Poet, translator, 14 books, more coming, emeritus professor (Eugene Lang, The New School), lives in southern Mexico, baseball guy (LGFM), dual national 🇺🇸and 🇲🇽. Poet in Mexico Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/markstatman
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Happy Labor Day! I’m already working on this week’s #Poet in #Mexico. If you missed the past post, on practices of beauty, Ron Padgett #poems, a Katherine Koch painting, music from Fred Astaire and Laura Nyro, plus a dancing Grover? Never too late! ¡Ándale! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
#Baseball is funny. Mets sweep the Phillies. Then drop 3 of 4 to the Marlins? Así es. Gratitude for the responses to this week’s #Poet in #Mexico on the practice of beauty. A KK painting. Ron Padgett #Poetry. Fred. Laura Nyro. Grover the dancing waiter! ¡Ándale! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
There is no party platform anymore. Just the whims of a madman and the agenda of his handlers.
The party of death doesn’t care about platforms. Just billionaires.
The party of death doesn’t care if people die. Worm Brain rejoices in it all.
The party of death defines itself by how its cruelty. Spectacle as preferred method.
The party of death doesn’t care if we die.
Though they always carry the stench of death.
This week’s #Poet in #Mexico has posted. Wisdom from my shrink on the practice of beauty (good for facing the world!). A KK painting. #Poetry from Ron Padgett. Music from Fred (and Ginger) and Laura Nyro. Grover as the dancing waiter! ¡Ándale! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
Wednesday’s #Poet in #Mexico posts at 6AM #Oaxaca time! Lessons from my shrink on facing the world (practice of beauty). #Poetry from Ron Padgett! A Katherine Koch painting! Music from Fred, Laura, and dancing from Grover! ¡Andale! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
Hi all—just wanted to express some #gratitude to for the responses to this week’s #Poet in #Mexico! If you haven’t read it yet, a fine way to spend a Sunday afternoon, perhaps? Reading about rain and water in #Oaxaca and #poems from Elizabeth Cohen! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
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Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.
Not going to say because if he reveals that it’s his invisible little friends, the ones only he can see and hear, then he’s worried the friends will flee, leaving him so so so alone.
It's bizarre but unsurprising to see so many people waiting with bated breath to see what Ghislaine Maxwell will say to get a pardon whilst ignoring the testimonies of the many women she exploited in a massive sex trafficking operation linked to Trump.
The party of death, led by the open cesspool of mind, body, and soul the lemmings call dear leader, is doing what it can to ensure the earth dies. Part of their DNA.
This week’s #Poet in #Mexico has posted. Thoughts on rain, water, land, and development in #Oaxaca. #Poems from Elizabeth Cohen! #Music from Willie, Paula, John, Johnny, Biff, and Eddie! ¡Ándale! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
Wednesday’s #Poet in #Mexico covers rain and the rainy season, water use, questions raised by gentrification, plus #poetry by Elizabeth Cohen! And? Willie Nelson, Paula Nelson, John Fogerty, Johnny Cash, Biff, Eddie Santiago! Posting at 6 AM #Oaxaca time! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
Working now on tomorrow’s Poet in Mexico! If you missed last week’s post? Presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum as Trump whisperer, on patience, poetry, Joni, Flaco, Mimoso. ¡Ándale! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
Here outside the House chamber with folks chanting “LET HER OUT!”
Senator Eckhardt is planning to lead a march out of the Capitol and then she invites everyone to meet tomorrow at 8:30 AM on the south steps
“‘I refuse to sign away my dignity as a duly elected representative just so Republicans can control my movements and monitor me with police escorts,’ Collier said in a statement that called her a ‘political prisoner’ for refusing Republican ‘surveillance protocol.’” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here: www.youtube.com/live/eqDl84r...
Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.
In a stunning moment, Elise Stefanik was booed off the stage twice at an event in her district.
Should we fear that Trump is this generation's Neville Chamberlain? In a word, yes. forward.com/opinion/7631...
This week’s Poet in Mexico has posted! With Trump threatening to invade Mexico, the sense here? Patience and la presidenta! Claudia and poetry! Joni, el Flaco y el Mimosa! Muy genial. open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
Tomorrow #Poet in #Mexico appears at 6 AM #Oaxaca time. A look at the “Trump Whisperer,” Presidenta Claudia, how she does it, plus some observations from a poet-dual citizen (Mexico/US) on how things up north look from down south. And? #Poetry! Joni! Flaco y Mimosa! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
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He won’t tip his hand because he’s holding nothing. #orgullomexicano #claudiapresidenta
Working on this coming Wednesday’s Poet in Mexico post. If you missed last week, on the recent earthquakes here, on living life through them, as well as some poems from Rodger Kamenetz, well, seize the moment? open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
Ludicrous though it is, we need to tell the EPA that carbon dioxide is in fact dangerous. Please join @thirdactorg.bsky.social in filing public comments--for the historic record if nothing else thirdact.org/act/urgent-t...
This week’s Poet in Mexico has posted! Reflections on life and time after the past earthquakes. Poems by Rodger Kamenetz! And Carole King? open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
The party of death doesn’t care about women’s healthcare. As for women’s deaths? They’ll offer thoughts and prayers and advocate for everything they can to cause as many more.
The power of putting events in chronological order.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "A rightwing blogger, who has credentials at the WH, came to an area where some of the legislators are staying and started reporting online about it. He then put up a map and put a pin on the map and said, 'This is where these Texas legislators are.' So that started this."
Horrific. And par for the party of death course. In their MAGA DNA.
Gonna get even stupidider as we go along.
Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
The lemmings of the party of death were given their orders by the cesspool of mind, body, and soul they call dear leader. They are not hypocrites. They are cultists. Hypocrites have some level of awareness. MAGA has none.
The party of death has no interest in research and cures for anything. No interest in science at all. They care about billionaires.
Because she’s really really really sorry and promises (cross her heart) to be really really nice from now on? And also because being in jail is like no fun at all?
Aw, there goes Christmas!
The difference is that this time the party of death kills democracy for good.
Party of death doing what it does best.
Suffice it to say the party of death doesn’t do normal. Lying? Cheating? Rape? Felonies? Treason? Now you’re on their wavelength.
The party of death wants all but the billionaires dead.
Early onset dementia.
Texas Lt Gov Dan Patrick: "We're a red state. We deserve more representation."
Sidney Greenstreet.
🇲🇽 #ClaudiaSheinbaum #PresidentOfMexico : 'We met at the #NationalPalace with Doug McMillon, president and CEO of #Walmart Inc., and his team. They confirmed their investments in our country and their commitment to joining #PlanMexico'
Because for the party of death the only good planet is a dead planet.
Kind of a dream of his actually.
That’s why the party of death wants to end Medicaid—they prefer everyone dead.
More than 70 million Americans are directly enrolled in Medicaid. But all 330 million of us rely on a health care system that Medicaid helps fund and sustain. In a very real sense, we are all “on Medicaid.”
When Heather Cox Richardson called for concerned artists to come up with images to fight this administration, I came up with this, an encouragement to the millions of Americans who have taken to the streets to fight for Democracy. Thanks, Heather! (Feel free to share.)
Buenos días, Amy Sherald, una de las mejores pintoras americanas, ha cancelado su próxima exposición en el Smithsonian porque querían retirarle este cuadro para no ofender a Trump. Ni un paso atrás en la visibilidad trans.
Because like the rest of the party of death he wants us all dead.
"The only way you can think that politics is separate from literature is if the political system is working for you." Here, here, dear Rabih Alameddine. @rabihalameddine.bsky.social
Writing “It is no accident etc” is polite for “It’s completely fucking intentional, etc”.
The party of death is only interested in the health of billionaires. If you aren’t one, die.
Early onset dementia?
Tomorrow’s Poet in Mexico posts at 6 AM Oaxaca time! Find it in your mailbox or use the link below. Reflections on time brought on by Saturday’s earthquake. With poems by Rodger Kamenetz! ¡Increible! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
The party of death doesn’t care if it violates the Constitution. They only care about billionaires.
Working now on tomorrow’s Poet in Mexico. Here’s last week’s, in case you missed it! The Guelaguetza and Ralph Adamo! Tomorrow? Earthquakes. open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
The party of death doesn’t care. The billionaires aren’t worried.
For the party of death? They don’t care what it costs as long as the billionaires don’t pay at all.
Of course they’re rigging maps. Cheating is a part of the party of death DNA. Make good trouble. Resist the party of death.
BREAKING: A federal court ruled that an Arkansas law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom and library is unconstitutional. The law is blocked for our clients’ school districts while the case continues.
It’s kind of great when the cesspool of mind, body, and soul the party of death lemmings call dear leader feels desperate. Time for more good trouble. More resistance.
Uphill battle here but solidarity with Texas Democrats- they are standing up for democracy - they deserve all the appreciation and love from around the country for fighting till the end.
He straight up, deliberately lies about demonstrable facts (the jobs revision happened before not after the election and Trump called it out at the time!) and no reporter challenges him on it. No Sunday show host challenged his officials about his lies. He gets away with it.
I don't say this lightly: The New York Times should fire the reporter and editor who chose to present a leak from the white house as if it was a leak from Harvard. Don't print lies in the newspaper
lol I hope somebody holds them to this. The end of all disease within 10 years. Okay, sure. I would be happy to be proven wrong by these snake oil salesmen, but I think we all know this is not gonna happen.
"Not even a month ago, the idea of Trump supporters openly embracing a convicted child sex trafficker would have been unimaginable." Well, Trump sure grows some folks' imaginations.
Stand with Texas Democrats. Good trouble. Resist.
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We’re at the “We need to rig the vote to win” stage of the takeover. If you still support this you’re broken.
Feeling a lot of gratitude for all the nice comments on this past week’s #Poet in #Mexico, featuring the #Guelaguetza and #poetry by Ralph Adamo. If you missed it, a nice way to end the weekend! open.substack.com/pub/markstat...
Apocalyptic menace all the time? Sounds like life in America under the leadership of the party of death.
Yes—gratitude to CPB. And to the party of death, who hate creativity, who hate education?
Who do you believe?
MAGA world doesn’t understand. The lemmings of the party of death who call the cesspool of mind, body, and soul dear leader, don’t know what to believe.
@aoc.bsky.social's emails let people know how her office helps constituents, in this case with 3000 backpacks for kids who need back to school supplies. Does your rep do anything like this? If not, why not?
![from AOC email: '3,000 backpacks with supplies, ready to go to thousands of kids in need across The Bronx and Queens: [photos of donated backpacks at the AOC Organizing Base] 'I want to stress that it wasn’t just donations, but also your time, effort, and presence that made this happen too. Our office was FILLED with supporters on Tuesday night, creating community and hand-packing thousands of backpacks with supplies so that we are ready to go a month ahead of time for thousands of kids to go back to school.'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:un7ax3cmaqemchu5tsqnymts/bafkreicpbznmgdhlbhostlbxxuveu4yycycm3wp4mvbn3tjx5duwzyzhuq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Hay palabras, hay palabras…
As well they should have.
The party of death lemmings who call the cesspool of mind, body, and soul dear leader, will be thrilled at the news cycle. I wonder if they are still tired of winning.
Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison. He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him.
The party of death proving once again its love of billionaires.
Epstein victims lawyer Spencer Kuvin: "We now know from the words of the President himself that Virginia was right all along, and that she was trafficked out of Mar-a-Lago.”
The cesspool of mind, body, and soul the party of death lemmings call dear leader thinks we won’t remember because he can’t. And they can’t. But it isn’t all of America with early onset of dementia. Just them.
"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. … "That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."
The party of death doesn’t care about health care. Unless it’s for billionaires. They love cake. They don’t care if we eat at all.
Desires of the rich are driving Tennesseans into fury. The biggest new debate is a Tesla Only tunnel that no one voted for. /
Obviously. Also because the party of death has proof the earth rides on the back of a giant turtle. And the earth is flat. The moon is made of cheese. And the sun wears cool shades
I can’t contain my joy.