CALL FOR PAPERS The Amiri Baraka Society seeks papers on any aspect of the Black Arts Movement, and/or any aspect of the life and works of Amiri Baraka, for a panel at the American Literature Association meeting in Chicago, May 20-23. To submit proposals, or make inquiries, email [email protected].

What is rapidly replacing university DEI is affirmative action for right wingers.

New work from Chris Stroffolino and Steve Carll "that moment of float when you realize the beat doesn't come down where you thought the one was" from Bathysphere Press

so . . . is the White House plan to rely on the Senate to filibuster the release of the Epstein files, or is he thinking he'll sign the bill, but then DOJ will say they can't release anything because there is an active investigation.

I've never been so pleased that Fetterman is no longer my Senator.

During yesterday's No Kings Rally in D.C., the Trump administration posted men with weapons on the roof of an art gallery.

It increasingly appears that Trump is hoping to engineer a "Gulf of Tonkin" incident to justify an attack on Venezuela.

How worried is Trump about the Epstein files? Worried enough that Speaker Johnson was sent out to float the preposterous notion that any appearance of Trump in the materials is the result of his being an FBI informer. (BTW, head of the FBI at the time was Mueller.)

Bad job numbers released, Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. More bad job numbers, Trump declares they are still the Biden numbers. (in the eighth month of Trump's Presidency.)

The guy who wants a Nobel Peace Prize plans to rename DOD as the Department of War.

"I'm tired of freedom snatchers." --Eddie Glaude

They are eating the Constitution. They are eating the laws.

"Can I read you some of my poetry?"

The unconfirmed story that Russian journalists were served chicken Kiev on the flight to the Alaska summit had its origin with the Editor in Chief of Russia Today. A bit of international trolling?

"Lush Life" poem by A.L. Nielsen from SUPERTRIOS (disk 2) music by Blind Boy Grump youtu.be/kKmVfBD13mI

Trump desperately wants the Nobel Peace Prize. (I'm surprised he hasn't posted a fake one yet.) Somehow I don't think starting a war and then stopping it is the best approach.

"I'm tired of hearing people who support a sex abusing felon complaining about 'illegals.'" --John Fugelsang

Anybody notice that one of Trump's defense attorneys was Joe TACOpina?

The White House insists that Trump was acting in his private capacity when he attended the dinner for Meme coin buyers -- WHICH MEANS HE HAS NO IMMUNITY FOR ANYTHING INVOLVING THIS GRIFT.

Steven Miller, aide to a man who attempted a coup, complains there is a "judicial coup."

Trump says Walmart and China should "eat the tariffs." But China doesn't pay the tarrifs. What are they supposed to eat?

Tales of half-heard commercials -- I thought I heard them talking about mice living in my eyelids.

Trump has named twenty-three Fox News personalities to positions in his administration!

POETS! Consider submitting to read at the PAMLA conference in San Francisco, Nov 20-23. Deadline is May 15. Here's the link: pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19631

COMING SOON!

"We're in a world now where wrestling is real and education is fake." -- Stephanie Miller

Trump and DOGE are losing 85% of the time in court. MAGA Reps ask why a single district judge should be able to make a decision for the whole country. But the operative question is why a single President should be able to ignore laws passed by Congress and signed into law by Presidents.

There seem to be an awful lot of these DOGE Muskrats running around. Think we'll ever learn how much of our money is going to pay them?

They declare English the official language . . . but they can't write a simple letter that makes any sense.

now she wishes she could hear all that noise that poets make about time and timelessness --Dionne Brand

The MAGAnauts who make noises about a return to meritocracy are the same people who are setting out to destroy the merit-based civil service.

Trump betrayed his own country; of course he would betray Ukraine.

Trump attorneys have repeatedly gone into court and, under sworn oath, stated that Musk is not the head of DOGE. In his address to Congress, Trump overtly declared that Musk is the head of DOGE.

Trump fires 6,700 IRS workers . . . without notice . . . during tax season.

He's so vain, I bet he thinks this world is about him.

For Trump so loved the middle class that he fired thousands of them.

NORDIC NOIR They may have lower crime rates than ours, but those folks have some spectacular fictional crimes.

Nobody is surprised that Trump's first moves included getting rid of all staff involved in fighting corruption.

favorite NYT headline of the day: WITHOUT PENNIES WHITHER PENNY LOAFERS?

The President currently has a dozen restraining orders against him.

In essence, Adams offered a bribe to get his bribery charges dismissed.

We never did get to see Trump's tax returns . . . but Musk can see yours.