Michael Bibler

Radical Souths Series Editors:Jaime Harker and Michael P. Bibler Radical Souths reclaims and reprints some of the most revolutionary works of southern literature from the twentieth century. The fight for raci...

Southerners have always fought capitalists and fascists! Check out the books from our new reprint series at UNC Press, RADICSL SOUTHS.
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Hey hey! The first book out from my new reprint series with Jaime Harker, RADICAL SOUTHS at UNC Press. THE GATHERING STORM is a 1932 Communist novel about mill strikes in Gastonia, NC, originally printed in the USSR. This is the first ever reprint with an important message for our times! ✊✊✊⚒️

The Golden Lantern Bar in New Orleans has expressed one of the main takeaways of my book Literally.

New shirt. Still haven't lost any weight.

Hey @nytimes.com I fixed the photo on your story for you.

Tomorrow I'll be Studio 54 years old. But could I aspire to be this fabulous?

Distracting ourselves with the greatest work of American theatre.

US to revoke student visas over ‘pro-Hamas’ social media posts flagged by AI - report State department launches AI-assisted reviews of accounts to look for what it perceives as Hamas supporters

The errors of AI are a feature, not a bug. This is terrifying.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Shimmy shimmy shake

I have been writing about the soundsuits of artist Nick Cave. So he is part of my inspiration for Mardi Gras 2025.

YouTube video by WVUE FOX 8 New Orleans Bourbon Street brings out the best costumes on Mardi Gras

I lost at the Bourbon Street Awards to a guy in a boat on wheels from some Mardi gras ball. Seriously? The critics hate me but judging from the street, the people love me.
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Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

More book banning
clarksvillenow.com/local/books-...

Julianne Moore Furious that Her Children's Book - About Accepting Freckles - Has Been Banned by Trump Administration - Showbiz411 Read Oscar winner Julianne Moore’s post below. She is rightly incensed that the Department of Defense has banned her children’s book, called “Freckle Face Strawberry.” Pete Hegseth, who sipped a clear...

Fuck Trump and his fascist henchmen. This is not only ridiculous. It’s dangerous. America - both a laughing stock and a pariah state.

YouTube video by rastafariz85 Ramones - My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)

Not the first time an American "leader" openly courted favor with European Nazis. At least Reagan only met with dead Nazis, I guess. Vance and his Nazi ilk should be pushed back into the garbage corners they came from.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

No more T, only LGB. May the spirit of Marsha P. Johnson strike them all down with bricks.
H/T @tedatkinson.bsky.social

Washington Post interactive:
How would YOU participate in a coup against the United States? How would YOU illegally steal public funds? TAKE OUR QUIZ!

If they really outlawed gender-affirming care, the streets and highways would be very different!

Next we'll hear that the reason for the cost of eggs is all those DEI eggs.

Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)

Navajo Citizens Facing Identity Challenges During ICE Deportation Raids The Trump administration’s intensified deportation efforts have created unexpected challenges for Navajo citizens living in urban areas like Phoenix. As the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement b...

Because anybody who's not white as a Klan sheet....
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A screenshot of a tweet by Matthew Chapman that reads: "Under Trump's executive order, every single person in America is now legally classified as female. All embryos begin by developing female sex organs, with male sex organs only replacing them at around 6 weeks of gestation." Below the tweet is a section of a document labeled "The White House," defining "female" and "male" based on reproductive cells and critiquing "gender ideology."

Who run the world?

Wow that moment in the 80s when everybody went "new tribalism" or whatever you call it. 😂

I guess Sonic Youth were already on retainer with Young and couldn't help with this new sound. 😜

Rewatching WarGames (1983). Basically the premise is: "We don't have enough sociopaths manning the levers of our nuclear arsenal because turns out some dudes don't wanna kill 200 million people. Let's try AI and see how that works... Oops! Let's go back to sociopaths!" And here we are now in 2025.

Reminds me of that early 18th-century New England hymn:
When the snow is on the octopus
And the Subaru won't drive,
God keeps his faucets running for you.
Let's hope the citrus trees survive

Trump closes first day with an avalanche of executive orders His early actions aim to abolish federal diversity efforts and exclude transgender people from key services.

Saving to read when I can stomach it.
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

Ha! Do you remember in "Can't stop the music" when he had stage fright and kept repeating "Leatherman don't get nervous"? 😂

I always liked the biker best 😎