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Susan Antolin

@susanantolin.bsky.social
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Poet. Editor. Mother. Artichoke Season (2009), The Years That Went Missing (2020). Editor: Acorn (acornhaiku.com). Co-editor: The San Francisco Haiku Anthology: Volume Two (2024). Publisher: Spare Poems Press. she/her

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Acorn: a Journal of Contemporary Haiku @acornhaiku.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The fall issue of Acorn is on the way to subscribers. Poets in 20 countries contributed to this issue! Sample poems are posted as well. Enjoy! www.acornhaiku.com/sample-poems
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Sample Poems | Acorn Haiku
A selection of quality haiku from the pages of Acorn.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 08/06/2026
BREAKING: A 43-year-old has died in ICE custody, marking the 19th death in immigration detention this year and at a pace on track to exceed last year’s deaths in detention.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We’re all experiencing Budapest jealousy.
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Laurie Ulster @floobish.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

Choose your leaders

with wisdom and forethought.

To be led by a coward

is to be controlled

by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool


is to be led

by the opportunists

who control the fool.

To be led by a thief

is to offer up

your most precious treasures

to be stolen.
To be led by a liar


is to ask

to be told lies.

To be led by a tyrant

is to sell yourself

and those you love

into slavery.
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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Over 8 billion reasons to ditch fossil fuels in one photo.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11/04/2026
May Day will be a nationwide day of economic disruption, as we flex our collective power to demand an end to the oligarch-enabled Trump regime. The central action will be to engage in little-to-no economic activity on May 1 — that means no work, no school, and no shopping: maydaystrong.org
SAVE THE DATE
MAY DAY 2026
A nationwide day of collective action
Friday, May 1, 2026
WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES
MAYDAYSTRONG.ORG
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Sickeningly evil. Donald Trump must be impeached.  When will it be enough for my Republican colleagues to grow spines and remove him from office?
Trump truth social post: A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!
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Congresswoman Nikema Williams @repnikema.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.
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The Progress Network @progressntwrk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🇱🇺Luxembourg has enshrined abortion rights in its constitution, the second country, after France, to do so.
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Luxembourg becomes second country worldwide to enshrine abortion rights in constitution
Large majority in parliament backs amendment to Luxembourg’s highest law, with ‘freedom’ to have an abortion added to constitution
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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
A poem for today. From Kevin Young's Book of Hours: bookshop.org/a/862/9780375711886 #poem #booksky #writing
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tinywords.com @tinywords.com · 02/04/2026
Taking the only thing she could to her grave family secrets   -Sylvia Forges-Ryan tinywords.com/2026/04/02/49701
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Convicted Felon Donald Trump attending today’s birthright citizenship arguments at SCOTUS is such a transparent attempt to intimidate the justices. But it just makes him look WEAK and PATHETIC. Trump reeks of desperation.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 25/03/2026
The SAVE America Act is a disaster for democracy and I'm not going let it get passed into law. Are we seriously going to ask rural seniors to buy a $165 passport and drive miles and miles to register to vote in person?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Senator Chris Murphy, "The Strait of Hormuz was open before the war began" "We are now seeking to solve a problem that we created" "This is insanity"
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Indivisible Hawai’i Statewide Network @indivisiblehawaii.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Born in the streets. Shouted by millions. Carried on posters and chants. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Dictators. This isn't a slogan. It's a promise. And March 28 is when we deliver. #NoKings2026 social.demcast.com/s/cGaWdYVD
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Susan Antolin @susanantolin.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The corruption is so brazen it’s almost comical.
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Susan Antolin @susanantolin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Bay Area friends! I'll be in conversation with poet Crystal Simone Smith on Wednesday, March 25 at 7 p.m. at City Lights Books in San Francisco about her new book, Common Sense (1776) Addressed to Today's Citizens of America: An Erasure. Join us! citylights.com/events/cryst...
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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"Like any good lie, an envelope strives to conceal sensitive language folded in thirds inside." From "Hollow Body" by Ted Mathys
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Ted Mathys: “Hollow Body”
A poem by Ted Mathys: “The hard-shell case for a hollow body / takes the shape of the guitar.”
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/03/2026
California doesn’t miss 💥 Sending the forwarding address.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
When Trump came to power, he ripped up the peace deal that Obama had made, and used the uncertainty he created as an excuse to bomb Iran, insisting he had ended the problem he had created once and for all, except now he's bombing them again to solve the problem he created and previously solved?
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Susan Antolin @susanantolin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Oh, I would be all in on an AOC presidential run! With all the country has lost with the current administration, this is not the time to go back to the way things were. It’s time to truly move forward with a new vision for our democracy.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Starbucks Workers United baristas are escalating their fight for a fair contract. I urge you to keep boycotting Starbucks — and delete its app from your phone. Workers are fed up with low pay, chaotic scheduling, understaffing, and illegal union busting. Let's keep fighting corporate greed.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Moulton: This is state-sponsored terror. This is what you would expect to see in North Korea or Iran or the old Soviet Union. We’ve got to crack down on the government before they crack down on the American people.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/02/2026
Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The paid out of state agitators are literally the ICE agents.
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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The unimaginable evil of this. No punishment will suffice. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. ...
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The Verge @theverge.com · 27/01/2026
"I didn’t realize, in the hours before his name was released to the public, that the man millions of people had seen lying facedown on the pavement from multiple angles of eyewitness video was my childhood best friend." Read more from @kristenradtke.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86856...
Verge headline: I grew up with Alex Pretti
by Kristen Radtke

Photo: An old picture of a boy and a girl at a birthday party
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's time for a truly massive general strike. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Alexa Philippou @alexaphilippou.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon. Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social
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MaggieMay @sleeplesscrone.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I appreciate those out there protesting at great risk to their lives however i think the nation needs to grind this economy to a dead stop. It's something everyone can do safely. No spending on ANYTHING but absolute necessities. I understand some shut ins can not do this but very many of us can.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
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Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa ❌👑 @indivisresistcoco.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We joined an action at the Hilton in Walnut Creek to stand in solidarity with Minnesota. We see your pain and we see your courage as you stand up to this terrorist regime. Hilton: stop housing ICE agents! Did you protest at a Hilton hotel today? Photo credit: ProBonoPhoto.org/Sammy Braxton-Haney
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23/01/2026
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/01/2026
state-sponsored child trafficking
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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Statement on Trump’s military actions in Venezuela.
The U.S. attack on Venezuela is illegal. Congress never authorized this use of military force. I will vote to stop it.

This is insane. Heath care costs and food prices are surging. Trump’s response is we’re going to run another country. Batshit crazy.
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Susan Antolin @susanantolin.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Protest sign that reads “no war for oil” held at an outdoor protest
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Susan Antolin @susanantolin.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Okay, I’m sold! I have to do this trip!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you. Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide. So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.
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Catacombs Gourdeiro🎃 @topmarx.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.
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Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa ❌👑 @indivisresistcoco.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"When we stand up, we don't stand alone." -Senator Cory Booker. Stand up with millions on October 18th to say enough is enough. Find your closest event at nokings.org. Sign up for Walnut Creek at the link on our website. #nokings #indivisible #stopthecuts #mayday #trumpshutdown #yeson50
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