#politics and prose

[tea-tuesday]

currently doing peachtober for the first time in my hobonichi 5-year🍑 !! i've never been much of an artist but this is my best attempt.. i haven't done today's entry yet but yesterday, i went into the city to trim my bangs and explore union market 📚☕️

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

A poem written by Marcellus Williams about Palestine.

Despite DNA evidence proving his innocence, he was executed on September 24, 2024.

[deafeningfartfury]

Hello my friend, I am Abboud from Gaza. My family and I are living in difficult circumstances in light of the war of extermination that we have been exposed to for a year. Look at my condition before the war, how I was and now how I am. I used to live in a safe and warm house and I had my own job and I had a car, but the occupation destroyed everything and look at the diseases that afflict the children of my family. Because of the devastation and widespread diseases, no one helps me because I am weak. My dream is to live in safety and peace. My family and I hope you can imagine my situation and help me and my family donate. Even a small amount can save me and my family. We need. To the basics of life like food and medicine, my friend appreciated my situation and helped me survive. My family and I go a day or two without eating anything because I don't have money. I don't have money to buy food. I'm losing hope in life. Be our lifeline and help me survive

[milf--adjacent]

I hate how the single guardian interviewed for this segment lays out both the real problem and the solution, and yet Top Cop Kamala Harris insists that threatening poor parents with legal prosecution is the real solution.

Kids aren't truant because their parents don't care or are bad, they're truant because they literally can't get to school on time because of an utter lack of public transportation. Kamala Harris would run this country the same way she "served" California, by blaming individuals for systemic issues while making other systemic issues worse.

[cryinginmelodrama]

i hope the women know that they can be angry and optimistic both. i hope they know that joy is militant and political too. please keep your spirits up and cheer up one another. they view us as one dimensional but we are not. we will hurt, cry, scream but also smile and laugh. we should remember that. today i saw girls younger than me hurting and hopeless and it broke my heart. they should not be able to snatch our faith. we should remember that the anger rooted in revenge dissipates over time and it'll be another one time story. we need joy we need faith we need perseverance. as this is not a revenge fight it's a moral and ideological battle that has to last generations. we might not see the end of it but hopefully the girls in the future will.

[shisasan]

Summer, 1966 The Diary of Anais Nin 1966-1974 [volume 7]

[realidadposts]

[sstargrllll]

You my love,

are immortal in my heart.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

I’m sorry your probably still up, I’m sorry you’re probably suffering and scared right now, but thank you for posting. Thank you for not giving into doom. Thank you for putting a little more love and hope and reminders to hold onto your community and survive into the world right now. I really appreciate it as someone who can’t sleep tonight. I hope you rest well and survive, even if it is mother fucking impossible thrive in these conditions. Sending you a guttural field to scream in together rn.

This is a very sweet message, thank you for sending it. And I hope you’re also able to find some peace tonight. Admittedly, I think I’m doing significantly better than many people right now, and to some extent I’m only as calm as I am right now because I very intentionally stayed out of the mire for most of the day. Instead, I read some stories that made me smile, and doodled some of the remaining fall colors, and later took a walk while the first snow of the season was falling, beautiful massive flakes coating the trees. I’m looking forward to drinking some warm beverages tomorrow while the snow keeps falling and getting to talk to my therapist. A blue jay came to my bird feeder this morning for the first time in a while, and perhaps tomorrow they will come again.

A couple hours ago I got the chance to video call a beloved friend who I haven’t talked to in a while, and it was really grounding to just catch up with someone I care about in the midst of all this. No better time to phone a friend and share the burden than the middle of a sleepless night.

I’ve spent a lot of time recently appreciating the resilience of my local riparian ecosystem. I live in the suburbs, but even in the middle of this heavily human altered environment, life still flourishes. Just this year I’ve seen owls and muskrats and turtles and cranes and raccoons and hawks and a very adorable juvenile skunk. I think when the storm is gone I will once again go out to pick up trash around the creek and do my part to help this little ecosystem thrive.

I think for anyone who is struggling right now or tomorrow or any of the days after, the best thing to do always, is to find someone to help. Yesterday (or the day before yesterday at this point I suppose), I helped one of my neighbors get through the aftermath of a domestic violence incident and find somewhere safe for her and her kid to go. Being able to provide support for someone who needed it in such a tangible way was really nice, and I know I can always look forward to finding more opportunities to help the people around me.

That’s what’s most important right now, I think. Helping your neighbors whenever you can, holding space with your loved ones to cry and laugh together, and doing something practical and tangible like cleaning up the trash by a creek.

[meinthefartsmella]

Marcellus Williams was murdered tonight. Remember his name. Remember his face. Say his name. Share his face everywhere.

Remember the names and the faces of the governor and "justice" system pigs that killed him.

Know your privilege.

[arcadeii]

KAMALA HARRIS 2024

as a queer 15 year old in one of america’s most progressive cities, I urge everyone who can to vote for kamala harris. If it’s somehow not harris, vote for whatever democrat is on the ballot.

I am dead terrified of what trump could do to this country, and many of you suggest voting for a more progressive independent candidate. In mine and most’s eyes, there is absolutely no way an independent candidate would win. project 2025 is such a disaster that my younger brother genuinely thought it a myth. I genuinely cannot read their ideas without wondering how such an evil thing could be thought up, much less widely known and supported as it is today. If I were feeling philosophical i might doubt the existence of an evil and good in the world, but here is one of the circumstances where I feel completely confident. Project 2025, and what it could do to america, is evil.

setting up the necessary campaign for an independent candidate to be even widely known about in years would be unprecedented. much less, 3 months. Regardless of a democratic candidate’s potential blunders, anything will be better than inadvertently contributing to the downfall of democracy in america (an exaggeration? I don’t know. you tell me. :) ). Maybe biden or harris have done something you could consider evil. All of us know that biden continues to support israel in the current conflict. That stance and the war itself is on my list of evils and I truly believe it is something that everyone should be able to see the evil in.

However we cannot forget that trump has said he would be harsher on palestine. this article highlights just some of that. In specific reference, trump had reportedly said in reference to the college protests that swept the nation:

“Well, if you get me elected, and you should really be doing this, if you get me reelected, we’re going to set that movement back 25 or 30 years.”

That is not someone we can elect. Those are the words of a man who will do nothing but worsen the problem. perhaps kamala harris will be more progressive on the issue than biden, even.

yes, this election will be a bit of a trolley problem. yes, it may not feel great to vote for someone who you don’t agree with. but much worse would be electing a president that will do absolutely nothing good and turn this country not greater, but into a ditch by the road, thereby taking the rest of the world with it.

on a lighter note, earlier today I was more scared than I am now. a lot of you online are hopeful and I will join you in that. My doomscrolling has turned to “hope”scrolling as the day progressed, as I saw someone else say. Once again, I can’t vote, but I’m going to be helping my mom and my grandma write postcards encouraging others to vote. I can’t vote but I will try my hardest to help out in any ways, i suppose starting in small part by this post. Alone I will have little impact but I believe that if we can raise 52,000,000$ in one day, 27,5000,000 in FIVE HOURS, we can win this election.

Keep the energy up,

KAMALA HARRIS 2024!!!!

ps. i found out biden dropped out 2 hours after leaving a vacation with my republican grandparent. bullet dodged. then had a wonderful hour long conversation with my awesome grandma at home ❤️

[tapestrytales]

Sometimes I feel like that window period of someone falling in love with me has passed. It's supposed to happen when you're at your best, with the best to give to the world. Whereas I am at my absolute worst with nothing left inside of me to give. I have become a rotten mess, who wishes they'd met their true potential. In fact right now would have been a great time for the person in love with me to remind me why I am absolutely worth it and that I should get back up. Right now would have been a great time to be reminded of the fact that I have genuinely got it. It sucks that all my life was wasted and not one good relationship or friendship was formed. Not one good career prospect. Nothing. I'll be seven and twenty and no different than how I was at my 16 or 17 or 18. At my absolute low in my absolute worst form, with my mom around to remind me of the worst parts of me. Fuck.

[thepersonalwords]

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

[humanconditionpoetry]

Loss - US Election 2024

Hello Everyone, if you have been following the US Elections, then you know that it was quite a shock and we all are still trying to digest the results.

With that said, I hope everyone is doing okay and note that it is okay to be sad. It is okay to grieve. You know, I am currently feeling awful and wanted to cry this morning. It is okay, acknowledge what you are feeling.

The way that I acknowledge my feelings is often through poetry writing. So here is a poem I just came up with today and finished just now. Please let me know your thoughts on this piece.

T.W/Tags: This Poem deals with the US Election 2024 - If this is still a trigger for you, please read at your risk.

Again T.W/Tags for US Election 2024 Results!

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Smile And Be A Villain

queer character-driven historical fantasy, reimagining Hamlet before the events of the play

follows prince Hamlet who has been sent away to Wittenberg after being caught in a compromising position, meeting new people and discovering magic

and Ophelia, back in Denmark, dealing with the rise of the corrupting by-product of magic

while a war is brewing, and they have to figure out how much they are willing to sacrifice to save their country

duology

bi hamlet, aspec ophelia

[usefulquotes7]

To impart a moral responsibility to exercise fairness in leadership builds greater leaders of strong character. Wayne Chirisa