@peggyvanslp.bsky.social
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Poetrye ys the technologye of hope
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Poetrye ys the technologye of hope
Fabulous perspective.
I don't write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.
#quote Lucille Clifton
#quote Lucille Clifton
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Fabulous perspective.
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Groceries vs. Ballrooms
a man and woman are dancing in front of a crowd of people
ALT: a man and woman are dancing in front of a crowd of people
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Groceries vs. Ballrooms
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… #TrickOrTreat O LOOK! it’s the fun size “early in her career” #Adele and the 4th doctor #TomBaker ! 🎃✨🧡🖤🍭. #HappyHalloween
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
… #TrickOrTreat O LOOK! it’s the fun size “early in her career” #Adele and the 4th doctor #TomBaker ! 🎃✨🧡🖤🍭. #HappyHalloween
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A reminder that Trump and his supporters violently attacked the seat of our democracy in 2021. Same people who are trying to frame "No Kings" protesters as the hate America crowd.
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A reminder that Trump and his supporters violently attacked the seat of our democracy in 2021. Same people who are trying to frame "No Kings" protesters as the hate America crowd.
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Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.
YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.
Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.
While you still can.
@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.
Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.
While you still can.
@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.
YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.
Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.
While you still can.
@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.
Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.
While you still can.
@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social
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It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.
October 3, 2025 at 2:43 AM
It will always baffle me how easily people will believe that the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the immigrant are the cause for all their problems, rather than the people in the most powerful positions in their country who refuse to fix problems and exploit them instead.
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FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'sorrow.' Accessorize wyth a scarf.
September 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
FALL FASHION TIPPE - Disappear ynto the woodes of an eveninge, when the skye ys lavender and blue. Call unto the powers that dwell ther, and lo! thei appear yn their glamour and their panoplye, radiant. Aske of them what thei have seen and thei will tell thee: 'sorrow.' Accessorize wyth a scarf.
Genius satire.
U.S. Citizenship Test To Include 4-Year Imprisonment Section
https://theonion.com/u-s-citizenship-test-to-include-4-year-imprisonment-section/
https://theonion.com/u-s-citizenship-test-to-include-4-year-imprisonment-section/
September 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Genius satire.
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8/ This surge in political attacks isn't the only existential threat to our democracy. It feels like our experiment is under threat from multiple fronts. Which is why Democrats and Republicans need to start showing more allegiance to our democracy than to party.
September 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
8/ This surge in political attacks isn't the only existential threat to our democracy. It feels like our experiment is under threat from multiple fronts. Which is why Democrats and Republicans need to start showing more allegiance to our democracy than to party.
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Like many Never Trumpers and other people with a public profile, I have been on the receiving end of death threats for years just for speaking my mind.
No one in America should risk being killed for exercising their right to speak, no matter how despicable you think their views might be.
No one in America should risk being killed for exercising their right to speak, no matter how despicable you think their views might be.
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Like many Never Trumpers and other people with a public profile, I have been on the receiving end of death threats for years just for speaking my mind.
No one in America should risk being killed for exercising their right to speak, no matter how despicable you think their views might be.
No one in America should risk being killed for exercising their right to speak, no matter how despicable you think their views might be.
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Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.
#quote Ellen Bass
#quote Ellen Bass
September 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.
#quote Ellen Bass
#quote Ellen Bass
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“It is those of us who, despite seeing destruction and despair in ourselves and in the world, still find a way to forge meaning and discover beauty. It is those of us who weave love into the fabric of our being, into our existence, who truly transform the world around us.”
#Quote James Baldwin
#Quote James Baldwin
August 31, 2025 at 9:18 AM
“It is those of us who, despite seeing destruction and despair in ourselves and in the world, still find a way to forge meaning and discover beauty. It is those of us who weave love into the fabric of our being, into our existence, who truly transform the world around us.”
#Quote James Baldwin
#Quote James Baldwin
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"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
August 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
There are US citizens across the globe who would be disenfranchised by this action. Some of us serve in the military or diplomatic service. Some have jobs that support the US economy. Some are learning skills we plan on bringing back home. We pay taxes. We have the right to vote!
Trump and Republicans are going to cheat and steal the elections.
People are still suffering from a failure of imagination.
They're telling you the plot openly
People are still suffering from a failure of imagination.
They're telling you the plot openly
August 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
There are US citizens across the globe who would be disenfranchised by this action. Some of us serve in the military or diplomatic service. Some have jobs that support the US economy. Some are learning skills we plan on bringing back home. We pay taxes. We have the right to vote!
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I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
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One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,
and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
—Goethe
#quote
and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
—Goethe
#quote
August 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,
and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
—Goethe
#quote
and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
—Goethe
#quote
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The truth will always be seen as a threat to those who profit from propaganda and whose power is built on lies.
August 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The truth will always be seen as a threat to those who profit from propaganda and whose power is built on lies.
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Never before in the Nation’s almost 250 year history has America’s present and future depended more on the free press than it does today.
July 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Never before in the Nation’s almost 250 year history has America’s present and future depended more on the free press than it does today.
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...
How Empathy Became a Threat
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...
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What Frederick Douglass said of slaveholders applies to today’s authoritarians.
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
The Slaveholders’ Rebellion
teachingamericanhistory.org
July 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
What Frederick Douglass said of slaveholders applies to today’s authoritarians.
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
“For this cause they hate free society, free schools, free states, free speech, the freedom asserted in the declaration of independence, and guaranteed in the constitution.”
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...
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Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
July 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did?
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
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The first #poet in a series of contemporary women of color before I started using the tag #highlightedpoet
—Joy Harjo
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War
—Joy Harjo
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War
by Joy Harjo
#poetry #poem
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
by Joy Harjo
#poetry #poem
www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War
You can’t begin just anywhere. Like bombs. Like mother and father tears swallowed for restless peace. Like sunset slanting toward a moonless midnight. You can’t begin here. This is not the best place ...
www.poetryfoundation.org
July 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The first #poet in a series of contemporary women of color before I started using the tag #highlightedpoet
—Joy Harjo
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War
—Joy Harjo
How to Write a Poem in a Time of War
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“A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
July 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
Pass it on.
Pass it on.