Best riposte of the day. Every time the man goes to Florida he costs us millions of dollars.

So much for public service programming, I guess.

Covering President Hyperbole

From Pears, Lake, Sun. About the second Reagan inauguration. Similar invasion of the rich and entitled.

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Gender and invisibility. Age and invisibility. The best defense is talking back, but that time I said nothing. (Poem in Persimmon Tree)

Adam Zagajewski (tr. from Polish by Lillian Vallee): thanks, Sean Singer

The reopening of Notre-Dame! Can’t wait to see it again, anew. A beautiful fixture in so many lives. And mine. #poetry #poem #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #notredame The Blush www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

MacKenzie Scott responded to Elon Musk's criticism by expanding her philanthropic efforts from $250 million to $640 million.

Scott's Yield Giving is:
--Donating to 361 nonprofit organizations
--Awarding 279 organizations $2 million each
--Providing 82 organizations with $1 million each

Trying to figure out what makes a post visible on Bluesky. Here’s my poem, Grief, about the prospect of climate change from @voxpopulisphere.bsky.social on 17 November #poetry

On rhythm and meaning and finding the heart of the matter per Virginia Woolf. Not *just* about rhythm, I’d say, but without it, what?

Let’s go, Bluesky!

How to make them stop this horror? Civilians not combatants. Tens of thousands killed so far. So many more wounded, starved.

Gwendolyn Brooks, from *The Bean Eaters* (1960)