My good friend and fellow TCS contributor Adam “Brick” House has a message for every American who still believes in democracy. Watch his call for unity, courage, and action before tomorrow’s #NoKings protests. tcspress.com/2025/10/17/c...

We haven’t failed at peaceful resistance in America. We just haven’t tried it yet. New essay up at @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social, a nonpartisan platform where insiders and outsiders meet to repair our democracy. Follow them for thoughtful, solutions-based dialogue. thefulcrum.us/civic-engage...

I’m sure you already follow Rachel (@mother-poet.bsky.social) but if not, do so! She is a wonderful writer and a good human!

The Chaos Section Poetry Project Is Accepting Submissions Until Oct. 1 I’m excited to be serving as co-editor on the second installment of The Chaos Section Poetry Project, alongside the talented poet Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social thetruthabouttigers.com/2025/09/18/t...

Do any other combat veterans notice that the loudest voices calling for or supporting political violence or fantasizing about civil war usually belong to people who’ve never been anywhere near actual violence, or war?

The Chinese restaurant near my house doesn’t do “fortune cookies.” They’re more into “pragmatic financial advice cookies.”

Ellen Bass is one of my favorite poets. If you haven’t read her, I can’t recommend her work enough. Mules of Love is a great place to start, especially the poem Insomnia.

NVN Thursday at Substack: After You’ve Gone#newspoems "Feel Free" by Nick Allison and "Dear Prez" by Barbara Loots thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-thursd... @literaryreport.bsky.social @literarybulletin.bsky.social

Friends! I am so excited that Loblolly Press is releasing a hard copy #book of last year's digital #zine titled "Understory." Like the digital release, this one also supports post- #Hurricane #Helene efforts. I and 86 other #poets have great work in there! Hope you'll check it out. #BookSky #poetry

Thanks to @newversenews.bsky.social for publishing my poem "Feel Free." I almost never write in rhyme (or near-rhyme), but I felt like trying something different. newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/08/feel... #Trump #Authoritarian #Oligarchy #FeelFree

#Minnesota is heavy on my mind, as is my fourth grader and children all across the US who have to deal with the real, daily possibility of being shot and killed at school. This world is so broken.

New essay up at CounterPunch today. Mornings in the Village, Kerouac, the Statue of Liberty, Emma Lazarus, and Immigration www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/27/b...

Submissions are now open

Super excited to be working with the wonderful and talented poet, Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social, on this next collection! Submissions are open starting now through September 15th. #Poems about #CopingMechanisms thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/submissions/

The #poem that started them flowing for me again. Wasn't prepared to tear up when I saw this in my socials memories just now, but alas. #poetry #writing

Just posted a very short piece on "The Quitter" by Robert Service. My mom had this poem on the fridge when we were kids and encouraged us to memorize it. I’m glad she did: tcspress.com/2025/07/29/b... #TheQuitter #Poem #RobertService

"A Visitor's Guide to Free Coffee" thetruthabouttigers.com/2025/07/27/a...

Thanks to Rob and 6S for running my piece , "A Visitor's Guide to Free Coffee." sixsentences.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-vi...

Submission call for anonymous essays, if anyone is in to that kind of thing.

Submission Call: We’re collecting real, anonymous stories for a printed book: confessions, regrets, secrets, moments you’ve never said out loud. No names. No judgment. Just your words. #anonymous #callforsubmissions #creativewriting #essaycall #confession #nonfiction tcspress.com/2025/07/24/s...

Happy to share that my #poem, “How to Fix Everything,” is featured today in the #PoetryOnSunday" section of "Dissident Voice." thetruthabouttigers.com/2025/07/20/h... dissidentvoice.org/category/poe...

Juggling, perhaps? #entertainingwithapples

"What We Tend" by Meridith Allison @merhere.bsky.social thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/2025/07/12/w... "You can only fight a tyrant where your feet touch the ground..." From: "Record of #Dissent: #Poems of #Protest in an #Authoritarian Age" thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...

Fellow Austinites, you should definitely check out Lioness Books. Super cool mobile book store! www.lionessbookstx.com

Something I wrote on the 4th, sitting in my garage, listening to my rather Trumpy neighbors launch a seemingly endless supply of fireworks—with enough powder to rival the head-ringing noise of the 81mm mortar rounds I used to fire back in my army days 😆 thetruthabouttigers.com/2025/07/04/f...

Thanks to the @newversenews.bsky.social for running my poem, "While the Elk Were Moving" newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/07/whil... thetruthabouttigers.com

"Everyone Loses in this Monopoly Game" by @merrildsmith.bsky.social thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/2025/07/02/e... 
Record of #Dissent: #Poems of #Protest in an #Authoritarian Age. Read/Download the entire collection here for free: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...

"Vanishing Into..." by Kate Bremer Poem: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/2025/07/02/v... 
Record of #Dissent: #Poems of #Protest in an #Authoritarian Age. Read/Download the entire collection here for free: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...

"Hope" by Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/2025/07/02/h... 
Record of #Dissent: #Poems of #Protest in an #Authoritarian Age
. Read the full collection here free: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...

"Erasure" @theshorepoetry.bsky.social The Shore, Issue 25 – Spring 2025: www.theshorepoetry.org/issue-25 My fellow Wilco fans will probably notice the not-so-subtle nods to Jeff Tweedy in this one...

"Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age" is now live. 44 poems of protest, resistance, survival, and hope. Read, download, or share for free: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di... #Poetry #ProtestPoetry #Dissent #AntiAuthoritarian #Trump

Shit, imagine if President Obama had even just joked about it…

We’re extending the submission deadline to June 1. Planning for a June 13 release (day before trump's b-day). Got a couple emails from folks saying they needed a little more time to send something in, so here’s your shot. thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/submissions #poetry #resist #protest

If Rational Arguments no longer work in US governance, it’s evidence of a deeper problem in our educational system, which favors what to know over how to think — how to critically analyze, process, & verify information. Seems like a bad time to reduce funding for Public Education.

New piece up at The Political Prism on Medium. It’s about due process, executive power, fast-track deportations, constitutional shortcuts, and how “public safety” gets used as a free pass to ignore the law. #DueProcess #Constitution #Trump #Authoritarianism #ThePoliticalPrism #AbregoGarcia

thechaossection.com/2025/05/01/t... #Trump #ThirdTerm

One must, from time to time, take a break from thinking and writing about authoritarianism and drive 2 hours to San Antonio to spend an evening with Jeff Tweedy and Nels Cline. #Wilco #ImpossibleGermany

Imagine stacking the courts & still getting told to sit down. Tough break, champ. Maybe next time appoint DOJ lawyers who can lie competently. Of course, when a president decides he has unlimited power the law starts looking more like a speed bump than a stop sign theconversation.com/even-judges-...

New piece up at @huffpost.com Personal this morning—huge thanks to editor @noahmichelson.bsky.social for the thoughtful edits and for helping get this story out there. #LGBTQYouth #MentalHealthMatters @trevorproject.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

#Trump called the #KentuckyDerby “an elegant celebration of our culture, customs, and unwavering competitive spirit.” Which is adorable, because there’s a 0% chance he wrote any of those words himself. “Elegant” hasn’t been in his vocabulary since the last time he ordered a gold-plated toilet

New piece up today at TCS. #Trump says he’s “not joking” about a #thirdterm. Cool cool. Totally normal stuff in a functioning democracy

Trump’s asking the #SupremeCourt to let #Elon Musk’s DOGE into Social Security records. What could possibly go wrong, besides everything you’re imagining right now?

Trump’s #budget guts healthcare and science funding but gives $500 mil to RFKJr for “healthy living.” It’s like replacing your doctor with a guy at Gold’s Gym who sells supplements out of his car trunk—only he also has a dead bear in there that he plans to dump in the park later as a fun little gag

Honestly, at this point, the most shocking part is that someone in the #Trump administration can still operate a phone without accidentally declaring war on Antarctica #nationalsecurity #waltz www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

100 days into Trump’s second term, and there’s finally progress—stock market’s still tanking, but the Freedom Reeducation Gulags™ are weeks ahead of schedule! #Trump #100days #StockMarket #ObviousSatireButAlsoKindaNot

Schrödinger’s Economy, brought to you by Truth Social. It all makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it. Definitely a very "STABLE GENIUS.” #Trump #Biden #StockMarket

Call for #PoetrySubmissions. For issue 1, we’re looking for work that fits the moment. #Poems about #protest, #resistance — and anything else shaped by the ongoing mess of #authoritarian drift worldwide, but especially in the U.S. under #DonaldTrump thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/submissions/

On this 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride, we ready ourselves for tomorrow's mass protests. 💪 #poem #poetry #poet #poetrymonth #protest #history #RESIST #revolution

Donald Trump’s Easter message didn’t mention Jesus—not once. Just a rage-fueled tirade about immigrants, judges, and political enemies, from a man who sounds less like the leader of the free world and more like an authoritarian demagogue with decent WiFi. #Trump #Easter #TruthSocial