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Bill Marsh

@bcmearc.bsky.social
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City prof (Chicago), country poet, essayist, union+, angling for truth in a big lie pond. Words/doodles: petrichor, Potomac Review, Water-Stone Review, Copper Nickel, Word For/Word, Sonic Boom. nodiff.com

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The Poetry Kiosk @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We’re very pleased to bring you Issue 3 of The Visual Poetry Times! So many great contributors including Lemn Sissay, @chrissywilliams.bsky.social, @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social, @leiabutler.bsky.social, @gregchthomas.bsky.social & @alecfinlay.bsky.social! Order your copy via www.thepoetrykiosk.com 🗞️📨
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 22/09/2026
Groceries, housing and utilities topped both groups’ priorities in the Class Gaps Poll. Among working-class respondents, 10 of the top 12 priorities concerned costs, wages or jobs. Mindy Isser looks at what the findings mean for progressive politics.
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If You Want to Win Working-Class Votes, Run On Working-Class Issues
A new report lays out how to bridge the educational divide to bring non-college voters into the progressive fold.
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The incredible 'Game' by @bcmearc.bsky.social 👏 www.fullhouseliterary.com/art/game-by-...
Game by Bill Marsh. 'Unreal enough maybe the splash is not too too fast once a tin breakfast impetus abandonded large purple cluster but breezy and dense areas of similar'. The word game appears under the words in neon green colour. Behind the words are blue, yellow, green, red highlighted blocks of texts.
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Super happy to have this piece in the Featured Creators section at Full House (@fullhouselitmag.bsky.social). Many thanks to @leiabutler.bsky.social for her amazing editorial work -- and what a great issue cover! www.fullhouseliterary.com/art/game-by-...
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Game by Bill Marsh — Full House Literary
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
So grateful to be among those featured in this year’s VisPo gallery. Thank you @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social for your support and encouragement. #poetry #vispo #poetrycommunity sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/co...
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CONTESTS | Sonic Boom
Sonic Boom's Annual Vispo Contest is dedicated to showcasing the various explorations and experiments in contemporary visual poetry.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Sweet little comic about being a trans dad (gift link)
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Opinion | To My Daughter, My Gender Was Never Complicated
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Super excited to have a stretch of "the r/ver" in the latest issue of Word For/Word, edited by Jonathan Minton. Also featuring great work by Jim Andrews, Alison Strub, Carolyn Guinzio, and many others. Check it out and for/word the word! #poetry #vispo #erasure www.wordforword.info/vol46/
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Word For/Word: A Journal of New Writing (Issue 46, Spring 2026)
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Truthout @truthout.org · 22/05/2026
Local movements to rid city streets of AI-powered surveillance cameras used by law enforcement are growing rapidly amid scandals, mounting privacy concerns, and public backlash to mass surveillance under the authoritarian Trump administration.
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Resistance to Flock Cameras and Police Surveillance Is Exploding
Backlash to Flock cameras and AI systems is exploding after scandals, including police using the tech to stalk women.
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“…we are a global society in a state of dissolution, and out of this messy fluidity new things both monstrous and magical are emerging.” Another must read from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-are-crash...
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We Are Crashing Into the Future (Or It Is Crashing Into Us)
The Autumn of the Patriarchs  One common and inaccurate picture of change assumes this thing so obvious, so potent in the present, will just continue to expand and the future will be like the present...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 06/05/2026
“When I’m doing my stump speech and tell people that on the first day of this campaign, I made a promise not to support Chuck Schumer for leader, the room — without any explanation — just spontaneously bursts into applause,” Iowa candidate for U.S. Senate Zach Wahls recently said.
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
May Day wisdom nuggets.
No war but class war. I show up like money [pooh] on the sidewalk.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 30/04/2026
“There is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class.” For May Day 2026, Will Bloom, co-chair of Chicago DSA’s Labor Branch reports that more than 140 DSA chapters are planning rallies, political education, strike fund fundraisers, and more. inthesetimes.com/article/demo...
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Why Democratic Socialists Are Taking to the Streets This May Day
The legacy of May Day is a fight for working-class power against the ravages of capitalism. Democratic Socialists of America is organizing to keep that proud tradition alive in 2026.
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Defiance Dispatch @defiancedispatch.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
May 1st! No work, No school, No spending. Time to hit their wallets! Credits: @chainsl4yer9000
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Wednesday, April 22 - Chicago May Day Rally & March 5/1 / Oppose Kevin Warsh / General Strike Planning 4/27
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Wednesday, April 22 - Chicago May Day Rally & March 5/1 / Oppose Kevin Warsh / General Strike Planning 4/27 — Indivisible Chicago Alliance
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Polish artists Przemek Podolski and Marta Basandowskaby create complex geometric designs based on 3D computer models using yarn #Womensart
Four images of colourful geometric patterns crested with yarn
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“False certainty is dangerous; it rules out all possibilities but one and in essence surrenders to that imagined future.”
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
What I am feeling today, btw, is what I wrote here.
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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 03/03/2026
To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.
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A successful general strike requires trauma-informed mutual aid
To strike at scale and over the long-term, we need to build real trust so that we can lean on each other when the paychecks stop.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A small but very deep thing that bothers me about generative AI as a shortcut to practice and work and skill is the basic assumption that it’s impossible to take pleasure in a creative pursuit that you aren’t very good at and I assure you that is not the case
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Great work from @stevecarll.bsky.social
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Happy and grateful to have this piece from my vispo/comic "Operation Bird Heads" in the latest issue of @sonicboomjournal.bsky.social, edited by Shloka Shankar of Yavanika Press. Check out the complete lineup: sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/cu...
Soft Capture

disturbed animal, lost in this
splintered harbor,
hold back
every symptom a spinning
misfortune

to each system its
unilateral calamity,
in the streets
starting tomorrow, what
exactly is
inside return
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Message to ICE: "Your time is running out. Save your soul and quit your job."
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Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
"In its new quest for hemispheric dominance, the Trump administration has reached back to the Monroe Doctrine in its most belligerent version—a warrant for the complete repudiation of international law, in a world with no allies or equals, only vassals & foes." @alfatau.bsky.social @inthesetimes.com
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Empire of Extortion
The abduction of Venezuela’s president and the plunder of its oil signal a new and dangerous phase in U.S. foreign policy.
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Roshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Guerrilla Glue Gun @heyguerrilla.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The sooner we accept this, the better
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
now - especially now - a reminder that we are going to win. and this is why
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
OMG. "DHS said the episode began after a man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and they tried to disarm him. But footage from the scene shows the man was holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when federal agents took him to the ground and shot him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Update from Devon Lum
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loveisphere @loveisphere.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Jeffrey Pretti was executed by a U.S. federal agent while trying to protect a woman. That’s the headline.
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If this sounds naively optimistic, don't worry, it's going to be hard, and it's going to take all of us.
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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Today welcome Seth Copeland to PROCESS series @icefloepress.bsky.social coax out of the earth, burning it against its will a complex hybrid docupoetics work on geography/geology/ American history #art #hybrid #poetics #documentary #imperialism #erasure icefloepress.net/2026/01/23/f...
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from A Wichita Mountains Ontology (DocuPoetics) – SETH COPELAND
Notes Photographs on pages 1 and 5 by the author.Photograph on page 4 from Art Halloran’s The Nature Man’s Stories of the Wichita Mountains, independently published in 1972. Text from the House Sub…
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
"They assume we're all selfish and cowardly and can be cowed into silence or submission or surrender, which is to say they seem to base their version of human nature partly on themselves and partly on their scorn for the rest of us. They're wrong." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/one-long-yea...
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One Long Year Later: It's Not Over, and We Haven't Surrendered
I wrote an essay in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election, an essay to encourage people to not give up and not assume that the Trumpists had won. It follows, after this prelude about where we a...
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AiR - Activists in Resistance @air-chicago.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Next Monday, Jan. 19th, MLK Day, Chicago RESISTS. 50+ local organizations are coming together at 1pm at Water Tower Park to demand abolish ICE, end the genocides, stop the wars, and tax the rich! #jan19chicagoresists #chicago #protest #event #resist
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/weak-violenc... “The beautiful force behind the resistance is solidarity, which is by definition not self-defense but defense of something beyond the self, a reaching across difference to find common ground.” Another gem from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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Weak Violence, Strong Peace: Who We Are in This Crisis
It's getting more extreme out there, especially in Minnesota where the unaccountable army of the Trump regime has, in the wake of its murder, beaten up employees, ripped civilians from their cars, kid...
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Super happy to have the opening sequence from "Signatures" in petrichor #29, edited by Seth Copeland and team @petrichorlit.bsky.social. hey neat is right!
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petrichor @petrichorlit.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
And so: petrichor #29 is here for you. hey neat. petrichormag.com/petrichor-29/
Cover art by Laura Wetherington. Collaged images of autumn and winter trees over a collage background of text and sheet music.
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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"Faith leaders, union representatives and community members are calling for a Day of Truth and Freedom on Friday, Jan. 23 — urging all Minnesotans not to go to work, school or go shopping"
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Minnesota faith, union, community leaders call for economic blackout on Jan. 23
Faith leaders, union representatives and community members are calling for a Day of Truth and Freedom on Friday, Jan. 23 — urging all Minnesotans not to go to work, school or go shopping.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/01/2026
Minnesota and Illinois have filed lawsuits seeking to block Homeland Security’s latest operations, arguing that Trump’s immigration crackdowns and ICE/Border Patrol surges trample their constitutional rights to self‑governance and control over local policing.
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Minnesota, Illinois File Separate Lawsuits to Halt DHS Operations
Both lawsuits allege the Trump administration is violating the states’ and cities’ rights to self-governance.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 12/01/2026
“Get your neighbors organized, get your friends organized… ‘cause we outnumber the fascists completely, and if we all stick together, we can really stop this from getting worse.”
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‘No fascist USA!': Baltimore marches against ICE
“Get your neighbors organized, get your friends organized… ‘cause we outnumber the fascists completely, and if we all stick together, we can really stop this from getting worse.”
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
👉 REMINDER: Listening session tonight (Thurs 1/8, 6:30 pm) at Thalia Hall in Pilsen, 1807 S. Allport 👉 TOPIC: Chicago Police Department interactions with ICE/immigration authorities
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.
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The Cost of Staying Human
Remarks from a vigil for Renee Nicole Good
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Part of the unbearable stupidity of the current administration is its feckless enthusiasm for doing things that seem like manly feats of strength to manosphere idiots and also make this country weaker...all the way down to Pete Hegseth and his belief that pushups are a top military strategy.
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Notes on Unbearable Stupidity, January 6, 2026 Edition
"A year ago, I went to Copenhagen to write about the political crisis Trump had created over Greenland," Anne Appelbaum said the other day on the hellsite formerly known as Twitter. "Danes told me tha...
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Nathan Anderson/Submersible Press @njapoetry.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Performance without words pdf: nathanandersonwriting.home.blog/wp-content/u... You can purchase a print copy by emailing info@paperviewbooks.pt
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c22 @c22press.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The director cries at the death of the singer by @njapoetry.bsky.social coming Jan 7th. Our first C22 Open Editions release of 2026. Get excited! Stay tuned!
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture. In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/C-D5r9RBkY9/
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
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Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
For starters, yes. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise
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