Clattermonger

I'm thrilled that my poem, Jean-Baptiste Rodin, is the After ...poem of the week (bsky.app/profile/afte...).

This Ekphrastic poem was written in a cafe in Paris after visiting the Rodin Museum, (www.musee-rodin.fr) where I fell for Rodin's bust of his father:
www.afterpoetry.com/poem/aug-09-...

Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Jean-Baptiste Rodin' by Craig Smith exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

In @clattermonger.bsky.social's new #ekphrastic poem, Rodin's father making his son making his father gives cause to write of his own father.

' ... I tried to paint you,
to present you as a single plane,
but find it best to sculpt your head
so I can live among you.'

afterpoetry.com/poem/aug-09-...

I'm thrilled that my poem, Jean-Baptiste Rodin, is the After ...poem of the week (bsky.app/profile/afte...).

This Ekphrastic poem was written in a cafe in Paris after visiting the Rodin Museum, (www.musee-rodin.fr) where I fell for Rodin's bust of his father:
www.afterpoetry.com/poem/aug-09-...

Excellent.

Reminded of Bob Dylan's John Birch Paranoid Blues

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

a scholar with high standing in his field, should be "counterbalanced" by a columnist notorious for his incendiary, click-mongering, and manifestly ideological takes. And this is before we address the perversity of treating the legal designation of genocide as something to debate in the Opinion section. (Alt text continued in reply)

I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.

Y’know what *might* work to reduce kids’ screen time? Well-funded, accessible, well-equipped places for *free* sports and outdoor activities. Not just expensive, private, very limited places…

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Tweet from @thekafkadude It's really funny how America and the UK stopped investing in infrastructure in the 1980s because the free market will pave potholes and make the trains run on time and now literally nothing works and you cannot go anywhere or do anything but like 4 people are richer than God.

The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.

People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

Quality stuff.

The PNG Courier's overseas correspondent with the latest from Glastonbury Bob Vylan’s IDF Chant Ignites Uproar, While Actual Atrocities Get a Pass

Bob Vylan’s IDF Chant Ignites Uproar, While Actual Atrocities Get a Pass

The PNG Courier's UK correspondent with the latest from Glastonbury

mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...

"After Kneecap and Palestine Action, Bob Vylan were the villains of this week’s outrage cycle. Their sin was to hold a mirror to a society that weeps over words but winks at slaughter. Here’s to the cowards in suits and newsrooms who’d rather police lyrics than confront their own complicity."

Bob Vylan statement on the fallout from their Glastonbury performance

On point and should put all the monetised right wing shitpilots to shame… sadly they don’t do shame

#FreePalestine

London is over

All this bullshit around the world right now is happening because literally just a HANDFUL of motherfuckers are trying to avoid justice & reckoning for their previous crimes.

We COULD have a decent world.
We COULD make things better.
We are able to do that.
And these selfish fucks won’t let us.

YouTube video by Michael Mann Michael Mann on BBC New Television Discussing Tie-In Between Climate Change & Heat Domes

I discussed how climate change is increasing the occurrence of persistent summer weather extremes like the "heat domes" currently impacting the U.S. and Europe this morning on #BBCNews:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYe4...

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

British multiculturalism - day to day, on the ground - is a successful experiment. The UK enjoys a shared set of political facts, as represented by the non-tribal backlash over Partygate/Truss. The British obsession with irony & suspicion of sincerity provides some protection against demagoguery.

Bayern Munich fans at the Club World Cup held up a banner saying "world football is more poorly governed than before" and "smash FIFA".

They are not going out on a limb here.

A 🧵 on the experts and organisations that recently said the same thing...

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

Chidinma Anyanwu (@amay.a100) on Threads Dozens of women dressed as handmaidens silently walk through Downtown Fort Worth, Texas, for “No Kings’ protest against Trump’s administration

“Under His Eye” can kiss it goodbye

www.threads.com/@amay.a100/p...

We The People today. Everywhere.
Peaceful, firm, committed. Millions.

Fuck him and his birthday tanks.

Today in Boston.

Over a million people turned out.

Even the drone couldn't get it all.

#NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

6K in a city of 100,000 people!

Damn good turnout in Greenville, SC!
#NoKings #MSNBC #Indivisible #NYTimes #5Calls #CBS #MeidasTouch

Look at downtown LA right now

San Diego #NoKings

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video.

Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!