Bill Marsh
@bcmearc.bsky.social
City prof (Chicago), country poet, essayist, union+, angling for truth in a big lie pond. Words here and there, a couple BAE notables, etc.
https://nodiff.com/
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A jury in Washington, D.C. has acquitted Sean Dunn, the man who was accused of assaulting a Customs and Border Patrol officer by throwing a “sub-style sandwich” at him.
DC “Sandwich Guy,” Who Threw Sub at CBP Agent, Acquitted on Fed Assault Charges
The immigration agent claimed that the harmless sub had “exploded” on his bulletproof vest.
truthout.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A jury in Washington, D.C. has acquitted Sean Dunn, the man who was accused of assaulting a Customs and Border Patrol officer by throwing a “sub-style sandwich” at him.
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As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month:
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month:
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
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People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
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If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military.
The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.
Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.
The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.
Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military.
The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.
Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.
The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.
Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.
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My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
— Audre Lorde
4️⃣ days from today, join us in the streets of Chicago for a peaceful protest to say: Hands Off Chicago & NO KINGS! ❌👑
📅 Sat. Oct. 18
⏰12 PM
📍Grant Park, Chicago
🔗 Info: bit.ly/HandsOffChiO... (rsvp not required)
— Audre Lorde
4️⃣ days from today, join us in the streets of Chicago for a peaceful protest to say: Hands Off Chicago & NO KINGS! ❌👑
📅 Sat. Oct. 18
⏰12 PM
📍Grant Park, Chicago
🔗 Info: bit.ly/HandsOffChiO... (rsvp not required)
October 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
— Audre Lorde
4️⃣ days from today, join us in the streets of Chicago for a peaceful protest to say: Hands Off Chicago & NO KINGS! ❌👑
📅 Sat. Oct. 18
⏰12 PM
📍Grant Park, Chicago
🔗 Info: bit.ly/HandsOffChiO... (rsvp not required)
— Audre Lorde
4️⃣ days from today, join us in the streets of Chicago for a peaceful protest to say: Hands Off Chicago & NO KINGS! ❌👑
📅 Sat. Oct. 18
⏰12 PM
📍Grant Park, Chicago
🔗 Info: bit.ly/HandsOffChiO... (rsvp not required)
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us. But we keep moving.”
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@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us. But we keep moving.”
organizingmythoughts.org/the-emergenc...
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
organizingmythoughts.org/the-emergenc...
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Plugging this great book for the second time in as many years. Among other things, a healthy reminder that creating "new and different forms of social reality" is both possible and more important now than ever. #booksky @davidwengrow.bsky.social @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Plugging this great book for the second time in as many years. Among other things, a healthy reminder that creating "new and different forms of social reality" is both possible and more important now than ever. #booksky @davidwengrow.bsky.social @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
“The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability. When we give in, we join the sales force.”
Worth reading… twice.
“The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability. When we give in, we join the sales force.”
Worth reading… twice.
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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“The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability. When we give in, we join the sales force.”
Worth reading… twice.
“The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability. When we give in, we join the sales force.”
Worth reading… twice.
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Every man like Ezra Klein who say we need pro-life Democrats should be forced to push a watermelon out of his urethra
September 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Every man like Ezra Klein who say we need pro-life Democrats should be forced to push a watermelon out of his urethra
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With the mainstream media distracted by the made-for-TV drama of James Comey’s indictment, Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as indicators of radical left violence.
National Security Directive Declares War on Those Who Don’t Support Trump Agenda
The directive labels common beliefs such as “anti-capitalist” opinions as terrorism “indicators.”…
truthout.org
September 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
With the mainstream media distracted by the made-for-TV drama of James Comey’s indictment, Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as indicators of radical left violence.
I put the word “thereabouts” through an anagram generator, used the results to write a few poems. The first nine here @rangermagazine.bsky.social with much thanks (!) to @davidabishop.bsky.social
#Ranger Mag just dropped yet *another* double issue (#12 and #13)! As usual, it's jam packed with the best experimental #poetry, #art and #music of the international avant garde. Check it out!
rangermagazine.net/issue12
rangermagazine.net/issue13
rangermagazine.net/issue12
rangermagazine.net/issue13
September 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I put the word “thereabouts” through an anagram generator, used the results to write a few poems. The first nine here @rangermagazine.bsky.social with much thanks (!) to @davidabishop.bsky.social
Colbert and Kimmel "canned by groveling corporations seeking merger-favors from the administration, but there will never really be enough silence and obedience and flattery for the insatiable ego of the misery-in-chief." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-the-party... @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
On the Party of Narcissistic Inequality
Something that's true of all the narcissists I've known and witnessed is that they're unhappy and they can't recognize that this is an entrenched condition. They think it's due to something someone ju...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Colbert and Kimmel "canned by groveling corporations seeking merger-favors from the administration, but there will never really be enough silence and obedience and flattery for the insatiable ego of the misery-in-chief." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-the-party... @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
With gratitude to the editors at Water~Stone Review. Always a joy to think and write about what it means to write something.
#nonfiction #essay
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#nonfiction #essay
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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Bill Marsh | Water~Stone Review
waterstonereview.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
With gratitude to the editors at Water~Stone Review. Always a joy to think and write about what it means to write something.
#nonfiction #essay
waterstonereview.com/in-the-field...
#nonfiction #essay
waterstonereview.com/in-the-field...
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Another awesome episode of We’re Still Here with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social @juliefrancella.com & @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social
So sad 😞 about losing a special soul, Graham Greene.
Another awesome episode of We’re Still Here with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social @juliefrancella.com & @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social
So sad 😞 about losing a special soul, Graham Greene.
September 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Another awesome episode of We’re Still Here with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social @juliefrancella.com & @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social
So sad 😞 about losing a special soul, Graham Greene.
Another awesome episode of We’re Still Here with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social @juliefrancella.com & @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social
So sad 😞 about losing a special soul, Graham Greene.
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No comment, beyond the fact that in 2022 an avg. of 7 children a DAY died from gun violence in the USA.
No comment, except that gun violence disproportionately impacts children of color.
No comment, but gun deaths are the leading cause of death in children, ahead of car crashes and cancer.
No comment, except that gun violence disproportionately impacts children of color.
No comment, but gun deaths are the leading cause of death in children, ahead of car crashes and cancer.
September 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
No comment, beyond the fact that in 2022 an avg. of 7 children a DAY died from gun violence in the USA.
No comment, except that gun violence disproportionately impacts children of color.
No comment, but gun deaths are the leading cause of death in children, ahead of car crashes and cancer.
No comment, except that gun violence disproportionately impacts children of color.
No comment, but gun deaths are the leading cause of death in children, ahead of car crashes and cancer.
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Such a great summary of the current moment in higher education and what needs to be done to defend it and create a better future for it too!
Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...
Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan
Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it.
www.thedigradio.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Such a great summary of the current moment in higher education and what needs to be done to defend it and create a better future for it too!
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The Soft Secession: How States Are Joining Together to Escape Trump’s Grip
open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
#Bluecrew #50501 #indivisible #trending
#nokings #bettertogether#votebluemeidasmighty #voteblue#bettertogether
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#Bluecrew #50501 #indivisible #trending
#nokings #bettertogether#votebluemeidasmighty #voteblue#bettertogether
The Soft Secession: How States Are Joining Together to Escape Trump’s Grip
Facing federal paralysis and partisan weaponization, blue states are forming powerful alliances. From public health to climate, they are building their own future outside Washington’s reach.
open.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Soft Secession: How States Are Joining Together to Escape Trump’s Grip
open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
#Bluecrew #50501 #indivisible #trending
#nokings #bettertogether#votebluemeidasmighty #voteblue#bettertogether
open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
#Bluecrew #50501 #indivisible #trending
#nokings #bettertogether#votebluemeidasmighty #voteblue#bettertogether
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Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...
Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan
Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it.
www.thedigradio.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...
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Don't forget the Labor Day action hosted by the CFL with a ton of collaborating organizations. We're looking forward to putting workers over billionaires at the Haymarket Memorial in downtown Chicago.
See you there!
See you there!
August 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Don't forget the Labor Day action hosted by the CFL with a ton of collaborating organizations. We're looking forward to putting workers over billionaires at the Haymarket Memorial in downtown Chicago.
See you there!
See you there!
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"Table your disputes and connect with people who are providing direct support to targeted groups in your communities ... How can you help? There’s no need to start from scratch. Find already-organized people and figure out how to contribute to or expand upon their efforts."
"If you live in a city Trump has announced plans to target ... we have weeks—a month at best—to figure out how to act in concert and resist the militarized fascist onslaught. Even then, we will be late and lacking, but we dare not yield this round of the fight."
Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Limping in the Dark
"Let’s sing songs and tend each other’s wounds."
organizingmythoughts.org
August 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
"Table your disputes and connect with people who are providing direct support to targeted groups in your communities ... How can you help? There’s no need to start from scratch. Find already-organized people and figure out how to contribute to or expand upon their efforts."
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10/ For opponents, the fight in D.C. is not just about one city — it’s about resisting a broader authoritarian model being tested nationwide.
An Authoritarian Dress Rehearsal
The spectacle of Trump’s Washington takeover may be fascist pageantry, but it’s also something more.
inthesetimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
10/ For opponents, the fight in D.C. is not just about one city — it’s about resisting a broader authoritarian model being tested nationwide.
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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I got to give it to South Park. While many are scared of the Trump Administration in the news industry, South Park has come right at them! With a counter punch.
I got to give it to South Park. While many are scared of the Trump Administration in the news industry, South Park has come right at them! With a counter punch.
Satire at its finest: South Park takes on Trump’s martial takeover, AI and tech bros
No show has ever worked harder to have its finger on the nation’s pulse than Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s long-running comedy – and it really shows
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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I got to give it to South Park. While many are scared of the Trump Administration in the news industry, South Park has come right at them! With a counter punch.
I got to give it to South Park. While many are scared of the Trump Administration in the news industry, South Park has come right at them! With a counter punch.
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"I would need help to enter, hesitatingly, into my mother’s sick body, to bite into her cancer, twist it every which way..."
From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman. Art by Patty Paine.
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From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman. Art by Patty Paine.
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/01/f...
From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman
I would need help to enter, hesitatingly, into my mother’s sick body, to bite into her cancer, twist it every which way, let it melt on my tongue like a communion wafer, pierce it with my teeth and…
anotherchicagomagazine.net
August 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"I would need help to enter, hesitatingly, into my mother’s sick body, to bite into her cancer, twist it every which way..."
From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman. Art by Patty Paine.
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/01/f...
From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman. Art by Patty Paine.
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/01/f...