Evening Journal: August 2026

 

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