Opinion | Jamie Raskin’s push for 25th Amendment to end Trump presidency is a mistake Andy Craig: The 25th Amendment is no substitute for impeachment. A proposed panel of doctors and ex-politicians can’t replace Congress doing its job.

Well worth a read. "The 25th Amendment is no substitute for impeachment."

www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

I've been working on a group of poems about someone who is the last non-plant living being on Earth and I am so grateful to Wayne Holloway-Smith and everybody at The Poetry Review for publishing some poems from the group and I really hope you like this one. poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/from-l...

In early February I wrote a dispatch from the Cities, and it's in the latest issue of The Anarchist Review of Books, an excellent publication we should all be reading!!

A.E. Stallings · Poem: ‘The Maze’

A new pome, with thanks to the LRB: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“If there are two
and if they’re unaware that I am there,
they meet each other in the passage, pause
as if exchanging news,
then go their own ways home.” —excerpt from “Kronos” by Joshua Mehigan

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A joy to be included in this issue, guest-edited by Annie Finch:

THANK YOU CLAIRE (this is the only endorsement the book needs; no others will be accepted at this time)

Thrilled at this news!

Many thanks to prize judge Michael Prior, series editor Sarah Green, and Ohio University Press for their vote of confidence in this collection. Can’t wait to share it with you all next year.

Advocate for impeachment in 5 minutes - Citizens' Impeachment This guide shows you how to advocate for impeachment with quick and easy actions, and even includes templates. Contact your representative!

Call your members of Congress NOW and advocate for impeachment. It takes five minutes. Here's how:

citizensimpeachment.com/advocate-for...

The 25th amendment requires cooperation of his cabinet and 2/3rds in the House and Senate. Impeachment is the way.

Demand it, because our democracy needs it.

The online version includes links to rare archival recordings.

I found a picture of the real Stagger Lee, and it was not what I expected:

Tennessee librarian fired for refusing to move more than 100 books from children's to adult section A Tennessee library board has fired the county's top librarian for refusing to comply with its vote to move more than 100 LGBTQ books from the children's to the adult section over its claims that they...

Librarian Luanne James fired for refusing to move books from children's to adult section.

"Her story will echo from the Courthouse in Murfreesboro, TN, across the country, as emblematic of the fight against censorship and suppression,” said PEN America's Kasey Meehan. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Sure! "Cyclists have a right to the road, too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!"

$8 a gallon for gas???

That's right

The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space. - Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, trans. by William Weaver

Impeach Trump? House Dems say not so fast Dems are favored to win the House again. But after impeaching Trump twice during their last spell in the majority, most Dems aren’t clamoring for a third.

Suggested follow-up for anyone who attended #NoKings:

Call congressional Democrats and tell them to start backing impeachment, because right now they're running on a platform of "Let Trump Get Away With Everything."

punchbowl.news/article/hous...

A screen grab of a social media post from the official White House account. It shows a picture of the moon in the sky at a three-quarters crescent. Above the moon are the words "America Will Never Give Up The Moon Again." The post above the picture reads, "The goal is not just to reach the Moon, but to stay."

Folks, I think the tyrant might be mad.

Prestigious Kennedy Award Goes To 'The People Of The Twin Cities'

"The people of the Twin Cities" are the winners of the prestigious 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

ICE says it provides 'proper meals.' Detainees see crystalized jelly, rancid beans and iced bologna In the business of immigration detention, researchers say, "bad food is the business model."

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over alleged AI training Case is one of many high-stakes lawsuits filed by copyright owners against tech giants

"Britannica’s lawsuit said that OpenAI unlawfully copied nearly 100,000 of its articles... The complaint said that ChatGPT produces “near-verbatim” copies of Britannica’s encyclopedia entries, dictionary definitions and other content, diverting users who would otherwise visit its websites."

WEIRD, adj. (archaic): concerned with or controlling fate or destiny

Concentration Camp Labor Cannot Become Normal

I wrote this essay about the private sector's exploitation of American concentration camps in July 2025. The situation has since advanced much further.
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...

Valéry‘s capsule definition of poetry: “strange discourse, as though made by someone other than the speaker and addressed to someone other than the reader.“

Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.

This is like a drunk guy trying to sell you sobriety.

You should care about this because trans people are human beings with inalienable human rights, but even if you don't, you should care about this for your own personal safety

First they violate the rights of a group they think no one will fight for, and then they come for the rest of us

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.

If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

The Fraud is more Dickensian!

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