Mark Tate
@markstate.bsky.social
Inspired by: Michelle Obama Muhammad Ali Kamala AOC Ms Crockett numerous writers including Toni Morrison Basho Merwin. See www.markstephentate.com Walking Scarecrow (poems) won BLP Book of the Year (2023) ©️ posted poems. No DMs
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Mark Tate
@markstate.bsky.social
· Aug 26
I took this pic a few years ago but I’d like to dedicate it to my lovely wife of twenty plus years
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No child should be behind bars.
Yet hundreds of kids are being detained at Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas—some of them for months. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Yet hundreds of kids are being detained at Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas—some of them for months. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
www.propublica.org
February 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
No child should be behind bars.
Yet hundreds of kids are being detained at Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas—some of them for months. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Yet hundreds of kids are being detained at Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas—some of them for months. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
a thought: gardening is difficult because you must get down to the ground. political communication is difficult because you must get down to the truth. sound bites are obfuscations.
February 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
a thought: gardening is difficult because you must get down to the ground. political communication is difficult because you must get down to the truth. sound bites are obfuscations.
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Pam Bondi is an embarrassment to women everywhere. When Epstein survivors asked for truth, she chose shouting & power over justice.
Ignoring victims isn’t strength it’s cowardice.
History remembers who spoke up & who looked away.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is a SHERO🔥💙💪🏼
#SheShed
#DefendersofDemocracy
Ignoring victims isn’t strength it’s cowardice.
History remembers who spoke up & who looked away.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is a SHERO🔥💙💪🏼
#SheShed
#DefendersofDemocracy
February 12, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Pam Bondi is an embarrassment to women everywhere. When Epstein survivors asked for truth, she chose shouting & power over justice.
Ignoring victims isn’t strength it’s cowardice.
History remembers who spoke up & who looked away.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is a SHERO🔥💙💪🏼
#SheShed
#DefendersofDemocracy
Ignoring victims isn’t strength it’s cowardice.
History remembers who spoke up & who looked away.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett is a SHERO🔥💙💪🏼
#SheShed
#DefendersofDemocracy
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www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
U.S. District Judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from reducing Senator Mark Kelly's retired military rank and pension pay because he urged troops to reject unlawful orders.
U.S. District Judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from reducing Senator Mark Kelly's retired military rank and pension pay because he urged troops to reject unlawful orders.
US judge blocks Pentagon's effort to punish Senator Mark Kelly
A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from reducing Senator Mark Kelly's retired military rank and pension pay because he urged troops to reject unlawful orders.
www.reuters.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:43 PM
www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...
U.S. District Judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from reducing Senator Mark Kelly's retired military rank and pension pay because he urged troops to reject unlawful orders.
U.S. District Judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon from reducing Senator Mark Kelly's retired military rank and pension pay because he urged troops to reject unlawful orders.
Buying all the prototypes of solar satellites for use in his mandalas, Kike@Kailua hired the ever happy Hiroaoki to paint them a full spectrum of trippy colors while he fabricated the art display tower 🌎 @hale-ie-maia.bsky.social 🌀☀️
February 12, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Buying all the prototypes of solar satellites for use in his mandalas, Kike@Kailua hired the ever happy Hiroaoki to paint them a full spectrum of trippy colors while he fabricated the art display tower 🌎 @hale-ie-maia.bsky.social 🌀☀️
Now I see how you have such a following of raccoons and dogs and ‘woody’ cartoon toy cowboys
February 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Now I see how you have such a following of raccoons and dogs and ‘woody’ cartoon toy cowboys
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A Love Supreme
Coltrane
Coltrane
February 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM
A Love Supreme
Coltrane
Coltrane
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☢️🍊🌮 can cry all he wants about the Superbowl. He's just jealous he can't be brown like the people he hates on with his bronzer. Why doesn't he go back to being a 🍋?
February 9, 2026 at 7:03 PM
☢️🍊🌮 can cry all he wants about the Superbowl. He's just jealous he can't be brown like the people he hates on with his bronzer. Why doesn't he go back to being a 🍋?
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My old books are not gone after all, but still feeling stressed out in general. I'm particular about my possessions and my trust in my relatives is still fairly low for long complex reasons I should not air out here.
February 10, 2026 at 4:56 PM
My old books are not gone after all, but still feeling stressed out in general. I'm particular about my possessions and my trust in my relatives is still fairly low for long complex reasons I should not air out here.
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Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Winner of the American Book Award
The story of the Black Panthers who put their lives on the line for revolution.
Photobomb by Scarlett akas Panchita
#Booksky
Winner of the American Book Award
The story of the Black Panthers who put their lives on the line for revolution.
Photobomb by Scarlett akas Panchita
#Booksky
February 12, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom & Waldo E. Martin Jr.
Winner of the American Book Award
The story of the Black Panthers who put their lives on the line for revolution.
Photobomb by Scarlett akas Panchita
#Booksky
Winner of the American Book Award
The story of the Black Panthers who put their lives on the line for revolution.
Photobomb by Scarlett akas Panchita
#Booksky
Good morning Bluesky
Good morning Hawk nest
Good morning Hawk nest
![Good morning Bluesky
Good morning Hawk nest
[red-shouldered hawks—many generations]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewtioluypjrn7mcu2hdwnovr/bafkreicancl2mqzcg6upb5rouw6cgcbcomriec7acvtbzqte45vqvmeh5q@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Good morning Bluesky
Good morning Hawk nest
Good morning Hawk nest
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"Beware
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air." ~ Lady Lazarus
Remembering Sylvia Plath, who died on this day in 1963
Plath Self-portrait c1950
#Booksky
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air." ~ Lady Lazarus
Remembering Sylvia Plath, who died on this day in 1963
Plath Self-portrait c1950
#Booksky
February 11, 2026 at 4:21 PM
"Beware
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air." ~ Lady Lazarus
Remembering Sylvia Plath, who died on this day in 1963
Plath Self-portrait c1950
#Booksky
Beware.
Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air." ~ Lady Lazarus
Remembering Sylvia Plath, who died on this day in 1963
Plath Self-portrait c1950
#Booksky
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White Angel Breadline, San Francisco | Dorothea Lange
1934
1934
February 11, 2026 at 4:42 PM
White Angel Breadline, San Francisco | Dorothea Lange
1934
1934
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Throwback to Pam Bondi’s campaign ad for Florida AG:
“I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.”
The ad aged. The internet remembers.
“I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.”
The ad aged. The internet remembers.
February 12, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Throwback to Pam Bondi’s campaign ad for Florida AG:
“I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.”
The ad aged. The internet remembers.
“I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.”
The ad aged. The internet remembers.
Across the lane from the ‘mystery farm’ is a more mysterious place
Ah, good night Bluesky
Ah, good night Bluesky
February 12, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Across the lane from the ‘mystery farm’ is a more mysterious place
Ah, good night Bluesky
Ah, good night Bluesky
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The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ
Contact Your MOC
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February 11, 2026 at 10:22 PM
The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ
A few more lists from Monica tonight Check Monica’sPlace @softtail65.bsky.social for follow parties featuring mutual resisters. 💜🌎🎵💜🌎🎵 like this reposted
Resisters to connect with tonight! Say Hi 👋, Vet, F&R. Ty! 💙
@dillonthepickle.bsky.social
@deeniepearl.bsky.social
@boobaesq.bsky.social
@ennievegan.bsky.social
@thewelshtaffy24.bsky.social
@lyndapole.bsky.social
@nkomis.bsky.social
@jennytheroselady.bsky.social
@guyfawkestoo.bsky.social
🚫Add-Ons
@dillonthepickle.bsky.social
@deeniepearl.bsky.social
@boobaesq.bsky.social
@ennievegan.bsky.social
@thewelshtaffy24.bsky.social
@lyndapole.bsky.social
@nkomis.bsky.social
@jennytheroselady.bsky.social
@guyfawkestoo.bsky.social
🚫Add-Ons
February 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
A few more lists from Monica tonight Check Monica’sPlace @softtail65.bsky.social for follow parties featuring mutual resisters. 💜🌎🎵💜🌎🎵 like this reposted
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More powerful black women.
Six phenomenal Black women who played major roles in Black liberation, community organizing, and political education during the 1960s and 1970s.
-grassroots programs
-political education
-addressing police violence
-advocating for prisoners’ rights
-building mutual aid initiatives. 🖤
-grassroots programs
-political education
-addressing police violence
-advocating for prisoners’ rights
-building mutual aid initiatives. 🖤
February 11, 2026 at 8:16 PM
More powerful black women.
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Kike@Kailua enjoyed the Meimon Kamiyama ramen so much he sent homemade cookies to the chef in return. Chocolate Chip (dark) cookies and Oatmeal with pecan bits were his favorite to make and he hoped the chef would admire them as well, but kept 2 each for his nieces. @hale-ie-maia.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Kike@Kailua enjoyed the Meimon Kamiyama ramen so much he sent homemade cookies to the chef in return. Chocolate Chip (dark) cookies and Oatmeal with pecan bits were his favorite to make and he hoped the chef would admire them as well, but kept 2 each for his nieces. @hale-ie-maia.bsky.social