Jesus Christ, I'm old...that means my record hit 37 years.
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Jesus Christ, I'm old...that means my record hit 37 years.
And nobody was trying to burn down the white schools. Or churches.
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
Dumb move. They should stay home.
youtu.be/_Nwmwy21rAY?...
Looks like they're literally sandbagging the press about the Epstein Files.
For sandbagging the press if they ask where the fuck the Epstein files are.
Great to play CBGBs with these guys - the bathroom has true character. #blastfromthepast #thingsthatdidnthappenthisweek #trumpisdying
It's almost like a functional government would recruit those people from south of the border to be super cops and soldiers.
IRS agents used to go with me on pill mill raids back when Obama was President. They're smart guys with multiple degrees. Totally wasted on this shit detail.
Future Trump voters: "I like that Hootie. He doesn't rap!"
An exciting newish lit mag from the #PNW - my poem "Karner Blue" is included. #poetry #NewEnglandPoetryClub #butterfly #deepecology
You accidentally created a zombie. Substitute mandrake root for John the Conquerer and use rum instead of Florida water.
But I dropped this phone 5.5 years ago when I was rescuing a kitten from a burning building, and it was just returned to me by a Cub Scout who found it while digging a community garden that my generous donations funded. Yes, I texted early but I was on my way to donate plasma...
Can't wait to wake up and realize it was all just a bad dream.
I just don't want his final ride to be the hearse that carried the beloved Jimmy Carter. Can't Waste Management send a truck?
The overtime I worked didn't even cover my electric bill for July - and we went away for a week and the lights and AC were off.
Sealey Challenge, Day 29: High Windows by Philip Larkin (1974) #SealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #booksy #poetry
Trump clearly has glamour magick cast over him. When he goes, here's hoping the spell breaks and every dimwit in awe of these shithooks opens their eyes for once.
He's the worst part of the curse.
If it's a day ending in Y, Elon is punching down.
Trump is literally tilting at windmills. You couldn't write a more ridiculous villain than our President.
Her former teachers and professors say she's always been broken, and they feel the worse for knowing her.
Let it be Netanyahu's Waterloo.
Sealey Challenge, Day 28: The Black Rider and Other Lines by Stephen Crane (1895).
Oh man, that old canard!?
My 78 year old mom is the one who told me about Meidas Touch. She has been watching every morning on YouTube for a while now.
13 wars if you count that war that nasty people have been fighting against crazy people for 500 years until Gavin told them to knock it off.
Anyone who got rich off of this atrocity is a ghoul. May justice come for them and for their victims trafficked into this and other concentration camps.
Sealey Challenge, Day 27: Vladimir Nabokov, Collected Poems. @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #SealeyChallenge #poetry #booksy #Nabokov
His balls are in Trump's desk drawer along with Marco Rubio's.
Where's their orange vests? I can't see them camouflaged in with the tree.
My grandfather Lenz came home from the war with "shell shock" and alcoholism - despite being a successful newspaper ad man - because he and his tank crew killed everything in their path from Utah Beach to Germany. Take a look at their picture. Doesn't look like negotiating with evil worked.
I agree. The best time to have fixed this was yesterday. The 2nd best time is right now.
Yeah we have. My grandpa was an FBI agent from WWII through the Cold War and he told me all kinds of terrible things his bosses were up to in regards to domestic spying.
So Il Duffy will make the trains run on time...
Trump and the entire Republican party are trying to create a Kent State in every state. Getting students shot sure seems to be a goal of Project 2025.
I drifted away in my 30s after having kids & seeing no support for lgbtq folks unless you're in certain neighborhood parishes which have always operated their own way, and the hardline on abortion which hurts women AND children. If the Catholic Worker spirit returns, so will I.
Sealey Challenge, Day 26: Ataraxia Vol. I. by Calvan Vail-Burr & Myles Burr (2020). @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #SealeyChallenge #booksy #poetry #PortsmouthNH
Sandwich? It's called a hero. Just like the man who threw it.
Need a HHA, PCA, CNA, or home maker for your elderly parents? Then move to Haiti or the Philippines because they got kicked out of your town.
RESOURCE: offers best practices for responding to politicized gov investigations so that orgs can keep doing lawful, mission-based work. https://protdem.org/NonprofitInvestigationsToolkit
Can we have a class action suit against Trump, Musk, Big Balls, and the rest of these conartists?
A guy I worked with years ago was a Ranger in Operation Desert Storm and said the only people he lost got hit by trucks.
Paint rainbow crosswalks everywhere.
When I finally leave the USA, first thing I'm doing is buying an amazing Chinese EV car.
They think their camo is ao good that they have to wear bright ass traffic vests so they don't get hit by cars?
I've been doing the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social this year - a book of poetry each day of August. Yesterday's was a handmade chapbook by a friend of mine:
I have a lot of great SPAC memories: the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense tour, my mom screaming when Ray Charles took the stage, and getting yelled at by Mikhail Baryshnikov when I snuck in backstage to watch him warm up.
I used to bike around there as a child. Our neighbor who was with APD would load all our bikes as well as a dozen kids in the back of his F-350 and we'd spend the day.
At least we can all help pay for data centers! Just not healthcare for all.
Sealey Challenge, Day 25: Angel Face Trailer by Juliet Cook & Letizia Merello (Blood Pudding Press, 2010). @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #SealeyChallenge #booksy #poetry #chapbook
Right? And my damn electric bill was a nightmare. 4X what it had been, and I was away for over a week last month and didn’t have the AC and lights on.
Maxwell is probably months away from having her own talk show on Paramount giving MAGA women advice on how to spice up your marriage and interviewing Dean Cain and the heroes of ICE.
Attorney General
The LDS regret their MAGA vote yet?
He got a fake USMS badge not unlike what we'd give a child at the county fair when I was in law enforcement. At no time in his candy ass existence could he have passed police academy or any FLETC course.
“There is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven.” - Road to Perdition
This is what your MAGA family voted for. Time to have a talk with them about budget options for rest homes and how it'll be too much of a hardship to visit. Or...
Godless communists have taken over America via Trump, a Moscow stooge, and MAGA are too dumb to see it.
But the Russian petrostate says Nyet!
I mean, this shit is funny...but it's not $400 electric bill for a 2 bedroom apt for a month I was away for a week funny.
I'll comment in sheer frustration and futility on our current events - but I'm 99% poetry books, news, events & my Substack is the same, since I'm now embracing my role as a member of the New England poetry establishment in the face of so much enforced stupidity.
& now the COVID vaccine is being taken from us.
"I hope my hands don't slip upwards! That would be TERRIBLE...tee hee!"
The average age of the Fox News viewer is 70. The only people I personally know who subscribe to that POV have significant cognitive distortion and decline. I worry that this media might continue to suck in people who are experiencing similar issues as they age, especially with services gutted.
You can see the urine bag on the legt leg flap against those elephant leg trousers.
Instead of reading The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley or Ezra Pound's Cantos for the Sealey Challenge, grab a micro chap from Ghost City Press. Don't cost nothin'... @sealeychallenge.bsky.social
Open mic hosts love me as I get up and read a couple short poems and sit my ass back down. Sure, I have a few poems that go a few pages, some of my most popular and action packed poems do, but those are reserved for when I'm the feature. Leave 'em wanting more is my motto.
From his hit album Aja (1977).
Sealey Challenge, Day 24: The Wasteland (original drafts) by T.S. Eliot. Mine was a gift from Robert Taylor of the 60s folk group Changes and The Process Church of the Final Judgment - for you Apocalypse Culture fans and non-fans. @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #SealeyChallenge #booksy #poetry
Ryan and his proxy Chaya sent their rightwing outrage machine after me and a lot of pro lgbtq writers - wound up being terrific publicity and street cred for us. No weapon formed against me shall prosper! (Psalm 27:3) 🙏
...in her 80K gold Rolex Daytona.
Maxwell will have her own talk show on Paramount before long, with advice for Republican wives to keep the sizzle in their trad wife marriage.
Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism
Stay the fuck out of Boston with this Nazi shit. Mayor Wu will be defended.
I wish Liberace were President.
Are they inspectors or court house security? Either way, they're getting paid a lot more than transit cops, working beats they don't know, and not doing their real jobs.
We went away for a week and a half too, so next no electricity was used then. Can't wait to see my August bill. I worked overtime to try to get ready.
My kids' ancestors on their mother's side fought for the union, too, though being from Tennessee. Many Southerners would be wrong to assume that their people wanted anything to do with rebellion.
The West Virginia National Guard will be as welcome in Massachusetts as Yankees fans. Come here and maybe we'll head down there and take your wives and girlfriends out for a steak dinner and take your new truck you bought at 19% interest out for a Moonlight drive.
Yes. I'm treasuer of a nonprofit in California and the $$$ was not on time. There's apparently no war chest.
My electric bill was a shock last month. Sure we used AC, but we used AC last summer and every summer before and it was nowhere near that high.
Know what my office needs? Enough money to hire more social workers to actually work these caseloads as things get worse and worse.
People just allow these performative authoritarian kidnappings in our towns. But for how long?
Same. It's vile that there's a concentration camp in Burlington right near the shopping mall. That says everything about America.
These nazi assholes know what their doing.
Sealey Challenge, Day 23: The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems by Diane Wakoski (Touchstone, 1971) @sealeychallenge.bsky.social #SealeyChallenge #booksy #poetry
How do you do, fellow Democrats?
When I was a criminal investigator, these FBI agents kept their guns in their desk drawer...my grandpa was an agent and left his at home so he wouldn't get made as a copper. And they're NOT cops. They're supposed to support state and local law enforcement. Not work a beat.
Look at these incel jerkoffs terrorizing our pizza parlor. Do they look like they could handle an obstacle course?
My grandpa had fights with Hoover over the FBI spying on MLK (who Pop called a patriotic American and devout Christian) and for being friends with RFK and got sent to Cleveland for a detail as punishment. Even Hoover wasn't this bad, and he really was an awful person.
No fight. Just swarm them and buy up all the resources estate with our Massachusetts money. I'd personally rather move all the way north to the White Mountains, and it's pretty blue up there already.
Open mic hosts love me as I get up and read a couple short poems and sit my ass back down. Sure, I have a few poems that go a few pages, some of my most popular and action packed poems do, but those are reserved for when I'm the feature. Leave 'em wanting more is my motto.
Massachusetts has been annexing NH for years and if we built some better highways and maybe have the trains run in new directions to make the commute easier, millions of democrats could move in and make NH solidly blue.
We found an extra 2 billion in Massachusetts by taxing millionaires fairly.
Massachusetts signed trade agreements with some Canadian provinces months ago to help mitigate the Trump tariffs.
