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I'm Dan Grossman. I'm a widely published poet and journalist living temporarily in San Diego, who calls Indianapolis home. My interests include the US border, & border between poetry & politics, #POELITICS. Follow my journey at Indycorrespondent.org
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Here I am with my book of poetry, 'Mindfucking Roundabouts of Carmel Indiana: J.T. Whitehead, author of The Table of the Elements, “Dan Grossman navigates this highly recommended book like an 'uber' uber driver..." U can purchase it here: www.lulu.com/shop/dan-gro... #poetry, #writing, #writers
A poem I just wrote this morning out of anger. Obscene? Maybe. But you can't say the shoe doesn't fit.... #borderpatrol, #ice, #chicago
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A poem I just wrote this morning out of anger. Obscene? Maybe. But you can't say the shoe doesn't fit.... #borderpatrol, #ice, #chicago
If you've seen the motion picture #OneBattleAfterAnother, then you'll recall that the first scene is set at a detention center in Otay Mesa in San Diego... The real-world facility is worse -- more highly organized -- than the ramshackle cinematic one.
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A Day of the Dead altar at Otay Mesa Detention Center — Indy Correspondent
As night fell on October 29, immigrant activists set up a Day of the Dead altar outside the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego. Usually, these altars honor departed relatives. This one was for th...
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October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
If you've seen the motion picture #OneBattleAfterAnother, then you'll recall that the first scene is set at a detention center in Otay Mesa in San Diego... The real-world facility is worse -- more highly organized -- than the ramshackle cinematic one.
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The Epstein files stay hidden, but the Epstein Ballroom will be a prominent display.
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The Epstein files stay hidden, but the Epstein Ballroom will be a prominent display.
The demolition of the East Wing is getting to me as an American and as a poet. #poetry, #robertlowell, #politics, @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social, #whitehousedemolition, #whitehouse
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A poet contemplates the demolition of the White House’s East Wing — Indy Correspondent
As a poet, I’ve been thinking about the place of poetry in modern American discourse—poetry as opposed to journalism. That space feels vanishingly small, and when poetry does enter the public square, ...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The demolition of the East Wing is getting to me as an American and as a poet. #poetry, #robertlowell, #politics, @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social, #whitehousedemolition, #whitehouse
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Considering Agent Orange's AI video where he basically shits on everybody from a great height, I kinda had a premonition of all this back in April.
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Eating Donald Trump’s golden shit in San Diego: a preview of the “No Kings” protest — Indy Correspondent
Eating Trump’s Golden Shit in San Diego: Dropping in on a “Hands Off” Rally On Saturday April 5, 2025, I walked with the marchers in a “Hands Off” rally in downtown San Diego. It was organized by th...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Considering Agent Orange's AI video where he basically shits on everybody from a great height, I kinda had a premonition of all this back in April.
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🔥🔥🔥 Eminem is on FIRE here, must listen!!! He shreds Trump (you’re just a clown in a King’s suit) and clips by Dr Dre, 50 Cent, Ice Cube.
#NoKings 💙⚖️
🔥🔥🔥 Eminem is on FIRE here, must listen!!! He shreds Trump (you’re just a clown in a King’s suit) and clips by Dr Dre, 50 Cent, Ice Cube.
#NoKings 💙⚖️
Eminem - No Kings (Donald Trump Diss) ft. 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Lamar
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October 12, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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🔥🔥🔥 Eminem is on FIRE here, must listen!!! He shreds Trump (you’re just a clown in a King’s suit) and clips by Dr Dre, 50 Cent, Ice Cube.
#NoKings 💙⚖️
🔥🔥🔥 Eminem is on FIRE here, must listen!!! He shreds Trump (you’re just a clown in a King’s suit) and clips by Dr Dre, 50 Cent, Ice Cube.
#NoKings 💙⚖️
Some first person reporting from last spring that the National Review spitefully rejected. Has it ever occurred to them, or anyone, that Donald J. Trump is a sort of a King Midas of the asshole?
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Eating Donald Trump’s golden shit in San Diego: a preview of the “No Kings” protest — Indy Correspondent
Eating Trump’s Golden Shit in San Diego: Dropping in on a “Hands Off” Rally On Saturday April 5, 2025, I walked with the marchers in a “Hands Off” rally in downtown San Diego. It was organized by th...
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October 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Some first person reporting from last spring that the National Review spitefully rejected. Has it ever occurred to them, or anyone, that Donald J. Trump is a sort of a King Midas of the asshole?
@50501movement.bsky.social, @50501movement.bsky.social
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Yes, yes, Bazbeaux Pizza (in Indianapolis) is among Dave Portnoy's least favorite pizzas, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. I mean, sloppy sex is still sex, right?
#bazbeaux, #pizza, #indianapolis, #carmel
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#bazbeaux, #pizza, #indianapolis, #carmel
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“Portnoy’s Complaint” by Dan Grossman — Indy Correspondent
Portnoy’s Complaint Not the Philip Roth novel where the narrator cums on his sister’s bra while wanking on the toilet but David Portnoy visiting Indy to do pizza reviews arriv...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Yes, yes, Bazbeaux Pizza (in Indianapolis) is among Dave Portnoy's least favorite pizzas, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. I mean, sloppy sex is still sex, right?
#bazbeaux, #pizza, #indianapolis, #carmel
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#bazbeaux, #pizza, #indianapolis, #carmel
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Where I was two years ago today:
"After June 2024, when Joe Biden tightened the rules for claiming asylum, the stream of migrants dried up (and so did the need for the humanitarian aid station). But it was too late for Biden, and maybe too late for us."
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"After June 2024, when Joe Biden tightened the rules for claiming asylum, the stream of migrants dried up (and so did the need for the humanitarian aid station). But it was too late for Biden, and maybe too late for us."
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Oct. 8, 10:30 a.m., 2023: The day after Gaza on the U.S. -Mexico border — Indy Correspondent
The Day After Gaza on the U.S. Mexico Border Whiskey 8, an open air detention area across the border from Tijuana, is mostly quiet now. But two years ago it was often crowded with migrants who were...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Where I was two years ago today:
"After June 2024, when Joe Biden tightened the rules for claiming asylum, the stream of migrants dried up (and so did the need for the humanitarian aid station). But it was too late for Biden, and maybe too late for us."
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"After June 2024, when Joe Biden tightened the rules for claiming asylum, the stream of migrants dried up (and so did the need for the humanitarian aid station). But it was too late for Biden, and maybe too late for us."
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America 2025 or Chile 1973?
October 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
America 2025 or Chile 1973?
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Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.
This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.
Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.
This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.
Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.
October 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.
This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.
Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.
This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.
Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.
Just saw One Battle After Another last night in IMAX format, in San Diego, about 30 miles from where parts of it were shot, on (or near) Otay Mesa. The film is loosely based on the Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland. Republished from The Conversation.
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One Battle After Another: this insane movie about leftwing radicals and rightwing institutions is a powerful exploration of US today — Indy Correspondent
This article is from The Conversation, republished under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just saw One Battle After Another last night in IMAX format, in San Diego, about 30 miles from where parts of it were shot, on (or near) Otay Mesa. The film is loosely based on the Thomas Pynchon novel Vineland. Republished from The Conversation.
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Nobody likes you. They hate you. P.S. Epstein was the only friend you ever had, and even he thought you were an idiot and a crook with no moral compass. Especially after you rooked him on a deal so you could launder dirty Russian money. You are, as you say, “a total disgrace.”
September 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Nobody likes you. They hate you. P.S. Epstein was the only friend you ever had, and even he thought you were an idiot and a crook with no moral compass. Especially after you rooked him on a deal so you could launder dirty Russian money. You are, as you say, “a total disgrace.”
Is Depeche Mode poetry? Is Willie Nelson? Is poetry dead? Is it just masturbatory musing? Does it serve some kinda journalistic purpose? Fuck around and find out:
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My Other Sister and I talk poetry and journalism (in San Diego) - NewsBreak
My other sister and I walk through Chicano Park in Chicano Park, Barrio Logan, San Diego Prompted Shutterstock.ai image Check out Dan Grossman’s book Mindf
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September 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Is Depeche Mode poetry? Is Willie Nelson? Is poetry dead? Is it just masturbatory musing? Does it serve some kinda journalistic purpose? Fuck around and find out:
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Yes, yes, the conversation you've been waiting for direct from San Diego, about poetry and journalism and.... Depheche Mode! People, after all, are people, so why shouldn't we all just get along? #poetry, #journalism, #sandiego, #barriologan, #chicanopark
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My Other Sister and I talk poetry and journalism (in San Diego) — Indy Correspondent
Check out Dan Grossman’s book Mindfucking Roundabouts of Carmel, Indiana MY OTHER SISTER AND I TALK POETRY AND JOURNALISM (IN SAN DIEGO) INDY CORRESPONDENT: My name is Dan Grossman. I'm h...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Yes, yes, the conversation you've been waiting for direct from San Diego, about poetry and journalism and.... Depheche Mode! People, after all, are people, so why shouldn't we all just get along? #poetry, #journalism, #sandiego, #barriologan, #chicanopark
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Check out my book of poems and prose, available on LULU.com. "Dan Grossman navigates this highly recommended book like an 'uber' Uber driver ... J.T. Whitehead, writing in the Minderbinder Review of Books. #poetry, #fiction, #roundabouts, #carmel
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Mindfucking Roundabouts of Carmel, Indiana
Dan Grossman's collection of poetry and short prose 'Mindfucking Roundabouts of Carmel, Indiana,' is, in part, a meditation on memory that alternates between love and regret. It pierces the space-time...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Check out my book of poems and prose, available on LULU.com. "Dan Grossman navigates this highly recommended book like an 'uber' Uber driver ... J.T. Whitehead, writing in the Minderbinder Review of Books. #poetry, #fiction, #roundabouts, #carmel
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Check out my story about Trump wanting to go all #rollingstones on the #borderwall and paint it black. What does that mean for the murals on the border fence at Playas de #Tijuana? @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social, @humaneborders.bsky.social
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Updated: Will Trump paint the border fence at Playas de Tijuana black? Border Patrol has no answer yet - NewsBreak
Mural on Border Fence at Playas de Tijuana Photo by Maria Teresa Fernandez Originally published under title: Border Patrol Has No Answer Yet on Whether Tru
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August 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Check out my story about Trump wanting to go all #rollingstones on the #borderwall and paint it black. What does that mean for the murals on the border fence at Playas de #Tijuana? @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social, @humaneborders.bsky.social
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Border Patrol Has No Answer Yet on Whether Trump-Ordered Border Wall Painting Will Include Both Sides of Fence - NewsBreak
Looking through thirty-foot high border fence into the beach in Tijuana, Mexico where a celebration by Friends of International Friendship Park was taking
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August 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Breaking news from the border
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Border Patrol Has No Answer Yet on Whether Trump-Ordered Border Wall Painting Will Include Both Sides of Fence — Indy Correspondent
Border Patrol Has No Answer Yet on Whether Trump-Ordered Border Wall Painting Will Include Both Sides of Fence Border Field State Park, Calif. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has yet to...
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August 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Breaking news from the border
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The occasion here was the reopening of Border Field State Park (which encompasses Friendship Park / El Parque de la Amistad) to vehicle traffic on the 54th anniversary of the creation of the park.
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At the US-Mexico border wall with the Friends of International Friendship Park — Indy Correspondent
I drove to Border Field State Park (which encompasses Friendship Park) on August 16, the day that it was reopened to car traffic after a two-year closure. The park sits along the U.S.-Mexico border w...
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August 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The occasion here was the reopening of Border Field State Park (which encompasses Friendship Park / El Parque de la Amistad) to vehicle traffic on the 54th anniversary of the creation of the park.
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I visited the border town of Tecate, Mexico on the same day Trump named KISS as a Kennedy Center honoree. You may say the stuff that goes down in this poem could never happen anywhere, well it could happen in #Tecate, because Tecate is a magical town. #mexico, #poelitics, #KISS, #migration, #maga
August 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I visited the border town of Tecate, Mexico on the same day Trump named KISS as a Kennedy Center honoree. You may say the stuff that goes down in this poem could never happen anywhere, well it could happen in #Tecate, because Tecate is a magical town. #mexico, #poelitics, #KISS, #migration, #maga
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Here's another lovely poem not likely to be accepted at any literary magazine looking to keep their NEA funding if you know what I mean. #whitehouse, #poetry, #maga, #epstein, #ghislainemawell, #trump
Here's another lovely poem not likely to be accepted at any literary magazine looking to keep their NEA funding if you know what I mean. #whitehouse, #poetry, #maga, #epstein, #ghislainemawell, #trump
August 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Here's another lovely poem not likely to be accepted at any literary magazine looking to keep their NEA funding if you know what I mean. #whitehouse, #poetry, #maga, #epstein, #ghislainemawell, #trump
Here's another lovely poem not likely to be accepted at any literary magazine looking to keep their NEA funding if you know what I mean. #whitehouse, #poetry, #maga, #epstein, #ghislainemawell, #trump