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professor (medieval lit and classics), drummer (punk). east tennessee. hometown: san antonio, tx. poemz at commoncrofts (https://commoncrofts.blogspot.com/)
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Hard truth: Most people in the US see the reality of mass deportation, and are horrified. But more than half of all white folk in the US *support* mass deportation. And everyone: stop lying to me and pretending that you didn't know that it would be this. You knew. Lie to yourself. Not to me.

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CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

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Cato Institute’s Director of immigration studies 👇🏽

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unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

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I am old enough to remember when a movie character said "PAPERS PLEASE" it was a universally understood signifier of an evil regime

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Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

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Nicanor Parra translated by Miller Williams

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Sharon Olds

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"Fuck You America! I don’t want your hatred. I don’t want the military decorations and medals you awarded me. I don’t want your pension money for my distinguished military service and service-connected disabilities." zerodoesntsleep.substack.com/p/vet-found-...

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So to be clear - in Tennessee unidentified white men in hoodies can grab any immigrant that "looks" undocumented, and if officials even as much as vote to protect them it's a felony. This is where we are now. Video: www.facebook.com/share/v/1AQh...

submitted 117 days ago • 239 comments

Exactly this.

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I don't deserve you, Onion.

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Man. Wherever history goes, some poet got there first.

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Nicanor Parra: basta de profecías apocalípticas ya sabemos QUEL MUNDO SE ACABÓ

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W. H. Auden:

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on the suicide of the refugee by Bertolt Brecht.

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Friends, I'm looking for poems from the immigrant experience, esp. with outsider's insight into the dominant culture: blind spots, amnesia, clueless comedy, etc. Any period, any geography, any language. Thanks in advance!

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'TOXIC ATMOSPHERIX, or THANKS A LOT' commoncrofts.blogspot.com/2024/11/toxi...

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