D.A. Gray
@dagray.bsky.social
Student & Teacher. Writer. Poet. Veteran. Independent. Misanthropic Humanist. Author of Contested Terrain.
I like that I’m seeing more news stories about measles with pictures of people with measles instead of pictures of doctors with cartoonishly large needles stabbing children.
December 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Some of y’all need to cut the bullshit. The worries that Ms Crockett is too loud, too radical, too anything are typical white supremacist tropes and to use it on the day after she announces only shows that some claiming to be on the left are easily manipulated.
Some of y’all need to cut the bullshit. The worries that Ms Crockett is too loud, too radical, too anything are typical white supremacist tropes and to use it on the day after she announces only shows that some claiming to be on the left are easily manipulated.
Texas Democrats divided over Jasmine Crockett’s Senate bid
Some Democrats dismissed the Dallas congresswoman as too polarizing to capture the swing voters needed to win. Others said her turnout-over-persuasion approach is the recipe to break through.
www.texastribune.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/09/j...
Some of y’all need to cut the bullshit. The worries that Ms Crockett is too loud, too radical, too anything are typical white supremacist tropes and to use it on the day after she announces only shows that some claiming to be on the left are easily manipulated.
Some of y’all need to cut the bullshit. The worries that Ms Crockett is too loud, too radical, too anything are typical white supremacist tropes and to use it on the day after she announces only shows that some claiming to be on the left are easily manipulated.
Since we’re talking about your boss — Any plans to ask wth he was thinking with the AI-generated clip of him shitting on the American people? No? Just going to be spineless as ever? got it. ...
October 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Since we’re talking about your boss — Any plans to ask wth he was thinking with the AI-generated clip of him shitting on the American people? No? Just going to be spineless as ever? got it. ...
Welp. Cf47s regime shitting on the American people is their most honest post yet.
ICYMI — The president posts an AI video of him wearing a crown dumping shit on protestors.
Our kids are watching.
Our kids are watching.
October 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Welp. Cf47s regime shitting on the American people is their most honest post yet.
Thank you to Line of Advance for including 'Sacrament' among their finalists for the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing award for veterans. There are a lot of strong poems posted on their page.
www.lineofadvance.org/blog/2025/8/...
www.lineofadvance.org/blog/2025/8/...
Sacrament — Line Of Advance Literary Journal
Fear death by water, the poet, wearing the mask of a fortune teller, says, which I’m thinking as we roll over into the canal. Sometimes the weirdest shit crops up like a line of vers...
www.lineofadvance.org
August 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Thank you to Line of Advance for including 'Sacrament' among their finalists for the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing award for veterans. There are a lot of strong poems posted on their page.
www.lineofadvance.org/blog/2025/8/...
www.lineofadvance.org/blog/2025/8/...
riseupreview.org/current-issue
Thankful for the editors at Rise Up Review for the work put into this latest issue. Some won't see the benefit of art when the world is on fire, but when authoritarians use division and despair, evidence of interconnectedness and hope are a shot in the arm.
Thankful for the editors at Rise Up Review for the work put into this latest issue. Some won't see the benefit of art when the world is on fire, but when authoritarians use division and despair, evidence of interconnectedness and hope are a shot in the arm.
Current Issue
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July 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
riseupreview.org/current-issue
Thankful for the editors at Rise Up Review for the work put into this latest issue. Some won't see the benefit of art when the world is on fire, but when authoritarians use division and despair, evidence of interconnectedness and hope are a shot in the arm.
Thankful for the editors at Rise Up Review for the work put into this latest issue. Some won't see the benefit of art when the world is on fire, but when authoritarians use division and despair, evidence of interconnectedness and hope are a shot in the arm.
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Trump lied about Medicaid, and people are going to die because of it.
July 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Trump lied about Medicaid, and people are going to die because of it.
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The Paramount - Skydance merger will be worthless if no one is watching. Independent media is doing to corporate media what independent music did to major labels back in the day. Fuck with the people at your own risk, oligarchs.
July 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The Paramount - Skydance merger will be worthless if no one is watching. Independent media is doing to corporate media what independent music did to major labels back in the day. Fuck with the people at your own risk, oligarchs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g20x...
Losing one of our best voices, who always spoke up for those who needed it. 49 years is far too early but it was 49 packed, meaningful years.
Rest easy, Andrea Gibson.
Losing one of our best voices, who always spoke up for those who needed it. 49 years is far too early but it was 49 packed, meaningful years.
Rest easy, Andrea Gibson.
Andrea Gibson - Maybe I Need You | Sofar NYC
YouTube video by Sofar Sounds
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July 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g20x...
Losing one of our best voices, who always spoke up for those who needed it. 49 years is far too early but it was 49 packed, meaningful years.
Rest easy, Andrea Gibson.
Losing one of our best voices, who always spoke up for those who needed it. 49 years is far too early but it was 49 packed, meaningful years.
Rest easy, Andrea Gibson.
Thank you Collateral Journal, @middlewestpress.bsky.social , @aimingcircle.bsky.social , @fobhaiku.bsky.social for the important work of giving veterans and family an important outlet. Honored to be in great company.
I first met poet and U.S. Army veteran @dagray.bsky.social at the 2015 "Military Experience & the Arts" conference in Lawton, Oklahoma. I've always been impressed with his ability to illuminate quiet epiphanies using the veteran experience.
"A.M. radio" is just lovely. Chewy and gritty and lovely.
"A.M. radio" is just lovely. Chewy and gritty and lovely.
Along with co-sponsor Collateral Journal, we are pleased to reveal another 2025 War Poetry Postcard Project design! More info: linktr.ee/warpoets
Congratulations to poet and U.S. Army veteran @dagray.bsky.social , for "A.M. radio"!
More info: www.middlewestpress.com/2025/07/texa...
Congratulations to poet and U.S. Army veteran @dagray.bsky.social , for "A.M. radio"!
More info: www.middlewestpress.com/2025/07/texa...
July 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Thank you Collateral Journal, @middlewestpress.bsky.social , @aimingcircle.bsky.social , @fobhaiku.bsky.social for the important work of giving veterans and family an important outlet. Honored to be in great company.
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With co-sponsor Collateral Journal, we are pleased to announce the 2025 War Poetry Postcard Project results! linktr.ee/warpoets
1st Prize: @janemuschenetz.bsky.social, "Every poem is political—"!
Finalists:
@dagray.bsky.social, "A.M. radio"!
@pam-hart.bsky.social, "Mothers Over Nangarhar"
1st Prize: @janemuschenetz.bsky.social, "Every poem is political—"!
Finalists:
@dagray.bsky.social, "A.M. radio"!
@pam-hart.bsky.social, "Mothers Over Nangarhar"
July 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
With co-sponsor Collateral Journal, we are pleased to announce the 2025 War Poetry Postcard Project results! linktr.ee/warpoets
1st Prize: @janemuschenetz.bsky.social, "Every poem is political—"!
Finalists:
@dagray.bsky.social, "A.M. radio"!
@pam-hart.bsky.social, "Mothers Over Nangarhar"
1st Prize: @janemuschenetz.bsky.social, "Every poem is political—"!
Finalists:
@dagray.bsky.social, "A.M. radio"!
@pam-hart.bsky.social, "Mothers Over Nangarhar"
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It’s easy to come off as a radical when you warn people that a racist, sexist, Christofascist movement is pushing for a dictatorship. But the real radicals are the racists, sexists and Christofascists who are pushing for a dictatorship. We’re only describing what’s in front of our eyes.
June 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It’s easy to come off as a radical when you warn people that a racist, sexist, Christofascist movement is pushing for a dictatorship. But the real radicals are the racists, sexists and Christofascists who are pushing for a dictatorship. We’re only describing what’s in front of our eyes.
Meanwhile, CF47 is preoccupied carrying out a war agains Americans. And our Defense Sec has only ever commanded a bottle of whiskey, or one of his assault victims.
Israel attacks Iran, raising the potential for an all-out war.
Trump tore up the nuclear agreement with Iran that might have averted this. And he empowered corrupt Israeli leader Netanyahu.
Trump tore up the nuclear agreement with Iran that might have averted this. And he empowered corrupt Israeli leader Netanyahu.
Israel Launches Attack on Iran as Tehran Scrambles Jets
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Meanwhile, CF47 is preoccupied carrying out a war agains Americans. And our Defense Sec has only ever commanded a bottle of whiskey, or one of his assault victims.
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Every leader—Dem or GOP—should follow Malcolm Kenyatta’s lead and *rage* against Trump’s gestapo tactics. That includes the assault on Mayor Ras Baraka *and* the kidnapping of our immigrant neighbors.
This isn’t law—it’s fascism. Silence is complicity.
Speak up or step aside. #OnYourSide
This isn’t law—it’s fascism. Silence is complicity.
Speak up or step aside. #OnYourSide
May 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Every leader—Dem or GOP—should follow Malcolm Kenyatta’s lead and *rage* against Trump’s gestapo tactics. That includes the assault on Mayor Ras Baraka *and* the kidnapping of our immigrant neighbors.
This isn’t law—it’s fascism. Silence is complicity.
Speak up or step aside. #OnYourSide
This isn’t law—it’s fascism. Silence is complicity.
Speak up or step aside. #OnYourSide
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There's much more in this piece abt Marco Rubio getting USAID contractors robbed, but he also cut off USAID Inspector General's phone.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
March 1, 2025 at 11:51 PM
There's much more in this piece abt Marco Rubio getting USAID contractors robbed, but he also cut off USAID Inspector General's phone.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
February 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
February 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
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The "big government" that Libertarians rail against are the governments that protect ordinary people from big businesses and billionaires.
Ironically the mode of government Libertarians aim for is actually big government, power and wealth concentrated into the hands of a small clique.
Ironically the mode of government Libertarians aim for is actually big government, power and wealth concentrated into the hands of a small clique.
February 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The "big government" that Libertarians rail against are the governments that protect ordinary people from big businesses and billionaires.
Ironically the mode of government Libertarians aim for is actually big government, power and wealth concentrated into the hands of a small clique.
Ironically the mode of government Libertarians aim for is actually big government, power and wealth concentrated into the hands of a small clique.
Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ having half their neighbors treated as 'the enemy.' Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ having their religion used as cover for bigotry. Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ stirring up hate to cover up white collar crimes.
You are not alone.
You are not alone.
February 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ having half their neighbors treated as 'the enemy.' Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ having their religion used as cover for bigotry. Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ stirring up hate to cover up white collar crimes.
You are not alone.
You are not alone.
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What beautiful irony:
the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church now controls the name Proud Boys, the trademark, and rights to any monies from merch. 👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church now controls the name Proud Boys, the trademark, and rights to any monies from merch. 👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
What beautiful irony:
the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church now controls the name Proud Boys, the trademark, and rights to any monies from merch. 👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church now controls the name Proud Boys, the trademark, and rights to any monies from merch. 👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
February 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
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NEW: Federal workers are starting to receive a copy of the court's restraining order against the Trump administration barring the regime from freezing federal grants and financial assistance. Excellent work, and worth the read:
February 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
NEW: Federal workers are starting to receive a copy of the court's restraining order against the Trump administration barring the regime from freezing federal grants and financial assistance. Excellent work, and worth the read:
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🚀 Mary Jackson made history in 1958 as NASA’s first Black female engineer, a time when there were very few female or Black engineers in the field
#BlackHistoryMonth #MSIChicago #NASA #WomeninSTEM
#BlackHistoryMonth #MSIChicago #NASA #WomeninSTEM
February 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🚀 Mary Jackson made history in 1958 as NASA’s first Black female engineer, a time when there were very few female or Black engineers in the field
#BlackHistoryMonth #MSIChicago #NASA #WomeninSTEM
#BlackHistoryMonth #MSIChicago #NASA #WomeninSTEM
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I don’t know about you, but Malcolm Kenyatta right here makes me want to fight—to keep fighting for what we believe as Democrats.
I was hollering watching this.
@malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social is running for DNC Vice Chair.
I was hollering watching this.
@malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social is running for DNC Vice Chair.
January 31, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I don’t know about you, but Malcolm Kenyatta right here makes me want to fight—to keep fighting for what we believe as Democrats.
I was hollering watching this.
@malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social is running for DNC Vice Chair.
I was hollering watching this.
@malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social is running for DNC Vice Chair.