StephanieKMerrill

If this was all we had, it would be enough by J.I. Kleinberg

"Three windows face into the garden, sills crowded / with stones"

"If this was all we had, it would be enough" by J.I. Kleinberg

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far too late
I spot missing leaves
grasshoppers

#DailyHaikuPrompt (Late, Grasshopper)
#haiku #senryu

Triptych. Toni Morrison, Audre Lourde, Yoko Ono

Three makes a full circle. Toni Morrison, Audre Lourde, Yoko Ono. Today is their day.

i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham

🤯🤯🤯

Absolutely infuriating. These grotesque, morally bankrupt men have broken this country.

Can confirm.

It's great to live in a country (Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, etc.) where citizens don't worry about if the next election will be canceled, if they will be allowed to register to vote, if they will have to stand in line for hours to vote, or if their vote will be counted.

Toni Morrison Is Not in the Epstein Files Let's talk about the serious intellectuals, the ones not on the Lolita Express, the ones who could spell.

"The Trump-Epstein class considers genuine artists, intellectuals, and democratic politicians killjoys and whistleblowers. They call them woke. Or racially inferior. Or just women. Anyway, they were not invited."
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

Whoa
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Two witches on broomsticks in flights over houses beneath moon, their black cats ride with them. Painting.

'What greater gift than the love of a cat.' ~ Dickens.
#BookWormSat #Caturday
🖼️ Terri Foss

Minnesota 1, Trump 0 • Minnesota Reformer The sense that we’re all in it together motivates great acts of both charity and courage.

"Outsiders who kept bleating about “paid protesters” have clearly never stuffed themselves with hot dish and baked goods at a Minnesota PTA meeting, caucus, hockey game or church event on a subzero night."
minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/13/m...

The Day Before I Died by Bob King I took a nap. It seemed almost wasteful,given the magnitude of the next day,but tired wrapped around me like smoke,pulling me toward the sofa that alreadyhad the perfect imprint of my b…

“I took a nap. It seemed almost wasteful, / given the magnitude of the next day, / but tired wrapped around me like smoke”

"The Day Before I Died" by @kingrobertj.bsky.social

psalteryandlyre.org/2026/02/09/t...

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"But in another sense the whole society is hiding something: that this violence is everywhere and it deeply shapes – or misshapes – our society."
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world The most disturbing revelation so far

"We are in mafia country now. A world of strong men where the rules-based order is dead."
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I studied the latest Epstein files. As a woman, this is what I felt They show a hidden world oiled by porn-saturated misogyny. I spent two days reading them

"We see the contrast between their public distancing and their private networking. But we also see their everyday exchanges making the cogs of the world turn, oiled by porn-saturated woman-hating."

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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
-Confucius

This is an impeachable statement. It should be a career-ending scandal to avoid a question, especially one of grave import and consequence, by claiming ignorance about the most basic fundamental aspect of your job.

The Shadow I Keep by Sam Aureli

I don’t forgive him, not yet, / but I let their love for him stand, / a stone I don’t need to carry."

"The Shadow I Keep" by @samaureli.bsky.social‬

psalteryandlyre.org/2026/01/26/t...

same

Board of Peace - Season 1

Be well.

When I try to reply to a gmail now, I get an automatic "Do you need help writing?" cue. No, I do not, and kindly fuck off into the sun. Is there a way to turn this off?

Three Oriental cats--ebony, chocolate, blue--sitting on the dryer.

The Three Fates
#caturday

Chris Hedges: Grand Illusion All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey.

Chris Hedges: Grand Illusion voxpopulisphere.com/2026/01/12/c...

Episcopalians going *hard*

same

I can't be this furious all the time, but I didn't know it was possible to be this furious even some of the time.

whoa

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

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