BREAKING: AOC just gave the GOP a scolding as she defends her friend and colleague, Ilhan Omar! "This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America."

Let us be very clear. The Republican attacks on Ilhan Omar have nothing to do with keeping Jews safe. Nothing. This is about silencing a progressive Black Muslim woman and sending a threat to leaders who speak out for Palestinian rights. #StandWithIlhan

Let’s break down the State of the Union…#SOTU

We yearn for an Analog world. But that ship has sailed. Now we just have to chose which platform we want to spy on us and eventually shut us down if we tug at our leash too often.

This hit too close to home 😂

Could we stop saying "troubled" when we just mean "asshole"?

Given #Republicans ’ immoral, unconstitutional, antidemocratic, if not secessionist, instincts, I urge we all read Abraham Lincoln's Addresses at Trenton in 1861, while en route to his first inauguration. abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speech…

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.” - C.S. Lewis

Happy Birthday John Cusack here's to another year of truth-telling, art making, and social injustice ass kicking.

I've never been in APR or Poetry, never was accepted to Breadloaf, Sewanee, never got an NEA or an agent etc and YET I have 20 books, headlined at over 100 colleges and festivals. Never forget the places we think we need to publish or be part of to be a writer you really don't.

Amen:

The next time some guy tells you he's 'a self-made man' ask him how he managed to fertilize his own egg.

People aren’t going hungry because we cannot feed the poor. People are going hungry because we cannot satisfy the rich.

St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus who laid down his sword to spread the word of Jesus, pray that we follow the way of peace.

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different ...” - C.S. Lewis

Great thought for day KURT VONNEGUT: I went out to buy an envelope ~ Oh, my wife says,  well, you're not a poor man, You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because

"So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

There is still a genocide happening in Palestine. There is still a genocide happening in Sudan. There is still a genocide happening in Congo.

Reporters at Mississippi Today are facing jail for refusing to reveal their sources They’re not the only journalists working in a state without a shield law. That’s a problem for journalists, sources and the public.

A #songofcomfort for anyone who needs it.