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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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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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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

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

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

I’ll put 20 on he’s a liar.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Nice recap

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A very sick man?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine that

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

Um, no.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

These layoffs are illegal and will be challenged in court. Keep resisting, Democrats.

Tweet from The Washington Post reads: “Breaking news: The Trump administration began laying off federal workers while the government is shuttered, fulfilling threats from President Trump to take advantage of the closure to shave off more parts of the federal workforce he dislikes.”
Below is an image of Donald Trump speaking. Caption: “Trump administration begins laying off federal workers…”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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

Of course she doesn’t answer. “Yes” says the truth and then the cesspool of mind and soul the party of death lemmings call dear leader will fire her. “No” is perjury. And as corrupt as she is, committing perjury is probably not on her bingo card.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 2d

Members of Congress pushed back Friday against the White House announcing layoffs of federal workers as part of the government shutdown.Why it matters: The blowback includes Sen. Susan Collins (R-M...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3d

And if you give a mouse a plane….

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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

In this week’s #Poet in #Mexico, the intersection of Yom Kippur and Día de Muertos, absence and presence leading to resistance and democracy. #Poetry from Jordan Davis and some dancing #calavera #mariachis.

You missed it? Here’s your second chance! ¡Ándale pues!

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Get It Done: Remembrance as Absence, Presence, Resistance

And Poems by Jordan Davis

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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April D Ryan @aprildryan.bsky.social · 4d

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Hours After Fraud Charge, Black Women Mobilize in Support of NY AG Tish James

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE- Hours after the retaliatory one-count indictment of bank fraud against New York Attorney General Tish James, Black women and civil rights groups rallied in support. Leaders, in...

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 3d

Republicans are pushing debunked anti-abortion propaganda as an excuse to rip mifepristone off the shelves and block women from getting abortion care.

100+ studies prove mifepristone is safe and effective.

SPEAK UP, we can't let them get away with this.

Nearly All GOP Senators Urge the FDA to Restrict Abortion Pills

The senators are asking the FDA to suspend its approval of generic mifepristone, which would heavily restrict access to abortion pills nationwide.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 3d

Historians sometimes say that when societies are descending into fascism, it can be hard for the people to notice it in real time. Well, historians of the future, I’m here to tell you: We are noticing. Millions of us are noticing. And we are horrified and enraged.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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