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ahandleforderek.bsky.social @ahandleforderek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Sad day. Been a whole quarter-score since that old chunk of coal Norm Macdonald became a diamond, and at only tres score and uno anos. Yet despite the evidence that damned barber Abernathy still walks the streets seemingly having skirted all responsibility for his role. youtu.be/O79niS9K5uw

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Johnny Cash - Old Chunk of Coal (Live In Las Vegas, 1979)

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 24/04/2026

Read @lilianasegura.bsky.social's incredible reporting inside the trial of the woman arrested for wearing a penis costume at a No Kings protest:

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The Short and Ridiculous Trial of a Protester Arrested in an Inflatable Penis Costume

An Alabama cop who confronted the No Kings protester claimed she posed a risk to public safety. The judge was unconvinced.

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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I don’t ask a lot from y’all in exchange for spending thousands of dollars a year to give the public free court records. Please share this piece far and wide.

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ahandleforderek.bsky.social @ahandleforderek.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Recently published biography of City Lights Bookstore framing it in its role as a center for literary activism. As an academic text it is richly sourced from interviews and Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s / the bookstore’s epistolary records. Chock full of interesting and fun tidbits. Highly recommended.

Cover for City Lights. Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore. Lawrence Ferlinghetti standing at open window wearing bohemian garb looking out from a window on the upper level of City Lights.

Table of contents page for City Lights. Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Biography of a Bookstore.

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ahandleforderek.bsky.social @ahandleforderek.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

In stack form, echoing the ones that I been able to read and was happier for it. (Thread) Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press) Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (FC2)

Snoopy riding books in stack form

Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press)

Alvin Lu, Daydreamers (FC2)

Dan Elkind, Dr Chizhevsky’s Chandelier: The Decline of the USSR and Other Heresies of the Twentieth Century (Repeater Books)

Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Ancient Algorithms (Sarabande Books)

Pierre Guyotat, Idiocy trans. by Peter Behrman de Sinéty (NYRB Classics)

Amit Chauhari, Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999 - 2023 (NYRB)

Alina Stefanescu My Heresies

Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, Disintegration Made Plain & Easy

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ahandleforderek.bsky.social @ahandleforderek.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Every book that I have gotten from Malarkey has been great to the point I signed up as a Book club member next year. They put out great stuff. Please consider supporting them. Get some books or even some PDF/ electronic versions. Only 4 bucks. Great to procrastinate at work before the holiday.

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🚜 TODAY 10/27 7pm PT, @willpotter.bsky.social joins us in the bookstore to celebrate the publication of his new City Lights title, LITTLE RED BARNS: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable Join us! Or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/will-...

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ahandleforderek.bsky.social @ahandleforderek.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A unique poem from the special exhibit on Lawrence Ferlinghetti currently on display at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Out of Chaos Surges Forth The Human

Cover page, a poem in three lithographs. Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

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ahandleforderek.bsky.social @ahandleforderek.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

“looking like a living question mark into the great gramophone of puzzling existence” Dog - Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

The dog trots freely in the street
and sees reality
and the things he sees
are bigger than himself
and the things he sees
are his reality
Drunks in doorways
Moons on trees
The dog trots freely thru the street
and the things he sees
are smaller than himself
Fish on newsprint
Ants in holes
Chickens in Chinatown windows
their heads a block away
The dog trots freely in the street
and the things he smells
smell something like himself
The dog trots freely in the street
past puddles and babies
cats and cigars
poolrooms and policemen
He doesn’t hate cops
He merely has no use for them
and he goes past them
and past the dead cows hung up whole
in front of the San Francisco Meat Market
He would rather eat a tender cow
than a tough policeman
though either might do
And he goes past the Romeo Ravioli Factory
and past Coit’s Tower
and past Congressman Doyle
He’s afraid of Coit’s Tower
but he’s not afraid of Congressman Doyle
although what he hears is very discouraging
very depressing
very absurd
to a sad young dog like himself
to a serious dog like himself

But he has his own free world to live in
His own fleas to eat
He will not be muzzled
Congressman Doyle is just another
fire hydrant
to him
The dog trots freely in the street
and has his own dog’s life to live
and to think about
and to reflect upon
touching and tasting and testing everything
investigating everything
without benefit of perjury
a real realist
with a real tale to tell
and a real tail to tell it with
a real live
barking
democratic dog
engaged in real
free enterprise
with something to say
about ontology
something to say
about reality
and how to see it
and how to hear it
with his head cocked sideways
at streetcorners
as if he is just about to have
his picture taken
for Victor Records
listening for
His Master’s Voice
and looking
like a living questionmark
into the
great gramaphone
of puzzling existence
with its wondrous hollow horn
which always seems
just about to spout forth
some Victorious answer
to everything

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ahandleforderek.bsky.social @ahandleforderek.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

quotation marks around the word American in the phrase "free born American," suggested an inclusive vision of American identity that was open to anyone who embraced freedom, regardless of race, ethnicity, or place of birth. In this vision immigrants, whether they had naturalized, were Americans too

Cover of biography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Rebel Girl, Democracy, and Revolution

Since the union's founding in 1905, radicals in the IWW had crafted their own phrases, symbols, and historical lineages to separate capitalism from democracy and express their program of revolutionary unionism as a quintessentially American endeavor. In the call for recruits to the Missoula free speech fight, quotation marks around the word American in the phrase "free born American," suggested an inclusive vision of American identity that was open to anyone who embraced freedom, regardless of race, ethnicity, or place of birth. In this vision immigrants, whether they had naturalized, were Americans too. By implication, tyrannical, oppressive police, who had made a crime of speaking in the street, were for- eign and un-American. This rhetorical tactic would become increasingly important in radical campaigns for free speech.

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

"I am seeing almost all of this for the first time,” says Paul Yamazaki, longtime head buyer at City Lights, of the new Legion of Honor museum’s exhibition "Ferlinghetti for San Francisco." It's open now through March 22, 2026! Read the interview in ALTA Magazine www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

City Lights LIVE events! 📢 TODAY 7/28 6pm Mary Anne Trasciatti & Naomi R Williams @rutgersupress.bsky.social 💥 Tues 7/29 6pm @rebeccagrant.bsky.social & Nina Martin @avidreaderpress.bsky.social 🌲 Thurs 7/31 7pm A Celebration of Lew Welch w/ @altajournal.bsky.social Register: citylights.com/events/

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

People are talking about genocide as if it is a rhetorical or moral debate. It is a legal term–a crime defined under international law. South Africa and nine other countries have charged Israel with the crime of genocide at the International Court of Justice. 🧵

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ahandleforderek.bsky.social @ahandleforderek.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Court Watch does tremendous and important work. Court dockets are a treasure trove and they are good at finding important things. And sometimes it’s just funny, e.g. the dumb luck crank heads who stole a trailer from the FBI equipment yard only to get caught while in the back of it smoking meth.

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ahandleforderek.bsky.social @ahandleforderek.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Being bold and recommending after only one chapter because I have faith the rest will be as good. Intro, and a poem from the first chapter written by Kimberly Blaeser (chapter and poem)

Introduction
I believe every poem is ritual: there is a naming, a beginning, a knot or question, then possibly revelation, and then closure, which can be opening, setting the reader, speaker, or singer out and back on a journey. I can hear the tribal speaker in his voice, in whatever mode of performance. And when I trust my voice to go where it needs to be, to find home, it returns to where it belongs, back to the source of its longing.
-Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior
As poets ourselves, our curiosity is piqued by seeking why Native American writers are drawn to, take up, and embrace the genre of poetry specifically. Though style and form are important to the study of poetry, literary analysis is not what we are interested in performing in this book. What intrigues us is how the creative process, as a practice, has its own capacities, through the "ritual" of creation, to name the "knot or question," and to travel toward "revelation, and then closure, which can be opening." Like Harjo, we trust our voices and the voices of our contributors. We have journeyed with them, and together we are expressing home, in a way our poetic homes, where we see ourselves belonging. What does poetic process uniquely allow us to do? And does our poetic practice express its own type of Indigenous hermeneutics?
We acknowledge, first, that the field of Native American poetry is far too much for any one book to take on. The sheer volume of poetry written by American Indians, First Nations, Native American, and Indigenous writers across the Americas is immense.

Words join breath-marks, fall into silence. Language stutters and searches. Poems build by an inquiry etched in text, in form, in absences.11
How delicate-
dark
material of dream.
What we become
in space:
An etch-
ing.
Stilled
vector-
of
holy.
two
dimensions
A cut-out
hunger.
Sweet shadow-filled
how we bargain
against
lurid possession.
trace-

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ahandleforderek.bsky.social @ahandleforderek.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Feeling grateful I took the recommendation of @alinaetc.bsky.social on this absolutely fantastic book. It has been a joy to read.

The Book How to Research Like a Dog with a Snoopy miniature on it to hold down the cover.

Research is an impossible profession, avoided by knowing adults and unknown to carefree children: it can only be undertaken by a dog who, forsaking childish pleasures for a serious quest, also turns away from the knowledge and imperatives of the adult world to become more childish than the child. This might even be considered the formula for happiness in Kafka. Contrary to the romantic ideal, happiness consists not in recapturing or returning to youth, an uncorrupted state of innocence and playfulness, but in a demonic childishness unbearable to children.
In a somewhat melancholic vein, the dog wonders if this joy will come to him later, after a lifetime of theoretical toil, to brighten his twilight years. But, following the logic of the Kafkian already, one can ask whether this longed-for fulfillment is not already present, pressing the investigations staggeringly for- ward, whether the dog's melancholy science is not also a gay science, to use the term that Nietzsche borrowed from the medieval troubadours, la gaya scienza. If Kafka's humor is a screwball tragedy, Kafka's new science cultivates a joyful despair.

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Durham Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) @languagesdurham.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Congratulations to Claudia Dellacasa, lecturer in Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, and Durham alumna, on winning the XXIV International Flaiano Prize in Italian Studies Luca Attanasio, for "Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs".

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ahandleforderek.bsky.social @ahandleforderek.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

For Summer Solstice, two poems from the collection, Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane) by Will Alexander.

A Blaze of Riddles
Because the Sun exudes a blaze of riddles
there exists a haze of optimal osmosis
of protracted helium that bends
via its forceless gruel
via its maniacal translocation
to alien ravines
to other planes & possibilities anterior to the sense of chronicle as uninhabited or pure activity

On Philosophical Audition
As pluperfect poltergeist it retains its aural glistening
a grammar alive
honed by ophthalmological combining

astonishing formation occurs
that extends throughout living neural registration
via inner audition
sired by ethereal humming

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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A note to our followers. www.CourtWatch.news/subscribe

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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

“Despite what we can assume would have resulted in a guaranteed ability to secure millions of votes, no candidate made the eliminating PACER fees the central tenet of their campaign. As such, we still need additional paid subscribers to report the news” www.courtwatch.news/p/last-call

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Last Call

Every candidate running for office left millions of guaranteed votes on the table.

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