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Poet. Editor of @NewVerseNews.bsky.social at http://newversenews.blogspot.com and https://thenewversenews.substack.com . Expat New Yorker living in Bali. he/him 🌈 💙 Story collection—Queer As Folk Tales—out now https://a.co/d/9GkGz81. https://jamespenha.com
NVN Thursday at Substack: Mary Saracino’s #newspoem “I Weep for the World” thenewversenews.substack.com/publish/post...
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“I Weep for the World,” cries the speaker of Mary Saracino’s @newversenews.bsky.social #poem. newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/03/i-we...
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5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.
Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.
4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.
But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?
They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.
3/ Second, they confirmed "regime change" is also NOT on the list. So, they are going to spend hundreds of billions of your taxpayer dollars, get a whole bunch of Americans killed, and a hardline regime - probably a MORE anti-American hardline regime - will still be in charge.
2/ Maybe the lead is that the war goals DO NOT involve destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. This is, uh...surprising...since Trump says over and over this is a key goal.
But then of course we already know air strikes can't wipe out their nuclear material.
Absolutely, flabbergastingly insane.
NVN Wednesday at Substack: #newspoems by Barbara Ungar, Kent Reichert, and Eric Oak. thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-wednes...
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Children are at the center of today’s @newversenews.bsky.social #poems
by Barbara Ungar, Kent Reichert, and Eric Oak. bit.ly/39DQ3WM
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NVN Extra at Substack: Swept Away #newspoems "Middle Age Contemporaneity" by Judith Skillman and "A Rising Tide" thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-tuesda...
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Archetypal ends of traitors and tyrants referenced in @newversenews.bsky.social #poems "Middle Age Contemporaneity" by Judith Skillman and "A Rising Tide" by Gordon Gilbert bit.ly/39DQ3WM
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NVN Monday at Substack: Lawyer Up #newspoems… “Ode to Blazing Inferno” by Clara Altfeld and “Legal Clinic, Church Rectory, March 2026" by Paula Finn thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-monday...
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“Ode to Blazing Inferno” by Clara Altfeld and “Legal Clinic, Church Rectory, March 2026" by Paula Finn bit.ly/39DQ3WM
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It’s all the rage… in @newversenews.bsky.social #poems
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This issue is important - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...
NVN Saturday at Substack: Ellen Romano’s #newspoem “Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center” thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-saturd...
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Ellen Romano’s @newversenews.bsky.social #poem boans the “Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center.” newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/03/clam...
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Joshua Jones sums up what I've been thinking about Mullin and his absurd comments about "the smell of war" and other such nonsense.
He has never served in any war zone. He has never been on the receiving end of enemy fire or missile attacks. He has never sacrificed anything for anyone.
Hegseth keeps saying we are untouchable and invincible and we have total dominance so I don’t know how this could happen.
Trumpiss everywhere. Jobs Evaporated Unexpectedly, a Troubling Sign for U.S. Economy www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/b...
37 pages are still missing.
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NVN Friday at Substack: J. P. Linstroth’s #newspoem “The Persian Empire and the West” thenewversenews.substack.com/publish/post...
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J. P. Linstroth’s @newversenews.bsky.social #poem “The Persian Empire and the West” puts the new war against Iran in context. newversenews.blogspot.com/2026/03/empe...
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@thetennisletter.bsky.social So if Russian and Belarussian tennis players cannot be identified as representatives of their countries because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine… what about US and Israeli players now?
🚨Sen. Whitehouse to uncover connections between Trump, Russia, and Epstein. 🚨https://www.youtube.com/live/ylvTFvJvB84?si=CIWC68tOgGwgMgzy