Peter Guy Witzig
@peterguywitzig.bsky.social
poet | artist | bisexual | ⟟ minneapolis | (he/him)
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I made a hybrid collection of poems and photos and I'd love for you to have a copy • link in bio to order 🩵
'blue sonnets'
chapbook, 16 pages, saddle stitched, 8.5"x7"
big shoutout to The Workshop for Independent Publishing and Sho Nikaido 💙 🙏
'blue sonnets'
chapbook, 16 pages, saddle stitched, 8.5"x7"
big shoutout to The Workshop for Independent Publishing and Sho Nikaido 💙 🙏
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Relieved that voters resoundingly rejected this fascist bullshit.
Angry that we still have at least another year of it, probably another three, and that we're by no means in the clear.
Livid that it all could have been avoided if we had simply not reelected the asshole who tried a coup.
Angry that we still have at least another year of it, probably another three, and that we're by no means in the clear.
Livid that it all could have been avoided if we had simply not reelected the asshole who tried a coup.
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Relieved that voters resoundingly rejected this fascist bullshit.
Angry that we still have at least another year of it, probably another three, and that we're by no means in the clear.
Livid that it all could have been avoided if we had simply not reelected the asshole who tried a coup.
Angry that we still have at least another year of it, probably another three, and that we're by no means in the clear.
Livid that it all could have been avoided if we had simply not reelected the asshole who tried a coup.
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all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago
September 17, 2025 at 4:47 AM
all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago
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The plot has been completely lost. It feels parodic at this point. Like someone is trying to force a mass delusion. No thank you.
September 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The plot has been completely lost. It feels parodic at this point. Like someone is trying to force a mass delusion. No thank you.
been feeling like this for a while as well
I truly do not understand why Feeding Our Future isn't a bigger deal in Minneapolis local politics. It makes me feel deranged. Why does no one seem to care? Why is no one concerned with answering the many obvious questions it raises
July 15, 2025 at 4:49 AM
been feeling like this for a while as well
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We’re approaching the show trial stage of authoritarian takeover
July 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
We’re approaching the show trial stage of authoritarian takeover
once a grifter, always a grifter 🤷♂️ | from TWO WHEELS GOOD by @jodyrosen.bsky.social #amreading
July 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
once a grifter, always a grifter 🤷♂️ | from TWO WHEELS GOOD by @jodyrosen.bsky.social #amreading
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“I can’t go out in public because too many people hate me,” determines man who has chosen to enter a high-profile popularity contest. www.cnn.com/2025/06/29/p...
June 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
“I can’t go out in public because too many people hate me,” determines man who has chosen to enter a high-profile popularity contest. www.cnn.com/2025/06/29/p...
Or it's a strategy... One that at its core believes people who comfortably have their basic needs met are less prone to giving into their most bigoted or selfish impulses
The basic issue here is that the really noteworthy thing about this administration - and the truly unreconcilable fissure with liberal democracy - is its open bigotry and lawlessness, so virtually any effort to move past that and talk economic issues ends up functioning as conflict avoidance.
June 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Or it's a strategy... One that at its core believes people who comfortably have their basic needs met are less prone to giving into their most bigoted or selfish impulses
welllll... would we?
Mamdani is pretty consistently backing it up in both substance and style so... I do think it's different
Mamdani is pretty consistently backing it up in both substance and style so... I do think it's different
If Sarah McBride or Hakeem Jeffries said this, you would all be (rightfully) angry about it.
June 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
welllll... would we?
Mamdani is pretty consistently backing it up in both substance and style so... I do think it's different
Mamdani is pretty consistently backing it up in both substance and style so... I do think it's different
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Over time Trump's far right has built up social and political structures that grant greater permission to indulge in more open and elaborate forms of cruelty, which is how MAGA evolved from shouting "build the wall" at kindergarteners to building concentration camps for those same kindergarteners.
June 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Over time Trump's far right has built up social and political structures that grant greater permission to indulge in more open and elaborate forms of cruelty, which is how MAGA evolved from shouting "build the wall" at kindergarteners to building concentration camps for those same kindergarteners.
my nuance to add here is that when you link, as maga-ism has, those psychological rewards to economic explanations you create a potent mix with tremendously destructive capacity
The tendency of left-wing thinkers to search for economic explanations for political phenomena has consistently pulled the entire left-of-center away from the obvious explanation for MAGA, which is that they find torture and domination psychologically rewarding, and are seeking that reward.
June 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
my nuance to add here is that when you link, as maga-ism has, those psychological rewards to economic explanations you create a potent mix with tremendously destructive capacity
protect taylor at all costs! 😅
thanks to the work of the MN legislature i can legally smoke a joint as we wait for the parade to begin
June 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
protect taylor at all costs! 😅
I feel confident that they realize it
There's a reason they aren't hiding their concentration camps, but going on TV to do walkthrough tours of them. Whether they realize it or not, their audiences are thrilling to the idea of their social inferiors being sent into these camps to suffer.
June 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I feel confident that they realize it
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And that's what Trump offers: a hallucinatory political phantasmagoria where you are always the rightfully-aggrieved victim, and also always the triumphant bully, watching one repulsive enemy after another get fed into the torture machine. The pleasure of indignation and domination all at once
June 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
And that's what Trump offers: a hallucinatory political phantasmagoria where you are always the rightfully-aggrieved victim, and also always the triumphant bully, watching one repulsive enemy after another get fed into the torture machine. The pleasure of indignation and domination all at once
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Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:
June 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:
a master class
Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.
June 25, 2025 at 3:12 AM
a master class
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we actually don’t have to listen to the people who are cheerleading war who were also cheerleading war 20+ years. we’re the adults in the room now and we have the power to say fuck no to shitty ideas.
June 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
we actually don’t have to listen to the people who are cheerleading war who were also cheerleading war 20+ years. we’re the adults in the room now and we have the power to say fuck no to shitty ideas.
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essential listening, re: boelter's religious extremism
The Alleged Minnesota Assassin’s Connections to the New Apostolic Reformation – Straight White American Jesus
www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
essential listening, re: boelter's religious extremism
I appreciate this frankness, Bill.
Of course we're all learning as we go but I feel this aspect has been under-reported.
I grew up in but left such conservative Christian communities, and I see some of the patterns here. It's important to understand them so we can effectively counter them.
Of course we're all learning as we go but I feel this aspect has been under-reported.
I grew up in but left such conservative Christian communities, and I see some of the patterns here. It's important to understand them so we can effectively counter them.
June 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I appreciate this frankness, Bill.
Of course we're all learning as we go but I feel this aspect has been under-reported.
I grew up in but left such conservative Christian communities, and I see some of the patterns here. It's important to understand them so we can effectively counter them.
Of course we're all learning as we go but I feel this aspect has been under-reported.
I grew up in but left such conservative Christian communities, and I see some of the patterns here. It's important to understand them so we can effectively counter them.
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"It's really hard to overstate the threat to the very essence of our shared reality that makes democracy possible that is posed by Elon Musk and his website and the Murdoch enterprises, but man, they were on full display this weekend," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on misinfo about the MN shootings.
June 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"It's really hard to overstate the threat to the very essence of our shared reality that makes democracy possible that is posed by Elon Musk and his website and the Murdoch enterprises, but man, they were on full display this weekend," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on misinfo about the MN shootings.
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Authorities have taken 57-year-old Vance Boelter into custody in Sibley County. He's the suspect in the targeted fatal shootings of Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman and her spouse, and the shooting of state Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse.
Vance Boelter, suspect in shooting of Minnesota lawmakers, taken into custody in Sibley County
Authorities have taken 57-year-old Vance Boelter into custody in Sibley County. He's the suspect in the targeted fatal shootings of Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman and her spouse, and the s...
www.mprnews.org
June 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Authorities have taken 57-year-old Vance Boelter into custody in Sibley County. He's the suspect in the targeted fatal shootings of Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman and her spouse, and the shooting of state Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse.
apprehended
June 16, 2025 at 3:02 AM
apprehended