From the universe where Trump regularly lobs bombs on every legitimate question concerning him until there is so much smoke in the air that any shiny object catching the eye becomes the headline of the day and all objectivity and navigation around him are lost by design.

Lake Louise

A passage from the Tao that’s frequently worth revisiting.

A lot of “allies” are going to turn in ways you didn’t expect and it’s because they have the economic and political incentives to do so. Even as the Right gets more extreme, they’re going to normalize it and culture is going to shift fundamentally.

Take this time to reorient and prepare.

This here is the strategic underpinning of the new Indivisible guide. Backlash is coming - and it's up to all of us to harness and direct it to defeat or delay what's coming. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Musk and the oligarchs using Trump will introduce terrible austerity and crash our standards of living.

Now is the time to get prepared, work on yourself, get your affairs in order, and engage in solidarity with coworkers and your community.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/beginning-...

If Musk does to America what he did to Twitter, we are ALL screwed. No matter your tax bracket.

Proud to say I’ve never been taken in for a single moment by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an angry, irresponsible nut whose anger, irresponsibility and nuttery I’ve been documenting in my writing for more than 20 years now. A few examples, re-upped from a July 2023 thread on the old site.… /1

This is basically Dunkirk. After that the allies felt hopeless, four years later they crushed them. So will we

hills of the forest mine
a Winter spirit

It was a very interesting kitchen, with bright red walls and icy white cabinetry. Closing my eyes, I could picture the white-and-red tiled counter-tops and floor. I could feel the cool ceramic pieces on which I stepped;

The poetry of the night sky, adrift like a paper boat, careless of landfall, happy to be itself.

It's hard to make money from poetry, but harder to make poetry from money

jump-ing
moon to moon
by puddle

bardofcumberland.com/poetry/

#haiku #poetry #poetrylovers

obsessed with this photo of cows watching the northern lights. it's the scene in a muppet movie that's so surprisingly touching you start to cry

(photographer: @ChrisReichert3 on twitter)

Trying to get back into online poetry feels like electric shock treatments. Not sure where my artistry ended, and my healing practice began. Currently trying to align the two.