Marcus

@marcusjmerritt.com

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I mostly post drawings and photography by me.

Often Hamtramck/Detroit

Abolish police

Art website: marcusjmerritt.com

Art store: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com

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a white homeless man we gave free cups of coffee to gave us the racist stink eye when finding out black folks owned the coffeeshop... i was like, "really, man?"

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Bronx: Wave Hill, a 28-acre garden/park on the Hudson in Riverdale Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, where Poe lived when he briefly lived in the Bronx (also worth visiting the Highbridge where he walked over into Manhattan to see his publisher on 42nd St)

Let's have some fun on Bluesky tonight! Tell me where you live and one thing everyone should do in your city! #flythefriendlysky

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First Born and his partner made it safely to Heathrow and are on the plane to Norwich for her solo show. I absolutely love her work.

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Morgan’s Ash Digital painting

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Detroit, Michigan, June 2024

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It is exhausting. You always have to go out your way to give people grace and room to learn and grow. Just to get gas lit and watch people either avert their eyes from the issues we face or straight up to pretend they have no basic knowledge of Black history and dynamics.

the most insidious part of white supremacy is the constant gaslighting

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"Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event....In fact, Trump's lead has narrowed slightly since an earlier poll taken July 12-14" lol. lmao www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

Surprise: Trump did not get polling boost after shootingwww.rawstory.com Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.In the national Morning Consul...

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Meteor passed over Statue of Liberty Tuesday, disintegrating high above Midtown: NASA

Meteor passed over NYC, Statue of Liberty Tuesday: NASAwww.nbcnewyork.com A number of tri-state area residents reported feeling a shaking or hearing a loud boom Tuesday morning leading to quite the mystery. NASA is estimating a meteor passed through the area around the same...

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prime day is a great day to support local, indie, and not-shitty businesses imo. Not to toot my own horn but I think I myself fit the bill. www.etsy.com/shop/panands...

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Everyone seeing this post, pay attention please ❤️‍🩹🚨🚨 we need 190 £ to we can evacuate my injured sister , repost and donate and be one of causes of my sister recovery. U can do it . 🫶 gofund.me/78b853d3

Help Walaa, who is paraplegic, and family in Gaza, organised by Amanda Graygofund.me Hi, I am Amanda and I am a Brit who has become friends with a family and… Amanda Gray needs your support for Help Walaa, who is paraplegic, and family in Gaza

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So a cop from out of town killed a homeless black man. That isn't murder?

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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Per multiple sources they are tearing down that building at DABLS African Bead Museum today.

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one of the reasons why it's hard to explain anti-blackness to non-black people when you feel it is because many black people have had the experience of trying to point out what feels like very obvious racism to their white peers and then were immediately told that it wasn't racism

Detroit, Michigan, June 2024

This print is for sale here—along with quite a few other prints of my Power Lines Drawings marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

@marcusjmerritt.com love this. Love. Thank you!

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@marcusjmerritt.com love this. Love. Thank you!

Yeah! Thanks for sharing!

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In honor of this seriously bullshit heat, I translated a favorite passage from Chapter 27 of the late-Ming novel Jin Ping Mei, which is mostly remembered for other things: "There are in this world three sorts of people who fear the heat, and three who do not." www.burninghou.se/p/the-heat

The Heatwww.burninghou.se Critical support for Comrade The Scoffing Scholar of Lanling

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Shopping Centre on Highway 7 in Perth, Ontario. As I recall, when there was still Greyhound Bus service in Ontario, the dog stopped here. While the buses are long gone, payphones often linger at their former stops. (Crown Graphic, 135mm f4.7 Schneider Xenar, Kodak TXP320)

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It’s finally here! For years, @roseveleth.com has been working on an epic series about elite runners who’ve been told they can no longer race as women, because of their biology. TESTED is their story, & the story of sport’s history of dubious sex testing. Ep 1 is now online! link.chtbl.com/Rose_

Testedlink.chtbl.com <p>Who gets to compete?&nbsp;Since the beginning of women’s sports, there has been a struggle over who qualifies for the women’s category. Tested follows the unfolding story of elite female ...

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It's by the old Highland Park water reservoir maps.app.goo.gl/htpBatWj9eoD...

42°24'37.3"N 83°04'41.2"Wmaps.app.goo.gl

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From an old poem back when I was writing poems like this, I've always really liked how these lines came together: "It is not darkness, it’s violence, that surrounds us, and state violence / with its face turned away seems to function as a transparent medium" (blank image for spillover alt text)

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Detroit, Michigan, January 2024

One of my favorite Onion jokes was just a 1940s headline from that Our Dumb Century book, something like: "Frenchman Declares, Hell Is Other Frenchmen"

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brent spiner in independence day 🎨 #artsky

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print ad, excerpt (1984) archive.org/details/the-...

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pharaoh's tomb, game over screen, bbc micro (1983) www.mobygames.com/game/68869/p...

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LOL pretty much

Detroit, Michigan, January 2024