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ballast journal @ballastjournal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Ballast 4.2 is LIVE! www.ballastjournal.com/issue-42-tab... Featuring: Denver Butson Sam Calhoun @weathermansam.bsky.social vincent a cellucci Rocío Cerón translated by Dana Delibovi Seth Copeland @brushwithseth.bsky.social Emily Corwin AJ Dehan Connor Fisher Egan Garr Anne Gerard 1/2

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Issue 4.2 Table of Contents — ballast

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I am a low-level tech bro based in Buffalo, NY, who's never spent more than three weeks outside the continental U.S. Here's my five-point plan to re-open the Strait of Hormuz: /1

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

As I happen to be flying on the first day of the ICE airport deployment, I can testify that they’re literally standing around doing nothing. I’m sure it’s great for morale with all those TSA workers going without pay

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

don't always agree with will, but this is absolutely correct. and needs to be shouted from the rooftops.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

very true. everyone's focused on the highly visible happenings downtown, but there are abductions happening in quiet 'burbs and towns all over the state. at school bus stops. at apartment complexes. people just trying to get to and from work, their kids to and from school. it's horrifying.

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I'm not worried about getting arrested--er, detained--it's frightening, and I want to avoid it. But what's far more worrying and frightening is the 360-degree surveillance state that goes along with the ICE incursion. People have no idea how pervasive this is, and how it's being used by the feds

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

hit me driving home on the freeway thru downtown, passing by (possible) ICE vehicles with bros in the cabin and out-of-state plates... what they've unleashed on our city is 3000 kyle rittenhouses. they are armed to the teeth and not only untrained and enabled, but eager to shoot us.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

From the general strike march downtown today in Minneapolis

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Demonstrating against the nazis downtown today

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

So I didn't realize that Stranger Things season 5 was actually a documentary about Minneapolis in 2026. Haven't been posting here much, but will be ramping it up as I begin attending stuff and documenting. Welcome to the resistance

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

a few recent typewriter things, one with a couple of lines from Clark Coolidge sprinkled in... I've been playing with those lines and rhythms off and on for the past 20 years at least, finally feels like I did them a small bit of justice

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

God love Andy Partridge and XTC: Shilling for the fellow who brings the sheep in Shilling for the fellow who milks the herd Shilling for the fellow with a wife for keeping How can we feed love on a farmboy's wages?

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XTC - Love On A Farm Boy 's Wages

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A recurring dream (nightmare?): I'm enrolled in a class. Months have gone by, but I haven't attended, indeed I've forgotten I'm in the class. Assignments and exams have been missed, and now I'm desperate to catch up - but I don't know where and when the class takes place

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Dear Folks -- I know everything is terrible right now, but please take a moment to look at this gofundme for Robbie Dewhurst, a dear old friend from Buffalo days, and his fiancee Marwa Abdul-Rahman, who lost everything in the LA fires.

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Donate to Support Marwa and Robbie After Eaton Fire, organized by hedi el kholti

Hi, this is Hedi El Kholti and Colm Tóibín in Los Angeles Our friends Mar… hedi el kholti needs your support for Support Marwa and Robbie After Eaton Fire

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

While watching Inland Empire yesterday——>

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Just got a shipment of some of these from my wonderful publisher, Shearsman Books… getting ready to do some readings for the first time in years Shearsman.com/store/Hadbawnik-David-c28470013

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David Hadbawnik @vestigiaflammae.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Just a few sonnets that originally appeared in the Denver Quarterly last year by way of introduction... Welcome everyone, and cheers!

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