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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · 23m

“The right to protest is what America is about. You are not going to stop us.”

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · 9d

#Trump #escalator

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · Aug 27

“Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” - James Baldwin

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · Aug 19

#Poets: #Submissions are now #open for the next Chaos Section Poetry Project

The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · Aug 19

Submissions are open for the next Chaos Section Poetry Project!
Theme: Coping Mechanisms
Submission Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025
Publication Date: Winter 2025
#opencall #poems #poetry #submissions #chapbook #publication #collection #anthology

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Submissions

Submissions Are Open! Theme: Coping MechanismsSubmission Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025Publication Date: Winter 2025 Our first publication, Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authorita…

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 25

Without federal funding, public media — and the truth-telling, community-connecting role it plays — is at risk.

Local stations may vanish. Millions could lose trusted news and vital information. If you are ready to join the fight for journalism, donate now: n.pr/458sOhq

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · Jul 25

Submission Call: Seeking Anonymous Essays for Our Next Project - *Updated Details*
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#Essay #Collection #Submissions

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · Jul 24

Submission Call: We’re collecting real, anonymous stories for a printed book: confessions, regrets, secrets, moments you’ve never said out loud. No names. No judgment. Just your words.
#anonymous #callforsubmissions #creativewriting #essaycall #confession #nonfiction

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Submission Call: Seeking Anonymous Essays for Our Next Publication

I Probably Shouldn’t Be Telling You ThisAn Anonymous Collection of Confessions, Secrets, and Regrets From The Chaos Section PressWinter 2025 “Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the go…

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · Jul 18

Our first published collection, Record of Dissent, is now available to read online, download as a PDF, or purchase in paperback: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...

The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · Jul 13

Print edition of “Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age” is now available to purchase online at @bookpeople.com, @barnesandnoble.com, Bookstore.org & other retailers.

#resist #protestpoetry #dissent #poetrybook #antiauthoritarian

Get Your Copy: “Record of Dissent” Is Now Available in Paperback

After months of reading, curating, editing, and wrangling files into formats they did not want to be in, I’m proud to say that Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian…

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The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · Jul 2

"Hope" by Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social @booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com

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 Record of #Dissent: #Poems of #Protest in an #Authoritarian Age .
Read the full collection here free: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...

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The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · Jun 15

"Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age" is now live.

44 poems of protest, resistance, survival, and hope.

Read, download, or share for free:
thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...

#Poetry #ProtestPoetry #Dissent #AntiAuthoritarian #Trump

Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age — Summer 2025

A free digital chapbook featuring 44 poems of protest, resilience, and rising authoritarianism in the Trump era—published by The Chaos Section Poetry Project.

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · May 23

Let’s play a fun little game called “Imagine the Outrage.”

An Islamic Middle Eastern country gifts a private luxury jet to the sitting President of the United States.
Only it’s 2013, and that president’s name is Barack Hussein Obama.

Just imagine… Isn’t that fun?
#Trump #Qatar #Obama #AirForce1

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · May 18

“No innocent Trump supporter should be blindsided by weaponized sea imagery. Some of us are still in therapy from when that AP journalist called it the ‘Gulf of Mexico’—after President Trump clearly renamed it the ‘Gulf of America.’” #8647 #Satire

Federal Investigation Launched After MAGA Republicans Emotionally Wounded by Comey’s Seashell Post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland Security has opened an urgent investigation into what officials are calling “a potential threat to presidential safety” after former FBI Director …

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · May 17

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · May 16

Truly presidential stuff. Just a grown man lashing out at Bruce Springsteen’s skin because he said something mean abroad. Exactly the kind of calm, balanced leadership you'd expect from the commander of 6,000 nuclear warheads. #StableGenius #Trump #Springsteen

The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · May 16

Nothing says “strong leadership” and "selfless service" like a guy with 5 draft deferments turning the Army’s 250th birthday into a $92 million tribute to himself—because it just so happens to fall on his birthday, and he thinks tanks are cool

The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · May 15

Adam Kinzinger: proof that not all Republicans are spineless MAGA sycophants. Too bad he's not in Congress anymore—we could use more voices like his instead of a caucus full of guys with Stockholm syndrome and a longstanding aversion to integrity.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · May 14

Good morning to everyone but the most corrupt president to ever exist, who is at this moment selling out his nation to the funders of terrorism so his boy can sign another $2 billion deal. Oh and Tom Holman

The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · May 15

"If that kind of “justice” (grab now, ask never) is your thing, maybe check out some real estate in Moscow. Or Pyongyang. I hear it’s lovely this time of year."

Nick Allison @nickallison80.bsky.social · May 15

New piece up at The Political Prism on Medium. It’s about due process, executive power, fast-track deportations, constitutional shortcuts, and how “public safety” gets used as a free pass to ignore the law. #DueProcess #Constitution #Trump #Authoritarianism #ThePoliticalPrism #AbregoGarcia

Skipping Due Process in the Name of Expediency Is Just State-Sponsored Kidnapping

Treating the Constitution like an inconvenience isn’t how you protect a country — it’s how you dismantle it.

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · May 12

Anti-Authoritarian poetry project open for submissions till May 18th

The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · May 12

The Chaos Section #Poetry Project is still open—deadline is May 18.
We have some powerful pieces already, but there’s room for a few more. If you have something to say about #authoritarianism, Trump, #protest, or #resistance, we'd love to read it!
👉 thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/submissions

Submissions

We’re Open for Submissions Submission Deadline: May 18th, 2025 For our 2025 chapbook, we’re especially interested in poems about protest, resistance, survival, collapse, burnout, grief, memory…

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · May 11

Donald Trump says he’s “not joking” about a third term. Maybe he’s trolling. Maybe not. But history has a habit of punishing nations that wait too long to take threats seriously.
#trumpthirdterm #2028elections #authoritarianism
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Trump’s Third-Term Talk Is a Warning We Shouldn’t Ignore

After nearly a decade of Donald Trump dominating America’s frontal lobe, most of us have developed the survival skill of rolling our eyes and moving on. Ten years of Trump noise will do that to a b…

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · May 7

"It is not power that corrupts but fear." 

- Aung San Suu Kyi , Burmese pro-democracy leader and political prisoner

#Authoritarianism #Freedom

(Photograph via Getty Images, used under fair use for commentary)

The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · May 2

Donald Trump says he’s “not joking” about a third term. Maybe he’s trolling. Maybe not. But history has a habit of punishing nations that wait too long to take threats seriously.
#trumpthirdterm #2028elections #authoritarianism
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Trump’s Third-Term Talk Is a Warning We Shouldn’t Ignore

Trump says he’s “not joking” about staying past 2029. History says we shouldn’t laugh it off. Here’s why complacency is the real danger.

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The Chaos Section Poetry Project @chaossectionpoetry.bsky.social · May 1

The mirror holds,
but the room hums with pressure.
We call it peace—
this hush
before glass remembers how to shatter.
To name a danger distant
is to risk believing it can’t arrive.

#Poems of #Dissent Submit here: thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/submissions/

Russia sentences 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after poetic anti-war protest | CNN

A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, including by gluing a quotation on ...

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · Apr 27

Less than 100 days into his second term, Trump’s approval is underwater — even in a Fox News poll.
Maybe authoritarian vibes and economic freefall aren’t exactly a winning combo after all?
#Trump #AuthoritarianWatch

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · Apr 26

The real danger isn’t that Trump wants a third term.
It’s that enough people might shrug and say, “Why not?”
Norms break first. Laws follow. What "could never happen here" already has in other places.
#Trump #ThirdTerm #AuthoritarianWatch

NBC News @nbcnews.com · Apr 26

President Trump can’t be elected again in 2028 under the constitutional amendment limiting presidents to two terms. Any number of Trump’s Republican allies will tell you that a third term is inconceivable.

Yet Trump continues to flirt with the prospect.

Trump's third-term talk freezes the potential 2028 Republican field

The more Trump delays, the more he commands attention and averts the perception that he’s a lame duck.

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The Chaos Section @tcspress.bsky.social · Apr 26

When the law serves power, not justice,
and silence feels safer than truth,
we're not in a democracy—we're in denial.
#Authoritarianism #Resist

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