Marion Donnelly 🍁✍️🧐♎️ ⚖️📚🐈⬛🍂
@mariondonnelly.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, outspoken Libra, book lover, cat mum, animal rights advocate, retired law professional. Former #Postie.
Mormonland, USA
Proudly Blue in a very Red state
Mormonland, USA
Proudly Blue in a very Red state
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A lifetime of "thoughts & prayers" have done JACK-SQUAT to reduce or eliminate gun violence. We need to do MORE.
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
December 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
A lifetime of "thoughts & prayers" have done JACK-SQUAT to reduce or eliminate gun violence. We need to do MORE.
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
It is the GUNS.
#SadButTRUE 💔
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Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
December 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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I'm happy to report that Melania Trump was left off Vogue's 2025 Best Dressed List for the 2nd year in a row, but former First Lady Michelle Obama made the cut. 😍
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I'm happy to report that Melania Trump was left off Vogue's 2025 Best Dressed List for the 2nd year in a row, but former First Lady Michelle Obama made the cut. 😍
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He got high on catnip, then passed out after trying to open a bag of cat treats he pilfered from an upper cabinet somehow. Happy #Caturday
December 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
He got high on catnip, then passed out after trying to open a bag of cat treats he pilfered from an upper cabinet somehow. Happy #Caturday
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Fox is blaming RFK Jr. for the measles outbreak. They promoted him, supported his nomination, and now they are turning on him. 🙄
December 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Fox is blaming RFK Jr. for the measles outbreak. They promoted him, supported his nomination, and now they are turning on him. 🙄
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Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.
December 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.
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December 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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ALERT: Active shooter warning. Brown University/Providence, Rhode Island. Shooter is NOT in custody.
Continue to shelter in place.
Continue to shelter in place.
December 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
ALERT: Active shooter warning. Brown University/Providence, Rhode Island. Shooter is NOT in custody.
Continue to shelter in place.
Continue to shelter in place.
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We’re def going back to the “roaring 50s” with a nice measles outbreak.
Nice work MAHA n stuff
Nice work MAHA n stuff
December 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We’re def going back to the “roaring 50s” with a nice measles outbreak.
Nice work MAHA n stuff
Nice work MAHA n stuff
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Happy 100th Birthday, Dick Van Dyke! 🎈🎉🎂
December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Happy 100th Birthday, Dick Van Dyke! 🎈🎉🎂
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In the newsletter this week, I point out that Stephen Miller’s great-replacement rhetoric depends on demonstrably false assumptions about immigrants’ politics.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...
Data is anti-fascist
Last week, this newsletter was refreshingly apolitical. Well, that was then.
Chapter 1
What they want you to believe about immigrants
You don't need to travel too far up the branches of White House...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In the newsletter this week, I point out that Stephen Miller’s great-replacement rhetoric depends on demonstrably false assumptions about immigrants’ politics.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...
www.howtoreadthisch.art/data-is-anti...
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Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.
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A series of AI-generated deepfakes and videos, many made with OpenAI's Sora, appears to show Ukrainian soldiers apologizing to the Russian people and blaming their government for the war.
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A series of AI-generated deepfakes and videos, many made with OpenAI's Sora, appears to show Ukrainian soldiers apologizing to the Russian people and blaming their government for the war.
As war with Russia drags on, ultrarealistic AI videos attempt to portray Ukrainian soldiers in peril
A series of AI-generated deepfakes and videos, many made with OpenAI's Sora, appears to show Ukrainian soldiers apologizing to the Russian people and blaming their government for the war.
www.nbcnews.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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A series of AI-generated deepfakes and videos, many made with OpenAI's Sora, appears to show Ukrainian soldiers apologizing to the Russian people and blaming their government for the war.
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A series of AI-generated deepfakes and videos, many made with OpenAI's Sora, appears to show Ukrainian soldiers apologizing to the Russian people and blaming their government for the war.
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Love them.
"Serpentine Fire" by Earth, Wind & Fire climbs seven spots to #28. #AT40
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Earth, Wind & Fire - Serpentine Fire (Official Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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December 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Love them.
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53 Republicans in the Senate. Four practical ones voted to extend the subsidies. 60 votes needed to pass it.
Are there 9 more out of 49 remaining Republicans who could be sobered up by constituents’ phone calls?
Are people seeing their health insurance costs for January yet?
Are there 9 more out of 49 remaining Republicans who could be sobered up by constituents’ phone calls?
Are people seeing their health insurance costs for January yet?
The bill needed 60 votes to pass, but only four Republicans broke with their party and voted to extend the subsidies that millions rely on: Josh Hawley, Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Susan Collins, resulting in a total of just 51 votes in favor. trib.al/09Q1dxK
List of Every Republican Who Voted to Make Obamacare More Expensive
Here is the full list of Republicans who don’t care that health insurance costs are about to skyrocket for millions of Americans.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
53 Republicans in the Senate. Four practical ones voted to extend the subsidies. 60 votes needed to pass it.
Are there 9 more out of 49 remaining Republicans who could be sobered up by constituents’ phone calls?
Are people seeing their health insurance costs for January yet?
Are there 9 more out of 49 remaining Republicans who could be sobered up by constituents’ phone calls?
Are people seeing their health insurance costs for January yet?
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Pete Buttigieg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez always express themselves with such intelligence and persuasiveness. They never disappoint.
December 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Pete Buttigieg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez always express themselves with such intelligence and persuasiveness. They never disappoint.
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Beautiful Brazilian woodpecker
December 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Beautiful Brazilian woodpecker
