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D.A. Gray

@dagray.bsky.social
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Student & Teacher. Writer. Poet. Veteran. Independent. Misanthropic Humanist. Author of Contested Terrain.

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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Be highly suspicious of accounts trying to sow division in the Crockett/Talarico US Senate primary contest.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/12/2025
You know how racist a country gotta be to give everybody a 60 year taste of what being closer to equality could potentially look like & then just roll all that shit back?
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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
No streams for the regime: Stand in solidarity with immigrant communities. app.sosha.ai/s/b5vSLwAE
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Spotify: Wrapped in complicity
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/09/j... Some of y’all need to cut the bullshit. The worries that Ms Crockett is too loud, too radical, too anything are typical white supremacist tropes and to use it on the day after she announces only shows that some claiming to be on the left are easily manipulated.
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Texas Democrats divided over Jasmine Crockett’s Senate bid
Some Democrats dismissed the Dallas congresswoman as too polarizing to capture the swing voters needed to win. Others said her turnout-over-persuasion approach is the recipe to break through.
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Since we’re talking about your boss — Any plans to ask wth he was thinking with the AI-generated clip of him shitting on the American people? No? Just going to be spineless as ever? got it. ...
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Welp. Cf47s regime shitting on the American people is their most honest post yet.
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Thank you to Line of Advance for including 'Sacrament' among their finalists for the Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing award for veterans. There are a lot of strong poems posted on their page. www.lineofadvance.org/blog/2025/8/...
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Sacrament — Line Of Advance Literary Journal
Fear death by water, the poet, wearing the mask  of a fortune teller, says, which I’m thinking  as we roll over into the canal. Sometimes  the weirdest shit crops up like a line of vers...
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
riseupreview.org/current-issue Thankful for the editors at Rise Up Review for the work put into this latest issue. Some won't see the benefit of art when the world is on fire, but when authoritarians use division and despair, evidence of interconnectedness and hope are a shot in the arm.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/07/2025
Trump lied about Medicaid, and people are going to die because of it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/07/2025
The Paramount - Skydance merger will be worthless if no one is watching. Independent media is doing to corporate media what independent music did to major labels back in the day. Fuck with the people at your own risk, oligarchs.
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g20x... Losing one of our best voices, who always spoke up for those who needed it. 49 years is far too early but it was 49 packed, meaningful years. Rest easy, Andrea Gibson.
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Andrea Gibson - Maybe I Need You | Sofar NYC
YouTube video by Sofar Sounds
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Thank you Collateral Journal, @middlewestpress.bsky.social , @aimingcircle.bsky.social , @fobhaiku.bsky.social for the important work of giving veterans and family an important outlet. Honored to be in great company.
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Middle West Press @middlewestpress.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
With co-sponsor Collateral Journal, we are pleased to announce the 2025 War Poetry Postcard Project results! linktr.ee/warpoets 1st Prize: @janemuschenetz.bsky.social, "Every poem is political—"! Finalists: @dagray.bsky.social, "A.M. radio"! @pam-hart.bsky.social, "Mothers Over Nangarhar"
Image on right: Poet Jane Muschenetz

Image on left:

A vertical postcard presentation of Jane Muschenetz's poem, "Every poem is political—" Superimposed over a blue sky and bordered by a yellow sunflower, he poem continues:

"in the sense that everything is political
even sunflowers

this blue sky, stands in opposition
to the air sirens above my birth city

this deep ocean
shelters undocumented oil fields

the great mountains in the distance
are unapologetically arresting … 

everywhere you look is a reason to protest
everywhere you look is so beautiful

never forget

every tongue is a borderland
every heart, a homeland worth longing for"
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
It’s easy to come off as a radical when you warn people that a racist, sexist, Christofascist movement is pushing for a dictatorship. But the real radicals are the racists, sexists and Christofascists who are pushing for a dictatorship. We’re only describing what’s in front of our eyes.
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Meanwhile, CF47 is preoccupied carrying out a war agains Americans. And our Defense Sec has only ever commanded a bottle of whiskey, or one of his assault victims.
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 10/05/2025
Every leader—Dem or GOP—should follow Malcolm Kenyatta’s lead and *rage* against Trump’s gestapo tactics. That includes the assault on Mayor Ras Baraka *and* the kidnapping of our immigrant neighbors. This isn’t law—it’s fascism. Silence is complicity. Speak up or step aside. #OnYourSide
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
There's much more in this piece abt Marco Rubio getting USAID contractors robbed, but he also cut off USAID Inspector General's phone. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
In an episode that highlights how cursory and haphazard their efforts appear to have been, Marocco and Rubio ordered the cancellation of contracts, including for cellphone service, at an office they do not control. The move stranded people in war zones without phones, according to multiple officials and internal correspondence obtained by ProPublica. On Wednesday, AT&T received a termination notice for a $430,000 contract with USAID’s Office of Inspector General. That office is meant to be independent from USAID so that it can effectively audit the agency.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Imran Bristol @imranicus.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
The "big government" that Libertarians rail against are the governments that protect ordinary people from big businesses and billionaires. Ironically the mode of government Libertarians aim for is actually big government, power and wealth concentrated into the hands of a small clique.
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ having half their neighbors treated as 'the enemy.' Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ having their religion used as cover for bigotry. Good morning to everyone who's NOT okay w/ stirring up hate to cover up white collar crimes. You are not alone.
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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 04/02/2025
What beautiful irony: the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church now controls the name Proud Boys, the trademark, and rights to any monies from merch. 👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
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Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/02/2025
NEW: Federal workers are starting to receive a copy of the court's restraining order against the Trump administration barring the regime from freezing federal grants and financial assistance. Excellent work, and worth the read:
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Tay Way @21robsterinc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
🚀 Mary Jackson made history in 1958 as NASA’s first Black female engineer, a time when there were very few female or Black engineers in the field #BlackHistoryMonth #MSIChicago #NASA #WomeninSTEM
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/01/2025
I don’t know about you, but Malcolm Kenyatta right here makes me want to fight—to keep fighting for what we believe as Democrats. I was hollering watching this. @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social is running for DNC Vice Chair.
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Trump Admin Forces Out USAID Official Who Refused to Comply With 'Illegal' Purge www.commondreams.org/news/trump-u... Nicholas Gottlieb setting the example. Complying with crime families won't save you.
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Trump Admin Forces Out USAID Official Who Refused to Comply With 'Illegal' Purge | Common Dreams
A career official at the U.S. Agency for International Development said he was placed on leave after refusing an order to "violate the due process of our employees."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Media orgs are paying too much attention to televised ICE raids and deportation flights. These are not new. They were happening under Biden too, with fewer cameras and less pageantry. They are designed to distract the public from the real Trump agenda, which is to kick out legal immigrants.
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
'bless our willful ignorance, so enormous, so world-altering, that, like the great wall of China, it can be seen from outer space, where the gods are shaking their heads even now, in pity and in awe.' from 'Praise the Broken Promise of America' Alison Luterman takes no prisoners. www.rattle.com
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Rattle: Poetry
… without pretension since 1995.
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The Earl of Orkney 💙 @earloforkney.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!
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Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I lost my medical this week I believe that it was a setup to get people off it because when I called to find out they told me it was a glitch that was randomly kicked people off , so now they have redetermined me and have denied me. I better not run into any republicans or magas because I know I
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
www.expressnews.com/news/article... The speed at which the USAF bowed down and complied is one of the infuriating parts. The only reason to eliminate parts of our actual history is a desire to go back to a time before the Tuskegee Airmen could have existed.
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Heeding Trump, Air Force won't teach recruits about Tuskegee Airmen
A video on the pioneering Black pilots, famed for their World War II exploits, was stripped from an Air Force basic training curriculum this week.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Very moving @nhpr.bsky.social interview with a Jan 6er from Keene, NH, who rejected Trump’s pardon and sounds like he has grown tremendously in 4 years. “One thing I did not believe in was change before this experience…And now I believe change is necessary for survival.” www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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Keene man arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 rejects Trump’s pardon
On his first day in office this week, President Donald Trump pardoned all rioters at the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Jason Riddle served time in jail for his participation in the 2021 riot.
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
'It is said that fear is contagious. But so, too, is courage.' Jay Kuo statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-truth-... Thankful for the truthtellers who've moved over to SubStack and to several Indy news sites - places to spend time once given to WaPo and CNN.
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The Truth Speakers
In a terrible week for our country, three stars shone brightly through the gloom.
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
www.msn.com/en-us/politi... Time for the white supremacists who worried about having their jobs taken to get to pickin'
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Katharine Burke @katharineburke.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Imagine if we truly came to know this ourselves. Imagine if we came to understand ourselves, not as apart from nature observing it, but a part of nature, in fact, nature ourselves together with the rest of the living biome. Imagine the transformation- the awe, the coherence, and even the joy.
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Obama was right. The floodgates opened to special interest groups, silencing the people. 15 years ago, politics was fundamentally changed for the worse after SCOTUS opened the door for corrupt politicians and rich oligarchy's to advance their own agenda. #StopTheOligarchy
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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
These are excerpts from a very different dream speech from MLK, Jr. He says a lot here, July 4, 1965.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Elon Musk is vile for calling Donald Trump "a king." We went to war to get rid of monarchs.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I'm sorry, Moyn, you of all people don't get to pull this card when you explicitly argued *against* prosecuting Trump
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
It’s really not left vs right. It’s a class war. The billionaires vs the rest of us.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/01/2025
A confession?
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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
TOMORROW WE CELEBRATE MLK NOT DJT. Pass it on… 🦋
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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
American Sweetheart 79 🎂 Jan. 19, 2025
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D.A. Gray @dagray.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
'You ain't the boss of me!' Narrator: Not surprisingly, America's first words were also its last.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Those of us who couldn’t feel our toes until Valentine’s Day after the jam-packed, joyous inauguration of President Obama, suspect this move indoors may be driven more by the prediction of a relatively thin crowd, rather than the cold.
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