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National Anthem Minor Key. (via Mefi)

"After the Dissolution

When we tell of this, the we that remains
five hundred years from now, our storied glacier

will be so small. Who could imagine this
great being of ice scored with huge crevices?

We’ll say that glaciers were white, because
we won’t imagine that ice becomes blue

as the weight of it presses out centuries
of air. We won’t remember gray moraines

comprised of stones rounded by the rolling
of so much power advancing and retreating.

We won’t tell of rivers a shade of turquoise
that stuns the eyes, carrying glacial flour

and ice’s breath to the sea. And those huge
boulders left in the middle of fields, we’ll

imagine that men put them there for some
reason. We’ll have forgotten how the tongues

of glaciers could rearrange the earth. We’ll
have forgotten how a glacier could tell a story

that reminded us of how small we are,
how brief our lives that misunderstood forever."

--Erin Coughlin Hollowell in Nature of our Times

Peltier freed.

"Lynch dying just before inauguration feels a lot like Bowie dying just before inauguration. The ominous clouds; the passing saints of freaks." --@besecretandexult.bsky.social via @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

"When Democratic policymakers accept Republican policy proposals as though they are good faith assessments of empirical reality, they unwittingly cede the struggle over framing the problems we face to the right. If both Democratic and Republican officials are calling something a 'crisis,' journalists have little choice but to report it as such and voters little reason to think otherwise."