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Production editor at a large publishing house and author of the poetry collections Purpose and Devil Piss and We Go Seasonal.
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I’m imagining this will likely cause the unnecessary deaths of many Americans, but hey, we continue to be great. Maybe we should all just take a swim in raw sewage and drink led-contaminated water and call it a day.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This happens in North Korea, Russia, and now it's happening here. MAGA is not American.

submitted 42 days ago • 221 comments

Waiting to witness the Trump cronies start devouring one another.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

“‘Many people don’t realize how high the American quality of life is because of the competent and stable enforcement of regulations, and if that goes away a lot of lives are at risk,’ said [the] co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Project on the Economic Analysis of Regulation”

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

“These are complicated programs to run . . .” said Ken Jockers, the executive director of . . . a social services organization . . . that operates Head Start programs. “A big part of what makes that possible is the skilled, smart support that we get that understands our region and our challenges.”

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

“Head Start employees in five of the program’s 10 regions — Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle — had . . . been laid off, according to . . . Katie Hamm, a former official with the federal [ACF].“ How will these programs continue to exist?

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump Admin's termination of all staff at the Office of Head Start in New York is a malicious assault on NY children and families. This is yet another vital program Trump is willing to gut to pay off his billionaire donors. Read my statement below:

submitted 66 days ago • 10 comments

MAGA: "Vaccinating my child is against my deeply held religious beliefs." ME: "Oh, honey . . . if you had any deeply held religious beliefs, you never would have voted for an adulterous, lying rapist."

submitted 87 days ago • 226 comments

“‘If anybody needed a clearer sign that this administration gives not a single damn for the people of the United States, this is it,’ Matthew Tejada, a former E.P.A. official who is now a senior vice president for environmental health at the Natural Resources Defense Fund.” Another atrocity.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

“ ‘We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,’ Vought said in a video. . . . ‘When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.’ “

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

The hideous actions of the Trump administration continue. I hope all the patriots who voted for him are proud.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration is firing so many federal employees that agencies/departments will no longer be capable of running properly or at all. How this will play out is becoming scarier by the moment.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Let’s see if this can be stopped. I really, really hope so.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Heart breaking.

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Just deactivated my Facebook. Felt so goooood.

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Stopped in my local bookstore, Terrace Books, and discovered that I had totally missed that a new collection of poetry by Diane Seuss came out last year, so I of course bought it. I don’t get excited over new work by many poets these days, but I definitely do over hers.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Outraged. Elon Musk should be arrested. No to him accessing the Treasury payments system, and no to the push to end USAID. I emailed my senators and house representative. Consider contacting yours if these actions disturb you.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Dear lord, I’m going to stop reading the news and start watching Can You Feel the Beat: The Lisa Lisa Story.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

Watching the movie Your Monster caused us to start watching Beauty and the Beast, the TV series starring Linda Hamilton that began in 1987. Now I can’t stop speaking like Vincent, the Beast. I don’t know how I didn’t appreciate his voice more in my early teens when I caught the occasional episode.

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments