And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.

I spoke w/ Choctaw historian A.S. Dillingham about how the Thanksgiving myth helps the U.S. avoid reckoning w/ its own history. “It’s not about rejecting gratitude — it’s about refusing to celebrate a falsehood.” Read our @truthout.org convo: truthout.org/articles/the... #TeachTruth #Thanksgiving

Pinchos scene report:

I think some people are confusing "poverty line" with "at what level of wealth/income do you need to be at to not get totally screwed by a health event or a major accident?" and the answer in the US is "very, very high"

Bajamar scene report

Greetings from Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands, where we are staying for a week on the very top floor of this rather Ballardian highrise; the views are wild

We don’t need to reform ICE. We don’t need alternatives to ICE. We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE. ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.

so now I’m supposed to mute the words canyon, flow, harvest and bamboo? perfectly respectable words? this shit is exhausting

Since ICE invaded Raleigh, NC, walkouts and protests have broken out, and more than 600 volunteers have signed up to help keep residents safe in the city.

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

That feeling when the delivery person has to take a photo of the sandwich

The pride of Baltimore!

Do you want to hear me talk for a bit about the forthcoming Soft Pink Truth album from our basement studio? Your wish is granted! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJW...

A cheery alpaca, drawn in Brazil by Dutch artist Frans Post. He was born in Haarlem on this day in 1612.

« Songs have blossomed / in the pale crystal library of tears » - Ted Berrigan

In somewhat good news, today the state department website has changed the answer to this question to defer to ICAO policy. Sources still tell me that there is some appetite for invalidation/reversion of passports issued under the injunction, but this message will be welcome to many trans people.

the purple behemoth has arrived

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

hanging with @maxlawton.bsky.social at the Béton Armé show and somebody in the moshpit recognized him as « that guy who translated that big book » - we are street teaming for literature in translation at the oi show y’all

JEFF CAREY SCENE REPORT (sound on):

man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded

that Armand Hammer & Alchemist album « Mercy » is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Here’s the program for tonight’s DIFFUSION festival of multi-channel electroacoustic works at the Red Room. I’m going to the first show (doors 7:30 / sound at 8) but you can also make the scene later (second show is doors 9:30 / sound at 10). Eight channels to embrace your ears!

having been interviewed by the WSJ about Charlie Kirk and getting plenty of hate mail as a result, I definitely felt a sting of recognition when reading this excellent essay about the distortions that happen when centrist media turns to academia in search of rage bait

at the grocery store and saw a garment I can only describe as a « Lululemon suicide bomber vest »

Baltimore! Tonight is the first night of the DIFFUSION festival of multi-channel electroacoustic! Same program, two presentations! You can come at 7:30 or at 9:30! Come hear some wild experimental sound work at the Red Room!

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man

New, from me: DHS says immigration enforcement employees like ICE are facing unprecedented threats and 1000% increase in assaults. But the data does not add up. Look at the details, and we see state agents using excessive force, and then lying about it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

Immigration arrest of Chicago daycare worker at drop-off time for kids sparks outcry

absolute umami that hits like crack

Had to share this from twitter just because

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

they straight up smoked the entire political section of the teen vogue after this article jesus CHRIST the billionaires are furious

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

here’s looking at you, kid

Halloween is many things but here’s at least one more: Today is our 34th anniversary! I love you, Martin! So grateful for our life together! 🕯️🎃

Got my author copy of this fantastic edited collection of new work in queer early modern studies just in time for Halloween! 🎃

Every copy of this new SDEM release on @frozenreeds.com offshoot Quadrant Park has a different cover! Mine arrived today and looks like this:

Pre-gaming before Halloween by teaching « The Turn of the Screw » in my psychoanalysis and literature seminar today; my copy is now fuzzy with color coded notes (neon yellow is for apparitions)

Lucrecia Dalt and her band are absolutely killing it right now at an outdoor show under a tent in Baltimore as the rain falls all around us- this band is so tight and the new songs sound sick live

Lucrecia Dalt is giving a talk on the JHU campus today ! The talk alas is exactly when I teach ; but y’all should go hear her!

New Soft Pink Truth music by yours truly! Behold the video for "Time Inside the Violet", directed by hourglass animator Matthew Murray Sullivan and panic attack collagist Vicki Bennett (People Like Us). New album on @thrilljockey.bsky.social comes out Jan 30th! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhEt...

Baltimore people should go to this and her show at Current

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Apparently there are enough bottoms that they have a “Land” and their own camouflage pattern????