It’s in Virginia. The shoe store, the landmark where my family told visitors to turn, is also now a church.

I’ve been thinking about this (sort of thing; can’t read the essay) since I drove through my HS neighborhood after 35 yrs. The pool‘s empty and full of weeds and the movie theater is a church. A metaphor maybe. I’m not in touch with many classmates. Relationships decayed after 2016.

Exactly one year ago today:

I often think about XTC rhyming umbilical with cycle

Darling, don't you ever stop to wonder
About the clouds, about the hail and thunder
'Bout the baby and its umbilical
Who's pushing the pedals on the season cycle

BREAKING: The ProPublica union is on strike today.

The unionized staff at the non-profit outlet has walked out after two years of stalled negotiations.

The workers core demands are AI protections, just cause employment provisions, layoff safeguards, and pay increases.

This is on a micro level what’s happening around the US with citizens being ignored when they vote against AI data centers or when they protest billion dollar war budgets. Money makes hearing difficult

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I love the last line. Really rich language throughou.

I forgot about him

This is also the belief of the women on Red Scare

Harry Styles - Music For a Sushi Restaurant (Official Video) YouTube video by HarryStylesVEVO

Now I’ll always associate submitting and this song m.youtube.com/watch?v=CiwM...

I dtarted this story during the fever dream days of COVID when I spent afternoons walking and staring at plants in my neighborhood. I’m so happy to be part of the DIHP community now.

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I‘m so happy to have a story in the March issue of Does It Have Pockets, a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk. Camille is a kind and responsive editor. Send them your work.

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This already exists and the same writers appear over and over

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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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I read this earlier today. Really lovely micro!

Recently I’ve watched
The Last Showgirl
Marty Supreme
Song Sung Blue
Die My Love
all about people struggling financially

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Saw their names on a poster in Chicago today

makes me miss my old guy

How good we had it Planes were falling from the sky and the sky itself was falling but didn’t the driveway still need shoveling? Salt for the icy steps. The kitchen sink full again too. And every day a new reminder that crying can get you anything you want in the world if it’s the right kind of crying. Tears of men weak enough to do grievous harm. I’m told that we can’t post our way out of fascism but they quite literally posted us right into it. Just another one of the many unfair things about posting and fascism. I watched a Family Feud the other night where Steve told one of the teams that they didn’t give him the answers on his card beforehand but he damn well knew what the answers were not. One of two scenarios have presented themselves which is that everything gets so bad so quickly that a sufficient response becomes inevitable or else they only get just so bad overtime that we can keep putting our duty off until it is no longer ours. I pick up my phone every five minutes expecting it to tell me something good about the world and I thought of a night some friends and I crawled around on all fours looking for crumbs of cocaine that had been accidentally blown off the table into the carpet. I’ve been asking myself just how it is that a person can go about their day to day life at a time like this and I keep coming back to another question which is how did we ever convince ourselves we had the right to do so before?

I’m told that we can’t post our way out of fascism
but they quite literally posted us right into it. Just
another one of the many unfair things about posting
and fascism.

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