StephanieKMerrill
@stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Pianist. Words in UCity Review, Feral, Moist Poetry Journal, One Art, Rise Up Review, Amethyst Review, ZiN Daily, Eunoia Review, Trampoline Poetry, &tc. Retired English faculty. Pushcart & BOTN nominee. Ⓥ she/her
Austin
Austin
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November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"They should have sent a poet."
(Ellie Arroway, observing the magnificence of the universe in CONTACT, written by Carl Sagan. Today is his day.)
(Ellie Arroway, observing the magnificence of the universe in CONTACT, written by Carl Sagan. Today is his day.)
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"They should have sent a poet."
(Ellie Arroway, observing the magnificence of the universe in CONTACT, written by Carl Sagan. Today is his day.)
(Ellie Arroway, observing the magnificence of the universe in CONTACT, written by Carl Sagan. Today is his day.)
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No one has yet given a satisfactory answer to how ICE continues to operate in a 'shut down', given that, far from being essential workers, they are unneeded by anyone at any time
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
No one has yet given a satisfactory answer to how ICE continues to operate in a 'shut down', given that, far from being essential workers, they are unneeded by anyone at any time
Great Birnam Wood is approaching The White House.
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Great Birnam Wood is approaching The White House.
All the folks who've never been to NYC, who never intend to visit NYC, whose voice in NYC will never count being worried about NYC is a testament to the rot and propaganda the bot farms bought by the oligarchs have rendered.
Perfection, @jojofromjerz.bsky.social.
2026 is coming, Greg Abbott.
We WILL California our Texas.
(I know how much he loves this saying. 😏)
2026 is coming, Greg Abbott.
We WILL California our Texas.
(I know how much he loves this saying. 😏)
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
All the folks who've never been to NYC, who never intend to visit NYC, whose voice in NYC will never count being worried about NYC is a testament to the rot and propaganda the bot farms bought by the oligarchs have rendered.
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To balance the glut of articles interviewing New Yorkers who claim they’re going to leave the city if Mamdani wins, someone should interview my wife and I who want to move back if he wins.
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
To balance the glut of articles interviewing New Yorkers who claim they’re going to leave the city if Mamdani wins, someone should interview my wife and I who want to move back if he wins.
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The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.
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I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.
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One of my favourite shots I have taken. A beautiful Great Grey Owl flying straight towards me.
#wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #photography
#wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #photography
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
One of my favourite shots I have taken. A beautiful Great Grey Owl flying straight towards me.
#wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #photography
#wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #photography
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Wow, we really are in The Divine Comedy.
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Wow, we really are in The Divine Comedy.
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"He had no doubt the mountain range
along the horizon held a message"
"Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation" by @jackbedell.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/03/r...
along the horizon held a message"
"Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation" by @jackbedell.bsky.social
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Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation
by Jack B. Bedell
psalteryandlyre.org
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"He had no doubt the mountain range
along the horizon held a message"
"Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation" by @jackbedell.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/03/r...
along the horizon held a message"
"Ruskin and the Struggle of Revelation" by @jackbedell.bsky.social
psalteryandlyre.org/2025/11/03/r...
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For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Time to unfollow Teen Vogue.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Time to unfollow Teen Vogue.
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If you’re seeing a surge of MAGA accounts commenting everywhere, take a closer look. Bot activity has spiked since Saturday evening the goal is to sway tomorrow’s elections. Click on their profiles and you’ll often find the same accounts posting identical comments across hundreds of posts.
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If you’re seeing a surge of MAGA accounts commenting everywhere, take a closer look. Bot activity has spiked since Saturday evening the goal is to sway tomorrow’s elections. Click on their profiles and you’ll often find the same accounts posting identical comments across hundreds of posts.
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Outside Chicago—
State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear.
A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection.
Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.
State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear.
A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection.
Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.
November 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Outside Chicago—
State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear.
A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection.
Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.
State police and sheriff's officers at Broadview detention center are out in riot gear.
A large Halloween demo is being prevented from doing a Jericho walk through the intersection.
Arrests of protesters ongoing. Troopers have also assaulted multiple reporters already.
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📸 : Denise Dresbach
Witches on Morro Bay, CA
Witches on Morro Bay, CA
October 31, 2025 at 1:35 PM
📸 : Denise Dresbach
Witches on Morro Bay, CA
Witches on Morro Bay, CA
"The tragedy then is not so much that these students are cheating their way through college, but more that they are cheating themselves out of college..."
Matthew J. Parker: AI is Stupidity’s BFF voxpopulisphere.com/2025/10/31/m...
Matthew J. Parker: AI is Stupidity’s BFF voxpopulisphere.com/2025/10/31/m...
Matthew J. Parker: AI is Stupidity’s BFF
My real life encounters with AI, however, mostly on plagiarized student papers, have proven that when it comes to inventive and even fantastical falsehoods, today’s AI not only surpasses our curren…
voxpopulisphere.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
"The tragedy then is not so much that these students are cheating their way through college, but more that they are cheating themselves out of college..."
Matthew J. Parker: AI is Stupidity’s BFF voxpopulisphere.com/2025/10/31/m...
Matthew J. Parker: AI is Stupidity’s BFF voxpopulisphere.com/2025/10/31/m...
You know who comes out splendidly at the end of MACBETH? The Witches. Today is their day.
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 AM
You know who comes out splendidly at the end of MACBETH? The Witches. Today is their day.
"But as the regime grows more brazen in its vulgar displays of power...so too grows the need to truly address what it means to be living in a country led by a mashup of King George III, Caligula, and Hans Christian Andersen’s infamously naked emperor."
Today in @thenation.com, the one and only @therafischwartz.bsky.social asks a pertinent question: isn't it time we started paying more attention to the fact that Trump's brain appears to constantly be oozing out of his ears into a puddle on the floor?
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
We Have to Talk About Donald Trump’s Brain
Are we just going to sit around and pretend that the president isn’t having a lot of… questionable moments these days?
www.thenation.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"But as the regime grows more brazen in its vulgar displays of power...so too grows the need to truly address what it means to be living in a country led by a mashup of King George III, Caligula, and Hans Christian Andersen’s infamously naked emperor."
"We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you." -Sylvia Plath (Today is her day.)
October 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you." -Sylvia Plath (Today is her day.)
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The consent of the governed is something people are going to need to get very very comfortable with. As well as how the framers understood our natural rights as humans.
October 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The consent of the governed is something people are going to need to get very very comfortable with. As well as how the framers understood our natural rights as humans.
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October 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Julie L. Holcomb: 177 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage – an iconic moment deeply shaped by Quaker beliefs on gender and equality voxpopulisphere.com/2025/10/23/j...
Julie L. Holcomb: 177 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage – an iconic moment deeply shaped by Quaker beliefs on gender and equality
Real change, Lucretia Mott believed, would require going to the root of the problem: “mindless tradition and savage greed.”
voxpopulisphere.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Julie L. Holcomb: 177 years ago, the Seneca Falls Convention kicked off the fight for women’s suffrage – an iconic moment deeply shaped by Quaker beliefs on gender and equality voxpopulisphere.com/2025/10/23/j...
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WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."
NEW STUDY PUBLISHED IN NATURE: People who got an mRNA COVID vaccine within ~3 months before or after starting immunotherapy for cancer lived longer overall than those who didn’t get the vaccine.
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
WOW: "Covid-19 vaccines... set off a powerful alarm that rallies the human immune system against cancer and nearly doubles the median survival length of patients, according to a new retrospective study by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & the University of Florida."