Gregory Crosby
@monostich.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
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this poor little fellow
that there is even one parent in this country who finds this acceptable is a severe indictment of the entire country
that there is even one parent in this country who finds this acceptable is a severe indictment of the entire country
They kidnapped a five year old child
Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
January 22, 2026 at 3:26 AM
this poor little fellow
that there is even one parent in this country who finds this acceptable is a severe indictment of the entire country
that there is even one parent in this country who finds this acceptable is a severe indictment of the entire country
And so to bed.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - City of Refuge (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
youtu.be
January 22, 2026 at 3:25 AM
And so to bed.
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Al Ahmadi oil field, Kuwait — Steve McCurry, 1991
January 22, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Al Ahmadi oil field, Kuwait — Steve McCurry, 1991
Baron Von Raschke. If ever we needed someone to administer The Claw…
January 22, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Baron Von Raschke. If ever we needed someone to administer The Claw…
And are we not men?
are they not monsters?
January 22, 2026 at 1:50 AM
And are we not men?
So bored with dread; slightly less bored with hope.
January 22, 2026 at 1:50 AM
So bored with dread; slightly less bored with hope.
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Cowboy Junkies
Rilo Kiley
The Pretenders
The Breeders
X
Rilo Kiley
The Pretenders
The Breeders
X
Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers:
The Donnas
The Aquanettas
Weenie Roast
Chaka Khan
The Felines
The Donnas
The Aquanettas
Weenie Roast
Chaka Khan
The Felines
Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers:
The Donnas
Ex-Bats
Babes in Toyland
The Okmoniks
Itchy and the Nits
The Donnas
Ex-Bats
Babes in Toyland
The Okmoniks
Itchy and the Nits
January 22, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Cowboy Junkies
Rilo Kiley
The Pretenders
The Breeders
X
Rilo Kiley
The Pretenders
The Breeders
X
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make time now; tell your elected officials to refuse any version of the Homeland Security Appropriations bill that supports ICE. denounce, defund, disarm today.
January 21, 2026 at 11:17 PM
make time now; tell your elected officials to refuse any version of the Homeland Security Appropriations bill that supports ICE. denounce, defund, disarm today.
Spending a couple of hours at MoMA followed by a movie is ten thousand times better than five minutes online.
January 21, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Spending a couple of hours at MoMA followed by a movie is ten thousand times better than five minutes online.
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If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power
To quote one source:
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect
While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.
prospect.org
January 21, 2026 at 8:46 PM
If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power
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I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.
“There will be more than enough jobs for the citizens of your nation, esp. those with vocational training,” said Karp. “I do think these trends really do make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration unless you have a very specialized skill.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Palantir CEO Says AI to Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete
Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration, according to Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp.
www.bloomberg.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:08 PM
I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.
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Here's a thread of poems that come up when I Duck Duck Go myself, because why not. Let's kick things off with "The Hardest Working Lazy Apartment Poem": hyperallergic.com/one-poem-by-...
One Poem by Gregory Crosby
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected one poem by Gregory Crosby for his monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
hyperallergic.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Here's a thread of poems that come up when I Duck Duck Go myself, because why not. Let's kick things off with "The Hardest Working Lazy Apartment Poem": hyperallergic.com/one-poem-by-...
Yes. It’s the Internet, stupid. But how, short of a massive solar flare, to turn back…
When a country elects a man who cannot distinguish between what he sees on television versus reality because *his voters* believe he is the character he once played on television, it really becomes imperative to recreate a literate culture from scratch.
January 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Yes. It’s the Internet, stupid. But how, short of a massive solar flare, to turn back…
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Cuba, 1962 by Ai
"I raise the machete —
what I take from the earth, I give back —
and cut off her feet."
"I raise the machete —
what I take from the earth, I give back —
and cut off her feet."
January 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Cuba, 1962 by Ai
"I raise the machete —
what I take from the earth, I give back —
and cut off her feet."
"I raise the machete —
what I take from the earth, I give back —
and cut off her feet."
Okay, enough depressing, third-rate Ubu Roi. Time to go look at some art.
January 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Okay, enough depressing, third-rate Ubu Roi. Time to go look at some art.
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Unless they are stopped, all the worst things that Trump and the Republican Party are going to do are in the future, not the past.
This makes stopping them the highest priority for the future of human life on the planet.
This makes stopping them the highest priority for the future of human life on the planet.
January 21, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Unless they are stopped, all the worst things that Trump and the Republican Party are going to do are in the future, not the past.
This makes stopping them the highest priority for the future of human life on the planet.
This makes stopping them the highest priority for the future of human life on the planet.
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I love my profession deeply, but some of them are not covering themselves in glory these days. If a mob boss draws a sharp blade languidly across your palm and says it would be a real shame for you to lose your pinky, your headline isn't "Godfather rules out hacking off finger to settle debt."
Right on cue, here are the push alerts from the 3 major newspapers lmao
January 21, 2026 at 2:54 PM
I love my profession deeply, but some of them are not covering themselves in glory these days. If a mob boss draws a sharp blade languidly across your palm and says it would be a real shame for you to lose your pinky, your headline isn't "Godfather rules out hacking off finger to settle debt."
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Remarkable. Lucid. Needed.
@mark-carney.bsky.social names the moment, leans heavily on the wisdom of Thucydides and Havel. The American Century firmly is over.
youtu.be/dTvFnC-oFGw?...
@mark-carney.bsky.social names the moment, leans heavily on the wisdom of Thucydides and Havel. The American Century firmly is over.
youtu.be/dTvFnC-oFGw?...
FULL SPEECH: Canada’s PM Carney Says US-Led World Order Is Breaking at World Economic Forum | AC1G
YouTube video by DRM News
youtu.be
January 21, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Remarkable. Lucid. Needed.
@mark-carney.bsky.social names the moment, leans heavily on the wisdom of Thucydides and Havel. The American Century firmly is over.
youtu.be/dTvFnC-oFGw?...
@mark-carney.bsky.social names the moment, leans heavily on the wisdom of Thucydides and Havel. The American Century firmly is over.
youtu.be/dTvFnC-oFGw?...
Alas, he’s the greatest Useful Idiot in the history of useful idiots. To paraphrase Beckett: I understand why it happened; I’ll never understand why it happened.
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
January 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Alas, he’s the greatest Useful Idiot in the history of useful idiots. To paraphrase Beckett: I understand why it happened; I’ll never understand why it happened.
The Heavy Lids
Flammable Pajamas
Your Mother’s Vibrator
Apathy MCs
Count Nightshade & The Astral Naughts
Flammable Pajamas
Your Mother’s Vibrator
Apathy MCs
Count Nightshade & The Astral Naughts
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
Soul Coughing
Pulp
D'Angelo
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Andrew Bird
Soul Coughing
Pulp
D'Angelo
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Andrew Bird
January 21, 2026 at 2:41 PM
The Heavy Lids
Flammable Pajamas
Your Mother’s Vibrator
Apathy MCs
Count Nightshade & The Astral Naughts
Flammable Pajamas
Your Mother’s Vibrator
Apathy MCs
Count Nightshade & The Astral Naughts
“I had not thought death had undone so many.”
January 21, 2026 at 2:03 PM
“I had not thought death had undone so many.”
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Apologies for any false raised hopes
January 21, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Apologies for any false raised hopes
And so to bed.
In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)
YouTube video by David Lynch - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:15 AM
And so to bed.
Here's a thread of poems that come up when I Duck Duck Go myself, because why not. Let's kick things off with "The Hardest Working Lazy Apartment Poem": hyperallergic.com/one-poem-by-...
One Poem by Gregory Crosby
Our poetry editor, Joe Pan, has selected one poem by Gregory Crosby for his monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
hyperallergic.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Here's a thread of poems that come up when I Duck Duck Go myself, because why not. Let's kick things off with "The Hardest Working Lazy Apartment Poem": hyperallergic.com/one-poem-by-...