Poem was prompted by “Chomsky: By Focusing on Russia, We Ignore Trump’s Existential Threat to Climate,” by David Barsamian, Truthout, August 21, 2019.
image: July 25, 2016, Wildfire on Chios island, Greece,. Photo: KOSTAS KOYRGIAS
Election Blues | Elections
by Alexander Manzoni
Elections Correspondent
image: RNC, Miami, Florida, 1968 (yeah, Miami, Florida)
BREAKING NEWS! Instead, Someone Died | Editorial
image and inspiration: CNN’s “A Full House at the Funeral of El Paso Shooting Victim Margie Reckard (while Trump is experiencing a #EmptySeatMAGATour)
BREAKING NEWS! experts break things
content warning: contains reference to sexualized violence of women and girls
by Hokis
Election Day 11/6/18 | Elections
by Alexander Manzoni, elections correspondent
image:
Red, white and bruising: at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, conflicts within the hall were amplified in violence on Chicago’s streets. (AP Images), Smithsonian Magazine
Election Day 2017 – one year later | by Alexander Manzoni
by Alexander Manzoni, elections correspondent
image: John Daly and Quincy Howe providing ABC’s coverage of the 1956 Democratic National Convention
BREAKING NEWS! beyond hidden
by Hokis, Senior Editor
disturbing
lured properti, minors
minors, enlisting friends
Principal Trump’s Secret Identity | Editorial
under the microscope
by hokis, senior editor
image: “captain underpants” animated movie
n., a herpes virus | Editorial
Inspired by the obvious parallel between their name combo and the virus that causes herpes. Yeah, I was a bio major.
image: William Barr (left) and Jeffrey Epstein Getty Images/AP
The White Head | Editorial
Inspired by the words of Eddie Glaude, “Blaming Trump is too easy: This is us.” Eddie Glaude, the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, speaks to American culture, racism in 2019 and how President Trump is the “manifestation of the ugliness that’s inside us.”
image: from Plewig and Kligman´s “Acne and Rosacea” text.
Bottomless | Editorial
black out poem formatted to verse. image found/text from: “From the horse’s mouth to the door to hell: Magnum’s images of obsession – in pictures,” by Mee-Lai Stone, The Guardian, June 11, 2019.
image: “Door into Hell,” a crater in Darvaza, Turkmenistan, photographer: Carolyn Drake/Magnum Photos
