Bay Area friends: launch of The Garden Friday w/ these lovely poets. @essaypress.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social 🙏 @hystericalblkns.bsky.social @lisaolstein.bsky.social Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman & @andreabrady.bsky.social for the kindness of blurbing. excited to begin reading from it.

Meantime, the shooter in Evergreen Colorado was said to be radicalized, law enforcement having found numerous firearms and a QAnon mask in his home.

About the outrage over Klein's oped: He is clearly afraid for his own life. That's what is driving the oped. I would be too if I were a very public pundit right now who had JUST called for the shut down of the government in response to Trump fascism.

These are the names of the people who have died in US immigration custody over the past year, almost all under 50 yrs. old, some in their 20s. This list does not include those who died running from ICE.

One year ago today. Trump: “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs, the people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating—they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” Everything he referred to was fake.

I know people are overwhelmed by too much news from every angle, and maybe people are distracted by the "terrorist" language, or just plain exhausted. But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.

We should mock this miserable, doddering, old man. And we should have our eyes wide open that he is openly telling us he will undermine our free and fair elections by attacking mail-in voting and advancing gerrymandering in red states. He's a fascist. Take this literally and seriously.

Nazism is optics and aesthetics on one side, torture and death on the other. These two sides are indivisible. Note Trump's obsession with things being "beautiful": walls, women, streets, mansions, bills, etc.

New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.

>>B) that a quarter of the population was in the streets tonight, even if I try to factor in proportional representation of different communities. And having said that: Hundreds of thousands in the streets IS HUGE. Something like a quarter of the population involved some way or another IS HUGE. 4/

A new review of Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics and Spiritualism in the American West. Thank you! rockymountainreader.org/mud-blood-an...

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I can write a perfectly great recommendation letter using chatgpti. The problem is, it makes me feel sick to do it. But it doesn't make the next generation feel sick, so why wouldn't they? We should definitely abolish the recommendation letter now.

The National Guard in DC for no reason at all is another red line that is now being crossed. The national guard itself must refuse.

100+ years of fear mongering about "socialists" really has worked its way into the cell-structure of entire generations. Thank god for new ones (generations) who can think.

Really gratifying review. Thank you @lethejerome.bsky.social ! @omnidawn.bsky.social

The Garden, a book about time, war, Jewishness, techno-biology, grief and memory, is out now for preorder from Pamenar and Essay Press! Cover art by Tony Robbin. Gratitude to @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Daniel Borzutzky, and Andrea Brady for the words! www.pamenarpress.com/product-page...

I listen regularly to an Israeli news radio show and the messaging has been "yes, but what about Hamas," this entire time. And now, just this week, it's shifted to a heavy acknowledgment of deep shame, culpability and failure. This is the moment to push for an end to this genocide.

Taner Akçam, Marianne Hirsch, and I introduce the Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network and call for immediate concrete measures to prevent further atrocity crimes and to protect civilians in Gaza.

Happy birthday to John Ashbery. And me!

As Yonatan Zeigen, son of peace activist Vivian Silver (1st listed as missing, her remains were found in her Kibbutz Be'eri home) said to a reporter on ~Oct 8, 2023: "You can't cure killed babies with more killed babies." It's always been true. It's still true. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...

No holocaust imagery or narrative will mean what it used to seem to mean. Those images are a warning, not against antisemitism or even fascism per se, but against ethnic nationalism in all of its instances.

Back cover and mini excerpt from my new book, The Garden, book one of the trilogy Overflow. All thanks to @pamenarpress.bsky.social and @essaypress.bsky.social and to Tony Robbin, the painter of the 4th dimension. Out in September. ❤️🖤

In Oct 23 I posted that some antigenocide Jews will need to step up. It was a bitter joke. I never imagined we'd come this far - that we'd really watch the destruction of a whole population while the US criminalizes speech against it & Jews are called antisemitic for calling it out. Infinite shame.

It's reasonable to fear that the next elections will no longer be free and fair, too. We need to talk about that more.

Pretty weird how everyone in America openly understands the sitting president is actively covering up his involvement in a massive pedophilia and human trafficking operation, but we're somehow talking about the "threat" posed by nine-year-old trans girls on soccer teams.

Profiles in courage, Texas edition. ‘On Tuesday, the Texas senator ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In Orwell's 1984, the most valued form of resistance is fucking in the woods. Desire is the key (which William Morris also knew).

I wish for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social nerves of steel, nerves of fucking steel and a bullet proof vest.

Don't let it slip from view: open.substack.com/pub/judithle...

Over 300,000 dead because of the end of USAID. One should be able to see that and say it. Over and over. As the numbers climb.

New wave of rage at everyone who voted for him and everyone who sat out the election and everyone who knew - or could have easily known - and didn't care or actively cheered for what was going to happen that is now happening to people everywhere. Fuck all accelerationism & cynicism most of all.

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 109 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

he should be making merch RIGHT NOW

Look up "mensch" in the dictionary and you'll find Brad Lander.

But why are so so many podcasts just two guys talking. "Hey buddy": left, right, in-between - it's all just "Hey buddy."

It would be so beautiful if NYC votes @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social DO IT! Get out there - make the kids happy!

His very first year in office, he cut $1 billion from our public education system. We, as the city, continued to fight for it back until we had to take him to court. We won. But he still would not comply. He refused to repay the foundation aid that was owed to us.

As we head to Election Day, for folks who voted early, thank you. I know some folks have not yet made up their minds. I am making an appeal to you. Please do not rank Cuomo. I have worked with every single one of the candidates for mayor. I will tell you he does not like us.

This is a perfect end to my night. Watch this and be encouraged. Good night. bsky.app/profile/thet...

Donald Trump, a weak and dangerously reckless president, has put the United States on a path to a war in the Middle East that the country does not want, the law does not allow, and our security does not demand.

Sen. Chris Murphy: "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States."

it's quite nice to see this book against such a pretty background. Open secret: it's my favorite of my books in that it's the closest I've come to writing poems that are truly from the language itself and not from an idea about it. Forever grateful to the terrific press, @solid-objects.bsky.social.

In the kidnapping video I posted above, the young kid in the blue Walmart vest getting roughed up by ICE, is 20-year-old Adrian Martinez, a US citizen who was taken hostage by ICE for speaking up for his kidnapped coworker.

In 2016 MN Police killed a Black man named Philando Castile despite him disclosing he had a legal firearm. Yesterday MN Police released a white woman named Jenny Boelter despite her car full of cash, firearms, & passports hours after her husband mass murdered people & was on the run from police.

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social re: Emma Ashford episode: bsky.app/profile/jame...

shoutout to every idiot who believed that trump would "end the wars"

We have arrived: 1864: which America was great?