Camille Buckner

@camillebuckner

My pen is huge & I love sentences. And words. Like wombat & elixir. People & planet over profits. Build new systems. Equity. Inclusion. Justice. #BLM #LandBack #DefundHate #LongCovid #MECFS #Poetry #AcademicSky🏳️‍⚧️🩷💛🩵😷🍉 🚫AI Banner: Large stone balls PP: My 🤚🏼

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Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· 3d

My favorite set of coasters. Yes, please do *drive* carefully in Wetwang.

Photo of 4 grayscale coasters:

2 with directional road signs saying “Sandy Balls” (picturing a camper trailer + tent) and “Assington”

1 with a “Lady Gardens” sign at a lush garden

1 with a “Wetwang: Please drive carefully” sign

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· 14d

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Willie Nelson @WillieNelson

To whom it may concern and to everyone else as well,

"I grew up in Abbott, and I still have a home there with farmed land where I can still see stars at night. And now our community, like many others, needs to fight against data centers invading our land. The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter). The strength of rural America has never come from big industrial footprints. It comes from generations of people, open spaces, local businesses, and a connection to the land.

All of America deserves thoughtful stewardship that doesn't steal farmland (where our essential shared-food is grown) and small family farmers' livelihoods, and not data centers that only destroy the environment around them. Whoever controls food and water, controls the masses.

Let's not allow our own demise or give up control over necessary resources in the U.S. and especially in Abbott."

- Willie Nelson

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· 23d

Scout sends her love! 🧡🧡🧡

close-up of a gorgeous sweet fox reddish lab named Scout who has a very boopable nose

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· 23d

Astronaut Christina Koch does not suffer fools lightly💥

Edited photo showing badass astronaut Christina Koch using his laser eyes to show us what she really thinks of tRUMP.

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· 23d

I’ll add this to my collection.

Edited photo showing Lamine Yamal using his laser eyes to show us what he really thinks of tRUMP.

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· 23d

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ThisBoomerHitsDifferent
@BoomerHitsDiff
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My god you worthless Republican Congress members. He is grifting in plain sight. He is selling sponsorships of White House events. He seized the Kennedy Center. He is selling federal buildings. He is attacking institutions. He is defying court orders. He manipulated the market.
He has weaponized the DOJ. He got rid of food safety. He got rid of disease control. He wants to destroy public lands. He wants to mine seabeds in international waters. He is extorting minerals from other nations. He gave an unelected oligarch access to government data. He has broken trust with our allies. He has weakened global confidence in America. Here's something you care about... His poll numbers are underwater on every. single. issue. WITH REPUBLICANS. It has been 135 days. America will not survive four years. Stand up. Do something!

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Jul 4

Stand against fascism. Stand with Major Watson. Impeach. Convict. Remove. (reposted w alt text)

Photo of USAF Major Jason Watson with caption quoting him that reads:

"FOR THE PAST 18 MONTHS, WE THE PEOPLE HAVE ALLOWED THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO VIOLATE OUR CONSTITUTION AND THEIR OATH TO IT WITH IMPUNITY."

Trump Resistance Movement

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Jun 10

#weirdpoemwednesday

word magnet poem:

sweet fish thing
like bug but wet
no breasts
no self
no secrets
must be cool

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Jun 10

Truth. (w alt text)

Sign in window that reads:

NO IRISH
NO BLACKS
NO DOGS

@amzomacoam We know our history.

The Irish were blamed for problems they didn't cause. They fled "famine", occupation, persecution & poverty,
only to face signs reading: "No Blacks. No Dogs. No Irish."

Don't repeat that.

The ruling class always need a scapegoat.

Yesterday it was the Irish, Catholics, Mods, Pakistanis, single mothers, "benefit scroungers" & gay people.

Today it's migrants, trans people & people of colour.

Tomorrow it'll be someone else.

Migrants aren't why rents soar, wages stagnate or public services struggle.

The "good old days" weren't better because there were fewer migrants. They were better because communities, unions & solidarity were stronger.

Thatcher & her ilk weakened unions, dismantled collective institutions & destroyed spaces where ordinary people could organise. Since then we've been fed division, culture wars & individualism.

Because division suits them.

A divided working class fights for scraps. A united one asks questions of those at the top.

& fuck the guy who did it. Condemn the crime. But don't pretend violence was imported. We have our own history of violence, sectarianism & division.

For years, politicians & media have encouraged us to fear our neighbours instead of asking why housing, wages & public services are failing. They want us fighting sideways, not looking up.

Their greatest victory was convincing working-class people the enemy lives next door, not at the top.

Solidarity with our class - esp people of colour facing intimidation & violence right now.

You are our neighbours. You are our communities. You are loved & you belong here just as much as anyone else.

Shame on anyone helping divide our class. You're doing the dirty work of the rich while they profit from our division.

People like Tommy & Farage don't care about us.

Remember: it was the ruling class & landlords who wrote "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish".

Know who your real enemy is.

Reject racism. Reject sectarianism. Reject fascism.

Start fighting FOR our class AGAINST the rich.

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Jun 9

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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Dear Members of the University Community,
As a next step in the University of Chicago's overall approach to artificial intelligence (AI), the University is partnering with Anthropic to provide Claude Enterprise for all academics and staff starting in July, and for all students before the fall term. Claude Chat, Cowork, and Code will be made available to the campus community. Spanning the domains of research, education, and operations: these are powerful tools that are being made available to help individuals find ways to improve our pursuit of knowledge, our commitment to teaching students how to think independently, and the ability of our staff to support this work efficiently. Access will be granted to the newest versions of Anthropic's tools-for those who choose to use them-with improved integration with university resources and tools and more data protection than is available with private accounts.

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· May 31

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Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad showing a worker on a scissor lift in process of removing Donald J. Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center. The J is falling.

Text reads: GIANT SHIT STAIN REMOVED FROM FAÇADE OF CULTURAL LANDMARK

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· May 31

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Aerial photo of large solar farm. Text reads:

THE SUN HITS THE EARTH WITH 10,000 TIMES MORE ENERGY THAN WE USE.

EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

WE'RE NOT RUNNING OUT OF POWER.

WE'RE JUST STUCK USING THE WRONG KIND - BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES DON'T OWN SUNLIGHT.

RAWAMERICA

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· May 31

Great interview. Calm-mongering is not an effective public health strategy. “Public health mandates should be controlling the spread of pathogens, not managing the spread of concern. Until that fundamental reorientation happens, we will keep returning to this same crisis.” -Arijit Chakravarty

None of this is accidental. The deliberate defunding of global disease surveillance programs, the gutting of the CDC's international operations, the withdrawal of US support from the WHO and the dismantling of USAID's pandemic preparedness infrastructure have systematically destroyed the capacity to detect and contain emerging threats.
These are the concrete consequences of the "let it rip" policies that capitalist governments normalized during COVID-19-six years of conditioning the public to accept mass infection as unavoidable, while dismantling the institutions that might have prevented what is now unfolding.

The core failure, in every case, is that the entire focus is on managing the public's emotional response rather than managing the disease. Martha Lincoln and I wrote a piece several years ago titled, "The Coronavirus Doesn't Care About Your Feelings." Our argument was precisely this:
Managing the emotional response to a disease is not the same thing as managing the disease itself. The wrong lessons were drawn from COVID-19, and we are living through the consequences.

The lack of an honest post-mortem explains why we are in this Groundhog Day situation, where every new outbreak triggers the same cycle: debate about whether transmission is really airborne, eventual acknowledgment that it may be, and then the implicit conclusion that because it's airborne, nothing can be done. When a fire breaks out in your house, it's not a good time for debate. You reach for the fire extinguisher.

The deeper consequence of refusing to learn from COVID-19 is that the public has been led to believe that the problem with the COVID-19 response was that any mitigation measures existed at all. That is precisely the inversion of the truth. The problem was that mitigation measures were deployed too slowly, abandoned too quickly, and never given the institutional backing that would have made them effective. Until there is genuine accountability for what went wrong-not public relations exercises but honest institutional reckoning-we will continue cycling through these emergencies with the same tools, the same assumptions and the same outcomes.

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· May 27

Vic Chesnutt’s death in 2009 eviscerated me. The official word is that he died by suicide but my take is that he was killed by the U.S. healthcare system. If that’s not gravity, I’m not sure what is. #vss365 #gravity

Humble and gracious
The gravity of the situation
-Vic Chesnutt (1964-2009)

Words belted out and up
A soul deep gift taking flight
Heavy and light in one breath
A stream of vibrations
Poetry in air, connecting You to this earth, keeping You here, alive
For as long as you could bear

#vss365 #gravity #vicchesnutt

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· May 24

🛑 the “Stop overreacting!” crowd! #ReproductiveRights #ReproductiveJustice Reposting with alt text:

Post from Maryam @hell_lineØ on Twitts/X

2022: "Stop overreacting, they won't overturn Roe." They did.

2023: "Stop overreacting, they won't let women die rather than get an abortion." They did.

2024: "Stop overreacting, they won't arrest women for miscarriages."
They did.

2025: "Stop overreacting, they won't turn women into incubators."
They did.

2026: "Stop overreacting, they won't attack mifepristone."
They did, today.

Now: "Stop overreacting, they won't go after birth control next."
They will.

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· May 24

Reflecting on judgment with the help of Bowie & Jung #vss365 #judgment

Judgment

A hand reaches down
through a crack in the sky
It pats and pats and pats the ground
Hunting those who hide
themselves from themselves

I duck, I crouch, I veil but
It scoops
It nabs
It shakes
me anyway

#vss365 #judgment #bowie #jung

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· May 18

Stop forcing AI into fckn everything. Nobody asked for it. Everyone hates it. Say NO to AI. Join the anti-AI movement. #NoAI #FuckAI (reposted w alt text)

Photo of AI data center. Text reads:

Scientists have discovered Al data centers are even worse for the environment than we thought.

Big data centers create "heat islands" that raise local surface temperatures an average of 3.6°F, enough to potentially devastate local wildlife and water supply.

Black and yellow text with electricity vibes on red background. Text reads:

STOP FORCING AI INTO FUCKING EVERYTHING

NOBODY ASKED FOR IT

EVERYONE HATES IT

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· May 10

Shame. Shame. Shame. So much shame on my home state. Alabamafication (not the newsletter) at its worst. (reposted w alt text)

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· May 2

Evidence: “Race and ethnicity: Black voters continue to overwhelmingly support Harris (84%). Narrower majorities of Asian (61%) and Hispanic (57%) voters also back Harris. A majority of White voters (56%) support Trump.” www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Graph of results of Pew poll from September 2024 assessing registered voter support for Harris vs. Trump by race and by gender.

% supporting Harris moderately/strongly:

White: 42
Black: 84
Hispanic: 57
Asian: 61

Men: 46
Women: 52

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· May 1

INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ DAY MAY 1ST SHUT IT DOWN. BUILD COMMUNITY POWER. NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. TAKE TO THE STREETS! (w alt text) #GeneralStrike #NoWorkNoSchool #MayDay #Solidarity linktr.ee/generalstrikeus

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Apr 30

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Lines for My Last Day,
Whenever It May Come

All I wanted
was to say a few things clearly:
the way a river listens,
the green of a door in the evening,
the way we carry
our absences
like a winter coat loaded with stones.

I tried. I did
my small work.

At the end, let me become
the wind I loved.
Let me at least have lived my life.
With this heart, with this body
of hollows.
With this mind of madness and honey.
And these hands, these torn hands
I carried
like the deep-grooved gloves of a falconer that have learned the infinite difference between giving up and letting something go.

-Joseph Fasano

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Apr 30

Justice Kagan’s dissent is 🔥 (w alt text)

Justice Kagan’s dissent in the ruling on the Louisiana v. Callais case that gutted the Voting Rights Act on 4/29/2026.

Photo of Kagan with text reading:

"I DISSENT. THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT IS-OR, NOW MORE ACCURATELY, WAS-
'ONE OF THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL,
EFFICACIOUS, AND AMPLY JUSTIFIED EXERCISES OF FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE
POWER IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY.'

IT WAS BORN OF THE LITERAL BLOOD OF UNION SOLDIERS AND CIVIL RIGHTS MARCHERS. IT USHERED IN AWE-INSPIRING CHANGE, BRINGING THIS NATION CLOSER TO FULFILLING THE IDEALS OF DEMOCRACY AND RACIAL EQUALITY.

AND IT HAS BEEN REPEATEDLY, AND OVERWHELMINGLY, REAUTHORIZED BY THE PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS. ONLY THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY IT IS NO LONGER NEEDED- NOT THE MEMBERS OF THIS COURT.

I DISSENT, THEN, FROM THIS LATEST CHAPTER IN THE MAJORITY'S NOW-COMPLETED DEMOLITION OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT."

JUSTICE ELENA KAGAN

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Apr 29

I think of gender and sexuality as anything but #dichotomous, but this *came* out of me all the same. #vss365

Tanka in Transition

devour my body
go down & linger like want
in the soft magic
drink liquid salt from my cup
make me wake the poetry

devour my body
go down & linger like want
in the hard magic
drink liquid salt from my shaft
make me wake the poetry

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Apr 28

#vss365 #lightning ⚡️🪩

1980 at the Roller Rink with Diana and Amii

It's like thunder (ooo)
and lightning (aww)
disco ball strobe light flashing
blurs grooving
upside down
inside out
round and round

#vss365 #lightning ⚡️🪩

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Apr 26

deepest blue moon blues seeping into crevices an unlikely fuel #vss365 #lunar

Photo of crescent moon, at dusk over silhouetted trees and houses with lights glowing, reflecting in a lake

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Apr 24

Vaccines decrease rates of illness and death. Kennedy has dropped 6 vaccines from routine schedules & pulled $1.6 billion from global immunization. Measles is already in 46 states. w alt text

Image of RFK Jr

Text reads:

The former Soviet Union eased vaccination standards when diphtheria seemed beaten.
157,000 infections. 5,000 dead.

In 1994, Japan dropped mandatory school-based vaccinations and implemented individual choice. Rubella came back. Babies born blind and deaf.

Nigeria boycotted polio shots. The virus paralyzed over 1,500 children and spread to 12 countries.

That is the documented pattern.

Kennedy has now dropped six vaccines from routine schedules and pulled $1.6 billion from global immunization. Measles is already in 46 states.

-Mike Youn

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Apr 24

you me like two you me like boy like cats #vss365 #cats

pic of word magnet poem on plastic word magnet container on red & white reindeer cloth on wood table

poem can be read may ways:

you me like two
you me like boy
like cats

you you me me like like like two boy cats

you me like two boy cats
you me like boy
you me like cats

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Apr 21

🩵🧡💜

Prince looking fab wearing aqua and orange, rocking his signature symbol purple guitar, and bringing the house down at Super Bowl 41 in 2007

Text reads: The day they played football at a Prince concert

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Apr 21

🗣️VA voters: Vote YES by 4/21! w alt text

Headquarters @HQNewsNow

16 years ago, Republicans gerrymandered Virginia, taking 8 out of 11 seats in the House of Representatives.

Tomorrow, Virginia voters will have the chance to combat Trump's gerrymandering efforts by voting YES on the referendum.

Camille Buckner@camillebuckner· Apr 13

Also found this.