NEW, FROM ME: The organizers with Community Solidarity Project, a local LA mutual aid group, organized from their main hub at Bernies Coffee Shop for years. Now, they've been asked to move, and are asking for the public's help. They've set up a online fundraiser and Goodbye Party tomorrow, April 19
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If you're in the BEST BOROUGH OF ALL, Queens, tomorrow, Saturday, 7pm, and in the mood for poetry...email Jee and he'll send you the address.
“Stan went inside, the sharp night air giving way to the fug of sweat and cigarette smoke, and spotted his four bandmates at the far end of the room, packing up their gear under two giant, hand-painted signs . . .”
—“Neighbor” by James Rickman. Art by Laura Bruce. evergreenreview.com/read/neighbor/
This exemplifies the underhanded tactics the nyt, and this particular writer, use all the time. They foist their political biases on unsuspecting readers who count of them to be honest brokers🧵
NO KINGS NYC!
10.18.25
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF US STAND TOGETHER, PROTESTING FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE, RACIAL JUSTICE, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, GENDER EQUALITY, FAIR WAGES, CLEAN AIR + WATER, AND MORE!
🎵 Freedom NO KINGS, by Ole No Kings
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So this Mamdani fellow goes after criminal landlords, strong focus on public transport, education, general well-being, etc., etc. BUT what about stinky weather? worst winter in decades, too much snow, rain, coldness imo. AND a lousy spring, if you can even call it that
Haitians Stuck in Mexico Find Some Comfort Despite Broken Asylum Systems passblue.com/2026/03/08/h...
There are multiple contracts between Newark Public Schools and Driscoll Foods authorizing the district to spend up to $12 million with the vendor, which also supplies the nearby Delaney Hall ICE facility.
“My honey is blood
and my meat is bone.
The wilderness is in me.
I wander through its hedges,
over the sloping hills
through the meandering rivers . . . .”
Up now: “THE BOOK OF CAIN” and two more poems by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi. Art by Rosanna Bruno. evergreenreview.com/read/the-boo...
NEW YORK CITI SAYS NO KINGS 3.29.2026 AI 2PM 7TH AVE & CENTRAL PARK SOUTH NOKINGSNYC.COM
NO KINGS, NYC
3.28.26
2:00 pm
7th Ave & Central Park South
The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption,+ cruelty. Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger>
Volunteer via the link below:
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Trump said he was working on something “desperately needed.”
He meant the gold-encrusted ballroom for himself and his billionaire friends.
Not affordable health care, not housing, not the high cost of groceries.
Priorities.
“In Dambudzo Marechera’s short story ‘Burning in the Rain,’ an unnamed young man looks in the mirror only to see his reflection given back as an ‘ape.’ ”
Up now: “From the Stutter to the Gutter” by Jeffery Renard Allen. Art by Ken Weathersby. evergreenreview.com/read/from-th...
96% of the funds in MAGA Inc. came from donors that gave $1 million or more.
Trump is going to flood the midterms with millions so he can avoid accountability at the ballot box and continue advancing an agenda that keeps his Big Money donors rich at the expense of working people.
At Delaney Hall, the privately-run ICE detention facility in Newark, visitors are forced to wait for hours in life-threatening cold to see their loved ones. But those conditions, advocates say, are arbitrarily imposed.
Latest for @documentedny.bsky.social:
documentedny.com/2026/02/09/v...
oh my god
“I met the famous spinster Hepzibah Pyncheon, described by Nathaniel Hawthorne as so ancient and hopelessly decrepit when really she was only 60-something . . . I became obsessed with her . . . .”
—“HEXALOGY OF HAGSPLOITATION: Hepzibah 11.21.25” by Sibyl Kempson. evergreenreview.com/read/hexalog...
"The sacred is not delivered by comfort. It is delivered by stress, deprivation, betrayal, and futility." -- Alice Maynwaring, game designer and philosopher. Read more of her extraordinary essay on gaming at link below: evergreenreview.com/read/das-vid...
“On June 8th, 2025, I went to my first baseball game at Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees were playing against the Red Sox.
It was one of the most interesting things I have ever witnessed.
I was stunned and shocked.”
—“Baseball” by Kathy Joyce. Art by Danny Ische. evergreenreview.com/read/baseball/
Excellent instructional video pass it on
On the other hand, he deserves admiration for his courageous and very early critique The Israel Lobby
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Identifying government officials by name is not doxxing or harassment.
Seth Harp merely published information that was publicly available about someone at the center of the world’s biggest news story.
Read our full statement: freedom.press/issues/house...
A friend of a friend in North Carolina sent this pic of a textbook from her nephew's middle school history class. "Unemployment dropped to its lowest in history" under T--not true, of course (that occurred in 1944).
Amidst bike thefts and ICE raids, delivery workers have been organizing their own self defense networks.
I followed one of these groups, El Diario de los Deliveryboys, on their Virgen de Guadalupe procession for @documentedny.bsky.social.
documentedny.com/2025/12/16/b...