A wow collection of posts – love songs, a biscuit tin pond, Katrina poems, August grief, reading poems on “the front porch of my aorta.” Thanks Dave. Appreciate you including my words.
Writer, poet, book editor, hope monger, cranky pacifist, effusive introvert. Author of four books. Braided Way editor. she/her Ohio 6a lauragraceweldon.com
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A wow collection of posts – love songs, a biscuit tin pond, Katrina poems, August grief, reading poems on “the front porch of my aorta.” Thanks Dave. Appreciate you including my words.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
When Trump goes, let’s avoid publicly celebrating in posts and in the streets. It’ll just play into ugly perceptions of the left. Instead, amp up efforts for justice and climate, because Vance & lackies will double down on the evil while the voting majority will be relieved that “normal” is back.
Except most sixth-graders are more astute than this crowd...
sweet. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
This man is an authentic American hero A Black man facing armed federal agents to stand up for his youth baseball team. Brave. www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
Astrid Johnson
I talk to my plants too. (Okay, also to birds, spiders, most life forms...)
Kids must have laughed at his third grade book report and now he's a wanna-be dictator.
DNC Chair @kenmartin.bsky.social killed the resolution stop arms to Israel claiming, "The party is deeply divided, we need dialogue." The party is not deeply divided & there's nothing left to debate. 92% of Democratic voters want to stop arming Israel. Party leadership should listen or step aside.
From Heaven Looks Like Us: Palestinian Poetry, edited by Noor Hindi and George Abraham.
More levity. More spontaneous connections. More smiles. This is a way forward.
May long and gentle rains like this one fall on every parched landscape.
The Supreme Corpse
Where do you think the U.S. version will be? Sign the petition against book bans at www.bookbanpetition.us
I'm grateful to whoever paired some of my short poems with images. Here's one.
weaponized pettiness
French and Canadian researchers have shown that faulty mitochondria directly drive memory loss in dementia. Using a new tool to boost mitochondrial activity in mice, they restored memory performance, proving cause and effect for the first time. buff.ly/2REM0fd #ShareGoodNewsToo
Verbally substitute!
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
"The 'economy' is ultimately our material relationship with each other and with the rest of the living world. We have to decide whether we want that relationship to be based on extraction and exploitation, or on reciprocity and care." ~Jason Hickel
Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up. —Naomi Klein
This was shared (but not written by) many years ago by psychologist Haim Ginott.
I've been thinking about the people doing quiet, important work. Picking up the pieces and paving the way for the visible people and shiny things. Building the institutional memory. The infrastructure of competence. The chances to try things and improve them. You are my people. I see you.
This is what courage looks like.
Our full-page color ad running today in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Arizona Republic, and the Dallas Morning News. These are the truth which unite us, and these are the truths which every American needs to know. weholdtruths.org #sharethetruths
Thank you for finding her!
Reverse image search disappeared from google. Any idea how else to trace it back?
Thank you Alice
Let's let them know WE WILL STAND UP for any service member who defies illegal orders.
Service members clearly understand they must obey lawful orders and disobey unlawful orders. Unlawful orders are those that clearly violate the U.S. Constitution, international human rights standards or the Geneva Conventions.
Not worth even a crappy sandwich.
Not great!
“Our only enemy is that which would make us enemies to each other.” ~Amanda Gorman
Wth?
BREAKING: Billionaires in America now hold a record $7 TRILLION in wealth. That's a $4.1 TRILLION increase since the last Trump tax scam. Republicans are now pushing a budget to give billionaires more tax breaks, paid for by cuts to healthcare and food assistance. Insanity.
This would be amusing if not so accurate.
Look at them—out there in the heart of our nation’s capital right now—facing down a fascist takeover with nothing but grit, signs, and the truth. DC isn’t just fighting for itself. It’s fighting for every city, every state, every one of us. Stand with them. Join them. @refusefascism.bsky.social
This is a good start....
Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.
I had heard the phrase “history repeats itself” from a young age but somehow I always thought that would look like “80s fashion coming back” and not “hungry children with measles watch an autocrat drain their nation’s coffers to build a big tacky palace”
Guard against dangerous words. #ontyranny #timothysnyder
All scientific grant funding must now be approved by a political appointee and "demonstrably advance the President's policy priorities." Where will innovation happen in the future? It won't be in the US.
What does the art department look like? The music department? Are there enough counselors? Do they have a school vegetable garden? A healthy lunch program with meals for all? How about the student services offerings? How safe and welcoming is the campus?
Thanks to @earthlyeducation.bsky.social
Thanks to @earthlyeducation.bsky.social
Wife: use the newspaper to get that spider down Me *reads the news out loud* Spider *depressed* holy shit
Feels like we're at max loose threads right about now...
Obscene
The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.
It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....
The governor of Arkansas shut down Little Rock public schools for an entire year rather than integrate them. (photo via Steve Suitts' book, Overturning Brown) I didn't learn this in history class, did you?
If only we could reverse mix our mistakes, from what we said to bombs we dropped....
How does this so-called "journalist" sleep at night? How do WSJ editors? May their lies haunt them for a thousand lifetimes.
“Ghost the Patriarchy”. Corinne Loperfido
"If the president can change the rules at will and is also not himself subject to consequences for breaking the law, then the rule of law does not functionally exist."
Stomping out the arts or grossly cheapening the arts is a signature move of this administration.
“I wish to get… America out of my head and be sane a part of every day.” Thoreau
🤔 💀
Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.
an escape room where the only way to get out is to write the novel you tell everyone is almost done
What the actual hell.
"and live again, thoughtless, /dreamless" Beautiful
Those of us who are dismissed as irrelevant are, in a way, freer. Who expects to have a moment where they are seen, really seen, by someone who comfortably goes about unseen?
Displaced 12 times, musician Ahmed Abu Amsha teaches children to play and sing in a tent—transforming trauma into fleeting joy. 🎵 “We sing for peace, we sing for life, we sing for #Gaza.” 🎶 Full story: news.un.org/en/story/202...
I miss boredom
❝Israel is manipulating the memory of the Holocaust as a justification for perpetrating the same in Gaza as a genocide against Palestinians… This is clearly the last stage of ethnic cleansing by means of genocide.”
Source?
Wolf packs in the wild are family groups. And rather than engaging in frequent dominance battles, wild wolf pack behavior is characterized by cooperation and mutual care. phys.org/news/2021-04...
