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From Dachau to Delaney Hall

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Lula Goes HARD

Beautiful 🤌🏼✨️ 'The Light Continues' by Linda Gregg

A reminder to people who call themselves "Christians." And this is from the Old Testament, which some believe overrides the teachings of Jesus. ⬇️

HILLARY CLINTON: "I continue to believe that Putin has things on Trump. I continue to believe that he is holding photos, videos, whatever it might be... "When we finally see all the Epstein files, I think even the people who supported Trump are going to be shocked by what it shows about Trump."

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“Decapoda, whose blood / contains copper, like the blood / of snails and spiders, and is therefore blue, / which would have pleased my mother, // whose own marriage cracked under pressure, / steamed and fizzled while my father drowned / in scotch” —George Bilgere, “Lobsters” @upittpress.bsky.social

That’s the way we like it #Talarico4TX

Protect this Young WOMAN at all Cost!!

OBAMA: "Trump is focused on enriching himself & his family/friends. A Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon, so he paid a Trump lawyers $50 million — and lo & behold! The pardon falls out of the sky... We’ve never seen a president straight-up grifting on your dime like this."

911……. I’d like to report a murder! #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1

new york forever. FUCK ICE.

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/h...

We should have more ideas

#momsky#sheshed #momthevote

Word is 👇🏻

“The movement of the poem should be like a canal, with a volta that surprises the reader.” —Henri Cole buff.ly/VJICsGH

Neil Bush, the brother of former President George W. Bush, says he voted for James Talarico in Texas.

Terrific and scary: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

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Ted Cruz's former intern and organizer for the largest conservative youth summit in Texas has just confirmed he voted for James Talarico.

A very distinctive list.

Good god, another school shooting. An elementary school this time. Three precious babies, aged 5, 8 and 11, and their teacher—all gunned down in Bend, Oregon. The shooter was a teenager, shot dead by a bystander, notably, before police even arrived. It’s the guns. It’s. The. Guns.

Jon Ossoff is very damn good at this.

I am thinking of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and how they might be celebrating.

“My father, / lymph node masses fading from / his x-rays, said surviving one thing / means another comes and kills you. / He’s dead, and so, I trust him.” —John Murillo, “On Confessionalism” @commonmag.bsky.social @fourwaybooks.bsky.social www.thecommononline.org/on-confessio...

Do I think Trump is a Nazi? No. His animal brain doesn’t permit him to claim anything so specific. But his governing instincts are clearly fascist and his electoral success has culled actual Nazis out from society’s wretched little crevices and into the open.

Holy shit

Lunch today with my friend Claudia who is a genius and will be reading from and talking about her new book Triage tonight for @litquake.bsky.social in Oakland.

Is there really going to be a publicly televised execution by firing squad in America in 2026? And why does this surprise me?

a masterclass in alt text

Deeply American sentence (from Davy Crockett’s wikipedia page)

Some ~personal~ news: After five years, I have been laid off from @the-independent.com. I am grateful for the time I have had there. With that in mind, I am absolutely looking for new work opportunities, especially ahead if the midterms. My email is EMGarcia2009@gmail.com. My signal is emgarcia.85