The House Always Wins
Trading in the financial markets
with insider information
is now completely legal
as long as The Don gets his cut
Trump Media & Technology Group selling early access
to market-moving White House social media posts.
08/01/2026
“There’s nothing we could do to rein in the president.”
John Cornyn, U.S. Senator, R-TX
“The first step is identifying the problem.”
Bill W., Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
08/05/2026
I write poetry for people
who like me will never feel comfortable
crafting casual conversation using words like
diaspora, zeitgeist, and gestalt
08/06/2026
One of life’s few certainties
regardless of the angle
is you will never get
all the crumbs out of the toaster
08/07/2026
"Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this
in 1621 in order to stop celebrating colonialism.”
Francesca Hong, Wisconsin State Representative,
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member
A big tent is fine
but it looks like the DNC
needs a bouncer
and a red velvet rope
08/17/2026
What good is poetry
if it reads like a locked door
and leaves a clouded mind
fumbling for a key
– respectfully frustrated and inspired by
Philip Lamantia (1927 - 2005)
08/21/2026
“We don’t think that anybody should have the constitutional right to double-digit returns on their investment.”
Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, who lives in a $1.5 million Brooklyn home that his parents bought for him (currently under renovation)
It seems the work of leaders
attempting institutional reconstruction
can only be done from white houses
under domestic reconstruction
08/22/2026
More disappointing than the actions
of the Man Who Would Be King
is the inaction from those
with the power to remove him
08/25/2026
The joy in discovering poems
so amazingly beautiful and resonant
that you let the morning coffee go cold
without a second thought
with thanks to Audrey for sharing
the poems of Andrea Gibson (1975–2025)
08/26/2026
An indifferent student as a young man
now an autodidact with a failing memory
I fear my life’s path has me heading
right back to where I started
08/28/2026
"Tonight we will try to understand why Donald Trump
hates Canada and respects North Korea."
Jeffrey Goldberg, host of the PBS program
"Washington Week with The Atlantic"
These days find an alarming number
of strange reports you’d never expected to hear
flying right through your medication
each night at 5:00pm
08/29/2026
