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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 2h

A classic cartoon STILL illustrates the main issue here . . .

Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 5d

The number of people murdered in the War on Terror, cited above, is from The Watson School of International Affairs at Brown University.

Civilians Killed & Displaced

People in war zones are killed in their homes, in markets, and on roadways, by bombs, bullets, fire, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and drones.

costsofwar.watson.brown.edu

Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 5d

One of the most disorienting dimensions of the Trump era is the prominence that violators of human rights have suddenly gained as defenders of human rights. This is especially true of officials in the Bush II administration, which waged a War on Terror that killed 433,000 civilians.

The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 5d

Pity the nation where John Yoo, author of the George W. Bush era "torture memos," is a voice of reason. Even someone with Yoo’s rotted moral compass can see that Trump was wrong to launch a strike on a Venezuelan ship.

Democrats Must Oppose Trump’s War on Venezuela

Trump’s attacks on alleged drug boats are illegal acts of murder. But too many Democrats are shying away from calling the president out.

www.thenation.com

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 5d

For a stubborn magazine that refuses to enter the digital world, I profiled a stubborn #GOP Governor who refuses to enter Trump's world. Marc Racicot—friend of G.W. Bush & former #RNC chair—contends there's no connection between our past and present troubles. But #history, too, is rather stubborn.

Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 6d

My interview with Michael Workman about his documentary on the #Gaza Solidarity Encampment is up at @theprogressivemag.bsky.social.

Also, a quick reminder: 61% of all Americans and 77% of Democratic voters now support halting U.S. military funding to Israel. - August 2025 Quinnipiac University.

The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 8d

Michael T. Workman, director of ‘The Encampments,’ speaks about the Columbia encampment, its historical connections, and the power of truth-telling.
progressive.org/latest/docum...

Documenting the Power of the Pro-Palestine Student Movement

Michael T. Workman, director of ‘The Encampments,’ speaks about the Columbia encampment, its historical connections, and the power of truth-telling.

progressive.org

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 7d

Things have escalated, considerably, since @nickbowlin.bsky.social wrote about the paucity of affordable housing in MT's wealthiest city for @highcountrynews.org

Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 8d

I interviewed Michael Workman, Director of "The Encampments" @theprogressivemag.bsky.social. "Change happens when people put themselves in the crosshairs of the state," he told me, "which is what these students did [and] what the Civil Rights Movement did." #palestine #freepalestine bit.ly/42i7jsV

Documenting the Power of the Pro-Palestine Student Movement

Michael T. Workman, director of ‘The Encampments,’ speaks about the Columbia encampment, its historical connections, and the power of truth-telling.

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 9d

Lifting up this story—one of several I wrote for @yesmedia.bsky.social—about a MT mom who teamed up w/ @rescue.org after seeing Nilüfer Demir's photo of Alan Kurdi's body on her phone. Responsible media helps us see & respond w/ empathy. Goodbye & TY to the YES! team. bit.ly/2tqbd19 @truthout.org

The Montana Moms Who Decided Refugees Will Be Welcome in Their City - YES! Magazine Solutions Journalism

Discover insightful articles on The Montana Moms Who Decided Refugees Will Be Welcome in Their City. Join us in exploring solutions for a just, sustainable, and compassionate world. #The Montana Moms ...

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 11d

Okay, everyone. It's time to do this and only this because this is who we are. @emergencemagazine.bsky.social #nature

Breathing with the Forest – by Marshmallow Laser Feast

An immersive experience of shared breath with the Amazon rainforest.

emergencemagazine.org

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 13d

A few (rare) moments of pure comedy from the #UnitedNations general assembly. Even funnier because when I try to imagine the videographer, he appears as John Cleese silly walking escalator stairs three at a time. TY Farnaz Fassihi & @nytimes.com

Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 14d

"Because here in Gaza, sometimes the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end."

The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Israel has issued new evacuation orders for the entire population of Gaza City to leave, in preparation for its full-scale ground occupation of the city by October 7, 2025. But for many, leaving is no longer a choice.

#Gaza #evacuation #iSrael #Palestine

progressive.org/latest/nowhe...

Nowhere to Run: I Am Choosing Death at Home Over Forced Evacuation

When ‘the only choice left is not where to go—but how to face the end.’

progressive.org

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 14d

. . . how to listen to wailing . . .

Nothing Survives Without Food

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 20d

"As we take a stand to unequivocally condemn political violence—including Kirk’s killing—we must also recognize that the rhetoric which Kirk and the MAGA movement have championed and profited from has exacerbated the violence woven into the fabric of American society."

The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · 21d

Kirk’s death was reprehensible, but to glorify him as a martyr for free speech and lionize his politics is contradictory and harmful.
#CharlieKirk #farright #GunViolence

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Confronting Charlie Kirk’s Legacy

Kirk’s death was reprehensible, but to glorify him as a martyr for free speech and lionize his politics is contradictory and harmful.

progressive.org

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 20d

Congratulations Emelie! And TY @blacklawrence.bsky.social for working so hard to give small collections a larger life. @booksky.club

Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social · 20d

Please join us in celebrating the Spring 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition winner, Emelie Griffin! She won this year's prize with her chapbook, California Pompeii. Read a selection from the collection and learn more about Emelie at the link below.

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 20d

How do you know you're #reading (and #writing for) a principled publication? When the #VicePresident calls it out by name. For 160 years, @thenation.com has defended
free speech for heads of state & for everyone else. Subscribe now: bit.ly/4moTZtL And TY @politico.com for telling the story.

Vance, White House promise to ‘go after’ left-leaning organizations

The vice president suggested targeting the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations, the nonprofit run by George Soros.

www.politico.com

Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 21d

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the National Endowment for the #Arts + #Humanities, founded to sustain "freedom of thought, imagination, and inquiry". The operative word here is #freedom. To think. To ask. To disagree. In social democracy, an asset. In competitive autocracy, a threat.

Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you @yalereview.bsky.social for providing revelatory analysis of the social system rather than redundant criticism of the individual operator. bit.ly/4nxrATk

Rana Dasgupta: Trump Is Only a Symptom of a Deeper Problem

This analysis of the changing American nation-state argues that Trump's presidency is a distraction from bigger problems.

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · 29d

Very grateful to @blacklawrence.bsky.social for listing my small #poetry collection "Around the Country a Chasm" among nine other finalists for the 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition.

Spring 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition Finalists & Semifinalists! - Black Lawrence Press | Black Lawrence Press

Today’s the day: here are the semifinalists and finalists of the Spring 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition! We’ve narrowed it down to 10 finalists and 11 semifinalists, which was not easy! We recei...

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · Aug 26

"They are unleashed. 'Go.' A single syllable that tears them open like wolves. Five hundred boxes. Ten thousand men. And they fight. Not out of cruelty, but because hunger is older than kindness."

Please read & share Shehab's poem on the genocide in Gaza with an intro by ‪@carolynforche.bsky.social

And Hunger Was Given Dominion over Us, by Ezzideen Shehab

Ezzideen Shehab wrote the following poem based on his work as a doctor in the Alrahma Medical Center in Jabalia, Gaza.

worldliteraturetoday.org

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Carolyn Forché @carolynforche.bsky.social · Aug 15

Please take some time to read this poem, written by a doctor working in Gaza.

And Hunger Was Given Dominion over Us, by Ezzideen Shehab

Ezzideen Shehab wrote the following poem based on his work as a doctor in the Alrahma Medical Center in Jabalia, Gaza.

worldliteraturetoday.org

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · Aug 4

Whether reasonable or not, most #commentary amounts to #complaint. Elsewhere, JoAnn Wypijewski reminds us why the word 'incisive' can be used to describe what happens on a butcher block and on a blank page. For the @thenation.com on how "Empire disfigures every American . . ."

How Jeffrey Goldberg and “The Atlantic” Blew “the Biggest Story of the Year”

Given advance warning of an impending war crime, the former cheerleader for the Iraq war decided his priority was to protect his scoop.

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Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · Jul 25

Elevating these words from @medicalaidpal.bsky.social's Gaza Medical Coordinator with hope that others will share & donate. The Israeli military now routinely murders people standing in line for flour, forcing even children to chose not between life or death but between starvation or massacre.

Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · Jul 21

The new Chief Justice of Montana's nonpartisan Supreme Court taking time away from the third branch to applaud Trump's bombing of a "bad neighborhood".

Gabriel Furshong @gabriel-furshong.bsky.social · Jul 15

Deeply heartened to be part of @thenation.com's 160th anniversary issue - a compendium of 50 writers reporting from 50 states - and deeply disheartened by the wreckage documented there. I keep thinking if we do not turn away then we will still lose many things but never the truth. #mtnews #mtpol

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Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · Jul 14

never not wild to see our government sharing overtly white nationalist propaganda. stuff that was on Stormfront and The Daily Stormer a decade ago.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 14

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

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