Continuing the foolishness that has gone on since Reagan, denying mental health care, Trump administration discontinues $1 billion in school mental health grants - USA TODAY apple.news/Ap2QTKHLtQwu9m…

I recommend this and I subscribe The Parnas Perspective aaronparnas.substack.com/?r=18z1o

“Overall, ‘the world’ has played very, very sound chess from the start.” — Magnus Carlsen

Many thanks to this total hero ‘I will not be part of it’: Israeli teen jailed for refusing military service speaks out - NBC News apple.news/AtZAIxCCSSxi-U…

nytimes.com/live/2025/05/2… via @NYTimes

Off #rhymes

Great Brazilian photographer has passed

It's NVR's first birthday. Celebrate the June links round-up, featuring Wiseblood Books James Matthew Wilson Nimrod Journal Boris Dralyuk Dappled Things Zina Gomez-Liss Angela Alaimo O'Donnell Dan Sheehan Alicia E. Stallings Jane Clark Scharl The Lamp The University Bookman New Ohio Review Alexis Sears A.M. Juster (#Petrarch @wwnorton fall 2025)

Lee Jae-myung’s Presidential victory in South Korea is the sign of a functioning democracy and a refutation of authoritarianism, E. Tammy Kim writes. nyer.cm/kVtpcc0

Rabbi Dov Landau, who leads the non-Hasidic Ashkenazi Haredi community, has directed his faction's Knesset representatives to back the dissolution of parliament, party sources say, a move that could lead to early elections haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

I found this story so moving this morning apple.news/AGq2AgzN8QJG0D…

"The federal government is sowing chaos so they can have an excuse to escalate. That is not the way any civilized country behaves."

What about all these Trump supporters that are worried about government overreach ? Literally tackling our elected officials to the ground ? The ignorance is staggering. apple.news/ADfdgXm9SQTmAt…

speaking as the world, I call on everyone to get rid of nuclear weapons, including Israel apple.news/AXJVrhFyoRYaEq…

Opinion | Thanks, Supreme Court! It's now my right to prevent my kid from learning about Trump. | Opinion - USA TODAY apple.news/AFpisFmynTLuNf…

Who is Big Beautiful Bill anyway ?looks like he hates poor people, hates children, hates working class citizens, hates the earth, hates road repair, hates the truth, hates schools, the small business person, free speech. Big Beautiful Bill loves the Big Big Billionaire

I’m excited to be doing this with my dear friend Norma: An Afternoon of Poetry with Brenda Hillman and Norma Cole — North Bay Letterpress Arts northbayletterpressarts.org/upcoming-event…

This is deeply deeply crazy Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Full Military Takeover of Gaza nytimes.com/2025/08/07/wor… via @NYTimes

Honored to be in Paul Nelson’s lineup for a new course paulenelson.com/life-as-rehear…

Gorgeous poem on Academy of American Poets today by Arman Davoudian