Posts by Nan Wigington
Wow, Alison Wassell. "all I can do is catalogue the things I’m not." www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...
"She kept her first language behind her teeth..." Wow M. M. Bailey. www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/co...
There's hope yet. I made it on to the shortlist -- www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/ne...
"To call this a war of choice is an insult to any definition of a normal deliberative process. It is a war of hubris. A war of distraction. A war of infantile spite." open.substack.com/pub/elliotki...
I love this flash essay by Krista Lee Hanson via @short-reads.org.
www.short-reads.org/in-the-waiti...
Sing it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogHw...
Well, get out the hook. Get 'I'm offstage.
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr. --
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
How I start my day.
Call your Republican representatives. 5 Calls should have a script. This is the now or never moment. Light up the phones!
youtu.be/wu9QSeAI22I?...
Trump just kidnapped Nicholas Maduro and his wife. Hard to imagine how this doesn't end badly. Reality TV President just face planted into reality. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
Maduro, Trump said, "has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country. This operation was done in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement Details to follow." He set a news conference for later Saturday morning. The legal implications of the strike under U.S. law were not immediatelv clear. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, posted on X that he had spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who briefed him on the strike. Rubio told Lee that Maduro "has been arrested by U.S. personnel to stand trial on criminal charges in the United States." The White House did not immediately respond to queries on where Maduro and his wife were being flown to. Maduro was indicted in March 2020 on "narco-terrorism" conspiracy charges in the Southern District of New York
I've never heard a Democratic country justify kidnapping the leader of another country but it's transparently thin.
They claim it's for narco-terrorism. But Putin & Netanyahu have been accused of international war crimes far worse -
Yet Trump brags of his relationship to both criminals. 🧵
No, no, no, a thousand times no. #venezuela
Cut loose, Santa. Make way for the new year.
In Denver, a trace and a track. I'll take it.
Via A.Word.A.Day. "Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power."
-Chelsea Manning, activist and whistleblower (b. 17 Dec 1987)
Grrrr.
"The love of money is the root of all evil." --Mary Todd Lincoln
Happy birthday, John Jay. " "To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused."
"Those who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness." --John Milton