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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#Poetry #Painting #Summer It is morning, and again I am the luckiest person to be in it - Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

He left his name on my birth certificate. Signed up for adoption registries. Searched the internet with his sons. For 55 years, Isell never stopped looking. Then one day, an ocean apart, I called. #adopteestories open.substack.com/pub/lisamari...

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Adoption, Reunion, and the Father Who Spent 55 Years Looking.

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Thank you for the spin @movingtrainmedia.bsky.social So pleased to be in such luminous company. ✊🏾✨

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Honored to wake up to this. Deep gratitude to @greenleftonline.bsky.social for naming NoteSpeak (In a Word). We’re in such powerful company, standing with artists who turn art into resistance and make music that pushes back, & presses forward. ✊🏾🎶 #protestsongs

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

If you’ve been feeling the weight but struggling to translate it into strategy, start here. Sherrilyn Ifill connects protest, litigation, impeachment, and global pressure with her trademark clarity and precision.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/01/2026

Just say the government is lying. The goal of journalism should be to inform, not gaslight.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock? Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The best read I've come upon in some time. Prescient? One can hope! The irony of sharing it here is not lost on me! @noemamag.com The Last Days Of Social Media #topshelf www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

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The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA

Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

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Nuclear Threat Initiative @nti.org · 06/08/2025

80 years after the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons still cast a long shadow over the world. Cultural leaders have a leading role to play in creating a critical mass of public demand for change. They are stepping up. 🧵 #CultureAgainstNukes #NukeSky

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

my Gran braided lore into each line of cornrows over home a #braid is a plait and my trumpet soul is filled with locs of nappy love ~ regina harris baiocchi 🪮 #Fibonacci #haikufeels

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

✨ CARNEGIE HALL, BABY—WHAA?! ✨ I fell hard for Charu’s Rags and Ragas the moment I heard it, then she heard NoteSpeak 12 and came to our NYC show. Now we’re sharing the stage, plus debuting a new track from the upcoming NoteSpeak (In a Word) (Sept @ropeadope99.bsky.social )Love fest vibes #jazzsky

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

"We are living in the time when small men and women rule. Our only hope is to become bigger ourselves." Character isn’t built in crisis; it’s revealed. Sherrilyn Ifill once more holds up a mirror to who we are and who we refuse to be. Her work continues to be required reading and good medicine.

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Long before many of us could see the cracks, @sifill.bsky.social was already naming the fault lines. Read her. She writes with the kind of unflinching foresight that history will thank, but we must act on now.

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Francesca Melandri @fmelandriwriter.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Marie Claire Italia mi ha chiesto di scrivere una lettera alla Pace Oggi in edicola il numero con ciò che ho scritto

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Wordle 1,320 4/6 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #wordle

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Hey #writingcommunity Please give a warm welcome to the absolutely splendid and brilliantly talented @storyclare.bsky.social Follow her for a much-needed dose of good medicine! 🤎🤎🤎

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Some days feel like Ross Gay wrote them. sitting in a room full of balloons, wondering which one carries my next delight. Happiest 2025 creating #community. Perfect read for 2025? 👉🏾 The Book of Delights #delight

Me on a soffa looking up at a ceiling full of balloons with streamers hanging from them

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Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com · 03/01/2025

Photo session featuring artwork from my series Minimal Accident.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A powerful artist and activist. Just everything about this woman and her poetry was good and clean and straight truth. She pushed us. She’d cut you and then smile to show that she’d done it with love. Rest in Peace and Power Nikki Giovanni.

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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

“We shouldn’t celebrate genocide, but we can honor those who were killed, elevate Native voices, and embrace that spirit of generosity that Indigenous people shared with the Pilgrims.” Ruth H Hopkins www.teenvogue.com/story/thanks... #thanksgiving

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It’s been 400 years since the Mayflower landed in modern-day Massachusetts.

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Tara Trudel @taratrudel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

When I first left Twitter, I wrote a two minute torch song about the breakup. This migratory moment seemed like a good time to dust it off and record it. And yes, I'm really feeling it in the thumbnail. youtu.be/2CJJaSBZSVY?... #MusicianSky #Songwriter #Music

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LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies. #bydhttmwdi

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Alt: a pixel art of Levar standing under a rainbow on a blue background

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I am always awed by the brilliance of @sifill.bsky.social If you haven’t read this yet, please do. It is illuminating.

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Backstage with the incomparable #lakeciabenjamin #jazzlovers I highly recommend you go check her out if you haven’t already👇🏾 Also, news! Funding secured for the last NoteSpeak chapter. Watch this space for #music #poetry and #magic ✨ lakeciabenjamin.com

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Lisa Marie Simmons @lisamariesimmons.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

New day, new sky! Hello! 🙋🏾‍♀️From jazz and spoken word to storytelling in every form, I’m here to share and connect. Looking forward to meeting like-minded souls under this BlueSky.

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