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This account does not belong to a poet, education worker, or scholar. Who'd want to read Fugue & Strike (Black Ocean, 2023) & People Finder, Buffalo (Cloak, 2024) and etc? Garbage, labor obsessed.

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7h

thx to Anthony Paul Farley's article on Temporal Power for kick-starting my brain this morning

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7h

the nerd reich owes a lot to Francis Bacon at his most deranged. also, silicon valley techno-facism (like all forms of western capitalism) doesn't just enclose, it makes common to its class financial resources, the bodies of racialized populations, pig power (ICE), the earth as absolute property

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 1d

Hah! On the money. At best a way to add some undue moral glory to the normal flattery, sycophancy, and aesthetic conformity that goes with economies of clout. At worst, a way to excuse harmful behavior..."Well, the ARE A good literary citizen."

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 1d

Abolish the category of literary. And citizen. And literary citizen.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 1d

or reheated regime change racism applied to Latin America
or reheated Sinophobia
there's not peace
the war machine is recalibrating
& Israel remains, intact, as a genocidal apartheid state

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 1d

and has spent decades trying to destroy the power of the arab working classes. will liberals and progressives be able to maintain their fledgling solidarity with palestinians & extend it the other victims or U.S.-Israel aggression or will they fall for reheated rah rah regime-change orientalism?

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 1d

mindful of the lessening direct violence marked by the ceasefire in gaza. mindful that enormous shipments of arms are on their way to israel (including ammo casings from Buffalo) and that the war & genocide machine requires destruction, somewhere, to cohere

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 2d

& on this day:
www.therednation.org

Until Decolonization, Liberation, and Landback

www.therednation.org

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 2d

columbus was definitely a p.o.s. but i think israel is showing us that history is not progressive and that western culture is marked by both the recurrence and mutation of settler-colonial savagery

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 2d

Liz Howard from North Nord Giiwedin: “a screen test in the abattoir / of the encounter my lineage / a quack chandelier of forest bones and trash / for lack of any other occupation // within childhood” … & “toward the city gichi-oodena / where the air irradiated / my peach pit doggerel art” fuck yeah

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 3d

man, that dude...

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 3d

U.S. pay someone to do your killing imperialism
meets rabid U.S. racism

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Qatar Facility at U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho Sparks Controversy

MAGA influencers criticized a training agreement announced by Defense Secretary Hegseth.

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 3d

www.justiceformigrantfamilies.org

Justice for Migrant Families

www.justiceformigrantfamilies.org

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 3d

ICE has banned all books in Western New York concentration camp. I've met a chronically ill novelist locked up there. Can't imagine how devastating this is. If yr in Buffalo, see below for migrant support groups. nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 3d

The ceasefire is not a ceasefire. Not in Lebanon, not in West Bank, not in Gaza. Mere 'ceasefire' in Gaza sees Israeli ongoing settler colonialism & genocide. Israel bombs Lebanon almost daily, killing people, destroying 300 pieces of heavy machinery necessary to rebuild. podur.org/2025/10/12/a...

AER 152: The Third Ceasefire Begins...

Jon Elmer joins. We discuss the beginning of the third Ceasefire in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 4d

"The initial troop withdrawal line is well within Gaza, with the Israeli military still controlling 56% of the enclave....While a deal was reached on “phase one” of a ceasefire, details of how the plan will advance beyond that remain murky."
www.dropsitenews.com/p/displaced-...

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7d

also, just an fyi that ice globs saying they are staking out a child predator seems like one of their go to lies in buffalo . chase em off!

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7d

just watched mist burn off the empty-lot facing fence--vapor curling up--for five minutes instead of having a stroke

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7d

Amy De'ath & Fred Wah' Toward. Some. Air. patched some major gapers in my brain. feels lik major post-conceptualist resource for writers not interested in po-establishment award-ready verse (infrastructure of which is collapsing anyway). Sean Bonney, Dionne brand, Amy D talking w/ Spahr, Moten

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 7d

yup. & shifting more of the economy toward war.

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 7d

Turns out having a welfare state and a hoarding capitalist class isn’t actually sustainable

unusual whales @unusual_whales
X.com
Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 8d

you knew it was a lie & now you know it's a lie

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 8d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 9d

hang in there!

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 9d

capital (& its fan-jawns) sure is doubling down on protecting property over actual real ass humans.

💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 9d

@ai-rights.bsky.social has added you to the "ai racists" moderation list

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 9d

In Milton's heaven, all the angels face God as mirrors for his glory. In our current hell, every mirror pointed at the sovereign must be smashed. Both are kinda totalitarian. That said, I think Milton wasn't that interested in heaven.

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 9d

Republican policy is increasingly framed around the idea that accurately describing what they are doing is worse than doing it.

They just got a Supreme Court ruling co-signing racial profiling as "common sense." So I guess the court smeared them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."

Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 9d

And called for more flotillas. As in, this isn't the end. It's the beginning.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 9d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...