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Found poem from the corporate e-mails in my inbox, March 2020 | In these times In these unprecedented times / In these uncertain times In these trying times / You are probably exhausted by all the information. / Rest assured, we are vigilant. / The situation is complex.
By Kathleen RadiganJanuary 2021November 2020In the past censorship worked by blocking the flow of information. In the twenty-first century censorship works by flooding people with irrelevant information.
Yuval Noah Harari
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November 2020When COVID-19 hit, Dr. Anthony Fauci was portrayed on the Right as a deep-state villain, one of these “elitists” who are trying to tell “us” how to live in Middle America.
By Finn CohenNovember 2020Generation Z, my daughter’s generation, is the most racially mixed and most diverse, and they are the worst nightmare of the old white supremacists.
By Thacher SchmidMarch 2020We were losing parts of ourselves. A reporter discovered a trove of ears in a burlap sack. The leader said the papers were lying, and we weren’t sure what was rumor and what was fact. What happened to me, what happened to my neighbors — that wasn’t enough proof of all we had lost.
By Brenda PeynadoJanuary 2018May 2017It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.
Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Instead of attacking one more foreign city, hammering it into rubble, / we adopt a new strategy and start bombing with money.
By Tony HoaglandAugust 2016— from “I Stand in the Doorway” | Sometimes when you say goodbye you know it’s goodbye for keeps. / You touch your lips to her cheek, or you squeeze his hand & walk off. / What else can you do?
By Steve KowitOctober 2013“God’s servant and yours has prayed his prayer. Has he paused and taken thought? Is it one prayer? No, it is two — one uttered, the other not. Both have reached the ear of Him who heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken.
By Mark TwainJanuary 2013Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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