What's the status on the legal case(s?) restoring congressional oversight access to ICE facilities, @bennet.senate.gov @hickenlooper.bsky.social @neguse.house.gov @crow.house.gov @pettersen.house.gov?

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John Coltrane Quintet "Something I Dreamed Last Night" Freddie Hubbard – trumpet Red Garland – piano Paul Chambers – bass Art Taylor – drums youtu.be/GJK151HTH2o?... #Jazz #JazzSky #Music #MusicSky #NowPlaying 🎧

Hello everyone. The #7syllablesentence prompt for November 14 is #object November 9-15 @msfulofgrace.bsky.social November 16-22 @msfulofgrace.bsky.social November 23-29 ? Nov 30-Dec 6 ? Let me know if you want to host #7SyllableSentence Thank you for your fabulous posts! 🐬🏝️🐋

#7syllablesentence #object the objects moved on their own

Women should rule the world. It's time.

A TREE ON FIRE #ForestFriday #photo Francis H Powell #photoshare #naturephoto

the toddler tries to grab it #7syllablesentence

Is it #FAFO Friday yet? Open Mic #poetry reading in our Discord server. Come check us out. Leave a comment below or dm us. We'd be happy to see you and read together. Best wishes 🤗 #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poets #writers #writing #gratitude

Until then, hop on over to our kofi store linked below to get a copy of our first zine, "The Harbingers." Both this, and our upcoming zine are free. Any donation goes to our fundraiser for the #ACLU. Best wishes all around. 🤗 ko-fi.com/s/b016e5310d

‪ #短歌 #tanka #taketwo after the sun sets we bury a red leaf deep in the ground and dig it up when the sun begins to rise

Sitting at a campfire staring at another campfire. 5”x5” oil

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

One thing that seems like it would be potentially valuable right now is for some kind of private/academic consortium to try to compile and release data about the state of the economy, since it seems like official stats are almost certainly going to be either nonexistent or wildly unreliable.

Each Story Seed is a prompt, a question, or an idea, to give you a starting point. Each seed is a trigger for your imagination. Here is Seed 318! medium.com/@nshooter11/... #366StorySeeds #storyidea #storyprompt #writingprompt #inspiration #creativity #writeon #justwrite #amwriting #ideaoftheday

Rocking horse Shower Curtain, childhood nostalgia, nostalgic vintage toy, old fashioned, down memory lane, kids bathroom decor, made in USA, designed in Canada by EternalArt on Etsy: eternalart.etsy.com/listing/6526... #showercurtain #rockinghorse #nostalgia #nostalgictoy #bathroomreno #bathdecor

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#BlueSkyPoets #Toussaint #poetry

waterfall vapor . . . the eagle reaches a second sky — tsuri-dōrō, issue #30, 2025 #haiku #poetry #poem

and sparks where I touch your neck

cloudy night in the country light rain falls invisibly

#俳句 #haiku #poet:Chiyo #school:Fukuda #era:1700s #kigo:summer #kigo:fireflies ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use "fireflies" and/or "river" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤

I've never written a "fireflies" #haiku, so here's one by my favourite English-language haikai poet @solarprof225.bsky.social (Laurence Stacey): fireflies— again i question my faith 🖤

New book of #haiku out now by Dick Whyte! 🖤🖤🖤

Good morning with more poems on Bach Practicing Bach: Prelude Jan Zwicky Everywhere you look there's beauty and it's rimed with death

When you realize everyone is healing from something, it's a lot easier to just be kind to people. ~ Lewis Howes

a shiny object d a n g l e s 🪩 #7syllablesentence prompt for Friday, November 14th is #object

#7syllablesentence prompt for Friday, November 14th is #object A noun meaning a thing that can be seen and touched or a target or a verb expressing disapproval Having fun interacting with y’all. Please let Gabe @poetguygabe.bsky.social know if you’d like to host

broken limb after a winter storm still holding on who would have expected me to see such truth #tanka #5lines Published Bright Stars 2, An Organic Tanka Anthology M. Kei, Editor #TankaPoem #micropoetry #poem

ending the ending only the echo of rice cakes in lonely sleep #haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1680-1683 translator: Jane Reichhold #micropoetry

There is nothing more magic and beautiful than lines forming across paper. It’s all there is. It’s all there ever was. ― Charles Bukowski, On Writing #quote

college hallway creative writing professor mid-sentence why is the kiss i recall the unwanted one Published in: Ribbons Tanka Society of America Fall/Winter 2025: Volume 21, Number 2 #Tanka #TankaPoem #Micropoetry

locked in a cellar where words don't mean anything just hollow echoes yet, faint light is flickering I think it's something called, hope #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #cellar #tanka #micropoetry

Most signs had long since faded, leaving runic traces in chipped paint and rust. Those that remained unscathed went unread. But not unseen. Time and struggle wore away written #language. But not our stories So we go on, passing our history, our hope #vss365 #writingcommunity #halfbadpoetry #taketwo

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. – Martin Luther King Jr. #quote

what most keep cellared deep now too many celebrate on dank display © Rick Ehling ✍️ 11/13/2025

cellar creatures beneath these pavement lights wild green other pressing on the prism glass between their world and mine #TankaThursday (cellar)

Tell me cellar door. Dulcet tones of pleasing song. Meaning not needed. A heartbeat and a whisper. A murmur and I disappear. #TankaThursday #cellar #TankaPoem #micropoetry #micropoem #tanka #poem #poetrycommunity #poet #writincommunity

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***Content Warning*** This is the most disgusting video by WOMEN I’ve ever watched. 😳 😱 😠 🤬 🤮 Megyn Kelly is contemptible! She has a 14-year old daughter! She’s basically saying it’s ok for her daughter to have sex with a 40 or 50+ old man like Epstein. #WTF #EpsteinFiles #PedophileProtector 😭

we rise again from the storm cellar … only traces of the house remain yet all of us are home —Denis M. Garrison #TankaThursday cellar #TankaPoem #micropoetry #5Lines #Tanka Chinese translation & poet’s bio at Chen-ou Liu’s blog, link below. neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.com/2022/05/one-...

for Vera Lytovchenko, dubbed Ukraine’s “cellar violinist” distant thunders ... the violinist playing a lullaby for Ukrainian children sheltered in a cellar —Chen-ou Liu #TankaThursday cellar #micropoetry #TankaPoem #Tanka

a few flakes shaken out of a salt cellar sky, a little seasoning for the pavement —M. Kei #TankaThursday cellar #TankaPoem #5lines #micropoetry

shelter-in-place dim cellar light flickers shadows cast onto moldy damp walls Ball Mason jar reflections #TankaThursday cellar #TankaPoem #micropoetry #tanka

He slinks into the #Cellar feeling the bottles. Looking for the most Worn label, the air stabbing His lungs with a coughing fit. #tankathursday #tanka #haiku #poem #poetry #writingcommunity

thoughts and myths are swirling in my head mold in the cellar I have almost missed the first snow #vss365 #myth #DailyHaikuPrompt #firstsnow #TankaThursday #cellar #Tanka #TankaPoem #micropoetry

For #TankaThursday #poetry #TankaPoem #micropoetry #cellar With thanks to @evecastle.bsky.social

Sculpture of Volos a fine masterwork hidden in the shop’s cellar cracked by a warrior’s pride waiting for restoration #TankaPoem #TankaThursday