"First Draft: 🍁 It’s a Huge Scandal That Trump Is Plunging Us Into ‘War’ With Canada" The president has opened up another front in his economic hellscape and it should be an all-consuming scandal that the GOP lets him do it.

First Draft: 🍁 It’s a Huge Scandal That Trump Is Plunging Us Into ‘War’ With Canada

The president has opened up another front in his economic hellscape and it should be an all-consuming scandal that the GOP lets him do it. Plus, Hakeem Jeffries’s secret meeting with Jared Kushner.

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The key, the lock, the shadow, the walnut armoire. #details #abstractions #keys #locks

The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.

The caterpillar of a monarch on one of the marsh milkweeds in our garden this August. If she survives, pupates, hatches, and makes it to Mexico, she may overwinter there, fly north to the Gulf Coast next spring, mate, lay eggs & launch the next generation of monarchs in 2027. #butterfly #miracle

Trump Used Own Staff as Decoy During Iranian Assassination Threat Donald Trump let the press pool and some of his staff think he was on Air Force One, while really he had been smuggled in a catering cart onto a different plane.

Trump Used Own Staff as Decoy During Iranian Assassination Threat

Donald Trump let the press pool and some of his staff think he was on Air Force One, while really he had been smuggled in a catering cart onto a different plane.

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When it comes to your children’s health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ immunization recommendations have not changed.

Trump says his occupation of DC is about "law and order" but we know it's about fear and control. DC belongs to the people who live there, not this wannabe dictator. At the one-year mark of Trump's occupation, we are in steadfast solidarity with the movement for a #FreeDC.

Irish novelist Edna O'Brien in her London home, 1971. Photograph by Irish photographer John Minihan. #genius #writers #Irish #trailblazer #portrait

Trump's pea-brained decision to go to war with #Iran has truly fucked everyone, most significantly himself. Unbelievable incompetence and cruelty, mixed with a toxic ignorance of the facts on the ground (and in the water). We're now stuck in a new Mar-a-Swampo of Trump's own making. #war #fuckup

Iran Issues List of Demands, Dampening Hopes of Reopening Strait of Hormuz

The head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed until the United States met certain conditions.

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"...Admit impediment..." With apologies to Bill Shakesp. #rock vs. #hardplace #stones #boulders #blocks #obstacles #hunkeringdown #refusingtomove

Second of two poems in Issue 71 of The Tampa Review. (From my m.s., "Wissahickon," now knocking on the doors of some publishers.) Many thanks to TR poetry editors: Paul Corrigan & Jodi Johnson. @bdralyuk.bsky.social @deanbrowne.bsky.social @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social @macdowell1907.bsky.social

First of two poems in Issue 71 of The Tampa Review. (From my m.s., "Wissahickon," now knocking on the doors of some publishers.) Many thanks to TR poetry editors: Paul Corrigan & Jodi Johnson. #poems #parents #grief #unsaying

A gorgeous purple bromeliad from the tropical botanical garden in Naples, #Florida. Photo taken this past March. #tropicals #bromeliads #gardens #flowers

Making fun of Taco always hilarious 🤣😂🤣😂 #belgium #fifa

#Trump continues his corrupt sale of Presidential pardons and his assault on our environment in a joint poisoning of our air and our body politic. #pardons #pollution @joncooper-us.bsky.social @karenzraick.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/u...

Trump Pardons Violators of the Clean Air Act and a Major Donor

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I'm sorry Martha Stewart, but "Busy-Day Dump Cake" is NOT a good moniker for this otherwise delicious-looking confection. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..." #MissNamed #MissStake #MissInformation #MissNomer

A purple-blossomed, silver vase plant aka Aechmea fasciata, which also comes in green-leafed varieties, as well as ones with cream, pink, and red flowers. A bromeliad. Taken this past March at the Naples Botanical Garden in Naples, Florida. #Florida #tropicals #Naples #gardens

We would recommend getting an ICE whistle and staying connected to local alert networks as we continue to receive reports of raging enforcement activity affecting neighborhoods. Please do what you can to protect your loved ones and your community! ✊💚

Susan Collins votes with Donald Trump 95% of the time. I will vote with Maine 100% of the time.

Remembering today my great uncle Robert killed at the Somme This poem by Longley juxtaposes his father’s war memories with a killing from the Troubles Remembering too, Robert’s brother Tom who came home & never spoke of it – ‘dying for King and Country, slowly’ #poetry #poemoftheday #LestWeForget

Führer von Trumpf's Justice Dept quashed probe into clemency for fraudster—who bilked 10,000 Americans out of millions of their life savings. Fraudster paid Catholic priest, #Trump's friend, to lobby for commutation of 7-year sentence. #corruption #Injustice www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...

Trump Administration Shuttered a Criminal Probe Into Fraudster’s Clemency

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Exotic summer-flowering bulb opens its shocking pink (Gay Pride, anyone?) flower today in our garden. At least here, our local village chapter of the American Legion can't object to our "flag." #GayPride

After 45 years... #quartets #retirement #lastseason #goodbye #farewell #endings

“Balogun is an American by virtue of.. wait for it… birthright citizenship.” I wrote about the USMNT & how, despite Trump & Miller’s racist ranting & the DHS/groyper tweet yesterday, at this World Cup, immigration is a blessing & diversity is strength.

Trump Admin Tries to Jump on Team USA World Cup Bandwagon… But Makes Racist Fool of Itself

A very diverse USMNT is filled with immigrants and the children of immigrants, while its top scorer is also the ideal advertisement for birthright citizenship. But don't tell that to Trump's DHS.

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On this day— #Juneteenth —that commemorates the end of chattel slavery in America, I'm remembering the Tulsa Massacre of 1921. No reparations and no justice were ever provided for the hundreds of survivors. #tulsaoklahoma #TulsaMassacre #Shame #Crime

Happy that two of my poems appear in Issue 71 of "The Tampa Review." Looking forward to receiving a printed copy soon. #poems #poetry #childhood #parents #goodmagic #badmagic @utampapress.bsky.social

Wonderful Portuguese cows, near the site the Cromeleque na Herdade dos Almendres, one of the oldest megalithic sites in Europe circa 6,000 B.C., in the Early Neolithic. (Photo taken on January 2, 2025.) #cows #magic #megaliths #Portugal #cromlech #travel

From Amy Clampitt's "What The Light Was Like." #cats #interiors #catpoems #gardens

The Waterfall," by Amy Clampitt... from her book, "Archaic Figure," 1987. But it could have been written yesterday or a minute ago or will be... next year. #amyclampitt #poetry #enduring #ephemeral

Afternoon narcissus. #daffodils #April #spring #lightslant #beauty #flowerporn