Apropos of nothing, sharing this little except from Prince’s memoir, “The Beauiful Ones”: “…they keep trying to ram […] Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it.”
![about competition, how can we outsell. Monkeys and primates could sell music. With Clear Channel [a radio and media conglomerate, since rebranded as iHeart-Media] it becomes like Soylent Green-people feeding people to people. We need to tell them that they keep trying to ram Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sg2e2kqdsdp2q2zl44txadbp/bafkreifnmylapgbvn5olynbyhre245lz43ewrxnwubup74i7pnezqkxmbm)
Laura Mullen
@afteriwasdead.bsky.social
Author of 9 books, translator of 2.
"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis." Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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@attackerman.bsky.social reported on the Amnesty report at the time, and astutely compared it to the torture boxes at Gitmo, where Ron DeSantis, as a young military lawyer, oversaw the torture. So once again, mainstream media is months behind independent media. www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
forever-wars.com
New Yorkers asked City Hall for 25 years what it knew about the air downtown after 9/11. Records requests. Lawsuits. They got almost nothing. Then a mayor eight months into the job went looking. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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And remember the innocent lives we TOOK, when a President (Bush) LIED us into a violent and foolish response. Pause to honor those lives, and the lives of veterans sent out to fight and die because we are dishonest, because we did not have the sense or strength to be thoughtful in our grief. #No2WAR
Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · 6d agoToday, on the twenty fifth anniversary of September 11th, we remember the innocent lives that were taken from us, and we pause to honor the bravery and selflessness of every single person who stepped up in the face of unthinkable tragedy.
Salvador Allende's final words, recorded on September 11, while US backed right-wing forces attacked and invaded the capital.
Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6d agoToday, we remember that dark day years ago, when evil men in the name of a global anti-human ideology carried out despicable terrorist acts that overthrew the democratically elected government of President Salvador Allende in Chile.
Yes, it is illegal under U.S. federal and state laws to offer money or any valuable incentive to influence someone's vote or to pay them to vote.
These same exact Democratic Party backers are calling this exact same thing “bribery.” Which is walking into an obvious political traps while giving the finger to the wall of red flags we pass by.
In Georgia, Democrats close with populist pitch vowing $2,000 stimulus checks
In a historically conservative state won by President-elect Joe Biden, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are leaning in to the prospect of a Democratic Senate.
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conifergirl.bsky.social@conifergirl.bsky.social · 7d ago
Yeah--this seemed big...until he started promising (remember, TACO: don't believe ANY promise) to give people $$$ to vote the way he wants 'em to vote (against their best interests)...
Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · last yr.Bribery in plain sight.
New poetry coming soon from Canisia Lubrin and @tianareid.bsky.social I know I'm excited. www.cbc.ca/books/25-can...
25 Canadian poetry titles we're excited to read this fall | CBC Books
From debut poets to some of the most celebrated writers in Canadian literature, we've got you covered with a list of the must-read Canadian poetry titles publishing this fall.
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1/2 Lonnie Bunch is leaving the Smithsonian after Trump spent months trying to strong-arm America’s museums into laundering his whitewashed nostalgia as “history.” Exhibits. Wall text. Social media. Museum directors. Nothing was off limits. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Is Resigning (Gift Article)
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.
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The US Government has been utterly taken over by an international crime family. Our nation has become a Mafia state. Trump has been selling out the US all along and won't stop. We must organize our resources and connect to our communities in real life to stop him in November ! #USMidterms
Studio Channel Islands Saturday (September 12) at 1:30 pm. Lecture title: Night Sky with Stars Meet some contemporary practitioners—lit and living stars—who show us how wide the poetry heavens are, guiding us on our way(s) across darknesses we might want or need to explore. Stay for SLAM after!
Just got Thinking with the Poem: Essays on the Poetry and Poetics of Rachel Blau DuPlessis (U of NM P, 2024), ed. Andrew Mossin. So happy to see this out, and I was delighted to peer review it! (I'm thanked in the acknowledgments, so am not outing myself lol). www.unmpress.com/978082636721...
Thinking with the Poem
Broad-ranging and pluralistically investigative, the essays in Thinking with the Poem document Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s authorial interventions as a poet, s...
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Lean into the loss--and all that she left us: this is where that wonder lives now.💔
Coffee House Press@coffeehousepress.bsky.social · last yr.THE COMPLETE DRAFTS by Rachel Blau Duplessis arrives tomorrow in all its glory! Thirty years in the making, it's a major work, an urgent contemporary long poem of hope, critique, and resistance. #poetry
In this interview, Rachel Blau DuPlessis says: "I was lucky enough to have George Oppen’s intransigent eye on my very early work." I was lucky enough to have Rachel's intransigent eye on my very early work. Rest in peace— dear fierce brilliant generous Rachel
rob mclennan@robmclennan.bsky.social · last yr.12 or 20 (second series) questions with Rachel Blau DuPlessis / @coffeehousepress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/12-o...
US national debt just hit $40 trillion. Why? HINT: It's NOT because the government is trying to provide its citizens healthcare or childcare.
And then there were four! Alchemy Lecture books that is!
🚨BREAKING: The US Postal Service announced late Friday night that it intends to move forward with its final rule on changing how mail voting is administered. The new rule was created to enact Donald Trump’s executive order, which seeks to restrict mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
USPS pushes final rule on restricting mail voting forward
The federal postal service acknowledges the new rule will impose burdens on states, but says its necessary to help law enforcement hunt for voter fraud.
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The contractor on the project has predicted more than $300 million of the project will come from public funds.
Trump Again Claims Taxpayers Aren't On The Hook For Ballroom—But Contractor Says Otherwise
The contractor on the project has predicted more than $300 million of the project will come from public funds.
forbes.com
This will put iconic destinations like California’s Tahoe National Forest, Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, and the Appalachian Trail at risk. Call your reps and submit a public comment to protect the Roadless Rule! 🔥📞🔥 Info, contacts, script, and public comment link @ 5calls.org/issue/roadle...
Protect the Roadless Area Conservation Rule ⭑ 5 Calls
The Roadless Area Conservation Rule has protected nearly 59 million acres of national forest land from road construction and large-scale logging since …
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