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Marcus
@marcusjmerritt.com
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(He/him). I draw power lines and TVs and do urban landscape photography. Metro-Detroit.

Abolish police. Free Palestine. Trans rights.

Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com
Main art website: marcusjmerritt.com
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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · Jul 15
Also, and this is new—commissions are open!

Are there some power lines you want a drawing of? Contact me and we can work out the details (DM here or email), but basically:

$200 and send me some photos of the power lines and I'll draw them and mail you the finished drawing!
Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
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profgabriele.com
This is in reference to the unjust firing of Melissa McCool, but it’s true of every right-wing harassment campaign

Universities and elite media need to be aware of this
kellybarnhill.bsky.social Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 5h
It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.
December 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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violanorth.bsky.social
12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”
thereal3ccentric.bsky.social 3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 3d
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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davidbrace2.bsky.social
Boxing Day sale- These are normally $450(Cdn) each- on sale this weekend for $300(Cdn) each (+shipping). Titles & descriptions in alt-text. DM if interested. #art #sciart #invertebrates
"Alit (Rocky Mountain High)", oil on vintage map, 10 1/4 x 14", 2025- $450 (Cdn). A map of the Rocky Mountains along the border of BC & Alberta, Canada covered with 5 painted butterflies & 5 caterpillars. One butterfly, an orange, brown, black & white Painted Lady, sits in the top left corner, beside it is a grey, black & orange Rocky Mountain Parnassian, lower to the right is an orange & black Monarch & the Mourning Cloak, purple & brown with blue spots & a white fringe. At the bottom facing down is a buttery yellow & black Western Tiger Swallowtail. "Plague (Beginning of the End)", oil on vintage map, 10 1/4 x 14", 2025 - $450 (Cdn). A map of the Saskatchewan/Manitoba border on which is a painting of 9 grasshoppers walking up from the bottom of the map. There are a number of different types ranging in colours of green to browns & oranges.
December 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
marcusjmerritt.com
Color photograph of former Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith getting Gatorade poured on him by players. Lovie is standing in his gray coach’s polo, and players Lance Briggs and Alex Brown are wearing white Bears uniforms without helmets, holding an orange Gatorade cooler over Lovie’s shoulders, the water only just splashing into him. Others people are standing around them, a stadium full of people in the background
December 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Baudelaire for the end of the year
XII GET DRUNK! One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's horrible burden that breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without ceasing. But what with? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk. And if, at some time, on the steps of a palace, in the green grass of a ditch, in the bleak solitude of your room, you are waking up when drunkenness has already abated, ask the wind, the wave, a star, the clock, all that which flees, all that which groans, all that which rolls, all that which sings, all that which speaks, ask them what time it is; and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock will reply: 'It is time to get drunk! So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk, and never pause for rest! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose!'
December 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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alienvsrobbins.bsky.social
the most prescient record review I ever read was Spin's Lauren Spencer on Nevermind in 1991: "I swear you'll be humming all the songs for the rest of your life"
December 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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marcusjmerritt.com
Here's a thread of my Power Lines Drawings from this year

#128 Ferndale, MI
#129 Huntington Woods, MI
#130 Madison Heights, MI
#131 Ferndale, MI

marcusjmerritt.com/power-lines-...
Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a three utility poles and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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allisonanne.com
resume growth // handcut paper collage on found vintage photograph, december 2025

#collage #queerart #foundphoto
cool-toned abstract collage with a central sprouting plant over a vintage photo with muted tones and scrubby trees
December 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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gambolloch.bsky.social
Stopping by an East Village fire hydrant on a rainy evening
#photography
A graffiti covered fire hydrant on a textured sidewalk
December 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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kissane.myatproto.social
So I posted this endnote yesterday, about this exact book, which is getting all these wild year-end accolades despite being so disconnected from the facts of the pandemic.

(www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...)
‡ If it sounds like I’m talking about J6, well sure I am. But I’m talking just as much about the wholesale misrepresentations of fact that scaffold the center-left reassessment of the US covid response—and the extraordinary lack of scrutiny those misrepresentations received across the mainstream press. (I apologize for recommending a podcast, I know everyone allegedly hates podcasts, but the If Books Could Kill double-episode fisking In Covid’s Wake is extremely good. Or at least the first parts of each episode are—for all I know, the second halves are just banshee screams, because I got too angry to finish either of them.)
December 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
marcusjmerritt.com
Here's a thread of my Power Lines Drawings from this year

#128 Ferndale, MI
#129 Huntington Woods, MI
#130 Madison Heights, MI
#131 Ferndale, MI

marcusjmerritt.com/power-lines-...
Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a three utility poles and power lines Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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helenicchi.bsky.social
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
Edit image button
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.

I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.

They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
Once again tapping the chart.
A chart graphing opinions of ten members of the NYT editorial board showing Trump’s policies on DEI as the only positive impact.
December 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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motzenballer.com
the vibe this year
marcusjmerritt.com Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 5d
Dort Mall, Flint, Michigan
December 2025
Color photograph of a Christmas display in a large empty room. A Christmas tree nicely decorated with lights and tinsel and with presents underneath stands next to an empty red and white chair, surrounded by a yellow chain barrier suspended by black stanchions. A blank white wall behind them, and a somewhat shiny bland tile floor reflects some of the Christmas lights
December 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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six18sfoundry.bsky.social
Hotel Monterey 1973 Chantal Akerman’s silent ~documentary of a NY hotel
Oddly placed small mirror taking up very little space on gold patterned wall paper next to cement column. It can see 2 gents possibly at hotel main desk Old woman w black coat and cap and glasses w purse walks away from her friends sitting on couch w gold lamp w black shade to her right. 3 phone booths behind Gold look to shot. 2 elevators in back. Chess board floor and mirrors behind elevator Elevator door w circular eye window opening and we see woman in black coat appear. We are in elevator
December 24, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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grenadine.bsky.social
I googled a friend’s mom to make sure I remembered the spelling of her last name right before mailing her something.

I came across this deeply moving article from the 90s on her advocacy as a leader in the Bosnian community in Chicago.

It’s worth a read.

chicagoreader.com/news/a-light...
A Light in the Darkness - Chicago Reader
The Heroism of a Bosnian Refugee
chicagoreader.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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dmercer.bsky.social
Waxing crescent
Waxing crescent moon against a black sky
December 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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joshvetter.bsky.social
JC, of "Naz Reid tattoo guy" fame, has been diagnosed with a brain tumor 💔

A friend set up a GoFundMe, if you have anything to spare:

www.gofundme.com/f/support-jc...
Donate to Support JC and Family During Brain Surgery & Recovery, organized by Kellyanne Anderson
Hi everyone, as one of JC and Annie's best friends, I am sadd… Kellyanne Anderson needs your support for Support JC and Family During Brain Surgery & Recovery
www.gofundme.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
Red Clay (4)
Digital painting
of a puddle in a tractor track
December 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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georgeouthwaite.bsky.social
Red Clay (3)
Digital painting
of a puddle in a tractor track
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.

Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service. Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress." 18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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timothychambers.net
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions: includes fediverse predctions focuesed on work being done by: @bsky.app @ghost.org @surf.social @wordpress.org @ap.brid.gy @anew.social @leaflet.pub @smokesignal.events @altstore.io
www.timothychambers.net/2025/12/23/m...
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
I just finished reviewing my 2025 predictions (how do you think I did grading myself?) www.timothychambers.net/2024/12/2… Now it’s time to make some bets for 2026. I do this not to prove how great my ...
www.timothychambers.net
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
marcusjmerritt.com
Something about how resilient the common sense is that surely there isn’t actually anything all that incriminating in the Epstein files and that interest in them is just people getting chasing conspiracy thrills or something in spite of what turns out to be in them every time more comes to light
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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dave-wise.bsky.social
One year exposure of the sun passing over the white pines, Greenfield Centre, Upstate NY, made with a tin can camera onto photo paper. White arcs show sunny days, dark arcs show overcast days. Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar
#solargraphy #pinhole #photography
The daily arc of the sun is shown for the period of one year, showing as white lines on sunny days and dark lines on overcast days, there are silhouettes of white pine trees and the overall colour cast is green/blue.
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM