Steven Axelrod
@stevenaxelrod.bsky.social
Writer and professor. Recent books: New Anthology of American Poetry and Bloomsbury Handbook of Poetry. No DMs pls.
"It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." --William Carlos Williams
"It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." --William Carlos Williams
Absurd megalomania of Trump I.
Making us taxpayers pay God knows how much really for turning our White House into a more vulgar display than any of us could possibly have imagined.
I already look forward to its demolition.
gift article from The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Making us taxpayers pay God knows how much really for turning our White House into a more vulgar display than any of us could possibly have imagined.
I already look forward to its demolition.
gift article from The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Inside Trump’s Push to Make the White House Ballroom as Big as Possible
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Absurd megalomania of Trump I.
Making us taxpayers pay God knows how much really for turning our White House into a more vulgar display than any of us could possibly have imagined.
I already look forward to its demolition.
gift article from The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
Making us taxpayers pay God knows how much really for turning our White House into a more vulgar display than any of us could possibly have imagined.
I already look forward to its demolition.
gift article from The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
“President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a 7-year sentence for his role in a $1.6 Billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims,” the NY Times reports.
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into 7-Year Sentence politicalwire.com/2025/11/29/t...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into 7-Year Sentence politicalwire.com/2025/11/29/t...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into 7-Year Sentence
“President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded ...
politicalwire.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
“President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a 7-year sentence for his role in a $1.6 Billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims,” the NY Times reports.
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into 7-Year Sentence politicalwire.com/2025/11/29/t...
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into 7-Year Sentence politicalwire.com/2025/11/29/t...
Finally, a Republican who is in touch with reality and is not a conniving liar.
“The Democrats get their way because we don’t have enough people,” said Miedecke, of her party’s struggles in California.
(LA Times)
“The Democrats get their way because we don’t have enough people,” said Miedecke, of her party’s struggles in California.
(LA Times)
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Finally, a Republican who is in touch with reality and is not a conniving liar.
“The Democrats get their way because we don’t have enough people,” said Miedecke, of her party’s struggles in California.
(LA Times)
“The Democrats get their way because we don’t have enough people,” said Miedecke, of her party’s struggles in California.
(LA Times)
Americans like blue states.
U.S. adult citizens' favorable or unfavorable views of states:
Favorable Unfavorable Unsure Net Favorable
Blue states 54.8% 23.7% 21.5% +31.3
Red states 48.3% 24.3% 27.4% +23.9
Swing states 52.8% 22.9% 24.1% +30.1
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
U.S. adult citizens' favorable or unfavorable views of states:
Favorable Unfavorable Unsure Net Favorable
Blue states 54.8% 23.7% 21.5% +31.3
Red states 48.3% 24.3% 27.4% +23.9
Swing states 52.8% 22.9% 24.1% +30.1
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Americans say 'no thanks' to red states
President Donald Trump has a malevolent preference for red states, throwing money at them while ...
www.dailykos.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Americans like blue states.
U.S. adult citizens' favorable or unfavorable views of states:
Favorable Unfavorable Unsure Net Favorable
Blue states 54.8% 23.7% 21.5% +31.3
Red states 48.3% 24.3% 27.4% +23.9
Swing states 52.8% 22.9% 24.1% +30.1
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
U.S. adult citizens' favorable or unfavorable views of states:
Favorable Unfavorable Unsure Net Favorable
Blue states 54.8% 23.7% 21.5% +31.3
Red states 48.3% 24.3% 27.4% +23.9
Swing states 52.8% 22.9% 24.1% +30.1
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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ONCE AGAIN: Since 2018, I've raised over $21 MILLION *directly* for hundreds of Democratic candidates (as well as state & local Dem parties, plus a few other activist orgs)...
...without sending a single email
...without sending a single text message
...without making a single phone call
...without sending a single email
...without sending a single text message
...without making a single phone call
November 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
ONCE AGAIN: Since 2018, I've raised over $21 MILLION *directly* for hundreds of Democratic candidates (as well as state & local Dem parties, plus a few other activist orgs)...
...without sending a single email
...without sending a single text message
...without making a single phone call
...without sending a single email
...without sending a single text message
...without making a single phone call
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I’m driving through rural Texas, prime insane right wing billboard territory and I just saw a billboard that said “no healthcare for the peasants but a ballroom for the king”
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
November 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I’m driving through rural Texas, prime insane right wing billboard territory and I just saw a billboard that said “no healthcare for the peasants but a ballroom for the king”
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
pretty big sentiment shift for the area
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The administration's foreign policy is to performatively murder the weak and defenseless to distract from the fact that it is abandoning U.S. strategic interests worldwide.
Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments.
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The administration's foreign policy is to performatively murder the weak and defenseless to distract from the fact that it is abandoning U.S. strategic interests worldwide.
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If you have family & friends in Tennessee, please encourage them to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social ! This whole country needs her to win!
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
If you have family & friends in Tennessee, please encourage them to vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social ! This whole country needs her to win!
Trump can go from being a Putin booster to a Zelensky booster. From ‘Mamdani, we’re gonna deport the guy’ to ‘we’re gonna embrace the guy.’ He’s traveling very quickly between the extremes as though he doesn’t know what he stands for anymore, or he forgets.
--Michael Wolff, Daily Beast
--Michael Wolff, Daily Beast
November 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Trump can go from being a Putin booster to a Zelensky booster. From ‘Mamdani, we’re gonna deport the guy’ to ‘we’re gonna embrace the guy.’ He’s traveling very quickly between the extremes as though he doesn’t know what he stands for anymore, or he forgets.
--Michael Wolff, Daily Beast
--Michael Wolff, Daily Beast
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This is a MUST READ. It's terrifying and absolutely hits the mark.
I have been paralyzed into not responding to every mad missive from king Donny and his merry band of morons and syncophants. It's too much.
But that's the point, right?
Read this summary of last week...
I have been paralyzed into not responding to every mad missive from king Donny and his merry band of morons and syncophants. It's too much.
But that's the point, right?
Read this summary of last week...
The past decade has seen grave threats and unmistakable decline. But the past few days and weeks reveal that we have entered in a new and more perilous chapter here in the U.S. It must be a call to a new kind of action. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
We Have Descended into Utter Madness
A new sense of urgency is needed. Our national crisis has grown much more acute.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is a MUST READ. It's terrifying and absolutely hits the mark.
I have been paralyzed into not responding to every mad missive from king Donny and his merry band of morons and syncophants. It's too much.
But that's the point, right?
Read this summary of last week...
I have been paralyzed into not responding to every mad missive from king Donny and his merry band of morons and syncophants. It's too much.
But that's the point, right?
Read this summary of last week...
Even as he leverages his presidency to make himself millions, perhaps even billions of dollars, Trump is also funneling donor money into his own cash registers through the political committees he controls.
...the RNC has spent at least $796,513 at Trump’s hotels and country clubs, while
Huff Post
...the RNC has spent at least $796,513 at Trump’s hotels and country clubs, while
Huff Post
November 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Even as he leverages his presidency to make himself millions, perhaps even billions of dollars, Trump is also funneling donor money into his own cash registers through the political committees he controls.
...the RNC has spent at least $796,513 at Trump’s hotels and country clubs, while
Huff Post
...the RNC has spent at least $796,513 at Trump’s hotels and country clubs, while
Huff Post
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Hegseth, who gave orders to "kill them all," has tattoos closely linked to Christian nationalism and Islamophobia. He was deemed an "insider threat" and resigned from the military after being removed from Biden's inauguration detail. This is not someone who should be in charge of the Dept of Defense
November 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Hegseth, who gave orders to "kill them all," has tattoos closely linked to Christian nationalism and Islamophobia. He was deemed an "insider threat" and resigned from the military after being removed from Biden's inauguration detail. This is not someone who should be in charge of the Dept of Defense
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All eyes on the Honduran elections.
Trump endorsed Tito Asfura and will pardon a member of his party, narco-dictator Juan Orlando Hernandez, extradited to the US in 2022 for working w/ El Chapo. JOH was elected in 2017 in an election deemed fraudulent by international observers and even the US DOJ.
Trump endorsed Tito Asfura and will pardon a member of his party, narco-dictator Juan Orlando Hernandez, extradited to the US in 2022 for working w/ El Chapo. JOH was elected in 2017 in an election deemed fraudulent by international observers and even the US DOJ.
November 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
All eyes on the Honduran elections.
Trump endorsed Tito Asfura and will pardon a member of his party, narco-dictator Juan Orlando Hernandez, extradited to the US in 2022 for working w/ El Chapo. JOH was elected in 2017 in an election deemed fraudulent by international observers and even the US DOJ.
Trump endorsed Tito Asfura and will pardon a member of his party, narco-dictator Juan Orlando Hernandez, extradited to the US in 2022 for working w/ El Chapo. JOH was elected in 2017 in an election deemed fraudulent by international observers and even the US DOJ.
Trump's way.
Trump cannonballed into the deep end of Honduran politics this week, first endorsing right-wing presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura and then pardoning ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández, of the same party, sentenced to 45 years in a U.S. prison for cocaine trafficking. (AP)
Trump cannonballed into the deep end of Honduran politics this week, first endorsing right-wing presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura and then pardoning ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández, of the same party, sentenced to 45 years in a U.S. prison for cocaine trafficking. (AP)
November 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Trump's way.
Trump cannonballed into the deep end of Honduran politics this week, first endorsing right-wing presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura and then pardoning ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández, of the same party, sentenced to 45 years in a U.S. prison for cocaine trafficking. (AP)
Trump cannonballed into the deep end of Honduran politics this week, first endorsing right-wing presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura and then pardoning ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández, of the same party, sentenced to 45 years in a U.S. prison for cocaine trafficking. (AP)
"Tom Stoppard was my favourite playwright. He leaves us with a majestic body of intellectual and amusing work. I will always miss him." --MICK JAGGER
November 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"Tom Stoppard was my favourite playwright. He leaves us with a majestic body of intellectual and amusing work. I will always miss him." --MICK JAGGER
Rest in peace, Tom Stoppard. You did good. Your plays and screenplays will live on, bringing light and joy as they always have done.
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Tom Stoppard, sparkling playwright who won an Oscar for 'Shakespeare In Love,' dies at 88
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Tom Stoppard, sparkling playwright who won an Oscar for 'Shakespeare In Love,' dies at 88
Tom Stoppard, sparkling playwright who won an Oscar for 'Shakespeare In Love,' dies at 88
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
apnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Rest in peace, Tom Stoppard. You did good. Your plays and screenplays will live on, bringing light and joy as they always have done.
apnews.com/article/stop...
Tom Stoppard, sparkling playwright who won an Oscar for 'Shakespeare In Love,' dies at 88
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Tom Stoppard, sparkling playwright who won an Oscar for 'Shakespeare In Love,' dies at 88
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I was told by this guy there would be no more wars. He’d be the no more wars president. He’d also end the Russia Ukraine war on day one with one phone call.
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I was told by this guy there would be no more wars. He’d be the no more wars president. He’d also end the Russia Ukraine war on day one with one phone call.
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Someone please explain this to me....
November 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Someone please explain this to me....
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Nah, now that we’re in the taking rights away phase, all of these people suddenly believe that rights are given by Daddy Trump, and can be taken away by Daddy Trump if the last minion he talked to told him to.
November 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Nah, now that we’re in the taking rights away phase, all of these people suddenly believe that rights are given by Daddy Trump, and can be taken away by Daddy Trump if the last minion he talked to told him to.
Wag the dog.
Trump's politics of perpetual shock and awe, incessant distraction, and back to the past reaction. Ninety years of progress under demolition.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be viewed as closed. Maduro government slams 'colonial threat'
Trump's politics of perpetual shock and awe, incessant distraction, and back to the past reaction. Ninety years of progress under demolition.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be viewed as closed. Maduro government slams 'colonial threat'
Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be viewed as closed. Maduro government slams 'colonial threat'
The Venezuelan government is accusing President Donald Trump of making a ”colonial threat” and seeking to undermine the South American country’s sovereignty.
apnews.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Wag the dog.
Trump's politics of perpetual shock and awe, incessant distraction, and back to the past reaction. Ninety years of progress under demolition.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be viewed as closed. Maduro government slams 'colonial threat'
Trump's politics of perpetual shock and awe, incessant distraction, and back to the past reaction. Ninety years of progress under demolition.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says Venezuelan airspace should be viewed as closed. Maduro government slams 'colonial threat'
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@schumer.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @crockett.house.gov @aoc.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social @algreen.house.gov
At some point in the future, Witkoff should be prosecuted for this.
November 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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This is what you can expect from America's Gaslighter-in-Chief.
November 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is what you can expect from America's Gaslighter-in-Chief.