E.L. Redwine

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In case anyone needs to hear this right now.

Escapism is OKAY. I know every day lately brings another insane headline, but you HAVE to rest your mind.

The human brain wasn't meant to process the overload of information we're used to now.

DO NOT feel guilty for protecting your peace. Ever.

My father is on them right now.

This is an escalation by DHS.

Six US Citizens and permanent residents are now home after being held over 30 hours at O’Hare, transferred to Broadview, and moved across state lines.

Community pressure got them home. So many more do not have that support.

Yeah, it's probably that.

Priorities.

Because we need beauty to hold along with the pain. 🌺❤️‍🩹

Happy Women’s Day!
We do what is necessary even if it is hard and unpopular!

I think everyone should do this exercise, whether they plan to keep it to themselves or share it.

Thank you for sharing yours, Katlynn. 💝

Thank you for your kind feedback, Jen. I truly appreciate it. I am glad it resonates with you. 💝

It was a beneficial exercise. To open myself up and actually write out the things that matter to me, things I want to do, and the traits I want to embody.

Whether it’s published or not, I recommend it.

My Transgender Agenda (a poem) – E.L. Redwine In light of recent events, I thought I’d come clean and share… My Trans Agenda.

In light of recent events, I thought I’d come clean and share…

My Trans Agenda:

• Write more poetry.

• Support marginalized people.

• Stop and smell the roses (literally).

• Read and learn as much as I can.

• Thank people for their kindness.

• Appreciate the little things.

Read more here 👇

We’ve all run into Rowling’s paid trolls from the UK. They seem to have been given a script but have no original thoughts or actual knowledge about the people they are verbally assaulting.

That is where the Hasbro/HP royalties are going.

So, thanks for that, Hasbro. 🖕

This comment is dripping with sarcasm, as it should be. 👏👏👏

Your post is right on the money too. Thanks for putting this perspective out into the world. 💝

Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

Southeast Michigan Poetry Meetup
Wednesday, March 11
7-9 p.m.
Panera Bread
30955 Woodward Ave Suite 120 · Royal Oak, MI
(RSVP recommended)

Free, welcoming, thoughtful workshop for poets at all levels.

PLEASE bring copies (4-5 suggested) of an original poem to share with the group.

a man in a suit and tie is standing with his arms crossed in a room . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing with his arms crossed in a room .

I realize that this is painfully obvious but this is not proper behavior to expect from a leader,

…of shift at McDonald’s, let alone the President of the United States.

What the actual…

Instead of shooting elephants, farmers have started using bees to keep them away.

Instead of shooting elephants, farmers have started using bees to keep them away.

What exactly is the Pentagon paying these AI companies to do to us?

www.npr.org/2026/03/08/n...

TAPPER: You know that if you vote against an additional $50 billion of funding for operations in Iran, that vote will be cast as you voting against the troops.

CHRIS MURPHY: Come on. The American people do not want this war. If you support the troops, you should be voting against this war.

It could explain why Trump kept filing bankruptcy, it could have been due to money being transferred from his accounts to Putin’s, ultimately at America’s expense.

At least until Trump became more useful politically. Now he seems to be finding other ways to make his payments to Putin.

Your house left empty,
it’s silent there.
Not but a remote
in your easy chair.

~ elr

We watch as reports
begin to surface;
neglect and abuse,
torture with purpose.

To all of those,
sitting idly by,
ignoring the cries
of those who die,

the day will come
for those you love,
and then for you,
the ICE cold glove.

4/5

We somehow ignore
the brutality there,
as we sip our drink
in our easy chair.

“Who are these people?
Get out of the way.
The troops have a quota,
of people today.”

“Don’t try to resist,
You’ll get what’s coming.”
We say as we watch
agents start pummeling.

3/5

We make up ways,
to justify,
these heinous crimes,
at least we try.

“Where are they now,
which city today?”
As long as it’s blue,
we’ve nothing to say.

“Another immigrant
thinks he can run.”
Watch as he’s tackled,
as though it is fun.

2/5

We sit in comfort
and watch them there,
from the safe repose
of our easy chair.

As close as our screen
yet still far away,
“Gimme the remote.
Who was taken today?”

Hearing their cries,
and their children’s too,
we applaud the act,
as good citizens do.

1/5