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People who can do it leave the country for cheaper places but now they're leaving because there's risk of being murdered, jailed or maimed by govt paid thugs whenever we're on the job, in a store, dropping kids off at school, protecting other people. So people are leaving. Paris Blues time.
January 25, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I hope that the National Guard members won't comply with unlawful orders. If they do, they can be prosecuted.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/military-oath-enlistment-legal-illegal-orders/story?id=127725085
January 19, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Rallies, protests, foot patrols, letters to gov't representatives, strikes, boycotts, fotos, recordings are nonviolent resistance strategies. Invoking the Second amendment is also a strategy if the current regime's hired thugs keep going on like this.
January 19, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Eve Babitz wished she wrote like Virginia Woolf, and I wish I wrote like Eve Babitz. an excerpt from her teenage journal is published in the Paris Review.
December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I have a formal education,rent my own places to live, walk out on the street alone or with others I choose, dress as I please, earn my own money, have bank accounts, belong to a labor union, make art, protest, drive. There are men in this world who deny women these freedoms as a theology.
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Until recently, I thought it was prissy to keep my spoken words clean. For example, routinely using "n" word, "bitch" or "bitches" as a substitute for Black people and women. I now believe using and hearing these words stains your unconcious mind with bias against the folks you believe you respect.
November 28, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Thinking about the sentimentalization of sexual coming of age movies. For women, I mean. Desires, ignorance, curiosity, the risk of pregnancy, the pleasure of sex, the risks of violence, domestic stifling, the violence in a Madonna/Whore culture. The vacuum of silence on women's sexuality.
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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‘The Anarchist & The Reporters: To Neil Roberts’ (1987)
—Christodoulos E.G. Moisa

#PoetryAotearoa #poetry #booksky
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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GOP’s refusal to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is a continuation of Jan. 6 and GOP’s rejection of democracy
open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...
GOP’s refusal to swear in Rep-elect Adelita Grijalva is a continuation of Jan. 6 and GOP’s rejection of democracy
The GOP is anti-democracy party
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Headline in today's NYTimes reads that Trump wants a third term.
October 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Gratfeul this morning for my friend Chris Daniels, the poet and translator. One day he put "O Magnum Mysterium" on the stereo and we listened silently to the very end; I wept. As a friend, he was one of the rare ones who I can listen with.
October 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Brilliant

We need so much more of this
October 20, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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To make *what* point, Mike?

Unconscionable?

Did you forget about this?
October 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.
October 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.
October 21, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Making Argentina Great Again
October 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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At this point, the media is as much to blame for how things are. When Rapey McCankles lies, and it’s not instantly challenged on easy to fact check statements, he effectively continues to push his agenda. His agenda has nothing to do with helping Americans.
October 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Donald Trump is the worst
president in American history.
October 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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October 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
If the current regime chose its own artist to sculpt statues for the White House, they'd choose Arno Breker and not know he's dead or who his patrons were. Their aesthetics give me the creeps.
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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From ‘Magdalene: Poems’ (2017)
—Marie Howe

#poetry #poems #booksky
October 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
streets demolished, pipes destroyed, water polluted and bodies scattered through the rubble. POTUS imagined hotels in Gaza, a holiday spot. Please God, don't let anyone profit from this destruction. Bless all hostages released.
October 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM