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Paul

@paulanomaly.bsky.social

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Writer, musician, teacher, Daddy. Starting a new chapter of my life in rural Appalachia, looking for a life more vivid and authentic with enough time for my family. And looking to connect without generating content and profit for huge, evil corporations.

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 5h

Cold November rain
Not the Guns n' Roses song
Just the thing itself

#haiku

Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 16h

A maze of scars
These hearts of ours
Each reaching for a dream that keeps receding
We keep planting seeds
Writing books no one reads
If only to show we know how to take a beating

#nothaiku

Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 2d

He was so noble
Clearly motivated by
Past regrets and shame

#haiku
#betrayedephemera

Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes I wonder
If Audre Lourde understands
How tools really work

#haiku
#betrayedephemera

Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 6d

Siberry's tour dates:
Canada, California
And more Canada

#haiku
#betrayedephemera
#janesiberry

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 6d

Back in 2010, David Graeber wrote, Against Kamikaze Capitalism

This is a quote from that piece.

"Neoliberalism was the system that
managed to convince everyone in the
world that financial elites were the only
people capable of managing or measuring
the value of anything, even as in order to
do so, it ended up promulgating an economic
culture so irresponsible that it allowed those
elites to bring the entire financial architecture
of the global economy tumbling on top of them
because of their utter inability to assess the
value even of their own financial instruments."
.
- David Graeber

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 6d

The Matrix, Sense 8
Dream worlds without fat people
Or rural places

#haiku
#betrayedephemera

Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 6d

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Argentina and Rural America’s Awakening

Suddenly, Trump’s contempt for his base is showing

open.substack.com

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 8d

Dancing frogs have become a symbol of resistance in the USA.

Interestingly, over a decade ago David Graeber wrote a piece on the power of such symbols in protest movements.

The piece is called - On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets. Here is an extract.

I also want to ask why it is that American police seem to hate the giant
puppets (at protests). As many activists have observed, the forces of
order in the United States seem to have a profound aversion to giant
puppets.

Often police strategies aim to destroy or capture them before they can
even appear on the streets. As a result, a major concern for those
planning actions soon became how to hide the puppets so they would
not be destroyed in preemptive attacks. What’s more, for many individual
officers at least, the objection to puppets appeared to be not merely
strategic, but personal, even visceral. Cops just hate puppets
.
- David Graeber

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 7d

My cat loves me, so
As I sleep he reaches out
To claw my nipple

#haiku
#betrayedephemera

Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 7d

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Just Toggle One Bit

(This Other America, Part 3) "I don't mind that that's their choice, I just don't want it shoved down my throat." * either a Conservative Christian talking about genderqueer folk, or a Liberal…

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 8d

Haiku coach is mad
"Drop and give me seventeen!"
Kick him in the eye.

#haiku
#betrayedephemera

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 10d

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 10d

Fifteen presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act.

Trump claims one president used it 28 times in the course of a single presidency.

The Insurrection Act has been used a total of 30 times over the course of its 217-year history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10d

Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 9d

Peaks float in the sky
Low clouds cover the valley
We watch from the ground

#haiku
#betrayedephemera

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

Trump's thugs aren't just abducting undocumented immigrants.

More than 170 American citizens — including children — have been detained and assaulted by ICE since he took office.

No one is safe. https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainl

www.propublica.org

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Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 15d

I'm sure I should be flattered to be the one my daughter wakes at 3 AM when she can't find her Cat Noir doll, and my son at 3:30 when he can't figure out how blankets work.

This must be what I wanted all those lonely years.

This is love: vigilance, service, absurdity, and then insomnia.

Paul @paulanomaly.bsky.social · 16d

And, while he was a stubborn, incompetent leader who discovered nothing, he was the first European to rape young girls, share them with his friends, and brag about it in the New World. Which pretty much explains Trump's admiration.

And why Columbus wound up in prison.