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Karen Faris

@karenfaris.bsky.social
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Artist at Large. Poet, visual artist, and everything in between because categories are boring.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The billions of dollars we send to a foreign military to drop bombs on somebody else should have been spent to build schools, housing, and to provide healthcare HERE.
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therealoutpost.bsky.social @therealoutpost.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
PLAIN TALK Late Afternoon Edition W 9/02/2026 Featured Video Interview
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Karen Faris @karenfaris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I only wish you and your colleagues would do something to actually help people instead of merely commenting on the obvious.
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Rachel Barnhart @rachbarnhart.com · 29/07/2026
I just had a voter call and ask me why they didn't know about last night's Stonegarden vote. I said because the media didn't cover it. Only one outlet did after the vote. People want to know what's going on in legislative bodies before votes occur!
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John Breen @breen.tech · 18/07/2026
Btw, Wegman’s lettuce is from Taylor Farms. Since TF won’t tell you who they sell to
A bag of poop lettuce from Wegman’s. You can tell it’s Taylor Farms by the TF product code
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
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#Ranger Press @rangerpress.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Check out the newly revamped #Ranger Press website. We are now open for submissions, too!
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Ranger Press
Ranger Press (RPRESS) is an avant garde micro-press specializing in showcasing the best visual and concrete poetry, as well as all hybrid and uncategorizable genres (text + visual). Generative, gli…
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Rachel Barnhart @rachbarnhart.com · 21/06/2026
My statement on the deployment of a Monroe County Sheriff's deputy to DC.

I am requesting an immediate explanation from Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter regarding the deployment of a Monroe County Sheriff's Office deputy to Washington, D.C. as part of a federal security operation connected to the Trump administration's Freedom 250 events.
Residents have contacted me after images circulated online showing what appears to be a Monroe County Sheriff's deputy participating in law enforcement activity related to recent arrests near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office has separately confirmed its participation in this deployment through its own public statement.
Federal deputizations for major events are not unusual. However, this assignment has become associated with a deeply controversial federal enforcement action. President Trump has claimed, without providing evidence, that vandals sabotaged the Reflecting Pool — a $14.65 million renovation project completed via a no-bid contract awarded to a company with ties to Trump's golf club that failed almost immediately after completion. Among those arrested was a three-time U.S. Olympian who says he did nothing wrong.
Monroe County sent one deputy among a limited number from agencies across the country. That means our patch is visible. When Monroe County personnel appear in viral images tied to arrests and disputed White House claims, Monroe County has become part of the public story. That is a legitimate reason for elected officials to ask whether continued participation serves this county's interests.
I am asking the Sheriff to explain who authorized this deployment, the scope of the deputy's duties, whether Monroe County taxpayers are bearing any costs, and whether Monroe County personnel have participated in arrests or enforcement actions connected to this controversy.
I am also calling on the Sheriff to reassess this assignment and bring our deputy home.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
😂 The Jetsons lied to us
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
June 17, 2026 is the 10th anniversary of legal Medical Assistance in Dying in most of Canada. (Quebec started in December 2025.) To mark the occasion, here is a thread of stories I've written about MAID and the right-to-die over the past 40 years. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... /1
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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Just received the first print run of this new sticker design! Can't wait to plaster these up everywhere. Fuck AI.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
As long as courts side with rich developers against responsible groundwater management, the risks of permanent, damaging overdraft of #groundwater will continue, and future generations will suffer. #water www.abc15.com/news/local-n...
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Judge sides with developers challenging Arizona groundwater regulations
New recent court rulings could open the door for more housing to be built in high demand areas at the edge of the Valley, despite state concerns over long-term groundwater reliance.
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Karen Faris @karenfaris.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is next Sunday Rochester NY friends. When the world is falling apart, artists put it back together. Sometimes it doesn't look the same (if we're lucky). Come to The Little Cafe Sunday June 14th for The Monday Nighters Reception. I will be doing a performance piece around 3:15pm.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"The most important thing about the election is not that Trump was proclaimed the winner, but that he was allowed to run." I wrote that in 2024. I'm disgusted by those who ignore the institutional rot that enabled Trump and blame everyday voters instead. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
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The End of Days Inn
What Trump’s team wants to do to America, and how to fight it.
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Karen Faris @karenfaris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Hey @morelle.house.gov Our tax dollars shouldn't be paying for this. Time to speak up for what's good and right and just and not just for what serves the people who are supposed to be "serving" us. No more war. Stop the destruction. The war economy must end.
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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Remember where it comes from
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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
You know who really, really hates data centers? Women.
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Americans overwhelmingly oppose data centers. Women most of all.
New polling shows women have stronger concerns than men over the implications of the massive and costly complexes used to power AI.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Bust up big corporations and tackle Wall Street’s greed. Get big money out of politics. Strengthen unions and boost wages. Pass Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare, and so much more... This is the agenda Democrats need to fight for. It's not enough to simply be anti-Trump.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/05/2026
This is pretty amazing.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI
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Steve 52 NO KINGS, NO FASCISTS @radicalsenior52.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Betty White as Rose Nylund: Agreed Nodding
ALT: Betty White as Rose Nylund: Agreed Nodding
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Rachel Barnhart @rachbarnhart.com · 20/04/2026
I am sick to my stomach over this. Accusing Walker of fraud - without presenting any evidence - is so low. They are bullies. Winning is not the point. Sending a message to anyone who crosses the Morelle machine is. rachbarnhart.substack.com/p/harassment...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Great Question, Winona.......
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better? Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence. Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”. Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it. Crazy!
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Joe Morelle @morelle.house.gov · 11/04/2026
I joined @publiccitizen.bsky.social to talk about how we need to put the power of our democracy back into the hands of hardworking Americans.   I'm fighting for accountability, transparence, and reform in Washington so our government works for the people.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 11/03/2026
All federally elected Politicians should be classified as "at will" employees and paid by the hour with no politician earning more than the average hourly wage in there own state. Also no politician should be eligible for health care any better than the average for the state they rep.
Close up of 926 standing on frozen ground.
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Karen Faris @karenfaris.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Please tell us you are doing something more than being disgusted. This is total insanity. @morelle.house.gov You are always talking about leadership. Show us yours. DO SOMETHING to change this. This is not politics as usual that you can just wait out if you tow a careful line of banal rhetoric.
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
From The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons Poem: bookshop.org/a/862/9780393308501 #poem #booksky #writing
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 31/03/2026
BREAKING: GENERAL STRIKE The economy only works if we do. Friday, May 1 🚫No work 🚫No school 🚫No shopping You in? 🤚🏽
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TeeBo @texastob-24.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Wednesday wisdom 🍀
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🧿 Nya 💙 @seranyabeck.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ditto 🤭 Pri😂cele🤣ss🤣😂
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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Here's an info sheet for the new MFA program in Creative Writing at Missouri State University! Drop us a line if you have questions, but we are looking for students for THIS FALL for a fully funded program!
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ThisIsROC — Rochester, NY @thisisroc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Sunrise in Rochester ☕️🌇 #thisisroc 📸: Robert Rondelli #roc
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Karen Faris @karenfaris.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is a great art exhibit that opened on Saturday. If you are in the Rochester NY area, you should go and see all these voices coming together. Up until the end of March at The Yards in the Rochester Public Market. Check The Yards website for open times.
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Kristen Seversky @kr1573n.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
And I watched so many people drop OpenAI to rush to an alternative that has been partnered with this guy for over a year. Such fun times we're in.
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Karen Faris @karenfaris.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
When you have a month named for you it means you are excluded from full participation in the other 11 months. Stop the war on women and children @morelle.house.gov from detention centers to funding that goes abroad. No mother wants to see their children die. Stop the war machine.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A lot of historical authoritarian regimes ultimately foundered because there are upper limits to how much brutality human enforcers are willing to carry out on a broad civilian resistance that includes their family and old classmates. An AI controlled drone is never going to refuse an illegal order.
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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Jonathan Everitt @jonathaneveritt.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They must answer for this. Just horrifying.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 23/02/2026
Trump illegally jacked up costs on the American people. The Payback Act says: run us our money back.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Imagine if HEALTHCARE WAS FREE in America, as it is in Greenland. Just imagine. 🇺🇸🇬🇱
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Karen Faris @karenfaris.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Wow. The arrogance. The laziness. The inability to read the moment. I'm sorry that my status as a voter is inconvenient to you. Everyone on this card deserves to be primaried. Every last one. @morelle.house.gov
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Sherry w/ a whY @justiceforall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Screenshot from twitter 

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@ClimateHuman
If we ended industrial animal agriculture, there'd suddenly be more than enough food for everyone, we'd essentially end animal cruelty, no one would die, and we'd take a huge bite out of the climate and ecological emergency.
We could do this basically overnight.
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cutelilbottom.bsky.social @cutelilbottom.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This Right Here 👇👇
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Trump: It’s a hoax. We should move on. Trump’s DOJ: There’s nothing to investigate. The UN: The revelations suggest a global criminal enterprise…a number of the abuses meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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UN panel says Epstein abuses may constitute ‘crimes against humanity’
Experts say newly released documents show the need for an independent investigation into Epstein's sex-trafficking ring.
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Rym - Abolish and Prosecute ICE @rym.social · 13/02/2026
This would be a cool idea for New York @governor.ny.gov @mayor.nyc.gov
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
Raskin to Bondi: "You're not showing a lot interest in the victims. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as AG you're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims."
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
This is an astounding example of the increasing intensity of rain storms. #climate #water
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String Bass Theory @stringbasstheory.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Why this hasn't been done yet, why no one has been willing to leak this list is a testament to how much of a stranglehold capitalism has on us. People are afraid the whole system will collapse if these powerful people are brought to justice. I say let it. Some things are irredeemable
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