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overheard: "In a lifetime of a regime, a period arrives when lies are no longer a flaw in the system — they’re its currency. A time comes when in a regime where truth has no value, fiction becomes the only legal tender."

overheard: "In a life-time of a regime, a moment arrives when vulgarity isn’t a personal failing — it’s a state policy. Kitsch is armor against ethics; it’s collective anesthesia, pumped through every glowing screen and marching chant."

Overheard: "Soon, bored with their i-phones, i-pods and other forms of "mini me" which they see as mirrors, and not forms of surveillance -- they will udnerstand: t o remember is to betray a regime built on forgetting. Memory itself becomes a form of rebellion."

"They don't understand yet ... what those who read lyric poetry know well. By virtue of mere being--a lyric is a moment that somehow manages to spit at the system's feet — right onto the gleaming boots that so many broad-chested strongmen had kissed in tearful devotion."

Four words, and already we are in Kafka Territory: "Hey You! Papers, please?"

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Whatever is your take on a particular regime, bombing a news station is a war crime.

Killing people in food lines is a war crime.

“ Write it. Write. In ordinary ink on ordinary paper: they were given no food, they all died of hunger. "All. How many? It's a big meadow….” Szymborska wrote this after WW2. What changed? Starving people is a war crime. Starving people is a war crime. poemhunter.com/poem/hunger-ca…

Everyone is tired of endless images of violence—but if I don’t post this, who will (since you won’t find it in most Western news): Russia attacked Odesa again, yet another attack this week. “A court martial of a city,” a friend calls it.

I went to college in 1997. My mother was a widow, a refugee, and couldn’t help me pay for it. There is no way I would be able to afford college if it was 2025 & the bill US Congress just passed was the law of the land. There are millions of people like me. What a shame.

When politicians cancel Medicaid for millions of people right at the start of Disability Pride Month—it is time to reread classics: "Disability should move out of the realm of the hospital room to the realm of political minority -Rosemarie Garland Thompson, Extraordinary Bodies

One way to understand your own condition is to write something and spend a long time revising it. In revising you teach yourself. You find your own information buried in your body. It is still alive until you are not. --Fanny Howe, RIP

Friends, I’ll be taking time away from social media for a while. Be well. Vacation Today I cannot receive you desperation, disappointment, tough legions of death. Come by some other time, never, and leave gallantly your business cards Emil Botta, Tr. fr Romanian by L. Georgesc