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Screaming into the void. Again. I scroll about, worry too much, and write news haikus. All poems are original (if not particularly great) content. © 2025 @katonley. All rights reserved. The center must hold. Call your representatives, folks.
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katonley.bsky.social
A memory with
Mom: “I’ll have what she’s having.”
Soda spitting laughter.
#vss365 #memory #RIPRobReiner
December 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
katonley.bsky.social
Yep-this was me before my coffee this morning.
weratedogs.com WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · Jun 23
We only rate dogs. This is Samuel L. Jackson in a cute sweater and a bad mood. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10
a gray hairless gremlin squints at the camera with the look of a bad motherhecker. she’s scowling, but wearing a pink fleece jumper with cherries printed all over. the cognitive dissonance is strong. upon further inspection, this may just be a hairless chihuahua, but you can’t blame us for the misunderstanding.
June 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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raeradford.bsky.social
TUESDAY

#BookBoost 🚀

#BookSky tell me all about your latest:
#WritingCommunity
#Books
#BookRecommendations
#Romance
#Fantasy
#YAFantasy
#Horror
#Crime
#Fiction
#writers
#writersky
I'll repost your work to my followers.
I can't wait to see your:
#Blogs
#YouTube
#TikTok
Anything creative.
May 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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aclu.org
BREAKING: An Alabama court permanently blocked efforts to subject midwife-led care in birth centers to onerous, hospital-like regulations.

This is a victory for Alabama birth centers, midwives, and their patients.
May 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
katonley.bsky.social
Easy Questions #10:
(Last one, I promise)

Nirvana? Today.
People linking arms. Standing.
Fighting. Together.

#vss365 #Nirvana #haiku #poetry #50501
May 2, 2025 at 1:33 AM
katonley.bsky.social
Easy Questions #9:

Nirvana? Reason.
Evidence. Science. And not…
whatever this is….

#vss365 #Nirvana #haiku #poetry #50501
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 1
RFK Jr on measles: "The MMR vaccine contains a lot of aborted fetus debris."
May 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
katonley.bsky.social
Easy Questions #7:

Nirvana? Simple:
Not embracing racism.
Not moving backwards.
#vss365 #Nirvana #haiku #poetry #50501

www.twincities.com/2025/05/01/t...
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelan migrants
The protections had been set to expire April 7, but a judge ordered a pause.
www.twincities.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
katonley.bsky.social
Easy Questions #8:

Nirvana? Leaders.
Ones who care about people.
Yeah. Mostly just that.

#vss365 #Nirvana #haiku #poetry #50501

www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
Trump shut down program to end human waste backing into Alabama homes, calling it 'illegal DEI'
A $26 million federal program to help residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, who have dealt with inadequate sewage systems for decades was stopped by an executive order.
www.nbcnews.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
katonley.bsky.social
Easy Questions #6:

Nirvana? Simple:
When a wannabe führer
finally gets fired.

#vss365 #Nirvana #haiku #poetry #50501

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump’s loyal footsoldiers doff their Maga caps at cabinet love-in
Red and navy hats were strategically placed as Trump’s cabinet gushed over 100 presidential days like no other
www.theguardian.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
katonley.bsky.social
Easy Questions #5:

Nirvana? Simple:
Not having AI writing
U.S. housing regs.?

(Still can’t believe I actually had to write this one.)

#vss365 #Nirvana #haiku #poetry #50501
May 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
katonley.bsky.social
Easy Questions #4:

Nirvana? Simple:
An army that’s not “unleashed”
against civilians.

#vss365 #Nirvana #haiku #poetry #50501

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals and Protect Innocent Citizens
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
May 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
katonley.bsky.social
Easy Questions #3:

Nirvana? Simple:
When heroes aren’t forced to trade
lithium for lives.

#vss365 #Nirvana #haiku #poetry #50501
meidastouch.com MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Apr 30
JUST IN: The United States and Ukraine have officially signed the so-called 'Minerals Deal,' agreeing to establish a joint Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund.

For more updates, add the MeidasTouch Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
May 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
katonley.bsky.social
Easy Questions #2:

Nirvana? Simple:
Leaders who stop ignoring
the U.S. Hatch Act!

#vss365 #Nirvana #haiku #poetry #50501
ericlipton.nytimes.com Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · Apr 29
Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm
World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history. PLEASE READ AND SHARE>>>https://nyti.ms/44KUVn8
Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump’s Crypto Firm (Gift Article)
World Liberty Financial has eviscerated the boundary between private enterprise and government policy in ways without precedent in modern American history.
nyti.ms
May 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
katonley.bsky.social
Easy Questions #1:

Nirvana? Simple:
When consumers use
their power to cow corporate
capitulation.

#vss365 #Nirvana #haiku #poetry #50501
May 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
katonley.bsky.social
It may not be much,
but let brands know you control
Who. Gets. Your. Money.

#vss365 #Brand #haiku #poetry
cnbc.com CNBC @cnbc.com · Apr 29
Amazon said Tuesday it considered displaying import charges on items sold via its site for ultra-discount items, but that the plan “was never approved and not going to happen.”
Amazon says displaying tariff cost 'not going to happen' after White House blowback
Amazon said Tuesday it considered displaying import charges on items sold via its site for ultra-discount items, but that the plan "was never approved and not going to happen."
cnb.cx
April 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
katonley.bsky.social
Governance by spite:
a sinful conversion from
sacred to savage.

#vss365 #Conversion #haiku #poetry
epi.org Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · Apr 28
In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage ⚠️

In the US, no one can live with dignity on $7.25/hr.

But instead of raising the minimum wage, Republicans are trying to cut Medicaid & make it harder for workers to access basic needs programs like SNAP: www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025
In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (...
www.epi.org
April 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
katonley.bsky.social
Spending Wisely

Corporations draw
their power from your dollars.
So weaponize them.

#haiku #poetry
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · Apr 27
One product that got a tariff exemption is PET resin, used for plastic bottles.

Reyes Holdings, a Coca-Cola bottler owned by two politically connected brothers, recently hired lobbyists with close ties to the Trump White House to advocate on tariffs.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social
Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion
The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could…
www.propublica.org
April 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
katonley.bsky.social
My mom’s cat, folks. #caturday
A dark brownish black bobtail with white paws sits straddling the arm of a grey chair with printed upholstery. He is facing away from the camera, looking off to the right and his bobtailed booty is front and center.
April 27, 2025 at 12:17 AM
katonley.bsky.social
Take a deep breath in…
appreciate the fresh breeze,
and keep making noise!

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (fresh, breeze) #nomorekings

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US restoring legal status of hundreds of students after abruptly revoking visas
Sudden policy reversal brings relief though some students already lost jobs or left country due to deportation risk
www.theguardian.com
April 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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shewordcrafts.bsky.social
Canada Geese
return to our wetlands
I.C.E. demands visas

#haiku
#dailyhaikuprompt
#photography
#ICE

photo by Chris F.
April 24, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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andybeta.bsky.social
Talking Elmo Hope, discordant running soundtracks, running from old assumptions, and the fine art of "ongoingness" with Ben Ratliff: open.substack.com/pub/andybeta...
Ben Ratliff
Chatting About Writing About Running About Listening with the Run the Song author
open.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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matoswk.bsky.social
I interviewed Ben Ratliff at Beat Connection. open.substack.com/pub/michaela...
BC119 - Five Mixes: Ben Ratliff
Talking mixes, making mixes, and running mixes with the author of 'Run the Song'
open.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
katonley.bsky.social
Voices soar, intone,
A choir and a bulwark:
A slice of clear sky.

#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (clear, sky)

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Powerful scenes from this weekend’s anti-Trump protests reveal resistance in action.
Thousands rallied across the country in the second mass coordinated protest this month. Here's what it looked like on the ground.
www.motherjones.com
April 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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dgraham.bsky.social
It's fun to read our greatest living jazz critic, Ben Ratliff, on the greatest-ever jazz guitarist, Charlie Christian www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/a...
Charlie Christian’s importance to the early jazz-guitar lineage is settled fact, but everything about his posthumously titled “Swing to Bop” remains uncodified. Here is a piece of life force from a jam session at Minton’s Playhouse in Harlem, in May 1941. It’s an amateur recording, an early bootleg; it’s been a gray-market item since its first illegal release in the ’50s. Christian enjambs and resolves his eighth-note flows over a rhythm section, altering rhythmic emphasis, listening at least four bars into the future. He phrases like modernist fiction: super-long sentences of wicked syntax followed by a dead-simple one, with provocative repetition; at the bridge of each chorus he explodes through the implications of the moving harmony, while shadowing and feinting with the drummer Kenny Clarke. Bop — that word in the title — didn’t quite exist yet in 1941. (The tune is really “Topsy,” recorded by his employer at the time, Benny Goodman.) The practice of playing an electric guitar in single-note patterns, like a horn, barely did either. Christian was 24 and would soon be dead of tuberculosis. There wasn’t a name for what he was doing here, and there isn’t a name for the way the music can make you feel.
January 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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bgfirmani.bsky.social
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Terrific event tonight with Ben Ratliff talking about his new book, RUN THE #SONG, with Kieran Press-Reynolds at Sukhdev Sandhu's Colloquium for Unpopular Culture at #NYU as.nyu.edu/departments/... @graywolfpress.bsky.social #booksky www.graywolfpress.org/books/run-song
March 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM