Matthew Laverty 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 (Chess_Poems)
@MattLavPoems
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At the intersection of something bigger | Poems at Poetry Quaterly et al. 🔗 ⬇️ | Co-Edits @Blanketsea | Chess_Poems on all platforms
North of Boston
Joined March 2016
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HAPPENING NOW: Massive crowd in Minneapolis for statewide 'ICE OUT' general strike
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People that are being snatched up by ICE are not allowed to call anyone letting them know do this vehicles are left with the windows broken out and their cars still running with their keys in them and all their personal property! Some had dogs left in them & one a young child!
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I was told by journalists that I wouldn’t be invited to certain parties after confronting Witkoff at Davos. Who cares. The point of journalism to is hold power to account and tell the truth. This is what is wrong with the media. Partying with corrupt politicians & lobbyists
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We are off the cliff, folks 🇺🇸
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
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who in the flying fuck is running this country?
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This is why your dollar is collapsing in a doom spiral. They will print until the very end. A hyperinflationary collapse of the currency is inevitable.
JUST IN - U.S. House passes additional $1,200,000,000,000 trillion spending package for the Pentagon, Education, Transportation, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security Department — AP
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"Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence," per FORTUNE
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Look at his little shirt buttoned up for picture day. This child is loved by a family and he deserves to be with them not locked up in concentration camp in Texas
ICE is kidnapping five year olds. I need you to look at Liam’s sweet face and see your own child. Don’t look away.
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Can’t get over this - extremely bad luck to get bitten by a shark, extremely good luck to have a nurse, paramedic, doctor, and “A clinical professor of emergency medicine specialising in pre-hospital critical care of severe injuries, traumatic cardiac arrest” nearby!!!!
The victim of Monday's shark attack in Manly was initially assessed as having a 5% chance. A clinical professor of emergency medicine specialising in pre-hospital critical care of severe injuries, traumatic cardiac arrest, and aeromedical retrieval was nearby and rushed to help.
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"There's even an airport, something that Gaza hasn't had" Gaza international airport opened in November 1998. The Israeli military destroyed it in 2001.
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White man BLOCKS Black FedEx driver on the job, calls him ‘BOY’ over & over, mocks him like it’s the Jim Crow era, then PULLS A GUN in broad daylight! Driver handles it like an absolute KING—stays calm while this coward loses it. This is attempted murder-level intimidation. ID
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So this is the guy who writes Trump‘s trolling mean tweets? 🤣😂
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"I bought 64GB ram this time 2 years ago for $200, let's see what Best Buy ha-DEAR GOD"
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BREAKING: A massive general strike has begun in Minnesota. Workers are walking out. Schools are emptying. Communities are shutting it down. This is what happens when the federal government turns a state into a raid zone. Minnesota is done being quiet.
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Friend owns a big vape shop in Atlanta. We got talking about the anti-THC regs coming down in GA. He said, the biggest lobby against gummies, edibles, THC, etc were…the alcohol companies. Their sales have been killed by gummies. Going to a football game? People take 1 gummy &
Five of the world’s largest alcohol producers are reportedly sitting on a massive surplus of unsold liquor, as global alcohol consumption continues to decline.
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My God what they are doing is absolutely heroic. Two energy workers recently died from sheer exhaustion and stress. Damn Russia, a million times over for the hell they are putting everyone through.
In Kyiv, emergency divers repaired a flooded thermal power plant in −15°C conditions. Under ice. Under fire
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People in Ukraine are starving. They are freezing. They are dying. This isn’t a headline—it’s daily life. Families huddle in the dark with no heat. Parents skip meals so their kids can eat. Elderly neighbors burn scraps to survive the night. Missiles destroy power grids;
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One of the most significant moments from the Trump Davos speech was when he said the quiet part out loud You cannot lower housing costs for young people without destroying millions in wealth for boomers "Every time you make it more affordable for somebody to own a house
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