🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽

@markstatman.bsky.social

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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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

"Broken old man" is tight.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Ossoff: Now remember Trump promised to lower prices on day one. But last week, the broken old man threw a two-day party in Texas while it costs more than ever to fill up your truck, to stock your fridge, and to power your home.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Ossoff points out that thanks to the big beautiful bill that Mike Collins voted for, maternity units in Collins's own district are closing and says, "thanks to Mike Collins, delivering mothers Mike Collins represents have to drive an honor in labor to get to a labor and delivery unit"

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Team Talarico
@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

Ken Paxton: “When somebody tells me a young couple cannot afford a home... I hear you.” (Ken Paxton owns 15 homes and has been in office for 23 years. Since taking office, his net worth has increased by up to $12,000,000.00.)

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Team Talarico
@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social

Journalist reveals documents exposing Ken Paxton for being bankrolled by data center companies: “All of the highlighted names are from companies or company executives who are invested or involved in data centers or in artificial intelligence, which requires data centers to run.”

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

In 2011, Wisconsin education officials suggested subjecting publicly funded private schools to the same performance standards that are applied to public schools. Fifteen years later, those types of accountability measures still do not exist.

propublica.orgAt “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...

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Democracy Now!
@democracynow.org

A protest camp in the border town of Lochiel, Arizona, is seeking to stop federal contractors from building another portion of Trump’s border wall. At the center of the camp is a 200-year-old cottonwood known as a “grandmother” tree, with activists sitting in the tree to stop its destruction.

democracynow.orgActivist Tree-Sit in Ancient Cottonwood Continues Against Border Wall Construction in ArizonaA protest camp in the small border town of Lochiel, Arizona, is seeking to stop federal contractors from building another portion of President Trump’s border barrier with Mexico. At the center of the ...

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez
@ramirez.house.gov

Absolutely despicable! 152 ICE and CBP agents have been accused, charged or convicted of physical or sexual abuse. These agents aren’t rogue. No extra trainings and no amount of reforms will protect us from DHS and its agents.

The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social

DHS repeatedly missed signs of violent behavior in agents they hired and promoted—with some using their authority to sexually assault women and children.

thedailybeast.comICE Goons Busted Using Badges to Sexually Abuse VictimsShocking new report logged 36 cases in 2025 and 2026 amid evidence DHS repeatedly missed warning signs.

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Molly Jong-Fast
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social

The Jaffe family, known for its real estate holdings and aviation business based in Texas, appears in two batches of Epstein documents released by the Department of Justice: once for trying to buy Epstein’s infamous plane, and once for reportedly associating — according to an anonymous tipster

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

They're named in the Epstein files — and donated to Ken Paxton’s campaign: At least one member of a Texas family whose business once considered buying Jeffrey Epstein's notorious plane — "The Lolita Express" — donated thousands of dollars to support Ken Paxton's Senate campaign earlier this year.

ms.nowThey’re named in the Epstein files — and they donated to Ken Paxton’s campaignThis family’s aviation company was once in talks to buy Epstein’s plane, and one family member was the focus of an anonymous allegation.

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Ossoff on Mike Collins: "What he's saying to the people of Georgia is after cutting their healthcare, throwing 300k of them off their health insurance, doubling health insurance premiums for more than 1 mil Georgians, he's then going to take their tax dollars and pay it out to violent criminals."

🇲🇽🇺🇸mark statman🇺🇸🇲🇽
@markstatman.bsky.social

This week’s Poet in Mexico has posted. Three things that give me faith and hope in the world political landscape, plus poems from Bill Lavender’s new collection city of god! And Louis Armstrong’s Basin Street Blues! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...

open.substack.comThose We Trust: Claudia, Hungarians, the US resistance, and (of course) the Easter BunnyOn democracy, healthcare, and more from Bill Lavender’s city of god

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Klobuchar: "I have personally warned this administration that there would be more deaths, that more of this would happen, and clearly they are not listening. So we ask people around the country to talk to their Republican representatives, to make clear this is not the America that is ours."