Malcolm Farley

Many thanks to @simmonsbuntin.bsky.social & the entire @terrainorg.bsky.social team for helping to amplify the wonderful sonnets of #French poet Robert Marteau. #poesie #Charente #Poitou #laviequotidienne #méditation @bdralyuk.bsky.social @deanbrowne.bsky.social @austinratner.bsky.social

English Poet John Milton by Michael Rysbrack (Flemish, 1684-1770, active Great Britain) c. 1737, terracotta. #blindpoet #epic #paradiselost #blankverse #heroic From the Huntington Garden and Library. @bdralyuk.bsky.social

What is the U.S. national #debt today? $40,463,763,428,726! That's $118,557 for every single person in #America.

The USDA memo that was circulated to the governors of gray wolf and Mexican gray wolf states on October 12 is, frankly, a load of crap. The letters urge the governors and state agencies to lethally remove wolves to protect cows - the same wolf-scapegoating BS we've heard for years. (1/2)

It's starting. Anyone who thinks the demented sociopath, who incited a violent attack on the Capitol, won't try to subvert our mid-term elections is living in Lala Land. #elections #midterms #subversion #dictatorship

Culture war bullshit vs. corruption & oligarchy. #transphobia vs. #fascism... take your pick.

Early voting starts TODAY, Oct. 19 in 34 counties in Florida! Check the list to see if your county is on it, grab your people and go vote early. Don’t see your county? Visit AngieNixon.com/vote to find your early voting dates & site. #AngieForFlorida

"Justice & Divine Vengeance pursuing Crime," a picture for our moment. Pierre-Paul Prudhon (1804-1808). #justice #divinity #crime #iniquity #restoration @bdralyuk.bsky.social @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social

We went from sanctioning Russian oil to buying it in three weeks. Instead of ending his disastrous war in Iran, Trump is now funding Russia's war in Ukraine. We used to hold dictators and autocrats accountable. Now our president negotiated a deal to fund Putin's unjust war.

Proud to have the support of Wayne County Executive Warren Evans. I support investing in local law enforcement, prosecuting violent criminals, and I spent my career in public health helping law enforcement make communities safer.

Them! (1954) #ants #exterminators #extermination #signsofthetimes

This is a regime that glorifies violence and brutality, because their vision of society is one of dominance rather than belonging. And that's the vision of cowards.

Just arrived today in the post. Mary Jo Salter's latest book, "Cameo Appearance." "Vaccine" offers a particularly topical (pun intended) sting. Brilliant cover photograph offers a visual analog for the poems within. @aaknopf.bsky.social

We stand with local immigrant rights leaders demanding Oscar Bergal's release, a full independent investigation, and immediate release of the body camera footage. And we join them in urging the public not to shop at Target until they stop letting DHS use their parking lot as staging sites for ICE!

On today's moody mood board. #ghoul #creepy #kitsch #Halloween #merch #unholychild

TONIGHT: The No Kings coalition is hosting a nationwide election protection training. Join us to level up your election defense skills and discuss the role of sustained mobilization and rapid response work in our movement.

Contact sheet by Peter Hujar. From the exhibit—"Hujar: Contact"—at the The Morgan Library in NYC through October 25, 2026. #hujar #photography #leather #gay #trailblazer

When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.

Early voting is one of our most important tools for defeating election sabotage. Make your plan and spread the word.

Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.

This is a "life mask" of George Washington’s face, made by Jean-Antoine Houdon in 1785 at Mount Vernon. On exhibit at the Morgan Library in #NYC. He may have used it while sculpting a marble statue of Washington for the Virginia State Capitol. #Presidents #Founders #mask #sculpture #Houdon

If the #Democrats don't start shouting—"And what about Don Jr.'s Junkanoo headdress?"— they'll be missing a (literally) golden opportunity to bedevil & discredit the Trumps. #icky #PutinKremlin #whereallroadslead @democrats.org @occupydemocrats.bsky.social @propublica.org bit.ly/4doUIJS

Finally, someone has had the guts to stand up to President Baby Fart... right to his face. Fancy law firms, Ivy League Universities, oligarchs, and foreign princelings bend the knee, but Representative Beatty refuses to bow. #NoKings #DemocracyInAction #Trump

In memoriam for one of the most brilliant and dedicated teachers I ever had: #poet, #feminist, #intellectual, and #academic Rachel Blau DuPlessis. May her memory be a blessing.

Mike Rogers left his home in Florida to try to get to Michigan and somehow ended up in Dallas...let's help him out!

For the 25th Anniversary of 9/11. What I remember. #September11 #twintowers #fallen @bdralyuk.bsky.social @stellahayes.bsky.social

Global sea surface temperature (SST) departures for August 2026. It was the warmest August, and any month, SST on record. It was also the first time that any month had a global average SST over 19.0C. 🔥🔥🔥

Sweet autumn clematis is an invasive vine. It grows aggressively each summer & seeds itself everywhere. But if you prune it carefully & cull the many seedlings each spring, it rewards you with #September blossoming & an intoxicating, airborne opium. Honey bees, in particular, love it. #goodandbad

If John Fetterman hates being a senator so much he can always—and should—make his way to the nearest exit door. He is a public servant, not an indentured one. Bye!

#AI #humanish #humanoid #creepy #creeping #icky #GreatReplacementReality

"First Draft: 🍁 It’s a Huge Scandal That Trump Is Plunging Us Into ‘War’ With Canada" The president has opened up another front in his economic hellscape and it should be an all-consuming scandal that the GOP lets him do it.

The key, the lock, the shadow, the walnut armoire. #details #abstractions #keys #locks

The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.

The caterpillar of a monarch on one of the marsh milkweeds in our garden this August. If she survives, pupates, hatches, and makes it to Mexico, she may overwinter there, fly north to the Gulf Coast next spring, mate, lay eggs & launch the next generation of monarchs in 2027. #butterfly #miracle

Trump Used Own Staff as Decoy During Iranian Assassination Threat Donald Trump let the press pool and some of his staff think he was on Air Force One, while really he had been smuggled in a catering cart onto a different plane.

When it comes to your children’s health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ immunization recommendations have not changed.

Trump says his occupation of DC is about "law and order" but we know it's about fear and control. DC belongs to the people who live there, not this wannabe dictator. At the one-year mark of Trump's occupation, we are in steadfast solidarity with the movement for a #FreeDC.

Irish novelist Edna O'Brien in her London home, 1971. Photograph by Irish photographer John Minihan. #genius #writers #Irish #trailblazer #portrait

Trump's pea-brained decision to go to war with #Iran has truly fucked everyone, most significantly himself. Unbelievable incompetence and cruelty, mixed with a toxic ignorance of the facts on the ground (and in the water). We're now stuck in a new Mar-a-Swampo of Trump's own making. #war #fuckup

"...Admit impediment..." With apologies to Bill Shakesp. #rock vs. #hardplace #stones #boulders #blocks #obstacles #hunkeringdown #refusingtomove

Second of two poems in Issue 71 of The Tampa Review. (From my m.s., "Wissahickon," now knocking on the doors of some publishers.) Many thanks to TR poetry editors: Paul Corrigan & Jodi Johnson. @bdralyuk.bsky.social @deanbrowne.bsky.social @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social @macdowell1907.bsky.social

A gorgeous purple bromeliad from the tropical botanical garden in Naples, #Florida. Photo taken this past March. #tropicals #bromeliads #gardens #flowers

Making fun of Taco always hilarious 🤣😂🤣😂 #belgium #fifa

#Trump continues his corrupt sale of Presidential pardons and his assault on our environment in a joint poisoning of our air and our body politic. #pardons #pollution @joncooper-us.bsky.social @karenzraick.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/u...

I'm sorry Martha Stewart, but "Busy-Day Dump Cake" is NOT a good moniker for this otherwise delicious-looking confection. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..." #MissNamed #MissStake #MissInformation #MissNomer

A purple-blossomed, silver vase plant aka Aechmea fasciata, which also comes in green-leafed varieties, as well as ones with cream, pink, and red flowers. A bromeliad. Taken this past March at the Naples Botanical Garden in Naples, Florida. #Florida #tropicals #Naples #gardens

We would recommend getting an ICE whistle and staying connected to local alert networks as we continue to receive reports of raging enforcement activity affecting neighborhoods. Please do what you can to protect your loved ones and your community! ✊💚