Super excited to have a stretch of "the r/ver" in the latest issue of Word For/Word, edited by Jonathan Minton. Also featuring great work by Jim Andrews, Alison Strub, Carolyn Guinzio, and many others. Check it out and for/word the word! #poetry #vispo #erasure www.wordforword.info/vol46/

Local movements to rid city streets of AI-powered surveillance cameras used by law enforcement are growing rapidly amid scandals, mounting privacy concerns, and public backlash to mass surveillance under the authoritarian Trump administration.

“…we are a global society in a state of dissolution, and out of this messy fluidity new things both monstrous and magical are emerging.” Another must read from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-are-crash...

“When I’m doing my stump speech and tell people that on the first day of this campaign, I made a promise not to support Chuck Schumer for leader, the room — without any explanation — just spontaneously bursts into applause,” Iowa candidate for U.S. Senate Zach Wahls recently said.

May Day wisdom nuggets.

“There is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class.” For May Day 2026, Will Bloom, co-chair of Chicago DSA’s Labor Branch reports that more than 140 DSA chapters are planning rallies, political education, strike fund fundraisers, and more. inthesetimes.com/article/demo...

May 1st! No work, No school, No spending. Time to hit their wallets! Credits: @chainsl4yer9000

Wednesday, April 22 - Chicago May Day Rally & March 5/1 / Oppose Kevin Warsh / General Strike Planning 4/27

Polish artists Przemek Podolski and Marta Basandowskaby create complex geometric designs based on 3D computer models using yarn #Womensart

“False certainty is dangerous; it rules out all possibilities but one and in essence surrenders to that imagined future.”

What I am feeling today, btw, is what I wrote here.

To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

Great work from @stevecarll.bsky.social

Happy and grateful to have this piece from my vispo/comic "Operation Bird Heads" in the latest issue of @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social, edited by Shloka Shankar of Yavanika Press. Check out the complete lineup: sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...

Message to ICE: "Your time is running out. Save your soul and quit your job."

"In its new quest for hemispheric dominance, the Trump administration has reached back to the Monroe Doctrine in its most belligerent version—a warrant for the complete repudiation of international law, in a world with no allies or equals, only vassals & foes." @alfatau.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

The sooner we accept this, the better

now - especially now - a reminder that we are going to win. and this is why

OMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was executed by a U.S. federal agent while trying to protect a woman. That’s the headline.

If this sounds naively optimistic, don't worry, it's going to be hard, and it's going to take all of us.

Today welcome Seth Copeland to PROCESS series @icefloepress.bsky.social coax out of the earth, burning it against its will a complex hybrid docupoetics work on geography/geology/ American history #art #hybrid #poetics #documentary #imperialism #erasure icefloepress.net/2026/01/23/f...

"They assume we're all selfish and cowardly and can be cowed into silence or submission or surrender, which is to say they seem to base their version of human nature partly on themselves and partly on their scorn for the rest of us. They're wrong." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/one-long-yea...

Next Monday, Jan. 19th, MLK Day, Chicago RESISTS. 50+ local organizations are coming together at 1pm at Water Tower Park to demand abolish ICE, end the genocides, stop the wars, and tax the rich! #jan19chicagoresists #chicago #protest #event #resist

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/weak-violenc... “The beautiful force behind the resistance is solidarity, which is by definition not self-defense but defense of something beyond the self, a reaching across difference to find common ground.” Another gem from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Super happy to have the opening sequence from "Signatures" in petrichor #29, edited by Seth Copeland and team @petrichorlit.bsky.social. hey neat is right!

And so: petrichor #29 is here for you. hey neat. petrichormag.com/petrichor-29/

"Faith leaders, union representatives and community members are calling for a Day of Truth and Freedom on Friday, Jan. 23 — urging all Minnesotans not to go to work, school or go shopping"

Minnesota and Illinois have filed lawsuits seeking to block Homeland Security’s latest operations, arguing that Trump’s immigration crackdowns and ICE/Border Patrol surges trample their constitutional rights to self‑governance and control over local policing.

“Get your neighbors organized, get your friends organized… ‘cause we outnumber the fascists completely, and if we all stick together, we can really stop this from getting worse.”

👉 REMINDER: Listening session tonight (Thurs 1/8, 6:30 pm) at Thalia Hall in Pilsen, 1807 S. Allport 👉 TOPIC: Chicago Police Department interactions with ICE/immigration authorities

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

Part of the unbearable stupidity of the current administration is its feckless enthusiasm for doing things that seem like manly feats of strength to manosphere idiots and also make this country weaker...all the way down to Pete Hegseth and his belief that pushups are a top military strategy.

Performance without words pdf: nathanandersonwriting.home.blog/wp-content/u... You can purchase a print copy by emailing [email protected]

The director cries at the death of the singer by @njapoetry.bsky.social coming Jan 7th. Our first C22 Open Editions release of 2026. Get excited! Stay tuned!

THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

For starters, yes. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Donald Trump has multiple indictments in the United States for crimes against the US government. And also pardoned top drug dealers.

Legal experts called for Trump’s impeachment as world leaders condemned the strikes as a violation of international law.

Some excellent reporting here: DHS has compared the experiences of immigration agents in Chicago to 'Sicario' -a movie in which the FBI takes down a brutal drug cartel. But those allegations "have not withstood the harsh light of the federal court system" www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/30/c...

"It’s a pretty bleak state of affairs... if, even at the 'best' job available, you can’t get stable hours & your bosses can crush you when you dare ask for better." A bargaining delegate for @sbworkersunited.org, explains why almost 4K baristas are on strike.

some above/ground press author activity: Chris Banks, Vik Shirley, Melanie Dennis Unrau, Gregory Betts, Gary Barwin + J.R. Carpenter, / @garybarwin.bsky.social @whatisapoem.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/some...