on strike for a fair contract

all solidarity to the striking faculty at University of Illinois Springfield

jeezus effing christ.

yup

It is the wound in Time. The century’s tides, chanting their bitter psalms, cannot heal it. Not the war to end all wars; death’s birthing place; the earth nursing its ticking metal eggs, hatching new carnage. But how could you know, brave as belief as you boarded the boats, singing? The end of God in the poisonous, shrapnelled air. Poetry gargling its own blood. We sense it was love you gave your world for; the town squares silent, awaiting their cenotaphs. What happened next? War. And after that? War. And now? War. War. History might as well be water, chastising this shore; for we learn nothing from your endless sacrifice. Your faces drowning in the pages of the sea. Carol Ann Duffy, ‘The Wound in Time’ (2018)

War. And after that? War. And now? War. War.
History might as well be water, chastising this shore.

-Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, written on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War.
#everynightapoem

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

Iranians Brace for Impact of Trump’s Threats to Target More Civilian Infrastructure More threats by Trump to destroy Iranian infrastructure are forcing civilians in Tehran to decide whether to stay or flee.

Elnaz, painter in Tehran:

"I don’t even look at my suitcases. To flee, you need a destination and the money to get there. I have my brushes and my canvases, and that’s about it. People act like the world ends or resets on Wednesday morning. I think we’re looking at another month or two of this.”

I feel like I have nothing to write. "Genocide is illegal and Trump must be tried for war crimes" feels, somehow, *under*whelming in this moment.

Jesus wept.

I just called my US rep and senators and told them they have to do everything they can to stop this genocide. I told them I don't care if they're in the minority. They have options. I told them to chain themselves to the White House fence.

Please call your reps, too. reps.fyi

Disgraceful!

The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering.

It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov

And Trump just bombed it...

Oil and charcoal on canvas, abstract cubist bodies piled together. Description from MOMA site: "With its varying degrees of finish—you can see traces of charcoal and sections of blank canvas—and vast network of undulating lines and geometric shapes, Picasso seems to have obscured legibility in favor of generating a rhythmic abstraction. As if questioning the ability of painting to represent war, he created a shifting, spectral vision."

Picasso's depiction of a fascist massacre, a murdered family unceremoniously tangled together under a dining table.

[Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, 1944-45]

"When Yanfeng Ge, Chaofeng’s brother who is also in the U.S., calls home these days, their mother asks him to come back to China with his brother’s ashes."

This hits bitter and hard today.

This is so great. Also sweet, because you know that callers (as opposed to folks logging issues online) are going to be elderly.

“I’m good at language”

a deep blue dyed easter egg

Almost (Yves Klein) blue

😱

It is the wound in Time. The century’s tides, chanting their bitter psalms, cannot heal it. Not the war to end all wars; death’s birthing place; the earth nursing its ticking metal eggs, hatching new carnage. But how could you know, brave as belief as you boarded the boats, singing? The end of God in the poisonous, shrapnelled air. Poetry gargling its own blood. We sense it was love you gave your world for; the town squares silent, awaiting their cenotaphs. What happened next? War. And after that? War. And now? War. War. History might as well be water, chastising this shore; for we learn nothing from your endless sacrifice. Your faces drowning in the pages of the sea. Carol Ann Duffy, ‘The Wound in Time’ (2018)

War. And after that? War. And now? War. War.
History might as well be water, chastising this shore.

-Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, written on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War.
#everynightapoem

a deep blue dyed easter egg

Almost (Yves Klein) blue

your kids might be cuter, but for my friends - definitely confirmed their life choices were the right ones

All Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Defeated in Georgia as 2026 Session Ends "Scapegoating LGBTQ+ Georgians is not a winning political strategy," said Georgia Equality's executive director.

Great news out of Georgia!

ALL of the 15 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have died as the Georgia legislative session comes to a close.

This was only possible with intense efforts from local LGBTQ+ activists.

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Norman Wong, retired carpenter, great grandson of Wong Kim Ark, and now activist to protect #birthrightcitizenship.

Peking Opera Blues - tomorrow 4/3 7pm at The Ruby at Duke, if you're in the Durham NC area!

Happy month of eating a can of pineapple a day* for those who celebrate.

(* May 1st exp. date preferred)

Just heard him on CBC radio: so eloquent, so righteously enraged by this imperial presidency and by its jettisoning of the best of the American political system

Norman Wong, retired carpenter, great grandson of Wong Kim Ark, and now activist to protect #birthrightcitizenship.

two frames from Chungking Express (Wong Kar Wai dir, 1994) - showing the interior of a quick mart, and the back of a young man. Captions read: "As we split up on April Fool's Day / I decided to let the joke run for a month." Image via mubi

I decided to let the joke run for a month.

"a term popularized by Palantir" we are cooked

recently, every month has been cruel.

Wang makes her best point, which was made in one of the briefs: Babies of Japanese citizens born while their parents were INTERRED during world war 2 were [wait for it] US citizens.

That history ALONE should be dispositive.

All right, KBJ is cleaning up this argument. She's saying that "domicile" was there because of racism and the court was trying to get the public to accept the idea that a Chinese baby was a citizen.

Thanks. And thank the gods for KBJ.