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Enjoy this YouTube video from 4/27/25 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Nepotism from the Bad Daddy”, “Overwhelm the Masses on Good Faith”,“Oligarchy Wielding Power”, & “Once Free, Once Slave-Supporting” from the upcoming cc&d book “The Anniversary in this Town” at Prost Alehouse during the 2025 Poetry Bomb (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this YouTube video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix FZ300 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S24 camera. #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetrybomb

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 32nd anniversary v358 6/25 cc&d issue/book “The Anniversary in this Town” book poems “Oligarchy Wielding Power” (+ showing the 2025 Poetry Bomb image) & “Overwhelm the Masses on Good Faith”, then she read John F. McMullen’s essay “Museums Should Tell the Truth – Not Just the Comfortable Parts” (that was published in The Examiner News 4/7/25) to start her “Poetic License 6/1/25 Global Open Mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S24 camera. #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Oligarchy Wielding                        Power Janet Kuypers 1/20/25 “Protesting is all we can do,” I’ve heard too many complain when the populist oligarchy came into power today             (I can’t believe I put those             two words together, when             ‘populism’ is a push against             the elite for all the ‘people’,             and ‘oligarchy’ describes a             country led by a select few) But how is protesting helping when people’s news sources have become social media, led by the same giants who funneled millions to our now populist leader so that they could have what they want. Maybe it’s those tech kings we should be afraid of, when they wield so much power... But days before this populist came to power in the once- freest country in the world, a study was released from the Netherlands showing that yes, social media may be the people’s news now, but the biggest distorter of the news on social media is right-wing populists.* So, when everyone chooses what news they want to hear, reason and logic be damned, what good to protests do when everyone has already closed their minds and ears.     * https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/ uva/en/news/news/2025/01/radical-right- populists-deliberately-undermining-democracy- with-misinformation.html?cb; https://www.theguardian.com/world/ 2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news- misinformation-left-study

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