social surrealism puts de-familiarization and re-familiarization into dialectical motion

a recent poem in @sixthfinch.bsky.social about the house next door being on fire for a day where the world is one fire + lv lv lv for C

ppm creeping up to 200. watered the plants in a respirator today.

well WNYs Craig Mokhiber isn't messing around mronline.org/2026/07/16/n...

Ninety percent of the 71 detainees contacted in the concentration camp on Fort Bliss say they were beaten by guards are witnessed beatings, in addition to inedible meals and lack of access to medication or lawyers.

does anyone do degenerative writing workshops?

aqi 197/ temporary enclosure of the atmosphere by capital carbon economy / stay safe out there 'buffalo'

Now Rafah is the model for Lebanon, the fascist mode of war: The entity's defense minister: "All houses in villages near the border in Lebanon will be destroyed - according to the model of Rafah and Beit Hanoun in Gaza - to remove, once and for all, the threats near the border to northern residents"

while the U.S. bombs Iran for the second straight day in five months of a U.S.-Israeli-initiated war that you're paying for whether you want to or not. racism. capitalism. imperialism. fascism abroad, fascism at home

ICE killed a random guy today.

Important.

what does it mean that we're paying attention to the talking shop & not the war machine? u.s. in full nation-destroying mode, bombing cities & ports in Iran, regions reportedly losing power while we're palavering abt the old imperial senate psychopath who will be replaced shortly by a new model.

my new poetry title, edgeless (Caitlin Press) is now available! robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/07/my-n...

The U.S. and its virtual states are pouring bombs down on the people of Iran. The world looks a lot like how he'd like it.

Even PEN America thinks PEN America hasn't and will not change www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/a...

My first book was love poems to Cheryl and through and with the sh*t they still come back. Thx to @sixthfinch.bsky.social for threading these poems in-- sixthfinch.com/mainsummer26...

the curse of ham basically starts with noah getting so drunk he passes out naked then gets so mad after he finds out one of his sons looked at his junk that he disowns him. racial capitalism and this neo-confederate colonialism is this invested in a story about a shit dad's insecurity? loser stuff.

Today in the casual, euphemistic media normalization of the war that is wildly illegal under both US domestic law & our signed, ratified treaty obligations as a member-state of the United Nations.

Between this and the national guard in Memphis it’s kind of disturbing me (yes I know I’m a member of the media) the degree to which these killings aren’t really breaking thru rn

wow! what!??? samuel delany book club take note : more or less inexplicable than the original cover art for captives of the flame-- full body suits? spears?

playing soccer in the u.s. has got to be as comfortable as hanging out at your drug dealer's house

base/superstructure begin thedefensewatch.com/defense-cont...

21st Person Dies in ICE Custody in 2026 @austinkocher.com

my next poetry reading in Buffalo/your-city-post-collapse will be all 'covers' - taking suggestions.

Is this so dumb it will backfire?

"I offer it to you slaughtered like a purveyor Of tear gas, gutted like / a sustainer Of museums, I beg you now, who from the last / will be present, anchoring my every tooth, planted in a garden / fertilized by the ashes Of Qalandia, rend my body, bring life to Arabs"

Grass itself, you may not know, is an instrument of terror.

this AM the last Prairieland 9 defendant Ines Soto was sentenced to 50 years — so he and his partner, Liz Soto, got effectively life sentences. they have 3 kids. those who took non-cooperating plea deals, Rowan Gibson and Rebecca Morgan, got 15 each. total time sentenced in this case: 530 years

Go to minute 12 for a poem dragging the WNY ICE Field Office director. Back in May I had the real good fortune to read from my new book at Rochester's Writers & Books (thx to Tyler Barton) & to be in conversation with Albert Abonado about poetry and politics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrj1...

"Will allowing betting on fires lead to a more efficient market of fires?" "Will the absorption of every square mile of the future into the grinder of speculative investment lead to ...."

god i hope the community is there w/eyes on the cops. thinking of attica, the massacre. and, also, the blazing will and solidarity it takes to take over an institution designed to make you fight everyone around you.

Please share Prairieland defendant Janette Goering's statement on the 8 defendants' federal sentencing on June 23. Federal trial defendant Ines Soto will be sentenced this Wednesday along with Joy "Rowan" Gibson and Rebecca Morgan, who took NON-cooperating plea deals. Ines did not take a plea deal.

data center struggles are working class struggles b/c DC's degrade, destroy or make more costly what's needed for working class life--water, power, land--in favor of fortifying technologies of ruling class control. social reproduction theory, baby!

"What happens when you punish love? I would tell you, but I have to go to work." How's that for an ending? -"The Women's Building" in Zoe Tuck's Bedroom Vowel

I wish my father didn't die how he did. And that I'd known him in his Hank Williams phase.

People are going to remember the 2026 World Cup like the '36 Berlin Olympics.

trying to get my head around 'socialist imperialism' (as a leftoid), & I think this article that can only think abt costs of war on Iran through U.S. distribution of war profits will be exhibit B or C. tiny pinhole through which some socialists view 6000 U.S. bombing runs jacobin.com/2026/06/iran...

let's go

"I do not fear for myself. I fear for you. What will you do? In this time of great failures and great injustices, what will you do? How will you help each other? How will you help yourselves?" Required read.

hundreds of years of life claimed by the state b/c of what started as a noise demo outside of a concentration camp

💢BREAKING | Israel has carried out a double-tap strike in Gaza, killing Raghad Ashour, an 18-year-old student from Beit Hanoun who was on her way to take her general secondary education examination per Mosab Abu Toha (X: @MosabAbuToha). At least 5 others were wounded, according to initial reports...

& mary turfah -- yoga for colonizers -- 🔥 thebaffler.com/latest/warri...

my father died yesterday in disturbing circumstances that are rewriting how i understand him and his final years. this is a first note of love to everyone who have so quickly come to help me hold this.

As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.

This ICE flight believed to be carrying Afghan, Syrian and Iranian asylum seekers to the Central African Republic is underway. Omni Air International, may you rot in infamy and shame.

I love this memoir/wisdom/deep Dr. Who reading so hard, just recommended it to friends, & am so glad @divinetailor.bsky.social & I will be in conversation in Chicago soon. pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/20260...

chicago! ‘tis ONE WEEK until i read & converse in person (6/18) at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social with @makecommon.bsky.social ! if you would like to attend, the info’s below: pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/50470

heard someone refer to south Lebanon as a ghetto. this revealed so much in terms of how class, processes of racialization, their interaction w/ top-down sectarianism smooth skids for Israel's horrific ongoing ethnic cleansing, village destruction, murder of farmers, beekeepers & medics who resist

sending love and solidarity to friends with family in Iran. how awful it's got to be to have your own government paying for the bombs falling on your homeland, claiming that endless war is progress toward peace.