Israel policy looms large over...
“There’s🚨something disturbingly surreal that after launching a regime change war in the Middle East,🚨the president only speaks to the nation through hastily edited video statements released on state-run media platforms.”
- D Pfeiffer
“Yes,🚨something seems wrong, & no US officials on Sunday shows.”
-L Rozen
Ryan Goodman🚨on #Congress’ role & Gorsuch’s op⬇️
#Fascism #Surreptitious #TrumpRegime #Corruption #Netanyahu #War #Iran #MBS #Deaths #DOD #Hegseth #WarPowersAct #Protest #NoKings #USPol
#TimeTravelingGhost EP 5 Part 67: Late Jurassic Era: Switzerland
#Wss366 Mercurial #MastoPrompt Surreptitious #TimeTravelAuthors 8/1. Anything: #TimeParadox?
Our footsteps rang hollow in the tunnel, which curved slightly to the right. After a hundred meters, the passageway branched into three tunnels: up, down, and straight ahead.
"Which way?" I asked in a low voice to avoid echoes.
“Let’s try forward,” Emily said, her tone matching mine. “It looks safest. The dust is undisturbed. If we learn nothing, we can always come back.”
That made sense. To be even safer, I tried manifesting a marking pen. When that failed, I attempted to manifest a piece of chalk. I’d pictured a nice, colorful piece of sidewalk chalk, but I received a rough, chalky stone. It would serve my purpose, though, so I made a #surreptitious mark to show which way we’d come.
[Continued in next post]
The summer rain squall
after a hot weather day
revealed excitement
#dailyhaikuprompt
#flurry
#MastoPrompt
#surreptitious
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#SmallPoems
#writing
#photography
@dailyhaikuprompt
@stevencudahy
Summer Rain Shower - Aobram's sister
With a #surreptitious glance at the innkeeper, the rogue bowed to the silk-clad youth. "New in town, sir? If you need a guide, just say."
"Thank you. But I'm only here briefly, making sure Pa's well looked after."
"He'll be glad of your care." The rogue nodded approvingly. He'd surely spend—
A burly guard entered and stamped to a halt. "Reporting for duty, sir!"
"To me?" the inkeeper asked.
The boy grinned. "Happy Birthday, Pa."
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Elaina had been observing the man who had recently been promoted to the role of her supervisor for a long while. She had hoped that the owners would make a different choice but Bart was outwardly hearty and friendly, especially with the owners, and her hopes had never been high in that regard. But she had also been tracking his surreptitious actions and collecting evidence of his petty thefts which added up to a substantial amount of goods and money over the years. She also had also collected evidence of his not so petty racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. He was, at heart, a perfect storm of male privilege and oh-so-white to boot.
She had copies of her evidence stashed in a few different places when she requested a meeting with him. After enduring his hearty greeting and faux friendly smile, she sat across from him and silently handed him a file with copies of her evidence. She watched as he opened it and his smile slipped slowly from his face. He turned pale and then snarled at her. “What do you want, you mendacious little …”
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#CreativeWriting #WritingChallenge #MastoPrompt #Challenge #Poem #Poetry #Haiku
#Environment #Environmental #Pollution #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateDenier #ClimateDeniers #ClimateCrisis #DontLookUp #GreenPoetry
Since the age of steam
Carbon molecules gathered
Surreptitously
Mr. Butters winks
at least i think that he did
so surreptitious
#Haiku #Poetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
#MastoPrompt #Surreptitious
@stevencudahy
The #MastoPrompt for Sunday 8 February 2026 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text if you’re able to.
#Writing #SmallPoems #Poetry #Fiction #MicroFiction #SmallStories
A recent #Teneo fundraising email laid out how the group can bring its members' influence together in service of a cause.
To “confront” what he dubbed “woke capitalism,” Jonathan #Bunch, a longtime Leo deputy and now Teneo board member, wrote that the group had brought together a coalition of Teneans “working with (or serving as) state #attorneys #general, state #financial #officers, state #legislators, #journalists, media #executives and best-in-class public affairs #professionals” to launch investigations, hold hearings, pull state investment funds and publish op-eds and news stories in response to so-called environmental, social and governance, or ESG, policies at the corporate level.
“Our members were in the rooms where it happened,” Bunch wrote.
Another project underway, #Baehr explained in a 2020 presentation, was a “#surreptitious and #exciting” effort to map key institutions in major cities — private #schools, #countryclubs, #newspapers, #Rotary and so on — and find ways to get Teneo members inside those institutions and help members connect with each other.
The initiative has begun by mapping Atlanta and several cities in Texas