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Maxine Scates

@maxinescatespoet.bsky.social

I’m the, author of four books of poetry, most recently My Wilderness (Pitt Poetry Series 2021) , teacher, gardener, walker with Sylvie my dog.

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A good day in Eugene, Oregon.

19.10.2025 03:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

If you read nothing else today, I pray that you will read every word of this necessary, powerful, and much-needed piece by @nhannahjones.bsky.social.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

28.09.2025 18:01 — 👍 568    🔁 176    💬 38    📌 15
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Judge Blocks Trump Administration Tactics in L.A. Immigration Raids

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...

12.07.2025 02:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"We don't have an answer as to what happens the decade after." Ayman Mohyeldin reflects on remarks by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak about the potential long term fallout of a possible regime change in Iran.

22.06.2025 02:46 — 👍 367    🔁 85    💬 28    📌 5
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No Kings Day Eugene, Oregon

15.06.2025 00:51 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Eugene,Oregon

06.04.2025 02:16 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"It is those who wrestle with the challenging contradictions of this country, those who see the truth of our shortcomings, but also hold on to an unshakeable belief in the possibilities of this nation, who teach us how to commit ourselves to improving our deeply flawed and often perverse nation."

10.03.2025 02:09 — 👍 184    🔁 36    💬 0    📌 1
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Democracy is Crumbling. Is Anybody Doing Anything? Yes. And You Can Too.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

11.02.2025 03:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

The Logic of Destruction
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

04.02.2025 04:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Fitzcarraldo Editions Archive: Diane Seuss in conversation with Sandeep Parmar Diane Seuss, author of frank: sonnets and Modern Poetry, speaks with poet and critic Sandeep Parmar, author of Faust, Eidolon and Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies, about her work to date. The discus
02.02.2025 00:51 — 👍 48    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 2
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Joe Biden Frees Leonard Peltier The ailing Native American rights activist has been in prison for nearly 50 years after the U.S. government lied to put him there.

www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bi...

20.01.2025 17:41 — 👍 47    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 3
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Above the fog

06.12.2024 21:39 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Self-Elegies I wouldn’t press myself into a grief box, but I will confess I’m happiest under a sleeping sky, love the darkness like I loved to run through old-growth Doug firs and cedars. It’s the never-leaving pa...

One of the bravest and most gifted poets I know. This is a must listen. #poetry @marthasilano.bsky.social www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

03.12.2024 09:26 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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Late Fall

26.11.2024 18:59 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | The Secret Behind America’s Moral Panic Trans rights aren’t just trans rights. They’re reproductive rights.

M. Gessen deftly brings together many anxieties about fertility, regret, gender norms, and more. And they mentioned my work on intersex! I agree that trans rights are reproductive rights.

22.11.2024 12:22 — 👍 18    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 2
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From Inger Christensen’s
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17.11.2024 21:27 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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