A poem for our times; a spell to trap and temper the Chaos Cheeto. From The Making of a Sonnet, edited by Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland

Troubleshooting the US government: "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"

We’ve completely moved into a 1984 timeline, where the DOE is concerned. The only rule about climate change is you can’t talk about climate change.

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I’m deeply honored to share that my manuscript Infinite Scroll / Infinite Eye has been awarded the Berkshire Prize from Tupelo @tupelopress.bsky.social, selected by Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social. So grateful to Kristina Marie Darling, Jeffrey Levine, and everyone at Tupelo!

Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that INFINITE SCROLL // INFINITE EYE by Martin Rock of Solana Beach, California is the winner of the 2025 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry. Congratulations @infinite-scroll.bsky.social www.tupelopress.org/tupelo-press...

“You have to like what time does.” This poem by Carmen Giménez Smith.

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

“In April, Elon Musk’s X supercomputing center near Memphis was found, via satellite imagery, to be using dozens of methane gas generators that the Southern Environmental Law Center alleges are not approved by energy regulators to supplement grid power and are violating the Clean Air Act."

Green and Brown on Blue, 2025

No one will believe this, but: When I was a kid, the top income tax bracket was MORE THAN 90%. Corporate tax rate was 450% of what it is now. That was under Dwight Eisenhower.

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

“Elon Musk has [saved] the United States less than 1 percent of its budget. If those savings are put toward renewing or expanding Trump’s tax cut, which seems likely, those billions will flow directly from the mouths of the world’s poorest into the pockets of the world’s richest.”

Musk + Trump = The Mumps

'Schalter' #FotoVorschlag

I still don't know if Musk doesn't understand that USAID is a huge government handout to U.S. companies, especially farmers, or if he just doesn't care.

Ok can someone please ask him who he thinks Congress is because I’m beginning to get the feeling he doesn’t know it’s him

Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship. #BlackHistoryMonth

Aspiring dictator move right here. Let’s keep him limited to the first syllable.

With respect, suspending electric building codes for homes that burned down in LA so people can rebuild with highly flammable fossil gas is a terrible policy. This doesn't protect neighbors next time. And it worsens the climate crisis. Do better, Mayor Bass. www.latimes.com/environment/...

what's wrong babe, you've hardly touched today's heap of apocalyptic news headlines

These tariffs hit the auto industry hard — but guess what company doesn’t manufacture in Mexico? Tesla. These tariffs give Musk further advantage over Tesla’s competitors. How else will they fuck over the American people to benefit the billionaires?

“The first two weeks into his second tour in the White House have seen so many lines crossed […] that anyone who believes in the Constitution and honest governance should be worried: Many of Mr. Trump’s first assertions of executive power blatantly exceed what is legally granted.”

Extremely important new rapid study just out, by @wwattribution.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social It confirms our burning of fossil fuels injects a mad acceleration into the factors that blend to create disastrous fires -->> www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan... Short thread.......

This is important. "What was once a slow boil has now erupted into full view, as political actors and powerful figures weaponize institutional risk aversion to suppress speech they don’t like."

Russel Edson, “Under Great White Flooded Clouds” From The Tormented Mirror, 2001

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

big day today

The US Office of Personnel Management set up an email snitch line for reporting federal employees who are refusing to comply with Trump’s DEIA-banning executive order: [email protected] Perhaps it might be a good place to flood it with Dada, nonsense, AI-generated slop, and protest. 😎

So excited for this book. Put in your preorders at your local bookstores, folks.

“If we approach the drinking of water that comes from the tap from a global perspective we would have to talk about it differently.” bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1994. p.50.

Trenton Doyle Hancock, A Sweet Hell, 2010 Surrealism: Then and Now at the Bechtler in Charlotte, NC

Thomas Lerooy. Eye of the Storm, 2023. Surrealism: Then and Now at the Bechtler in Charlotte, NC.

“Dissonance” by Amy Lowell from Modernist Women Poets: an Anthology.

“When accounting for storms of various sizes, each year the reefs would, on average, extend flood protection to more than 3,000 people and reduce damage by $180 million for structures and another $210 million in economic activity.” 🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/01/to-u...

Little excites me more than a new Ezra Klein podcast landing.

“reading” by Quan Barry, from Asylum, 2000

Maeve: “This cottage cheese is gross.” Me: “What does it taste like?” Maeve: “Critter Camp floor.”

This morning Maeve crawled in to bed to snuggle and then told me I’m sigma and that Donald Trump used to clean my teeth.

Now more than ever, it’s imperative that we stop using the misnomer ‘natural disasters’. Humans have their fingerprints all over the LA catastrophe.

"Profit trumps everything else and that is sociopathic and it’s not reality-based because it doesn’t take into account the limits of nature and the limits of nature determine whether we live or die" @johnvaillant.bsky.social on climate change & fire: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

statistically a tornado has probably sucked up a ghost

If creative writing programs want to remain relevant they should start offering more degrees with a specialization in shitposting.

These are climate fires. Full stop. Calling them wild makes it seem like there’s nothing we could have done to prevent them. We need a new language for the many climate disasters heading our way.

Every cloud has a silver-tongued billionaire extracting value from it.

There’s a fine line between “thinking globally and acting locally” and “delusions of grandeur.”