Jeanann Verlee
@jeaverlee.bsky.social
Poet. Performer. Former punk rocker. linktr.ee/jeaverlee jeanannverlee.com
Trumpism is bad, he doesn’t want to end foreign wars and he’s not gonna make things cheaper. Democrats, this is your moment to narrate what’s happening.
I sincerely pray that the weight of your mediocrity and cowardice weighs on your ballsack every night heavier than lead.
Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · last yr.Mayor Ras Baraka has been released, but he should never have been arrested by Trump to begin with.
They're firing black people from the federal government. That's it. There's no nuance to this. It's just racism straight up.
Jan Edmiston@jledmiston.bsky.social · last yr.This makes me want to vomit. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
The Klan and ICE agents both wear masks. And they do so for the same reason.
fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget
I’m over half a century old. I can guarantee that being “inconvenienced by strangers”(aka dominated by said stranger) has never once been okay. Please trust your gut on my “don’t-talk-to-me expression.”
Nancy French@nancyfrench.bsky.social · last yr.Unpopular opinion: I know it's cool to wear your earbuds and carry a book while pasting a disinterested, don't-talk-to-me expression on your face, but I like to talk to the person sitting beside me on airplanes. I liked it when we were willing to be inconvenienced by strangers.
This alarm has been ringing in my chest since the Jan 6 coup attempt. Capitalism kills.
Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · last yr.I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
to all of the Democratic senators who voted yes, on Bondi, how are you sleeping at night knowing that our government is kidnapping, torturing, and imprisoning innocent people?
In under 80 days.
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · last yr.If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
The clearest interpretation yet of this nonsense windbagging.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.you, a rube: “i want my kid to grow up to be a doctor or an engineer or a teacher” lutnick, a genius: “to make america great again your child will make iphones that they will not be able to afford”
There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.
Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
Sen. @corybooker has committed to filibustering the business of the Senate to bring attention to the lawlessness of the Trump Administration until he can no longer stand or speak. The least we can do is keep him company for awhile. Watching www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
Matt McDermott@mattmfm.bsky.social · last yr.Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk. Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...
America: Where folks with power do nothing to bridle him because they’re *afraid of being yelled at* …while folks with zero power are afraid of not surviving.
Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · last yr.From the end of this morning’s WP article on Trump’s economic plans everybody’s mad about. 1) Nobody — not even powerful rich CEOs — contradict Trump to his face because they’re afraid of being yelled at. 2) Their strategy is hoping they can survive this until he leaves.
Attacking knowledge, information, learning, science, libraries, schools: to keep people clueless and compliant. Fight back: read, speak out, communicate, learn, and share with others.
In this interview Schumer is so delulu and out of touch and wrong. I vote in CA but if you’re a NY voter, I hope you alll can find someone to primary him. He is unfit for the moment as are many of his colleagues.
Buy and love this book as much as I do. ✨
University of Alberta Press@ualbertapress.bsky.social · last yr."What gorgeous magic Baird excavates from human circumstance. Rich with celebration, grief, and a touch of science, WHEN WHALES WENT BACK TO THE WATER navigates a labyrinth of survivals.” @jeaverlee.bsky.social , author of prey bit.ly/3DNesb7 @eramosageese.bsky.social #poetry #books #reading
Trump: "We brought back free speech in America. Free speech." This is a flagrant lie. Today he told universities they would be punished if they allowed protests of or criticisms of Israel, a clear violation of the First Amendment.
38,000 workers didn’t die building the Panama Canal, and the 5,000 who did die were almost all Afro-Caribbean workers who toiled in segregated conditions under white American supervisors.
NYC knows that we do not need another harassing egomaniac bully in office. We know he stands up only for himself and not us, not women and not the elders who he left to die while grandstanding. #hellNoCuomo
