Josh G

“You have to be irreverent to think you can modify the Sahara in the first place, and sincere in your attempt to do so” Poet with work in @BarrenMagazine.

[Josh G @JGwrites22]

I’ve got a lot to learn

[Clemmy O’Brien 🏆 @TheClemReport]

Wemby about to meet the real Shaolin monks

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

At a 15% higher price than last year!

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump pardoned over 70 allies and donors convicted in fraud cases, and wiped out over $1 billion in restitution, fines, and debts owed by those he pardoned.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power

(video: defiancedispatch/IG)

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

Lying in a legal briefing would get you disbarred as a regular lawyer. But when you’re an unelected, lifetime appointee with powers to write decisions that completely undo & remake the Constitution, the decision gets to stand & you get to keep your lifetime position. Outrageous.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This paint job—if you can call it that—is costing you $7 million, America, because Trump gave a no-bid contract to a pal

This would have been Exhibit A of the sort of shit DOGE was actually *supposed* to be looking for when it was instead cutting lifesaving scientific research

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Total Jobs Created by Party (1989-2026):

Democratic Presidents
50,600,000

Republican Presidents
1,469,000

The biggest scam the GOP has ever pulled off is convincing people that Republicans are good for the economy.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I hate when people at work ask you what books you are reading for professional development. I am reading books to counteract the effects of being professionally developed. I am reading books that bring me back to being human.

[Covie @covie_93]

Postponing an election just before early voting begins so you can redraw the map to disenfranchise black and brown voters is as racist as it gets.

[Josh G @JGwrites22]

New poems up at Sinkhole Quarterly, thankful for the opportunity to be in this magazine! https://t.co/dWFfUrEwKH

[Pigeons & Planes @PigsAndPlans]

Flea released a cover of Frank Ocean's "Thinkin Bout You” where he reinterprets the song as an instrumental orchestral ballad. The track features Flea on electric bass and trumpet, Anna Butterss on upright bass, and string arrangements by Nate Walcott of Bright Eyes. ⁠

It's included on his upcoming solo debut ‘Honora,’ set for release March 27. ⁠

[Joe @electionsjoe]

Utah Republicans are packing the courts because of a ruling they didn't like. This should be getting far more attention than it is.

[Chris @citehchris]

the concept of a dive bar where every 3 drinks you get a complementary cigarette and the bartenders are all ordained to marry customers legally

[Stone Circle Review @stonecirclerev]

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "The Aching Heel Eyed Righteous" by Josh Gaydos (@JGwrites22) #Tbt

https://t.co/mXArrl6LK8

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” — just vocals and strings — might be the most beautiful thing you’ll hear today.

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: The problem is that the Trump administration, folks like Russ Vought, they think that destroying our health care, making sure that housing is too expensive to live in, that jacking up the cost of our groceries—they think all of this is about hurting Democrats. What they are doing is hurting Americans, and they are hurting this country. 

And if Mike Johnson wants to say that this shutdown is going to last a long time, it is because he is choosing to punish the American people.

[Rosalind @rosalindmar19]

NEA literature fellowships cancelled </3

[Gene Wu @GeneforTexas]

They called a special session under the guise of flood relief — then tried to use it to redraw maps that would silence minority voters.

But Texans showed up.

This is what democracy looks like when we stand together.

#txlege