This Week's Writing 4/12/25
tariffs, tariffs, tariffs...and the purge. also poems!
Switching up the cat/dog pics for a minute with an amazing enormous falcon we met in Budapest. Did I mention it was enormous? Dinosaurs; they’re big and impressive.
Here’s what I published this week.
Politics
Trump’s tariffs begin to fracture the GOP. (Public Notice)
Yes, protests matter. (EIH)
How fascism explains Trump’s tariffs. (EIH)
Is Trump corrupt, or is he a butthead? (EIH)
Cultural criticism
B.B. King, the King of Rock. (EIH)
The Purge and boring American fascism. (EIH)
Poetry
New chapbook! The Sentient Flock In Simpler and Sexier Times. (EIH)
A couple poems in a forthcoming lit mag; preorder at the link. (Quarter(ly))
Spam collage poem. ( dadakuku)
Email for Liberty
Jane Fonda
tekwar devil tree
we’ve got to level up
Cheerful relevant poem. (Five Fleas)
The Tariff
Soon the penguins
will regret their role
in addicting Elon Musk
to ketamine.