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StephanieKMerrill
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Reader. Writer. Pianist. Fan of elegant brevity. Words in UCity Review, Feral, Moist Poetry Journal, One Art, Rise Up Review, Amethyst Review, ZiN Daily, Eunoia Review, Trampoline Poetry, &tc. Retired English faculty. Pushcart nominee. she/her Austin Ⓥ
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Jack Gilbert #poetry

poem by Jack Gilbert. "Happily Planting the Beans Too Early"
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Speaking to People’s World amidst the festival events, Davis said, “The French people and the people of the U.S., just like many around the world, are engaged in a fight—a fight against racism, anti-immigrant hate, and patriarchy—really a fight against fascism. www.peoplesworld.org/article/ange...

Angela Davis: Electing Harris will open space for more radical struggles
Angela Davis: Electing Harris will open space for more radical struggles

PARIS—“Do I really have to answer that question? I’m certainly not voting for the person leading the Republican Party.” That was the response of communist icon Angela Davis when a journalist asked abo...

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life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis (e. e. cummings. today is his day)

Black and white photo of ee cummings dressed in a dark suit, white shirt, and dark tie.
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Trump now says he wants U.S. citizens who oppose him politically to be “handled” by the military. This is the very definition of fascist authoritarianism — so where the hell is the U.S. media? @washingtonpost.com@nytimes.comwww.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump says ‘enemy from within’ should be ‘handled’ by military: Election 2024 news
Trump says ‘enemy from within’ should be ‘handled’ by military: Election 2024 news

New national polls from ABC, NBC, and CBS show tight race, with Kamala Harris’s lead narrowing in two and dead heat in one

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Harris rocked it, dealing with tough questions and funny ones, showcasing policy and empathy, unapologetically centering women, while not ignoring men. The grousers are just sad they aren't gatekeepers anymore. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Harris Rocked the Media Blitz That Big Media Mocked
Harris Rocked the Media Blitz That Big Media Mocked

This ought to calm the media malcontents who’ve insisted she hasn’t sat for enough interviews, right? Wrong.

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mom informed me that she hates ai because her instagram is full of fake crochet now. all that hype, all those investments, all that energy spent just to interfere with people's hobbies and mess up a little old lady's instagram feed

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Sometimes you find some art by someone where you can't help but mourn that they missed the internet by nearly three centuries.

Two hammerhead sharks drawn on parchment. One is viewed from the top and has awkwardly placed googly eyes. The other is pictured from below and has similarly dorky eyes, but also a friendly smile like a Muppet.
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“Don’t talk politics, but the air you breathe is polluted air . . . The air you breathe is politics. So you have to be involved. You have to be involved in trying to elect people that’s going to help do something about the liberation of all people.” - Fannie Lou Hamer, 1971

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StephanieKMerrill
@stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Pianist. Fan of elegant brevity. Words in UCity Review, Feral, Moist Poetry Journal, One Art, Rise Up Review, Amethyst Review, ZiN Daily, Eunoia Review, Trampoline Poetry, &tc. Retired English faculty. Pushcart nominee. she/her Austin Ⓥ
320 followers450 following129 posts