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This account does not belong to a poet, education worker, or scholar. Who'd want to read Fugue & Strike (Black Ocean, 2023) & People Finder, Buffalo (Cloak, 2024) and etc? Garbage, labor obsessed.
"Could a poet on an alien earth explain how on this one, the sick body of a worker is the source of more profit than her healthy body at work" - Anne Boyer in an essay on Karen Brodine & cancer.
December 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Could a poet on an alien earth explain how on this one, the sick body of a worker is the source of more profit than her healthy body at work" - Anne Boyer in an essay on Karen Brodine & cancer.
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“All we hear are warplanes in the sky, and there is a constant threat of a military operation in Jenin”
Update from Rawand Arqawi
TAKE ACTION
https://
theculturalintifada.com
MAYDAY >>> #Jenin #JeninUnderAttack #Palestine #Theatre #جنين #Mayday
http://
artistsonthefrontline.com/mayday
Update from Rawand Arqawi
TAKE ACTION
https://
theculturalintifada.com
MAYDAY >>> #Jenin #JeninUnderAttack #Palestine #Theatre #جنين #Mayday
http://
artistsonthefrontline.com/mayday
December 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“All we hear are warplanes in the sky, and there is a constant threat of a military operation in Jenin”
Update from Rawand Arqawi
TAKE ACTION
https://
theculturalintifada.com
MAYDAY >>> #Jenin #JeninUnderAttack #Palestine #Theatre #جنين #Mayday
http://
artistsonthefrontline.com/mayday
Update from Rawand Arqawi
TAKE ACTION
https://
theculturalintifada.com
MAYDAY >>> #Jenin #JeninUnderAttack #Palestine #Theatre #جنين #Mayday
http://
artistsonthefrontline.com/mayday
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A public database of ice, ice agents, DHS, etc. Has now been built and it's entirely outside of the US and US government reach.
We Built a Public Record of ICE Because They Refuse to Keep One
Tracking Immigration Enforcement as It Accelerates Under Authoritarian Rule
open.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
A public database of ice, ice agents, DHS, etc. Has now been built and it's entirely outside of the US and US government reach.
"Prior to being destroyed, the seed bank housed thousands of heirloom seed cultivars indigenous to Palestine, many of which are older than the state which commandeered their destruction. " Israeli ecocide chronicled by W.A.W.O.G. / their bulletin : writersagainstthewarongaza.com/bulletin?ss_...
Subscribe to The WAWOG Bulletin — WRITERS AGAINST THE WAR ON GAZA
writersagainstthewarongaza.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"Prior to being destroyed, the seed bank housed thousands of heirloom seed cultivars indigenous to Palestine, many of which are older than the state which commandeered their destruction. " Israeli ecocide chronicled by W.A.W.O.G. / their bulletin : writersagainstthewarongaza.com/bulletin?ss_...
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UPDATE
I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss.
Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss.
Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
December 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
UPDATE
I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss.
Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss.
Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5
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![Friday, December 19, 2025
This week we learned that
ICE kidnapped at least 24 of our neighbors, right here in WNY.
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look, I know it sucks for people who want to be 'excited' to receive recognition for their work.
but PEN America's international 'concern' is still pretty identical to the CIA's. it's ideology is still liberal imperialism.
they've done a lot of work to get you to think otherwise.
but PEN America's international 'concern' is still pretty identical to the CIA's. it's ideology is still liberal imperialism.
they've done a lot of work to get you to think otherwise.
December 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
look, I know it sucks for people who want to be 'excited' to receive recognition for their work.
but PEN America's international 'concern' is still pretty identical to the CIA's. it's ideology is still liberal imperialism.
they've done a lot of work to get you to think otherwise.
but PEN America's international 'concern' is still pretty identical to the CIA's. it's ideology is still liberal imperialism.
they've done a lot of work to get you to think otherwise.
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(cont.) The Sameer Project would be honored to be a part of your holiday giving ❤️❤️
Other ways to donate include:
paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Xmas")
account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Xmas")"
Other ways to donate include:
paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Xmas")
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December 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
(cont.) The Sameer Project would be honored to be a part of your holiday giving ❤️❤️
Other ways to donate include:
paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Xmas")
account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Xmas")"
Other ways to donate include:
paypal.me/mahertali (Paypal option, please make sure to add a message saying "Xmas")
account.venmo.com/u/Maher-Ali (Venmo option, please make sure to add a message saying "Xmas")"
at urging of Bob, re-sharing these two new poems up at @havehashad.com -- the second first.
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
December 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
at urging of Bob, re-sharing these two new poems up at @havehashad.com -- the second first.
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
www.havehashad.com/preview/hadp...
on this day in total racist moral collapse the house just approved a bill (HR 4371) that allows federal agents to sexually assault children. "invasive strip search" = body cavity search.
// open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
// open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
Israel secures record gas deal with Egypt and record arms deal with Germany; Four men killed in U.S. airstrike on an alleged “drug boat” in the eastern Pacific
Drop Site Daily: December 18, 2025
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
on this day in total racist moral collapse the house just approved a bill (HR 4371) that allows federal agents to sexually assault children. "invasive strip search" = body cavity search.
// open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
// open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
"at work I have to let the brutality of language turned against us flow thru my hands--typing, 'a relatively senseless robot will be marketed under the name, 'the Helen Keller robot''"
From Karen Brodine digging. "Journal Entries: Always the Ideas Carry Themselves Forward" 1980, Heresies
From Karen Brodine digging. "Journal Entries: Always the Ideas Carry Themselves Forward" 1980, Heresies
December 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"at work I have to let the brutality of language turned against us flow thru my hands--typing, 'a relatively senseless robot will be marketed under the name, 'the Helen Keller robot''"
From Karen Brodine digging. "Journal Entries: Always the Ideas Carry Themselves Forward" 1980, Heresies
From Karen Brodine digging. "Journal Entries: Always the Ideas Carry Themselves Forward" 1980, Heresies
hey! shit! horror! I got two new poems out
-- responding to Oppen:
THERE IS NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS
-- responding to Oppen:
THERE IS NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS
really into both of these two new poems today from Joe Hall
"the men bent howling for blood
I’d rather a poet be a drug dealer than a prize winner in this sludge
a day of crushing, twilight in a shell, fishtailing along the glittering edge"
https://www.havehashad.com/knvhs
"the men bent howling for blood
I’d rather a poet be a drug dealer than a prize winner in this sludge
a day of crushing, twilight in a shell, fishtailing along the glittering edge"
https://www.havehashad.com/knvhs
2 Poems by Joe Hall
2025 There is nobody here but us chickens -George Oppen, “Of Being Numerous,” Section 17 The red, the gout, the condensed fury & labor, spraying out, my transmission was melting
www.havehashad.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
hey! shit! horror! I got two new poems out
-- responding to Oppen:
THERE IS NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS
-- responding to Oppen:
THERE IS NOBODY HERE BUT US CHICKENS
🖤🖤🖤
Joe's genuinely one of the best to be doin it right now
really into both of these two new poems today from Joe Hall
"the men bent howling for blood
I’d rather a poet be a drug dealer than a prize winner in this sludge
a day of crushing, twilight in a shell, fishtailing along the glittering edge"
https://www.havehashad.com/knvhs
"the men bent howling for blood
I’d rather a poet be a drug dealer than a prize winner in this sludge
a day of crushing, twilight in a shell, fishtailing along the glittering edge"
https://www.havehashad.com/knvhs
December 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🖤🖤🖤
abraham accords / imperial re-division of Palestine among senior and junior sub-imperial partners of u.s. vying for the upper hand / under mask of 'tolerance' (for ge^0cide, apartheid) / political theology within imperial branding
December 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
abraham accords / imperial re-division of Palestine among senior and junior sub-imperial partners of u.s. vying for the upper hand / under mask of 'tolerance' (for ge^0cide, apartheid) / political theology within imperial branding
🖤🗑️🔥 / thx for the somatic reading, @jennacardinale.bsky.social !
This trash person got all scratched up / smoothed over by Asbestos, Duct Tape, Willow Bark from @makecommon.bsky.social.
December 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🖤🗑️🔥 / thx for the somatic reading, @jennacardinale.bsky.social !
somehow just watched The Thing for the first time ever and now understand everything through the following very apt lens:
December 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
somehow just watched The Thing for the first time ever and now understand everything through the following very apt lens:
hostile books reissue & rematerialization by DoubleCross in the wild! this book was first printed in lemon juice. then typewritten with a lemon soaked ribbon when the printer broke.
Picked up this brightness by @oxidentalist.bsky.social again against this morning’s snow
December 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
hostile books reissue & rematerialization by DoubleCross in the wild! this book was first printed in lemon juice. then typewritten with a lemon soaked ribbon when the printer broke.
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Breaking | Israeli occupation forces shot dead 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Eyad Abahra in Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, and are still holding his body.
December 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Breaking | Israeli occupation forces shot dead 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Eyad Abahra in Silat al-Harithiya, west of Jenin, and are still holding his body.
feel like these protests that completely jam up the stores and reduce $$$ are onto something.
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
feel like these protests that completely jam up the stores and reduce $$$ are onto something.
K. Silem Mohammad on riotous poet Mel Nichols, upon her passing. I loved hearing Mel read. It was going to be funny (and totally complex) and strange and challenging. She wasn’t someone who dutifully read her poems. Hell no. They were alive with each other: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/175...
She Would Have Won a Street Fight: Remembering Mel Nichols
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
K. Silem Mohammad on riotous poet Mel Nichols, upon her passing. I loved hearing Mel read. It was going to be funny (and totally complex) and strange and challenging. She wasn’t someone who dutifully read her poems. Hell no. They were alive with each other: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/175...
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Poet Ahmad Ibsais’s “Threadbare in Rafah” narrates the steadfastness of Palestinian children against the unimaginable terrors of Israel’s genocide.
proteanmag.com/2025/12/10/t...
proteanmag.com/2025/12/10/t...
Threadbare in Rafah • Protean Magazine
Poet Ahmad Ibsais's "Threadbare in Rafah" narrates the steadfastness of Palestinian children against the unimaginable terrors of Israel's genocide.
proteanmag.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Poet Ahmad Ibsais’s “Threadbare in Rafah” narrates the steadfastness of Palestinian children against the unimaginable terrors of Israel’s genocide.
proteanmag.com/2025/12/10/t...
proteanmag.com/2025/12/10/t...
don't know jack shit about the communal councils in Venezuala? this isn't a bad place to start. maybe compare this to how much democratic decision making you actually get to participate in. progressive.international/blueprint/1c...
“News from Nowhere” — Building Communal Life in Venezuela
For Building the Future, a research collection on contemporary socialist construction, Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina look at the Venezuelan communes — a key force in an extended process of n...
progressive.international
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
don't know jack shit about the communal councils in Venezuala? this isn't a bad place to start. maybe compare this to how much democratic decision making you actually get to participate in. progressive.international/blueprint/1c...
alternate cover: ten thousand data taggers in Venezuela and Kenya, thousands of coders, millions of people providing digital inputs poured into training data incorporated into a shambling Hobbes' Leviathan horror body
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
alternate cover: ten thousand data taggers in Venezuela and Kenya, thousands of coders, millions of people providing digital inputs poured into training data incorporated into a shambling Hobbes' Leviathan horror body
I mean, c'mon. He's the avatar of liberal imperialism. They want war on countries that oppose the U.S. agenda, directly or through sub-imperial states, but get all equivocal when it's not Dems ordering the killing.
Chuck Schumer won't say if he opposes regime change in Venezuela.
JAKE TAPPER: Do you disagree with President Trump's ultimate goal of regime change in Venezuela?
CHUCK SCHUMER: President Trump throws out so many different things in so many different ways, you don't even know what the heck ...
JAKE TAPPER: Do you disagree with President Trump's ultimate goal of regime change in Venezuela?
CHUCK SCHUMER: President Trump throws out so many different things in so many different ways, you don't even know what the heck ...
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I mean, c'mon. He's the avatar of liberal imperialism. They want war on countries that oppose the U.S. agenda, directly or through sub-imperial states, but get all equivocal when it's not Dems ordering the killing.