Scrambled Eggs

Poetry
By: | June 1, 2016

Plunder culture, culture plunder / Going into debt so as to be employable so as to slowly pay off that debt, or never, or having been born into it,… More

Hide the Poor

Poetry
By: | June 14, 2012

As clansmen make laws / the country makes heaps / their kings and governors / proclaim franking / to be among / the inalienable rights / They burn youths… More

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Thank you @SenatorMenendez for your leadership to bring attention to these 14 imprisoned Crimean journalists including PEN America’s 2022 #FreedomToWrite awardee, Vladislav Yesypenko.

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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a North Carolina town’s policy that banned video live-streaming police during traffic stops was in violation of the First Amendment. https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3847427-appeals-court-rules-live-streaming-police-during-traffic-stops-protected-by-first-amendment/

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