i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

This is the spirit of democracy

From an optics perspective... the protesters being the ones waving the US flag while Bovino et al looks like every awful nazi inspired movie we've ever seen... hats off to Minnesotans.

@gregpak.net giving New Yorkers help with activism steps 1 & 2 in this zine: bsky.app/profile/greg...

love this so much!! 💖

have been struggling with this problem for weeks now weather isn’t helping

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

been wondering how these temps will affect the attack on the Twin Cities

People. This is so good. And uplifting, too. There’s more of us than them! We’re not scared, we’re mad!

terrific conversation with @whstancil.bsky.social about what's going on in his home minneapolis right now. at the end he puts it very bluntly: ICE is not an immigration agency that just needs some technocratic reforms. ICE is a terror agency operating under the fig leaf of immigration.

Happy birthday!!! 🎂🎁🎉

Activism step 1: Identify local groups already working on the issue you want to work on. Activism step 2: Join those groups and get involved. There may be a vetting process and it may take time, for everyone’s safety. Just be patient and build relationships. That’s the work.

I mean after all, who was right about Trump? Your mom, that’s who. So uncool.

for art world reasons, when I married @briandupont.bsky.social I also married NYC, a constraint that from time to time I have wished were otherwise realized today how happy I am we never left, in fact the thought of leaving hasn’t even crossed my mind since who knows when I love this city so much!

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just me, an old friend & several thousand New Yorkers out this afternoon to say No kings No war No ICE @bkindivisible.bsky.social

NO WARS • NO ICE • NO KINGS‼️ January 11, 2025 Rally 59th St and 5th Ave NYC #ICEOutofNYC @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @socialists.nyc @50501newyork.bsky.social @indivisible.org @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social

Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...

👏 👏 NYC turning up, standing up and showing up to say No Kings No War No ICE 🚫👑🧊 @riseandresist.bsky.social @socialists.nyc @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social @indivisible.org @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social

Folks in cities currently occupied by ICE: What preparations are you glad your neighborhood did prior to occupation? And what preparations do you wish your neighborhood had done?

What the fuck are we actually doing here?

If the video Hayes is referencing here is authentic, then Good was murdered in cold blood by a man who had no reason to be afraid because he was angry at her for talking back.

they're delusional, hate-filled creeps who think that everyday, normal, cheerful women deserve to be murdered for disrespecting men

had breakfast, making a snack ✅ took my meds ✅ refilling my water bottle ✅ going to a poetry reading (maybe some fiction, too?) with old friends tomorrow ✅ 💖

Keep pushing. Abolishing ICE is within the Overton window. I don't think that's something we could have said even a year ago.

New York City, greatest city in the world!!! 💖

totally forgot to sign up earlier, just signed up, not too late for this week’s meeting, starts in an hour FYI

The Trump admin has launched a violent invasion of Venezuela, sacrificing lives for the profit of oil corporations. Promises to end "forever wars" have been shattered in favor of a ruthless bid for control. This stops now 🛑  Join us 1/11, 1pm, E60th & 5th Ave www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

It's all The Work. It's *all* The Work. Maybe you can't babysit, but you can make sure folks get fed. Or walk their dogs. Or do laundry. Or drive folks from point A to point B. Or can coordinate the helpers. Or buy groceries for folks too scared to leave their homes. IT'S ALL THE WORK.

Yes, I'm working for Indivisible at the moment, and yes, you could accuse me of bias and/or ulterior motives. But this is the truth: Nothing in my week is more uplifting, hope-supportive, and en-couraging than these calls. You should sign up.

There’s so much going on inside the MDC & it must be so scary for our immigrant neighbors wrongly detained in there — we hear that their family members have had no contact with them. Join us every Tues at 6pm to let them know that we see them even when our govt has made them disappear 🕯️

And then call your Senators: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

You know what to do folks, flood the phones: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

good rundown of how many democrats are, in fact, coming out against this shit www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/the-...

No Kings. No War.

one more run in the last hours of the old year pale waxing moon, bright setting sun

“Because our problem, it turns out, was never that we hadn’t yet found the right way to achieve control over life, or safety from life. Our real problem was imagining that any of that might be possible in the first place for finite humans ...” Oliver Burkeman on the liberation of defeat

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi film, Metropolis, was set in 2026.

still terrifying after all these years

dreamed I gave birth very easily with hardly any labor or help to twins a large and robust girl and a very small but just as energetic boy, born en caul a dream I think about all the things that need my care in the new year easy to begin things; the real work is cultivation & care

next year’s goal: finish 15 poems (maybe I’ll finish more, I have so many in the hopper)

my goal was to finish 12 poems this year wrote 9 which is one more than I finished last year, so I’ll take it!

This👇 Compact is forwarding a culture wars argument that obscures systematic dismantling of educational infrastructure.

”the remorseless working of things” 😩😭

investigating as I sometimes do the meaning of “the commons” & scanning “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin found this quotation: “The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.”—Alfred North Whitehead