The Light Began To Bleed Began To Breathe Began To Speak, or: 68 Today

Side 2, "The Ninth Wave", of *Hounds of Love,* my most listened-to side of music when albums had sides ever, gives me chills to this day, I tested. More Kate here.

The Grass Is Still Hungry Above You, Fed By Your Death

Of course it was a work, whether sponsored wet work or random act of stochastic violence, a work. All the shittiest people in America are sanctimoniously wrought with maudlin performative grief at his murder and deliriously horny as fuck at their wet dreams of revenge . Here's what I wrote about it on canvas (since writing in tablets seems duhful with redundancy):

Both disconcerting and weirdly emancipating to open either working tablet, hold pencil in hand, and not be able to write what I see in my mind. Strangest days of my life, to see as clearly as I've ever and to have completely lost (at least temporarily) the means I've used my whole life to express it. There is no more kayfabe to break, is that it? Here's a first draft on that thought before I fuck it up

Sheeyit, this has been the free bingo space on my card for the past 50+ years, people can vouch
White House Insists Mephen Stiller Does Not Play with Dolls
Why Do People Choose Authoritarianism Over Democracy?
ICE is Eating the Soul of America
The billionaire class want you thinking Israel controls the West
300,000 Palestinians Forced To Flee as Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza City
Genocide Denial is Genocide Acceptance
"I'd like the NYT poobahs to explain why the explicitly rightwing political murders of Democratic lawmakers Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman four months ago did not "weigh on the American Experiment" or were "an inflection point" on "what kind of nation Americans want to be."
US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing
The End: Marx, Darwin, and the Natural History of the Climate Crisis
Dollar signs		The Anxiety of Liberation				None Of This Had To Happen
Censorship is Primarily a Problem of Culture
Top news outlets underplay right-wing declaration of war against the left
"It really is remarkable that to properly revere Karlie Chirk, one must NOT quote him, and that to remember or publish words he said diminishes and dishonors him. He can only be properly remembered once we have excised his dishonorable statements from the public historical record"
The logical endpoint of 21st-century America
"We are at the point in the honoring-Karlie-Chirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Karlie Chirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections"
The Martyrdom of Karlie Chirk
"There is no law against irrationality, and we all must accept with a certain stoicism that there are millions of people in this country with views that border on madness"
Butler, Berkeley, Fear					I.H.M.D.
White Riot		Maggie		Gaming democracy
I'm proud of my Democratic senator			Involuntary lethal injection
A clarifying event with regard to the current State of Social Media
The Violence We Accept and The Violence We Don't
"A 9/11 event — a 9/11 for the influencer class"
We Can't Oppose Violence Without Opposing State Violence
When Universities Become Informants
PLEASE STOP EATING ANIMALS, yo
Air of anxiety			In which Karlie Chirk and I agree 100 percent about something
A Review of Gabriel Josipovici’s Partita / A Winter in Zürau
The Crushing, Lifelong Reality of Artistic Rejection
{ feuilleton }		Epic Dream Songs				Bidart
"I've been slowly reading Pynchon's Mason & Dixon over the last year and today I finally hit The Passage--what's clearly the key to the whole book, a little less than halfway through, right after Mason and Dixon learn about the horrors of the Paxton Boys' massacre"
My second most listened-to album of all time turns 40

STANZAS ENDING WITH THE SAME TWO WORDS

Frank Bidart

At first I felt shame because I had entered

through the door marked Your Death.

Not a valuable word written

unsteeped in your death.

You are the ruin whose arm encircles the young woman

at the posthumous bar, before your death.

The grass is still hungry

above you, fed by your death.

Kill whatever killed your father, your life

turning to me again said before your death.

Hard to grow old still hungry.

You were still hungry at your death.

And if to withstand this nocturnal pollution of the tiny wanton stars with bent hook clauses of misprision I’m supposed to sing the melody of an unexpecting part. . .

Posting 50+ links, all but a few clusterfuckful, on the last Saturday of June in the middle of the Blog Days of Summer a massive Fuck Me in futility, earnestly desired and justly deserved. This is how I process, and to process more I need dump what I've processed. It's not the pings: 999 of 1000 pings I currently get are bots, dozens of bots, thousands of pings a day - I hope you're still here but I'm not scrolling the logs to see if yes and if yes who - it's readying myself for in increasingly inevitable and rapidly approaching moment when I may need to protest with more of my body than my typing fingers (though a few continually warn me my typing fingers are sufficient to get the rest of my body punished). Here, this is for the surveillance bots: yes, Kate Bush has one of two permanent seats in My Sillyass Deserted Island Five Game and the single *Babooshka* of her brilliant third album *Never for Ever* was released 45 years ago yesterday

Netanyahu Says It's Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own Atrocities
The Israeli genocide of Palestinians continues, yo
"Thus, the bankruptcy of the European ‘West’ was compounded, and the industrial mass murder of the Jews ‘repaired’, through an impossible political arrangement: Israel. Shlomo Sand offers the brutal summary: ‘Europe vomited us, the Jews, onto the Arabs of Palestine.’"
Netanyahu and the Imprisoner's Dilemma
IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
➥	"When they say Mamdani is a bigot, they mean that anyone who opposes this is a bigot"
MCPS teacher sues MoCo school board after principal prohibits display of Palestinian flag sticker
What Zohran Mamdani Means for the Anti-Monopoly Movement
➥	"Most elections are conflicts over who will run an existing system, with the candidates offering tweaks to what is essentially a stable political order. But a few elections are what I will call “system defining,” where a rising coalition, reflecting a new set of political demands, contests with an old order, seeking to re-gear the basics of how our institutions operate"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
➥	"Rep. Andy Ogles -- who lied about his college major, who lied about graduate work at Dartmouth, who lied about his financial disclosures, who lied that he had been a cop, who lied he was an international sex crimes expert, and who knows what else -- is now spreading lies about other politicians too"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani (Motherfucking New York Democratic Senator edition)
➥	"Mamdani won a higher % of votes from Jewish NYers than from many other ethnic or religious demographics, won the endorsement of Lander & Nadler. It seems the bourgeois press will not stop until Jews conform to their Zionist, Islamophobic narrative. This shit is tired"
Zohran's Historic Win: 16 Takeaways
"I'm a 58-year-old retired roofer from Zanesville, OH who has no relationship with his children and has been banned from 4 separate Chili's locations for berating staff, and I have deep concerns about the Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City, a place I have never been"
That Democrats en masse aren't screaming about masked goons refusing to show badge or give name and disappearing people to South Sudan is all you need know about Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani, who is not going to save you
"While masked, heavily armed, unidentified men are grabbing people off the streets, senior Democrats are either nowhere to be found or making milquetoast statements"
What is a democratic socialist?
"When he decided to inflict his presence on New York City again, centrist Democrats lined up to support him. Democrats who’d called for his resignation a few years earlier told voters he would be a great mayor. The logic was transparent: Give the bastard a second chance so the left doesn’t get one at all"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
"Between the expulsion of Hogg and the freakout over Mamdani, it seems Dems are responding to their problem with young men by saying "fuck you, we don't need your votes." Which is really an interesting strategy. We'll see how it works out"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
➥	"Uh oh. Mamdani’s about to lose the racist child-fucker vote"
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
When the ickiest people in the world LIKE Zohran Mamdani
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
The shittiest people in the world hate and fear Zohran Mamdani
Meet the Shitlords Profiting Off Trump’s Deportations
"one of the projects of the court is to expand the ability of states to pursue reactionary ends and constrain the ability of the federal government to set minimum standards *or* of democratic-led states to expand upon existing rights"
Quite possibly the shittiest shitlord if not in fact the antichrist too
"Clinton made Summers his Russia viceroy overseeing Yeltsin's catastrophic neoliberal reforms—resulting in rise of Putinism. Then Obama put Summers in charge of the US economy—giving us Trumpism. Nothing is more destructive than Larry Summers' advice"
Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports
"If it was not clear before, it is undeniable now: the President, Congress, and Supreme Court no longer support and defend the Constitution"
Inside The Secretive Network that Shaped the Right-Wing Media Machine
"The guy who authored the majority opinion in Citizens United v. FEC and opened the floodgates for infinite dark money in politics wants us all to know that "freedom is at risk." No shit Sherlock. You're the one to blame."
The A-Z of Marxism					Gleichschaltung
Thread: it's not a coincidence that America's democracy has become significantly less democratic at the same time that mass surveillance has grown.
"These 37 House Dems agree with Republicans that an adult international student sitting in a parked car with a can of beer should be deported"
I guarantee you that if someone wearing a shirt with a Free Palestine tshirt had shot and killed elected Republicans this would still be driving a media hysteria
There is not a single Democrat of oomph throwing daily shitfits against this
A Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery
"Even when it comes to the president’s most serious power, Trump has established that he will do whatever produces the images he likes"
➥	I know I've said this a zillion times in a zillion different ways, but Trump understands that EVERYTHING IS A TV SHOW
Trump’s Darwinian America
I have Iranian-American friends and they are scared to death for themselves and their children
Toward a Communist Universalism and the Militancy We Desire
The Courts Just Made Our Libraries Sitting Ducks For AI Plundering
Avedon Carol's occasional links
Spud-ology			GSOH, SBS			#1522
Reissue of the Week: Coil’s *Black Antler*s

CONGRATULATING WEDGE

Alice Notley

All things belie me, I think, but I

look at them though. Well boys, at

least you’re not dead, right? What’s

the date today? Until something. What?

Of the lady of the whitening blow.

I’m ashamed to keep on babbling

as if I’ve always been oneself,

diamond flow through. Humble

flannel skeleton. Grin, laugh unbecoming

Living at the bottom of the water may

have been obvious all the time. But

I forget. What’s my plot? Hand

of a child, paw of an animal. Paint

it red & make a pawprint in the psalter.

Protect her & give her back her hat

Entangle her dreams in demotic and

Warm her feet; cheat the judge

& protect the tree from which he was carved.

                                  *

And now that I’ve explained the situation

Jesus my frame hurts, you say.

Fucking pain. Hey come & empty my ashtray

once more & don’t get so excited. A

gentle heart was broken. Whose? No one’s

It’s a figure like a frame among

medlars & briars. Hand me that piece of

that, just that, yeah. I don’t mean it,

I’ve never meant anything because that’s

not what I do, in the mountains I call home

How can I tell you of my wound? it’s

round & silver & headstrong, it’s

nothing more than temperament born

of a custom involving a circuitous journey

This is all wrong. It rains today, my

son’s singing love songs of this

country, already being ten.

                                  *

And if to withstand this nocturnal pollution of the tiny

wanton stars with bent hook clauses of misprision

I’m supposed to sing the melody of an unexpecting part. . .

Hey a pretty honey come a listen to me

while I evening, darling, your messages,

what would you think then? But I

wouldn’t do that. Light surrounded oranges

towels clouds. You don’t think you’re my you.

Not here not you. You still think you’re he. she.

Because I wouldn’t “you” you, would I? I only

“you” some other he. she. I

who write poems. When she writes them,

it’s different. . .A world of words, right?

It’s only my version of The Entertainer

Nothing truly personal, I’m way above that.

I’ve learned about it for a lot of days. I’ve

been to see the doctor & you have to have shots

for it. 17 balls of yarn & a sewing machine.

                                  *

No I wouldn’t know why anyone would

want to write like that. I should never

have had to do it. We were used to this

other thing we always know like when we’re

here. And you have this clear head & you’re

seeing things & there they are. You don’t

notice they’re spelled. That’s how you

know you’re alive. I never saw you