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gym selfies and poetry 🏳️‍🌈 NYC same handle on tiktok #lunchpoems

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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · Aug 14

Today's poem: Heather Christle, "Perfect Song"
#lunchpoems

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 14h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 15h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 5h

this is me.

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h

protest songs. marching songs. “we shall overcome”, battlehymn of the republic, etc.

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h

(i know that’s neil diamond not robyn)

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h

yeah so what we need is for Robyn to write political resistance songs

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h

i wish we as americans would rediscover the political power of public singing

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h

the guy who owns madison square garden used theirs to build a database of people who say things he doesn’t like so they can face scan and ban them from the venue. like normal people.

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h

haha that one rankled didn’t it

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h

go back to england!

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h

quads / calves ✅

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h

Complete Body 19th street

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 7h

devon

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 8h

the new gym has no 35lb plates. which is such a great move honestly.

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 8h

today’s workout playlist is the soundtrack of Ken Burns’s The Civil War

Bernice Johnson Reagon & Vocal Group - We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder

YouTube video by Jan Hammer

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 9h

tiktok started serving me pudding mit gabel videos and i am grateful to be able to participate vicariously in this cultural moment.

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 9h

when you watch comparisons from a few years ago it’s especially clear. whether or not he merits a dementia diagnosis the cognitive function is going fast.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 12h

that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 12h

that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain --

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 12h

that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion --

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 12h

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us --

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 12h

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 12h

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 12h

We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 12h

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.