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MaryMolitierno

@marymolitierbo.bsky.social

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Retired History teacher, Gardener, Avid reader (formerly @corneliagracchi at X) No Chats henceforth🥲. Ohio asking for SS to prove over 21, nope, not gonna! #GardenGrewPeas #BalconyGardening #ResistanceGardening 🌱

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · Nov 29

Keep a light in the window, dear friends. (Home of abolitionist John Rankin which overlooked the Ohio River on a bluff easy to spot by refugee slaves making the crossing) #WeCanSurviveMaga

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 1d

Release the 10,000 Palestinian hostages

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 2d

IF THIS IS NOT HOSTAGE TAKING, WHAT IS? Israel refuses to release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya who insisted on staying with his patients in his bombed hospital even after his own son was murdered. Since then he has been held in one of Israel's torture facilities.

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 11h

G’nite from #BrookSide. Check out the candidates and VOTE. It may be your last opportunity.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 1d

When the squirrel met face to face with the the snail.

The John Rylands Library, Hebrew MS 6; The Rylands Sephardi Haggadah; 1335 CE-1340 CE; Catalonia, Spain f.33a @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 11h

Gorgeous! Settled for an old standard pasta here.

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jen-l-espinoza.bsky.social @jen-l-espinoza.bsky.social · 15h

Savory tomato galette for supper. #baking #tomatoes

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Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’ve set up a group on LinkedIn for retired academics (any discipline) who are still research / scholarship active and would like to discuss their work with others in a supportive space. It’s called Retired Academics.
If you’re on LinkedIn, and are retired, and academic, why not join?

#AcademicSky

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 1d

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’

This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Malcolm Stoneman @malcolmstoneman.bsky.social · 1d

Duomo #Siena #Italy

Beautiful in the floodlight.

A view over the rooftops to the floodlight Duomo with its black & white striped stonework

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5d

No university that signs the compact will be a university, in the accepted sense, anymore. They will be mere Trump Institutes, teaching only what subjects Trump doesn't bar them from teaching -- and only until he does. Signing is an abdication of responsibility and an act of great moral cowardice.

Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience

Guest Columnist Benjamin Nathans urges Penn’s leadership to resist the White House’s demands in its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

www.thedp.com

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 22h

Interesting piece from @jpnudell.bsky.social: joshuapnudell.com/2025/10/10/i...

Is Our Children Reading?

Reading discourse is back, but I hold out hope that a lot of young people harbor a desire to read more despite the many factors that are contributing its erosion.

joshuapnudell.com

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨Good news: The European Union has signaled it will not give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its #green rules in order to firm up a deal on #tariffs, @ec.europa.eu trade chief @sabineweyand.bsky.social has said to EU Member States. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules

Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

www.politico.eu

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Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10.bsky.social · 1d

Try to live in alignment with what truly matters to you.

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Patrick O. Cohrs @pocohrs.bsky.social · Jul 9

How to renew world order? My essay on cardinal lessons of the long 20th century for @EngelsbergIdeas - with many thanks!

engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-t...

How to renew world order

With vision, purpose and determination, Western leaders can rebuild a more just and resilient international system fit for a new age of great-power competition.

engelsbergideas.com

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Patrick O. Cohrs @pocohrs.bsky.social · 3d

The first “real” peace settlement after the First World War. What we can learn from the Locarno Pact of 1925 today, 100 years later:

unitednationslibrarygeneva.podbean.com/e/the-locarn...

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 2d

Don't miss our new @EmpirePodUK double bill on:

OTTOMAN GAZA:

From Selim the Grim to Allenby & the WW1 Battles of Gaza
With the great Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford
podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/2...

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 14h

Why, yes, Donald. That’s true. Why not just call off your thugs?

Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 1d

Curious syntax:

Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 1d

CONGRATULATIONS, Mayor-Elect Moreno (D)‼️🎉👏👍

lailluminator.com/2025/10/12/m...

Helena Moreno elected next mayor of New Orleans • Louisiana Illuminator

Moreno held a comfortable lead in both polling and campaign contributions over the course of the election season.

lailluminator.com

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Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social · 6d

Wow.

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MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 18h

Quality shops are hard to find here

MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite source of smoked fish….😢

Corby Kummer @ckummer.bsky.social · 3d

''The entire West Side is having a nervous breakdown over this,'' Nora Ephron said when a fight between the Zabar brothers and their then-partner Murray Klein threatened a sale out of the family. Luckily Zabars and Zabar's triumphed. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

MaryMolitierno @marymolitierbo.bsky.social · 1d

This is lovely!

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Sebastian Tomasz Drozdowski @stdrozdowski72.bsky.social · 3d

#photography #nature #color #canon #butterfly #noAL (c)stdrozdowski72

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Activate Maine💪🗓️ @activatemaine.bsky.social · 3d

The NO Kings DAY
ECONOMIC BLACKOUT
October 18th
No shopping
No spending
Shut the Country Down
Stand in Solidarity

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