Adrian R
@arichwell108.bsky.social
Lover of poetry and literature, sometime poet and argument teacher, academic coach, wellness advocate, Facebook refugee
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936
Saw this on a friend's FB post and had to share it! I hope it speaks to you the way it did to me! #VoteSmart
The Supreme Court's approval rating just hit an all-time low of 33% It's past time to reform America's highest court. Here's how.
How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court | Robert Reich
Justice Roberts refused to testify in a hearing on SCOTUS ethics.Thomas and Alito accepted luxury vacations from GOP meg
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www.kvmr.org/show/molly-f... Check out this week's creativity talk
Molly Fisk's Essays - KVMR Community Radio
Molly Fisk is an American poet, radio commentator, and radical life coach. Her most recent book is Everything But the Kitchen Skunk: Ongoing Observations from a Working Poet. She was Nevada County’s f...
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On the new @lrb.co.uk podcast, I speak with Randall Kennedy and @maragay.bsky.social about the long history of Black voter suppression in the US and its potential implications for the midterms. www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Mara Gay, Randall Kennedy and Adam Shatz · The long history of Black voter suppression in the US
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Shares of the Facebook parent have plunged over what could be an 11-day losing streak.
Zuckerberg’s Fortune Drops $18 Billion As Wall Street Sours On Meta’s AI Spending
Shares of the Facebook parent have plunged over what could be an 11-day losing streak.
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Some unpleasant possibilities | Joanna Russ biblioklept.org/2026/07/30/s...
Some unpleasant possibilities | Joanna Russ
One might argue—and justly—that many male writers are also represented by only one book or one group of poems. I would answer first that the damage done the women is greater because women constitut…
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#HealingHearts Survivors of trauma deal with flashbacks of abuse, often at random times. They are, to say the least, incredibly unsettling. I saw this quote & it struck me with its truth. There is light on the healing path even when it's hard to see. ✨ #CSASurvivor #Pinks #ProudBlue 💛💚💜
If I had to share just one lesson from my decades of teaching, it's that the best way to learn is by talking to someone who disagrees with you.
We have wonderful music, vibrant arts, hiking, biking, skiing, rafting, fishing, paragliding and good eating. A Colorado experience can be weird, wild, scary, spectacular, but seldom boring.
150 things that make Colorado quintessentially cool
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From projects written using very specific words to books penned without particular letters.
8 Extraordinary Examples of Constrained Writing
At the most extreme, some forms of constrained writing are even more self-limiting and end up being very, very constrained indeed.
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Why the U.S. Military is 'Earth's Greatest Enemy' (w/ Abby Martin) | The Chris Hedges Report
In Abby Martin's new film, 'Earth's Greatest Enemy,' she exposes how the US military has unleashed death, devastation and more pollution than any other institution in the world on the global populace.
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No one is safe when ICE feels empowered to detain U.S. citizens, use violence, and retaliate against those exercising our free speech rights. ACLU state affiliates across the country are representing people harmed by federal law enforcement to make sure immigration agents aren't let off the hook.
ACLU puts feds on defense: 54 claims in 17 states
The civil liberties group also released a report identifying 432 incidents of alleged misconduct.
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'summer evening-- they watch from two houses wildflowers' 1820/ Issa .夏の夜や二軒して見る草の花 natsu no yo ya ni ken shite miru kusa no hana **** image: peaklass,UK
Happy Wednesday with light rain and sincere coffee wishes! xoxo *** Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese proverb *** coffeeroom ph. See less
Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99 - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/a...
Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99 (Gift Article)
Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art.
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Thanks to the brilliant poet Robert Cording who allowed me to interview him for Vox Populi. If you have any interest in poetry, you need to check this out: voxpopulisphere.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/m...
Michael Simms: A Conversation with the Poet Robert Cording
A Life-long Commitment to the Ordinary
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The U.S. is facing a major outbreak of the foodborne disease cyclosporiasis. @drdebhoury.bsky.social, the former chief medical officer at the CDC, says funding cuts to the public health agency have “left our country hampered in being able to detect and respond to these outbreaks.”
The White House wants warning signs outside the #Smithsonian because it claims Americans are being misled about their own history. So I put one where it belongs. #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #TheWhiteHouse #Satire #DrawnAndQuartered
In case you're in any of these neighborhoods at the right moment, swing by, we'll have fun. <3
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” ― Henry James (Hockney)
Q Train - Beverly stop/Brooklyn - looking north. © J.Graham
Tom Snarsky: today’s reclaimed poem is by Frank O’Hara — I will always love a sonnet that’s a bit quiet about its sonnet-ness, or that distracts you with some other pyrotechnics before you take the turn and you’re in the poet’s pocket, or some other place you probably weren’t expecting to be~
More Happy birthday wishes to Beatrix Potter, born on this day in 1866!
