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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

…yeah this is where we live now. arresting nurse-nuns, in their habits, on their way to Mass. then waiting for “someone in power” to realize that it’s at least reading bad, though probably not that it IS BAD. #abolishice #voteblue #november2026 🌊🇺🇸

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 26/10/2025

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text.
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Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 27/09/2025

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

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FUmaga @fugop.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

dry out your puddles mosquito season on the horizon declare “no quarter” #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |mosquito|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

rabbit leaps ‘cross the yard tall grass hiding red fruit snacks mock strawberry gems #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |tall grass|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I have worked as a rabbi or Jewish educator in recent years. Recently, I’ve been a bit more advocacy and volunteering. This cause is dear to my heart: www.foodaidforgaza.org/shabbat. This specific group reaches across the ideological spectrum to promote Jewish values re Palestine. #jews_for_food_aid

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Food Aid Shabbat — Jews for Food Aid for Gaza

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

June counts down to summer I spot the year’s first fruit fly scouting strawberries #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |flies|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

summertime snowballs drips flavor hands extra-sweet sun-warmed skin shivers #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |shaved ice|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

hot summer concert horns and drums fill the ballroom sweat drips down my back #dailyhaikuprompt #Haiku |hot night|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

lily centerpiece fallen petals and stamens red smears of pollen #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |pollen| For 6/7

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Daily Haiku Prompt @dailyhaikuprompt.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025

Our haiku prompts for June 7-14 Remember, the prompt is just a suggestion. Use it, or not, as you like. North South 06/07 Pollen Oatmeal 06/08 Hot Night Holly 06/09 Shaved Ice Short Days 06/10 Flies Overcoat 06/11 Tall Grass Breath 06/12 Mosquito Cold Night 06/13 Spring Water Dark 06/14 Green […]

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unlawful whatever 🐝 @inlovewthemooon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A statement from Portland Contra Las Deportaciones on the events that unfolded at Portland ICE facility yesterday

On June 4th 2025 activist rallied outside the ice facility in Portland Oregon at 4310 South macadam avenue to demand an end to Trump's racist attacks on immigrants when they showed up in the morning there was a long line out the door of immigrants waiting to enter the building. Sometime later a bus left the facility full of people that had been detained. Activist protested the bus leaving the facility on a public sidewalk and pushed by security guards quickly after the department of Homeland security officers came out and demanded the protesters handcuffed and take them in the ice facility

At no point where protesters read their Miranda rights are told that they were under arrest when the inside the facility they were placed in shackles it was confirmed by one of the protesters that inside the building there were people being held in cells some of whom were people who were in line outside the building earlier in the morning. After being held for over an hour the protesters were released they were told that they were never under arrest but that charges have no filed against them but they were held against their will inside of a government building and shackles and handcuffs and they were not under arrest is a blatant violation of their rights

Dozens of protesters had no converged upon the building to stand against this attack and will outside at around 5:00 p.m. another bus full of detained people left the facility Portland Contra las deportaciones unequivocally stands against these attacks in our community while we are glad our comrades are released we are devastated knowing that there were other people detained that day that did not get released we keep them in our minds and hearts as we commit to fighting even harder against ice terror

What happened to us was terrifying illegally abduction without due process stated Michelle darr one of the activists that was detained we were shackled and held without cause or arrest inside government building used to process human suffering and while we were eventually released so many immigrants mother's father's children remained inside nameless and voiceless awaiting an uncertain fate in the fascist system that was never meant to protect them my heart breaks for every soul trapped in that building and every family torn apart we will not be silenced we will not be deterred we'll keep showing up because no one is free until all of us are free

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50501 Portland, OR @pdxoregon50501.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

(1/3) Next nation-wide day of protest is June 14th! Stronger together!! #portland #oregon #multnomah #protest #rally #march #fiftyfiftyone Credit for this phenomenal artwork: @shesaworldchanger on instagram. Website: www.taimaniemeraldcreative.com

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Falling behind this week… slow pull into driveway sprinklers spray and cheery barks greet pet first, park later #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |spray|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

safe from my sprayer— spittle bug foam clings to a weed insect sips free lunch #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |spray| for 6/3

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

play fight in the garden raucous children and their guns water balloon bursts hit point-blank at a friend’s eye spraying boys or plants? aim for feet #dailyhaikuprompt #senryu |spray|

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Kathy Goddard Writer @kathygoddard.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Strawberry; sun-warmed, succulent, sweet seductress - Come, taste me. Love me! #dailyhaikuprompt berry #haiku #poetry #poet #micropoetry #writingcommunity

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

my blueberry crop still matches leafy branches I check in daily peek at the berries’ color surveil for competition #dailyhaikuprompt #senryu |berry|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

sensitive show-offs rosy violet and periwinkle bundled together locate in shade or veil them lest they scorch cotton sheets protect shy hydrangea blooms happy and bold on old wood prune down to new leaves #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |hydrangea|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

ants march on sidewalk drawn to wet sap drips on tree ignore picnic crumbs #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |sap|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

peonies’ bright blooms clouds nestle tree silhouettes sun continues shining— I nod and smile as a stranger observes through binoculars #dailyhaikuprompt #senryu |grief|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

robins wake with song face burrows in lover’s neck gray morn in orchard farewell to valley fruit trees and dew-kissed flowers ripe strawberry fields driveway gravel crunch a hand on dog’s soft head electric car thrum 1/3 #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |river|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

spring weather changes— hills wake in dawn’s cotton clouds emerge in noon sun #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |hills|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

fear of possibility to hold a downy chick in hand vulnerable and new #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |downy|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

soft May days dwindle bright rhododendron blooms fall paint sidewalk purple #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |bright|

A photograph of a rhododendron hedge and a sidewalk beside it. In one diagonal part of the frame, the bright green leaves of the hedge show a few remaining bunches of medium purple blooms; in the right diagonal portion, one sees spent petals on the cement walkway.

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

In an orchard where the pears are still the size of cherries, five young children play: Three tots run and fling themselves to the ground with giggles. But the others? A tiny girl drags her older brother by his shirt collar. 1/3 #dailyhaikuprompt #haibun |snapshot|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

a cool breeze tickles shivers travel up my spine sparrow leaps skyward #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |tickle|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

beside the pool two black birds— a native crow and an African refugee— supervise the reflection of a giraffe calmly peeling the leaves from a branch with its long tongue #dailyhaikuprompt #freeformpoem #poem |pool| #oregonzoo

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

no nightingale song— my modest neighborhood fills with buzz, caw, chirp, vroom spring evening jazz riff: car doors and children at play airplanes and insects home cacophony where bees bump into petals and I sit still #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |nightingale|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Rewrite, not in haiku. Once again, see if you can figure out what the “needle” object is: the white and red needle tall atop the neighborhood hill blinks and twinkles— a local sentry it sticks sharp in a verdant pincushion assembled of lush tree canopies quilt of emerald oaks and dark pines

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I hear my breaths now after songbirds quiet and restless children sleep. #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |breath|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

roadside ice cream snack raindrops on red metal table cold inside and out #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |road|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

white and red needle sharp in verdant pincushion of lush treetop poufs #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |verdant|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

sunset painted sky drama unfolding in cloud drifts over a soccer field salmon and gold—but Blue and Red boys keep their eyes on the ball #dailyhaikuprompt #senryu |field|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

slanted dusk sunshine yellow glow alight along pleats frame ginkgo’s green fans #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |yellow|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

half-open buds stall the Sun lost its momentum leaves seedlings to lean #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |lost|

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YourMoonliness @yourmoonliness.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

softened by passing time the old pear and i #dailyhaikuprompt #passing

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

white butterflies flit among riotous floral color sip modest and silent #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |butterfly|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

sun tucks behind clouds the same breeze moves trees to wave I don a sweater sun peeks out from under covers the wind now makes leaves shimmer #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |wave| #tonka

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

from my patio I spy the rain-laden world hail crystals aground old plum tree towers bowed by tiny droplets low branches kiss grass 'neath that canopy what sweet mystery hidden as spring storm passes #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |patio|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I eyeball the starts stems and leaves stretch toward the window flirt with the Outside #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |flirt|

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

sudden staccato my ears alert for gunshot cracks my eyes, for red crests woodpeckers black beaks hammer breach forest peace unruffled #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |woodpecker|

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Daily Rothko @dailyrothko.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥'𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗬 ♥♥♥ 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢 📸 Untitled 1933/1934 Watercolor on paper 17 15/16 × 11 15/16 in. (45.6 × 30.3 cm) Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel. © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society / ARS 𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜, 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘 1/7

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

“The notion that I or any of my colleagues ‘body slammed’ armed federal officers is absurd. DHS is lying because they know their agents were out of line.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Some doors open inward Some open outward Grief opens both at once #haiku #poetry

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Apparently, the new Trojan Horse is a Qatari luxury airplane. Can someone at the Secret Service explain to Trump that his unconstitutional gift from a foreign government is a danger to US security and his personal safety?

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Rachel Miller Solomin @rlsolomin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I wait on peonies long after tulips bloom and spend ruffled skirts debut but they will pass too quickly beside the lingering rose belles #dailyhaikuprompt #haiku |peony|

Against a green field of leaves and grass stand roughly spherical peony buds, still unopened.

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