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John Biggs

@biggsium.bsky.social
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Poetry, politics, Latin America, travel

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Roberto Rojas @robertorojas97.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Brazilian Portuguese commentary on that Tyler Loop field goal for the Ravens is exactly what everyone needs to hear right now
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seems like the ospreys don't have enough to eat. Climate change and commercial overfishing might be to blame.
baltimorefishbowl.com
Osprey nesting woes in the Chesapeake Bay worsen, survey finds
Chesapeake Bay osprey hatchings have been meager and survival of chicks this year is well below what is needed to maintain the population.
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Mexico Solidarity @mexicosolidarity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Mexico Sees the US as a ‘Greater Threat’ Than China or Russia, New Survey Confirms A Focaldata–Rockefeller poll finds 58% of Mexicans see the US as a major threat, more than double the figure for China and well above Russia. mexicosolidarity.com/mexico-us-g…
mexicosolidarity.com
Mexico Sees the US as a ‘Greater Threat’ Than China or Russia, New Survey Confirms
A Focaldata–Rockefeller poll finds 58% of Mexicans see the US as a major threat, more than double the figure for China and well above Russia.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump will not be untouchable *after* his term. Eg, he can't be prosecuted for keeping the gifted Qatari jet, but he can be prosecuted for not returning it when told to when he's no longer POTUS. I think there will be many opportunities to punish him for his crimes when he's gone.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Barbaric and inhumane treatment of human beings, kind of like in a mental hospital from the 1870s. Absolutely unacceptable and criminal in 2026.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How baffling and alarming it must seem to the rest of the world that Americans have twice elected this maniac as their president.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Alternative für Deutschland surges in one region in Germany. The Alternative für Amerika is in power in the United States.
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I love the string & washer envelope closure. So satisfying to unlock and (especially) to wind it shut. Been around in this specific embodiment for at least 100 years. Long may it last. 
Photo of one of those enter Office mail envelopes focusing on the above mentioned string and Washer or sometimes called string and button closure device, the string and the buttons are color
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Mayor Brandon Scott has done an excellent job in Baltimore. He's term-limited. Wonder what he'll do next...
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'll never steal your pen.
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Éclipse totale du chat.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Paxton's a slick-talking lawyer and Talarico's just a young seminarian, but Talarico will mop the floor with Paxton because Talarico is armed with the truth and with true convictions, while Paxton lies and believes in nothing but himself. People can tell the difference.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Rare DC envy of Baltimore.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My brother and I played "sapo verde" as children in South America. You score points by pitching heavy bronze coins into the frog's mouth or into other openings on the table. I was thrilled to see this version in Hontanas, Spain along the Camino de Santiago.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It's a long, long way from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to President Donald J. Trump International Airport.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You were wondering how many Peruvians share a name with Erling Haaland. Now you know: 563.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Report of early morning egging of 5 Sarria-area albergues (pilgrim hostels) along the Camino de Santiago. Piece notes that other kinds of vandalism are also happening, but I wonder if these attacks reflect local anti-pilgrim sentiment. #CaminodeSantiago
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Ataque de madrugada a cinco albergues del Camino de Santiago: lanzan huevos mientras los peregrinos dormían
Aprovecharon que las puertas y ventanas permanecían la abiertas para aliviar las altas temperaturas registradas durante los últimos días
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Somehow I don't think availability will be a problem at the future Trump Museum, if there ever is one.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Can't fault them for what seems like good judgment.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"A pedestrian collided with a police motorcycle..." raises questions. How fast was the pedestrian walking? Did he/she have a license to walk? Was she/he distracted or impaired? We can't just allow pedestrians to go around colliding with vehicles like this. They must be stopped. s/
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Dutch press critical of team after loss to Morocco. Will coach quit?
dutchnews.nl
Toothless Oranje dumped out of World Cup on penalties by Morocco - DutchNews.nl
Head coach Ronald Koeman has said he will consider his position “from tomorrow” after the Netherlands’ men’s team went out of the World Cup on penalties to Morocco. Oranje came within minutes of a win...
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
In the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore, they agree ICE should go.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
So @miblogestublog.bsky.social, should I go with the inner guts or the meat head? #TacoTuesday
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Birthday Boy isn't too happy with his birthday presents.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Some good news for once.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
"A hit, a very palpable hit!"
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Just as juicy in Spanish.
elpais.com
El Kennedy Center cumple con la orden judicial de retirar el nombre de Donald Trump de su fachada
Decenas de miles de personas se conectan a internet durante horas para ver en directo cómo los operarios quitan las letras del templo de la música de Washington
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
In case you want to read about the de-Trumping in French
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Happy belated 100th birthday to Allen Ginsberg. June 3rd 1926.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt. In 1942, on her 13th birthday, she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. 'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
Anne Frank seated at a desk with an open book and a pen, looking directly at the camera, with a bottle of ink by her side.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
No legitimate law enforcement operation needs terror, excessive force, or anonymity. Decent human beings avoid traumatizing children. @govwesmoore.bsky.social, please use all tools available to the State of Maryland to stop this barbaric behavior by ICE.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I commented and then forwarded this link to number of like-minded friends, as I hope everyone who opposes Trump's hideous and wasteful vanity project will do.
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Mera Kitchen’s new series serves up food as memory, migration, and inheritance baltimorebeat.com/mera-kitchen...
baltimorebeat.com
Mera Kitchen’s new series serves up food as memory, migration, and inheritance
At Mera Kitchen Collective, food has always been more than something to eat. It is memory, migration, and an inheritance; a chronicle of the places that people have left and the loved ones, places,…
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Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Friends, please contact your representatives and express outrage at this violation of human rights:
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Yes!
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
It had been a while...
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Visited the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz/Birkenau in Poland yesterday and I've come to tell you that we in the US are well on our way to recreating this at "Alligator Alcatraz," etc. unless we stop and reverse course at once. "Never again" means not even once again.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Visited the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz/Birkenau in Poland yesterday and I've come to tell you that we in the US are well on our way to recreating this at "Alligator Alcatraz," etc. unless we stop and reverse course at once. "Never again" means not even once again.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Yay!
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 18/04/2026
O illegitimate construction!
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
My kind of used bookstore.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Excellent poetry reading at the Pratt Street Ale House in Baltimore on March 6th with readers from @brackenmagazine.bsky.social and Passager.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
This is excellent by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Another anti-Jewish hate crime, this time in the Netherlands.
dutchnews.nl
Fire at Rotterdam synagogue was arson attack, four arrested - DutchNews.nl
Rotterdam police have arrested four teenagers from Tilburg in connection with the fire at a synagogue in Rotterdam in the early hours of Friday morning. They were arrested in a car close to another sy...
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
It's not just the US that's having trouble getting their citizens safely home from the debacle that Trump and Netanyahu have unleashed on the Middle East.
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Repatriation flight from Oman delayed for safety reasons - DutchNews.nl
A Dutch repatriation flight to bring stranded holidaymakers and others back from the Middle East has been delayed because of the “security situation”, the foreign ministry said on Saturday. The flight...
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We bombed them. To do what? So we can bomb them. To do what? To facilitate strikes. To do what? To enable kinetic operations. To do what? To shape the battlefield. To do what? So we can bomb them.
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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
A painting that was a Rembrandt, then wasn't, and now again is a Rembrandt, goes back on display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Rijksmuseum puts “new” Rembrandt back on display after 65 years - DutchNews.nl
The Rijksmuseum is to display a painting by Rembrandt for the first time in 65 years after new analysis settled a dispute about whether it was the work of the master. Experts spent two years examining...
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