Marceline White
@therealmarceline.bsky.social
ED of Economic Action Maryland. Writer. Pushcart & Best of the Net nominated poet. Advocate. Leftist.Tarot reader. chronically ill, perpetually bi, sometimes snarky. Good cook, bad gardener. www.marcelinewhitewrites.com, www.econaction.org
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this AI initiative is a high risk system according to Maryland's own AI Risk Classification System.
why wasn't this mentioned? what safeguards are involved? where's the mandatory AI Risk Assessment report that's supposed to be made?
why wasn't this mentioned? what safeguards are involved? where's the mandatory AI Risk Assessment report that's supposed to be made?
November 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
this AI initiative is a high risk system according to Maryland's own AI Risk Classification System.
why wasn't this mentioned? what safeguards are involved? where's the mandatory AI Risk Assessment report that's supposed to be made?
why wasn't this mentioned? what safeguards are involved? where's the mandatory AI Risk Assessment report that's supposed to be made?
I am so thrilled and honored that @neologismpoetry.bsky.social nominated my poem “ Hunger Ghazal, 1981” for a Best of the Net nomination. Congratulations to the other BOTN & Pushcart nominees.
October 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I am so thrilled and honored that @neologismpoetry.bsky.social nominated my poem “ Hunger Ghazal, 1981” for a Best of the Net nomination. Congratulations to the other BOTN & Pushcart nominees.
If you are in Baltimore City or anywhere in Maryland come to our house party with special guest Comptroller Lierman.
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
If you are in Baltimore City or anywhere in Maryland come to our house party with special guest Comptroller Lierman.
#Maryland Did you know I run two organizations? Last year we launched a sister C4 organization (Economic Action Maryland) to build power and ensure that voters know which legislators and elected officials are voting for and leading on economic justice issues. Here is our 1st legislative scorecard!
October 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#Maryland Did you know I run two organizations? Last year we launched a sister C4 organization (Economic Action Maryland) to build power and ensure that voters know which legislators and elected officials are voting for and leading on economic justice issues. Here is our 1st legislative scorecard!
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Let this sink in: A president can apparently now order lethal force outside of congressionally declared wars, in international waters, without oversight, and face no personal criminal or civil liability—even if the action was blatantly illegal.
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How the Supreme Court Turned Trump Into a Danger to Everyone
The administration’s decision to launch an attack against alleged drug runners in the Caribbean is a lawless act—or at least it used to be.
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September 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Let this sink in: A president can apparently now order lethal force outside of congressionally declared wars, in international waters, without oversight, and face no personal criminal or civil liability—even if the action was blatantly illegal.
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so happy with @vanhollen.senate.gov leadership on this and in so many other areas since January. and of course @sanders.senate.gov always
September 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
so happy with @vanhollen.senate.gov leadership on this and in so many other areas since January. and of course @sanders.senate.gov always
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Oregon’s Board of Pharmacy is holding an emergency meeting today to discuss a change in protocol for vaccine administration around fall respiratory viruses. That change could allow pharmacists to administer vaccines without a prescription, regardless of what ACIP decides.
September 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Oregon’s Board of Pharmacy is holding an emergency meeting today to discuss a change in protocol for vaccine administration around fall respiratory viruses. That change could allow pharmacists to administer vaccines without a prescription, regardless of what ACIP decides.
In light of the ongoing genocide, thought I would reshare my poem “Meditations on Martyrs, or Shuhada Ghazal” which was published in the About Place Journal’s Shaping Destiny edition last October.
August 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In light of the ongoing genocide, thought I would reshare my poem “Meditations on Martyrs, or Shuhada Ghazal” which was published in the About Place Journal’s Shaping Destiny edition last October.
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To say that "the data show these vaccines fail" in regards to the mRNA plaform is unforgivable.
For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.
For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.
August 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
To say that "the data show these vaccines fail" in regards to the mRNA plaform is unforgivable.
For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.
For those of you that don't remember - this is the data from a SINGLE dose. In December 2020. So good I cried in grateful tears.
I just received my copy of the Connecticut River Review in the mail. I love the cover! So thrilled my poem “ Self-Portrait: Contents of My Junk Drawer” was included alongside so many great pieces.
July 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I just received my copy of the Connecticut River Review in the mail. I love the cover! So thrilled my poem “ Self-Portrait: Contents of My Junk Drawer” was included alongside so many great pieces.
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A journalistic principle I’ve come to believe in quite strongly, thanks to experience of the Sony and Podesta hacks, is that bar for publishing stories based on *hacked* material should be quite high. It really should be unambiguously newsworthy to clear it.
July 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A journalistic principle I’ve come to believe in quite strongly, thanks to experience of the Sony and Podesta hacks, is that bar for publishing stories based on *hacked* material should be quite high. It really should be unambiguously newsworthy to clear it.
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so let me get this straight—the NYT accepted hacked information given to them by a substack white supremacist to be used against a mayoral candidate?
July 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
so let me get this straight—the NYT accepted hacked information given to them by a substack white supremacist to be used against a mayoral candidate?
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it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.
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A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Mahmood Mamdani · The Asian Question: On Leaving Uganda
President Yoweri Museveni was careful not to refer to Asians as citizens; he explained that they were ‘investors’,...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
A thing that makes that Times story especially odious is that Zohran Mamdani's father was LITERALLY expelled from Uganda during Idi Amin's fascist effort to scapegoat Asian Ugandans as not really African www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Seriously, every person involved in bringing this nonsense to print should not be in this profession.
July 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Seriously, every person involved in bringing this nonsense to print should not be in this profession.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.
This is why we must fix the system.
Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.
This is why we must fix the system.
June 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.
This is why we must fix the system.
Is it any wonder so many feel abandoned by our economy? People lose faith, and a demagogue fills the void.
This is why we must fix the system.
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An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
June 27, 2025 at 2:13 AM
An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.
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To jump on this point, here are places that have implemented some of these radical ideas:
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
Exactly! Mamdani's most "radical" proposals — free buses, government grocery stores, higher taxes on the wealthy, a huge increase in affordable housing — really aren't that radical.
The centrist meltdown has to be about something else.
The centrist meltdown has to be about something else.
on Mamdani's city-run groceries idea, "laboratories of democracy" are one of the great U.S. strengths - even if you don't think it's likely to work, it's really interesting to see it tested. Maybe it'll be really successful! Maybe it'll fail for reasons we don't expect!
June 27, 2025 at 1:47 AM
To jump on this point, here are places that have implemented some of these radical ideas:
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas
Free buses: Akron, Ohio
Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota
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This is excellent.
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 27, 2025 at 3:37 AM
This is excellent.
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No one:
Me: Holy shit, this week is a lot.
Me: Holy shit, this week is a lot.
June 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
No one:
Me: Holy shit, this week is a lot.
Me: Holy shit, this week is a lot.
If you’re in Baltimore, come by & hear my “Ted Talk on speed” about 19th century French poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore whose story in verse comprises part of my poetry manuscript of real and fictional “Marcelines”
June 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If you’re in Baltimore, come by & hear my “Ted Talk on speed” about 19th century French poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore whose story in verse comprises part of my poetry manuscript of real and fictional “Marcelines”
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Cuomo’s biggest donors are cheering Trump on. These are the MAGA warmongers who would have his ear in City Hall.
June 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Cuomo’s biggest donors are cheering Trump on. These are the MAGA warmongers who would have his ear in City Hall.
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Israel is bombing Gaza, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria
Israeli military has recently attacked Yemen, attempting to assassinate senior Houthi figure, Israeli media says reut.rs/400oDkP
Israeli military has recently attacked Yemen, attempting to assassinate senior Houthi figure, Israeli media says
The Israeli media said on Saturday that the Israeli military recently attacked Yemen, attempting to assassinate senior Houthi figure.
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June 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Israel is bombing Gaza, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria