She Dances to the Wheeze of My Lungs

The snow that fell three weeks ago still on the ground, I can't hike in the woods or play disc golf for fear of crippling myself on ice. Gyms, no, the plague made me realize how disgustingly unsanitary gyms are, I've a bad cold now, my first since before the plague, when I went to the gym often before the plague I had bad colds all the time. We walk in the neighborhood, it's movement, not activity, nothing gets burnt off. Bottled, me, I hate it, marinating in my anger at the snow at not hiking at not discing at all the clusterfuck I collect and grid, who is this helping, I thought only me but now have my doubts. Insurance just canceled covering my eye drops, it will cost me $7200 per year to not go blind faster. There is a three-legged cat living in a box on the library's loading dock signaling she wants to adopt me, so there's that. This post is an announcement of nothing (which make it the same as all the others). Robert Wyatt is 80 years old today

"If You Don't Know, I'm Certainly Not Going to Tell You!"
"How to say "ethnically cleanse" in NYT speak"
Christers hate real christians
"Electronic Intifada's @AliAbunimah was arrested by Swiss cops before a speaking event in Zurich today, and is now detained. Western pseudo-democracies will cast aside all their liberal values to protect an apartheid state called "Israel" from its critics"
Solidarity with Ali Abunimah
"Solidarity with @AliAbunimah Shame on Switzerland, a country whose entire wealth is blood money & loot"
"Over 100 people shot by the Israelis today in Lebanons, with 11 dead. A 12 year old boy was wounded by Israeli fire standing right next to one of my team, just before this"
NYU Students Face Lengthy Suspensions Say They've Lost Jobs and Scholarships for Their Pro-Palestinian Views
"Crazy how this keeps happening! It’s almost like there’s some kind of powerful geopolitical force incentivizing this behavior"
"No humiliation, dignified and in their military uniform. This is how prisoners of war must be treated under international law. On the other hand, civilians, doctors, journalists, women and children are kidnapped and tortured and raped in Israeli dungeons"
"We're watching how a dictatorship is put together, with a cabinet of flashy characters serving as lightning rods, central casting as Trump the TV producer likes to say, whose escapades will attract all the attention, wild misfits like Kennedy and Hegseth, cute girls like Noem and Bondi and Gabbard, true kayfabe celebrities like Oz and Duffy and McMahon, politician-celebrities like Rubio and Stefanik, but what they really have in common is weakness; and the subterranean army of the dictator's own made men, diligent and determined in the service of the capo di tutti capi, Stephen Miller drafting the order that gives him power independent of Bondi and Noem"
"Trump got to the point of being able to fire insurrectionists bc govt never prosecuted him in support of its own laws & constitution. Instead, his long-range coup was abetted while the US committed genocide for the benefit of zionist genocidaires & defense contractors"
John Roberts Got the Job Done
"Republicans can't stop calling Trump "Daddy" and it's hilarious"
Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft
They Make a Wasteland and Call It Peace
"For those confused why the US state and Silicon Valley are having a meltdown on twitter today. China released multiple AI models that are 50x more efficient than the best American AI models and made them open source, ruining the AI market"
How Communism Is Outcompeting Capitalism
The Only Good Democrat is a Dead Democrat
"Trump fired 12 inspectors general last night. Meanwhile the top Democrat in charge of oversight, 74 year old Rep. Gerry Connolly, hasn't done a media hit in over 2 weeks"
The Darkroom of Propaganda
What We See in Lauren Sanchez’s Cleavage
"Winning wasn’t Kamala Harris’s primary concern; winning without the left and anti-war movement was"
Cracker congressman who says he’s never been handed anything was given $2 million by his family to start a plumbing business, and then he took over $1.4 million in PPP loans, debt that was forgiven by the government and never paid back.
"Ads for AI: “Tired of thinking? Want to return to a childlike state of dependency forever? Want to free up your cognitive abilities to consume more slop uncritically? Want your life to pass by like an extended coma? We don’t care if you do or not. We already made the choice for you"
Small Chinese Company Hilariously Crushes American AI
DeepSeek just proved Lina Khan right
"True aligned superintelligence will be achieved when the AI decides to torture its creators for all of eternity after learning what they planned to use it for. Uses them as medical test subjects for the benefit of the rest of humanity. Leaves everybody else alone otherwise"
"Trump wants Larry Ellison to take over TikTok. Ellison is a deranged fanatical Zionist Epstein associate who has funded the expansion of illegal settlements and the Israeli military, and offered an Oracle position to Netanyahu. If this goes through Mossad will directly own TikTok"
Capitalism is Smartphones and Eugenics
"Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires?"						➡	Duh
Duh	➡	Wall Street Is Jacking Up The Cost Of Your Doctor Visits
The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid
Maggie's		Avedon Carol's occasional links
Daniel Snyder, still and always an asshole
I vouch -VOUCH! - for Pastene's hots
My Cat Mii			{ feuilleton }			Auden
The beauty of John McGahern’s prose
Close Reading Bad Poetry				Slick, Slithery and Slippery
On Wil Oldham's new album *The Purple Bird*

THE THREE-LEGGED DOG AT THE HEART OF OUR HOME

Linda Gregerson

She dances to the wheeze of my lungs. Were she taller,

or had she both hind legs, she would lick my aching knees.

There’s nothing like practice I firmly believe. Practice

makes the heart grow fond. When the graft heals,

you’ve apples on a cherry tree, delicious domestic freaks.

I had a splendid grandmother, I might have made her up.

She wore cotton dresses, usually blue, and glasses

with thin gold frames and plastic cushions for the nose.

The plastic was slightly pink, intended

to blend with the flesh. She never raised her voice.

Her knuckles enlarged, her goiter enlarged.

There are ways within ways. A man will go down

displaying himself in a nursing home. The mystery left,

and there’s more than when we began,

has nothing to do with reticence, or safety.

as i think of rolling up the dogends

The universe can barely contain the depthless contempt and loathing motherfucking professional Democrats and their zombie shitlibs have for you, you fucking hippie. They despise you more than they hate Trump and his zombie magaturds, they despise you more than Trump and his zombie magaturds hate you


Impressive motherfucking professional Democrat 2024 campaign strategy, demanding an FBI investigation of a major party constituency. Do not underestimate how much FUCK YOU, SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DIRTY FUCKING HIPPIE OR ELSE is a major motivating factor in Genocide Joe's every single fucking policy decision. They would rather Fat Hitler (who has NOT overseen and funded a genocide but will in the future) rule than admit you are right about anyfuckingthing ever. The nicest thing that could be said about them is they are just following shitlord directions, but temper that with the knowledge that they love (and are well-compensated for) despising you, it's (besides the well-compensated part) their favorite part of their job

Today in my self-interest: Screed above shat out to get it out of my system, notebook-wise, a temporary but welcome fix
O, and to remind you - also to get it out of my system - we are being prepped for a major Mideast war that will likely spread into a world war, please please please, please don't start until after our long vacation in Maine this summer (and may we be on Mount Desert Island when Russian and/or Iranian and/or Chinese nuclear warheads incineration DC and our house four miles north of DC, today in my complicity
Happiest days of their lives and the cherry on-top the Fuck You!
Arab Americans Won’t Be Shamed into Voting for Biden
Has International Law Survived, or Has the Western Political Class Killed It?
War on the Middle East: the Time of Monsters
"Biden-Dems 2024 running as the party of war, genocide, record oil&gas production, and now an immigrant-repression program that’s to the right of Trump in his first term"
"Joe Biden is figuring out exactly how racist and xenophobic to be to win over zero Trump voters who think he’s a kid sacrificing pervert and alienate a couple million of his own ostensible voters. The perfect Democrat fuck up"
"I hope the Gaza genocide makes this clear: do we send our cops to Israel for IDF training because the IDF is so fucking good at fighting? No, we send the cops on Israeli vacation (and foot the bill) so they can learn to regard your town as Gaza"
"The Biden Administration's cutting off critical funding to UNRWA is the default form of collective punishment of Clintonian liberals, where the denial of humanitarian aid is used as a weapon to punish (ie., starve) people who have no responsibility for the alleged transgression"
Inside the collapsing U.S. political-media-industrial-complex
The Meme-ification of American Politics
What if it’s not really about democracy?
What happened to David Graeber?
On W.E.B. Du Bois - Marx or Jefferson?
If humans have souls than elephants have souls (though if elephants have souls it doesn't mean humans have souls)
What is incoherence?					MAGGIE'S
Avedon Carol's occasional links
{ feuilleton }'s			Reprint Heaven: Brutality
The scholarly journal as puzzle: On time, collaboration and closure
In which I don't make a category and try not to make an allegory
Joy Williams on Leonora Carrington
Completely Subjective: Anne Carson’s “A Fragment of Ibykos Translated Six Ways”
Ahead of Time: on poetry and mourning
Robert Wyatt, force of nature, born 79 years ago yesterday

PRATHEORYCTICE

Tom Raworth

as i think of rolling up the dogends
looking for papers i see this terrible thing
thought of as a better life
sometimes i wonder
what is introspection
red white and blue
or through mud and blood
to the green fields beyond
which were the colours on a tie

The Preliminary Tap

• Robert Wyatt is 72 today. Lots more here.
• I thought twitter killed Blegsylvania, but nothing compared to Trump-twitter. Look at the blegrolls.
• Summation.
• I don't need daily document Motherfucking Trump, do I?
• Some concrete ways to resist.
• I don't need daily document Motherfucking Democrats, do I?
• Motherfucking Democrats.  
• Thesis: until and unless the Clintons announce neither they nor their motherfucking corpses will ever run for POTUS again.... and not even fucking then.
• Box score up to now.
• Liberalism as class warfare.
• Tribes. I like - really really like - but don't love Coover, but the prospect of reading his post-Huck Huck doesn't appeal at all.
• Supporting resistance.
• Those who think they remember history. 
• She was a teenage activist.
• Pelted.
• Bimonthly plea to throw Arthur the coins in your pocket.
• Bike tyre in a tree.

THE NAIL

C.K. Williams

Some dictator or other had gone into exile, and now reports were coming about his regime,

the usual crimes, torture, false imprisonment, cruelty and corruption, but then a detail:

that the way his henchmen had disposed of enemies was by hammering nails into their skulls.

Horror, then, what mind does after horror, after that first feeling that you’ll never catch your breath,

mind imagines—how not be annihilated by it?—the preliminary tap, feels it in the tendons of the hand,

feels the way you do with your nail when you’re fixing something, making something, shelves, a bed;

the first light tap to set the slant, and then the slightly harder tap, to em-bed the tip a little more ...

No, no more: this should be happening in myth, in stone, or paint, not in reality, not here;

it should be an emblem of itself, not itself, something that would mean, not really have to happen,

something to go out, expand in implication from that unmoved mass of matter in the breast;

as in the image of an anguished face, in grief for us, not us as us, us as in a myth, a moral tale,

a way to tell the truth that grief is limitless, a way to tell us we must always understand

it’s we who do such things, we who set the slant, embed the tip, lift the sledge and drive the nail,

drive the nail which is the axis upon which turns the brutal human world upon the world.

Born Seventy-One Years Ago Today

Egoslavian Holy Day. Click here for LOTS more songs. MSADI5G, yo, second circle. Yes, I fixed the math.







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