Devoted to the cause … of here, presentness, their conjoined expression.
Devoted to … AG2018_1490143a4
Category: landscape
AG2016_1040729 or direction, clarity, audacity
AG2021_2030352a or But you knew … didn’t you?
This is an Administration that does not have to slip on a Signal banana peel to reveal its deepest-held prejudices and its painful incapacities. You get the sense that we would learn little if we were privy to a twenty-four-hour-a-day live stream of its every private utterance. Part of what was so appalling about Trump and Vance’s recent meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky was not just their penchant for channelling the world view and negotiating points of Vladimir Putin but their comfort in expressing them, barking them, at the Ukrainian President in front of reporters in the Oval Office.
[…]The threat of autocracy advances each day under Donald Trump, and it is a process that hides in plain sight. Some will choose to deny it, to domesticate it, to treat the abnormal as mere politics, to wish it all away in the spirit of “this too shall pass.” But the threat is real and for all to see. No encryption can conceal it.
David Remnick, New Yorker, 032625
Know what the snake said? Said, ‘But you knew I was a snake, didn’t you?’ (TM)
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AG2025_2100255c or don’t you see
“I love ya! I love ya all. Don’t act like that. You women. Stop it. Don’t act like that. Don’t you see I love ya? I’d die for ya, kill for ya. I’m saying I love ya. I’m telling ya. Oh, God have mercy. What I’m gonna do? What in this fuckin world am I gonna dooooo?” (TM)
Fragments d’histoire ou Hier et aujourd’hui : à la faveur d’une promenade dans les rues et aux environs de Fort-de-France. Baude, Théodore, 1866-1949. 1940. WikiSource. Manioc.
« Chaque pas sur un pont, sur une place rappelle un grand passé. À chaque coin de rue s’est déroulé un fragment de l’histoire ».
GŒTHE
Baude, le premier Martiniquais à recevoir, à titre civil, la cravate de commandeur de la légion d’honneur. 1940 (during the Vichy regime?).
A mooring
she regarded it as a mooring, a checkpoint, some stable visual object that assured her that the world was still there; that this was life and not a dream.
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Also, JV acquired …
AG2015_1020099 or what you can get
Poetry is the art of taking what you can get (AN)
the right flower for
What’s the right flower for the ignored-
with-good-reason, the uninvited? A hydrangea,
head wide as a cabbage; or the bull thistle
wild along the roads; or a dandelion
Etiquette, Judson Mitcham
The Department of Homeland Security said on Friday that it would revoke the temporary legal status of more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans welcomed into the US under a Biden-era sponsorship process, according to a notice posted to the Federal Register and signed by the homeland security chief Kristi Noem.
The order cuts short a two-year “parole” program – known as CHNV – under Joe Biden that allowed 532,000 people who had arrived in the US since October 2022 with financial sponsors to obtain two-year work permits to live and work in the US. Noem’s notice said they will lose their legal status on 24 April.
The Guardian, 032125