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Writer. Dickinson Electronic Archives 2 (@emilydickinson.org). Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, UM Terp. Poetry, queer & feminist life & practice, LGBTQ+ crit/theory. DH. Bio Susan Dickinson (https://www.emilydickinson.org/writings-by-susan-dickinson).
The Alexander Brothers now face Life in prison for their years-long sex trafficking & sexual abuse of young women & underage girls.
My take on how Jeffrey Epstein & the Alexander Brothers used the same playbook to try to intimidate victims & undermine their credibility.
youtu.be/nwZDjbDL1lI?...
Americans are working harder & longer & still can't make ends meet.
I'm proposing a bill to cut taxes for 130 million workers, paid for by a surtax on income over $1 million a year.
It's time our tax code worked for working people & the wealthiest pay their fair share.
The fuller rendition.
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.
It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.
Turning the world over to madmen. That is what is happening. Madmen.
Headlines:
3 cargo ships have been attacked.
The Strait of Hormuz remains choked off.
Reports of some Iranian oil getting through to China.
GCC slowing down oil production due to lack of storage.
Gas prices have gone up for 11 straight days.
Donald Trump is a pedophile.
Epstein files!
Cover of Howe's Penitential Cries, published in 2025 by New Directions Press: detail from The New England Primer, of a devil pursuing a male figure--superimposed on a bit of Emily Dickinson ms (we can see the pencilled word "position")
We are still making the poster, but I want my Boston-area friends to know sooner vs later that on April 3rd, at the Harvard Divinity School, there will be a symposium honoring Susan Howe & her new 📘 _Penitential Cries_--talks & readings too by Craig Dworkin & Elizabeth Willis. Pls save the date!
He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers. n.pr/4sy0uhE
He’s a raving lunatic. His voters need to acknowledge that and work with us to get rid of him ✊
Going all out on the fake job thing
It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.
Operation Epstein Fury, that's what it is.
Chapli kabab
A Pakistani dish with minced meat patty thats heavily spiced and deep fried to perfection.
Its so spicy and so good with the rice 🤤
Legacy media is failing democracy. Six years ago, I decided to do something about it. I started Democracy Docket from scratch.
Today it has 400,000+ subscribers. But to protect democracy, it needs to grow. Subscribe now: bit.ly/4qmEiFz
Perfect!!!
#Iran
#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
This Campfire Berry Cobbler is giving full wilderness goddess energy. Bubbly berries, golden topping, gooey center, and that smoky campfire magic!
Scoop it hot. Eat it like you earned it. Serve main‑character‑around‑the‑fire vibes.🔥🍓
www.loulougirls.com/easy-campfir...
A bity of a show at Thurso golf club just as the moon was rising.
Iran’s Foreign Minister says Trump derailed a potential path to de-escalation. He says Iran signaled openness to lowering tensions but Trump’s actions “almost immediately killed” that opportunity, warning if he seeks escalation, it’s “precisely what our Armed Forces have long been prepared for.”
Donald Trump doesn’t care if people live or die.
He never has and he never will.
And it makes me so fucking angry.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
Some judicial opinions have to be read in full, like the one I parse for you to night, from Judge Tunheim in Minneapolis.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Anyone else having flashbacks to the Iraq War when we were (correctly) convinced there was no legal basis for invasion & a million of us marched through the streets of London to protest?
Who’d a thunk quarter of a century later they’d have a President who makes Dubya look like Neville Chamberlain?
BREAKING: Trump was just asked if Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home: “I guess… Like I said, some people will die.”
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
