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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
Here's an updated thread of the prints of Power Lines Drawings that are currently for sale in my store, starting with:

Power Lines Drawing #107 (Chicago, Pilsen)

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(🧵1/22)
Black and white image of a black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
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Power Lines Drawing #144 (Ferndale, MI)

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Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
February 15, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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When Bush II invented DHS the justification was the made-up idea that terrorism required a new military/law enforcement agency that could operate outside the cumbersome constitutional constraints of old models, at the whim of the executive. It’s the whole point of DHS and why abolition is necessary
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I worked in a Democratic presidential administration and, even then, DHS was very often the most problematic, obstinate part of negotiating a civil/human rights provision into executive branch policy.

I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:
February 15, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Pennsylvania, PA

Kodak XX
Nikon n80

#filmphotography
February 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
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Aztec Motel

Complete with fake palm trees (with the palms removed for winter). Rolleiflex MX-EVS, Ilford PanF+, 510-Pyro.

#BelieveInFilm
A three story motel, empty, with a neon sign out front that reads Aztec Motel, with the sign in a shape that vaguely references Aztec culture.
February 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Richard Hell's novel Godlike has been re-released by NYRB Classics. Andrew Holter spoke to Hell on his literary trajectory, the inevitable Rimbaud and (Tom) Verlaine comparisons (and other noms de plume), the New York School poets, and his fearlessness of influence.

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Anti-Convention: Richard Hell on Godlike • Protean Magazine
Richard Hell's novel Godlike has just been re-released with a new afterword by New York Review Books. Andrew Holter spoke to Hell on his literary trajectory as a novelist and street poet, the sometime...
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February 13, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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This was so cool
cjzero.bsky.social CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 18h
They were both absolutely gassed by the end but Chelsea Gray comes back to win the Unrivaled 1 on 1 tournament in 3 games over Allisha Gray
February 15, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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GEO Group operates the largest detention center in the Midwest near Baldwin, MI.

Profits for the private prison contractor went up 700% last year over 2024.
projectsaltbox.bsky.social Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.bsky.social · 1d
🚨ICE just got access to one of its biggest private detention center operators last night, thanks to a Navy contract.

The move lets ICE bypass normal contracting processes to tap GEO Group to operate its detention centers as they race to buy detention sites to house 92,000 detainees nationwide.
ICE Gains Fast-Track Access to Private Prison Giant as It Plans to Nearly Double Detention Capacity
Navy contract allows immigration agency to bypass normal bidding and hire one of its largest detention operators directly as it plans to add 92,000 beds by November
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February 14, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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"I gave you my heart", oil on watercolour paper, 5 1/2 x 8", 2026- $200(Cdn) #art #valentinesday
A small painting of a green preying mantis holding a small human heart.
February 14, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Power Lines Drawing #143 (Warren, MI)

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Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
February 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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sky
Color photograph of clear blue sky
February 14, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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"ICE operations in Pa. surge under the radar, destroying communities and lives"

Harrisburg, Scranton, Erie, Norristown. Even if ICE leaves Minnesota, they still need to be stopped

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ICE operations in Pa. surge under the radar, destroying communities and lives
In recent weeks, scores of immigrant communities have been targeted by ICE, resulting in arrests and even swift deportations. They are mostly happening under the radar but they are upending communitie...
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February 14, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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Power Lines Drawing #135 (Detroit, Marcus Ave)

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Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
June 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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All of the "counting fingers" drawings so far. #art
"self (counting fingers)", graphite on paper, 9 1/2 x 10", 2025 - $350(Cdn). A self portrait drawing. I'm in a simple interior with a couple of doors behind me. I am wearing a black ball cap backwards while I stare at my hands in front of my face, my right hand carefully counting the fingers of my left. "self (counting fingers)(and thirdly, it's not actually smart)", graphite on paper, 10x10", 2025- $350(Cdn). A self portrait in pencil. I am holding my hands in front of my face counting off facts with my fingers. Using the thumb & forefinger of my right hand I am holding the tip of my middle finger on my left hand, pinky & ring finger already folded down. There's a small framed print on the wall over my right shoulder. Behind my left shoulder is an opening to a hallway & a door. A large dark canvas leans against the wall by the opening to the hall. I am wearing a black ball cap backwards. "self (more reasons than I have fingers)", graphite on paper, 10x10", 2026 - $400(Cdn). A pencil drawing self portrait. I am facing the viewer with my hands in front of my face, the thumb and forefinger of my right hand are counting off fingers on my left hand. I'm wearing a black baseball cap. It's a simple interior scene with a framed print over my right shoulder & a door in a hallway behind me.
February 14, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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razzball.bsky.social Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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This really looks like a person who's been turned into a crocodile by a wizard
February 13, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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Giant Cow Head (b.1980's)
Detroit, Wayne County Michigan.

On top of an old dairy from the 1950's.

In the Fox Creek neighborhood.

📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro

#photography #architecture #oldbuildings #commercial #cows #moo #winter #snow #sunset #lightroom #urban #urbangaze #detroit #wayne #michigan
A massive realistic cow head sculpture on top of an old dairy. This is the second cow head. The first was made in the 1960's.
February 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Dylan Alley, Dinkytown, Minneapolis.
An alley between two buildings. It is believed that Bob Dylan lived in an apartment on the second floor of the building to the left. Two posters have been added to the alley that say "Renee Nicole Good, American Mom, Murdered by ICE" with a picture of Good.
February 13, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Power Lines Drawing #143 (Warren, MI)

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Black ink drawing, silhouette of a utility pole and power lines
February 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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MY TYPE, by Sudan Archives
from the album THE BPM
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February 13, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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talking about epstein with my uber driver and she was like "you know what i would do if i had all that money? id invite all the pedophiles and child abusers to my island and then do Saw on them"
February 13, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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8°C, by Whatever The Weather
from the album Whatever The Weather II
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February 13, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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Today.
jeffrueter.bsky.social Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 2d
Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far.

In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.
A screenshot of People Over Papers’ ICE reporting map. The map resets at 4 am ET every day. In Minnesota, over 100 reports have been filed today, with the overwhelming majority in and around the Twin Cities. Stay safe. Fuck ICE.
February 12, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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Past performance is not indicative of what a.i. will do with your corpse in the future.
February 12, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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ICE is really stepping up their activities out here in rural Minnesota today. I pray that someday my neighbors will be able to leave their homes again.
February 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Now: US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott tells congress the reason Border Patrol "surged a bunch of resources into Minneapolis" was because “ICE couldn’t go do arrests without being violently assaulted”.
February 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM