Tuesday, March 03, 2026

FATAL DISTRACTION

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by Philip Kitcher Epstein helped men get their jollies. Donald Trump was once a fan. Latest victims of his follies: Blameless schoolgirls in...

COLONEL AMERICA CALLING

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by Lynn White The dove sat carefully on Liberty lining her nest with down. She cooed sweetly but her new chick  said ‘coo-ark’ mimicking her...
Monday, March 02, 2026

ART

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by Cheryl Waitkevich     On Monday, February 16, Presidents’ Day, 22 professional dancers from the First Amendment Troop performed a 90-sec...
Sunday, March 01, 2026

THIS IS A TEST. THIS IS A TEST.

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by Tricia Knoll       Today on the radio the Bach fugue in B minor stands in for the emergency alert system two-tone blast before a three-to...

PEACE IS WAR

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by  Chen-ou Liu The butcher pushes more red meat through steel teeth. The wall-mounted TV blares “Operation Epic Fury” between discount ads....
Saturday, February 28, 2026

IN THE MARKET

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by Angie Minkin Here we are again,  an unseasonably warm day at the end of February and San Francisco’s Alemany Farmer’s Market bursts with ...

EXTREME WEATHER REPORTS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

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by Melissa Balmain “Shouldn’t we name extreme weather events after those contributing most to them? … Last hurricane season, a regular reade...

MOURNING PILLOW

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by Matthew Ellis     Woke early // couldn’t sleep Lie there awhile // felt rested so rose // as bombs fell to strikes // war on Iran again /...

STATE OF THE EPSTEIN CLASS’S UNION

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by Raymond Nat Turner Cartoon by Nick Anderson Disabling flying fingers of 14 fact-checkers; blowing out 30   bullshit detectors. One hour a...
Friday, February 27, 2026

NO

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by Penelope Moffet       I refused to watch the State of the Union, unwilling to give two hours of my life to so much bloviation and l...

ALL MY AUNTIES WERE THIRD WORLD WOMEN

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by Vinay Krishnan   when you fly international, one of the TSA’s  prohibited travel items is solidarity for the world’s  oppressed. don’t pu...
Thursday, February 26, 2026

WE CROSSED

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by  Zebo Zukhriddinova      AI-generated graphic by NightCafé for The New Verse News .   I want to speak loud enough for the child who  ...