Lord Frederick
@noblesatirist.bsky.social
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Light verse for dark times. Poet for the morally elite. A ladies’ man/feminist. First Amendment fan 🇺🇸 Winner & Sole Judge of the Noble Prize for Satire. See Lord Fred’s best Bluesky verse being collected (slowly) at medium.com/@NobleSatirist
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A few thoughts about this deeply-flawed Jeremy W. Peters article.(Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
How a Small Elite College in Maine Influenced Mamdani’s World View
www.nytimes.com
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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.
Food Banks in U.S. Brace for Surging Demand as SNAP Aid Cutoff Looms
Growing need and decreased resources are squeezing the charitable food system beyond its capacity, leaders say.
nyti.ms
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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...
Exclusive: USDA says it won't use emergency funds for food stamps
States also won't be reimbursed if they cover SNAP expenses on their own, the memo says.
www.axios.com
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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.
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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:
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
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...
www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
Hegseth orders Pentagon to oust disloyal civilian workers he likened to 'debris'
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 Presi...
www.rawstory.com
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.
I’ve spent the day so far with Wyatt, Glück & Celan. Odd poet combination. But a common message. Don’t compromise. Read, learn & work at your craft of course. But ultimately write for what’s in your ‘poetic conscience’: an idea of excellence, a vision of eternity. Do that & the rest falls into place
A few thoughts about this deeply-flawed Jeremy W. Peters article.(Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
How a Small Elite College in Maine Influenced Mamdani’s World View
www.nytimes.com
The president told Navy SEALs in Japan that he was planning to bring back steam power.
Trump Promises Executive Order To Revert Navy to Steam Power
www.newsweek.com
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BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the country's military to launch "powerful" airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, imperilling the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the country's military to launch "powerful" airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, imperilling the fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate 'powerful' strikes on Gaza
Earlier, Israeli officials said remains of a hostage returned by Hamas were body parts of another hostage who was recovered in Gaza by Israeli troops almost two years ago.
www.nbcnews.com
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