Douglas Menagh

white, rectangular image (longer vertically) contains a poem in four stanzas. text is black with bold title and italicized author name. I don’t really know how to write about pain I can’t even walk like a tree. I am no good climbing through walls. I fail, fall, flat-faced trying to scream. My circuits are down; don’t call the red number on the white phone. I am hanging on to the ground. i claw, screeching, as the day- blue sky does at night. Attempt to touch me but be ready to recoil. My fat hip has broken the heart of my back. K Weber

a poem for #smallpoemsunday. thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social for hosting!

Our messaging about Oklahoma is thankfully starting to take hold in the greater consciousness of the world

The best part of The Odyssey is when Odysseus is in the Straight of Hormuz.

Birthday selfie.

Amen.

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Nothing is surprising about the US starting another war. Nothing is more dangerous to Earth and mankind at large than the United States and its complete and utter failure to curtail the worst excesses of humanity. The US oligarchy and its influence on global politics must end.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

I’m reading Wuthering Heights and love it. So dang good. But I’m sure I would make an English teachers head explode if I told them that I think the characters are all weird and act like they’re part of a sketch from I Think You Should Leave.

“AI writing is here to stay.”
So is syphilis but that doesn’t mean we need to encourage it.

the choice seems stark, do you want to live in this joyful kind of world or the one inflicted on us on parasites and grifters

This has by far been the most brutal winter I’ve ever seen in NYC.

constructivist-inspired banner in red and cream with black lettering bearing the legend STOP FORCING AI INTO FUCKING EVERYTHING - nobody asked for it everyone hates it

(from www.instagram.com/nobodyssweet...)

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact

It doesn't matter what the Constitution says. If the government can execute you on the street or in your own home on a whim, you have no rights. None.

Death by ostrich. Give the people what they want.

Shutting the government down because the president’s thug army keeps murdering American citizens for no reason seems pretty reasonable, IMO!

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

Democrats can and must make it clear there will be trials and anyone even somewhat associated with ICE will face them. Maybe give a quit-your-job deadline on appeasement and give people 72 hours. I don't know. But currently the plan is to let them murder us in the street and get away with it.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

The work being done by these observers of ICE to document, illuminate, and share what is being done in Minneapolis, in below freezing temperatures, given all that has transpired is so remarkably courageous. They are being killed for that courage, as ICE further reveals their cruelty and cowardice.

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:

“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.

This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

the protestors and observers and community defenders are unbelievably brave, and ICE and all its enablers are subhuman scum

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.