From James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time #booksky 💙📚

CAESAR The ides of March are come. SOOTHSAYER Ay, Caesar; but not gone.

I increasingly hear the phrase "boots on the ground." All people opposed to this illegal and immoral war should please stop using it. Why? It dehumanizes the people who wear the boots, those young men and women who will go fight and die. How about instead calling them "our kids?" #stopthewar

Poems for Lent (Day 19)

This is cool

Esto es simplemente adorable

I guess the US Constitution is now officially suspended #speakerjohnsonisatraitor

The downfall of society isn't AI, it's the phone case, the infinite scroll and the 5-star rating system.

Lessons in Fascism: members of the White Rose student movement were executed in Feb. 1943 for posting flyers. #antifa #whiterose mjhnyc.org/blog/remembe...

If you can't fix it, you don't own it. ifixit.com

All men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.

Damn, what a letter.

'Cause we're livin' in world of fools, breaking us down, when they all should let us live... #beegees 4ever

But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm.

#todolist 1. Stop digging.

Meet the new Leader of the Free World, Mark Carney. #elbowsup

the endless ground of your own deep pulse, Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. David Young

This footnote

#EpsteinBallroom #EpsteinFiles

Just learned that the original name of #airforceone was "Sacred Cow"

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Ronald Reagan said it. #NoKings tomorrow 10/18

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

This made me laugh out loud!!! 🤣🤣

Night of long knives? Night of endless tweets

The Luddites had a great phrase for what they opposed: "Machinery hurtful to commonality." It's an excellent reminder that being a Luddite doesn't mean you hate technology, but that you hate the way capitalists create and use technology to destroy community and human flourishing.

More like MS-Paint #dueprocess #giveKilmarhisdayincourt

@cantwell.senate.gov Senator: please vote against #cloture and the #CR

Once again, a highly relevant quote from "Moby Dick" 👇

A pre-meditated shakedown today in the Oval Office. #Shame

Middle school kids know what's going on! Diversity, equity, and inclusion is the real American way! #protectDEI #DEI

a short list of Black inventors and things they created. Black history is American history. #blackhistory

Connections Puzzle #593 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

From "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder: #on_tyranny #snyder

This is the Trump administration we warned you about during the first Trump administration. #democracy

Connections Puzzle #588 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

"When I dream, I dream uneasily of tangerines, peeled and sectioned by my mother somewhere far, far away." Noor Naga, "If an Egyptian Cannot Speak"

#Hegseth said he did 3 sets of 47 pushups. That's a weird amount, I thought. Then it hit me: one set for each of Trump's terms of office. #Democracy_is_dying

Joyful clip of Natalie Cole and Earth Wind and Fire youtube.com/watch?v=7oMw...

Connections Puzzle #582 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Instead of watching the Inauguration shit show, I'll be joining the #democratsabroad MLK Day 2025 event. www.democratsabroad.org/bc_mlk_day_2...