Jo-Ann Mort

Netanyahu Cooks Up a False Story to Admonish Himself of Any Guilt re October 7th Attack By Hamas ~Surely Being Pro-Israel Can't Mean Supporting the Current Israeli Gov't~

Netanyahu Cooks Up a False Story to Admonish Himself of Any Guilt re October 7th Attack By Hamas
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New Year's Eve in Jerusalem we must patch the world the best we can.....

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Jo-Ann Mort (@joannmort1) To Susie Wiles: from one daughter of an alcoholic to another - there is such a thing as a dry drunk. You don’t have to imbibe to have the personality - she called it exactly right .

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Occasional writing from my past publications: Re-reading The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing: feminism, communism, and Blairism

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Occasional writing from my past publications: Re-reading The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing: feminism, communism, and Blairism

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Michael Harrington and Another America: The Importance of the Written Word poetry and politics can be intertwined to make a difference

Michael Harrington and Another America: The Importance of the Written Word
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What happened to Stephen Miller? Raised a liberal, he is now driving Trump’s anti-immigration policies

Stephen Miller was raised a liberal. Now he is driving Trump’s anti-immigration policies. @jo-ann.bsky.social charts his transformation.
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What happened to Stephen Miller? Raised a liberal, he is now driving Trump’s anti-immigration policies

Good piece on the evil Stephen Miller.
By @jo-ann.bsky.social

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The delicate dance of the Democrats With victories across the US last week, including Zohran Mamdani's in New York, the Democratic party showed it can still woo voters back from Trump. N...

The Democratic party has shown it can woo voters back from Trump. Now it needs to maintain the momentum, writes @jo-ann.bsky.social.

The Urgency of Poetry writing poetry in a time of desperate politics

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Image of tunnel opening into sky with the quote "My circle, my hearth, my home" by Jo-Ann Mort

Welcome to SWWIM Every Day’s preview coverage of Miami Book Fair (MBF) 2025!

From “The Men” by Jo-Ann Mort @jo-ann.bsky.social

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The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of American Socialism

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s... i'm in this photo-front right-i was chair of the NY Local at the time of DSOC

come see me on Monday night, 7 pm, Brookline Booksmith

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Jo-Ann Mort with Leah Hager Cohen: A Precise Chaos

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FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

How the Shadow of Jeffrey Epstein Hangs Over Trump’s UK State Visit A weak Keir Starmer made a baffling invitation to Trump. Then, via Peter Mandelson, the Epstein story inserted itself into the narrative.

How the Shadow of Jeffrey EpsteinHangs Over Trump’s UK State Visit newrepublic.com/article/2004... via @newrepublic.com

The president of the United States literally announces he's going to start a war AGAINST AN AMERICAN CITY. And I wake up this morning, and it's a minor headline on the @nytimes.com home page, and at @washingtonpost.com, I don't see it anywhere on the homepage.

You Think the Bari Weiss–CBS News Story Is Bad? No—It’s Much Worse. This is an “only in America” story, all right. Creepy, corporate, neofascist America, that is.

New Column: Soon enough, the network of Edward R. Murrow will belong to the right wing. Wake up, rich liberals, and do something about this. newrepublic.com/post/200042/... via @newrepublic.com

A review of @jo-ann.bsky.social's first poetry collection, A Precise Chaos, in @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social:
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"Mort repeat­ed­ly asks ques­tions about poet­ry, about Jew­ish iden­ti­ty, and about who we are..."
The book: www.arrowsmithpress.com/jo-ann-mort

Spring Arrowsmith poet and journalist @jo-ann.bsky.social reflects on her 30-year hiatus from poetry to focus on journalism -- and what it took to publish her first collection at 69.
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Les Etats-Unis refusent l’octroi de visas à des responsables palestiniens avant l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU Le porte-parole du secrétaire général de l’ONU a déclaré qu’il était « important » que tous les Etats et les observateurs permanents, y compris les Palestiniens, soient représentés lors d’un sommet prévu la veille du début de l’Assemblée générale.

Les Etats-Unis refusent l’octroi de visas à des responsables palestiniens avant l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU

I Visit Israel Every Summer. I’ve Never Seen Hopelessness Like This. The slaughter of Palestinians continues. Most Israelis hate the war and their government. But a tiny right-wing faction controls all.

I Visit Israel Every Summer. I’ve Never Seen Hopelessness Like This. newrepublic.com/article/1995... via @newrepublic.com

“A profoundly unpopular government is at war with its own people. It is corrupt, immoral, and taking Israel to a place of extremes, where there is might at the expense of morals; messianism at the expense of humanity and hope.” Extraordinary piece by @jo-ann.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com.

Emmanuel Macron hits back at Benjamin Netanyahu over ‘murderous’ Gaza war French president rejects Israeli prime minister’s accusations that France is fuelling antisemitism

Macron hits back at Netanyahu over ‘murderous’ Gaza war on.ft.com/4p1IlYD

I Visit Israel Every Summer. I’ve Never Seen Hopelessness Like This. The slaughter of Palestinians continues. Most Israelis hate the war and their government. But a tiny right-wing faction controls all.

I Visit Israel Every Summer. I’ve Never Seen Hopelessness Like This. newrepublic.com/article/1995... via @newrepublic.com

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From Brooklyn to the Middle East, lots of longing – and a bit of moral reckoning ***

"In Jo-Ann Mort's collection of poems, the yearning is for living ethically" thank you @etannechin.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/life/books/2...

YouTube video by Democracy Docket "People Are Going to Die Because of This Bill" | Gov. JB Pritzker on Democracy, the GOP's Budget

I've known and admired J.B. Pritzker for years. He is a true warrior for democracy. I think you will enjoy watching this conversation as much as I did recording it. youtu.be/wwxFVHCTvAA

A Precise Chaos How can contemporary Jewish poets adequately respond to the history of our time when it is continually and rapidly revising itself?

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