Thrilled to announce that today is publication day for *Athlete and Activist: 28 Sports Stars Who Changed the Game*, a book I co-wrote with Alex C. Davis & @amirarose.bsky.social, featuring the🔥artwork of Martin French. Published by @illinoispress.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

Yeah, it's the midterms. Vote against Trump. PS Vote early.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Pretend I’m on the ballot,” Trump says. He is, along with: An illegal war, high gas prices, ICE’s street murders, measles, crypto scams, explosive diarrhea after food safety cutbacks, concentration camps and pardons for cop beaters. When you vote for Republicans, you’re voting for all of that.

We’re very pleased to bring you Issue 3 of The Visual Poetry Times! So many great contributors including Lemn Sissay, @chrissywilliams.bsky.social, @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social, @leiabutler.bsky.social, @gregchthomas.bsky.social & @alecfinlay.bsky.social! Order your copy via www.thepoetrykiosk.com 🗞️📨

Groceries, housing and utilities topped both groups’ priorities in the Class Gaps Poll. Among working-class respondents, 10 of the top 12 priorities concerned costs, wages or jobs. Mindy Isser looks at what the findings mean for progressive politics.

If You Want to Win Working-Class Votes, Run On Working-Class Issues

A new report lays out how to bridge the educational divide to bring non-college voters into the progressive fold.

inthesetimes.com

The incredible 'Game' by @bcmearc.bsky.social 👏 www.fullhouseliterary.com/art/game-by-...

Super happy to have this piece in the Featured Creators section at Full House (@fullhouselitmag.bsky.social). Many thanks to @leiabutler.bsky.social for her amazing editorial work -- and what a great issue cover! www.fullhouseliterary.com/art/game-by-...

Game by Bill Marsh — Full House Literary

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So grateful to be among those featured in this year’s VisPo gallery. Thank you @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social for your support and encouragement. #poetry #vispo #poetrycommunity sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/co...

Sweet little comic about being a trans dad (gift link)

Opinion | To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated

nytimes.com

Super excited to have a stretch of "the r/ver" in the latest issue of Word For/Word, edited by Jonathan Minton. Also featuring great work by Jim Andrews, Alison Strub, Carolyn Guinzio, and many others. Check it out and for/word the word! #poetry #vispo #erasure www.wordforword.info/vol46/

Local movements to rid city streets of AI-powered surveillance cameras used by law enforcement are growing rapidly amid scandals, mounting privacy concerns, and public backlash to mass surveillance under the authoritarian Trump administration.

Resistance to Flock Cameras and Police Surveillance Is Exploding

Backlash to Flock cameras and AI systems is exploding after scandals, including police using the tech to stalk women.

truthout.org

“…we are a global society in a state of dissolution, and out of this messy fluidity new things both monstrous and magical are emerging.” Another must read from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-are-crash...

We Are Crashing Into the Future (Or It Is Crashing Into Us)

The Autumn of the Patriarchs  One common and inaccurate picture of change assumes this thing so obvious, so potent in the present, will just continue to expand and the future will be like the present...

meditationsinanemergency.com

“When I’m doing my stump speech and tell people that on the first day of this campaign, I made a promise not to support Chuck Schumer for leader, the room — without any explanation — just spontaneously bursts into applause,” Iowa candidate for U.S. Senate Zach Wahls recently said.

May Day wisdom nuggets.

“There is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class.” For May Day 2026, Will Bloom, co-chair of Chicago DSA’s Labor Branch reports that more than 140 DSA chapters are planning rallies, political education, strike fund fundraisers, and more. inthesetimes.com/article/demo...

Why Democratic Socialists Are Taking to the Streets This May Day

The legacy of May Day is a fight for working-class power against the ravages of capitalism. Democratic Socialists of America is organizing to keep that proud tradition alive in 2026.

inthesetimes.com

May 1st! No work, No school, No spending. Time to hit their wallets! Credits: @chainsl4yer9000

Wednesday, April 22 - Chicago May Day Rally & March 5/1 / Oppose Kevin Warsh / General Strike Planning 4/27

Wednesday, April 22 - Chicago May Day Rally & March 5/1 / Oppose Kevin Warsh / General Strike Planning 4/27 — Indivisible Chicago Alliance

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Polish artists Przemek Podolski and Marta Basandowskaby create complex geometric designs based on 3D computer models using yarn #Womensart

“False certainty is dangerous; it rules out all possibilities but one and in essence surrenders to that imagined future.”

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.

What I am feeling today, btw, is what I wrote here.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My latest. "The only place I know how to begin is here: We are at war, and I want it to stop."

To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.

A successful general strike requires trauma-informed mutual aid

To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.

wagingnonviolence.org

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case

Great work from @stevecarll.bsky.social

Unlikely Stories@unlikely-stories.bsky.social · 9mo ago

At the intersection of photography and the languages that aren’t, we present nine Asemic Realizations by Steve Carll! Thanks to Leona Strassberg Steiner for putting this exhibit together! It’s at www.unlikelystories.org/content/nine... #asemic #visualart #photography #smallpress #litmag

Happy and grateful to have this piece from my vispo/comic "Operation Bird Heads" in the latest issue of @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social, edited by Shloka Shankar of Yavanika Press. Check out the complete lineup: sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...

Message to ICE: "Your time is running out. Save your soul and quit your job."

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 9mo ago

ICE does not need more training. They’re doing exactly what they’re trained to do. Democrats cannot vote for a single cent to ICE.

"In its new quest for hemispheric dominance, the Trump administration has reached back to the Monroe Doctrine in its most belligerent version—a warrant for the complete repudiation of international law, in a world with no allies or equals, only vassals & foes." @alfatau.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com

Empire of Extortion

The abduction of Venezuela’s president and the plunder of its oil signal a new and dangerous phase in U.S. foreign policy.

inthesetimes.com

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.