Matthew Murrey

For God's sake could you stop running this nonsense that that "partisanship" is at issue here? There literally is a White-nationalist, Xtian-nationalist, far-right, cult-of-personality authoritarian party that respects no norms, wants to destroy beneficial governance, and take power. PERIOD.

I think this is my best Wordle ever!

I like seeing how many guesses I can make (using no repeating letters in each guessed word) before getting a letter. Today I managed three guesses, hitting on only one letter in guess 3.

Woot!

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Cover image for ballast issue 3.4. Chalk drawing of three circles with white and red text saying “ballast 3.4 fall 2025”

ballast issue 3.4 (our last of 2025) is officially unleashed 🛸

www.ballastjournal.com/issue-34-tab...

With Daniel Barbiero, Jerome Berglund, Joel Chace, Michael Daley, @geoffreydetrani.bsky.social, Connor Fisher, J. Freeborn, G Timothy Gordon, Vivian Ia, Jenna Jaco, Ted Jean, David Koehn…1/2

'We Do Not Support' ICC Probe of Israeli War Crimes in Gaza, Says White House | Common Dreams "ICC warrants against Israel and Hamas will offer the West a choice: Either torpedo the international criminal justice project they have advanced since 1945 for good or hypocritically demand impunity ...

The only question to the ambitious, lying self-serving insiders like Jean-Pierre, Matthew Miller, John Kirby, etc. should be "How does it feel to have been the polite face of the genocide in Gaza?" Period. Then again, NPR whitewashes the genocide every day, too.
www.commondreams.org/news/icc-net...

I hope you find some solace in whatever you do. I certainly have appreciated your presence.

Song of Myself, 32 I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,

Love that poem. Brought to mind WW. poets.org/poem/song-my...

I'm starting to think that the total eclipse of April '24 was more of an omen than I realized 😨.

YouTube video by CBC News Sinéad O'Connor on ripping up Pope photo in 1992 SNL performance

Well...
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Unraveled Press and other sources are documenting violent attacks by Illinois State Troopers against protesters at the Broadview Illinois ICE facility. We ask our governor, @govpritzker.illinois.gov, to step in!

Definitely. I was gonna add that at the end but ran out of characters ☺️.

I was gonna add that at the end but ran out of characters ☺️.

I got that poem in my email. The best email I got that day! Wonderful.

Seems like one of two things is going on. Either Putin knows exactly how to play Trump, flattering his gigantic ego and using his ignorance & stupidity to ply him with a bunch of BS, OR the Russians have some kind of serious dirt on him and mention it during these phone calls. It's stunning.

Image of the following poem by Matthew Murrey: Memento Away from you today I thought of my severed braid lying on the bookshelf where I left it. I thought of wet hair, evenings when I sat naked with my back toward your hands, and you would weave the limp strands into a straight, tight cord. Four years of my hair, four years of your hands, four woven years clipped by scissors in a single snip. Away from you today I feared I might die before coming home to see you and you would come across my braid lying like a cut flower, like love’s thin cord, like a little dead pet curled up on the shelf where I left it.

Photo of a young man holding a month old baby. The man has a long, thin braid hanging from the back of his head.

Long ago I had a braid (see photo below), and then I didn't. My poem about it, came out in 1994 in a now defunct journal. Much thanks to @doublebackreview.bsky.social for giving it a second run. doublebackreview.com/issue-7-2-oc... BTW, my newborn in the photo is now 34 yrs old.

'Naked Corruption': Trump Commutes Fraud Sentence of Ex-GOP Congressman George Santos | Common Dreams "Trump says it plainly: Crimes don’t count if you 'vote Republican,'" said one Democratic congressman. "Just like his pardons of those who violently attacked police."

The George he pardons versus the George he wants to prosecute tells us exactly what kind of corrupt, antisemitic criminal occupies the White House. Santos v. Soros #nokings

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Black and white lithograph from The Whitney museum showing a large wealthy ruler standing over smaller figures who appear emaciated and suffering.

William Gropper, The Have and the Have Nots, 1954–1956

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#NoKings

If that's going to be the actual size of it, I'm good with it.

Seems on-brand for JD www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

...and even worse up in Wisconsin that day. www.jsonline.com/picture-gall...

These numbers show how 2 years of war have devastated Palestinian lives in Gaza Numbers alone cannot capture the toll the Israel-Hamas war has taken on the Gaza Strip. But they can help us understand how thoroughly the conflict has upended the lives of 2.1 million Palestinians li...

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@apnews.com Amazing, that the state, its military, and "Western" allies that have carried out this extermination campaign against a defenseless population suddenly just becomes an amorphous "2 years of war." You know exactly what you are doing and it's disgusting.

You just can't call it a genocide, can you? Not surprising coming from the news organization that fought tooth and nail to not call torture "torture" during the Bush torture rampage.

I don't know how you managed to include so much emotional weight with such a light touch. So good!

Black block with white text and white "circle-eye" CBS logo but now reading "BS NEWS"

Congrats, @cbsnews.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Really grateful to @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for giving this poem a place in their journal today.

I thought it was a pizza chain.

Gosh, those two are strangely perfect together. Super!

Standing up to ICE in the suburbs, the People’s Patrol puts its faith in resistance Cristóbal Cavazos leads a rapid-response effort to document ICE activity. Meet the man confronting Trump’s deportation blitz.

Depends who you mean by "we." chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
And "they" - the criminals in the masks, and especially the leaders organizing, funding, & directing them have learned and adopted the lessons of Anne Frank's enemies very well.

I'd suggest that they are not "bending the knee" but are enthusiastically pitching in. Roberts gladly destroyed the Voting Rights Act. Alito & Thomas have been sleazy fascists from day one. Gorsuch has a stolen seat. Kavanaugh is a raging, rapey corporatist. And Barretts a handmaid cultist.

BREAKING: It’s official. David Ellison announces that Bari Weiss, founder of pro-Israel outlet “The Free Press,” is now Editor in Chief of CBS News, per internal memo shared with me: