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@thecursingpoet.bsky.social
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Profession: Cursing Avocation: Poetry and Prose Other: Velocipedist, ridge walker, sometime angler Offering: Public notebook, attempting spontaneous poetry Forays into prose, history, society, philosophy Photos, poems mostly mine Promo good work of others

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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
So if Trump is the Kiss of Death, J.D. Vance is clearly the Hickey of Doom: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/w...
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Hungary’s Orban, Beacon to the Right, Concedes Election Defeat
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Sitting here staring at a whiskey trying to think how 2006 me would deal the concept that Kid Rock would be involved in the ouster of a chief of staff of the Army
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
". . Iranians, said Nasr, sense that “this is no longer a war on the Islamic republic or its missiles or its nuclear facility. This is a war on the country. This is about turning Iran into a failed state.” That, in turns, strengthens the regime’s hand domestically" www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has No Idea How to Clean Up His Own Mess
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
plant a seed that flowers a decimation that sows a harvest of retaliation that cultivates an atrocity that yields annihilation? the stars are not worried
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
" . . it's been utterly destructive" "The president imagines he is playing a big board game, and that the more he takes, the more he wins. . . " www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | Trump’s ‘Brute Force Imperialism’
From saber rattling over Greenland to war with Iran, the Opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie argues, treating the world like a game of Risk has left America in its weakest position since World War II.
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Just because Trump's Treasury Department, run Trump toady Bessent, says the U.S. is insolvent does not mean you need to accept that and post on how horrible it is, etc, et al. U.S. bonds are being bought and sold as I write this, which means, not insolvent. It's bullshit aimed at Social Security.
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I am going to skip all the robot pitching robots jokes to go straight to how very,very funny the entire, deeply clueless and totally lacking insight Trump administration and all related freaks and family would be if they weren't tormenting and killing so many people www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...
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Melania and the Robot
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💙🦋 Ms.Yvonne 🦋💙 @curatednews.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It was about upholding white supremacy and power.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
FUN FACT: Cases of mail voting fraud are extremely rare, accounting for only 0.000043% of total mail ballots cast, or about four cases out of every 10 million mail votes.
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Mail voting fraud: Data points to low risk and high benefits for voters | Brookings
Analysis finds mail voting fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare and shows universal vote-by-mail boosts access, turnout, and cost efficiency.
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JeanSand - Keeping It Real @jeansand.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day.
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 25/03/2026
The E Street Band is coming your way!
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Incumbent German electricity suppliers said in 1993 that renewables could not provide more than 4% of electricity in the long run. In 2025, renewables provided 55.9% of Germany's electricity — 14 times the predicted ceiling.
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Instead of a Great Depression followed by a World War, Donald Trump is doing World War followed by Great Depression.
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
To promote U.S. tourism, Trump has chosen an Australian who was kicked out of his own Aussie party for being a crass, racist embarrassment, which in fact is his whole identify on the "Manosphere."The Australian will promote national parks and "American Exceptionalism" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
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Trump Picks ‘Alpha Male’ Influencer to Be Tourism Envoy
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Marie-Pierre Cleret @marie-pierre.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Your taxes at work.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Hegseth makes confident assertions that he has bombed drug border and factories, killing lots of people and injuring others. And roughly 60% of the time this turns out to be, simply put, a lie. This is consistent with what my friends at DEA international tell me:
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The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Pete Hegseth, what starts badly ends up even worse. It starts with murder, 2nd Degree. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...
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The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm.
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
. .the President has inexplicably failed to anticipate Iran’s moves to close . . Hormuz . . and to target energy infrastructure in other Gulf states, he and his advisers . .overlooked the enduring influence of the Middle East in the global energy supply chain . . www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
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How Trump’s Iran War Could Torch the Global Economy
The war in Iran was supposed to be a “little excursion.” Instead, it has sent oil prices soaring and raised the risk of a worldwide recession.
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Colleen @gracie87.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
As predicted - instead of ensuring the safety of air travelers, Gestapo goons (=ICE) have turned our airports into checkpoints for alleged undocumented persons & American Citizens suspected of disloyalty to Trump
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/03/2026
We need to start taking pictures of the shelf prices because they might change by the time we get to the register. 📌 Walmart is rolling out digital price tags in every store. Prices can now be changed across the entire chain in seconds.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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ArizonaTerry.bsky.social @arizonaterry.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Economist nailed it. #TrumpIsAnIdiot #TrumpEpsteinFiles #TrumpDistractions
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
There are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are Trump Lies, the lyingest lies of all. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
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Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
So this seems bad and also illegal. Too bad we don't have a justice department willing to prosecute blatant corruption. 1/3

Bark

@barkmeta
Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Bastards www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
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Highlights: Justices Appear Poised to Reject Mississippi Law on Late-Arriving Ballots
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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Here's your moment of zen: A "holy" cat named Coco stands at the entrance of a church in Mexico, seemingly blessing everyone who walks in 🐱
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Good riddance- www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Another billionaire confirms California exit: Uber co-founder Kalanick
Kalanick, who launched a new robotics startup Atoms, told tech talk show TBPN that he became a Texas resident in December.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It's wild to me that higher ed leaders can tell themselves that institutional neutrality will get the job done and then you've got Hungarian ambassadors and Russian dissidents saying this is the way you aid authoritarianism
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
there's something really horrifying in how you can start out as the most principled, reasonable, and evidence backed critic of the establishment possible, but then the twin forces of ostracism from the mainstream and audience capture by cranks eventually turns you into a caricature of yourself.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is amazing news! The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul are being recognized with one of the most prestigious civic honors in America. The JFK Library Foundation announced today that the people of the Twin Cities will receive a 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for their resistance!
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This is the greatest takedown of Marc Andreessen's faux-intellectual posing, ever. “Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie” www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/...
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Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie
A quasi-scientific polemic.
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
So now that we are at war with Iran, we are lifting sanctions on Iranian oil. Oh, okay. Sure. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...
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U.S. Encourages Flow of Iranian Oil While It Battles Iran
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 18/03/2026
Trump and Republicans would rather bomb a country, tank the economy, lose all our allies, inflict as much pain and sorrow as they can than provide health care, build infrastructure, make things better. Instead, they’re treated as serious people while also get to blame anyone but themselves.
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
“ 'A failure to demonstrate the will and ability to deny Iran the ability to disrupt traffic,” it wrote, “will make it enormously harder to deter Iran from future disruptions.' That’s the logic that leads to a quagmire." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/o...
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Opinion | Can Military Excellence Save Us From Trump’s Incompetence?
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 16/03/2026
"Energy transition promises a world where the incredible leverage enjoyed by oil and natural gas producers willing to weaponize their energy for political gain will soon be a thing of the past." (from February) www.liberalcurrents.com/carbon-and-t...
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Carbon and the New Imperialism
Free and democratic society is not possible when the kings of oil and gas can threaten our stability, pollute our information systems, and poison our politics.
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"No stupid rules of engagement . . ." --Pete Hegseth www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/m...
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Analysis suggests US was responsible for deadly strike on Iranian elementary school | CNN
The United States military was likely responsible for the strike on an elementary school in southern Iran that killed scores of children, the deadliest incident of civilian casualties in the US and Is...
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Man jumps into whirlpool, demands others save him as he drowns, because he does not need any help, You bastards. Just translating into a metaphor to help it all make sense. Or not. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
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Iran War Live Updates: Trump Disparages Allies for Rebuffing His Requests for Military Assistance
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Truth is The Enemy of The Donald www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/b...
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With Threats and Claims of ‘Treason,’ Trump Pressures Media on the War
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Good question. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...
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Opinion | If Russia Has ‘All the Cards,’ Why Has It Achieved So Little?
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 28/02/2026
My husband @mjowen174.bsky.social is very down and it’s difficult to see. He had a thriving writing business until AI came along but now he’s struggling to find work. Please repost this far and wide in the hope that he can find some writing work. www.mathew-owen.co.uk
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Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer | Speech Writer
I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The movie version is going to be called Dumber and Dumbest www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 05/03/2026
What a brave protector of the homela- oh wait wrong picture
Markwayne Mullin hiding from MAGA protestors on January 6th
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It's so lopsided, it's almost like Trump is imitating his own hair style with his do-over of the East wing. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump’s East Wing Ballroom Plan: See the Design
See how much his East Wing ballroom design will upend the White House symmetry.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/03/2026
Neguse demolishes Noem (2/2)
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This keeps getting funnier.
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Ink Radio @inkradio.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Ink Radio. The only place you’ll hear.
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Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments - BBC Arts
YouTube video by BBC
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CursingPoet @thecursingpoet.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
#Berlinale #IsabelleHuppert Isabelle Huppert, Die Blut Gräfin, Berlinale 2026
The face of film legend Isabelle Huppert hedged by media workers as she looks askance at the camera from between two photographers who face away from the camera as they record her image, a blue photo backdrop behind, more spectators and equipment in the background.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
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