People said hardest. Some said hardest in a hundred years. You thought those people weren’t specific enough. Others said ninety-seven. The man down the hill agreed, he said I was alive then. He said everything died.
~from "Hardest"
by Philip James Shaw
AGNI Online
In 2022 I had to borrow a skateboard for the Navajo Nation parade. This time I built my own at a skate shop in Tempe. The hard part is they just had to close their storefront because of tariffs. Small businesses like this shouldn't be paying the price for bad ideas in Washington.
They call me skinhead, and I got my own beauty.
It is knife-scrawled across my back in sore, jagged letters,
it’s in the way my eyes snap away from the obvious.
~from "Skinhead"
by Patricia Smith
AGNI 36
American author #BenjaminAlireSáenz has died 📚 #CarryMeLikeWater#AristotleandDanteDiscovertheSecretsoftheUniverse#TheInexplicableLogicofMyLife#EverythingBeginsandEndsattheKentuckyClub
I strongly urge the vote-by-mail states to make it clear to both the administration and the Supreme Court that we will not comply. It's time to confront our constitutional crisis head on.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
GREAT NEWS: A judge just voided President Trump's settlement with the IRS granting him immunity from audits and referred a Trump lawyer and DOJ officials who signed off on the settlement to state bar authorities to determine if their actions violated legal ethics rules.
I wince at civic pride over imported sports ball. I wince because we should be focused on pride that leads to equity, not just proud that we can slap on makeup and a new outfit and shake it for the tourists.
Working families are losing ground as Trump's war in Iran drives up costs and erases 1.5 years of wage growth. Educators, healthcare workers, and communities deserve economic stability, not higher bills and more uncertainty.
www.epi.org/blog/trumps-...
I never watch broadcast tv unless I’m in a hotel and can someone tell me what the actual F! is Good Morning America good for? Other than selling pharma commercials.
E. Jean Carroll didn't just "accuse" Trump of sexual assault. She won a civil lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted her. She deserves for us to call it what it is.
Grown up cities, like NYC, don’t struggle with Secure Attachment and therefore can tax second homes. I’d wish such confidence from my beloved cities and towns.
Social media free zones. Whole states. Now that could get me to move somewhere! Looking to bring people, culture, business to your state…enter into legal action against perpetrators and let them do the work for you. Welcome! New Nexico is open to real world interactions!
Meta is raising the prospect of shutting down social media services in New Mexico in response to a push by state prosecutors for fundamental changes to platforms, including Instagram, to protect the mental health and safety of children.
really wishing biden had expanded and packed the court when he had the chance. really hoping progressive voices get the power and the chance again, and this time actually take it.
Trump: "We have enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world 150 times."
But I guess that's not enough because he wants $7 billion MORE for nuclear weapons.
Because that's what families are begging for: Less affordable housing, so Trump can blow up the world 151 times.
📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms.
I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.
"An entire lane of solo drivers on Denny Way between Seattle Center and I-5 can fit into one articulated Route 8 bus, and a dedicated transit lane would allow that bus to be over four times faster than driving along this section" — @cmtmosqueda.bsky.social
Cars just don't scale well in cities.
Everytime I come to Seattle now, I think…if I never see another Henry creature mural again, that’d be too soon. Seattle’s new waterfront is so beautiful but all the businesses and such are garish in their design. It’s sad. All this beautiful work plastered with cartoons.
"My adviser, Frank Conroy, said anybody who didn’t read Faulkner, and Absalom, Absalom! in particular, had as much chance of becoming an American writer as Mother Teresa."
—Peter Orner, with a cover by @liniers.bsky.social: