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Corie J. Cole
@coriejcole.bsky.social
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Lefty KY artist, ceramicist, illustrator/author, Direct Support Professional, organic gardener.
"36 Shots of Pikes Peak" on display in the Art of the Southwest collection of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
More work here: www.coriejcole.com
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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's.

If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too.

It's just a question of political will.
New Mexico will be the first state to make child care free
The program, which is expected to save families $12,000 per child annually, is available to all residents regardless of income.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
coriejcole.bsky.social
Text on trans flag colors reads: AUTHORITARIAN FASCISTS FUNDAMENTALLY DON’T LIKE TRANS PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DON’T FIT NEATLY IN THEIR “DOMESTIC SERVANT AND BROOD MARE” or “RULER OF HOUSEHOLD/ CANNON FODDER” CATEGORIES. IF PEOPLE DON’T FIT NEATLY IN THOSE TWO CATEGORIES THEN FOLKS START TO QUESTION WHETHER THEY’RE ONLY GOOD FOR PUMPING OUT BABIES TO SEND OUT INTO THE STREET AND GET SHOT. THE WHOLE SYSTEM BREAKS DOWN IF PEOPLE QUESTION IT. THAT’S WHY TRANS PEOPLE ARE TARGETS, EMPATHY IS A DISORDER, AND WHY REPUBLICANS ARE DISMANTLING LAWS PROTECTING WOMEN FROM DOMESTIC ABUSE. PUTIN DID IT. ORBAN DID IT. NOW PROJECT 2025 IS TARGETING THE BIGGEST DEMOCRACY OF ALL. THEY DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE, EXCEPT AS A USEFUL BOOGEYMAN. THEY CARE ABOUT CONTROL. THEY WANT A CIVIL WAR BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT AN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ANYMORE.
September 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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#booksky
coriejcole.bsky.social Corie J. Cole @coriejcole.bsky.social · Aug 22
A beautiful, thoughtful review of American Weather from Artists' Book Reviews. artistsbookreviews.com
A pair of hands hold open a small book with a two page spread of four black and white painted illustrations on tile. The paintings depict, in part, the process of smithing a gun barrel into a garden tool and lathing the handle from a gun stock.
August 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
coriejcole.bsky.social
A beautiful, thoughtful review of American Weather from Artists' Book Reviews. artistsbookreviews.com
A pair of hands hold open a small book with a two page spread of four black and white painted illustrations on tile. The paintings depict, in part, the process of smithing a gun barrel into a garden tool and lathing the handle from a gun stock.
August 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I recently added a few out-of-print NLP books to the digital archive. First up is The Palingenesis by @coriejcole.bsky.social heyzine.com/flip-book/21...
The Palingenesis
Digital version of an out-of-print book.\nDrawings and text by Corie J. Cole\n36 pages, pamphlet stitch with attached jacket\n8” x 6.5” (closed)\nRisograph interior with letterpress printed jacket, co...
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July 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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NO KINGS.
June 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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If you haven’t heard of Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove… you have now.

When she stepped out from the back without missing a beat, I knew it was on🔥
@kamlager-dove.house.gov
June 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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May 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
coriejcole.bsky.social
Hello my friends in Asian American communities, HBCUs, Tribal communities, Hispanic serving institutions-- have y'all felt any of the purported benefits coming to you since they're doing away with the NEA grants? Keep me posted when those dollars start rolling in, k?
Text reads: Dear [---] This is to inform you that the above referenced National Endowment for the Arts award has been terminated, effective May 31, 2025. The NEA is updating its grantmaking policy priorities to focus funding on projects that reflect the nation's rich artistic heritage and creativity as prioritized by the President. Consequently, we are terminating awards that fall outside these new priorities. The NEA will now prioritize projects that elevate the Nation’s HBCUs and Hispanic Serving Institutions, celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence, foster AI competency, empower houses of worship to serve communities, assist with disaster recovery, foster skilled trade jobs, make America healthy again, support the military and veterans, support Tribal communities, make the District of Columbia safe and beautiful, and support the economic development of Asian American communities. Funding is being allocated in a new direction in furtherance of the Administration’s agenda. Your project, as noted below, unfortunately does not align with these priorities: Purpose: To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and hybrid prose. The agency issued an award to your organization, subject to you agreeing to and accepting certain terms and conditions. You accepted the offer of funding, which was subject to the General Terms and Conditions (GTCs) that apply to all NEA awards. Per your award’s GTCs, the National Endowment for the Arts may terminate a federal award to the greatest extent authorized by law if an award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities. These provisions were clearly and unambiguously specified, as required by 2 CFR 200.340(b), and are consistent with the requirements of 2 CFR 200.340(a)(4), and the NEA’s authorizing statute at 20 USC 954 and 959. Accordingly, because your project no longer effectuates agency priorities, the agency is exercising its ability to
May 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
coriejcole.bsky.social
Ahh, good times. Simple times.
womensartbluesky.bsky.social womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · May 8
Guerrilla Girls, 'The Advantages Of Being A Woman Artist' poster, 1988 #womensart
May 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
coriejcole.bsky.social
This is beautiful and true.
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
My son has profound autism. And we are still a family
Despite what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have you believe, it isn’t autism itself that’s caused us the most harm, but the ways that our experience with the disorder has left us feeling isolated and misu...
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April 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
coriejcole.bsky.social
Sunrise, sunset. The Clay Studio's link to my sunset brooches is up now. I wanted to show my Bro-ette with the set, but they didn't take that entry, for some reason. ;)

#porcelain #art #clayart #ceramicart #ceramicpainting #painting #sunset #artjewelry

public.theclaystudio.org/public/shop/...
April 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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CC GLOBALIST EUGENICISTS

MORON MAGAT MFS ARE ACTUAL NAZIS

STOP RABID WILDING NAZI MF ELON

CC RABID MISOGYNY AND FEMICIDE

CC GENOCIDE
Elon Musk’s Sick Breeding Plan. You WILL Barf!
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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April 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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A little break from the news cycle. Two of my porcelain sunset brooches are for sale at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Check out the whole Small Favors show-- always a fun bunch of little pieces.

public.theclaystudio.org/public/shop/...
A rectangular porcelain brooch with rounded edges, hand painted with a sunset with trees in silhouette against a blue and turquoise sky with gestural, thin orange, yellow, pink and gray clouds.
April 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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What do the Republicans and the oligarchs fear most? Solidarity between poor rural whites and Black urban folks.

They have always feared it. It’s time to come together, friends. Our futures are bound up together.
April 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
coriejcole.bsky.social
Ok bluesky science folx. I am mystified. What would make this little doodle? Crusty like a lichen. It's on the butt end of an untreated 2X4 that is part of my bramble trellis. A collaboration between an insect and a fungus? #fungus #lichen #insects #science #entomology #gardening
A photo of the end of a weathered two by four board. On the end is a mark that looks like a stretched out slinky or coil of concentric circles. Like a doodle made by a human, but not. The mark is off-white and appears crusted and flaky. The mark runs most of the length of the butt end, so it's about 3 inches wide by about half an inch tall. The grain of the wood is visible, but less so as the wood has darkened with weather exposure, making the contrast of the "doodle" all the more visible.
March 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
coriejcole.bsky.social
Hopeful.
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · Mar 21
The crowds that AOC & Bernie Sanders are getting are MASSIVE.

Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands.

#FightOligarchy

(🎥: Bastian Brauns)
March 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
coriejcole.bsky.social
Drag has always been a thing, y'all. Going through my parents' stuff, I found photos my paternal grandmother took around 1916 of friends goofing around and posing in suits in a stone quarry. #oldphotos #drag
Four photos dated 1916 of women dressed in men's clothing-- pants, ties, three piece suits and hats in a stone quarry. One is wearing men's shoes and a full three piece suit with a folded handkerchief and hat, sitting on a cut shelf of limestone in a quarry. Some photos are of three women and two are of one. One woman holds a wheel barrow. All are either smiling or feigning seriousness. More photos from 1916 of women in drag in a stone quarry. One holds a pick axe and in two of the photos they are wearing fake moustaches. In one picture they are shaking hands and looking at the camera. They are posing and posturing like men in a comic and ironic, though understated way. Two women in three piece suits pose in a stone quarry. A closeup of three women in wearing drag in a stone quarry in 1916.
March 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The Streetmedic Handbook

Pass it down

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March 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Very excited for this interview in the Brooklyn Rail. Honored to be a part of this conversation about American Weather.
March 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Pissed off? Write a postcard to 🍊💩 letting him know. Mar 15 is a mass postcard protest to inundate the WH with hopefully millions of angry postcards. You need a 56¢ stamp on each, but you can use a blank 4x6 card w/ address on 1 side & msg on the other. #IdesOfTrump
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POSTCARDS TO TRUMP · Mobilize
On March 15th, mail Donald Trump a postcard that publicly expresses our opposition to him. We, in vast numbers, from all corners of the world, will overwhelm the man with his unpopularity and failur...
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March 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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White text on black background reading "Dear Ukraine, Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Panama, EU. We're sorry. We're horrified.
March 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM