#FlashFiction – Fat of the Land by Stacy Benedict
https://stacybenedict.com/2026/02/18/flashfiction-fat-of-the-land-by-stacy-benedict/

ICE asked off-duty cops to prove citizenship, Minnesota police chief says
The police chief of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, said during a press conference on Tuesday that off-duty officers have been asked by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to provide proof of citizenship.
ICE is evil
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ice-asked-off-duty-cops-to-prove-citizenship-minnesota-police-chief-says/ar-AA1UBAmj?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=6970f497986a4f9597a664c04e857792&ei=19

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Holiday Reading List
Books make the best gifts. We’ve rounded up 10 titles to dig into over the holidays, leading off with best-selling author Ben Schott’s latest, “Schott’s Significa,” which unveils the hidden slang of subcultures. Click for more titles.
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Fourth of July
A poem by Rob Arnold
 
https://poets.org/poem/fourth-july
#Poetry #Poem

No Kings. No distractions.
🚫 👑
#NoKings #NoKingsDay #NoKingsDayProtest

#Poem #poetry
Correspondence with Apologies by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
https://poets.org/poem/correspondence-apologies

Things are getting worse and worse every day. Ugh, this horrible person.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene:
“You can protest all you want, but the American people disagree with you,” Greene said. “Those jobs are paid for by the American tax people who work real jobs, earn real income, pay federal taxes and then pay these federal employees. Federal employees do not deserve their jobs…. Federal employees do not deserve their pay checks. And these are jobs that can be fired at will.”

Have a wonderful day!  
#valentinesday

Not everyone who works for USAID, a government agency that employs hundreds of private contractors, is motivated by charity or religious conviction. While many are nonprofits, others are profitable companies. But the agency’s single largest contractor is Catholic Relief Services, which has provided billions of dollars in assistance to impoverished communities on every continent.
#USAID #news
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-would-a-christian-destroy-the-world-s-largest-relief-agency-opinion/ar-AA1yEl88?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=3e697b3caeba4f81db515756203c8a2b&ei=22