is holding this evil, insane, stupid criminal enterprise to account. It feels good. Yes, the ICE assault is coming, but the Trump regime is on the defensive and will remain increasingly so until it is gone.