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Marceline White

@therealmarceline.bsky.social
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ED of Economic Action Maryland. Writer. Pushcart & Best of the Net nominated poet. Advocate. Leftist.Tarot reader. chronically ill, perpetually bi, sometimes snarky. Good cook, bad gardener. www.marcelinewhitewrites.com, www.econaction.org

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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
First, politics, then poetry. Maryland's 2026 legislative session ended at midnight last night. It was exhausting. Some great things were accomplished but when it came to affordability, Maryland legislators missed the mark. There was so much more that could have been done.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is a pretty amazing article and I was also struck by the fact that he did hands-on mutual aid.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
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Aunt Tifa Lockhart @momoxmochi.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
THIS. They’re in the South Metro now, hitting Carver County & Minneapolis suburbs HARD. NOTHING HAS CHANGED. They’re detaining observers because ICE & CBP believe the real problem is people filming them, not that ICE & CBP is committing domestic terror. Less footage = less national news coverage.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:

Dear Ambassador:
 
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]

“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 17/01/2026
People will do literally anything to avoid saying the American left was right
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/01/2026
Something a little different. Some cartoonists put out a call for comics about local ICE experiences. This one happened a few months ago so it's a little older than current events, but it's a story that I never stopped thinking about. #ICEoutcomics
An image of a volleyball against a blue background. The text says: In my home state  of Massachusetts, ICE  is hunting a man who has an expired visa. They find the man’s car, but the driver is just the  man’s son, a teen heading to volleyball practice. ICE arrests the teen.A conversation between two people in speech bubbles: “Do you know why you’re under arrest?” “No.” “Because you’re illegal. You’re an immigrant.” “Ma’am, I was seven years old.” Then, text at the bottom says: The teen is put into a concrete cell with 35 men.The community rallies behind him. There's an image of yard signs with the smiling face of the teen that say Free Marcelo. Some quotes from locals: “He’s one of our brothers. Without him, it just kind of feels like a dark, empty room.” -volleyball team captain. “This administration isn’t  keeping us safe by putting 18-year-old honors students in prison.” -MA Rep. MoultonIn the cell, the teen helps translate for those who don’t speak English. Many are ill. After 6 days, he’s released. There's an image of a hand and arm, with a crinkly foil bracelet tied around the wrist. Wearing a bracelet  that another detainee  made him from one of the  thin mylar blankets they  were given, he says: “ I don’t want to cry. But I want  to say...nobody should be in here.”
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/01/2026
Arlit Maria Martinez is a mother of 4. Her son, Kevin, died of cancer while she was in ICE custody. ICE refused her request to be at Kevin's side in his final moments. They must let her attend Kevin’s memorial. Arlit, I hope you hear how many patriots stand with you.
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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
A petit bourgeoisie you say, that sees its lifestyle and social position under threat you say? Finding exterior enemies and explanations from a rapidly growing facist movement, you say? Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.
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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
On this Black Friday in this difficult year, I’m grateful to @swwim.bsky.social for publishing my cento ghazal and to the poets whose lines are part of it!
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rachel adjogah \\ college hill @collegehill.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
this AI initiative is a high risk system according to Maryland's own ​​AI Risk Classification System. why wasn't this mentioned? what safeguards are involved? where's the mandatory AI Risk Assessment report that's supposed to be made?
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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I am so thrilled and honored that @neologismpoetry.bsky.social nominated my poem “ Hunger Ghazal, 1981” for a Best of the Net nomination. Congratulations to the other BOTN & Pushcart nominees.
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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If you are in Baltimore City or anywhere in Maryland come to our house party with special guest Comptroller Lierman.
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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
#Maryland Did you know I run two organizations? Last year we launched a sister C4 organization (Economic Action Maryland) to build power and ensure that voters know which legislators and elected officials are voting for and leading on economic justice issues. Here is our 1st legislative scorecard!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A
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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/09/2025
Let this sink in: A president can apparently now order lethal force outside of congressionally declared wars, in international waters, without oversight, and face no personal criminal or civil liability—even if the action was blatantly illegal. trib.al/FwmJyLa
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How the Supreme Court Turned Trump Into a Danger to Everyone
The administration’s decision to launch an attack against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean is a lawless act—or at least it used to be.
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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
so happy with @vanhollen.senate.gov leadership on this and in so many other areas since January. and of course @sanders.senate.gov always
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/09/2025
Oregon’s Board of Pharmacy is holding an emergency meeting today to discuss a change in protocol for vaccine administration around fall respiratory viruses. That change could allow pharmacists to administer vaccines without a prescription, regardless of what ACIP decides.
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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
In light of the ongoing genocide, thought I would reshare my poem “Meditations on Martyrs, or Shuhada Ghazal” which was published in the About Place Journal’s Shaping Destiny edition last October.
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Audrey John MD PhD @odomjohnlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
To say that "the data show these vaccines fail" in regards to the mRNA plaform is unforgivable. For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.
Kaplan Meier curve showing efficacy of mRNA vaccine against COVID-19
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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I just received my copy of the Connecticut River Review in the mail. I love the cover! So thrilled my poem “ Self-Portrait: Contents of My Junk Drawer” was included alongside so many great pieces.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A journalistic principle I’ve come to believe in quite strongly, thanks to experience of the Sony and Podesta hacks, is that bar for publishing stories based on *hacked* material should be quite high. It really should be unambiguously newsworthy to clear it.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
so let me get this straight—the NYT accepted hacked information given to them by a substack white supremacist to be used against a mayoral candidate?
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“he is a south Asian man born in Uganda?”bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“and the source is a eugenicist who opposes affirmative action because he thinks brown people are an inferior race! cool!”bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“I think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi”
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Mahmood Mamdani · The Asian Question: On Leaving Uganda
President Yoweri Museveni was careful not to refer to Asians as citizens; he explained that they were ‘investors’,...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Seriously, every person involved in bringing this nonsense to print should not be in this profession.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged. Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void. This is why we must fix the system.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
To jump on this point, here are places that have implemented some of these radical ideas: City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas Free buses: Akron, Ohio Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is excellent.
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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 24/06/2025
No one: Me: Holy shit, this week is a lot.
Photo of Audre Lorde.

Text: CARING FOR MYSELF IS NOT SELF-INDULGENCE, IT IS SELF-
PRESERVATION AND THAT IS AN ACT OF POLITICAL WARFARE.


AUDRE LORDE
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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
If you’re in Baltimore, come by & hear my “Ted Talk on speed” about 19th century French poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore whose story in verse comprises part of my poetry manuscript of real and fictional “Marcelines”
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Cuomo’s biggest donors are cheering Trump on. These are the MAGA warmongers who would have his ear in City Hall.
A screenshot of tweet by Bill Ackman that thanks Donald Trump for bombing Iran, calling it a “bold and important step for peace in the Middle East.”
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Israel is bombing Gaza, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria
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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
1. There is not widespread rioting in LA. The protests are largely peaceful. And 2. …a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it that America has failed to hear? Dr. Martin Luther King
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/06/2025
CNN’s Jason Carroll was zip-tied and escorted away—for reporting the news. But they claimed he wasn’t under arrest? Why are they shooting rubber bullets at and silencing journalists? We still have a First Amendment.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
How very ironic that GOP Governors aren’t standing up for states’ rights here. I guess that only matters if you’re denying women or transgender people access to medical care. democraticgovernors.org/updates/stat...
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Statement from Democratic Governors on Donald Trump’s Use of California's National Guard - DGA
Statement from Democratic Governors on Donald Trump’s Use of California’s National Guard DGA Chair Governor Laura Kelly, DGA Vice Chair Governor Andy Beshear, Governor Tony Evers, Governor Bob Ferguso...
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
DEVELOPING: No warning. No reason. NYPD officers rushed into the crowd and tackled a protester this weekend. His body was limp. He couldn’t move. He said, “I can’t feel my legs.” He might never walk again. For showing up. This is brutality. This is America.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Greta Thunberg and other human rights defenders have been kidnapped by Israel on international waters. The aid they were delivering to Gaza that includes baby formula & medical supplies has been stolen. The ship Madleen was attacked with drones & will be forced to port at Ashdod Port. #3E #FreeGaza
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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
At KFF for deep dive into medical debt and federal and state solutions. I am one of the contributors to a report on medical debt that Lown will release soon.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 14/05/2025
BREAKING: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he has ordered the FDA to consider new nationwide restrictions on medication abortion — and that President Trump, not scientists or doctors, will make the final decision.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Time to prepare, beloveds. If you are considering stocking up, remember that these pills do expire eventually, and *do not* discuss your actions online or via unencrypted communication. Take no shit, and leave no trace. www.plancpills.org
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PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state
Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.
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Marceline White @therealmarceline.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Then and now. Happy Mother’s Day to all who mother. What would really make me & lots of mothers happy-paid family leave, affordable child care, universal healthcare, universal basic income.
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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Haaretz yet again having the courage to report on matters that mainstream American and Canadian outlets would never.
Knesset Debate Reveals Not Everyone Thinks Starving Gazan Children Is a
Bad Thing
A seemingly trivial remark from an Israeli doctor was met with a barrage of fervor from MKs. 'I'm not sure you're speaking for us when you say we want to treat every child and every woman,' said oneBut those who set the tone in the discussion were Halevi and Son Har-Melech. Contrary to Dr. Shaul's hope, many around the table indeed thought that the starvation and torment of Gazan children is not only legitimate but even desirable.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Is this who we are? newschannel9.com/news/local/f...
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
what's going on here is that Republicans genuinely cannot concieve of going to any sort of trouble for 'illegals' and keep getting thrown off by other people not being sociopaths
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