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🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽

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Poet, translator, 14 books, more coming, emeritus professor (Eugene Lang, The New School), lives in southern Mexico, baseball guy (LGFM), dual national 🇺🇸and 🇲🇽. Poet in Mexico Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/markstatman

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🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · Nov 18

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🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 2h

Oh boy. This is a tough one.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23h

I made a little tool to answer the trickiest question in American politics. pbump.net/who/

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🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 2h

The crazy is that one of them knew if this all leaked it might not go down well. As if this wouldn’t leak? Or maybe the badge of dishonor or shame is what matters most?

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 2h

Probably not. They’re pretty busy avoiding critical consciousness.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 8h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 2h

Can you call it a thought crime when there’s no thought at all? When the reverence required requires one be brain dead?

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 2h

It will be prominent on their resumes. It just screams: Look at me, look at me! I’m in your image!

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 2h

It’s even less than that. It’s support for a bunch of billionaires in Argentina and the US while the American people suffer.

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 2h

It’s an old red herring—claiming that people defending themselves are initiating violence.

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 2h

Nope, Charlie couldn’t believe it. Who could?

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 2h

Well, a friend in need is a friend in deed! Am I right? Am I right? Besides, those people will just use those health insurance funds on their health! What kind of fun is that?

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 8h

Working now on tomorrow’s #Poet in #Mexico! Gratitude for all the responses to last week’s post on the intersection between Dia de los Muertos, Yom Kippur, and resistance! To the #poems of Jordan Davis! The calavera #mariachis! Missed it? Now’s your chance! ¡Ándale!
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Get It Done: Remembrance as Absence, Presence, Resistance

And Poems by Jordan Davis

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🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 1d

Media is very very busy. Way too very very for reporting the news.

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 1d

Bernie being funny. Asking the cesspool of mind and soul his lemmings call dear leader to read. And the constitution at that! With all its words and concepts in a foreign language.

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M "you said what?" B @aintthatspecial.bsky.social · 1d

Show us how it's done, Chicago!

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

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Lady4Freedom @sassylassiein2024.bsky.social · 1d

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🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 1d

Dangerous villains all. Frightening. Mwah.

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽 @markstatman.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a kind of major crisis, Portland war zone moment, for sure.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

Administration officials pile lie upon lie upon lie. When a president and his aides are doing that, it’s no longer America.

When masked government thugs take potshots at a priest, it’s no longer America.

State-sponsored mayhem starts at the top. trib.al/kEhMBeh