They don’t even try to lie badly. Regardless of politics, it’s clear what happened. Trump and Carr tried to play Alpha. Disney bent over and took it. Jimmy went silent and hired lawyers, unions got involved, as did other organizations. Disney’s lawyers likely pointed out that Kimmel had a huge potential lawsuit due to recent Supreme Court rulings. Then a 4 billion dollar drop and massive outrage from the industry made Disney rethink. Meanwhile, White House counsel likely also told Trump and Carr that their public statements crossed a line and Kimmel would have cause. All over manufactured outrage

Trump has announced he is sending the National Guard into Memphis and Chicago. It is illegal for the Armed Forces to carry out law enforcement on behalf of the U.S. President.

for last 2 days i’ve meet black political prisoners who were incarcerated for almost half a century and still have that flame to fight but you got black folks where all they did is vote and now they are “resting”

Today, the JLM police raided two educational bookshops in East Jerusalem, confiscated books, and arrested the owners. The brother of the owners told Haaretz: "They went through the books with Google Translate and took away anything they didn't like. They even came across>>

Not to be dramatic but having good friends will really save your life.

How you treat people is your true poetics. Exploit people and you’ll tend to see language as “doing all this work for you,” when you haven’t imagined anything of substance. Craft begins in the interpersonal not the internal. How you treat people is how you’ll treat the reader

Is anyone else writing poems with absolutely no assurance they will ever be read or wanted? Could we give each other a shout out here just to say there's a road ahead? 🚦

Y’all I—

“This poem is about the Four Corners region region of the United States, a place I call home. The poem makes reference to many connections I have to the land and the people in the small mountain town where I live.” —Esther Belin #AboutThisPoem poets.org/poem/personal-poem…

Today’s liberals seem to believe all the great achievements of the Democratic Party — the New Deal, Medicare, civil rights etc — happened because people were nice and polite to saintly Democratic politicians.

really hate a "i don't write political poems, i just write about nature" writer... like you think NATURE is not political???

Brava Evie! job prescription poets.org/poem/job-prescript…

This war is vile.

I'm in *tears* - ROTFL!!!

If you are upset with Ta-Nehisi Coates wait till you read a book by James Baldwin

You protecting the river   You are who I love delivering babies, nursing the sick —Aracelis Girmay poets.org/poem/you-are-who-i…

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Horror!