Annick MacAskill
@thisisannick.bsky.social
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Poet Latest: Votive (Gaspereau Press, 2024) Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022) #GGBooks2022 Murmurations, No Meeting Without Body, five from hem, Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos annickmacaskill.com
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thisisannick.bsky.social
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are one of the most spiritually aligned couples I've ever heard of. Positively wretched.
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rlmartstudio.bsky.social
This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.
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bookgaga.bsky.social
"Star-craving mad: so mad as to want
to devour the stars. Gripped by a single
fixation, an insuperable sidereal tongue-lust."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...
Poetry pamphlet Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan (Opaat Press) sits on a purple desktop, surrounded by bright red and green peppers Handwritten transcription of the poem Stark, raving by Andreae Callanan, with coffee and the Saturday Globe and Mail nearby
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nader.org
Still the Democrats on Capitol Hill have made impeachment a taboo, reaching new depths of cowardliness and rejection of our founding fathers prescience giving Congress the exclusive authority to fire a culpable president. -R
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nader.org
So this elected dictator is now engaging in a coup d'état, as noted weeks ago by Harvard Law professor and former federal judge Nancy Gertner and an invasion of an increasing number of America’s large cities.
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nader.org
By large margins the American people don’t like what Trump is doing. They also don’t like him overthrowing the federal government by shutting down critical major programs, slashing funding for other starved agencies, and expanding mass firings of innocent dedicated federal civil servants.
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nader.org
Trump is invading America. Focusing mostly on cities run by Democrats, he is federalizing state and national guards amplified by masked federal agents on the flimsiest of pretext. (He told the generals that he wanted to use cities as "training grounds for our military" in violation of federal law.)
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aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · 9d
BREAKING: A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that blocks President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.

The president can't rewrite the 14th Amendment with the stroke of a pen.
thisisannick.bsky.social
If there's one thing I wish I'd been taught in school, it's basic labour law and standards for workers.
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aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · 10d
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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aljazeera.com
BREAKING: The Global Sumud Flotilla says one vessel, Marinette, is “still sailing strong.” Over the last 24 hours, 21 boats were confirmed intercepted and 20 presumably intercepted.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/qngd86
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
Have you ever witnessed sexual harassment on the bus & not known what to do? Ever heard a transphobic slur being hurled at someone and worried that stepping in would just make it worse?

Let me teach you effective bystander intervention - for free!

I've got 4 webinars left! Registration links :
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Come learn bystander intervention with me - It's free!
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bookgaga.bsky.social
"Has anyone done that for you, lately
or ever? Come over, torn open the sky
and let the snow fall in the wrong month
to show there's a rip in the face of the world?"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Rending the Garments by @ronnabloom.bsky.social
In a Riptide (2025 Brick Books) the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/21/v...
Poetry collection In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom (Brick Books), nestled amidst dried flowers and stalks in a garden Poem "Rending the Garments" from the poetry collection In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom, held before dried flowers and stalks in a garden Handwritten transcription of the poem "Rending the Garments" from the poetry collection In a Riptide by Ronna Bloom
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joybella.blacksky.app
Always laughing at us, then demanding we tell them why ain't shit funny.
adriancjax.blacksky.app
Black ppl in 2015:
*warns of impending doom*

White ppl in 2015:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

White ppl today:
“😳Who could’ve see this coming?!🤷🏼‍♂️”
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ericafd.bsky.social
First shipment has arrived! 📦 Getting ready for job action at @smuhalifax.bsky.social

It’s time: #FairDealNow

#cdnpse #canlab #SMUstrike
#FairDeal2025 #UnionStrong

@cupe3912.bsky.social @cautdefencefund.bsky.social @cupens.bsky.social
Hot pink baseball caps with the CUPE 3912 logo Hot pink toques with cupe 3912 logo Hot pink t-shirts with the cupe 3912 logo (French version) and text that says: It’s time Hot pink t-shirts with the cupe 3912 logo (French version) and text that says: FAIR DEAL NOW
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bookgaga.bsky.social
"They keened like
witches and cut
the stars
in half."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Seagulls at the University by @annaquon.bsky.social (2025 Opaat Press / @thisisannick.bsky.social) annickmacaskill.com/2025/09/10/s...
The poetry pamphlet Seagulls at the University by Anna Quon (Opaat Press) in light green sits amidst balls and skeins of wool in a basket. Handwritten transcription of the poem Seagulls at the University by Anna Quon
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aclu.org
ACLU @aclu.org · 23d
BREAKING: A court ruled that the federal government can't pick and choose among viewpoints when deciding who gets a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

We took the Trump administration to court to fight artistic censorship — and won.
thisisannick.bsky.social
Have some respect, it's high tomato season.
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ericafd.bsky.social
"Foster a 'people first' culture that makes Saint Mary’s a desirable place to work and build a career"

Priority 2 of the Strategic Plan for @smuhalifax.bsky.social
2024-2029

Empty words or their bargaining team is not on board with this priority?

@cupe3912.bsky.social #cdnpse @caut.bsky.social
Do Part-Time Faculty deserve job security? SMU says "This will never happen." Tell SMU we need a fair deal now! QR code to a letter campaign: https://win.newmode.net/canadianassociationofuniversityteachers/istandwithparttimefacultyandtasatsaintmarysuniversity

CUPE 3912 logo
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ericafd.bsky.social
“This view […] reflects our commitment to helping create a global future that is more equitable and more just” except for Part-Time Faculty. For them, improved working conditions “will never happen.”

@cupe3912.bsky.social #cdnpse #canlab @smuhalifax.bsky.social #SMU

World without limits?
Photo of Saint Mary’s front entrance that includes a text box with their continuing commitment
thisisannick.bsky.social
Put Melissa Etheridge in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, you lesbophobic cowards.