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Wright/Berry/Stevens/Kinnell/O’Hara poetry spaz. Steelers/Penguins/Pirates. Pre-Redhawk Miami U. WARNING: prone to really vague posts injected with pop-media-laden references, a la Ezra Pound, but dumber and most suited for GenX’ers. Esposed and childed.
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Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.

@govkathyhochul.bsky.social The Mayor of the City of New York is being both bribed and blackmailed. He is possibly the most compromised politician in the country. You know what to do. Please save your constituent city.

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.

On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/a...

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when 9 year old Ronald McNair refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts on the Challenger space shuttle. That same library is now named after him.

It is impossible to mount resistance from Substack. Everyone presently publishing there is going to need to move off. This will take time, but it’s the truth. Don’t give them your money.