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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

@pshares.bsky.social was the first #litmag I read as an undergrad and it continues to be one of the best in the country. It was a privilege to spend time in the archives, and I'm so proud of this piece. Thanks to @jennymolberg.bsky.social @weslpress.bsky.social @unsung-masters.bsky.social

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The new Missouri Review cover is stunning. It’s my first time seeing my name on the cover of a magazine and I’m so excited it’s this one. Gratitude to the editors for seeing value in my work. The poems are from my new book, Infinite Scroll, forthcoming from @tupelopress.bsky.social in Aug, 2027.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

So excited to share our new cover for Other Legacies: Great Unsung American Poets! Forthcoming from @weslpress.bsky.social . Edited by Adrienne Perry, @kevinprufer.bsky.social , and Martin Rock.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Here’s another way you can help #abolishICE and tell the administration we won’t stand for fascism. resistandunsubscribe.com

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Resist and Unsubscribe

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Grateful to the editors at The Missouri Review for selecting some poems from Infinite Scroll as runners-up for the 2025 Editors' Prize in Poetry! Infinite Scroll is forthcoming from @tupelopress.bsky.social in 2027. More to come! #Poetry #PoetrySky #LitSky #PoetsOfBluesky

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Just realized that when you rearrange the letters in Kristi Noem it spells Heinrich Himmler.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

A poem for our times; a spell to trap and temper the Chaos Cheeto. From The Making of a Sonnet, edited by Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Troubleshooting the US government: "Have you tried turning it off and turning it back on again?"

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We'd love to see your proposals for excellent, little-known, and unjustly neglected authors. Reach out for more info!

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Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Tupelo Press is delighted to announce that INFINITE SCROLL // INFINITE EYE by Martin Rock of Solana Beach, California is the winner of the 2025 Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry. Congratulations @infinite-scroll.bsky.social www.tupelopress.org/tupelo-press...

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TUPELO PRESS PROUDLY ANNOUNCES THE RESULTS OF THE 2025 BERKSHIRE PRIZE - Tupelo Press

Tupelo Press is especially delighted to announce that our judge, Carolyn Forché, has selected INFINITE SCROLL // INFINITE EYE by Martin Rock of Solana Beach, California as the winner of the 2025 Berks...

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

“You have to like what time does.” This poem by Carmen Giménez Smith.

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Poem: Entanglement (Published 2020)

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/08/2025

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

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Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea

I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

“In April, Elon Musk’s X supercomputing center near Memphis was found, via satellite imagery, to be using dozens of methane gas generators that the Southern Environmental Law Center alleges are not approved by energy regulators to supplement grid power and are violating the Clean Air Act."

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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

No one will believe this, but: When I was a kid, the top income tax bracket was MORE THAN 90%. Corporate tax rate was 450% of what it is now. That was under Dwight Eisenhower.

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

“Elon Musk has [saved] the United States less than 1 percent of its budget. If those savings are put toward renewing or expanding Trump’s tax cut, which seems likely, those billions will flow directly from the mouths of the world’s poorest into the pockets of the world’s richest.”

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The Influence of Foreign Aid

America is losing a diplomatic tool the government has relied on for decades.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I still don't know if Musk doesn't understand that USAID is a huge government handout to U.S. companies, especially farmers, or if he just doesn't care.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Ok can someone please ask him who he thinks Congress is because I’m beginning to get the feeling he doesn’t know it’s him

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Island Girl, Unapologetically Pro-Choice, Staunch Resister 💙 @bluepolitico.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship. #BlackHistoryMonth

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Aspiring dictator move right here. Let’s keep him limited to the first syllable.

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

With respect, suspending electric building codes for homes that burned down in LA so people can rebuild with highly flammable fossil gas is a terrible policy. This doesn't protect neighbors next time. And it worsens the climate crisis. Do better, Mayor Bass. www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Column: The Los Angeles fires are no excuse to slow down on clean energy

State and local officials seem to be rushing to rethink climate policies. It's a terrible idea.

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BAJA BLAST BLAINE @shrekromancer.gay · 01/02/2025

what's wrong babe, you've hardly touched today's heap of apocalyptic news headlines

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

These tariffs hit the auto industry hard — but guess what company doesn’t manufacture in Mexico? Tesla. These tariffs give Musk further advantage over Tesla’s competitors. How else will they fuck over the American people to benefit the billionaires?

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

“The first two weeks into his second tour in the White House have seen so many lines crossed […] that anyone who believes in the Constitution and honest governance should be worried: Many of Mr. Trump’s first assertions of executive power blatantly exceed what is legally granted.”

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Opinion | Trump’s Test of the Constitution

Two weeks in, the president is quickly moving to eliminate tools of accountability.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/01/2025

Extremely important new rapid study just out, by @wwattribution.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social It confirms our burning of fossil fuels injects a mad acceleration into the factors that blend to create disastrous fires -->> www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan... Short thread.......

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This is important. "What was once a slow boil has now erupted into full view, as political actors and powerful figures weaponize institutional risk aversion to suppress speech they don’t like."

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Russel Edson, “Under Great White Flooded Clouds” From The Tormented Mirror, 2001

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity pic is your therapist.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

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Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

big day today

a calendar event for today titled “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH” starting at 9am and it is an all day event

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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The US Office of Personnel Management set up an email snitch line for reporting federal employees who are refusing to comply with Trump’s DEIA-banning executive order: DEIAtruth@opm.gov Perhaps it might be a good place to flood it with Dada, nonsense, AI-generated slop, and protest. 😎

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

So excited for this book. Put in your preorders at your local bookstores, folks.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

“If we approach the drinking of water that comes from the tap from a global perspective we would have to talk about it differently.” bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 1994. p.50.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Trenton Doyle Hancock, A Sweet Hell, 2010 Surrealism: Then and Now at the Bechtler in Charlotte, NC

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Thomas Lerooy. Eye of the Storm, 2023. Surrealism: Then and Now at the Bechtler in Charlotte, NC.

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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

“Dissonance” by Amy Lowell from Modernist Women Poets: an Anthology.

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Evan Walker @ecologicalev.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

“When accounting for storms of various sizes, each year the reefs would, on average, extend flood protection to more than 3,000 people and reduce damage by $180 million for structures and another $210 million in economic activity.” 🌎 www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/01/to-u...