D.A. Gray

I’m so sorry. Thank you for your courage. Your strength and your insight is giving many others strength to navigate this crisis.

Sacrament — Line Of Advance Literary Journal Fear death by water, the poet, wearing the mask  of a fortune teller, says, which I’m thinking  as we roll over into the canal. Sometimes  the weirdest shit crops up like a line of vers...

Thank you to Line of Advance for including 'Sacrament' among their finalists for the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing award for veterans. There are a lot of strong poems posted on their page.
www.lineofadvance.org/blog/2025/8/...

Current Issue

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Thankful for the editors at Rise Up Review for the work put into this latest issue. Some won't see the benefit of art when the world is on fire, but when authoritarians use division and despair, evidence of interconnectedness and hope are a shot in the arm.

Trump lied about Medicaid, and people are going to die because of it.

The Paramount - Skydance merger will be worthless if no one is watching. Independent media is doing to corporate media what independent music did to major labels back in the day. Fuck with the people at your own risk, oligarchs.

YouTube video by Sofar Sounds Andrea Gibson - Maybe I Need You | Sofar NYC

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g20x...

Losing one of our best voices, who always spoke up for those who needed it. 49 years is far too early but it was 49 packed, meaningful years.

Rest easy, Andrea Gibson.

Thank you Collateral Journal, @middlewestpress.bsky.social , @aimingcircle.bsky.social , @fobhaiku.bsky.social for the important work of giving veterans and family an important outlet. Honored to be in great company.

Image on right: Poet Jane Muschenetz Image on left: A vertical postcard presentation of Jane Muschenetz's poem, "Every poem is political—" Superimposed over a blue sky and bordered by a yellow sunflower, he poem continues: "in the sense that everything is political even sunflowers this blue sky, stands in opposition to the air sirens above my birth city this deep ocean shelters undocumented oil fields the great mountains in the distance are unapologetically arresting … everywhere you look is a reason to protest everywhere you look is so beautiful never forget every tongue is a borderland every heart, a homeland worth longing for"

With co-sponsor Collateral Journal, we are pleased to announce the 2025 War Poetry Postcard Project results! linktr.ee/warpoets

1st Prize: @janemuschenetz.bsky.social, "Every poem is political—"!

Finalists:
@dagray.bsky.social, "A.M. radio"!
@pam-hart.bsky.social, "Mothers Over Nangarhar"

It’s easy to come off as a radical when you warn people that a racist, sexist, Christofascist movement is pushing for a dictatorship. But the real radicals are the racists, sexists and Christofascists who are pushing for a dictatorship. We’re only describing what’s in front of our eyes.

Meanwhile, CF47 is preoccupied carrying out a war agains Americans. And our Defense Sec has only ever commanded a bottle of whiskey, or one of his assault victims.

Every leader—Dem or GOP—should follow Malcolm Kenyatta’s lead and *rage* against Trump’s gestapo tactics. That includes the assault on Mayor Ras Baraka *and* the kidnapping of our immigrant neighbors.

This isn’t law—it’s fascism. Silence is complicity.
Speak up or step aside. #OnYourSide

Actually it does 💥

In an episode that highlights how cursory and haphazard their efforts appear to have been, Marocco and Rubio ordered the cancellation of contracts, including for cellphone service, at an office they do not control. The move stranded people in war zones without phones, according to multiple officials and internal correspondence obtained by ProPublica. On Wednesday, AT&T received a termination notice for a $430,000 contract with USAID’s Office of Inspector General. That office is meant to be independent from USAID so that it can effectively audit the agency.

There's much more in this piece abt Marco Rubio getting USAID contractors robbed, but he also cut off USAID Inspector General's phone.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

https://propub.li/43487Tj

The "big government" that Libertarians rail against are the governments that protect ordinary people from big businesses and billionaires.

Ironically the mode of government Libertarians aim for is actually big government, power and wealth concentrated into the hands of a small clique.

Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ having half their neighbors treated as 'the enemy.' Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ having their religion used as cover for bigotry. Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ stirring up hate to cover up white collar crimes.

You are not alone.

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

What beautiful irony:

the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church now controls the name Proud Boys, the trademark, and rights to any monies from merch. 👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

NEW: Federal workers are starting to receive a copy of the court's restraining order against the Trump administration barring the regime from freezing federal grants and financial assistance. Excellent work, and worth the read:

🚀 Mary Jackson made history in 1958 as NASA’s first Black female engineer, a time when there were very few female or Black engineers in the field

#BlackHistoryMonth #MSIChicago #NASA #WomeninSTEM

I don’t know about you, but Malcolm Kenyatta right here makes me want to fight—to keep fighting for what we believe as Democrats.

I was hollering watching this.

@malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social is running for DNC Vice Chair.

Trump Admin Forces Out USAID Official Who Refused to Comply With 'Illegal' Purge | Common Dreams A career official at the U.S. Agency for International Development said he was placed on leave after refusing an order to "violate the due process of our employees."

Trump Admin Forces Out USAID Official Who Refused to Comply With 'Illegal' Purge www.commondreams.org/news/trump-u...

Nicholas Gottlieb setting the example. Complying with crime families won't save you.

Media orgs are paying too much attention to televised ICE raids and deportation flights. These are not new. They were happening under Biden too, with fewer cameras and less pageantry.
They are designed to distract the public from the real Trump agenda, which is to kick out legal immigrants.

Rattle: Poetry … without pretension since 1995.

'bless our willful ignorance,
so enormous, so world-altering, that, like the great wall of China,
it can be seen from outer space,
where the gods are shaking their heads even now,
in pity and in awe.'

from 'Praise the Broken Promise of America'

Alison Luterman takes no prisoners.

www.rattle.com

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!

I lost my medical this week I believe that it was a setup to get people off it because when I called to find out they told me it was a glitch that was randomly kicked people off , so now they have redetermined me and have denied me. I better not run into any republicans or magas because I know I

Like confederate monuments - it was always about projecting a future not remembering a past.

Heeding Trump, Air Force won't teach recruits about Tuskegee Airmen A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum this week.

www.expressnews.com/news/article...

The speed at which the USAF bowed down and complied is one of the infuriating parts.

The only reason to eliminate parts of our actual history is a desire to go back to a time before the Tuskegee Airmen could have existed.