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To placate Hegseth, the Scouts are eliminating their “citizenship in society” merit badge because the description contained the word “diversity.” Here’s the full rundown. I can’t imagine even most people het up about “DEI” would have an actual problem with this. www.scouting.org/merit-badges...
Thus ends my reading of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. What a journey. 🌿
“Great Are The Myths” was just weird. And what was that bit about the English being so great, that they must rule the world; what the heck? 🌿
“Who Learns My Lesson Complete?” was a lovely little morsel. I’ve had an incredibly hard month, and this reminder of wonder of all things hit just right. 🌿
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
“A Boston Ballad” would not have made much sense to me without this 🌿 bsky.app/profile/sara...
Thread continues here: bsky.app/profile/holl...
I found this to be helpful in understanding “Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States”. I appreciate the optimism here, that while there may be setbacks we can also ultimately prevail. 🌿 www.poetryverse.com/walt-whitman...
“Faces” is just another poem where women are just mothers and basically nothing more. 🌿
Rockwell Kent painting
Spotted at the de Young museum today. Rockwell Kent, Afternoon on the Sea, Monhegan, 1907. 🐋
I forgot 🌿 but also 🍆
‘I Sing The Body Electric’ is…. just straight porn. 😳
Perfect!
A photo of gallup
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
A digital flyer featuring fluffy clouds, Karl the Fog, and the Golden Gate Bridge. The flyer reads: ICE out of the bay, attributed to @megemikoart. Report ICE activity North Bay (Sonoma, Napa, Solano counties) 707-800-4544 Marin County 415-991-4545 San Francisco 415-200-1548 Contra Costa County 925-900-5151 Alameda County 510-241-4011 San Mateo County 203-666-4472 Santa Clara County 408-290-1144
Put the number for your local Rapid Response Network in your phone now, before you need them.
Do not boost or post rumors. See something? Report it to the RRN. Hear something? Check in with RRN social channels.
See a rumor posted? Admonish the poster and point them in the right direction! #ICEOut
Shit.
‘To Think of Time’ and ‘The Sleepers’ were fine. They didn’t evoke a strong response in me. 🌿
This is a pogrom
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
Chuck Schumer, the absolute gall of you to text me for a donation when you are doing the opposite of meeting the moment. Give me the names of anyone and everyone who will primary you, I'll donate to them instead.
I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
We updated the story after Mr. Heraskevych said he will wear the helmet in training Wednesday and competition Thursday and Friday, the directive be damned.
“I see the faces on this helmet, and I will not betray them.”
(👋 from the Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy!)
I was a day late finishing Song of Myself, so I read all of A Song For Occupations today. I really liked this one. 🌿
"All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it;
Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?"
Don’t I have one more day to finish Song of Myself?
Penguin Classics on the left, Library of America on the right.
Oh other things I like about this one: line numbers, and text size which is large enough to help legibility. My eyes are not great, even with prescription reading glasses. The Library of America edition from the library has rather small cramped text. 🌿
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, death bed edition, the modern library classics
We (my spouse) already owned this death bed edition. Still no line numbers. I intend to read that intro by William Carlos Williams eventually. 🌿
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Library of America edition
This Library of America version from the library has the first and last editions, but no line numbers and the introduction was too academic for me.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, 150th Anniversary Edition, Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.
We picked up this copy from City Lights Bookstore. It has a really lovely letterpress embossed and foiled cover. I also liked the introduction by Harold Bloom. The only thing I don’t like are the deckle page edges. 🌿