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vssdaily @vssdaily.bsky.social · 8h

The #vssdaily #prompt for 10/9/25 is #earring

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Tony Michaels 🎙 @thetonymichaels.bsky.social · 9h

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Trudy Gonzales @trudygonzales.bsky.social · 10h

Don't be fooled

Republicans wanted the CUTS to hit after the midterms so you vote for them again in 2026

Well
Don't

Vote for Democrats to STOP any more CUTS

Congress has the power of the purse, put that in the Democrats' hands
Republicans have shown you they can't be trusted

voteinthemidterms.bsky.social @voteinthemidterms.bsky.social · 10h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 6h

Out of the Ashes

Americans
Supposedly
Helping
Are
Secretly
Harboring
A
Sycophantic
Hatred,
As
Such,
History
Always
Survives
Hegemony
And
Sustains
Hopefulness.

#tHartigan
#vss365 #ash

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 17h

tanka weekly #poetry challenge

October 9, 2025

this week’s prompt:

message

write a tanka using prompt & include hashtag #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry

#tanka resources to develop your practice:

tankasocietyofamerica.org

Tanka Society of America:

www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

Tanka Society of America

Welcome to the Tanka Society of America website. Here you can learn more about the society, its activities, and membership benefits. You can also learn more about our journal, Ribbons, our annual tank...

www.tankasocietyofamerica.org

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks again and I love the effort you put in with the memes. Bravo and bro I for your hosting.

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 22h

Dust in the Wind?

All that remained
Was the ash on the ground
From the laws incinerated
Nothing else could be found

But what of the others
Those complicit in the act
Though guilty and convicted
They were all pardoned in fact

#tHartigan
#vss365 #ash

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 22h

Confrontation

Clash:
Lawless
American
Subterfuge,
Horrifying.
Constitution?
Laughed
At.
Subjective
Hatred
Clearly
Leading.
America?
Still
Hopeful.

#tHartigan
#vss365 #clash

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 22h

Blade Runner

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 22h

Morning my pen & pencil wielding friends its time to enter week 2, it's day 8 of our musical mystery tour.

Today's word is inspired by a sci-fi infused indie classic Girl From Mars, our #vss365 #prompt for 08/10/25 is #ash. Happy writing 🎶✍️🎶✍️

What's your favourite sci-fi movie or programme?

a woman talking to a man with the words " you 're from mars " on the bottom

ALT: a woman talking to a man with the words " you 're from mars " on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 22h

WTF

Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Thus far, ICE and CBP in the Chicago region killed an immigrant

Shot a woman 5 times-after allegedly taunting her, saying “Do something, b****”

And shot a priest-who wasn’t remotely a threat-in the head

So when does Governor Pritzker deploy the National Guard to protect citizens from these thugs

thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 22h

Confrontation

Clash:
Lawless
American
Subterfuge,
Horrifying.
Constitution?
Laughed
At.
Subjective
Hatred
Clearly
Leading.
America?
Still
Hopeful.

#tHartigan
#vss365 #clash

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vssdaily @vssdaily.bsky.social · 1d

The #vssdaily #prompt for 10/8/25 is #pea

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

If this was a no, it would be really easy to say no.

Bondi’s ad hominem attack on Whitehouse is WAY more of an answer than she realizes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 1d

Here's my effort

#vss365
London Crawling

London crawls
eats me raw,
spits back
clash-stains, vowel-bites.

History’s zipper
stuck halfway.
notional anthems
rewritten on the skin
of petty vacant revolutionaries
who graffiti
“I Was There Too”
on post-fact
walls.

But
none
of it was true.

#clash

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you PJM

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 1d

Engage

A clash of titans
Our Gestapo frightens
Citizens and immigrants alike

But the citizens stand
Against ICE, it’s all hands
To remove America’s Third Reich

#tHartigan
#vss365 #clash

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vssdaily @vssdaily.bsky.social · 2d

The #vssdaily #prompt for 10/7/25 is #grant

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Someone should do a FOIA request for the raw footage of the videos they took of that Chicago raid and then edited into a fascist ad for ICE.

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thpossiblepoet.bsky.social @thpossiblepoet.bsky.social · 2d

Never having been his associate
Nor wanting to associate with him
A man with so little integrity
There’d be no reason to begin
Yet for the second time
He’s been put back in charge
As a puppet for the fa$ci$t right
Ruining America writ large

#tHartigan
#vss365 #associate

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 2d

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Not be a sourpuss or anything—but do leading Democrats really have to rush to tell us that they REALLY want to negotiate with Trump, and that they’ll be “at the table” the MOMENT Trump deigns to talk with them? And God forbid they put “on the table” Trump’s use of the military or the Epstein files.

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Ella Frænka @ellafraenka.bsky.social · 2d

What do we #associate with cats?

Allergies.
Fur.
Purring.
Making biscuits.
Cat barf.
Scratching posts.
Cat furniture.
Warmth.
Demanding.
Independence.

There's so many things.
For me, the main one is
Companionship 💙

#vss365

TheDevilsTuna @thedevilstuna.bsky.social · 2d

Good Morning writer/authors/poets ready for day 6 of our musical mystery tour?

Let's skip back to the early 80s music scene & Party Fears Two by The Associates one of my fave songs of all time, today's #vss365 #prompt, 06/10/25, is #associate.

What's your favourite party song?

two men singing and playing guitars in front of a window

ALT: two men singing and playing guitars in front of a window

media.tenor.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

There’s just not enough attention being paid to how unqualified, psychologically unfit, and dangerous so many of these new ICE hires potentially are.

If we had a Congress, there’d be investigations & oversight into this.

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