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This account doesn't belong to a poet writing through the total moral collapse of the imperial core. Who'd want to read Buffalo Free Rapid Transit (2026), Fugue & Strike (2023) & People Finder, Buffalo (2024)? www.blackocean.org/catalog1/buffalo

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 3h
This is a fundamental logic of today’s politics. Democrats supported rollbacks of civil rights over and over—from border enforcement to welfare reform to counterterrorism to crushing the Palestine solidarity encampments—and Republicans predictably use this as the infrastructure for fascism.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 6h
It's UB too. The same administration that had 5 LE departments assault students (and rip one of their hijab's off) seems to have completely failed this survivor. An Amherst police officer told her "to consider the impact it would have on his career." www.reddit.com/r/UBreddit/c...
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From the UBreddit community on Reddit: UB cover up
Explore this post and more from the UBreddit community
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Everyday Orientalism @eorientalism.bsky.social · 12h
🎙🚨 HOW CORNELL FORCED ANTI-GENOC!DE PHD STUDENT MOMODOU TAAL TO SELF-DEPORT youtu.be/weLrlAUkz4A
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🚨 CORNELL FORCED ANTI-GENOC!DE PHD STUDENT TO SELF-DEPORT
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 23h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨 #BREAKING | All medical staff have completely withdrawn from Kamal Adwan Hospital as Israeli forces and tanks advance toward the facility. A dangerous new development threatens what remains of healthcare in northern Gaza.
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Matt Sargent @mattsargent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New CD is out now on Harmonic Ooze Records. harmonicoozerecords.bandcamp.com/album/one-wa...
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One Wall Is The Desert, by Dani Dobkin & Matt Sargent
2 track album
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“What are the names of the ICE agents who killed our dad? Why do they get to be protected?” #AbolishICE
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Do you realise that the Israeli Election Comittee disqualified all Arab-Muslim parties from running in the elections today? It will be likely overturned by the Supreme Court but it just goes to show you how much Israel is NOT a democracy
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
look, a teen just wrote me a letter about how much he liked my socialist poem about utopic municipal bathrooms and i'm flying. thank you, skibidi toilet, for preparing the way, probably.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
welcome to my new series of bleets called i really love this book. i really love this book by @divinetailor.bsky.social
Cover of Jay Besemer's book of poems The Horse on desk.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
25 years of imperial war & I don't think of U.S. elections as expressions of democracy but ritual calendars in which U.S. state organizes global slaughter. 'Productive' talks make oil go down while battle plans made post-election while ID threatens annihilation: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump threatens to "annihilate" Iran and its people in UN address
The president said he was still deciding "whether to drive them into hell with no chance of survival."
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There's been movement on this front--grad students signed a statement demanding hiring of new poetics faculty. Community members have sent UB admin a letter over the misuse of chair $ s. I was wrong. It's probably better to say the poetics program is seriously diminished but fighting for its future.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
PEN America just announced Phil Klay, a former marine, as president of PEN America. They're not even hiding it anymore.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
An astounding one in six PEN America Board members have ties to the military industrial complex. As the U.S. bombs Iran again, take a moment to learn about how literary orgs work to manufacture consent for imperial wars: www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal...
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Cultural Imperialism’s Avant-Garde, Part II: The End of PEN America and A Future for Publishing In The Imperial Core — Community Mausoleum
Who is a writer to PEN? You are not a writer if the U.S. or Israel has killed you.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
read this. it's good. aditikini.com/oriental-cyb...
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oriental cyborg – aditi kini
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
thinking about this in the year my dad died of leukemia that I'm sure being part of work crews that cleaned the inside of smoke stacks contributed to. the response to this administration must be revolutionary & decades long b/c that's how long it's violence will last www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...
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EPA to repeal limits on greenhouse gas pollution from power plants
The move would overturn a 2024 Biden administration rule requiring power plants to control planet-warming emissions.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Allowing U.S. bases doesn't preserve sovereignty. It's the essence of handing it away in the form the U.S. most prefers. Expect Greenland to bleed under further energy and mineral extraction not controlled by the indigenous people of Greenland. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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US and Denmark reach security deal after Trump’s threats to take over Greenland
The agreement would allow the US to expand its military presence, while Denmark and Greenland say it preserves their sovereignty and right to self-determination
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
$200 donation to the Palestinian-led Sameer Project from sales of my chapbook Sun & Earth. So many thx to everyone who picked it up. Free 🇵🇸.
donation receipt to the Sameer Project, Palestinian-led aid to Gaza.cover of the chapbook Sun & Earth. linocut squares. yellow.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
the u.s. is a full partner in the accelerated genocide: "most of which is to be paid for with foreign military financing — in which U.S. taxpayer dollars are given to Israel to turn around and buy the weapons from the United States. " apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration plans to send powerful bombs to Israel in $2.8 billion weapons sale
The Trump administration is planning to deliver powerful 2,000-pound bombs to Israel as part of an upcoming arms deal.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
we don't live in hell but we're trying www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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US ends limits on coal and gas plant emissions, removing key tool to battle climate crisis
Trump’s EPA strips itself of regulation ability, gutting Clean Air Act in what experts say is a gift to planet polluters
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
feel like everyone should be looking to how lit cleveland is doing it. it's free (FREE), kicks ass, and truly community-oriented.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
why am i just now finding out lucille clifton worked at the department of labor??? buffalonews.com/opinion/arti...
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Viewpoints: Lucille, Langston and me: Ishmael Reed remembers the Buffalo days of Lucille Clifton
Acclaimed American writer Ishmael Reed was about nineteen when he organized The Buffalo Community Drama Workshop. Poet Lucille Clifton, then Lucille Sayles, chose plays and sometimes performed.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Ali Kadri has called described this as part of a process of structural genocide
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11: college suite full of athletes (I was confused). their reaction was immediately violent & racist (i'm gonna join the marines, kill !$#$). weeks later Lucille Clifton staged a conversation with Li-Young Lee on campus where she urged introspection not violence. started hanging w/art kids.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
omnicide, LLM as cognitive virus (see below) -- getting a lot of language today that gets its grips on the nested crises of racial-capitalism and settler states arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344
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Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus
Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can be understood through a ...
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
feel fine being skeptical of a technology produced for and by billionaires digging in the dumpster of the enlightenment for scraps of thought around which to form deranged cults justifying the liquidation of vast swathes of the human race.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy" - Israeli politician Moshe Feiglin. www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/li...
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Far-right Israeli figure calls every child in Gaza ‘the enemy’
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United University Professions @uupinfo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! This year, UUP members stood united for a fair contract, and together were able to negotiate and ratify a historic agreement. We hope you will join us for a local Labor Day event to celebrate with your colleagues, friends, and families. #UUPStrong #UnionStrong
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Shrinkage: Zines as Theft" - Doing free online zine workshop this Friday. It'll consider integral roll of theft (time!) & appropriation (work xerox & paper) in zine culture, glance at labor zines, & offer prompts on what is taken & what we can take back from work. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: ⚡ZINE LUNCH!⚡with Joe Hall. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
⚡️ZINE LUNCH!⚡️presents “Shrinkage: Zine as Theft,” a free, virtual workshop with Joe Hall. This workshop will take us back to the historical roots of many zines and DIY publications: borrowing and s...
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
rich person / boss defends technology built for and controlled by the managerial class in a publication edited by a former concentration camp guard. we must all take this very seriously.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Settler soldier from the "Desert Book" unit tells Haaretz journalist: "October 12 was the best day. We carried out a pogrom in a Palestinian village in Wadi Siq. I extinguished cigarettes on the bodies of Palestinians and urinated on them"
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סיגריות בוערות וניסיון תקיפה מינית: מתנחלים וחיילים התעללו בפלסטינים
שבוע לאחר שהותקפו בוואדי א־סיק, הפלסטינים והפעילים הישראלים מתקשים להתאושש. מי שביצעו את האלימות, ההתעללות הקשה והביזה, היו, על פי עדויות, חיילים מיחידה שמגייסת נערי גבעות וכן מתנחלים. מצה"ל נמסר בתגו...
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Seneca Nation is raising a more fundamental question: What gives Trump the right to claim the land and water in the first place? www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2026/08/31/s...
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Seneca Nation rejects Trump’s colonial claim on Lake Ontario
Google Maps acts as a propaganda outlet for Trump, replacing Lake Ontario with “Lake America” and helping legitimize a colonial claim by putting it on the map.
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Power Map @powermapmag.com · 02/09/2026
Centrist Democrats are building a SuperPAC-funded flood of racist attacks, and making it their main tool against left candidates like Zohran Mamdani, Melat Kiros, and Abdul El-Sayed. @blimpjuice.bsky.social tracks this strategy's rise, and how to fight back. powermapmag.substack.com/p/the-democr...
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The Democratic Establishment Is Getting Really Racist
For Democratic leadership, spending millions in racist ads is fine if it’s against the left
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I think the Lake America thing is a purposeful distraction from the concentration camps.
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
An astounding one in six PEN America Board members have ties to the military industrial complex. As the U.S. bombs Iran again, take a moment to learn about how literary orgs work to manufacture consent for imperial wars: www.communitymausoleum.org/coma-journal...
communitymausoleum.org
Cultural Imperialism’s Avant-Garde, Part II: The End of PEN America and A Future for Publishing In The Imperial Core — Community Mausoleum
Who is a writer to PEN? You are not a writer if the U.S. or Israel has killed you.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 31/08/2026
I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
On August 12, Writers Against the War on Gaza launched a growing oral archive honoring Palestinian journalists martryed while documenting life, loss, and resistance. Leena Ahmed reports on the project for Palestine Square. Read at the link below: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Brandon Shimoda's reading at St. Bonaventure is now up at PennSound. So many people at this one told me it left a mark. There was some a/v chaos that impacted the recording. It's still well worth the listen: writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/...
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PennSound: St. Bonaventure University
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Though the poetics director resigned & chair funding to poetics students is gone and there are no poetics faculty that hold any of the chairs dedicated to the program or their $, some members of the department are disputing this post. Ok. Then where's the money? What's going on? Explain yourselves.
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Michael Flatt @flatt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Academic enshitification. One of the most reputable poetry centers in the world, producing an endless string of brilliant writers and innovative thinkers, attracting hyper-talented, super-active grad students... Creeley, Olson, McCaffery, Howe, Bernstein, Kim... But yeah. Fuck it, I guess.
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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buffalo: ICE is holding a two-day "career expo" event in the Buffalo Convention Center--a county-owned building--next week. They want to hire more agents to kidnap more of our neighbors. Do you want to stop this? Instructions below, please share
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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And up to this past year, following the unfortunate death of poet Tyrone Williams--the last David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters--in 2024, the Dean of Arts and Sciences has been taking a 60% cut of the Gray Chair endowment for "administrative costs."
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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The David Gray endowment to UB--the principal source of funding for Poetics Program--is managed by the UB Foundation, which has seen fit to reappropriate it to other faculty lines in the English Department
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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
God, these parasites / the Jacobs / Trump allies / need to be scraped off of UB.
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Ben Friedlander (he/him/his) @mongibeddu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What a stupid, wasteful thing to have done. The nest I flew, my intellectual home away from home. So saddened by this.
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R.D. Pohl @rdpohl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What happened to the UB Poetics Program is nothing less than a scandal. Who stole the Gray Chair endowment money? As it turns out the Robert Creeley Centenary event in May will have been the last event sponsored by the program.
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populuxe 🍃 @populuxe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
real sack of rome shit — the poetics program & silo city were the 2 coolest things in buffalo
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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Among the singularly recognizable enclaves of poetic enunciation--say, Shandong in 740, Paris in 1857, Havana in 1931, or what have you--I would rank Buffalo in 1991 pretty highly.
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Serial Bookseller @serialbookseller.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I got both my Communications and English Bachelors, along with my Education Masters at UB. This is horrifying.
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