John Gregory Brown

John Gregory Brown is a novelist and teacher.

[John Gregory Brown @jgregorybrown]

I've got a website -- for my art, for my books. Please check it out: https://t.co/zSjqJ16Cs5

[John Gregory Brown @jgregorybrown]

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[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Dear Ma & Pa MAGA,
Donald trump is not being “indicted for you.”
He‘s never done a thing for you.
Here’s what he promised you:
He said he would lower drug prices.
He didn’t.
He said he’d protect people with pre-existing conditions.
He didn’t.
He said he would repeal the Affordable Care Act, and replace it with something “beautiful.”
He didn’t.
He promised to eliminate the federal deficit.
He didn’t.
As a matter of fact, he increased it by almost $7.8 trillion.
He promised an infrastructure bill was coming in “2 weeks”.
It never came.
He promised to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it.
He didn’t and they didn’t.
He promised his tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations would pay for themselves.
They won’t.
In fact - they added $2 trillion to our national debt.
He promised to end the opioid crisis, ‘bring back coal’, protect steel jobs, increase wages, stop factories from moving overseas, enact term limits, show his taxes & that Hillary Clinton would be “locked up”.
He didn’t & she’s isn’t.
He said he would make America great and put America first.
He let a pandemic ravage the country unabated and kept our national security secrets in his bathroom.
And here’s what he did:
He used YOUR money to pay-off a porn star, mocked a disabled reporter, attacked a POW, bragged about sexual assault, got impeached (twice), lost re-election, plotted a coup, incited an insurrection, and stole highly classified documents he knew he wasn’t allowed to show anyone, but did.
So now he has found himself indicted on 34 state felony counts & 37 federal ones, all while still facing many more.
He didn’t do any of that “for you”.
He’s an incurious, incompetent imbecile, who is as corrupt and self-obsessed as he is dumb.
And he’s really, really dumb.
He’s a sociopathic traitor who’s done nothing for you.
Nothing.
He’s being indicted because of HIS actions.
His selfishness.
His disregard for the law and for the safety of our citizens.
Because the truth is, that aside from how much money you’ll send him to pay his many, many lawyers, that he doesn’t give a f*ck about you.
He doesn’t do anything for anyone but himself.
And getting indicted is 100% about him. Not you.

Believe me.

[Tom Shaw 🌊🇺🇦❤️🌈🐻🇺🇸💙🔥 @TommyNewYear]

The hit song, TASTE THE BISCUIT is on fire again. The song was introduced by Toasters ‘n’ Moose in the film, “Chickens in the Shadows”, written and directed by Vincent Gargiulo and starring Estelle Piper and well… yep, that’s me!

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Rod Stewart is looking well.

[John Gregory Brown @jgregorybrown]

@sashageffen @itsokdta This is a brilliant and beautiful essay. Thank you.

[John Gregory Brown @jgregorybrown]

@aorady My son ordered @tonal for me in December. It has still not been delivered or installed. I’ve called dozens of times and failed to get meaningful help. Twice the delivery was scheduled and then abruptly, at the last minute, cancelled. Please help.

[John Gregory Brown @jgregorybrown]

Sweet Briar to screen City of a Million Dreams and host Q&A with director and co-producer https://t.co/B76FIwsKIn via @sweetbriaredu

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

It seems likely that the Trump Organization will soon be criminally indicted. This is a moment that requires restraint from the American democracy coalition. We live in a country where the presumption of innocence is as foundational to our liberty as the

[John Gregory Brown @jgregorybrown]

Last year, we formalized our group of incredible monthly givers and launched <a ... https://t.co/1po3yDLYfE

[Valzhyna Mort @ValzhynaMort]

A Flame
by Adam Zagajewski

God, give us a long winter
and quiet music, and patient mouths,
and a little pride - before
our age ends.
Give us astonishment
and a flame, high, bright.

From Polish, Clare Cavanagh

Always with me, Adam 🖤

[Ilya Kaminsky @ilya_poet]

And on a world poetry day we have lost a great voice.

*

And now in a hurry just
pack, always, each day,
and go breathless, go to Lvov, after all
it exists, quiet and pure as
a peach. It is everywhere.

--Adam Zagajewski

[Stanley Bill @StanleySBill]

Very sad news: the great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski has passed away at 75. Associated with the generation of 1968, he joined Miłosz, Herbert, Różewicz and Szymborska as an internationally renowned figure. Read his poem "Try to Praise the Mutilated World". https://t.co/PYdtxTZdS3

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

Instead of having to raise money to survive every catastrophe, I think we should have some kind of official body made up of people we choose that collects a set percentage of money from every American and then uses that money to give us aid during crises

[John Gregory Brown @jgregorybrown]

@JimHunterTalks @Orioles Thank you, Jim, for all of your years with the O’s. I’ve so enjoyed your knowledge and enthusiasm.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Honestly the idea of Mike Pence being president for 12 hours or something, so that everyone who looks back at the list of U.S. Presidents generations from now is like "WTF happened there?", is another (small) reason to vote on removal *before* Trump leaves office.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Let's just be clear here: Literally all of this was obvious from the moment Trump came down the escalator: his contempt for democracy, his love of authoritarians and violence, and his utter unfitness.

And yet the entire GOP (with very few exceptions) went along with it.

[John Gregory Brown @jgregorybrown]

@elizmccracken There you go, making things up again.

[Chris Hayes @chrislhayes]

Mike Pence is an absolute coward who has actively colluded with evil for his own personal glory and power at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives and grievous damage to American democracy. Why would anyone expect him to do the right thing?

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

At this late a stage, resignations help little beyond serving as late attempts at self-preservation.

If Sec. Chao objects to yesterday’s events this deeply, she should be working the Cabinet to invoke the 25th amendment - not abdicating the seat that allows her to do so.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protestors yesterday that they wouldn’t have been treated very differently than the mob that stormed the Capitol.

We all know that’s true — and it’s unacceptable.