one poem that had been over for centuries spelled wrong

Hey! remember when Rob Reiner's son murdered him and Trump sent out a deranged happy tweet celebrating Reiner's death and everybody was WOAH! Trump is such a repugnant turd! and a prominent NYT conservative columnist wrote a scathing anti-Trump screed calling him petty, hollow, and squalid, saying Trump "the most loathsome human being ever to occupy the White House", which surely had to be shitlord-approved? Decades ago

That's not why the headshot, this is in reaction to bloooooger changing its coding and fucking up the accretive process I use to make these shitty posts: this is the second of this one post (after multiple attempts to fix the now abandoned first). A digibud asked me a week or so ago whether I'd ever consider sabstucking and I answered no, I will never beg for money and regardless whether I have to beg for money to sabstuck or not moving to stacksub would imply a different kind of damn than I own, plus I have bloooooger tuned to work the way I post - adding daily, subtracting daily. Now that bloooooger fucked up the first draft of this post's coding (and future posts' coding), I'm still a hard no to stubsack, but fuck my free blooooooging platform. Being pushed, still won't jump. Fine metaphors abound. HEY! Bill Nelson is 78 years old today

Try to imagine this utterly intolerable, dystopian future
All the Dominant Models Are Collapsing
"It is a strange era to exist in when Candace Owens seems to be making some valid points"
If the Right Wins Absolutely, What Will They Do?
"Ever notice how you don’t hear about the Proud Boys or the Patriot Front or any of those other right wing fascist white supremacist groups anymore? Because all those Nazi fucks work for ICE now. ICE is a government-run terrorist organization"
Speaking of ICE: crackerchristers are weird
"MAGA’s lust for publicity may be its undoing"(?)
Full Court Palentir				ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
"Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws"
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
"Liberal class politics is when one of the most powerful political players in Washington with an eight figure net worth calls teachers "elites"
AI billionaires' 2026 intimidation campaign is already working
"I think this is useful to read the whole way through to see just how Internet-poisoned right wing billionaires are. This guy is insane"
How Capitalism Replaced America					The FCC Just Admitted It's Not Independent Anymore
"Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it"
On the coming geopolitics of the compute stack, or Our New Imperial Strategy
"For Schumer Dems, the overnight immiseration of tens of millions of Americans because Obamacare was deliberately structured to keep people on the precipice and at the mercy of GOP savagery, means one thing: a lucrative fundraising opportunity"
On the political economy of the Cloud and AI
Grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
The politics of affordability are explosive
What will the resistance look like in 2026?
"I don't want to attack people for belatedly doing the right thing, don't want to punish the behavior I want to see, but yeah it does frustrate me that people could accept genocide in Palestine and trans exterminationism but apparently draw the line at being mean to Rob Reiner"
800 Days of Genocide in Gaza
The True Infinite and the Republic of Virtue
Bleggalgaze		No more paperbacks				Maggie
On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions
{ feuilleton }			Limping into December
From The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer
He's getting weird			Strip tease		Pisstown Chaos

[WHATEVER MAKES IT] Clark Coolidge Whatever makes it up makes up for it as a poem the tunnel Lincoln was afraid to enter etc also please avoid pounding the poem itself there are dense poems and there are light poems lung poems lapse poems and even Webster's poems the tale of the crèche at the bottom of the lake
not a poem but an opening so to be wished
one poem that had been over for centuries
spelled wrong    misspoken    in arrest
nevertheless a poem to be worked in there
a land poem    a strain poem    a trained poem?
we established a relationship    that one and us
the way laid out in sweeping volumes in turn
in exchange    in alarm    in nothing but reverse form

The Sedate One Is This Month's Skittish One

Comforting in a way that if I stopped blogging today, stopped twooting today, stopped skybluing today, and deleted my accounts, it's already too late. I'm siloed in Shitlord data farms with enough content to set magagestapo (trademark, though feel free to use it for a five syllable haiku line (with accreditation, yo)) on me anytime they want, I don't have to worry about incriminating myself, I already have

If I stop incriminating myself - I've slowed down incriminating myself of late - it's not because I fear reprisal but because I can't be canary or weathervane or Cassandra (though still a fool) now that much of what I screamed for decades (people can vouch) would happen has and is and will continue. Have I told you three times we are being reprogrammed? Was true, is true, will be true

Besides, I'm old and nobody. I spent an hour yesterday in a private equity-owned orthopedic superstore while you who know me in real life can guess who saw the bone doc, old people, lots of old people, limping and wincing, limp stop wince, limp stop wince, old people groaning, one old woman screaming in pain, her just as old and almost as feeble husband unable to comfort her, old people with canes and wheelchairs and electric scooters and hired brown people fearing the magagestapo helping them limp stop wince, wheelchairing them. A line of in pain old people waiting to to be told to fuck off go talk to an AI bot about a bill they didn't expect and can't pay

This getting old shit. Who gets me first, the magagestapo when it finally reaches my tier of insignificance in the coming eradications or extermination by private equity-owned doctor stores and their MRI laundromats and AI denying insurance claims and shitlords cheating me on Medicare and stealing my social security. I know which I'd prefer, I know what I predict. When my daughter is my age it will be 2056, the Earth will be here, will the world? See? Same yodel

The waiting room played the shittiest of shitty giftmas songs and of course I was reminded to remind you that there is only one not-banned giftmas song in BLCKDGRDSTN. Revolution, fellowmofos

Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them
The Bezos Post Editorial Board applauds advancements in racism but demands more far-reaching racism in the future
SCOTUS poised to expand Trump’s power over independent agencies
"Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery"
Your shitlords openly daydream of murdering you
➥	Palantir’s military-industrial plan for America
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
"Between this and previous rulings, U.S. corporations have effectively put a bullet in the head of labor protections, consumer protection, public safety, environmental law, and corporate oversight"
The shitlord billionaire family poised to rewire U.S. media in Israel’s favor
Neoliberalism and the Grift Society
The Derangement of the Conservative Mind (Cont'd)
"The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers "censorship" of Americans' speech"
Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It's Wrong To Train Dogs To Rape Prisoners
"Ever notice how you don’t hear about the Proud Boys or the Patriot Front or any of those other right wing fascist white supremacist groups anymore? Because all those Nazi fucks work for ICE now. ICE is a government-run terrorist organization"
DoJ moves to eliminate sexual abuse protections for LGBTQ+ people in prisons
➥	"An unambiguously and unabashedly pro-rape administration"
Trump could call a female journalist on-camera a stupid skankwhore cunt and it'd blasted and tictokked (tictoked?) around the world and there would be zero repercussions
➥	"Not one reporter in the White House press pool chose not to be a sniveling coward and stand up to psychologically damaged, 80-year-old loathsome piece of shit after he attacked ABC's Rachel Scott. NOT FUCKING ONE"
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Trump’s Enemies List Meets Media Blackout
"The system is built to prevent wages from rising too fast, to prevent workers from gaining leverage, to prevent any restoration of the purchasing power we’ve lost. When wages go up, the machine treats it like a malfunction and corrects. When corporations gouge, it’s just the market at work
"This is exactly what the bosses who put Trump into office were trying to achieve. Crushing the tight labor market from the early Biden years that gave workers - for the first time in my adult lifetime - leverage over their bosses"
"They told us there’d be breadlines and poverty under socialism yet under capitalism we have breadlines, poverty, endless war, and 3 billionaires who hoard more wealth than half of our nation. We need to shift the economy from production for profits to production for social needs"
Three Ways It's World War™ III						Morons march
50 words for snow			Twenty Japanese words for rain
Maggie		Star Death		Undoing Map		Tightrope
The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago
{ feuilleton }			Henry James, for those of you who do
Krasznahorkai's Nobel Prize lecture, it's very László
Guitarists' Palette			The artist as Boris Badenov
Whole bunch of new music at my bandcamp, go listen, including the KABOOM! song below

LAST MONTH

John Ashbery

No changes of support—only

Patches of gray, here where sunlight fell.

The house seems heavier

Now that they have gone away.   

In fact it emptied in record time.   

When the flat table used to result

A match recedes, slowly, into the night.

The academy of the future is   

Opening its doors and willing

The fruitless sunlight streams into domes,   

The chairs piled high with books and papers.

The sedate one is this month’s skittish one   

Confirming the property that,

A timeless value, has changed hands.

And you could have a new automobile

Ping pong set and garage, but the thief   

Stole everything like a miracle.

In his book there was a picture of treason only   

And in the garden, cries and colors.

“He’s dead,” he said. “No, he’s not. I just saw him move his arm,” I said. He removed his pistol from his holster and fired a shot. “Now he’s dead,” he said, or: Born Eighty-Two Years Ago Today

GOVERNMENT LAKE

James Tate

The way to the toy store was blocked by a fallen tree

in the road. There was a policeman directing traffic down a

side street. I asked him, “What happened?” He said, “Lightning

in the night.” I took the turn and drove down the street

looking for a way to turn back. Other streets were blocked by

fallen trees, and I couldn’t find a way back to the toy store.

I kept driving and soon I was on the outskirts of town. I

got on a highway and drove, soon forgetting the toy store and

what I was supposed to get there. I drove on as if I was hypno-

tized, not noticing the signs for turnoffs. I must have driven

a couple of hours before I woke up, then I took the next exit

and had no idea where I was. I drove down a straight tree-lined

lane with farm houses on either side. There was a lake at the

end of the lane. I pulled over and parked. I got out and

started walking. There were several docks along the shore.

I walked out on one and watched the ducks swimming and diving.

There was something bobbing in the middle of the lake. I stared

at it for a long time before I realized it was a man’s head.

Then, a moment later, it was a coconut. No, it was an old tire

floating right side up. I gave up and started following the

ducks. They would suddenly fly up and circle the lake and

come down and splash land again. It was quite entertaining.

A man walked up behind me and said, “This government lake is

off-limits to the public. You’ll have to leave.” I said,

“I didn’t know it was a government lake. Why should it be

off-limits?” He said, “I’m sorry. You’ll have to leave.”

“I don’t even know where I am,” I said. “You’ll still have

to leave,” he said. “What about that man out there?” I said,

pointing to the tire. “He’s dead,” he said. “No, he’s not.

I just saw him move his arm,” I said. He removed his pistol from

his holster and fired a shot. “Now he’s dead,” he said.