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Poet, memoirist, disability activist, and dog lover. Travels and lectures widely on literature and human rights.

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As things fall apart, Yeats’ 1919 poem ‘The Second Coming’ seems as timely as ever - The Boston Globe My friend and I stepped back in time one evening to 1919 when we attended an interactive poetry event.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/06/m...

07.03.2026 16:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump civil fraud trial LIVE: Outside the courthouse in New York
Trump civil fraud trial LIVE: Outside the courthouse in New York YouTube video by Associated Press

Trump civil fraud trial LIVE: Outside the courthouse in New York - YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=epGi...

07.03.2026 15:32 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.

Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security.

A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2074...

07.03.2026 12:30 👍 2206 🔁 684 💬 143 📌 104
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ICE deports family, including deaf boy who wasn’t given his assistive devices California state superintendent says mother and sons arrested during ICE check-in and deported to Colombia

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

07.03.2026 15:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Our troops are dying this isn’t a video game. The White House is posting so-called “hype” videos that mix real footage from the war in Iran with clips from movies and video games like Call of Duty. It’s an absolute disgrace.

07.03.2026 02:35 👍 11321 🔁 3162 💬 460 📌 166
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Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

07.03.2026 01:20 👍 21958 🔁 5399 💬 603 📌 351
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He seems pretty sensitive whenever someone confronts him with evidence that Putin might not be our friend. Even when Fox brings it up.

06.03.2026 23:13 👍 11918 🔁 3730 💬 1057 📌 274
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Kamala Harris: "I predicted a lot about what's happening right now. I'm not here to say 'I told you so,' but we did see it coming."

06.03.2026 21:20 👍 11332 🔁 2591 💬 639 📌 610
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Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.

“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.

06.03.2026 21:57 👍 12368 🔁 3039 💬 252 📌 94

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

06.03.2026 17:44 👍 3347 🔁 843 💬 56 📌 37

If Iran is bombing Tel Aviv What’s gone stop them from Bombing the USA, Washington Or MaraLardos castle ?

06.03.2026 22:00 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0

Little nurses: what happens when children take care of sick and disabled relatives?

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A game I play picturing business men
As birds—whippoorwills, grackles,
Magpies eating everything…

06.03.2026 13:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump? Bad. Netanyahu? Lousy. The leaders of Iran? Odious. Look closely and you’ll notice there are no good guys in this looming world war. This is what makes Hegseth’s lies so hard to stomach. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

06.03.2026 12:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Murdering fishermen wasn't enough for Hegseth. Murdering little girls will let him sleep real good now. He's a murdering sociopathic drunk.

06.03.2026 04:01 👍 205 🔁 21 💬 4 📌 0
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Uncle History owns four things… Uncle History owns four things Of zero use— Cable from the Brooklyn Bridge A pile of Polish zlotys The first ever fur coat And a mini Rosetta Stone Covered with mistakes These keep him going He fin…

stephenkuusisto.com/2026/03/05/u...

05.03.2026 14:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Instead of asking for emergency funding for the military, since the US military is already funded higher than any military, why don’t we send Pete Hegseth overseas to lecture everyone about “FAFO” and “DEI”? It seems the only ones FAFO-ing are him & MAGA, the ultimate “DEI’S”

04.03.2026 10:49 👍 129 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 1
Figurine of Icelandic troll...

Figurine of Icelandic troll...

Look Mr. Prezzy-dent, I can slip in
And out of the noose
I can wave my spongee
At the tee-vee
I can do that thing
Where you bend your thumb
To the wrist bone
Here’s the point—
My heart my head
My untold everywhere
Which I’ve named
The soul
Has no idea
Who the fuck you are…

03.03.2026 16:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Donald Trump hates anything he doesn’t understand. Therefor he hates science, research, diversity, every manner of complexity. Sometimes you meet people like him in academia—that professor who would burn down the campus to get his or her way. But the stakes are small in that instance.

03.03.2026 14:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Corporate Media Is Head Over Heels for the Iran War - The Nation

03.03.2026 11:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

02.03.2026 15:52 👍 10157 🔁 2171 💬 442 📌 161

It would be nice if we had a Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing and not one that just regurgitates quotes from action movies

02.03.2026 15:56 👍 13100 🔁 2676 💬 595 📌 119

“No stupid rules of engagement” had better be a first-round entry into Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.

02.03.2026 17:27 👍 51 🔁 9 💬 6 📌 1
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Not only *did* they start this war, they have no idea how to finish it.

02.03.2026 17:04 👍 10664 🔁 2784 💬 894 📌 207

It was a terrible thing watching Pete Hegseth lie to the world this morning. Like everyone in Trump’s circle, including Trump himself, Hegseth is a cosplayer who thinks the entire globe watches Fox.

02.03.2026 14:16 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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After Creeley After Creeley I wanted poetry to love me So I promised To Take it For a ride “But you can’t drive” It said Then: “For Chrissake Look out Where you’re going”

stephenkuusisto.com/2026/03/02/a...

02.03.2026 14:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

After Creeley

I wanted poetry to love me
So
I promised
To
Take it
For a ride
“But you can’t drive”
It said
Then: “For
Chrissake
Look out
Where you’re going”

02.03.2026 12:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bombshell Pentagon Admission Wrecks Trump’s War Claims Pentagon briefers made the acknowledgement in a briefing on Sunday, according to multiple reports.

www.thedailybeast.com/pentagons-bo...

02.03.2026 12:23 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Not even the concept of a plan…https://apple.news/AxltoLUT2SNy9KmAcFeN0kQ

02.03.2026 12:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

'Terror was needed to make Arabs leave': What the Israeli army did in 1948, revealed - Haaretz

01.03.2026 15:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0