E. G. Cunningham

@egcunningham.bsky.social

poet, singer-songwriter, wayfarer FIELD NOTES out now from River River Books. OPEN SEASONS out now on Bandcamp & etc. https://www.egcunningham.com/ https://egcunningham.bandcamp.com/album/call-it-a-day-sky-canon

the president's personal racist paramilitary wing are skulking through our streets hunting and murdering people. they may be putting on less of a show of it than they were before, but they have not left and they are no less a threat to all of us

Happy National Poetry Month! Many thanks to @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social for including my prompt on collapsing the phenomenal, aka time traveling through juxtaposition 💫

Moist Poetry Journal@moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Catching up on our socials today—here is Prompt 19 from the poet @egcunningham.bsky.social, author of FIELD NOTES from @riverriverbooks.bsky.social 🌾 📚💙 Try your hand at “collapsing the phenomenal”!

Disabled people live on fixed incomes that keep them well below the poverty line. They are often on more medication than their non disabled peers. A 100% tariff on prescription drugs will break people, many of whom are already having to choose between medicine and food.

Trump signs order imposing 100 percent tariff on brand name drugs

President Trump signed an executive order Thursday targeting imported brand name drugs with a 100 percent tariff, citing the U.S.’s “import reliance” as reason for the decision. &…

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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

ICE isn't just building detention centers. It's engineering an entirely new industrial infrastructure for mass deportation; modeled explicitly on Amazon's supply chain. Here's the full architecture of what's being built. 🧵

“Even masks are becoming difficult to find. This is a huge mistake. I ask those who have the ability, especially foreign media, to reflect on this situation. What are people supposed to do under these conditions? This is truly a crime against humanity.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed

Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

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Humans can only survive about 3 days without water. The tit-for-tat attacks on desalination plants and other water infrastructure in the Middle East are the scariest part of this war.

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.