Really pleased (and grateful) to have this flying, ice, Greenland, worry, moon poem up today on the Open Spaces feature at @northamerreview.bsky.social northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

I'm attending MoveOn's event, “[LIVESTREAM] People's State of the Union” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

This poem of mine was published today at The New Verse News: newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/02/x-ra... It is informed by this article - www.theguardian.com/global-devel... - and to be clear, I DO NOT support the US taking ANY military action against the country where this occurred.

@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social He does like a wedge salad. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... ----- cysalad.com/article/what...

BREAKING: government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action under terrorism law ruled UNLAWFUL This matters for everyone. For years, the right to protest has been under sustained and deliberate attack. Thousands of people have been arrested for something that should have never been a crime.

I'm so grateful to Escape Into Life for posting the first review of my second book of poems, Little Joy. www.escapeintolife.com/poetry/littl...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

www.npr.org/2026/02/01/n... What @npr.org is the point of running a piece like this where you allow an official to brazenly lie with NO pushback from the interviewer? Plechash states, "the hard work of the administration to remove the worst of the worst criminals from our communities."

This is where people snatched up in Trump's occupation of Minneapolis and Saint Paul are being sent. After the first death at the notorious "tent city" at Fort Bliss, advocates warned ICE that detainees reported extreme physical and sexual abuse at the facility. Within weeks, two men were dead.

On the morning of January 28th, forty years ago, I was a bike messenger in Chicago. That's when I first heard about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. This poem of mine first appeared in Poetry East in 1991, and then later in Bulletproof, my first book.

True heroism and bearing witness: the woman who documented the killing of Alex Pretti www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Worked on this small poem this week thinking of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos abducted by DHS and ICE thugs. I'd hardly finished it when these ghouls went and murdered 37-year-old nurse, Alex Pretti, for filming their crimes. abcnews.go.com/US/5-year-as...

For the nurses. Thank you to the sleepless guardians who keep watch on my son in the night. These past few months living with my son’s cancer have had a profound impact on me. Now, whether at the hospital or at home, at night, I think of them.

Our new media alert is now available. ‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ medialens.substack.com/p/the-weak-m...

History remembers.

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

"I want it all protected— the moist, the wet, the soaked and saturated..." From a poem of mine just published in Flyway. Below, I'll link to the news story it was reacting to. flywayjournal.org/poetry/matth...

Just a poem I wrote this week, in memory of Renee Nicole Good.

For God's sake... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

I think he meant to say "ruin" Venezuela, not run it, because he certainly is an expert at that.

"What the hell?" "Oh, I get it." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Every time you hear dishonest, misleading "we are so polarized" both-sidesism from the mainstream news, consider Mamdani's inauguration today: calls for love, taking care of the vulnerable, building community, protecting each other, etc. Contrast that to any GOP event with attacks, vitriol and hate.

unvarnished gutter racism and Nazism from the president. a disgrace to our country.

Okay @nytimes.com, I see what you did there. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/s...

Cornelius Eady, a National Book Award finalist, will read an original poem at Zohran Mamdani’s swearing-in as mayor of New York City on Thursday. Read an excerpt from “Proof,” the poem he wrote for the ceremony. trib.al/i0Uhwxr

@npr.org Just heard the hourly newscast. NPR critiqued Trump's Gaza plan as vague and unserious, but did not mention even ONCE Israel's constant, deadly, & blatant violations of the "cease fire." Have you no shame? Even the NYT is better on this... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/w...

One little joy during the holidays was stopping by the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social to visit Franz Marc's "The Bewitched Mill," that is on the cover of my 2nd book of poems coming out in late January. www.matthewmurrey.net/books.html (More about the painting here: www.artic.edu/artworks/902...)

And why not? (from the LOC: www.loc.gov/resource/ppm...)

#OnionNotOnion www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...

@jimmykimmel.com I love seeing that you will give a Christmas address to the UK that will also focus on free speech! The most powerful, succinct statement you could make about free speech in the UK would be to say, "I support Palestine Action." Peace. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Christmas forecast for East Central Illinois. Jesus Christ! forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php...

Hat tip to @jamellebouie.net where I first saw this.

"Every fleeing parent and child makes a holy family" I'm sorry that my poem from 8 years ago is even more relevant now. www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...?

MUST READ by @BMarchetich "Pranked Biden official exposes lie that Ukraine war was inevitable" responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-nato...

Five years ago, a Vatican Nativity scene (pictured below) provoked a lot of outrage. I was provoked to write a poem. Whether you observe them or not, may you have some lovely time during the holidays. dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/a-te...

🔴 In the past 24 hrs, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an add'l 2 killed & 6 injured arriving at hospitals. ▪️Since the ceasefire on Oct 11, 2025: - Total killed 393 - Total injured 1,068 - Total previously killed bodies recovered 632 This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide...

My second book of poems, Little Joy, is coming out at the end of January from Cornerstone Press. I couldn't be more pleased with the cover!

Look at this chart. Still wondering if inequality is a problem throughout the world? Wealth doesn’t just beget more wealth — it begets more power. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/dec/10/visual-breakdown-worlds-wealthiest-people

I'm feeling that I really might be in the running for the FIFA Prize in Literature.

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

NEW - The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims As federal data becomes less available, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social explains how our journalists are providing readers with precise numbers.

Better than Saturday morning cartoons back in the day. I'll be reading with others for this. Hope you can make it!

Nothing keeps hurricanes away like a category 5 shitstorm. people.com/kristi-noem-...

So good to see Owen Jones take on the wretched arrogance of Hillary Clinton and her bloodstained legacy of foreign policy failures and cruelty. www.owenjones.news/p/clintons-s...

Hello, friends! In case you'd like to vote for us and/or some of your other favorite lit mags, here's the link for this year's Chill Subs awards. Voting ends on Dec. 7. :) www.chillsubs.com/best-lit-mag... Coming soon: Our 10th anniversary winter issue and our December reading period!

The WWE needs to update its list of current tag teams to include the "Bone Brothers" (Bone Saw and Bone Spur) taking on the stable of "Free Press." apnews.com/video/trump-...

Bonespur assists Bonesaw against ABC. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sau...