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Anthonyuplandpoetwatkins

@anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social
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Poet, Publisher, Painter, Educator, Novelist, old guy who taking pictures of north Florida, writes a lot. The Minister, a novel, (shopping agents), follows a small-town southern preacher through his life experiences & how they relate to & shape his faith.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
And they said China was a police state‼️
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”
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Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Maybe now this hateful shrew can use her time more productively - like arranging a fifth marriage for herself.
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Supreme Court rejects long-shot effort to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
The court turned away an appeal filed by Kim Davis, a former county clerk in Kentucky who was sued after refusing to issue a marriage license to a gay couple.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.
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Anthonyuplandpoetwatkins @anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I will not be voting to or ANY establishment Democrats where they are primaried, this is too typical!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 09/11/2025
Ask him why so many air traffic controllers are retiring at once. Ask him if it has anything to do with Reagan firing 11K union strikers in 1981 and having to replace them all at once. Ask him how the mass firings this year will impact us the same way 40 years from now. Ask him, Jake.
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lafoule17.bsky.social @lafoule17.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
If you have to accept that greed is human nature and we should organise around it, you also have to accept that people begging for food wanting to set fire to trillionaires is also human nature.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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Anthonyuplandpoetwatkins @anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
For the record, I trust Mamdani’s Muslim faith more than Mike Johnson’s Christianity.
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Anthonyuplandpoetwatkins @anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
involved, not in evolved
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Community matters so much right now. For optics and for solidarity in the face of institutionalized cruelty.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is what a New Era looks like.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/11/2025
Excessive force. PERIOD! They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor. 📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Folks, saying ABOLISH ICE isn't hard. Quite easy. The water is warm here. Jump in. Mainstream it. People will follow.
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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.
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Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
never. only Democrats must avoid at all costs offending any red state right wing extremist who would never vote for them anyway.
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schnufflerowner.bsky.social @schnufflerowner.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Im not going to say that there are not huge issues with the two party, but multi party systems are not exactly a bulwark against horrible governments or authoritarian leaders either.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025
i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist
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Anthonyuplandpoetwatkins @anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Mayor Mamdani As the two leading causes of crime are poverty and white supremacy continuo g to find ways to criminalize non whiteness, we could see a major drop in crime if he is allowed to keep his promises!
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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Anthony, you know I’ll follow you anywhere!
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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
If you haven't read Homeland by Richard Beck, I HIGHLY recommend it today. I recommend it every day but as I go to the polls to vote for a Muslim mayoral candidate and decline to pour one out for a dead homie, today is an especially good day for it
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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
THIS!!!
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Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Good morning, Bluesky. “Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech. The text deletes selected letters. We see the revered exegete reject metred verse . . . He rebels. He sets new precedents. He lets cleverness exceed decent levels.” -Eunoia, Christian Bok- (Oh, ModPo, how I will miss you.)
Domino Sugar plant as reflected in the water, about 30 minutes before sunrise.

OK, so — this is the third year I have participated in Contemporary Modern Poetry, a MOOC offered free through Coursera and available year-round via ModPo.org. It has changed my life. It has changed my brain. It has changed me as a teacher. It has changed me as a person. (All for the better, I think.)
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Anthonyuplandpoetwatkins @anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Quit pitting Palestine against Congo against Sudan, all are genocides, all are horrible. All are part of the colonial legacy. We in the west have responsibilities which were not living up to.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
P.S. No one is scared of a socialist when we have literal Nazis working in the White House...
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Anthonyuplandpoetwatkins @anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Generally, I love all kinds of people, and the funny thing, the straightest folks I know, if you hang around them a while, you find they have the oddest kinks suppressed, and yes I especially like the weird folks, not the creepy pedo-types, but just off the wall weird. 1/2
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Alex Niven @alexniven.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Anarchist bricklayer Lucio Urtubia robbed banks to fund revolutionaries in Franco’s Spain, defrauding Citibank and getting away with it. Surely this is a story we’ve all been waiting for? Huw Lemmey on a contentious autobiography by a Spanish leftist hero. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/08/the-...
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The People’s Bank Robber
Anarchist bricklayer Lucio Urtubia robbed banks to fund revolutionaries in Franco’s Spain, defrauding Citibank and getting away with it. Surely this is a story we’ve all been waiting for?
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Racism and hatred, plain and simple‼️ Cruelty is the point‼️
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/10/2025
The way people are like “sports should be about the best person winning” until the best person is somehow inconveniently embodied and then it’s like ”well, technically that person should be excluded from play, it’s only fair“
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Snarkymuse @snarkymuse.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/10/2025
Hell yeah! 🚨 NEW: 22 states, DC, and 3 governors just filed a legal challenge over a $5 billion “contingency fund” meant to keep SNAP benefits going.
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Families Over Billionaires @fobaction.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"This is a moment that demands a response. If Dems can’t run on a unified platform that centralizes and prioritizes taxing the ultrawealthy in order to dismantle their stranglehold on our govt, then they need to get out of the way for people who will." Read more: bit.ly/4ohxXLq #TaxBillionaires
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/10/2025
i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days
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Feral Maui Hermit @mauigreg.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Feeding hungry people is literally the least offensive thing that my taxes have ever paid for.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"The judge then ordered Mr. Bovino to appear at the federal courthouse at the end of every weekday to personally provide her with a report on the day’s arrests and incidents..." !! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
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Judge Admonishes Border Patrol Leader for Tactics in Chicago
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/10/2025
Brown’s attorney (Judkins) said he spent three nights in jail because the judge didn’t consider the shooting because the cops didn’t mention it. END/
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/10/2025
BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
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Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
@albomp.bsky.social Get off your arse and DO SOMETHING instead of approving more coal gas mines or sending billions to the US . We need a government that has the guts to say no more bulldozing our fking environment . theaimn.net/shameful-stu...
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“Shameful”: Study shows only a third of Australia’s mature forests remain
Australian Conservation Foundation Media Release New analysis from the Australian Conservation Foundation has highlighted the enormous scale of deforestation in Australia, exacerbated by ‘deforestatio...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP. A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify. I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Contest every race. Have a candidate in every race on every ballot in every county in every state. Run even if you know you can’t win. Run because you know you can’t win. No seat uncontested. Bring the fight to every ballot.
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Anthonyuplandpoetwatkins @anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Every Muslim is not a good person, but 99 out of 100 I have met, and I have met a lot of Muslims in lots of different circumstance from places all over the world, are good, kind, and generous, and return respect for respect.
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Anthonyuplandpoetwatkins @anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I think the 2026 elections are already lost. We should focus on boycotts, gen strikes, “slow down” & saboteur actions. Of course we have to run a slate of unity candidates, but I think neither old guard democrats nor more Progressive social democrats combined will win as Trump has no plans to leave.
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Anthonyuplandpoetwatkins @anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
general strikes coupled with several days long boycotts on spending, especially in chain stores could prove to be a very effective non violent way to escalate the pressure on this regime...
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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/10/2025
it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
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Anthonyuplandpoetwatkins @anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
lamp posts for all, or better yet bring back the famous "tree" to london!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
If a temporary resident of the White House can totally demolish the East Wing to build a gaudy ballroom, without any authority, approval, or regulation, he can tear down the rest of the White House to build a Walmart. That this destruction is allowed underscores how off the rails our country is now.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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