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Writer and professor. Books and articles on American poetry, including the Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary Poetry and the New Anthology of American Poetry. No DMs. "Tell all the truth but tell it slant." --Emily Dickinson

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From the neoliberal community on Reddit: U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Explore this post and more from the neoliberal community

www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal...

03.03.2026 08:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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They Helped Plan the January 6 Rally. Now This Events Company Rakes In Millions in Federal Contracts The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.

"They Helped Plan the January 6 Rally. Now This Events Company Rakes In Millions in Federal Contracts"

10.03.2026 17:12 👍 77 🔁 48 💬 3 📌 1

How disgusting is it that the heroes who stopped the January 6 coup have to even bring this lawsuit

10.03.2026 22:28 👍 927 🔁 333 💬 22 📌 5
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DOJ is Hiding Trove of Documents About Trump’s 13-Year-Old Accuser Why can’t we see the all the files in the 3501.045 sequence?

🚨🚨 Dozens of documents detailing FBI interviews with an Epstein victim who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her as a 13-year-old are being kept under wraps.

10.03.2026 20:15 👍 1756 🔁 976 💬 87 📌 51

In one account Operation Epic Fury is winding down, "nearly over," one of those 2-week outbursts of violence.

In another account Epic Fury is going full-tilt, with the U. S. sinking 16 vessels and Iran vowing to block all oil exports.

Nine Americans killed so far, 1800 Iranians. More to come.

11.03.2026 07:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

JUST IN: Democrats flip a seat in the New Hampshire state House.

Dem Bobbi Boudman has won today’s special election, NHJournal reports.

(Boudman was the Dem nominee in 2024 & lost by 14%; Trump won here by 9%.)

This is Dems’ third legislative flip so far this year, after Texas and Arkansas.

11.03.2026 01:57 👍 4455 🔁 966 💬 40 📌 57

Here we go, into the quagmire.

Additionally, we are using the same Technology and Missile capabilities deployed against Drug Traffickers to permanently eliminate any boat or ship attempting to mine the
Hormuz Strait. They will be dealt with quickly and violently.
BEWARE! --Trump, Truth Social

11.03.2026 02:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mississippi senator to face a prosecutor she blocked from the federal bench, CNN projects Mississippi’s Senate primaries set up a general election showdown between an incumbent and a challenger she blocked from federal judgeship.

Mississippi senator to face a prosecutor she blocked from the federal bench, CNN projects

https://fascinating.news/r/K1lsOJAV

11.03.2026 01:32 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Supreme Court Abuse of the Shadow Docket Under Trump The Court has sided with the administration 80 percent of the time when making “emergency” rulings, often without revealing its reasoning.

But we loved with a love that was more than love--
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

11.03.2026 02:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Operator, I would like to place a long-distance call to my sense of well-being.

11.03.2026 01:14 👍 55 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 0

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

10.03.2026 15:40 👍 11037 🔁 4496 💬 3 📌 0
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Trump’s economy was already exploding the national debt before his $1 billion-a-day war in Iran. Analysts warn about what comes next Where will you be in the third quarter of 2027?

Fortune Magazine says that our Sociopath in Chief is accelerating his bankrupting of the nation. And bankruptcy is the one business thing he knows how to do. Recurrent bankruptcy is his theme.

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-e...

11.03.2026 01:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The SAVE ACT is dying in the Senate! Great!👍🏽

11.03.2026 01:21 👍 131 🔁 25 💬 4 📌 0
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When Will the War End? Trump’s Responses Are All Over the Place.

Trump is Afraid.

If he continues the war there's no end in sight. He killed Khamenei and another, younger model pops up in its place.

But if he declares victory and leaves, he has gotten precisely nothing for all the deaths and costs.

He doesn't know what to do.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

11.03.2026 01:21 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
GA-14

GA-14

With 65% in, Harris holds 40% to Fuller's 34.3%.

All 3 Dems combined hold 44.1% to the GOP's combined 55.5%.

Trump won GA-14 by 37 points, so if this holds it'd effectively be a 26-point overperformance for Harris/Dems.

11.03.2026 00:23 👍 141 🔁 39 💬 4 📌 9
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Trump, Rubio, and Hagsett are lying about this war. Neither one of them can answer anything about this war. America needs to see these briefings because the American people didn't sign up for a war, a higher cost of living, or no insurance.

#Resist
#Resistance
#DemVoice1
#ProudBlue
#Pinks

11.03.2026 00:23 👍 78 🔁 57 💬 2 📌 2
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You better believe we’ll be investigating.

newrepublic.com/post/207555/...

10.03.2026 22:45 👍 1575 🔁 733 💬 152 📌 68

Oh ffs. Witkoff apparently went on TV today and said that Russia told him they're not helping Iran and we can trust the Russians and take them at their word.

We have idiots in charge.

10.03.2026 21:01 👍 720 🔁 185 💬 72 📌 15
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WATCH — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Every dollar we spend bombing people in the Middle East is one we’re not spending here at home. We’re always told we don’t have enough money for schools or healthcare or for veterans, but there’s always enough to bomb people on the other side of the world.”

10.03.2026 22:39 👍 9747 🔁 3120 💬 247 📌 143

So when are Republican lawmakers going to admit this president is endangering not just the U.S. but the entire globe and stop him before he does even more damage?

10.03.2026 19:31 👍 2367 🔁 774 💬 205 📌 32

Yesterday's peace talk is today's alternative fact.

AP - US and Iran dig in and ramp up threats as war rages with no end in sight

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a cartoon of superman talking to himself in the mirror ALT: a cartoon of superman talking to himself in the mirror

Trumpland is bazzaro world to reality.

09.03.2026 23:28 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Down and down into the pain.

AP - US and Iran dig in and ramp up threats as war rages with no end in sight

10.03.2026 18:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This👇. Ukraine must understand that nobody in the Trump family, or government, can be trusted to be honest brokers in any business deal. Ukraine should protect its drone technology. It’s the greatest asset it has and its best negotiating tool.

10.03.2026 05:09 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Talarico and Ossoff would make quite a team in the Senate.

10.03.2026 05:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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There’s never enough money for schools or healthcare or veterans.

But there’s always enough money to bomb people on the other side of the world.

We can support the democracy movement in Iran without bombing innocent schoolchildren and sending our American troops off to die.

09.03.2026 23:16 👍 3077 🔁 1070 💬 92 📌 36

"The Weave" pertains to policy as well as speechifying, but sadism is the thread.

Yesterday afternoon Trump was conciliatory, but in the evening he was menacing: “We will hit them so hard that it will not be possible for them or anybody else helping them to ever recover that section of the world.”

10.03.2026 05:09 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Yes, Mr. Putin, whatever you say.

Most heinously, Trump’s 28-point “peace” plan last November incorporated everything that Putin/Russia dreamed of extracting from Ukraine, and for good reason: The proposal came from Moscow, passed from Putin’s flunky to Trump’s. (Jackie Calmes, LA Times)

10.03.2026 01:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seems like a misunderstanding.

AP - Trump said “we’re really bringing down prices.”

Gas prices have risen 20% in the past month to a national average of $3.48 a gallon.

But Trump didn’t bother to address that, saying of prices that, “We’re even bringing them down further. They’ll be way down.”

09.03.2026 23:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0