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New from Jim Casey Jr.: Democracy is dead/It will take a miracle to bring it back.

"Until or unless Americans start dealing with facts instead of lies, democracy cannot come back."

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JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."

A few thoughts about this deeply-flawed Jeremy W. Peters article.(Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

Food banks across the U.S. were stretched thin even before the federal government shut down. Rising food prices had driven a growing number of people to their doors. Cuts to federal programs had left them with less to give. Now, that system is anticipating an even greater surge in demand.

BREAKING—40 million set to lose food aid next week after Trump USDA says it refuses use emergency funds for food stamps. www.axios.com/2025/10/24/g...

Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."

Democrats are furious that the Trump Administration held a briefing on Capitol Hill today about U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats. Only Republicans were invited. This is from Sen. Mark Warner D-VA.

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough is lending his support to an appeal to raise $40 million to buy and a conserve a huge land estate in the UK. https://cnn.it/47wiD6E

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly ordered the Pentagon to oust disloyal civilian workers, whom he likened to "debris," as part of a broad effort to remove people who don't subscribe to President Donald Trump's agenda.

www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...

Another joy in these poets is their complexity & ambiguity. For Glück or Wyatt (or Surrey & Sidney) poetic tropes & myth are unstable, shifting, amenable to exploring identity, politics, time, the cosmos. Celan loves words but knows they’re slippery & exploits it. ‘Keep yes and no unsplit,’ he says.

A few thoughts about this deeply-flawed Jeremy W. Peters article.(Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

The president told Navy SEALs in Japan that he was planning to bring back steam power.