Three girls (1932) by Amrita Sher-Gil. Then, Amrita Sher-Gil, influential Hungarian-Indian painter #WomensArt

BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:

Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison

Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.

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[In the next room an anchor reports on increased bombing] along this road—on which no one sets out—autumns foot fall [In the next room an anchor reports on recent banned books] Futami Bay where—a traveller severs clam from shell—I cut out into fall fr—3 Haiku Matsuo Bashō tr—Kimiko Hahn t.ly/qOl0m

Long Life’s Journey | Robert Rubsam

Matsuo Bashō’s “The Narrow Road of Oku” is a work of poetic and philosophical power undimmed by the more than three centuries since its composition.

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Thank you to @kff.org's @drishp.bsky.social & @sartiga.bsky.social for their work on this critical reporting, which highlights that policy and simple counting are also ways by which whole communities can be disappeared:

Drishti Pillai, PhD, MPH@drishp.bsky.social · 3d ago

New brief by @kff.org discusses how changes to demographic data collection proposed in the decennial census could impact federal funding, research on health disparities, and lead to shifts in political representation. www.kff.org/racial-equit...

...multitudes in woe, These were the things we wished would go; But they were staying. III. Then we looked closelier at Time, & saw his ghostly arms revolving To sweep off woeful things with prime, Things sinister with things sublime Alike dissolving fr—Going & Staying Thomas Hardy t.ly/Ky4La

Life

Thomas Hardy

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High in the secret places of the hills Cliff-girt it stands, in grassy solitude, No ruin but a vision unachieved. This temple is a house not made with hands But born of man’s incorrigible need For permanence and beauty in the scud And wreckage of mortality . . . fr—Segesta Edith Wharton t.ly/Uqu6p

Looking forward--as I always do!--to being at WXNA today at noon with Edward Brinson & the Psychobabble crew! We'll be talking about the work of the Metro Human Relations Commission in helping develop a sense of welcome here in Davidson County that's broad-armed enough for all of us! www.wxnafm.org

At the threshold of melancholy is a voice barely heard a light wrapped in fog and a piece of steel longing for flint. Strike it. Fire Strike Margaret Noodin youtu.be/dkPe-I4e9Cg?...

What the Chickadee Knows with Margaret Noodin

YouTube video by Kim Conklin

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. . . at sea is a dangerous place to be. So maybe the sun shines, the wind’s kind, she’s making fine track under moonlight, all it takes is one storm, one risky encounter to change everything—solo at sea is a perilous, tough place to be fr—The Boat Christine de Pisan tr—Jane Draycott t.ly/kqdwy

Join @tnequality.bsky.social , @nashvillepride.bsky.social, & the Nashville Grizzlies at Perfectly Fine on 51st, 5:30-7p today (Wed, 23.Sept) to celebrate Bi Visibility Day w/us! More details & to RSVP, click thru the link below. Look forward to seeing you there!: www.facebook.com/events/90640...

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Happy Bi Visibility Day!

Happy Bi Visibility Day!

...world becomes an egg—half earth, half air— & you the border that divides them. Facedown, your body holds the line: here creatures that swim, there those that fly. Provided you can breathe, provided you don’t squirm when water gets into your snorkel fr—Snorkel Carmen Gallo tr—W. Schutt t.ly/1C6mC

I unfortunately won't be able to make the meeting tonight, but here are some thoughts and data I've pulled together that will hopefully help to provide some background and dispel any misinformation. 🧵 @jkupin4d19.bsky.social @sandrafornash.bsky.social @walkbikenashville.bsky.social

Councilmember Sandra Sepúlveda@sandrafornash.bsky.social · 2w ago

We hear their dazzling echo. Longing for union, melodies branch out to reach the root of all. Close your mouth. Open the window in your heart. That’s how you hear spirits sing. That’s how you answer back fr—Go ahead, Lord, break our harp Jalal al-Din Rumi tr—Haleh Liza Gafori t.ly/yeOh5

Episode 201 – Brad Gooch

Virtual Memories Show 201: Brad Gooch “Rumi has the reputation of tinkling wind-chimes, but at the center is the pain of separation, both personally with Shams of Tabriz, and the human condit…

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—the verge was left vacant, an evening heron Bent broad wings over the black ebb, & left me wondering why a lone bird was dearer to me than many people. Well: rare is dear: but also I suppose Well reconciled with the world but not with our own natures fr—People & a Heron Robinson Jeffers t.ly/iguld

Happy BoroPride day! Come see if you're near Murfreesboro. www.facebook.com/events/36175...

. . . go trouble younger hearts And in me claim no more authority. With idle youth go use thy property And thereon spend thy many brittle darts, For hitherto though I have lost all my time, Me lusteth no lenger rotten boughs to climb fr—Farewell love and all thy laws forever Thomas Wyatt t.ly/uPMyZ

BBC Audio | In Our Time | Sir Thomas Wyatt

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing poet at the heart of Henry VIII's court

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The wild animal of ourselves, this learned condition growls relentlessly. Might we then remove ourselves from the bustle. Build a nest atop some lull or find shelter that’ll hold our anxious knowing, that we die fr—Noise Amanda Hernández tr—Ana Portnoy Brimmer www.globalissues.org/news/2024/06...

A Mission To Publish, Translate, Puerto Rican Poets

SAN JUAN / PARIS, Jun 19 (IPS) - On meeting Amanda Hernández, one is immediately struck by her infectious energy and her generous sharing of information about Puerto Rican writers and books. At a rec...

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We’ll embrace all the mysteries, we’ll be lovers of the invisible and death, death will be quite bearable. When winter comes the mud will come and with the mud creation unleashed and we will draw the whole holy day, in the new normal fr—The New Normal Anna Gual tr—AKaiser t.ly/-d4H9

The heart brims with vitality. It’s the same wildness of the dogs,the heave of the river and sunlight; the donkey’s mettle,the tornado hoisting the waves into the clouds. Its name is ménos, force fr—Someone running with his head aflame... Daniel Lipara tr—Robin Myers www.youtube.com/live/8f4Ssfn...

Séptimo Coloquio de Poesía Iberoamericana Elsa Cross (segunda sesión)

YouTube video by ElClaustro TV

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A Nashville Democrat is pushing a three-year freeze on state tax breaks for data centers along with requirements for the Tennessee Department of Revenue to report the amount of money the state is losing.

Nashville lawmaker proposes pause on data center tax exemptions

A Nashville Democrat is pushing a three-year freeze on state tax breaks for data centers along with requirements for the Tennessee Department of Revenue to report the amount of money the state is losing.

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The Supreme Court’s decision means that all 50 states can continue to use their existing processes for mail voting, which have proven for decades to be safe, secure, and reliable. Every eligible voter has the right to exercise their constitutionally protected right to vote. Period.

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The Trump Zone

TMW cartoon for Sept. 15, 2026

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Birds make patterns of sound Inside and outside my head My brain is dragged like stones Dragged by ox children up a mountain Stones buried in cliffs of snow I have waited in the scant night I can wait without light or children . . . fr—Older Elektra Jenny Tunedal tr—Johannes Göransson t.ly/TK9oM

You who the lake amazes, now listen to the bells so turbulently excited to ring out 7am that they stop just 16 strokes later: & thus the instant paradiso is multiplied according to its own exuberant illogic fr—Meditations of the Old Young Man [sec. 2] Stéphane Bouquet tr—Lindsay Turner t.ly/urPbv

Turkish government cracks down on LGBTQ organizations over the weekend. apnews.com/article/turk...

Turkish authorities launch crackdown on LGBTQ+ and HIV support groups

Turkish authorities have cracked down on multiple LGBTQ+ groups and individuals, detaining dozens and raiding association offices and popular hangouts.

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Happening this Tuesday! House party fundraiser in Franklin hosted by Claire Jones and @campbell4tn.bsky.social!

Delivering Change for Williamson County

Let's Help Laura Deliver!

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While I, remembering, found no word to say, But felt my quickened heart leap in its place; Caught afterglow thrown back from long set days, Caught echoes of all music passed away. Was this indeed to meet?—I mind me yet In youth we met . . . fr—Love Lies Bleeding Christina Rossetti bit.ly/4im0Oy5

Virginia Woolf, 'I am Christina Rossetti' (1930) — Literature Cambridge

On the fifth of this December [1930] Christina Rossetti will celebrate her centenary, or, more properly speaking, we shall celebrate it for her, and perhaps not a little to her distress, for she was o...

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This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me— The simple News that Nature told— With tender Majesty Her Message is committed To Hands I cannot see— For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen— Judge tenderly—of Me [This is my letter to the World] Emily Dickinson youtu.be/hpDvOGqqbak?...

Darwin, Dickinson, and Disenchantment with Renée Bergland

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back then—this is true—the days weren’t any shorter and opportunities to do right weren’t any fewer and it is also true that I did nothing but read the newspaper give birth to you and to your sisters and watch airplanes in the sky fr—A Brief History of Condensation Trails Daniela Danz t.ly/WXnz4