Alex Tretbar
@alex_tretbar
According to the Plat Thereof (@the_ethelzine, 2025) Kansas City Gothic (@brokensleep, 2025)
Some new work in the inaugural issue of ISSUE (under the Blue Bag Press umbrella). Head to issue01.org to read the urgent and vital work of other contributors such as Joe Hall, Echo, Isaac Pickell, Jenkin Benson, Rachel Lauren Myers, Tyler Barton, and others.
Now on our website, new poetry from Alex Tretbar (@alex_tretbar). Read more of “Three ‘Fields’” here: chicagoreview.org/three-fields/
exhaustive and exhausting, this dossier makes the complicity of the NYT clear: achingly, horrifyingly clear. the Times is an agent of the apartheid state. Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe, burn the whole thing down
EXPOSED: A new dossier from @wawog_now reveals material and ideological ties between Israel and journalists, editors, and executives of The New York Times. Whether serving in the IOF or taking money from pro-Israel consultancies, the staff at the Times is compromised.
"&" by Elise Thi Tran, in @Mizna_ArabArt "Collage of found text taken from individual, sponsored, and suggested posts, stories, news headlines, and advertisements while scrolling through Instagram and X"
One of three new poems in @memezinelit's KAKISTOCRACY issue (kakistocracy = "a government that is ruled by the least suitable, able, or experienced people in a state or country"). Down with American empire and its cruel and heartless idiots.
Help incarcerated writer Sara Kielly with her legal fees! We are trying to raise $400 to help her fight back against the department of corrections. Please read details below. If sending funds, please note "For Sara."
Friendly reminder that @PENamerica is little more than a soft power appendage of American imperialism (from Juliana Spahr's DU BOIS'S TELEGRAM)
Donate to the Sameer Project, get a book! @alicxyz
.@QuintonLucasKC did you approve this? Im getting reports that police are PROTECTING these Nazis as they threaten the safety of our city. x.com/salusxpopuli/s…
Nazis are literally marching en masse through your city as we speak.
Enforcement was promised and will continue until bad actors stop with criminal behavior on our streets. Good work last night in our entertainment districts like Westport and the Crossroads by the @kcpolice resulted in arrests and vehicle seizures.
Brian Eno is donating his royalties from the Window 95 chime to Gaza victims: “If a sound can signal a real change then let it be this one” → cons.lv/N82zc4
The writer Derek Trumbo was recently released from prison after nearly two decades inside, but the home where he is staying was flooded last month and he is now in need of support. Please donate what you can to help him get back on his feet. chuffed.org/project/131782…
It happened again. Because of the boycott of @PENamerica, the winner and most of the finalists of the Jean Stein Award withdrew, the award was cancelled, and the money was donated by the Stein Estate to Palestine Children's Relief Fund and Palestine Legal: t.ly/VLY2B
Brandon withdrew from the Jean Stein Award. Last year 28/61 nominees withdrew & the Stein Estate redirected the $75,000 to relief efforts in Gaza. Shouldn't this happen again?
UCLA just sent riot police to beat up students who were screening a movie about how schools like UCLA sent riot police to beat up students supporting Palestine, on the one-year anniversary of UCLA calling riot police to beat up students supporting Palestine.
Now it is illegal in California to show the documentary The Encampments. At least it is at UCLA. UCPD sent out cops in riot gear with rifles to campus to shut down a screening of the film. They confiscated the screen and arrested at least three people.
Today in @thenation: After 3 yrs of carving a home-in-people in U.S. exile, I fled again—doxxed, fearing an ICE arrest. The risk wasn’t just deportation, but life in prison back in Egypt. What myths does the US empire uphold about itself? When does fascism stope "descending"?
@El_Gendy_95, a former political prisoner in Egypt, decided he had no choice but to flee Donald Trump's America. bit.ly/3Gz0pHI
Nothing is over, that is the only certainty. The other certainty is that everything ends, even this. proteanmag.com/2024/07/06/poe…
We are devastated to say that our comrade, teacher and friend Joshua Clover passed away last night. We will miss him forever.
Joshua Clover reads 'I want to read at the Whitehouse'
Worth remembering (because right now we should all be haunted by a sick feeling in the pits of our stomachs every day) that Salvadoran officials have repeatedly said there are no plans to *ever* release *anyone* from CECOT, and it's unclear they even have a procedure for doing so
Yet ANOTHER story of a Venezuelan man ripped away from his family in the U.S. because of his tattoos; a tattoo of a rose and a crown. That’s it. It’s been three weeks and his wife and kids have no idea what happened to him. Like others, El Salvador is holding him incommunicado.