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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 · 18h

This week’s #Poet in #Mexico moves in different directions. ¿Día de Muertos? Yom Kippur? That close. Abrázame mis amores.

The essence of it is this: On whose shoulders do you stand? Or, who are you because?

#Poetry from Jordan Davis! ¡Calaveras mariachi! ¡Baile!

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Get It Done: Remembrance as Absence, Presence, Resistance

And Poems by Jordan Davis

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 1d

#Pinks

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

Pathetic sucking up to the party of death. Embarrassing for the Times to point this swill.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for one thing you can do right now to help protect the right to vote? It will only take a few minutes, and you can share it with all of your friends. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-thing-yo...

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 1d

Jacob Soboroff, MSNBC senior national correspondent, reports from the Chicago suburbs about how Donald Trump's anti-immigrant enforcers are targeting even the most benign members of the community, ...

Neighbors push back as Trump's ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs

Jacob Soboroff, MSNBC senior national correspondent, reports from the Chicago suburbs about how Donald Trump's anti-immigrant enforcers are targeting even th...

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

Poor Bahamas.

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MidnightValkyrie @midnightvalkyrie.bsky.social · 1d

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Saved this from the Chattanooga subreddit and was just reminded by your latest video how much you like these. 🫶🏻 #FreeTheEpstein218

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

Yep.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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

Very sick people.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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

Of course he won’t say anything. That takes integrity and courage.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

October 7, 2025

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved.

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

Part 2 of the interview Leslie Tate did with me. Kind of cool. leslietate.com/2025/09/29/p...

Part 2 MARK STATMAN: MEXICO AND THE POETRY OF GRIEF AND CELEBRATION - Leslie Tate

Part 2 of my interview with Mark Statman looks closely at Mark’s Latin American poetic influences, his life in Mexico and ends with an extract from Volverse/Volver, his most recent published collectio...

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Jason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 2d

This is personalism. It's the Charles I scenario -- the king rules without the a legislature and simply taxes and spends in whatever way he feels like.

Impeach, remove, disqualify.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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

It can’t happen here? It’s happening. #Resist

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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 4d

ICE stormtroopers terrorize Mexican family with baby.

The same terrorists who tried to overthrow democracy on January 6th now wear uniforms and are state-sanctioned to terrorize you.

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

Morón.

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

Perjury is a big deal.

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

You expected anything else?

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 12d

What we might refer to as a "Kavanaugh Stop"

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14d

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.

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

It looks hell because that’s how the party of death wants it.

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

YES HE IS!

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 2d

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social

Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms

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Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.

Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

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