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everytime i begin to do something / something else intervenes, Bernadette Mayer

A.R. Ammons

Are we boarding toilet paper and pasta again? The symbolism would be so potent, responding to the effects of Trump the same way as we did a plague.

Congress—in other words Republicans—can end the madness—any time they want. The longer they don’t, the more every Republican member of Congress owns this self-imposed disaster—the shrinking of 401(k)s, the loss of jobs, the business problems, the recession, inflation, all of it.

A pair of vultures are perched near the tops of adjacent trees just down the street. Seems appropriate this morning.

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

I guess I can go back to my 20-something lifestyle of only spending money on pizza, beer, and used books. (That f'ing idiot.)

i gave a talk last night and one of the points i made is that in addition to articulating a real defense of the Constitution, the opposition to Trump needs an actual constitutional vision that it can connect to a set of material policies.

“rows of glass gotten there by logic” A poem by Martha Ronk.

Rosmarie Waldrop

To be clear: a tariff is a tax.

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

There is literally no reason to quantitatively analyze these subjects unless the end goal is to winkingly disparage women, queer people, and people of color

Michael Palmer

Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.