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anthonyupwatkins.bsky.social
Poet, Publisher, Painter, Educator, Novelist, old guy drives around north Florida taking pictures, writes a lot and doesnt make much money from it. Stands for Civil Rights, equity, Trans/gay rights, fair distribution of the wealth created by workers.
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submitted 6 hours ago • 178 comments

He nails it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1140 comments

she is right!

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its a win! lets take it! www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I’m delighted to announce that Ali Castleman, as of yesterday, is the first of the ModPo TAs to confirm that she will rejoin the ModPo team for ModPo 2025, which opens on August 30, 2025. Welcome back to Ali, one of the original TAs during ModPo’s first year, 2012!

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

submitted 17 hours ago • 319 comments

Sure Trump fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the CNO....but they fired the top JAG's in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Why would you fire the top lawyers in the armed services at night on a Friday? That's the part you should be freaking out about.

submitted 20 hours ago • 309 comments

I am normally not so acidic. But a Trumper on facebook was whining that he is losing his family biz over some formerly granted loans that now are being cut. Looking at his profile, he is a raging racist and transphobe. So I wrote: "You wanted him - there you have him... now have fun, buddy!"

submitted 17 hours ago • 34 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

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submitted 22 hours ago • 1050 comments

Thanks again for the wonderful support for my new collection of short stories! It means so much that people want to read my words and enter the worlds they build! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXXMJ7K...

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submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I Want a Blue Corduroy Suit Jacket Like the man I saw in the Walmart parking lot a deep rich blue it took me back to the seventies, its not like had all his belongings in a back pack or a shopping cart, he looked respectable, only in style for fifty years ago.

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submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

Farewell ev!l muthafkr

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For anyone who is interested, my short story ebook is now available: Paper Mansions is a nine piece collection of Anthony Watkins' best short stories to date. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXXMJ7K...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

i dont blame them!

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My old friend Jessica Weingarten writes about DEI and resistance in her substack this week. She is an intelligent and thoughtful writer. I highly recommend everyone follow her substack (docjessdcw.substack.com) My response (which can be found in full there): Great write, as usual!

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Meanwhile from the Official WH feed

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On LinkedIn, I have seen recent discussion about whether it is appropriate to dicuss "trans issues": Transgender persons, like any other marginalized group deserve to have all the rights the rest of us claim for ourselves.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

My daughter and I just created and published a short story collection called Paper Mansions: Paper Mansions is a nine piece anthology of Anthony Watkins' best short stories to date. Soon you can buy it on the Lulu website, $11.00+shipping or PDF/ePub $1.00. Nine stories, 20,000 words, 62 pages.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

For what is worth, I love everybody and respect everyone as a fellow human, But if you do not love and respect and accept black folks, brown folks, queer folks, and people born in other countries, as welcome, as having ALL the rights you have, then you are I are not friends.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Please stop shaming federal workers for their decisions to stay and fight or resign in protest. You don't know their lives or what they have the privilege of doing. It's like yelling at a rape survivor for not reporting.

submitted 4 days ago • 306 comments

i have found, not only are most corporate leaders (from mid levels to executives) are less inteligent than the line workers they 'manage', there is a weird bias against investing in the most valuable asset a company can have.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Discussion of online learning & accessibility: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUDs...

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

If you love education, continuing education, especially if you like poetry, but even if you dont, but you like stimulating conversation, i strongly encourage to follow prof Al Filres here: @afilreis.bsky.social, as well as visit modpo.org to find out how you canget a free ivy league education!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

All this accomplishes is clearly laying out the while europe is firmly on the side of Ukraine, we are switching sides and will be helping Russia anyway we can. I have to say, at least this brings consistancy to our foreign policy.now we will be treating Ukraine like Gaza.

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We will never let Marsha be forgotten, nor the others who made it a safer place for all our trans/queer family members and their friends. But like the work of Dr. King, current events remind us we are not at the "sit back and relax because the war is over and won" phase.

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