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Stephen Kuusisto

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Poet, memoirist, disability activist, and dog lover. Travels and lectures widely on literature and human rights.

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A game I play picturing business men
As birds—whippoorwills, grackles,
Magpies eating everything…

06.03.2026 13:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump? Bad. Netanyahu? Lousy. The leaders of Iran? Odious. Look closely and you’ll notice there are no good guys in this looming world war. This is what makes Hegseth’s lies so hard to stomach. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

06.03.2026 12:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Murdering fishermen wasn't enough for Hegseth. Murdering little girls will let him sleep real good now. He's a murdering sociopathic drunk.

06.03.2026 04:01 👍 143 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0
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Uncle History owns four things… Uncle History owns four things Of zero use— Cable from the Brooklyn Bridge A pile of Polish zlotys The first ever fur coat And a mini Rosetta Stone Covered with mistakes These keep him going He fin…

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05.03.2026 14:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Instead of asking for emergency funding for the military, since the US military is already funded higher than any military, why don’t we send Pete Hegseth overseas to lecture everyone about “FAFO” and “DEI”? It seems the only ones FAFO-ing are him & MAGA, the ultimate “DEI’S”

04.03.2026 10:49 👍 129 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 1
Figurine of Icelandic troll...

Figurine of Icelandic troll...

Look Mr. Prezzy-dent, I can slip in
And out of the noose
I can wave my spongee
At the tee-vee
I can do that thing
Where you bend your thumb
To the wrist bone
Here’s the point—
My heart my head
My untold everywhere
Which I’ve named
The soul
Has no idea
Who the fuck you are…

03.03.2026 16:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Donald Trump hates anything he doesn’t understand. Therefor he hates science, research, diversity, every manner of complexity. Sometimes you meet people like him in academia—that professor who would burn down the campus to get his or her way. But the stakes are small in that instance.

03.03.2026 14:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Corporate Media Is Head Over Heels for the Iran War - The Nation

03.03.2026 11:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

02.03.2026 15:52 👍 10149 🔁 2171 💬 443 📌 161

It would be nice if we had a Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing and not one that just regurgitates quotes from action movies

02.03.2026 15:56 👍 13096 🔁 2675 💬 596 📌 119

“No stupid rules of engagement” had better be a first-round entry into Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.

02.03.2026 17:27 👍 50 🔁 9 💬 5 📌 1
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Not only *did* they start this war, they have no idea how to finish it.

02.03.2026 17:04 👍 10662 🔁 2783 💬 895 📌 207

It was a terrible thing watching Pete Hegseth lie to the world this morning. Like everyone in Trump’s circle, including Trump himself, Hegseth is a cosplayer who thinks the entire globe watches Fox.

02.03.2026 14:16 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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After Creeley After Creeley I wanted poetry to love me So I promised To Take it For a ride “But you can’t drive” It said Then: “For Chrissake Look out Where you’re going”

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02.03.2026 14:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

After Creeley

I wanted poetry to love me
So
I promised
To
Take it
For a ride
“But you can’t drive”
It said
Then: “For
Chrissake
Look out
Where you’re going”

02.03.2026 12:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bombshell Pentagon Admission Wrecks Trump’s War Claims Pentagon briefers made the acknowledgement in a briefing on Sunday, according to multiple reports.

www.thedailybeast.com/pentagons-bo...

02.03.2026 12:23 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Not even the concept of a plan…https://apple.news/AxltoLUT2SNy9KmAcFeN0kQ

02.03.2026 12:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

'Terror was needed to make Arabs leave': What the Israeli army did in 1948, revealed - Haaretz

01.03.2026 15:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Iranian Voices America Isn’t Hearing - The Nation

01.03.2026 14:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When you've lost (cleans glasses) Bolton on the invasion of a Middle East country...

01.03.2026 14:30 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
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"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".

28.02.2026 08:28 👍 14606 🔁 3312 💬 417 📌 124

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians.

We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

28.02.2026 15:33 👍 23438 🔁 6123 💬 717 📌 257
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Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Iran is Reckless

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...

28.02.2026 14:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tell Congress: No War with Iran Trump has launched unauthorized military strikes on Iran, dragging the United States into yet another war without approval from Congress. This reckless escalation is putting U.S. servicemembers, Ameri...

Trump’s bombing of Iran is reckless and a direct threat to American and Iranian lives. Launching military strikes without congressional authorization or evidence of an imminent threat is not strength. It is an abuse of power.

Tell your Members of Congress to put an immediate stop to this war.

28.02.2026 12:55 👍 1847 🔁 736 💬 68 📌 31
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Uncle History’s Shack No one comes to the shack Where Uncle Lives with his wife And her beautiful art There’s no term For what she makes Even a blank wall is thrilling Especially this one Where a spider walks a fine cra…

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28.02.2026 13:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MAGA Republicans know the electorate is not happy with their policies so they’re back at trying to pass a draconian voter suppression bill in the Senate. Katie Phang explains how the #SaveActTaxesYourVote make sure you call your Senators at 202.224.3121 and tell them to vote NO‼️

27.02.2026 21:23 👍 589 🔁 330 💬 15 📌 8
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America’s Character and the Rule of Law with George Conway III YouTube video by UW Office of Public Lectures

Here's the speech I gave tonight as part of the Univ. of Washington Grad School's Public Lecture.

It's about how impeachment can save our republic and rekindle its spirit of liberty.

Starts 30 minutes in:

youtube.com/live/3UkV400_t0Y?si=2UcSsVW93k-xxqSb

26.02.2026 09:52 👍 4490 🔁 1146 💬 136 📌 40
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Uncle History is a Pointillist Masterpiece Uncle History is a pointillist masterpiece When he leans to his mirror He’s all colored dots It’s time to jump into the day But in public No one spots him “A trick of the light” That’s what they ca…

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27.02.2026 15:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾. Now What? Silence from the GOP regime. 🫢🤨

26.02.2026 22:14 👍 1663 🔁 798 💬 135 📌 41
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The American Universities Programming Israel’s Killer Drones Industry partnerships in higher education are pushing STEM graduates into the business of weapons manufacturing and genocide profiteering.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

27.02.2026 12:05 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0