Was so fun and touching to see this poem come to be on Twitter the other day. Great poem 🫡

JANUARY 29, 2025 I tweet a screenshot of a text, sent to Me by doordash: Lenin is approaching With your order from Subway. I caption It: Such a strange time we live in. It Is January 29, 20 25. Donald Trump is President Again. & much like the President that Came before this, his second term, he is Not going to defund the police. & The Democrats are saying that he is. He's not. A comrade replies to my tweet With a screenshot of a poem called "Lenin:" Lenin walks around the world. Frontiers can- Not bar him. / He's got your fucking sandwich.

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new poem (posted last week on twitter & insta):

Annnnd, the rebuilding of our audience over here continues
Could we get a boost?
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this week, I'm in this @prolpo.bsky.social poem.

Saw @prolpo.bsky.social post this George Oppen poem elsewhere and remembered Mary Oppen's story of it in her autobiography

Eyes Wide Shut flyer

Next week at ENTRE FILM CENTER in Harlingen, TX.

The fall of Assad and the ‘Axis of Resistance’? The October 7 Hamas attack unraveled truths across the region, reopening questions of the future that lay dormant for years. Now, with the fall of Assad, the power map is being redrawn, presenting new...

I have been appreciating the words of Abdaljawad Omar for the last year+ & think anything he puts out is worth a read: mondoweiss.net/2024/12/the-...

your political “scene” is not redeemable if there are ppl you would have to do public talks claiming the 3rd precinct was burned down by white supremacists (a racist conspiracist theory).

post break up #newplace coming together

"social democracy with molotovs" as a desire among a certain set of supposed radicals bent on preserving liberal democracy as the "optimal fighting ground" is a very real thing & it's pathetic.

thing about most critiques of liberal anti-oppression pol is that, while they might be strong in the actual critique, their "solutions" to amount to something like "we've got to dei dei" & they tend to not value militancy & so are doomed to be doomed to return to some form of the same pol.

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Faith, or The Stories We Tell 1 After taking power in January 1933, Adolph Hitler immediately eviscerated his enemies. In March, the Nazis opened their first concentration camp in Dachau, designed specifically for the regime’s pol...

"The only way to know the pressing problems that must be solved in order to create a new world is to repeatedly fight to win that world. Every serious bid for emancipation brings to light new problems."

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/f...

It is important to donate to the target campaigns of @workshops4gaza.bsky.social, generously and with great regularity, even if none of the offerings appeal to you in the moment (but keep checking back because they have great stuff)

We’re hosting an online poetry reading with @biidaasamose.bsky.social as well as Natalie Diaz and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio on December 5th! Come join us, all funds go to the Sameer Project, which is providing a critical lifeline for Palestinian survival ✨

I did. I needed to hear that. Thank you.

'We want answers': Independence apartment complex holds vigil for mother, baby killed in police shooting Eight days ago, a baby and her mother were killed in a shooting involving Independence Police at Oval Spring Apartments. The sentiment at a candlelight vigil on Friday evening was similar to that day.

a little over a week ago a 2-month-old & her mother were shot & killed by police in Independence, MO. body cam footage has not been released.

“A law enforcement presence was not allowed at the vigil due to tension between the family and police.”

www.kshb.com/news/local-n...

related:

crimethinc responded terribly after michael reinoehl shot a fascist in PDX. both online & in an essay written shortly thereafter they basically urged white people to stick together / not to turn on each other with life-ending violence. but it was far from just crimethinc that sucked in that moment.

Donate to Richard's Expenses, organized by Richard Hunsinger Support Committee Update October 21, 2024 Thanks so much to everyone who has helped to suppo… Richard Hunsinger Support Committee needs your support for Richard's Expenses

Dear comrades, please consider donating if you’re able to, and share widely. Our beloved comrade Richard comes home November 26th! Thanks so much for your support 🙏🏻 www.gofundme.com/f/richards-e...

don’t know who needs to hear this but:

"Do not be afraid to be abandoned by those who have never really been by your side...Be afraid yes, but only of forgetting your cause, of allowing your struggle to fall by the wayside."

- Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano

lol this was my last post before today

coming up on 4 months since the break up of my 11-year relationship & i have gotten more done (in every part of my life) than i have in the last 5 or 6 years. feel like i am using every bit of energy i have to the fullest. & it’s been almost 6 months of not smoking.

onward.

lol