time, rejection, discouragement, and the inevitable practicalities and detours (some of them fortuitous), as well as wasted energy, the slow seepage or sudden shift of interest, premature death, burdensome debt or better offers, usually cure the problem of overpopulation

Trump crowned himself king yesterday and everybody yawned



Another clusterfuck spew of duh: getting harder and harder coming up with any insight on the clusterfuck that's even a smidgen different than previous grievous insights on the clusterfuck, on the shitlords running the world who can conceive of no greater goal than complete and ultimate wealth extraction and your absolute adoration have decided that the maximum wealth achievable only by making everything shittier 

All shitlord psyop narratives are ordained, designed, and implemented with primary goal of increasing fear and crippling anxiety in the herd for its subordination and exploitation. Yesterday RFK Jr announced a war on anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs, no hiding behind a medical veil from your misery and fear, you peasant and pagan. You must feel the weight and power of your gods and worship in fear of their awesome and vengeful omnipotence. This motherfucker, for instance, this one too





That's my right eye as an avenging killer drone, I daydream of photon-torpedoing shitlords on their yacht decks. Almost 18 hours after Trump crowned himself king there is still no mention of it on the front webpage of the Washington Post and New York Times, and my Shitter and BluePlace timelines have precious few posts bitching about Trump's announcement of our new feudal authoritarianism. We are so fucked

Michael Gira is 71 today. I'm stupid for Swans, stupid, one of only a few bands in permanent orbit for the three rotating spots in my abandoned Sillyass Deserted Island Five Game. Play it loud, fellowmofo peasant pagan

The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship
"But we need to lose the theory that these Dems are “spineless” and just don’t understand how to wage political war. We know they can be vicious because we’ve seen them execute that kind of operation against the left since Ralph Nader caught them sleeping in 2000. We have seen them do it maliciously during Senator Bernie Sanders’s two primary runs. We saw Black and brown women stamped as “Bernie Bros” with enough, yes, ruthless, repetition to make it stick. We’ve seen President Barack Obama with all his rhetorical powers hector young Black men, but not aim his electric cadence at Musk and his Palo Alto brownshirts. It’s not that they cannot—they will not. When it was Sanders or an individual who demanded even a modest change in policy on Gaza, they brought out the knives. When it’s Musk and his apartheid army of incels, they wield sporks. Yet, as we keep seeing, spork fighting is demoralizing"
➥	Psst, they work hand in glove with the GOP for their mutual shitlord bosses, and Democrats' *Job One* is to protect the shitlords' left flank, sorry for the duh, I'm just seeing people suggesting Democrats aren't doing their job. They are						⇧
Wokeness Is Not to Blame for Trump
➥	"This rare cross-ideological alignment has created an opening for the Trump-Musk-Vance team, which, thanks to the Democratic pullback from “woke-ism,” faces scant opposition as it busily dynamites a civil-rights infrastructure built painstakingly over generations"						⇧
➥	"Democrats scheduled social media posts are so funny, always completely random, unrelated to what else is going on. Makes it seem like they are truly unaware of what's happening. It's 2025 and they're waiting to get the morning paper from a newsie on the corner on their way into the office"						⇧
Not 13 flags, not 15 flags, "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" 14 flags
H. Rap Brown, Jamil Al-Amin, and the Perils of Forgetting
"In this extreme version of disaster capitalism, horror creates opportunity not only for the expansion of the United States but for the ruling family’s property development business"
The top criminal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office in Washington quit today, citing pressure by the Trump administration to open what she viewed as an improper criminal probe of a federal contract
"Israeli forces strapped explosives around the neck of an elderly Palestinian who used a walking stick and forced him to inspect areas used by Hamas before killing him and his wife"
⇧	"Soldiers put an explosive cord around the man's neck and forced him to scout buildings for eight hours. After his release, another division shot him dead						⇧
Forever War for Profit: The United States, Israel/Palestine, and the Global Corporate Security Economy
The Dangerous Game US Jewry is Playing with America's White Supremacists
"Zionist Shots Zionists - Both Blame Arabs"
America is a full blown kleptocracy
There’s One Federal Investigative Agency that Neither Trump nor Elon Musk Can Touch: It Just Opened an Investigation into DOGE
"i feel like this is evidence for my view that people experience trump through a strong form of ironic detachment. they literally do not perceive him as real"
⇧	Forgive me, I need to screaminly reiterate that these shitord-released crackers and christers ARE DOING EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DO AND HAVE BEEN SAYING THEY ARE GOING TO DO SINCE ALWAYS						⇩
➥	Yes, shitlords implement disaster capitalism and disaster nationalism to extract max profit BFFS many of them genuinely believe this is true and see themselves as noble warriors fighting a holy war, BELIEVE THEM WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE!						⇩
➥	"The West is obviously superior. We had a pagan religion infiltrate our universities and our society, and that religion basically said that everything good about America and everything that has actually worked… is bad.”						⇩
"Here's my prediction from 2008: "The days of a rational American empire are drawing to a close. We'll be forced to discard either the empire part, or the rational part. And based on 10,000 years of human history, I'm guessing it's the rational part that will go."
Trump's stab at Napoleonicity
"Billionaire finds it strange that people can't afford kids in a world where artificial scarcity intentionally withholds food, water, housing, healthcare, and everything else in a ploy to extract indentured servitude out of us all"
We might have to "shut down the country"
"Trump’s tariffs will escalate exploitation and desperation of US workers. That’s the point"
Conservatism and the Decline of the West
This is not a test				Which of course puts this song in my head and on repeat
"I’m deriving a certain grim amusement from the unnatural intellectual acts that right wing law professors with an eye to the main chance are currently performing, in the face of the most corrupt and most public quid pro quo in the history of the American presidency"
"I would read an intellectual history about how a body of thought that provided the ideological foundations for regicide got reduced to the means by which opinion columnists tut-tut activists for shutting down events"
The making of emergencies					Unhinged
"JD Vance Called Me a 'Dummy' for Pointing Out His Administration's Hypocrisy on Free Speech. I Guess the Truth Hurts"			We Are All Porn Actors
States and the Coming Scam-Apocalypse
Wrestling, cannabis, bitcoin and stocks
Inside Project 2025				"The usual dance of “moderate” Republicans complaining about everything they just voted for when it affects them. Rinse, repeat"
If You Only Watch One Thing Today, Please Watch This
"In the span of a day, Trump's "immigration czar" called for a criminal investigation of a member of Congress for informing immigrants of their rights, while Trump's co-president called for the imprisonment of journalists for basic video editing"
Libertarianism is a form of white supremacy
"Liberals hate socialists for the same reason socialists hate liberals: because socialists are the thing liberals pretend to be. Socialists stand for truth, justice, peace and equality while liberals only pretend to stand for these things, and they both know it. Liberals know their favorite political party supports war, militarism, oligarchy and inequality and is rife with power-serving corruption, and socialists know it too, so they can critique these dynamics in ways that have the unpleasant sting of truth"
How Biden set the stage for GOP budget cuts
"I want to thank Nancy Pelosi for her devoted work in keeping Henry Cuellar in office. If the Democratic Party did not support him, you might end up with a guy who always votes with Donald Trump, and that would be awful'
Today in I Hate Motherfucking Democrats	☞	"You passionately supported the premiere murderer of the overwhelming majority of these journalists: Israel. It’s astonishing you would have the audacity to tweet this given your personal role in facilitating Israel’s killing spree unleashed again our colleagues"
Two 66 year old Democratic senators announce they will not run for reelection in the 2026 midterms and it's not because the Democratic Party is renouncing its gerontocracy
Delaware Decides Delaware Law Has No Value
➥	Today's monologue: you do realize, yes? that smart shitlords recognize total catastrophic social breakdown hours, not minutes, ahead, and are working their three private jets and four luxury yachts and six Micronesian islands and two luxury bomb shelters to boom NOW!						⇩
I agree that the size of Juan Soto's contract is morally wicked but I don't think that's what these dopes meant in this headline
Reminder: xymphora			Profiles in polroonery
Maggie's		Avedon Carol's occasional links
The Eternal Mysteries of Red
Loose leash		Song and sadness			{ feuilleton }
Where did all the fiction in fiction go?
The Biggest Little Press in the World
Richard Dawson, his music as important to me at this moment in my life as any musician at any point of my life

A PLAGUE OF POETS

C.D. Wright

A question posed to Flannery O'Connor, as to whether writing programs stifled writers, drew the famous, tart rejoinder that in her opinion they didn't stifle nearly enough.

Even if, as it is often said, there are too many of us—poets, that is—that the field is too crowded (as opposed to too many hedge-fund managers or too many pharmaceutical lobbyists or too many fundamentalists), time, rejection, discouragement, and the inevitable practicalities and detours (some of them fortuitous), as well as wasted energy, the slow seepage or sudden shift of interest, premature death, burdensome debt or better offers, usually cure the problem of overpopulation. In other words, there are plenty of natural predators.