Marilyn A. Johnson
@marilynajohnson.bsky.social
Prose and poetry at marilynjohnson.net. Kind of furious at the moment. (Posts from that other place are being included here).
he is *literally* tearing down the White House
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
he is *literally* tearing down the White House
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The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.
October 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.
I'm reading my poetry today at 3 pm at Tompkins Corner Cultural Center in Putnam Valley NY -- open mike to follow -- pick some apples and meet me there!
October 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I'm reading my poetry today at 3 pm at Tompkins Corner Cultural Center in Putnam Valley NY -- open mike to follow -- pick some apples and meet me there!
I'm reading poetry at Tompkins Corners Cultural Center in Putnam Valley NY Sunday Oct 19th at 3. Open mike to follow.
October 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I'm reading poetry at Tompkins Corners Cultural Center in Putnam Valley NY Sunday Oct 19th at 3. Open mike to follow.
Obituaries used to speak no ill of the dead. It wasn't until writers stopped this nonsense that obits became worth reading. People are human. Tell their real stories. Quote them. (I know this because I wrote a book about the art of obituaries.) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dead-b...
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries|Paperback
A light-hearted look at the history and practice of “the ultimate human-interest story,” the obituary.“What a wonderful surprise—a charming, lyrical book about the men and wome...
www.barnesandnoble.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Obituaries used to speak no ill of the dead. It wasn't until writers stopped this nonsense that obits became worth reading. People are human. Tell their real stories. Quote them. (I know this because I wrote a book about the art of obituaries.) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dead-b...
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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
September 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
My poetry reading for the month of August for the #sealeychallenge, detailed day by day on Instagram.
September 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My poetry reading for the month of August for the #sealeychallenge, detailed day by day on Instagram.
I’m from Missouri. This is crazy.
40% of Missourians vote for Democrats, and this is the Congressional map the Republicans are pushing for.
August 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I’m from Missouri. This is crazy.
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Congrats to the finalists—! Thank you for sharing your beautiful poems with us! 🙏
Congrats to the finalists—! Thank you for sharing your beautiful poems with us! 🙏
August 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
@marilynajohnson.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
Congrats to the finalists—! Thank you for sharing your beautiful poems with us! 🙏
Congrats to the finalists—! Thank you for sharing your beautiful poems with us! 🙏
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“The Sealey Challenge, at heart, is a big, raucous, joyful celebration of poetry.” —Laura Sackton
Whether you're brand-new to the challenge or old hat, everyone is invited to read (more) 31 books in 31 days this August!
www.thesealeychallenge.com
Whether you're brand-new to the challenge or old hat, everyone is invited to read (more) 31 books in 31 days this August!
www.thesealeychallenge.com
July 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“The Sealey Challenge, at heart, is a big, raucous, joyful celebration of poetry.” —Laura Sackton
Whether you're brand-new to the challenge or old hat, everyone is invited to read (more) 31 books in 31 days this August!
www.thesealeychallenge.com
Whether you're brand-new to the challenge or old hat, everyone is invited to read (more) 31 books in 31 days this August!
www.thesealeychallenge.com
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"Doctors are famished to the point that they have dizzy spells as they make their rounds, medics say, and the journalists documenting their caseloads are often too weak to even walk to the clinics." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"Doctors are famished to the point that they have dizzy spells as they make their rounds, medics say, and the journalists documenting their caseloads are often too weak to even walk to the clinics." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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“Forget about intelligence” is a pretty good mantra for this administration
Host: Are you saying the US did not see intelligence that the Supreme Leader had ordered weaponization?
Rubio: That’s irrelevant
Host: No, that's a key point
Rubio: No it’s not… Forget about intelligence
Rubio: That’s irrelevant
Host: No, that's a key point
Rubio: No it’s not… Forget about intelligence
June 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“Forget about intelligence” is a pretty good mantra for this administration
She could have written it as a tragedy, or a personal and political screed. Instead, it's a comic romp, and she thumbs her nose at the Tr*mp team with such inventive hilarity, it makes us hopeful about surviving these times. Well done, E.Jean! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...
In ‘Not My Type,’ E. Jean Carroll Gets the Last Gab About the Trump Trials
www.nytimes.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
She could have written it as a tragedy, or a personal and political screed. Instead, it's a comic romp, and she thumbs her nose at the Tr*mp team with such inventive hilarity, it makes us hopeful about surviving these times. Well done, E.Jean! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/b...
Something horrible being met by bravery. As in all these stories, I wonder, who are these ICE agents? Does anyone know someone who works for ICE? Whose kids take that job? PS support the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New York City mayoral candidate Brad Lander arrested by Ice agents
Lander, who has been released, was arrested at courthouse, where he said he intended to ‘accompany’ immigrants out of the building
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Something horrible being met by bravery. As in all these stories, I wonder, who are these ICE agents? Does anyone know someone who works for ICE? Whose kids take that job? PS support the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
thanks @npr for this delicious story....
Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.
A surprise find in Michigan shows the extent of ancient Native American agriculture
Hundreds of acres in Michigan are covered in parallel rows of earth that are the remains of an ancient Native American agricultural system. The surprise find has archaeologists amazed.
n.pr
June 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
thanks @npr for this delicious story....
don't want to overlook this story
Ed the Zebra was captured safely after being located in a pasture near a subdivision in the Christiana community in central Tennessee, the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office confirmed. https://n.pr/4jKolpB
Ed, the runaway pet zebra, has been captured in Tennessee
Ed the Zebra was captured safely after being located in a pasture near a subdivision in the Christiana community in central Tennessee, the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office confirmed.
n.pr
June 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
don't want to overlook this story
Some intense poems from UCity Review, & my gratitude to the editors www.ucityreview.com/30_Johnson_MarilynA.html
www.ucityreview.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Some intense poems from UCity Review, & my gratitude to the editors www.ucityreview.com/30_Johnson_MarilynA.html
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George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today.
The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.
The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.
May 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today.
The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.
The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.
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This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake.
Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone
Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
nbcnews.to
May 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake.
Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone
Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone
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The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.
May 21, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.
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Compare/contrast January 6
Trump on the DOJ's charges against Rep. McIver: “Oh, give me a break. Did you see her? She was out of control…The days of woke are over…She was shoving federal agents. She was out of control. The days of that crap are over in this country. We are going to have law and order.”
May 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Compare/contrast January 6
and why? why shut down this fabulous source of information?
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
and why? why shut down this fabulous source of information?
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Our latest latest national disgrace.
Breaking:
WASHINGTON (AP) — President fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as White House continues purge of perceived Trump opponents.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President fires Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as White House continues purge of perceived Trump opponents.
May 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Our latest latest national disgrace.
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Almost every small press I know, including my own publishers, lost their NEA grants. I don’t even know where to begin as the US govt. continues funding ICE, police, and bombs rather than a future.
May 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Almost every small press I know, including my own publishers, lost their NEA grants. I don’t even know where to begin as the US govt. continues funding ICE, police, and bombs rather than a future.