James Penha
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Poet. Editor of @NewVerseNews.bsky.social at http://newversenews.blogspot.com and https://thenewversenews.substack.com . Expat New Yorker living in Bali. he/him 🌈 💙 Story collection—Queer As Folk Tales—out now https://a.co/d/9GkGz81. https://jamespenha.com
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· Oct 3
Queer as Folk Tales
Amazon.com: Queer as Folk Tales eBook : Penha, James: Kindle Store
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The e-book of my collection Queer as Folk Tales where I gather ancient myths and legends and reimagine them with queer lovers at their heart is now published. Characters and narratives even straight people can enjoy ;-) a.co/d/9GkGz81 See the replies for other vendors.
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NVN Thursday at Substack: Morrow Dowdle’s “Thanksgiving” thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-thursd...
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NVN Thursday: THANKSGIVING
by Morrow Dowdle
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November 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
NVN Thursday at Substack: Morrow Dowdle’s “Thanksgiving” thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-thursd...
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@newversenews.bsky.social celebrates “Thanksgiving” with Morrow Dowdle’s #poem. newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/11/than...
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THANKSGIVING
The New Verse News presents politically progressive poetry on current events and topical issues.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:11 AM
@newversenews.bsky.social celebrates “Thanksgiving” with Morrow Dowdle’s #poem. newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/11/than...
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This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Says Noem Made Final Decision on El Salvador Removals in Breach of Court Order
Read more here.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is a really big story that should not be missed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if lunatic fascist Karoline Leavitt had something to do with her 11-year old nephew’s mother getting detained by ICE Gestapo right before Thanksgiving as a favor to her brother in order to get the mother deported to Brazil. Maybe that’s just me.
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if lunatic fascist Karoline Leavitt had something to do with her 11-year old nephew’s mother getting detained by ICE Gestapo right before Thanksgiving as a favor to her brother in order to get the mother deported to Brazil. Maybe that’s just me.
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An international clinical trial has found that participants who received injections of tezepelumab, a human monoclonal antibody, once every four weeks were able to reduce or even stop taking steroid medications for severe asthma entirely with no ill effects.
This is why science matters.
This is why science matters.
November 27, 2025 at 12:43 AM
An international clinical trial has found that participants who received injections of tezepelumab, a human monoclonal antibody, once every four weeks were able to reduce or even stop taking steroid medications for severe asthma entirely with no ill effects.
This is why science matters.
This is why science matters.
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I’ve decided to go on offense.
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I’ve decided to go on offense.
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When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
When the Wampanoag first fed the Pilgrims
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
they didn't realize
they'd just invented Socialism
for undocumented refugee immigrants.
Happy Thanksgiving.
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Another infant has died of whooping cough in Kentucky, becoming the third child to die of the illness in the last 12 months across the state.
The first whooping cough deaths in the state since 2018.
RFKJr. and this rogue administration are directly responsible.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
The first whooping cough deaths in the state since 2018.
RFKJr. and this rogue administration are directly responsible.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Third Kentucky infant dies from whooping cough as statewide cases surge
A third Kentucky infant has died from whooping cough in the last 12 months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health said Monday.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Another infant has died of whooping cough in Kentucky, becoming the third child to die of the illness in the last 12 months across the state.
The first whooping cough deaths in the state since 2018.
RFKJr. and this rogue administration are directly responsible.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
The first whooping cough deaths in the state since 2018.
RFKJr. and this rogue administration are directly responsible.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Just fixing this headline real quick...
NBC: After Spate of Incidents in Which Donald Trump Tried to Get His Political Enemies Murdered, Southern Republican Lawyer Declines to Pursue Prosecution of His Party Leader—Trump—In the Most Serious Criminal Case Any President Has Faced Since the Civil War
NBC: After Spate of Incidents in Which Donald Trump Tried to Get His Political Enemies Murdered, Southern Republican Lawyer Declines to Pursue Prosecution of His Party Leader—Trump—In the Most Serious Criminal Case Any President Has Faced Since the Civil War
Georgia prosecutor who took over 2020 election interference case drops charges against Trump and others
Pete Skandalakis, who took over the case after Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was disqualified, said the case was "without precedent."
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November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Just fixing this headline real quick...
NBC: After Spate of Incidents in Which Donald Trump Tried to Get His Political Enemies Murdered, Southern Republican Lawyer Declines to Pursue Prosecution of His Party Leader—Trump—In the Most Serious Criminal Case Any President Has Faced Since the Civil War
NBC: After Spate of Incidents in Which Donald Trump Tried to Get His Political Enemies Murdered, Southern Republican Lawyer Declines to Pursue Prosecution of His Party Leader—Trump—In the Most Serious Criminal Case Any President Has Faced Since the Civil War
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Someone needs to set up a camera so we'll know when Pete Hegseth orders this plaque removed from West Point.
Here’s the plaque at West Point with the relevant text highlighted
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Someone needs to set up a camera so we'll know when Pete Hegseth orders this plaque removed from West Point.
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It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.
Thanks to DJ Tyrer for hosting my haiku today at 575haikujournal.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/h...
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Thanks to DJ Tyrer for hosting my haiku today at 575haikujournal.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/h...
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NVN Wednesday at Substack: #newspoems “The Book of Quiet Girls Who Burn” by Linda K. Sienkiewicz and “The Girl; A Diamond” by Jennifer Schneider thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-wednes...
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NVN Wednesday: Girls
“The Book of Quiet Girls Who Burn” by Linda K. Sienkiewicz and “The Girl; A Diamond” by Jennifer Schneider
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November 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
NVN Wednesday at Substack: #newspoems “The Book of Quiet Girls Who Burn” by Linda K. Sienkiewicz and “The Girl; A Diamond” by Jennifer Schneider thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-wednes...
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@newversenews.bsky.social #poems “The Book of Quiet Girls Who Burn” by Linda K. Sienkiewicz and “The Girl; A Diamond” by Jennifer Schneider bit.ly/39DQ3WM
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November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
@newversenews.bsky.social #poems “The Book of Quiet Girls Who Burn” by Linda K. Sienkiewicz and “The Girl; A Diamond” by Jennifer Schneider bit.ly/39DQ3WM
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
“The terrible various” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“The terrible various”
“This was the nature / of her humor.”
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November 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
“The terrible various” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago
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November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Swalwell Files Suit Against Housing Official, Claiming Privacy Law Violations www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Swalwell Files Suit Against Housing Official, Claiming Privacy Law Violations
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November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Swalwell Files Suit Against Housing Official, Claiming Privacy Law Violations www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸
November 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸
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We should all be calling Trump "The dark triad"
Lynne Barnes reacts in her @newversenews.bsky.social #poem to the destruction of “USAID” by the Dark Triad now in power in the U.S. newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/11/usai...
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USAID
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November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
We should all be calling Trump "The dark triad"
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NVN Tuesday at Substack: Lynne Barnes’ #newspoem “USAID” thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-tuesda...
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NVN Tuesday: USAID
by Lynne Barnes
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November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
NVN Tuesday at Substack: Lynne Barnes’ #newspoem “USAID” thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-tuesda...
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STOP GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING FOR CASH
STOP TORTURE
STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS
STOP TORTURE
STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
STOP GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING FOR CASH
STOP TORTURE
STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS
STOP TORTURE
STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS
Lynne Barnes reacts in her @newversenews.bsky.social #poem to the destruction of “USAID” by the Dark Triad now in power in the U.S. newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/11/usai...
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USAID
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November 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Lynne Barnes reacts in her @newversenews.bsky.social #poem to the destruction of “USAID” by the Dark Triad now in power in the U.S. newversenews.blogspot.com/2025/11/usai...
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1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families.
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇
For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇