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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.
real out of pocket hot take: republicans more comfortable throwing trump under the bus (the files) now that dem money socks have aligning w/them on spending and this neoliberal bloc is getting more than they ever dreamed in less than a year. but this crisis may still spiral out of their control.
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
real out of pocket hot take: republicans more comfortable throwing trump under the bus (the files) now that dem money socks have aligning w/them on spending and this neoliberal bloc is getting more than they ever dreamed in less than a year. but this crisis may still spiral out of their control.
from the RNN : " The 'legalization' of the execution of prisoners is not the beginning of the crime, but an attempt to legitimize what has been practiced by the zionist entity in the occupation prisons for decades"
But don't call it apartheid. prospect.org/2025/11/11/i...
Israel Considers Instituting a Death Penalty for Palestinians—but Not for Jews - The American Prospect
The bill, which would impose a mandatory death penalty on Palestinians who kill Jewish Israelis, was introduced by the far-right Jewish Power party, and a sizable minority of Knesset members backed th...
prospect.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
from the RNN : " The 'legalization' of the execution of prisoners is not the beginning of the crime, but an attempt to legitimize what has been practiced by the zionist entity in the occupation prisons for decades"
continuing w/ David Grundy on poet John Wieners: few hundred copies of his groundbreaking, neglected State Capitol were destroyed in a firebombing of the queer publisher's office by laid-off firemen and cops. never formally charged but suspected as a hate crime that also served developers' interests
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
continuing w/ David Grundy on poet John Wieners: few hundred copies of his groundbreaking, neglected State Capitol were destroyed in a firebombing of the queer publisher's office by laid-off firemen and cops. never formally charged but suspected as a hate crime that also served developers' interests
damn, I think I got flagged as rude on this. yeah. yeah. into the void.
November 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
damn, I think I got flagged as rude on this. yeah. yeah. into the void.
'talking shops' - Name that jawn:
The way out of parliamentarism is not[...]the abolition of representative institutions & the elective principle, but the conversion of the representative institutions from talking shops into “working” bodies.
The way out of parliamentarism is not[...]the abolition of representative institutions & the elective principle, but the conversion of the representative institutions from talking shops into “working” bodies.
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
'talking shops' - Name that jawn:
The way out of parliamentarism is not[...]the abolition of representative institutions & the elective principle, but the conversion of the representative institutions from talking shops into “working” bodies.
The way out of parliamentarism is not[...]the abolition of representative institutions & the elective principle, but the conversion of the representative institutions from talking shops into “working” bodies.
walked lake erie northern shore long crescent of sand / w/friends battered by money-work pangs / we rested this weekend, 3 fell asleep reading / that we enjoy that given what i'm reading in Akleen's poems /
snowing now in Buffalo
snowing now in Buffalo
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
walked lake erie northern shore long crescent of sand / w/friends battered by money-work pangs / we rested this weekend, 3 fell asleep reading / that we enjoy that given what i'm reading in Akleen's poems /
snowing now in Buffalo
snowing now in Buffalo
i hate what my freelance & unemployed friends are going thru . not surprised institution modeled off house of lords treats brilliant humans as disposable . would humbly suggest that we not replace 8 senators but work to build to something better than antidemocratic people shredding law factories.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i hate what my freelance & unemployed friends are going thru . not surprised institution modeled off house of lords treats brilliant humans as disposable . would humbly suggest that we not replace 8 senators but work to build to something better than antidemocratic people shredding law factories.
is there a place where you can dispose of u.s. politicians/war criminals? like a drop off or recycle thing? or can anyone repair them? or do you just have to put them in the landfill and hope their juices don't leach into the commune? i tried putting on curb but just got soaked. help.
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
is there a place where you can dispose of u.s. politicians/war criminals? like a drop off or recycle thing? or can anyone repair them? or do you just have to put them in the landfill and hope their juices don't leach into the commune? i tried putting on curb but just got soaked. help.
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AAUP-provided STC is the real path to student success
<reaches, shakily, through debris, to vial of special teaching cocaine>
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
AAUP-provided STC is the real path to student success
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From Chicago, @natalieymoore.bsky.social reports on escalating tensions and ICE's operations. Read the full piece and more in our latest issue.
hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
Trump Escalates Tyranny in Chicago
Having a common enemy sometimes unifies people, whether an unhoused Venezuelan migrant in Bronzeville or a mother in a South Shore apartment.
hammerandhope.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
From Chicago, @natalieymoore.bsky.social reports on escalating tensions and ICE's operations. Read the full piece and more in our latest issue.
hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
<reaches, shakily, through debris, to vial of special teaching cocaine>
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
<reaches, shakily, through debris, to vial of special teaching cocaine>
well, it's really looking like municipal socialism vs national tech/nerd reich + evangelical millenarian ww3 fascism.
the fasc have an internationalist dimension. wondering what urban federative projects are possible.
the fasc have an internationalist dimension. wondering what urban federative projects are possible.
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
well, it's really looking like municipal socialism vs national tech/nerd reich + evangelical millenarian ww3 fascism.
the fasc have an internationalist dimension. wondering what urban federative projects are possible.
the fasc have an internationalist dimension. wondering what urban federative projects are possible.
daydreaming that somewhere ppl of yemen passing poems to ppl of vz abt how to get fighter jets to fall of aircraft carriers & ghosts of Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola uprooting ammo dumps in puerto rico.
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
daydreaming that somewhere ppl of yemen passing poems to ppl of vz abt how to get fighter jets to fall of aircraft carriers & ghosts of Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola uprooting ammo dumps in puerto rico.
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Palestinian Ali Hasan al-Hashash’s relatives mourned him today after he was killed by Israeli occupation gunfire east of Bureij Camp while collecting firewood for his family.
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Palestinian Ali Hasan al-Hashash’s relatives mourned him today after he was killed by Israeli occupation gunfire east of Bureij Camp while collecting firewood for his family.
i dunno, to think that elections don't have a role to play in revolutionary politics means ignoring the history of...revolutions. we can also acknowledge the edge-melting assimilative force of the dem party. we'll see. the old calculus doesn't hold. i think we're gonna see more ruptures.
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
i dunno, to think that elections don't have a role to play in revolutionary politics means ignoring the history of...revolutions. we can also acknowledge the edge-melting assimilative force of the dem party. we'll see. the old calculus doesn't hold. i think we're gonna see more ruptures.
Laura Jaramillo reading at St. B now up at Penn Sound:
writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/...
writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/...
PennSound: St. Bonaventure University
writing.upenn.edu
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Laura Jaramillo reading at St. B now up at Penn Sound:
writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/...
writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/...
"Wieners relished the encounters w/ a younger representative of a newly flourishing queer, activist sociality after his isolation in the academic enclaves of Buffalo, writing 'I am 5'9" and some, blue eyes, teeth left, bad eyesight, etc. Your life sounds fruitful enough for a friendship.'" D. Grundy
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"Wieners relished the encounters w/ a younger representative of a newly flourishing queer, activist sociality after his isolation in the academic enclaves of Buffalo, writing 'I am 5'9" and some, blue eyes, teeth left, bad eyesight, etc. Your life sounds fruitful enough for a friendship.'" D. Grundy
Dear New York, We shit our bed so you could wake up to Zohran. -Buffalo
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Dear New York, We shit our bed so you could wake up to Zohran. -Buffalo
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if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
Why was Cheney such a fuck? Part of it: total war on Iraq killed hundreds of thousands of civilians either directly or through devastation of basic life sustaining infrastructure like sewage treatment plants. Total barbarism. Part of what Ali Kadri calls decades long war on Arab working classes.
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Why was Cheney such a fuck? Part of it: total war on Iraq killed hundreds of thousands of civilians either directly or through devastation of basic life sustaining infrastructure like sewage treatment plants. Total barbarism. Part of what Ali Kadri calls decades long war on Arab working classes.
“It’s not a question of whether poetry by itself can change anything, obviously it can’t, but rather what it is that poetry specifically can contribute to already-existing radical projects and theoretical advances.” -Sean Bonney in convo w/Stephen Collis.
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“It’s not a question of whether poetry by itself can change anything, obviously it can’t, but rather what it is that poetry specifically can contribute to already-existing radical projects and theoretical advances.” -Sean Bonney in convo w/Stephen Collis.
Buffalo would use it to keep the Bills while Lovejoy burns to the ground
It's for the state government's collective ego. It makes people in power feel good (like they're doing something) to watch the fund increase without guidelines on when it can be leveraged to actually solve a problem.
Tennessee has a robust Rainy Day Fund. That fund won't be tapped to help tide people over until SNAP benefits resume. So the question has come up (again): what is the fund for? wpln.org/post/nashvil... @wpln.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Buffalo would use it to keep the Bills while Lovejoy burns to the ground
initial genocidal colonies in proto U.S. had multiple state sponsors. eventually, they became Britain's colonies. useful to think of Israel this way. when U.S. politician has flag of Israel in their office, they're just being honest: this IS our genocidal apartheid colony we sponsor by the billions
November 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
initial genocidal colonies in proto U.S. had multiple state sponsors. eventually, they became Britain's colonies. useful to think of Israel this way. when U.S. politician has flag of Israel in their office, they're just being honest: this IS our genocidal apartheid colony we sponsor by the billions
SNAP cuts also going to make people more reliant on employers, less willing to leave abusive/shit jobs and risk unemployment, and, if non-union, less willing to confront management . But if employer pays so low they're also on SNAP wondering if it'll create some increased wage demands
November 3, 2025 at 1:24 PM
SNAP cuts also going to make people more reliant on employers, less willing to leave abusive/shit jobs and risk unemployment, and, if non-union, less willing to confront management . But if employer pays so low they're also on SNAP wondering if it'll create some increased wage demands