Reginald Harris

No, no, no...

Looking forward to talking with Kyle Dargan in DC @hillcenterdc.bsky.social this Thursday!

Republicans want to double your healthcare costs.

Republicans want to rip healthcare away from 15 million people.

Republicans want to give their billionaire donors handouts at your expense.

And they’re lying about it every chance they get.

Next Week!

ANGELA DAVIS:
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

PS: WOW! I did not expect what I got from that movie. How did he manage to pull it off? I loved it (and also think I had a slight advantage from being a Pynchon-head)

Dude has had his career invented and enabled by a series of rich benefactors but hey that’s just the meritocracy.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

I stand with the people of Chicago

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CBS News is dead. Long live CBS "News"

I expect '60 Minutes' to go off the air any day now.

'The Gay Harlem Renaissance' exhibit spotlights queer Black artists who shaped history The New York Historical's major fall show traces the lives and legacies of LGBTQ+ figures who powered one of the most iconic movements in American culture.

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...if there ever will BE another Democratic administration!

Hudson Yards Developer May Get Another $2 Billion Boost From New York

Hmm...could things like this be one of the reasons people in NYC and elsewhere are tired of 'politics as usual'?

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

Review Mission Accomplished - you convinced me to see this movie!

the question to ask the republican majority on the court is “what CAN’T trump do?”

New T 🇺🇸

Trump/MAGA are trying to gaslight us into believing that anti-Jimmy Kimmel America is vast and deep, that MAGA's grip on the culture is unshakable, that mobilization is futile.

But this episode has demonstrated the opposite. Let's not forget it.

Thoughts on this:

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Social media algorithms push rage and division to keep us scrolling. Here’s how the business model works—and the law that allows it to continue. #Algorithms #SocialMedia #Radicalization #PoliticalViolence #TechPolicy #Section230

Addiction to Electronic Devices Jennifer Katzenstein, Ph.D., talks about why it’s important to put limits on how often both you and your children use electronic devices.

John, I firmly believe that some (many?) are addicted to the dopamine hit they get from phone use and the 'endless scroll. You never actually "finish" a social media feed. It just keeps going and going and refreshing, keeping you online.
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I'd also suggest you get back to looking at Octavia Butler.

PS: Thanks for the Eno recommendations

Xgau Sez: September, 2025 African American science fiction, Eno before and after rocking, where (or who) in the world is Stephen Malkmus, first musical loves, variants of the art-rock mindset, and listening without prejudice.

Chagrined to report that the new Xgau Sez is marred by an oversight — failed to name the greatest Samuel R. Delany novel: Dhalgren.
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Nobody knows what they're doing, nobody makes money, and nobody reads it either!! ARE YOU IN OR WHAT?????

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Don’t comply in advance.

Don’t comply in advance. Exercise your freedom of speech or else they’ll strip this from us, too.

Trumpism combines a promise of blamelessness to its adherents with an obsessive paranoia about contagion and contamination. Nothing is your fault, you are surrounded by agents of infection. Trans people become the ideal scapegoat in this scenario, a perfectly diabolic alien other.

The Life of a Poet Featuring Acclaimed Poet Reginald Harris in Conversation with Poet/Editor Kyle Dargan “Reginald Harris’s Autogeography is the winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize. The book has been praised for being great black poetry and great LGBT poetry, but it’s grea...

Heads up Baltimore-Washington! I'll be in DC next month 10/16 to talk with poet and professor Kyle Dargan as part of 'The Life of a Poet' series @hillcenterdc.bsky.social. Hope you can make it #poetry

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To those claiming they're for free speech while punishing and silencing those for exercising that right: You're not pro-free speech. 🤔

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The Rise of the Right-Wing Tattletale In Texas and elsewhere, new laws and policies have encouraged neighbors to report neighbors to the government.

Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Arthur Sze Named U.S. Poet Laureate The Library of Congress has named Arthur Sze as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026.

Our new poet laureate, Arthur Sze. "Because every U.S. poet laureate designs a special focus for their term, Sze plans to explore the art of translation, with the goal of compiling an anthology of translated poems from various languages & time periods."

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