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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I needed these wise words for these very troubled and troubling times today. 🙏

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Shimanti | Human Consequences @humanconsequences.com · 13/06/2026

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

absolutely...

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Via The San Marcos Writing Project, this beauty by Danielle Coffyn #poetry #poems #pride #pridemonth 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Why PRIDE

Because somewhere
a child is a heron
in a sea full of salmon
who encourage them
to convert wings
into fins.

Fish cannot teach
a bird to take flight.
So every June we flock
to the heavens
to remind them the sky
was never a sin.

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Biggest turnout yet in New Haven yesterday for #nokings, and some great signs! #gscia #nhv

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

So much “winning.” 🙄

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war. Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

More of this from the alleged “Opposition Party,” please.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026

I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both 5 Calls can help you make the call: 5calls.org/issue/iran-i...

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Sure, I could have subjected myself to hours of lies, countless attacks, and invented "victories" in the #SOTU, but somehow catching up with Oscar Nominee One Battle After Another seemed like near-perfect counterprogramming. (Illustration by Chirrikenstein for The New Yorker)

Illustration of One Battle After Another characters by Chirrikenstein for The New Yorker

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Sounds like great winter storm prep!

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

"I thought it was important for people to be in the streets. But that couldn't last. You needed a record. It would be my job to publish the voices, the books, the ideas of African Americans. And that would last."--Toni Morrison, born this day in 1931. #booksky #readthisbook #blackhistory

Copy of Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

i am not done yet by Lucille Clifton as possible as yeast as imminent as bread a collection of safe habits a collection of cares less certain than i seem more certain than i was a changed changer i continue to continue what i have been most of my lives is where i’m going #poems #poetry

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

A friend reminded me of this #poem by Christian Wiman this morning, and I just had to take some time to re-savor this beautiful take on #love #poetry #valentines #hopeinthedark

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

That halftime show is what people mean when they say "joy is an act of resistance."

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

This amazing poem by @aracelisxgirmay.bsky.social , particularly these lines, has been on my mind and heart a lot lately. Full poem at poets.org/poem/you-are... #poems #poetry #hopeinthedark #resist #persist

You are who I love, writing letters, calling the senators, you who, with the seconds of your body (with your time here), arrive on buses, on trains, in cars, by foot to stand in the January streets against the cool and brutal offices, saying: YOUR CRUELTY DOES NOT SPEAK FOR ME

You are who I love, you struggling to see

You struggling to love or find a question

You better than me, you kinder and so blistering with anger, you are who I love, standing in the wind, salvaging the umbrellas, graduating from school, wearing holes in your shoes

You are who I love
weeping or touching the faces of the weeping

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

@amandagorman.bsky.social, as always, with her clear-eyed vision and beautiful words that pierce and comfort all at once. #poetry #poems #hopeinthedark #resist #persist

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Reading this just broke me this morning. The abject cruelty and misdirected hatred this man witnessed, the callous disregard for this man’s life is, at time when so much is so awful, still shocks and infuriates me, as it should anyone with an ounce of humanity.

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Good reminder this morning at the train station. #resist #hopeinthedark

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A much needed reminder today. Thank you, Dr. King.

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

On this #MLKDay, every single Republican and enabler of the current chaos should keep Dr. King’s name out of their mouths. Spoiler alert: They won’t, cherry-picking quotations out of context to serve a white supremacist agenda that isn’t even bothering to hide in plain sight anymore.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Members of Congress should be openly stating right now that military action against Greenland will result in impeachment and removal of the President and the Vice President.

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

It's great to see something so good coming out of the wealth she helped Bezos amass.

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

They're not even trying to pretend a little that ICE is remotely serving its stated function, or that there will ever be a credible investigation of this murder.

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

@amandagorman.bsky.social once again giving voice to our grief and anguish and offering clarity, hope, and inspiration #poetry #hopeinthedark #inspiration #resist

For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.

If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power, The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we've been.
Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
& better angels of our nature.

What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice;
In the end, gorgeously,
Endures our enormity.

You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

There are many of us who will NEVER forget this attack on our government, our free and fair elections, and those law enforcement officers who put themselves in harm's way to prevent an outcome that could have been far worse than the violence and destruction we saw with our own eyes on that day.

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January 6, five years on: sustained effort by Trump to rewrite history

President and Republican allies have tried to make sure the deadly attack on the Capitol has been erased from memory

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

So many terrific #poems in Poetry is Not a Luxury: Poems for All Seasons, like this beautiful little heartbreaker by Sophie Klahr #poetry #nowreading #booksky

Tender
Sophie Klahr
I spend late morning weeping with the news:
a black bear with burnt paws is euthanized
along the latest wildfire's newest edge.
It was crawling on its forearms, seeking
a place to rest. I Google more; reports
leak out: the bear had bedded down behind
a house, below a pine, to lick its paws.
In hours before its end, officials named
It Tenderfoot, though some reports report
just Tender. Later, I will teach a class
where well discuss the lengths of lines in poems.
I'll say a sonnet is a little song
to hold a thing that otherwise cannot
be held: a lonely thing; a death; a bear.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

it's time to play America's favorite new game, 'what the fuck am I waking up to now'

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Great start, and then let’s keep it going well beyond December 1st.

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I love them! I would loved this even more if the folks smiling and clapping turned around and returned everything they had bought.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

We are now one of the few countries that will no longer honor World AIDS Day We join with Russia, Iran, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Libya, North Korea You know all the countries that hate humans rights www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

As a longtime community college professor and a state college grad, I co-sign on this idea!

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Every regional public university should be blasting this message in every possible medium.

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Only the now near-pathologically out-of-touch NY Times could turn a pedophile sex trafficker's emails into a sort of wistful love letter for a "protected realm [that] vanished into the mists of time."

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The schadenfreude is real, folks. 😏😎

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

This article is an excellent takedown of the ridiculously reductive “both sides” approach that has brought us to this terrible moment.

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JC R WHIT, Ph.D. @jc99whit.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing next to a woman in a dress at a party .

ALT: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is standing next to a woman in a dress at a party .

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

So on brand for this would-be emperor and his callous cronies.

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Steve Mark @stevesdropper.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

This "therapy," widely discredited by medical professionals, is literally killing queer kids. As Schraeder Rodriguez notes, "Queer youth who have been threatened with or subjected to conversion efforts are twice as likely to have suicidal ideation."

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