not surprised that as U.S. goes from de facto sponsor of genocide to (lobotomized) UN-approved colonial overseer of the genocide, that I can no longer access certain resistance channels for my research. here's telegram: "This channel can't be displayed because it violated local laws (USA)."

after the revolution, social media will be people in the same room/garden, some letting out all their cassandra thoughts, the others giving them really good back rubs saying "i know i know." people switch places as they need/desire.

"As of now, our union, Starbucks Workers United, has the facility under a full blockade." Starbucks worker Silvia lays out the ULP strike escalation at Starbucks' York regional distribution center #NoContractNoCoffee

if there were ever any doubt, now that the U.S. has stepped in to direct the colonial process and deny Palestinian sovereignty, it's the U.S.'s genocide too.

The UN approved a US plan for Gaza that hands control to foreign powers and delays Palestinian statehood, undermining national authority and sovereignty. qudsnen.co/un-approves-...

it's getting real

Meridel Le Sueuer, 1947 qtd by Karen Brodine in 1979: "Capitalism...is a world of ruins, really,...masks" / red genealogies

Anthony Paul Farley, “Critical Race Theory and Marxism: Temporal Power”: “There is no such thing as race unless there is first an act of mass murder that attaches the mark of race to capital. That is the sin of capital; capital requires mass murder and it makes race out that mass murder.”

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

more Gundry on John Wieners (apparent how slowly I'm reading this) as he writes abt JW thru lens of psychiatric survivor and quotes a few stanza's from JW's Survivor: " Coded; spaced out; transvestited; in doubt invert; Emily's skirt no felled behavior Travelled the border as exhibitions' route, "

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"

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.

'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.

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

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.

AAUP-provided STC is the real path to student success

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...

<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.

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.

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.

Laura Jaramillo reading at St. B now up at Penn Sound: 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

Dear New York, We shit our bed so you could wake up to Zohran. -Buffalo

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.

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“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

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

who talks about poetics here?

muscle spasms just drifted from GI to thigh wtf w/flesh

hey, solidarity w/the people of Venezuela. & hopes for the neo-Monroe doctrine to end up at the bottom of the Caribbean, eventual home to corals and urchins.

National Grid keeps auto-email hectoring me about using slightly more energy than my neighbors. All the houses around me are abandoned! Or empty lots! Get off my digital lawn!

Final quote from Solomon from a controversial 1979 Brodine essay in Second Wave: "The poem I write, by itself, will not organize for affirmative action, or abortion. Action, organizing with other people, has to do that. New different poems come out of that organizing experience."

💚 so glad this gremlin is getting some shine. thx, Jennifer!

griftopedia / reality as fanwiki/videogame walkthrough / corporate proprietary algo pantopia tm tm tm tm tm / imperial funhouse / chadykarenpedia / techno(g*n*c*d*l)optimistopedia / mayopedia / enclosurepedia /

"A single typewritten sheet of paper archived among Brodine's teaching materials is titled 'Sabotage.'" / i mean, if you run into this in the archives, you have to write a paper just to slip this in and on and on and on

"Do you know what inspired that poem? (I mean beside the job I was working at then). A talk on Marxist economics by [an FSP comrade]. It was the talk that spoke of human labor hours stored up in machines, and so on, and really got me thinking." Karen Brodine to Edgar Poma thx to Samuel Solomon

as they say to the core ' no ceasefire w/o an arms embargo'

entering hour 1 of 7 hours of individual conferences prayer hands prayer hands prayer hands

I have too many traumatic memories of being unable to afford oil for heat. Of being freezing in the house. And the dangerous things we did to try to stay warm.

Samuel Solomon on Karen Brodine's queer working-class writing in the 70s & 80s: "she raged at the economic and racial privileges of those feminist writers who argued that the workplace was a masculine domain from which women should remove themselves." (from Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies)

I was on SNAP in Baltimore while working as an adjunct instructor sharing a studio with 2 people. Would have had to choose between rent and food if I hadn't had those resources.. And the margins are a hell of a lot thinner for so many other, more vulnerable people. Fuck this war on the poor.

demo the whole white house? idk