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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 3d

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us. But we keep moving.”

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The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 4d

Plugging this great book for the second time in as many years. Among other things, a healthy reminder that creating "new and different forms of social reality" is both possible and more important now than ever. #booksky @davidwengrow.bsky.social @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social

Book cover, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 11d

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

“The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability. When we give in, we join the sales force.”

Worth reading… twice.

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 12d

Every man like Ezra Klein who say we need pro-life Democrats should be forced to push a watermelon out of his urethra

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Truthout @truthout.org · 12d

With the mainstream media distracted by the made-for-TV drama of James Comey’s indictment, Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as indicators of radical left violence.

National Security Directive Declares War on Those Who Don’t Support Trump Agenda

The directive labels common beliefs such as “anti-capitalist” opinions as terrorism “indicators.”…

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 14d

I put the word “thereabouts” through an anagram generator, used the results to write a few poems. The first nine here @rangermagazine.bsky.social with much thanks (!) to @davidabishop.bsky.social

#Ranger Magazine @rangermagazine.bsky.social · 16d

#Ranger Mag just dropped yet *another* double issue (#12 and #13)! As usual, it's jam packed with the best experimental #poetry, #art and #music of the international avant garde. Check it out!
rangermagazine.net/issue12
rangermagazine.net/issue13

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 22d

Colbert and Kimmel "canned by groveling corporations seeking merger-favors from the administration, but there will never really be enough silence and obedience and flattery for the insatiable ego of the misery-in-chief." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-the-party... @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

On the Party of Narcissistic Inequality

Something that's true of all the narcissists I've known and witnessed is that they're unhappy and they can't recognize that this is an entrenched condition. They think it's due to something someone ju...

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 22d

With gratitude to the editors at Water~Stone Review. Always a joy to think and write about what it means to write something.
#nonfiction #essay

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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors—Bill Marsh | Water~Stone Review

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Jason Normann @jason-n.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Another awesome episode of We’re Still Here with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social @juliefrancella.com & @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social
So sad 😞 about losing a special soul, Graham Greene.

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General Strike US @generalstrikeus.bsky.social · 27d

No comment, beyond the fact that in 2022 an avg. of 7 children a DAY died from gun violence in the USA.

No comment, except that gun violence disproportionately impacts children of color.

No comment, but gun deaths are the leading cause of death in children, ahead of car crashes and cancer.

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Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him) @mtmiller.bsky.social · 28d

Such a great summary of the current moment in higher education and what needs to be done to defend it and create a better future for it too!

Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · Sep 6

Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...

Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan

Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it.

www.thedigradio.com

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foreveryoung1969.bsky.social @foreveryoung1969.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Soft Secession: How States Are Joining Together to Escape Trump’s Grip
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#Bluecrew #50501 #indivisible #trending
#nokings #bettertogether#votebluemeidasmighty #voteblue#bettertogether

The Soft Secession: How States Are Joining Together to Escape Trump’s Grip

Facing federal paralysis and partisan weaponization, blue states are forming powerful alliances. From public health to climate, they are building their own future outside Washington’s reach.

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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · Sep 6

Trump is waging war on higher ed to advance his project to construct a fascist authoritarian regime. Campus workers are uniquely positioned to articulate an alternative vision and wage a united struggle to win it. New Dig w @higheredlabor.bsky.social’s Ian Gavigan www.thedigradio.com/podcast/clas...

Class Struggle for the University w/ Ian Gavigan

Featuring Ian Gavigan on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher education laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it.

www.thedigradio.com

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50501 Chicago @50501chicago.bsky.social · Aug 27

Don't forget the Labor Day action hosted by the CFL with a ton of collaborating organizations. We're looking forward to putting workers over billionaires at the Haymarket Memorial in downtown Chicago.

See you there!

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Table your disputes and connect with people who are providing direct support to targeted groups in your communities ... How can you help? There’s no need to start from scratch. Find already-organized people and figure out how to contribute to or expand upon their efforts."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Aug 24

"If you live in a city Trump has announced plans to target ... we have weeks—a month at best—to figure out how to act in concert and resist the militarized fascist onslaught. Even then, we will be late and lacking, but we dare not yield this round of the fight."

Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Limping in the Dark

"Let’s sing songs and tend each other’s wounds."

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · Aug 25

10/ For opponents, the fight in D.C. is not just about one city — it’s about resisting a broader authoritarian model being tested nationwide.

An Authoritarian Dress Rehearsal

The spectacle of Trump’s Washington takeover may be fascist pageantry, but it’s also something more.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

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Charles E Henderson @cafetacbva.bsky.social · Aug 21

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

I got to give it to South Park. While many are scared of the Trump Administration in the news industry, South Park has come right at them! With a counter punch.

Satire at its finest: South Park takes on Trump’s martial takeover, AI and tech bros

No show has ever worked harder to have its finger on the nation’s pulse than Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s long-running comedy – and it really shows

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Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social · Aug 21

"I would need help to enter, hesitatingly, into my mother’s sick body, to bite into her cancer, twist it every which way..."

From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman. Art by Patty Paine.

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From “Menthol” by Jennifer Bélanger, translated from the French (Québec) by Sophie Grace Lellman

I would need help to enter, hesitatingly, into my mother’s sick body, to bite into her cancer, twist it every which way, let it melt on my tongue like a communion wafer, pierce it with my teeth and…

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · Aug 21

This just in, our summer book sale works on preorders!

Treat yourself to books by @carolinehagood.bsky.social, Lisa K. Friedman, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social, @laurencjohnson.bsky.social, and @wendyjfox.bsky.social, and get 30% off your total purchase when you shop directly from SFWP! buff.ly/S3Jxn7N

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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · Aug 15

Release the Epstein files. #FreeDC

Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · Jul 29

Same here. These kinds of grounded policy successes often get overlooked but are so important.

Muz @muz.blacksky.app · Jul 29

This is one of the specific reasons that I voted for him, so this makes me very happy 🥹

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · Jul 29

NEW — City data shows 30,124 youth have been hired for summer jobs in Chicago this summer; the mayor credits the TIF surplus for the extra funds.

Johnson shared the news in a one-on-one interview with The TRiiBE ahead of his weekly media availability at City Hall.

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Joshua Martin @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social · Jul 20

My chapbook, punctuated avalanche, is now available from
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · Jul 17

More #project2025 union busting, as noted in the article.

Truthout @truthout.org · Jul 17

Republicans have introduced legislation that would revoke the federal charter of the National Education Association, the largest teachers union in the United States and an organization that has mobilized against the Trump administration’s far-right agenda, including efforts to dismantle the DoE.

Republicans Introduce Bill to Revoke the Charter of Largest US Teachers Union

They cited the union’s pledge to “defend democracy against Trump’s embrace of fascism” and cutting ties with the ADL.

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graveyard dirt @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · Jul 6

(my) PRO-BLVKC DLEARYUM

#wakinguponsomeshit

(my) PRO-BLVKC DLEARYUM

Dear Sir &/or Mad’m:
the mmoon with its grubbby fingers in my mind
“release me, unmoor me from chalkboard”
tethered t’gethered in denuded mude
lykesum unmuted muse sprawled & floord

…but eyme knotta bout that strife

or this traind restraynement…………………………….
……………………………………….

(tfw?);

hymnes uv the counterion
myyy refrainmints unravelld

dissent-angled—dmeant it.

a nova subpar be yond dpale

sigh-nnd & ceiled

— Obsidian,
your otherin’ crisis.

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