stardust melody
@karenparish.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
“Tell us something we didn’t know
before: how words mean things
we didn’t know we knew.”
poets.org/poem/mars-po...
before: how words mean things
we didn’t know we knew.”
poets.org/poem/mars-po...
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“Tell us something we didn’t know
before: how words mean things
we didn’t know we knew.”
poets.org/poem/mars-po...
before: how words mean things
we didn’t know we knew.”
poets.org/poem/mars-po...
“Since the start of this year, some 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE, according to government data…[T]he highest number since recordkeeping began a decade ago.”
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“Since the start of this year, some 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE, according to government data…[T]he highest number since recordkeeping began a decade ago.”
“A federal judge dismissed charges against former FBI director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, delivering a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to engineer prosecutions of two of his prominent foes.”
Here’s one for the rule of law
Here’s one for the rule of law
November 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“A federal judge dismissed charges against former FBI director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday, delivering a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to engineer prosecutions of two of his prominent foes.”
Here’s one for the rule of law
Here’s one for the rule of law
“Happy to chat with the administration about the Nuremberg tribunals.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.”
- Brian Finucane
openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/c...
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.”
- Brian Finucane
openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/c...
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“Happy to chat with the administration about the Nuremberg tribunals.
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.”
- Brian Finucane
openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/c...
Including about the crime of enforced disappearance and the limits of the defense of superior orders.”
- Brian Finucane
openyls.law.yale.edu/server/api/c...
“We’re doing something [for] which I hanged this man.”
- Ben Ferencz in 2018, Ferencz prosecuted Nazis at the Nuremberg trials
- Ben Ferencz in 2018, Ferencz prosecuted Nazis at the Nuremberg trials
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“We’re doing something [for] which I hanged this man.”
- Ben Ferencz in 2018, Ferencz prosecuted Nazis at the Nuremberg trials
- Ben Ferencz in 2018, Ferencz prosecuted Nazis at the Nuremberg trials
November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“Bird Song”
- José Antonio Rodriguez
The New Yorker October 13, 2025
- José Antonio Rodriguez
The New Yorker October 13, 2025
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
“Bird Song”
- José Antonio Rodriguez
The New Yorker October 13, 2025
- José Antonio Rodriguez
The New Yorker October 13, 2025
Different context but holy cow it’s spot on
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Different context but holy cow it’s spot on
"In Memory of the Horse David, Who Ate One of My Poems"
- Reading: James Wright, February 21, 1973
voca.arizona.edu/track/id/62657
- Reading: James Wright, February 21, 1973
voca.arizona.edu/track/id/62657
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"In Memory of the Horse David, Who Ate One of My Poems"
- Reading: James Wright, February 21, 1973
voca.arizona.edu/track/id/62657
- Reading: James Wright, February 21, 1973
voca.arizona.edu/track/id/62657
Jane Hirshfield
November 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Jane Hirshfield
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick was first published in the U.S. on November 14, 1851
Spoken by Ishmael
Spoken by Ishmael
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick was first published in the U.S. on November 14, 1851
Spoken by Ishmael
Spoken by Ishmael
The Merry Wives of Windsor
-Mistress Page, V:3
-Mistress Page, V:3
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The Merry Wives of Windsor
-Mistress Page, V:3
-Mistress Page, V:3
“The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff.”
“I want to distinguish between chickenshit and cowardice.”
“I want to distinguish between chickenshit and cowardice.”
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff.”
“I want to distinguish between chickenshit and cowardice.”
“I want to distinguish between chickenshit and cowardice.”
“initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface”
@jamellebouie.net
@jamellebouie.net
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface”
@jamellebouie.net
@jamellebouie.net
“In the immediate hours after Zohran Mamdani’s victory was declared on Tuesday night, a new topic began trending on Elon Musk’s X: Repeal the 19th”
This essay issues fair warning as to what Christian nationalists and the far right would have in store for women.
This essay issues fair warning as to what Christian nationalists and the far right would have in store for women.
November 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
“In the immediate hours after Zohran Mamdani’s victory was declared on Tuesday night, a new topic began trending on Elon Musk’s X: Repeal the 19th”
This essay issues fair warning as to what Christian nationalists and the far right would have in store for women.
This essay issues fair warning as to what Christian nationalists and the far right would have in store for women.
Trump and his administration are less interested in helping ordinary Americans than they are in fulfilling their idiosyncratic program of austerity, pain and deprivation.
But Tuesday was a Democratic victory. [The party] won by commanding majorities on virtually every field of play.
But Tuesday was a Democratic victory. [The party] won by commanding majorities on virtually every field of play.
November 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Trump and his administration are less interested in helping ordinary Americans than they are in fulfilling their idiosyncratic program of austerity, pain and deprivation.
But Tuesday was a Democratic victory. [The party] won by commanding majorities on virtually every field of play.
But Tuesday was a Democratic victory. [The party] won by commanding majorities on virtually every field of play.
Don’t poke the bear
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November 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Don’t poke the bear
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Well, yay
Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of JD Vance
Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of JD Vance
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Well, yay
Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of JD Vance
Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of JD Vance