Not going away, Donald.

Sometimes memory pounds like a disco bassline through the floorboards.

This #poem goes back to #Sylvester, #Garibaldi, #history & survival: "Notes from the Day Following November 5, 2024."

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Thanks to substack.com/@michaelbroder #poetry

I’m honored that my #poem “Notes from the Day Following November 5, 2024” has been published in Second Coming. Sylvester, Garibaldi biscuits, and the choice to remain alive all make appearances. Read it here: secondcoming.substack.com/p/second-com...

#Poetry #LitMag #WritingCommunity #LGBTQWriters

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP.

Schumer
Fetterman
Cortez Masto
Durbin
King
Shaheen
Gillibrand
Schatz
Hassan
Peters

Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

Collaborators with the fascists.

No leader should by his decision create so much disunity and anger in his own party. That alone is political malpractice.

In my bedsit near Turnpike Lane station. London. 1980s. Likely listening tp "Dr. Mabuse" by @propaganda_official_ or DJ Kenny Everett's "The Biggest Willy in London" radio contest.

What did I do today to make me feel proud? I gladly supported SmileTrain, which provides cleft surgery to children in 75+ countries. A bonus was having a lovely chat with Heather Small, the voice of M People. Always meet your heroes. 🙌

#searchforthehero #proud #whatdidyoudotodaytomakeyoufeelproud

If you don’t have a library card go get one. Even if you don’t plan on using it right away, go get one. Keep our libraries alive.

2-Hour Meeting Spent Thinking Up Hashtag Absolutely Nobody On Planet Earth Will Ever Use
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Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops.

They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities.

Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish .

Thank you.