Thomas Crofts
@hypermetrix.bsky.social
professor (medieval lit and classics), drummer (punk). east tennessee. hometown: san antonio, tx.
poemz at commoncrofts (https://commoncrofts.blogspot.com/)
poemz at commoncrofts (https://commoncrofts.blogspot.com/)
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Thomas Crofts
@hypermetrix.bsky.social
· Jan 26
Nicanor Parra:
basta de profecías apocalípticas
ya sabemos QUEL MUNDO SE ACABÓ
basta de profecías apocalípticas
ya sabemos QUEL MUNDO SE ACABÓ
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Mike Johnson really doesn’t want you to go to the largest peaceful protest in American history: NoKings.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Mike Johnson really doesn’t want you to go to the largest peaceful protest in American history: NoKings.org
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George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
George was just trying to get to work.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.
This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.
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This.
Is.
Brilliant.
Is.
Brilliant.
October 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This.
Is.
Brilliant.
Is.
Brilliant.
I repeat, their souls are in hell.
“There’s a baby!”
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)
October 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I repeat, their souls are in hell.
Their souls are in hell.
Four U.S. citizen children were detained in an ICE raid—zip-tied, separated, held for hours.
Imagine if these were your precious little ones! Can you close your eyes to this depravity? Please don't.
Remember
If this could happen to these little kids, it can happen to yours.
Speak out now!
Imagine if these were your precious little ones! Can you close your eyes to this depravity? Please don't.
Remember
If this could happen to these little kids, it can happen to yours.
Speak out now!
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Their souls are in hell.
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Attn Black people, stop scrolling.
This is not a drill: Chicago
This is not a drill: Chicago
October 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Attn Black people, stop scrolling.
This is not a drill: Chicago
This is not a drill: Chicago
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A Medieval Cat’s Paw Print: How a Mischievous Feline Made its Mark on History www.medievalists.net/2024/10/medi... #Cats
A Medieval Cat's Paw Print: How a Mischievous Feline Made its Mark on History - Medievalists.net
Imagine stumbling upon a centuries-old manuscript and discovering an unexpected visitor had left its mark – a cat’s paw, immortalised in ink. This quirky image, a medieval equivalent of your cat…
www.medievalists.net
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A Medieval Cat’s Paw Print: How a Mischievous Feline Made its Mark on History www.medievalists.net/2024/10/medi... #Cats
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September 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Hard truth:
Most people in the US see the reality of mass deportation, and are horrified.
But more than half of all white folk in the US *support* mass deportation.
And everyone: stop lying to me and pretending that you didn't know that it would be this. You knew.
Lie to yourself. Not to me.
Most people in the US see the reality of mass deportation, and are horrified.
But more than half of all white folk in the US *support* mass deportation.
And everyone: stop lying to me and pretending that you didn't know that it would be this. You knew.
Lie to yourself. Not to me.
These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to.
This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented.
So ICE took her into custody.
The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck.
"I can't breathe."
This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented.
So ICE took her into custody.
The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck.
"I can't breathe."
May 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Hard truth:
Most people in the US see the reality of mass deportation, and are horrified.
But more than half of all white folk in the US *support* mass deportation.
And everyone: stop lying to me and pretending that you didn't know that it would be this. You knew.
Lie to yourself. Not to me.
Most people in the US see the reality of mass deportation, and are horrified.
But more than half of all white folk in the US *support* mass deportation.
And everyone: stop lying to me and pretending that you didn't know that it would be this. You knew.
Lie to yourself. Not to me.
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CBS reporter Scott Pelley:
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
May 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
CBS reporter Scott Pelley:
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”.
If you haven’t already shared this, please do.
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Cato Institute’s Director of immigration studies 👇🏽
May 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Cato Institute’s Director of immigration studies 👇🏽
Nicanor Parra
translated by Miller Williams
translated by Miller Williams
March 22, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Nicanor Parra
translated by Miller Williams
translated by Miller Williams
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Nice people do not notice their country is fascist all at once... Ukranian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska.
March 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Nice people do not notice their country is fascist all at once... Ukranian poet Lyudmyla Khersonska.
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So to be clear - in Tennessee unidentified white men in hoodies can grab any immigrant that "looks" undocumented, and if officials even as much as vote to protect them it's a felony.
This is where we are now.
Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AQh...
This is where we are now.
Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AQh...
February 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
So to be clear - in Tennessee unidentified white men in hoodies can grab any immigrant that "looks" undocumented, and if officials even as much as vote to protect them it's a felony.
This is where we are now.
Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AQh...
This is where we are now.
Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AQh...
I don't deserve you, Onion.
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I don't deserve you, Onion.
Man. Wherever history goes, some poet got there first.
Reading about Felon47 blaming an air crash on DEI, this poem from 2017 leapt off the shelf:
February 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Man. Wherever history goes, some poet got there first.
Nicanor Parra:
basta de profecías apocalípticas
ya sabemos QUEL MUNDO SE ACABÓ
basta de profecías apocalípticas
ya sabemos QUEL MUNDO SE ACABÓ
January 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Nicanor Parra:
basta de profecías apocalípticas
ya sabemos QUEL MUNDO SE ACABÓ
basta de profecías apocalípticas
ya sabemos QUEL MUNDO SE ACABÓ
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on the suicide of the refugee by Bertolt Brecht.
January 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
on the suicide of the refugee by Bertolt Brecht.
Friends, I'm looking for poems from the immigrant experience, esp. with outsider's insight into the dominant culture: blind spots, amnesia, clueless comedy, etc.
Any period, any geography, any language. Thanks in advance!
Any period, any geography, any language. Thanks in advance!
January 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Friends, I'm looking for poems from the immigrant experience, esp. with outsider's insight into the dominant culture: blind spots, amnesia, clueless comedy, etc.
Any period, any geography, any language. Thanks in advance!
Any period, any geography, any language. Thanks in advance!