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Semi-retired writer, currently in Austin, defrocked academic, published over the years in the Austin Chronicle, Texas Observer, The Baffler, Houston Press, & (eons ago) the New Haven Advocate. Editor, Collected Early Poetry of Ezra Pound (ND, 1976}
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

Just to be crystal clear: bombing Iran is completely illegal.

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

glad that news about Juneteenth is finally reaching white people.

We are in the Caligula stage.

ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

There is always a tweet.

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

What we learned yesterday. The Times They Are a-Changin'

In a Gangster State, the dear leader wastes other people's money on military parades to broadcast his fake strength, attacks the legislative branch and destroys programs that benefit the people.

Our able men and women in uniform swear an Oath to support the Constitution—they didn’t sign up to spend the weekend in a military parade to feed the insatiable narcissism of an incorrigible insurrectionist/dictator.

Yesssssss… I love this 🙌🏼

No Kings in tiny Calistoga CA. Good turnout, high spirits, & plenty of great signs

Literary Dreams

Sorry, cancer patients, but we just don't have the money. We had to prioritize spending tens of millions on a military parade so the president could compensate for his many personal inadequacies. I'm sure you understand.

DOGE criminals caught hard at work

I am sounding the alarm as loudly as I can that Donald Trump has turned the Department of Justice into a cog in his authoritarian machine to prosecute his political opponents.

@bestese34.bsky.social Not sure if this will reach Terry Moran, but in light of ABC's reflexive cowardice, I just want to thank you for stating the simple truth. May you land on your feet elsewhere.

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

What fascism looks like

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Need an English equivalent pronto

The correct political tack here is NOT “oh good, maybe now we can get Elon to back some Democrats” It’s actually, “This convicted criminal sexual predator and his drug-addled Nazi billionaire just raped and robbed the US government and now they’re fighting over the loot.”

Frederick Douglass knew what was coming

It’s enemies all the way down.

What counts in US media politics

The Trump administration’s billion-dollar cuts to the National Institutes of Health include a $2.7 billion blow to the National Cancer Institute slashing more than a third of its funding. “For the past 50 years, every significant medical breakthrough, especially in the treatment of cancer,

Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

If you want to astound a younger American today, tell them that thirty years ago there was actually a years-long investigation into a president's personal business dealings and, even better, it centered on a real estate venture where he *lost* money.

Why report on the Resistance when you can suck up to the Masters? The latter pay better.

journalists be like please just one more profile of curtis yarvin PLEASE i swear i'll stop after this one i just need one more and then i'll be done i swear

In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection in a pool of water.