there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
> @covie93.bsky.social
So beautiful!
Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
Good for what ails you.
#FredAstaire
#DrumSky
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
For teens starry-eyed to angst-ridden: All are welcome at Friday's workshop on 🫀🫀LOVE POEMS🫀🫀. Just in time for the day of St. Valentine! Brookline Public Library, 3:30 pm, 2/13. Please share with those you think might be interested!
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@brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
NOW THAT MY MOTHER HAS APOLOGIZED SUSAN L. LEARY In the bathroom mirror, the soft configuration of her face. Toweling off my hair or brushing my teeth, it knows to startle, offering itself nightly in the surest flashes through mine. Eye through eye, light through light, is this mercy or a muddle of stars? A flicker of my girl-life's apocalypse. I want to say I don't care what my mother thinks of me now nor ever, but how could this be true when our mothers are the only real gods? Even now at the sink, she resists my every attempt to steady her, yet there she is looking back at me, warped to impossible perfection like one of Dali's ticking clocks. What is it I have been waiting for from this part ghost of a woman who insists on tangling the th-reads? Until, in turning from the mirror, I see my mother, seeing me as I have so badly wanted to be seen.
ORA CHE MIA MADRE HA CHIESTO SCUSA SUSAN L. LEARY (trad. it di Matteo Fais) Nello specchio del bagno, i delicati lineamenti del suo volto. Asciugandomi i capelli o lavandomi i denti, sa come sorprendermi, offrendosi ogni sera in apparizioni troppo forti perché io le possa rifiutare. Occhio nell'occhio, luce nella luce: questa è misericordia o un groviglio di stelle? Uno sfarfallio dell'apocalisse della mia vita di ragazza.Vorrei dire che non mi importa di ciò che mia madre pensa di me, né ora né mai, ma come potrebbe essere vero, quando le nostre madri sono gli unici dei reali? Anche adesso, al lavandino, lei resiste a ogni mio tentativo di metterla a fuoco, eppure eccola lì che mi guarda, deformata fino a un'impossibile perfezione come uno degli orologi molli di Dalí. Che cosa stavo aspettando da questa donna, in parte fantasma, che insiste nell'aggrovigliare i fili? Finché, voltandomi dallo specchio, vedo mia madre che mi guarda, come ho desiderato così disperatamente di essere vista.
Biggest thanks ever to Matteo Fais for translating my poem, “Now That My Mother Has Apologized," into Italian as part of an American poetry feature in Il Detonatore Magazine! This poem also appears in MORE FLOWERS, out NOW with @triohousepress.org! Check it out, friends! 💙♥️
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act?
RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger
D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war?
R: No
"I think you realize that you love a person when they do something they would consider forgettable, but you see it every time you close your eyes." -- Hanif Abdurraqib, "On Seatbelts and Sunsets"
www.triangle.house/hanif-abdurr...
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Exciting discovery!
Mind you, I'm still hoping that we one day find a book written by a medieval housewife describing daily life in detail, especially about all the bathing they did ;)
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
Boston-area friends, please join us in celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. today -- 3 p.m. at the Coolidge Corner Theater.
But...if they leave...this is always my concern when principled folks resign....
Best Twitter riposte of the day. I started the morning looking at mass protest videos uncertain whether I was watching Minneapolis or Tehran. Turns out it was both.
WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”
When is the best time to remove a leader who is prone to conspiracy theories and racial scapegoating and who has toppled one country and is threatening to invade others? If only history were clearer
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
I mean, this is an execution
We have spent more than 1,000 years trying to separate the awesome prosecutorial powers of the state from the personal whims and vendettas of the head of state.
Trump’s actions and ideology seek to reverse those gains.
Here’s the history he’d like to reverse www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-oldest...
Enormous congratulations to @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social on winning this year's National Book Award for Poetry! And what a speech that was. 🥹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKM...
You can SEE how different the priorities were back then.
