@davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social
Poet and Teacher (he/him) Berkeley, CA (Ohlone territory) You can read some poems here: https://davidrosenthal.weebly.com/
Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. November 8, 2025 Featuring: Todd Dillard Brian Spears Matthew E. Henry James McConachie David J. Bauman Jonathan Everitt https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
The world is falling apart and we’re going to read some poems.
But we’re going to do it together and for a great cause.
Join us. Register here:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
MC5 - Motor City Is Burning. 1972.
En el programa de TV alemán, Beat Club.
Don’t laugh at this. Don’t dismiss it. They’re serious. Prepare for it. And get ready to fight against it.
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Happy birthday to Johnny Carson (1925-2005), the dreamy subject of Austin Allen’s elegiac sonnet from 32 POEMS. “Carson”/“stars in”… The things @austinwriting.bsky.social does…
23.10.2025 13:17 — 👍 43 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
We are working diligently to raise awareness around the complicity of Home Depot in ongoing ICE Raids and the attacks on our immigrant community. Please spread the word: host or attend a vigil by going to www.disappearedinamerica.us, or Boycott by going to boycotthomedepot.network!
23.10.2025 19:10 — 👍 943 🔁 482 💬 35 📌 23Protesters gathered on the road leading from Oakland to Coast Guard Island, opposing the deployment of CBP and other federal agents sent to crack down immigration enforcement in the Bay Area.
🎥: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades and Minh Connors
new from above/ground press: Circling the Black Sun, by Lance La Rocque / @bookhugpress.bsky.social ;
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/10/new-...
Happy official release day for Issue 36 Fall 2025 of Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine!
www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/fall-...
It's our 10-year anniversary issue. Thank you to everyone who has helped us grow and thrive over this past decade!
#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews
“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right, and laughter becomes a weapon.”
— Albert Camus
On Friday, all around the bay, there will be folks gathering for a vigil at your nearest public library because of the ICE deployment. I especially love the importance and symbolism of this choice of place.
23.10.2025 02:31 — 👍 30 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
Bearded Bards Of BlueSky Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline. November 8, 2025 Featuring: Todd Dillard Brian Spears Matthew E. Henry James McConachie David J. Bauman Jonathan Everitt https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
This reading is FREE.
(We are raising funds, but that is by voluntary donation according to ability.)
It is online, so you can attend from ANYWHERE.
Early registration is NOT required, but it helps us with planning.
Register and/or learn more:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
Do what you can to support these young people as they fight for their future.
22.10.2025 21:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Customs and Border Protection agents are headed to Alameda in the San Francisco Bay Area for an operation beginning Thursday.
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What to say to ICE agents at home, at work and on the street. How to find a lawyer and find someone who's been detained.
22.10.2025 21:25 — 👍 21 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2Congrats, The Atlantic and The New York Times, this is the country you've created.
23.10.2025 01:34 — 👍 2453 🔁 613 💬 19 📌 11Mayor on ICE in the Bay Area via @sfchronicle.com
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Bay Area folks, get ready for ICE sweeps this weekend, look for actions to join if you're able. will post actions as quotes on this post.
oaklandside.org/2025/10/22/m...
Screenshot of Prop 50 poll showing 62% support.
Trump is deploying the ICE Gestapo to the Bay Area 2 weeks before Prop 50 goes to the polls.
23.10.2025 00:41 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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October 23,2025 ICE will be in Bay Area
Bay Area, plenty of immigrant rights orgs are saying ICE plans to stage an "invasion" this weekend; it's worth looking to Chicago to see how to fight it
22.10.2025 23:33 — 👍 68 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0
ATTENTION BAY AREA: We’re up next. Connect with local organizers. Get involved where and how you can.
23.10.2025 00:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Do you live in an apartment complex? How about printing out some fliers letting your neighbors know that on a particular day of the week, u will be cooking X extra meals and that anyone who needs one can stop by your place at X hour to pick one up no questions asked? Can even leave them at the door.
22.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 635 🔁 198 💬 8 📌 1
ATTENTION BAY AREA: We’re up next. Connect with local organizers. Get involved where and how you can.
23.10.2025 00:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Do what you can to support these young people as they fight for their future.
22.10.2025 21:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 04 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:
1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?
Honestly, I don’t care much about the White House. But I hate the idea of that guy fucking with things.
22.10.2025 04:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
What actions are these people willing to take? Will they cooperate or REFUSE?
21.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 382 🔁 55 💬 8 📌 0I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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