Gabriel Furshong
@gabriel-furshong.bsky.social
I'm a father, writer, and teacher from Montana. Journalism and commentary at The Nation, High Country News, and elsewhere. My poetry collection Surrounding the Country a Chasm won the 2025 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Prize and will published in 2026.
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2025 SHP Chapbook Contest Results
The editors of Slapering Hol Press are proud to announce Gabriel Furshong's AROUND THE COUNTRY A CHASM as the winner of the 2025 Chapbook Contest. Here is a complete list of honorees from this year's ...
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I'm excited to share that my small #poetry collection "Around the Country a Chasm" has won the 2025 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Prize @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social. And, oh my, the finalists. Congratulations to @timraphael.bsky.social, Chris Lisieski, Zachary Bos, James King, and Lisa Rosinsky. 🙏
"We Make the Road by Walking" has a hallowed place on my shelf and remains today, more than ever, a reminder that good organizing will always happen eyeball to eyeball, person by person. Digital modes of communication simply cannot cannot conjure the same magic.
Myles Horton’s autobiography, The Long Haul, is a great read on a life spent in social movements!
Learning from Myles Horton’s legendary career in social movements
The famed educator and Highlander Folk School founder offers insights on living through the ups and downs of movement cycles.
whirlwinddispatches.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"We Make the Road by Walking" has a hallowed place on my shelf and remains today, more than ever, a reminder that good organizing will always happen eyeball to eyeball, person by person. Digital modes of communication simply cannot cannot conjure the same magic.
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Poetry: Digging Season by Gabriel Furshong
The generals observed a march of seasons year after year
The generals observed a march of seasons year after year
Poetry: Digging Season by Gabriel Furshong
The generals observed a march of seasons year after year
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Poetry: Digging Season by Gabriel Furshong
The generals observed a march of seasons year after year
The generals observed a march of seasons year after year
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"In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake."
@jmwwjournal.bsky.social just published "Digging Season" a poem from my chapbook "Surrounding the Country a Chasm" which will be published next month by Slapering Hol Press @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social—a poem from #Guatemala about the contested process of exhumation in the wake of #genocide.
Poetry: Digging Season by Gabriel Furshong
The generals observed a march of seasons year after year
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
@jmwwjournal.bsky.social just published "Digging Season" a poem from my chapbook "Surrounding the Country a Chasm" which will be published next month by Slapering Hol Press @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social—a poem from #Guatemala about the contested process of exhumation in the wake of #genocide.
BREAKING: Bipartisan effort defeats Trump's push for mid-cycle gerrymander in Indiana. Key word here: bipartisan.
December 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
BREAKING: Bipartisan effort defeats Trump's push for mid-cycle gerrymander in Indiana. Key word here: bipartisan.
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The company’s new Instagram School Partnership Program seems designed to make money. It’s not clear that it benefits schools.
#schools #bigtech #education #AI
progressive.org/public-schoo...
#schools #bigtech #education #AI
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The Hidden Dangers of Meta’s Partnership Offer to Schools
The company’s new Instagram School Partnership Program seems designed to make money. It’s not clear that it benefits schools.
progressive.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The company’s new Instagram School Partnership Program seems designed to make money. It’s not clear that it benefits schools.
#schools #bigtech #education #AI
progressive.org/public-schoo...
#schools #bigtech #education #AI
progressive.org/public-schoo...
A mind boggling 7 gigawatt data center (enough to power 5.3 million homes) proposed for what purpose, exactly?
For ceding the joy of cognition—the exhilaration of problem solving and discovery— to LLMs. And for, eventually, monetizing that daily surrender.
For ceding the joy of cognition—the exhilaration of problem solving and discovery— to LLMs. And for, eventually, monetizing that daily surrender.
An AI server farm tsunami threatens to overwhelm the West’s power grid and water supplies.
The big data center buildup - High Country News
An AI server farm tsunami threatens to overwhelm the West’s power grid and water supplies.
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A mind boggling 7 gigawatt data center (enough to power 5.3 million homes) proposed for what purpose, exactly?
For ceding the joy of cognition—the exhilaration of problem solving and discovery— to LLMs. And for, eventually, monetizing that daily surrender.
For ceding the joy of cognition—the exhilaration of problem solving and discovery— to LLMs. And for, eventually, monetizing that daily surrender.
Even the most essential assistance to neighbors, in times of great need: a chance to divvy up profits and punishments.
"The denial came after the Trump administration documented $90 million in damage to utility infrastructure, according to records obtained by @eenews.bsky.social. The amount is nearly five times the federal threshold to qualify for disaster aid"
"Trump’s denial is both unprecedented and unexplained"
"Trump’s denial is both unprecedented and unexplained"
E&E News: Electricity prices jump after Trump rejects disaster aid for Michigan utilities
The president denied the state’s request for federal aid to rebuild power lines after a fierce ice storm last March, a move that could force thousands of rural electricity customers to pay the entire ...
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Even the most essential assistance to neighbors, in times of great need: a chance to divvy up profits and punishments.
A gorgeous ode to awkwardness by Jed Myers for Bracken:
Issue XIII From the Editor — Bracken
Yes, dear fellow quirky mortal peering into this humbly offered selection of words and pictures we’ll call Issue XIII of Bracken...
www.brackenmagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A gorgeous ode to awkwardness by Jed Myers for Bracken:
If I weren't so frightened, then I would simply bask in the humanity of Witt's extraordinary reporting: the overrun farmer, the bewildered customer, the astonished plant manager. But this is a story about "hyper-scale capitalism", which is to say, a story about the push for human obsolescence.
The money spent to develop data centers represents one of the largest deployments of capital in human history—and the investment is taking an enormous toll on our planet. Stephen Witt reports: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/_FbIwo
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If I weren't so frightened, then I would simply bask in the humanity of Witt's extraordinary reporting: the overrun farmer, the bewildered customer, the astonished plant manager. But this is a story about "hyper-scale capitalism", which is to say, a story about the push for human obsolescence.
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Every generation of New York politics has had its immigrant realignment. The Irish built Tammany, Jewish socialists built labor, Italians powered La Guardia--and now Mamdani is building something new out of bodegas, cabstands, and delivery apps.
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-long-a...
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-long-a...
The Long Arc of Immigrant Power in New York
What Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech shares with the Irish ward bosses and Jewish socialists who built the city’s first immigrant-powered coalitions.
www.waleed-shahid.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Every generation of New York politics has had its immigrant realignment. The Irish built Tammany, Jewish socialists built labor, Italians powered La Guardia--and now Mamdani is building something new out of bodegas, cabstands, and delivery apps.
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-long-a...
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-long-a...
“This is about as bad as it [gets] outside the Second World War."
Gaza bombing ‘equivalent to six Hiroshimas’ says Bradford world affairs expert - 2025 - News - University of Bradford
Respected international affairs expert Emeritus Professor Paul Rogers from the University of Bradford says Israeli bombing of Gaza is 'equivalent to six Hiroshimas' during this latest interview with b...
www.bradford.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“This is about as bad as it [gets] outside the Second World War."
How can Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social write New York's Next Chapter?
By not letting the @nytimes.com write it for him.
By not letting the @nytimes.com write it for him.
Opinion | How Mayor Mamdani Can Write New York’s Next Chapter
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
How can Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social write New York's Next Chapter?
By not letting the @nytimes.com write it for him.
By not letting the @nytimes.com write it for him.
Buried a little deeper in last night's #election results: Dems won 3 seats to break a #GOP supermajority in the #Mississippi Senate after 3 judges appointed by President Bush threw out a GOP-gerrymandered map. That's the 6th GOP supermajority overturned in the last two years.
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Buried a little deeper in last night's #election results: Dems won 3 seats to break a #GOP supermajority in the #Mississippi Senate after 3 judges appointed by President Bush threw out a GOP-gerrymandered map. That's the 6th GOP supermajority overturned in the last two years.
Mum on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social AND mum on why #Mamdani is so much more popular than the Democratic Party: His policy proposals actually align with the wants and needs of working families.
NYT: Even on Election Day, Schumer Is Mum on Mamdani
By Annie Karni
The top Senate Democrat never endorsed Zohran Mamdani, his party’s young left-wing nominee for mayor, and had yet to even say who he had voted for.
Gift link!
By Annie Karni
The top Senate Democrat never endorsed Zohran Mamdani, his party’s young left-wing nominee for mayor, and had yet to even say who he had voted for.
Gift link!
Even on Election Day, Schumer Is Mum on Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Mum on @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social AND mum on why #Mamdani is so much more popular than the Democratic Party: His policy proposals actually align with the wants and needs of working families.
A novel way of seeing yourself in community.
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A novel way of seeing yourself in community.
“Language makes genocide justifiable. A reason why we are still being bombed after 243 days is because of @nytimes.com and most Western media,” the Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat wrote months before Israel assassinated him.
No Opinion — The New York Times: Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe
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October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“Language makes genocide justifiable. A reason why we are still being bombed after 243 days is because of @nytimes.com and most Western media,” the Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat wrote months before Israel assassinated him.
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Over the next few weeks, millions of Americans are going to receive notices that their healthcare costs are set to explode in 2026. Many more will log onto online insurance marketplaces only to find that they’ve been priced out of the coverage they rely on.
October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Over the next few weeks, millions of Americans are going to receive notices that their healthcare costs are set to explode in 2026. Many more will log onto online insurance marketplaces only to find that they’ve been priced out of the coverage they rely on.
Like everyone else, I've read so many reports and commentaries since the beginning of #Trump II on what's happening right now and why. But this set of thought experiments by George Saunders @newyorker.com is still the most thought provoking. A real thump on the head.
Five Thought Experiments Concerning the Underlying Disease
Our civic wells are poisoned. Why?
www.newyorker.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Like everyone else, I've read so many reports and commentaries since the beginning of #Trump II on what's happening right now and why. But this set of thought experiments by George Saunders @newyorker.com is still the most thought provoking. A real thump on the head.
Thanks to @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social for sharing my #poem "Reburial" about the reinterment of the bodily remains of five people murdered in Chimaltenengo during the Guatemalan Civil War. One of ten poems included in my forthcoming chapbook "Around the Country a Chasm". #poetry
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October 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Thanks to @hvwriterscenter.bsky.social for sharing my #poem "Reburial" about the reinterment of the bodily remains of five people murdered in Chimaltenengo during the Guatemalan Civil War. One of ten poems included in my forthcoming chapbook "Around the Country a Chasm". #poetry
bit.ly/hvwc2025
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#MAGA officials aren't just gerrymandering districts to prevent voters from having choices, they're also refusing to seat the people voters have chosen.
#Grijalva was elected a month ago with 70.6 percent of the vote, and her 800,000 constituents still have no representation in the U.S. House.
#Grijalva was elected a month ago with 70.6 percent of the vote, and her 800,000 constituents still have no representation in the U.S. House.
Where Adelita Grijalva Ranks in Congress’ Longest Delayed Swearing-Ins
Arizona has filed a lawsuit as the Republican Speaker has not yet let the Democratic representative elected weeks ago take office.
time.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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So no terrorism then?
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So no terrorism then?
A #poem from 1998 by Sandra Alcosser about cycles of injustice and retribution. Never more current than now.
"I know this world, said the farmer,
I've listened to worms my whole life
stirring in slime. I know where
we come from, and despite all our slick
designs, I know where we return."
"I know this world, said the farmer,
I've listened to worms my whole life
stirring in slime. I know where
we come from, and despite all our slick
designs, I know where we return."
Worms
Some days he'd rub two pegs together
poets.org
October 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
A #poem from 1998 by Sandra Alcosser about cycles of injustice and retribution. Never more current than now.
"I know this world, said the farmer,
I've listened to worms my whole life
stirring in slime. I know where
we come from, and despite all our slick
designs, I know where we return."
"I know this world, said the farmer,
I've listened to worms my whole life
stirring in slime. I know where
we come from, and despite all our slick
designs, I know where we return."
For decades Indigenous people have used the Voting Rights Act to fight for equal access to the ballot. Without the VRA, there won't be a fight. There will just be discrimination.
Resurfacing my story for @thenation.com as a reminder of what's at stake if SCOTUS rolls back voting rights 60 years.
Resurfacing my story for @thenation.com as a reminder of what's at stake if SCOTUS rolls back voting rights 60 years.
For Many Indigenous People, Voting Is Getting Harder
A century after the Indian Citizenship Act made their ancestors US citizens and acknowledged their right to vote, Indigenous Americans still face barriers to casting their ballots.
www.thenation.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For decades Indigenous people have used the Voting Rights Act to fight for equal access to the ballot. Without the VRA, there won't be a fight. There will just be discrimination.
Resurfacing my story for @thenation.com as a reminder of what's at stake if SCOTUS rolls back voting rights 60 years.
Resurfacing my story for @thenation.com as a reminder of what's at stake if SCOTUS rolls back voting rights 60 years.