Brian U. Garrison

Wondering what’s going on with National Guard in Oregon? Here’s a quick timeline of the legal developments over the past week.

NOTE: This information is current as of Monday morning, October 6. We’ll continue to share updates as the situation evolves.

Right? It's the same ignorant mindset from Covid: if you don't test, there's no disease. No numbers on the economy, no problems.

Thanks. The overall, immediate safety of Portlanders seems good at the moment. The administration's flagrant disregard of the court's authority is definitely concerning, and they have shown what atrocities they are willing to commit with the Chicago raid.

If congress has the same courage as Judge Immergut to uphold the constitution, a good start would be to remove Stephen Miller from office, and to impeach and remove the President from office.

In the future, everyone will be Taylor Swift for 15 minutes.

As a retired US Navy vet, if you are ordered to invade US homes, break their doors, zip-tie kids? - and you do that? YOu should read up on Neuremberg because those are NOT lawful orders, and you should be fucking ashamed of yourselves. Your families shoulid be ashamed of you. Stand the fuck up.

stay out!

Combat zones | Internal Revenue Service Find combat zones recognized by the IRS for combat pay tax benefits.

The IRS does not recognize Portland as a combat zone. DO NOT SEND TROOPS.

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Chapbook Category

First Place: The Inca Weaver's Tales • Katherine Quevedo • (Sword & Kettle Press, 2024)

Second Place: Water-Kin • @mahailasmith.ca • (Metatron Press, 2024)

Third Place: Micropoetry for Microplanets • @bugthewriter.bsky.social • (Space Cowboy Books, 2024)

Congratulations! I just love this book.

yay! Such a compliment. If you happen to know any science or english teachers working at public schools, let them know they could get a free visit from a poet!

thanks!

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We don't have a government, but I've got an award!
My chapbook scored 3rd for the 2025 Elgin Award.
I'm excited to be on the list with so many excellent writers.

Glad you were able to make it! Thanks!

A section of the street is closed off where skateboarders have built a large series of ramps.

An advertisement for lawn care with a moose mascot and their electric machines. A small grid of solar panels and a rainbow umbrella are in the background.

Views from Portland on Saturday. Skateboarding. Solar Panels. Electric-powered lawn care.

No military intervention needed.
ICE GO HOME.

the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force our purple clouds of delight rise above your tear gas

L.A. stood strong and Portland will too! Terrible decisions continue by the so-called U.S. Department of War, pointing the cannons at its own citizens. Enjoy this lovely poem by @gwynnega.bsky.social

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It's @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social weekend!

On Sunday at 3pm Eastern, come listen to @akualezlihope.bsky.social, @dianadima.com, @yarntheory.bsky.social and yours truly, led by moderator @bugthewriter.bsky.social, as we chat about speculative poetry!

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I'll be at Flights of Foundry this weekend, the free online conference. Go register!

where is due process?

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Stephen Miller's speech at the Charlie Kirk memorial was incendiary and unpatriotic. Miller's weaponized words are pointed at his fellow citizens. By his accounting, anyone who disagrees with Kirk's philosophies is the "enemy" and "evil." A wildly narrow definition of "we" emerged from Miller's insinuation that only people with Roman and Athenian heritage are on the side of civilization and virtue. His call for action lifts up only a select few. It leaves out a majority of U.S. Citizens who the government is obligated to serve. If Miller wants to join a white supremacist club to support his brethren, that's his prerogative. But U.S. government offices are not a place for white nationalism. Stephen Miller's words and actions are grossly inappropriate. He does not deserve to have a role in U.S. leadership.

Some thoughts I plan to share with my Senators. Feel free to reuse and send to anyone who may need to hear.

a man talking to another man with the words so much going wrong so much to say and all of it happening so quickly below him Alt: Karis Nemik telling Cassian Andor, "So much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly" on the TV show Andor.

"The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident."

A news clipping with headline "Trump says broadcasters risk losing licenses when hosts criticize him."

He went over the edge a long time ago. The failure of US leadership becomes more absurd every day.

thank you!

Small Wonders loved the chemistry in my poem so much they wanted to publish it! Read it at their site.

YouTube video by Chesky Records Priya Darshini - Space River

Listening to Space River, among other songs by Priya Darshini. Discovered from my continuing obsession with Max ZT on hammer dulcimer.

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Glad the vice president of the United States, whose salary my taxes fund, is using his position to *checks notes* attack me on the Charlie Kirk show.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

YouTube video by Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association Brian U. Garrison Reads “Our Combusted Planet” (2025 Rhysling Award Short Poem Nominee)

Hear me read my Rhysling-nominated poem "Our Combusted Planet."

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