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Poetry & prose. Also: travel, live music, rescue dogs, backyard chickens & all things Italy. Grateful citizen of Springsteenistan.
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Prayers for Papa Francesco.

We’ve decided to add three chicks to our flock of Easter Eggers and Barred Rocks. We’d like to try a different breed, and want them to be friendly, non-broody, heat and cold resistant and fairly reliably sexed. Bonus points for fun colored eggs. Your thoughts, keepers of #backyardchickens ?

BREAKING: every goddamn thing

Prayers for Papa Francesco.

I'm not seeing anybody talking about this yet but it's terrifying on several fronts. National Archives head resigns as Trump takes control of records www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Luckily Andre understands we can’t possibly go out for Valentine’s dinner on the penultimate night of Sanremo2025

Thanks to ONE ART for featuring my poem on valentine's day. oneartpoetry.com/2025/02/14/a...

Action made easy.

I’n not a football fan but I’m a sitting around with friends eating good food and rooting for Philadelphia fan, so 🦅 go birds! #FlyEaglesFly

Prepping for the game!

So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media

Game prep!

Reasons to be cheerful…1, 2, 3!

Musk's Traitor Tots were fired for leaking company secrets...and they've stole access to our private data. This timeline's insane.

USAID, currently being shut down by Elon Musk, purchases about $2 billion a year of rice, wheat, lentils, and peas from American farmers. TWO BILLION. Shutting down USAID harms American Farmers.

quote posts without any additional text are nice. they're very "i liked your post so much i made it a little frame"

Musk is the living embodiment of AI: a broken, tech-bro tool that inserts itself into everyone's life unsolicited and makes everything worse.

Five Things Dems Must Do to Fight Trump Now open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa... by the much-missed Tom Malinowski.

They will steal any thing, and call it purchase.

Senate Democrats are considering voting NO or delaying every Trump nominee as retaliation for his overreach on ending USAID. Smash the RT if you SUPPORT this plan. ZERO votes from Democrats!!

Hey so FYI this is why a lot of us believe billionaires should not exist. Because no one should be rich enough to topple a government

Jesuit Priest 👇🏽

People have gathered outside USAID HQ for press event with Democratic Congressmen Beyer, Raskin, Connolly and Olzewski and Senator Van Hollen where they're addressing the building's mysterious shutdown today in the midst of the Trump admin dismantling the agency. (Photos shared with me)

Something’s amiss with @msnbc.com and @cnn.com.

After a long eggless winter, Georgia O’Peep surprises us.

If this country actually hired people based solely on their competence and merit we sure as shit wouldn’t be looking at the second term of an insurrectionist felon fraud who saddled our country with $8T in new debt, lost the most jobs since Herbert f’ng Hoover, and let 500K people die on his watch.

Home at last after a brief but fraught journey.

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day NEVER FORGET!

A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . . www.history.com/this-day-in-...

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I'm honored to have my anthology mentioned in this blog post. Jeff's a friend of mine, and I've long admired his blog on music, memories, and more.

We seem to have stopped talking about drones, but I saw two large ones yesterday--one over the Delaware River, and one over West Philly.

A little happy news: a review.