And Trumpelstiltkin is so mad about this poll, he claims he's going to sue the @newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social for publishing it.
An offense against the Emperor.
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Poet & cultural journalist. https://malcolmfarleywriter.com
And Trumpelstiltkin is so mad about this poll, he claims he's going to sue the @newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social for publishing it.
An offense against the Emperor.
Leather goods and footwear accessories.
Street scene in Naples. October 2026
#Italy #Napoli #streetscape #hair #men
On a non-political note, I'm convinced Emily Dickinson was heavily influenced by Cavalier poets, which may seem surprising. But those abstract, capitalized nouns re-appear in her work, albeit in a much more powerful & original form. And the 4-beat/3-beat meter.
22.01.2026 19:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Right now, it seems a good moment to recall the famous last stanza of Sir Richard Lovelace's poem, "To Althea: From Prison."
Lovelace may have been a royalist, but his poem speaks to the a spirit of defiance in all those who oppose tyranny and injustice, whether crowned or empty-headed.
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21.01.2026 23:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0But, is it a "madman approach"βa phrase which suggests intentionality and tactical gesturesβor just plain and simple madness?
21.01.2026 23:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sorry, corrected Guardian link here: www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...?
21.01.2026 16:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0So glad to see one of my favorite poets, Karen Solie, the ambitious and gifted Canadian poet, has just won a big award: www.theguardian.com/.../karen-so....
Not enough of my American poet friends have read her work.
#poets #Canada
@bdralyuk.bsky.social
Late night at the Eagle. Bondage, sweet bondage. Oh San PantaleaΓ΅, my pantless saint! Martyrdom has never seemed so calm, so sweet. Even Modesty's rumpled napkin is decorous, symmetrical, replete.
#martyrdom #sweet #bondage
#Greenland #Healthcare
19.01.2026 22:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mad King Donald's letter to the Prime Minister of Norway. It should be EXHIBIT #1 in removal of a mentally incompetent President under the 25th Amendment.
EXHBIT #2 King Don's punishment of American consumers by instituting new tariffs (sales taxes we pay) on the products from Europe we want.
@indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @maddowblog.bsky.social
@chrislhayes.bsky.social @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social
@democracyforward.org @democracynow.org
A lonely Perrone in Naples. October.
#napoli #birra #shadows #autumnal
#Chaos #Dementia #Madness #Trump
18.01.2026 13:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @maddowblog.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social @democracyforward.org @democracynow.org
17.01.2026 01:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As #Trump threatens today to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy U.S. troops in #Minnesota (after having provoked civil unrest by surging 3,000 #ICE agents to that state), it would be a good idea to educate ourselves about this dangerously vague legislation.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
#Trump's claim to be the "Acting President of Venezuela"βand his plan to steal its oil & sequester oil revenue in a private bank accountβgrossly violates the foreign #emoluments clause of our #constitution.
@maddow.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @warren.senate.gov
Greenland strikes back!
"To tear the foul spirit from our coast..."
#trump #greenland #Imperialism #militarism #folly
One key difference...
#Germany #Amerikkka #Adolf #Trump
obelisk with a bronze relief, standing in an island in the middle of roads at Mount Auburn cemetery, surrounded by white, purple, and yellow pansies
Monument to Charles Turner Torrey at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
A Yale graduate and abolitionist, Torrey went to Baltimore to help enslaved people escape. He was stalked by the police, captured, convicted, and died in prison in 1846.
One of the few white abolitionists John Brown respected
In under 48 hours, you organized nearly 1,200 marches and vigils in all 50 states and DC for Renee Nicole Good.
There are more of us than there are of them β and We the People wonβt stop demanding accountability for ICEβs killing of Renee. #ICEOutForGood
People holding giant letters that spell out ice out for good
Happening now.
11.01.2026 18:57 β π 454 π 61 π¬ 3 π 0π π NYC turning up, standing up and showing up to say No Kings No War No ICE π«ππ§
@riseandresist.bsky.social @socialists.nyc @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @50501newyork.bsky.social
@indivisible.org
@targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social @nywfp.bsky.social
ICE THUGS arrested a pastor & kept asking him "Are you afraid?" numerous occasions. The pastor said NO. Eventually the THUGS let him go stating that "You're WHITE, you're no fun to us!!"
This is how sick & deranged these THUGS are, thanks to this REGIMEβΌοΈ
youtu.be/lcSOyVrc5HM?...
Fabulous photo from todayβs ICE Out For Good rally in Newton Centre! Thank you, all 600 of you, for making noise!
#newtonindivisible
This weekend, Americans are standing up for our communities that are being terrorized by Trumpβs fascist death squads.
Join us to demand accountability for ICEβs killing of Renee Nicole Good: mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913... #ICEOutForGood