Brenda Shaughnessy

This lil face is just too funny & adorable!

ICE is completely lawless.

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AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed?

CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer

AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed

can someone explain how there aren't emergency sessions on Capitol Hill when the mad king is about to blow up every treaty and agreement we have with virtually every country in the world over an illegal land grab? It seems like the end of the civilized world is imminent and NO ONE IS DOING ANYTHING.

I know lots of people are saying some version of this, but I have to add: how the actual fuck are the Dems managing to fumble their opponents terrorizing citizens, shitting all over NATO, and protecting the Epstein pedos? Neoliberalism + the political consultant class needs to gooooo

Thank you for reading it! ✨

I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%. Once they win elections, it's already too late.

Just a little fascism summary. Must read:

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Totally brilliant, also hilarious & heartbreakingly necessary rn.

Reading & so into this book rn!

Turning Turning into my own Turning on in To my own self At last Turning out of the White cage turning out of the Lady cage Turning at last On a stem like a black fruit In my own season At last.

From ‘How To Carry Water’ (2020)
—Lucille Clifton

#poetry #poem #booksky

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Andrea Gibson is still with us, every moment & forever, even when we’re not reading them. But to read Andrea Gibson is to make a new “every moment” a new forever a mix of new and old—forgetting time has any hold on us entirely. Thank you, always-poet.

Opera uses AI to give people with non-verbal disabilities a voice At an Omaha, Nebraska, festival this summer, new work explores the intersection of art, disability and technology, asking questions like "who has a voice?" and "who gets to be heard?" Senior arts corr...

Our opera, Sensorium Ex, on PBS Newshour: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Omg the BEST news!

Our opera Sensorium Ex opens in 4 days, at the Sapp Field House in Omaha. In dress rehearsals now and it’s looking gorgeous. Paola Prestini’s music is divine.(commonsensesfestival.org)
(www.visionintoart.org/via-projects/sensorium-ex)

Sensorium Ex Trailer #2 FINAL (May 7 2025) This is "Sensorium Ex Trailer #2 FINAL (May 7 2025)" by Paola/National Sawdust/VIA on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Grace Paley forever. 🖤

I’m so moved! & it’s such a glorious anthology! ❤️💐✨

YES. This.

A Princeton undergrad saying what needs to be said.

Wow. Yes. Thank you for posting this.

An important thread:

Here are the links to said pod & playlist.

I yap with Aaron & James on @breakingformpod—we remember & wonder & lament & wander poetry together. Or if you need fuel for yr fight, listen to my Brenda’s Resistance Playlist—where Mitski & Cecile & St. Vincent & Janelle & We Are Ladyparts rule!
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My heart sank so fast.

Why hasn’t musk been arrested for anything? He breaks laws & NO ONE can come up w/ a charge? He stole govt $ & info, made himself co-prez, colonized the very skies. Meanwhile if a woman 8wks pregnant drives out of Idaho for an abortion, SHE’S a criminal. He has an army of fetii on ice! WTAF?!

Sometimes it feels like I’m going crazy, because there is something that is right in front of our faces, has been for years, and nobody of consequence ever says it:
Donald Trump works for Vladimir Putin.
How much more proof does anyone need? And what is anybody going to do about it?

Right with you. I got a zine stapler!