There has never been a just war #marktwain #war #peace #poem

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oIyX8DRTNNw

 

The Snake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pYSjxZfB6A

“The Hill We Climb”: Why Amanda Gorman’s inauguration poem was restricted by a Florida school - Vox

"They are using erasure of students and erasure of groups of people as educational violence. Kids need to see themselves in what they read and learn," says Northeastern University education professor Jaci Urbani. "All kids need to see the contributions of people of color, of people who are queer, of people who are different from themselves."

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/24/23736215/florida-book-ban-amanda-gorman-the-hill-we-climb

'Blasphemy': DeSantis slammed for 'heretical' re-election ode to himself - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

"If Barack Obama had made an ad like this, evangelicals would have burnt down the country in a ragegasm," wrote Lee Papa, better known as The Rude Pundit.

https://www.rawstory.com/blasphemy-desantis-slammed-for-heretical-re-election-ode-to-himself-god-made-a-fighter/

Historians bash Ken Cuccinelli’s revised Statue of Liberty poem - The Washington Post

Annie Polland had an immediate thought after she heard Ken Cuccinelli’s revision of the famous poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty on Tuesday: Her sixth-grade students seemed to understand Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” better than the head of the nation’s legal immigration system did.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/14/ken-cuccinelli-statue-liberty-poor/

John Lithgow Shares His Trump-Based Poems - YouTube

John Lithgow is starring on Broadway in 'Hillary and Clinton,' a play to which the Clintons have been invited, but haven't yet RSVPed...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvLxAS5LO2M

Flirting with Fascism

"This is flirting with fascism in the open, in broad daylight now." –Sanho Tree (Institute for Policy Studies) on Trump's demonization of immigrants....
https://youtu.be/pfl9LgJR3iA

If This Is America - The New York Times

If this is America, with a cabinet of terrorized toadies genuflecting to the Great Leader, a vice president offering a compliment every 12 seconds to Mussolini’s understudy, and a White House that believes in “alternative facts,” then it is time to “keep your head when all about you are losing theirs.”....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/22/opinion/america-trump-united-nations.html

Huddled masses? Losers! Trump v Statue of Liberty | US news | The Guardian

A senior Trump advisor, Stephen Miller, sparked a furor last week when he dismissed the famous poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty. In response, we asked 21 poets: what type of poem would Trump like to see at the statue?....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/aug/10/the-new-colossus-emma-lazarus-poems-donald-trump-immigration