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Cuba

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Today in poems I think about a lot, "Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh

www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

Text of: Try to Praise the Mutilated World
By Adam Zagajewski
September 17, 2001

Try to praise the mutilated world.
Remember June’s long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You must praise the mutilated world.
You watched the stylish yachts and ships;
one of them had a long trip ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited others.
You’ve seen the refugees heading nowhere,
you’ve heard the executioners sing joyfully.
You should praise the mutilated world.
Remember the moments when we were together
in a white room and the curtain fluttered.
Return in thought to the concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park in autumn
and leaves eddied over the earth’s scars.
Praise the mutilated world
and the gray feather a thrush lost,
and the gentle light that strays and vanishes
and returns.

(Translated, from the Polish, by Clare Cavanagh.)

April 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM

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Prem Thakker ツ

@premthakker.bsky.social

The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission.

Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?

April 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM

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Saeed Jones

@theferocity.bsky.social

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · Apr 10

"When mass protests broke out against his policy, Biden repeatedly condemned the activists as violent and antisemitic, responding to outlier actions that didn’t represent the movement. Biden’s slander helped splinter the Democratic coalition, giving Trump a potent wedge issue." shorturl.at/K4cPI

The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals

As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.

www.thenation.com

April 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM

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Jon Bois

@jonbois.bsky.social

[at the front of a bread line] uh yeah, uh. uh, i’ll have the uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. huh. i’ll uh, i’ll. oh you know what? here’s what i’ll do. i’ll get the uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

April 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)

@brainnotonyet.bsky.social

People really haven’t accepted the reality of what has happened and what is happening.

The White House is going to go to war against our allies and is not kidding when it says it will annex and invade countries as it pleases.

George Pearkes @peark.es · Apr 10

*WHITE HOUSE MOVING ON MESSAGING PLAN TO ACQUIRE GREENLAND: NYT

Inside Trump’s Plan to ‘Get’ Greenland: Persuasion, Not Invasion
By Michael Crowley and Maggie Haberman
(New York Times) -- The island’s population might not be easily convinced as the president tries to clinch one of history’s greatest real estate deals.
President Trump’s longtime goal of claiming Greenland for America has shifted from rhetoric to official U.S. policy as the White House moves forward on a formal plan to acquire the Arctic island from Denmark.
The plan mobilizes several cabinet departments behind Mr. Trump’s years of talk about wanting Greenland, whose economic and strategic value have grown as warming temperatures melt Arctic ice.
Greenland’s size — 836,330 square miles — also offers Mr. Trump, a former Manhattan developer, the chance to clinch one of history’s greatest real estate deals.
Danish officials angrily insist that the sparsely populated island is not for sale and cannot be annexed. But Mr. Trump has made clear his determination to control it.
“We need Greenland for national security and even international security, and we’re working with everybody involved to try and get it,” he said in an address to Congress last month.
“One way or the other, we’re going to get it,” Mr. Trump added.
The White House’s National Security Council has met several times to put Mr. Trump’s words into action, and recently sent specific instructions to multiple arms of the government, according to a U.S. official.
The plan’s full details are unclear. But despite Mr. Trump’s allusions to the possible use of force, the deliberations led by the security council never seriously considered military options, the official said.
The policy instead emphasizes persuasion over coercion, and features a public relations effort aimed at convincing Greenland’s population of 57,000 that they should ask to join the United States.
Mr. Trump’s advisers have discussed using advertising and social media campaigns to sway public opinion on the island, according to another person brie…

April 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Kara Swisher

@karaswisher.bsky.social

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · Apr 7

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

April 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑

@50501movement.bsky.social

We’re building a #PeoplesMovement.

Today, over 3 million people across the country stood up to say HANDS OFF our democracy.
 And history shows that when just 3.5% of the population engages in sustained, peaceful resistance—transformative change is inevitable.

#50501movement #HandsOff #April5

April 6, 2025 at 12:00 AM

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Asawin Suebsaeng

@swin24.bsky.social

“I am not willing to go public yet but I will say this: I don’t know if I would be this worried about what will happen to the economy if Bernie fucking Sanders were president,” one big Trump/GOP donor says. “That’s how bad this is…
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

April 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Trump says he wants to send Americans to gulags in El Salvador: "I love that. If we could take some of our 20 time wiseguys that push people into subways ... if he would take them, I would be honored to give them. I don't know what the law says on that ... I'm all for it."