Matthew Murrey
@mytwords.bsky.social
Poet (LITTLE JOY - Cornerstone Press, 2026 and BULLETPROOF - Jacar Press, 2019), retired school librarian, and Midwest transplant from Florida long, long ago. he/him/his More at https://www.matthewmurrey.net/ #poetsonbluesky
Growing up poor in the '90s means having a justifiably incandescent hatred for the Clintons.
Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 4d agoFun fact: During the Clinton administration, welfare recipients had to file paperwork proving they applied for a certain amount of new jobs every month. Know what happened if you lived in a village with few job openings and no way to travel? Your kids suffered malnutrition. Ask me how I know.
Tip of the day: NEVER let Sam Ezersky take you through an old war zone! www.army.mil/article/8370... #spellingbee #spellingbeeiswhack
"Lynch’s presence at the Capitol that fateful day has not been publicly reported until now, more than five years later ... Lynch remained at DOJ and, under the second Trump administration, received a big promotion: He’s now running a national task force to prosecute left-wing political violence."
EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched With Crowd on Jan. 6
On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like...
talkingpointsmemo.com
A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:
@nytimes.com “like a knife to the back,” one expert said. An apt description of his so-called service to the country.
"While the Chicago area has seen intense downpours of 8 or more inches of rain over short periods of time in recent years in part due to climate change, the steady rainfall in recent months has created a cumulative effect."
Chicago's Deep Tunnel anti-flooding system nearly full after days of heavy rain
The massive system of tunnels and reservoirs was built to contain Chicago’s flood water, protect area rivers and Lake Michigan. Now, there's a risk that suburbs will flood and sewers will overflow int...
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The West must to act to save Dr Hussam Abu Safiya from being killed by Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-west-must-act-save-hussam-abu-safiya-risk-killed-captivity
The West must to act to save Dr Hussam Abu Safiya from being killed by Israel
Dr Abu Safiya must be immediately released. So too should all Palestinian detainees, including the 82 other healthcare workers still in Israeli prisons
middleeasteye.net
Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...
A signature @npr.org move: tech oligarchs have captured power & impose their racist, greedy & dystopian rule on us, so NPR gives 7 mins air time to a pop-fiction, bestselling author who basically blames you and I for ills of big data/AI. www.npr.org/2026/07/05/n... (He also both-sides polarization)
Gregg Hurwitz discusses his new thriller 'The Delivery'
A family gains a humanoid personal assistant who knows too much and not enough. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Gregg Hurtwitz about his new thriller "The Delivery."
npr.org
aje.news/b1uu74 I have NEVER understood the horror of inflicting pain, suffering and death on defenseless prisoners. If you can't bear to watch this you can also read B’Tselem harrowing report "Living Hell" which I link in the 2nd part of this post.
Into the Darkness
Fault Lines investigates allegations of systematic torture of Palestinian prisoners and detainees in Israeli custody.
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Hard not to see images of destruction from the Venezuela earthquake and think of Israel's intentional destruction of civilian life and infrastructure in Gaza and Lebanon 😢. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Latest losses in the "war on empathy" - theconversation.com/magas-war-on... - are two 6-3 #SCOTUS defeats. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/supreme...
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Strip TPS, Turn Away Asylum Seekers Arriving at the Border in Pair of New Immigration Rulings - American Immigration Council
The Supreme Court issued two seismic immigration law decisions, ruling 6-3 in the Trump administration’s favor in a TPS and an asylum case.
americanimmigrationcouncil.org
"'The sentences handed down today make clear that Antifa terrorists who attack law enforcement and federal facilities will face swift and uncompromising justice,' Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said" [commenting on the Hans and Sophie Scholl case]. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison
Activists accused of being part of antifa get long prison terms in case seen as test of Trump’s crackdown on dissent
theguardian.com
If the @democrats.org were an actual opposition party, its leaders would AT LEAST publicly denounce this case & commit to: 1-Post-midterm investigations of the judges/prosecutors 2-Demanding pardons / commutation 3-Overturning every "terrorism" law used against these people. @kenmartin.bsky.social
The Intercept@theintercept.com · last mo.Daniel Sanchez Estrada wasn’t accused of attempted murder or material support of terrorism after a protest turned catastrophically wrong outside an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. He was convicted of obstructing the investigation by moving a box full of antifascist zines after the protest.
This poem of mine came out yesterday in Under a Warm Green Linden. www.greenlindenpress.com/issue20-murrey
A good time to post this friendly reminder. jacobin.com/2023/03/geor...
In Case You Forgot: George W. Bush Is a Horrific War Criminal
Liberals today are trying to rehabilitate the image of George W. Bush. Don’t let them — his monstrous invasion of Iraq, based on lies, led to mass death in Iraq and untold damage to democracy in the U...
jacobin.com
We don't usually see each other's headers. Here's mine. Quote-skeet with yours (if you feel like it)
Second Great Bisexual Awakening@suesswassersee.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe don't usually see each other's headers. Here's mine. Quote-skeet with yours (if you feel like it)
The Special Relativity of HADtime Usual drill: "Hmmm, it's been 6 months since I submitted to that magazine, I'd better check and see what their usual response time is." But with @havehashad.com it's like, "OMG, it's been 4 DAYS! I hope the editor is okay..."
If the side that got invaded on D-Day could have sent a speaker to the ceremony, they couldn't have done better than Whiskey Pete. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Pete Hegseth’s D-day speech on immigration condemned as ‘grotesque stupidity’
Historians and campaigners accuse US defence secretary of desecrating memory of soldiers who fell in Normandy
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Not one single word about the thousands of civilian deaths in Iran, that it is a war of aggression, that it further destroys international law, and that the US launched this war in partnership with a rogue, genocidal state. jeffries.house.gov/2026/06/03/j...
JOINT LEADERSHIP STATEMENT ON SUCCESSFUL WAR POWERS RESOLUTION VOTE – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries
jeffries.house.gov
Tell me you have no interest in unsolicited poetry submissions without telling me you have no interest in unsolicited poetry submissions. October 24, 2023 - May 14, 2026 = 933 days = 2 years, 6 months and 20 days @newyorker.com #poetry #submission #pobiz
I got to be at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social in Chicago yesterday for a screening of @stealthisstory.bsky.social and met Amy Goodman and the filmmakers - Carl Deal and Tia Lessin. GO SEE "Steal This Story, Please" if you get the chance and - if you can afford to - support Democracy Now!
No excuse for this, Sam Ezersky, especially given the rampant Islamophobia in the US. www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m... #nytspellingbee #spellingbee #bias
