Chris L. Butler 💎 🍉

POV you experiment with poetry through zines, chapbooks, and collages.

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He’s gonna run a decathlon w/this info..

I beg your pardon?

If this is about what I think it is, well done.

Check out these dope titles from my pressmates and I at @the-ethelzine.bsky.social! Grab a subscription to the whole 2026 catalog if you can.

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They want me to choose a side between USA 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦 in hockey. I just look at it like I won gold and silver. Also? LAND BACK

A successful day of tabling at the Niagara Book Fair Expo. 21 zines out of 25 were sold! Thankful for all the people who came out to support local artists. 📚🫶🏽

Thank you for the shout out! The support of the culture means the world to me. 🙏🏽 🖤🤎

Pre-Order link: www.ethelzine.com/melodies-of-...

Note: this chapbooks is 100% hand made and therefore ships in March.

What if a poet had a Super Bowl commercial? 🤔

The highly anticipated MELODIES OF THE OPPRESSED with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social is available for pre-orders. Limited released.

$5 of each sale will be donated to the Philly Community Bail Fund.

Link in comments 🍉

Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.

Thank you so much again to everyone who has donated or shared the GoFundMe! It has been so heart-filling seeing the care and kindness for our family. (1/?)

And now I’m missing Screwston… need dat already

So excited! Thanks again for choosing my art 🙏🏽

My newest chapbook MELODIES OF THE OPPRESSED with @the-ethelzine.bsky.social is out for pre orders!

$5 from each sale will be going toward a mutual aid group in Philly (my hometown).

Link: www.ethelzine.com/shop/melodie...

Hero! We eat this slop! Nacho fries are now permanently on the menu!

Donate to Support for the West Family, organized by West Family Supporters The West family has always been there for those around them, offering kindness and … West Family Supporters needs your support for Support for the West Family

Hey internet strangers, a long time writer friend of mine and one of the earliest supporters of TBQ suffered a stroke this week and if using my platform can help his beautiful family in any way, I'm happy to do it! gofund.me/212e79a0f

But what a cutie that first draft is.

Masked ICE agents reportedly arrest 3 on Seattle’s Aurora Avenue North Seattle police said masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men on Aurora Avenue North Wednesday.

Heads up Seattle: Three men just abducted by ICE in North Seattle, up by Washelli cemetery (not far from the Aurora Home Depot) www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Image text: mmigration Enforcement Activity 08 Jan 2026 - 7:30AM 95th & Western On the morning of Thursday, January 8th, one man was abducted by federal agents who pulled him over while he was driving a work vehicle near the corner of 95th & Western. Rapid responders were not on site during the abduction, but community members reported seeing agents in two gray SUVs take part in the operation. Rapid responders have confirmed this incident was immigration enforcement activity. It is unknown where the agents went when they left the area. If you see immigration enforcement activity, please call the FSN hotline at (855) 435-7693 with details about what you saw, when it took place, and where it happened. Rapid response volunteers will be dispatched to verify and document reported activity.

In the wake of federal immigration agents killing a woman in Minneapolis, they continue to abduct people in Chicago.

Rapid responders say agents took at least one man from a work vehicle in the city's Beverly neighborhood this morning, near the intersection of 95th and Western.

Renee Good’s memorial site with candles and offerings

Rest in power, Renee Good. 💔

This poem is almost 6 years old

Screenshot of google map showing walking directions from where George Floyd was murdered to where an ICE agent murdered an observer today, distance of 18 min, 0.8 miles.

I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.

U.S. will leave 66 international organizations as Trump further retreats from global cooperation President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establi...

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation. https://to.pbs.org/4q8aZXX

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

Trump pulls out of long list of international organizations, conventions, treaties.... including (of particular note to digital rights folks) the Freedom Online Coalition. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

We should all sit with this ICE murder. Any one of us could be executed by ICE, and our government wouldn’t bat an eye. Instead they’d just lie about us to the world.

ICE has murdered an American citizen in Minneapolis

Libre Venezeula By Chris L. Butler Published by: New Verse News (2026) Animus aggression unhinged & unchecked. Jet propulsions accompanied by mass explosions. Convicted felons claiming criminality. An ironic eruption. Manifest destiny? No, even worse. Manifested violations of international law. A cruel collective giving dangerous directions to gain crude investments. Got other nations quaking each time he utters the word liberation. Cabinets who claim to be peacemakers yet the traits exhibited are the total opposite of Quakers. Some see a circle of friends. To us? We see a circle of dictators. Perpetrators of neo neo colonization. It’s like we learned nothing from Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Libya, or Syria. Forget our issues in America if oil money is on the table. Copy & paste a country name here enters Venezuela. How is this any different?

My first poem of 2026 is called “Libre Venezuela.” Special thanks to @newversenews.bsky.social for publishing it.

I’m attaching a screenshot but do read it on their site as well so they can get the web traffic.

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Article 2, paragraph 4 of the Charter of the United Nations states verbatim: “The Members of the Organization, in their international relations, shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.” The position of the government of Mexico: gob.mx/sre/prensa/mex…

The bombings on Venezuelan territory and the capture of its president cross an unacceptable line. These acts represent a most serious affront to Venezuela's sovereignty and yet another extremely dangerous precedent for the entire international community. Attacking countries, in flagrant violation of international law, is the first step toward a world of violence, chaos, and instability, where the law of the strongest prevails over multilateralism. The condemnation of the use of force is consistent with the position that Brazil has always adopted in recent situations in other countries and regions. The action recalls the worst moments of interference in the politics of Latin America and the Caribbean and threatens the preservation of the region as a zone of peace. The international community, through the United Nations, needs to respond vigorously to this episode. Brazil condemns these actions and remains available to promote the path of dialogue and cooperation.

Mexico and Brazil are among the states condemning the United States’ blatant violation of Venezuelan sovereignty.