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Marianne Villanueva

@2waystreet.bsky.social

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Writer, Book Addict, Avid Gardener 4 Story Collections: Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila, Mayor of the Roses, The Lost Language, and Residents of the Deep (Coming August 2025 from Unsolicited Press)

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Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Beth Alvarado's review of Residents of the Deep

5/5: There are so many stories in this book that I love. “Damaguete” is a chilling story about a mother and son going to an isolated resort full of powerful and predatory men. The child can only sense...

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Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 8h

Coming soon (December): SCOTUS will rule on whether Trump can fire members of independent agencies like the FEC (Federal Elections Commission) And people still think we should wait for the midterms???

Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 8h

This SCOTUS's ruling on presidential immunity in effect handed the presidency to Trump. The next President (providing we can still vote next year) should dissolve SCOTUS.

Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 8h

And he'll win again. I hope blue Texas raises a ruckus. It might be harder to do after Trump fires all the Democratic members of the Federal Election Commission. The case of whether or not he can fire members of independent agencies goes up b4 this SCOTUS in December)

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Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 8h

Amy Coney Barrett so MAD at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for speaking the truth about this SCOTUS's rightist agenda. Amy, you need to chill. There is NOTHING to be afraid of. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is simply exercising her rights under the First Amendment (freedom of speech)

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 11h

You know what fascism looks like? Attorney General Letitia James getting criminally indicted on literal trumped-up charges by the criminal who she fought to hold accountable for the actual crimes he committed and is now using the full power of the US govt to seek vengeance.

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Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 8h

Abbott has a lock on Texas. He will never be a normal person, he is beyond that place.

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Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 8h

A Grand Jury found that it is ok for the govt to investigate Letitia James for . . . mortgage fraud??? Haven't they heard that mortgage fraud is the new pedophilia?

Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 8h

On the last day of the previous SCOTUS term, MAGA Justice Amy Coney-Barrett delivers stunning rebuke to fellow justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, forgetting that a white woman lecturing a black woman is TERRIBLE OPTICS.

Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 8h

This SCOTUS: It is ok for ICE to target people for their skin color and poor English. Also this SCOTUS: It is not ok for schools to use race as a factor in admissions.
Oh the hypocrisy of this SCOTUS.

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Raul Toblerone @raultoblerone.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe he heard Pritzker and Newsom saying they would leave the organization if they weren’t supported.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Newsom, Pritzker threaten to pull out of National Governors Association over Trump’s troop deployments

The governors accused the bipartisan group of going silent.

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Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 8h

After Newsom threatens to leave the National Governors Association, NGA Chairman Kevin Stitt (a Republican) breaks with Trump! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: A librarian fired by in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves just got the last laugh – a $700,000 settlement for violating her first amendment rights. 👏 May this be a warning across the nation.

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Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 8h

Also Newsom: Any California school that negotiates w Trump will lose its Cal grants.

Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 10h

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 19h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 8h

wsj editorial: thank u to SCOTUS for upholding the 2nd amendment (w/c means more gun violence, YAY) & for ruling that it's ok for ICE to target people for skin color and poor English while not allowing schools to take race into consideration on college applications. This editorial is the WORST.

Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 9h

John Roberts has been on the SCOTUS 20 yrs. This wsj editorial from the weekend of Oct. 4-5 edition: "Looking back decades reveals how much progress the Roberts era has made toward restoring the founding vision of the Constitution."
Excuse me??? NO.

Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 10h

It's not HIS National Guard, okay?

Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 11h

#amwatching the premiere of The Last Frontier because I like #jasonclarke

Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 12h

#booksky "Mother", in Brian Evenson's collection Good Night, Sleep Tight, is a GREAT story. #amreadinghorror

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Zeb Haradon @zebharadon.bsky.social · 1d

This graveyard in Seattle has a phone not connected to a phone line so you can talk to loved ones who died

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Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 17h

Current Read: A Collection of Spectral Tales

These stories are very, very good. It's my first time reading Brian Everson, who's been called "the master of literary horror." I am not usually a fan of the horror genre, since I scare easily. But I'm a third of the. way, and I'm enjoying Everson's…

Current Read: A Collection of Spectral Tales

These stories are very, very good. It's my first time reading Brian Everson, who's been called "the master of literary horror." I am not usually a fan of the horror genre, since I scare easily. But I'm a third of the. way, and I'm enjoying Everson's language. There was only one story that I couldn't get through, and it was the one about the man who, every time he fell asleep, heard someone from another dimension calling his name repeatedly -- in other words, a stalker, but from another dimension.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The counterterrorism experts have arrived at the White House..

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Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social · 1d

Laura whats-her-face is not funny, she's not witty, and she's definitely out of one-liners.

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 1d

Gov. Abbott says that if anyone attacks National Guard troops after Gov. Pritzker’s criticism, Pritzker is an “accomplice.” Interesting. Does Abbott apply the same logic to Donald Trump, who spent weeks “stirring up” the mob that attacked the Capitol on January 6th

Texas’ Blue-State Deployments Shred Relations Between Governors

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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 1d

Last year, all 50 governors signed a letter opposing Biden's transfer of Air National Guard troops to Space Force, saying it "disregards gubernatorial authorities."

Now, when it matters most, they are ceding authority and leaving Pritzker, Newsom, and Kotek to fend for themselves.

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Salon.com @salon.com · 1d

At the Supreme Court, conservative justices questioned Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy — but sidestepped one key truth: kids aren’t choosing this “therapy” on their own. Parents and religious leaders are driving it.

How SCOTUS covers for the abuse of LGBTQ kids

In conversion therapy case, conservative justices signal queer kids are born hating themselves

www.salon.com

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