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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · Dec 12

By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - via @wellcommunity.bsky.social.

Pity the Nation

Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves ...

The whole of the poem in the screenshots.

Poem "Pity the Nation" divided into two screen shots:
Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them

Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves

Pity the nation that raises not its voice
Except to praise conquerors
And acclaim the bully as hero
And aims to rule the world
By force and by torture

Pity the nation that knows
No other language but its own
And no other culture but its own

Pity the nation whose breath is money
And sleeps the sleep of the too well fed

Pity the nation oh pity the people
who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away

My country, tears of thee
Sweet land of liberty!

Entire poem in alt text of first picture.

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 13h

Another: "We are the United States of America, not India. Sanctioning statewide holidays for non Judeo-Christian religions is wrong."

Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 13h

I knew if I logged into Twitter, it would take me 30 seconds to find this kind of reaction.

I was wrong. It was more like 33.

Hate-addled maniac railing that Diwali is ABSOLUTELY NOT AN AMERICAN HOLIDAY! (All-caps theirs, of course.)

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, I love the feel of that material. It's on the list of what I look for. We have a wider range of alternatives, which is great. But it's still mostly plastic, plastic, plastic - which is not.

Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 12h

I did not know this!

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joeflower.bsky.social @joeflower.bsky.social · 12h

True. "Woke" literally means "awake, aware of the realities of the situation."

When strangers, awed by Siddhartha Gautama, asked him if he was a spirit or saint of some kind he said no. "What are you, then?" They asked.

He said, "I am awake."

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 13h

Found this artist at the Maker Faire. No idea what I'm going to do with the patch, but I could hardly leave it there, now could I?

Purple woven patch with a cat silhouette and the words "Sometimes antisocial, always anti-fascist." Plus bookmark for Library Cat Designs/Green Nerd Designs.

Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 13h

Another: "We are the United States of America, not India. Sanctioning statewide holidays for non Judeo-Christian religions is wrong."

Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 13h

I knew if I logged into Twitter, it would take me 30 seconds to find this kind of reaction.

I was wrong. It was more like 33.

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 13h

I knew if I logged into Twitter, it would take me 30 seconds to find this kind of reaction.

I was wrong. It was more like 33.

Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 14h

Hot damn! The "Parents Television Council" bites the dust. A win, y'all - we've got a win!

www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

A one-time 'conservative superstar' in California just went bankrupt

Seth MacFarlane said its criticism was "like getting hate mail from Hitler."

www.sfgate.com

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 14h

What happens when you leave the nature and value of your town vulnerable to the whims of the richest people on the planet. www.sfgate.com/food/article...

News flash: they do not care about you, and you can't make them.

Tiny Bay Area town still stirred up after Amazon closes its Whole Foods

The store was known as a community hub for over 30 years.

www.sfgate.com

Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 14h

1. I love David Simon more every time I learn something new about him.

2. I first thought he sat down for an interview with Ben Shapiro and my teeth all fell out.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 14h

Ha! I have no idea why this happened, or where the little darlings came from. I suspect there were tiny bulbs in a potted plant I bought from someone - garage sale, Craigslist, dunno. But I'm blown away how fragrant two little blooms can be, and six more on the way!

Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 14h

When a baby narcissus volunteers out of nowhere, there's still joy to be had. What a wonderful surprise!

Tiny narcissus flower, another one peeking from behind, against a blurred outdoor background.

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Bob A @onkelbob.bsky.social · 16h

The reason why Columbus Day came into being is also informative. Like yesterday's antifa started in the Weimar Republic, this one is just as telling - they know the history and want to erase it.

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 16h

This - both the passion and content.

The merchants of "the educated elite", "political correctness", "cancel culture", and every other phrase weaponized against the rise of the rest of us - they've won.

From the idiocy of "Gulf of America" to the heartbreak of anti-trans violence - they've won.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h

I was a columnist at Harper's during #metoo, which was apparently the bridge too far for the publisher; the magazine swung right, starting with attacks on feminism and defenses of abusers. Needless to say, I departed.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16h

i'm out of wine but there's a cat on me

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16h

Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me.

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 16h

"Outrageously, Christopher Columbus has been a prime target of a vicious and merciless campaign to erase our history, slander our heroes, and attack our heritage."

As usual, "our" excludes non-white people, historians, educated citizens - anyone with a clear-eyed view of US history. The enemy.

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 1d

Rayon makes me sob. It flows so beautifully, feels lovely, and is completely irresponsible.

Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 1d

I've got 30 more pounds to go, so I've been in the peculiar mode of buying temporary clothes. Very few new, mostly thrift, eBay, Poshmark, and shopgoodwill.com. I'm paying attn to quality and content, less to brand. In time, new clothes with more of an eye to duration. I do keep clothes forever!

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 1d

Not dissing the young man in question in any way whatsoever. But this sure reads like the Church essentially searched around for the best young body to hang a sales pitch on, and if not this one, they'd find another. abc7news.com/post/pope-le...

Pope Leo XIV declares teen computer whiz Carlo Acutis the first millennial saint

Pope Leo XIV has declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church's first millennial saint. Leo also canonized another popular Italian figure who died young, Pier Giorgio Frassati.

abc7news.com

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 1d

Dropped a few sizes, so replacing a lot of clothes. Found that, with all we know about microplastics and landfills full of clothes, polyester and nylon clothes still dominate by far, especially at mid- to lower price points. We've got to do better.

I know, the world is burning. But still.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 1d

one of the most embarrassing ways to introduce yourself to your new colleagues i have ever heard

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

The Bari Weiss “let’s do the fucking news” thing is so funny because it confirms that she thinks she’s in a Sorkin show just like all her nemeses

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Janet Webb @janetwebb.bsky.social · 1d

Guess they bribed Tim Cook with enough money.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE

🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Angie Coiro @angiecoiro.bsky.social · 1d

Major points to @thecontrarian.bsky.social for their Stephen Miller pic selection. It's like someone unearthed a Nazi blow-up doll.

A truly disturbing snapshot of a dead-eyed, soul-bereft thug, lips locked in the position in which they left Trump's equally disturbing nether regions.

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