Wayne Koestenbaum

Good people are arising like unbidden annunciating angels to counter these eruptions of unleashed state-sponsored violence.

fantasy: tomorrow morning the 25th Amendment will arise from its long sleep and kick ass

Join us for a performance lecture by poet, artist, and CUNY Graduate Center alum Ronaldo V. Wilson embodying form and place through language, dance, song, and video. Introduced by poet and artist @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social

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Double-exposure studio self-portrait, 35mm Kodak T-MAX P3200 film

A pleasure to take these pictures of you!

“I would wish that only women could vote.” —Hannah Weiner

Tonight, Friday, Oct. 10, in Brooklyn, from 6-9pm, I debut 22 new cyanotype assemblages in a solo show at “B” Dry Goods, 679 Franklin Ave. Shown here: Marlene Dietrich’s Seconals.

“Someday, / someone will stand before you, and you’ll / realize / time is just a trick by which the sun renews / its vow to the flowers.”
—Selma Asotić @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

Now I’m getting ads for Snapple on Instagram. I’ll never buy Snapple. I’ve never bought Snapple. Doesn’t the algorithm know that I’m not susceptible to Snapple? Why bother trying to recruit me to become a Snapple devotee? Observe how degraded and coarse the strategies of capital have become.

“Thought does not progress in a single direction; instead, the moments are interwoven as in a carpet. The fruitfulness of the thoughts depends on the density of the texture.”
—Theodor W. Adorno

“It is sometimes possible to put the fallen petal back / on the flower.”
—Alice Notley

New order — Farbiarz orders Khalil’s release for 6:30 pm CT. He must surrender his passport, and the gov has to give him a copy of it and his green card.

Sometimes I just stop, shake my head, and think how ridiculous it is watching my country be destroyed by a demented old man just because some white people are afraid of the future.

Why won't the media report, as glaringly obvious fact, that our president is an unhinged imbecile? bluevirginia.us/2025/05/sund...

Announcing issue 1 of fallow, a new literary journal, featuring new work by @evagriff.bsky.social @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social Oisin Fagan, Ellen Dillon, Gabriel Josipivici, Helen Charman, Chris Beausang, Pascale Sardin @rhiansasseen.bsky.social & Patrick Nathan

trying to get a good night’s sleep during a dictatorship: “sleep no more, _____ hath murdered sleep”

Trump demands unprecedented control at Columbia, alarming scholars and speech groups The Trump administration has delivered an extraordinary ultimatum to Columbia University, threatening to permanently end federal funding to the school unless it cedes control of an international studi...

“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian & member of the academic freedom committee of the AAUP. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”

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when the mainstream media attacked and mocked deconstruction and cultural studies and all the other progressive intellectual advances of those times, that denigration was a rehearsal for what is now happening at Columbia

I grew up under a terrifying authoritarian regime. Mahmoud Khalil's arrest is right out of their playbook Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE reminds one professor at Columbia University, Khalil's alma mater, or her childhood in authoritarian Romania.

Marianne Hirsch for context and insight.

Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.

Among the projects Musk and Trump have killed via Johns Hopkins:

Mosquito nets to prevent malaria in Mozambique, and chlorine tablets to prevent diarrhea deaths in Bangladesh.

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Imagine a world in which the words “Gulf of Mexico” are forbidden.

Free Mahmoud Khalil.

They have nothing. Nothing. They kidnapped a legal resident, shipped him across the country, denied access to his attorney, and are now trying to deport him. And their only justification for it is either protected speech or vague descriptions of alleged crimes committed by other people.

Jews Demand: Release Mahmoud Khalil We refuse to be used by Trump to enact his authoritarian agenda.

ADD YOUR NAME: American Jews demand that Mahmoud be released from custody and returned to his family immediately with his green card intact. For Mahmoud’s safety and all of our safety.

www.bendthearc.us/release_khalil

A President who detains a protestor and revokes their legal status can only be called one thing:

A dictator.

Silencing dissent is unlawful, unjust, and authoritarian through and through.

The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...

A flyer for a protest tomorrow which reads Monday, March 10 4PM Jacob K. Javits Federal Building 26 Federal Plaza, NYC EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION! RELEASE MAHMOUD KHALIL HANDS OFF OUR STUDENTS ICE OFF OUR CAMPUSES MON. MAR 10 • 4PM

Tomorrow in NYC will be sunny & pleasant. This will be important.

Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

25 hours after Mahmoud Khalil was detained in a Columbia-owned apartment building — Khalil’s whereabouts are still unknown & Columbia has still not commented