“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” — Albert Camus

Writers and artists take note.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Thanks Paul @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #history. This one's a bit cheeky, in a sympathetic sort of way.

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

Finally arrived! Thank you REM for lending your creation to this vital effort! #REM #RadioFreeEurope @rferl.org.web.brid.gy @remhq.bsky.social

If you love #books and are at all familiar with #Edinburgh, you may know the #bookstore that inspired this #poem. #poetry #poetsofbluesky

Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for this week's #PoemsAbout #Candlelight. Here’s my contribution:

So worth reading!

They dragged out more than 300 S Korean engineers & specialists. People flown in to help stand the place up so it could eventually employ thousands of Americans. It wasn’t scheduled open until 2026. These workers weren’t taking jobs; they were building the factory that would create them. 2.

Corporate executives who defraud nursing homes? Pardoned. Reality TV stars who evade millions in taxes? Pardoned. Thousands of January 6th rioters? Pardoned. Anyone who opposes Trump? Prosecuted.

Hey Julian. @hool415.bsky.social This is a great prompt. Thanks! #promptcombo #winged

Chicago: “We don’t need the National Guard.” Also Chicago: “But if they'll shovel our sidewalks in February, we can talk.”

Amen!

Thanks @rfsmith.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #banality. #poetry

Only the comedians (and other artists) can save us from this mess. Thanks for this @charlieberens.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/ez7YV...

The fucker ruins everything wtop.com/dc/2025/08/i...

Thank you @victoriaspires.bsky.social for this week's #woods #promptcombo!

Live so that if your Life was a Book Florida would Ban it 🤷🏽‍♀️

Our 10-year anniversary issue officially releases in just 2 more weeks! You can pre-order a copy of Issue 36 Fall 2025 using this link: www.doorisajarmagazine.net/issues/fall-... #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #drama #bookreviews #indiepress #litmag #doorisajar

Excited to share that two of my poems have been accepted for publication in the Winter '25 issue of @doorisajarmag.bsky.social.

My piece for this week's #poemsabout #ceasefire. Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

substack.com/@philosophor... #resist #democracy #freedom

California Governor Gavin Newsom trolling Trump is next level funny. Can't see Chuck Schumer doing this. More of this energy please.

Thanks, Paul, for this week's #Mariner #PromptCombo. My poem here was inspired by a trip to Skye back in January. @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

A reminder of how the Biblical prophets thought, for today's world: Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. Isaiah 10:1-2

I honestly thought this was a spoof.

Ha! We used to scour magazine ads for subliminal messages, too. Never found one. Child of the 70s. Great poem!

Here’s one for #PoemsAbout #StarCrossed @alanparrywriter.co.uk

"The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it." Lawrence Ferlinghetti #poetry mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/poets...

Excited to share that my poem “Next Door” has been published in the Aug '25 issue of Moss Piglet #poetry

open.substack.com/pub/hoppingo... #poem #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity

A Week In Substack Poetry, Anniversary Issue #26 Grateful to @timjagodzinski.de for including one of my poems in his special anniversary issue of A Week in Substack Poetry! open.substack.com/pub/cerulean...

Gee, I can’t imagine that happening anywhere else 🙄

New to this. Love this prompt @hool415.bsky.social. Thank you. #Promptcombo #MyGod

EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN FILES! 💥

A happy accident to have spent my last evening in Scotland on Burns Night. open.substack.com/pub/hoppingo...

Trump's stripping public services bare to feed his police-state machine. FEMA's gutted. The Weather Service is short-staffed. But there's money for ICE camps and billionaire tax cuts. A reckoning is coming.

Happy to #liftToTheSky @timjagodzinski.de for all he does to help poets expand their reach.

I wonder why we aren’t seeing this?

@arvinthor.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/news...

It's taken me longer than most, but here's why I quit amazon today. Families will be torn apart. Innocents will be locked up. Fuck Bezos and fuck anyone who thinks this a joke and something from which to turn a quick buck. Sickening. 11/3/26 can't come soon enough. #riseup #resist #fuckamazon

Honored to have my poem, “There Comes a Time,” included with nine other great works in this week’s roundup. A Week In Substack Poetry #23 open.substack.com/pub/cerulean...

Thank you, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets! www.facebook.com/share/v/1CaU...