April 19 2026 Never Again: Anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Days Each year we commemorate the eight Days of Remembrance of the Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust, in Israel with moments of silence as whole cities pause while air raid si…

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Kathy Acker, on her birthday April 18  2026 revision “Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified” Kathy Acker      Punk icon and s…

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April 18 2026 Fourth Anniversary of the Last Stand at the Steel Works in Mariupol This is the anniversary of a tragic and glorious Last Stand the world must never forget, and I cannot.      Here follows my journal of the final day as Russia…

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April 17 2026 National Library Week Part Two, Becoming Human Through Literature: Jay’s Revised Modern Canon of Literature We celebrate National Library Week this year in a context of open hostility to education, a word from the Greek educatus which means to draw forth potential human being, meaning,…

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April 16 2026 National Library Week Part One: What is a Library For? In our current moment of book burnings and bans, rewritten histories and authorized identities, silencing and erasure of the witness of history and the repression of dissen…

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April 15 2026 Tax Day in America, With Most of Our Citizens Two Paychecks From Homelessness, Our Taxes Buy the Deaths of Children In Absurd Imperial Wars On this Tax Day in America we are once again made complicit in crimes against humanity and imperial wars of conquest and dominion by the kleptocracy of hegemonic elit…

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Eva Figes, on her birthday April 15 Alienation and the pathology of disconnectedness, inequities of gender and systemic patriarchy, identity as a projection of others fears and desires, the ephemeral and transitory…

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April 14 2026 Legacies of History From Which We Struggle to Emerge: Case of the 1873 Colfax Massacre In the shadow of the Fall of America and years of the ICE White Terror, of the systematic destruction of our democracy, our freedoms, and our humanity by the criminal Trump…

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April 13 2026 Joy In A Meaningless Universe: Samuel Beckett, on his birthday I too once bore the icon of Saint Beatrice of the Absurd as did he, following the tracks of Dante through a blighted and ravaged series of otherworlds, bereft of dictums, o…

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April 12 2026 Victory Hungary! The Fascist Tide Begins to Turn In Europe The citizens of Hungary have for days now been celebrating the fall of Victor Orban in this weekend’s elections, long before he conceded defeat, so massive was the mo…

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April 11 2026 National Fuck ICE Day We confront the ICE white supremacist terror force in mass action throughout America today, for while heroes of our universal human rights and the parallel and interdependent rights of citizens in …

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April 9 2026 Lebanese Front of the Israeli-American Iran War and Conquest For An Empire of Greater Israel Horrors, atrocities, crimes against humanity; none of this should surprise anyone as Israel breaks the peace accord with mass death and terror, for these terms define the Z…

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April 8 2026 How American Imperialism Created Our Humanitarian Crisis at the Border: Consequences of Operation Condor Fifty one years ago this April, America launched Operation Condor, a global campaign to destabilize and repress socialist governments and movements, wage imperial conquest …

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April 7 2026 Madman and Terrorist Trump Threatens Destruction of Civilization in Iran Cowering in his benighted palace of fake gold and seized with abyssal nightmares of the crimes against humanity and cruelties he might commit, our pathetic and infantile Ra…

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Donald Barthelme, on his birthday April 7 Absurd and surreal free-associative stories, playful, odd, and totally uninterested in comprehensibility, full of references to literature and philosophy, art and music, but also to pop culture and…

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April 6 2026 This Passover, Stand Against Genocide. This Passover, Stand With the Children: Third Anniversary of the American Front of the Palestinian Genocide At Our Universities In the Peace and Div... Throughout America and the world courageous students protest and occupy their universities in refusal to be silenced or made complicit in genocide, either by institut…

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April 5 2026 Happy Down the Rabbit Hole Day: Easter, Spring, Fertility Rites of the Bunny Goddess, Transformative Rebirth, and the Reimagination of Humankind On this day of Easter in which the forces of light and darkness align in balance and signal the fertility of spring, I wish us all great happiness of our transformative reb…

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April 4 2026 How Can We Live the Truth Taught to Us By Martin Luther King? On this anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King by agents of the American government, we re-evaluate how we can honor the truths he revealed and bore witness to, and bring meaning to…

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Maya Angelou, on her birthday April 4 Sad that her birthday falls on a day of mourning, the assassination of Martin Luther King, a memorial I observe in accord with my own understanding; yet also we must honor their lives, now linked t…

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April 3 2026 Pam Bondi, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Melania Trump: Co-Conspirators of Child Predators and Sexual Terrorists Trump’s Fourth Reich of theocratic patriarchal sexual terror, founded on a Russian spy and blackmail network hidden within the human trafficking syndicate of which Trump and his buddy Epstein were …

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April 2 2026 Anniversary of Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs, A Tax On Consumers Designed As Massive Wealth Transfer to the Carceral State and the Elites It Serves,  Sabotage of Our Economy and Equali... Among the recursive forces at work in the disaster now unfolding are the consequences of the death struggle of capitalism in its terminal phase, when all wealth flows to the apex predators in the t…

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April 1 2026 Let Us Enact Reversals of Order and Bring the Chaos: April Fool’s Day A joke on April Fools Day, because no one would ever do to police terrorists what they do to us all the time.       How to deal with ICE, in …

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Milan Kundera, on his birthday April 1 2026 revision A transgressive humor and wit, a concern for the ideological and philosophical underpinnings of things, and an exuberant desire for life; Milan Kundera evokes a compelling sense of kinship in the r…

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March 31 2026   Catching Stray Thoughts, March 2026 Here follow some things I wrote in March in reference to posts discovered on Face Book, mostly news articles, which never became full essays of mine.    &nbs…

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Nikolai Gogol, on his birthday March 31  2026 revision Nikolai Gogol, comedian, satirist, fantasist, social revolutionary, who doubles dream characters with  real ones and reflects our world in a funhouse mirror imag…

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March 30 2026 Anniversary of the 2023 Indictment of Traitor Trump On this third anniversary of the first of four indictments of Traitor Trump, we reflect on the vulnerability of our democracy to infiltration and subversion by …

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March 29 2026 A History of the Second Trump Regime Loathsome crimes of the Abomination do I chart herein; I sing of the Fourth Reich of the Second Trump Regime in all its depravity and horror, of the subversion of democracy and o…

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Mario Vargas Llosa, on his birthday March 28 2026 revision From the profoundly learned, compassionate, and very human Mario Vargas Llosa we have a feast of uncontestable Great Books; an incomparable masterpiece of postmodern magical real…

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