SENATORS HOLD THE FLOOR IN PROTEST OF COPPER-NICKEL MINING NEAR THE BOUNDARY WATERS YouTube video by Senator Tina Smith

SENATORS HOLD THE FLOOR IN PROTEST OF COPPER-NICKEL MINING NEAR THE BOUNDARY WATERS
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Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $787 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election. #foxnews #corruption #media

Can I get a Whoop Whoop!

Back in early 2020, less than a year after my husband passed, I participated in an online 30-day grief writing course. Afterwards, those of us who attended that particular session moved into an “alumni” space. Such grace, such presence. Such heartbreak. Such grief. Such LOVE. Along the way, one of the members proposed a prompt: “I find myself with an excess of grief…” To which I wrote (black text on white background): I find myself with an excess of grief… ・୨ 𖥸 ୧・ If Grief is the rawest, wildest flip side of Love then let me be topped full to overflowing show the ledger in the black with surplus have it reflect all the love I have for you Buckets and pails and pots gather them up! Don’t waste a drop for this excess I shall save carefully and use in times of drought when my heart becomes parched I like to think of it as a welcomed over-abundance but some might sneer, calling it indulgent “Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite,” is what I’d say to that “My Love Tank is low,” I hear you whisper Worry no more, My Love! Guess what I have: a bellyful of Grief, which is really Love anyway and serving that up to you eases my soul ・୨ 𖥸 ୧・ I find myself with an excess of grief… Please, Grief - never stop - ever crash upon the shore break the levies topple the dams Fill my heart again and again and again --------------- (Also published in “Dust & Bone – Our Poetic Legacy”, edited by Kevin Watt. This poetry anthology can be found on Amazon.) The 15th was our 15th wedding anniversary. Today, the 16th, is the 7th anniversary of my husband’s passing. Fuck Cancer. I remain devastated without him. I love you, my Husband. Always. Never gonna let you go.

Written in response to a grief prompt years back.

Please friends, if I may be so forward to ask: would you please hold a little space today for me and my husband. I miss him fiercely.

In peace and light - namaste 🕊️💜

#poetry #loss #grief #love

❤️ On point.

here i go again
we meet, greet and fall in love
getting the u-haul

#vss365 #Loop #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets #Relationships

"I owe more to Canadians than they'll ever know. In my baseball career, they were the first to make me feel my natural self."

-- Jackie Robinson

#JackieRobinsonDay

Birthday greetings forJulie Christie, born on this day, 1940. Pictured here in "Doctor Zhivago", 1965.

Wag the Dog much?

Guess who is turning six?
The bestest good girl!
Hard to believe she is six years old!
Happy Birthday Beaker, you are the sun on a cloudy day. ❤️

🎥 video clips and stills of Beaker from when she was a puppy until now.

Henry James. 183 today. This self-aware, calculating novelist, who explores the harms (intentional, unwitting) people do each other & tyrannies of manners & culture, through acute material & psychological observation, obsession with minutiae, & an almost Symbolist interest in obliquity, repays study

Pamela Jo should be testifying under oath today before House Oversight about the Epstein Files, but she is intentionally ignoring her subpoena.

I mean, as far back as Feb. 2025, Pamela Jo was hellbent on getting justice per the below Facebook post.

Let’s get the contempt process started, shall we?

Can I get good vibes for my Samwise? He is not well. We're at the vet again.

Pauli Murray

On this day in 1964, Pauli Murray circulated a memo arguing that black and white women would “share a common fate of discrimination” unless Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited sex discrimination in employment as well as race discrimination. The memo helped keep the “sex amendment” in T7.

Your meme game is on point.

If you're having a bad day watch this video!

How can we not love dogs! ❤️

Available for FREE on TUBI & PlutoTV streaming services.

The Dunwich Horror (1970) directed by Daniel Haller, and starring Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, and Ed Begley.

Years ago, a writer friend was passing through on tour. I didn't know him that well, but I liked what I knew of him - and when he suggested that I join him (and the other writer touring with them) to hang and sign stock, I said "Sure, let's do it." So the three of us spent a day doing that. (1)

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap.

I can’t believe it 😭

what river forgets
willow remembers
secrets in the wind

#inkmine #haiku

Sean Connery explaining the Chicago way.

"He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send him Matthew 5:9. That's the Chicago Pope way."

Many Venezuelans Want to Go Home. But They Can’t Get Passports. The U.S. has made it impossible for them to stay legally, and their own country makes it difficult for them to return.

The U.S. has made it impossible for many Venezuelans to stay legally, and their own country makes it difficult for them to return. They had their passports confiscated when entering the U.S., under a policy to speed up deportation should they be denied asylum — leaving them unable to fly home.

Photo of a small brick building with a stone foundation and a wood sign that reads “old town spring”, a green yard, blue sky and some pine trees surround

💦

Old Town Spring

when the waters
of earth ran clear
they also ran free

#haiku #poem #poetry #writer
#poetrycommunity

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social wrote this back in 2017
It’s as if it was written for today
The Dems have let the world down
“Trump has shown that human beings have little inherent value to him. If Trump senses he may have to make a personal sacrifice, he will sacrifice the world instead.”
From:

Everyone you love is here. Truly remarkable to be able to view.

I feel those who read both Horror and SciFi will understand this post.

Harlan Ellison isn't enough, we need Clive Barker.