MartheHortensia
@marthehortensia.bsky.social
Farm life & Film life…Set Decorator of historic films, period films, avid gardener, politically minded, delver into history, the arts & culture. Resistance, refuse to obey in advance, re: all things tyrannical. New home in Bluesky, post election, 2024.
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I feel like I'm writing out the ABCs here. It's all obvious, extremely well explored by a host of scholars in the wake of WWII.
But US elites are intellectually crippled by American exceptionalism & so cannot accept that it just is what it looks like, same as everywhere else.
But US elites are intellectually crippled by American exceptionalism & so cannot accept that it just is what it looks like, same as everywhere else.
September 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I feel like I'm writing out the ABCs here. It's all obvious, extremely well explored by a host of scholars in the wake of WWII.
But US elites are intellectually crippled by American exceptionalism & so cannot accept that it just is what it looks like, same as everywhere else.
But US elites are intellectually crippled by American exceptionalism & so cannot accept that it just is what it looks like, same as everywhere else.
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Watch: they're going to develop & execute a plan to steal the election right in front of us, in public, because they know courts won't stop them, they know Dems won't fight, and they know media will never call it what it is. At this point why would they think anything else?
😡 It’s starting again. “The president’s authority is limited in his role w/ regard to elections except where there is a threat to the national sovereignty of the US — as I think…we can establish w/ the porous system that we have,’ said [Cleta] Mitchell…on a podcast hosted by…Tony Perkins.” 9/3/25 1/
Cleta Mitchell Thinks Trump Will Use Emergency Powers to Take Control of Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Watch: they're going to develop & execute a plan to steal the election right in front of us, in public, because they know courts won't stop them, they know Dems won't fight, and they know media will never call it what it is. At this point why would they think anything else?
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The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health made America into the world’s undisputed leader in science and technology. Nearly 70 years later, that leadership is in peril.
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health made America into the world’s undisputed leader in science and technology. Nearly 70 years later, that leadership is in peril.
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In 1775, we fought a revolution over taxes. In 2025, we just renamed them tariffs.
September 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
In 1775, we fought a revolution over taxes. In 2025, we just renamed them tariffs.
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Rape is bad.
Vaccines are good.
Assault is bad.
Racial profiling is bad.
It’s depressing that has to be said.
Vaccines are good.
Assault is bad.
Racial profiling is bad.
It’s depressing that has to be said.
September 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Rape is bad.
Vaccines are good.
Assault is bad.
Racial profiling is bad.
It’s depressing that has to be said.
Vaccines are good.
Assault is bad.
Racial profiling is bad.
It’s depressing that has to be said.
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writing crime haikus to my crime partner which i decorate with a crime drawing for his birthday card
September 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM
writing crime haikus to my crime partner which i decorate with a crime drawing for his birthday card
Agreed…everyone knows it, as certain as your bold pubic mons signature claims. “You can grab em by the pussy”…indeed, Donald…you’re guilty as Freudian F**k. #birthdaybook
September 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Agreed…everyone knows it, as certain as your bold pubic mons signature claims. “You can grab em by the pussy”…indeed, Donald…you’re guilty as Freudian F**k. #birthdaybook
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Right-wing justices on the Supreme Court have sanctioned racial profiling when targeting law-abiding immigrant communities.
Shame on these extremists.
They have zero credibility.
Shame on these extremists.
They have zero credibility.
September 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Right-wing justices on the Supreme Court have sanctioned racial profiling when targeting law-abiding immigrant communities.
Shame on these extremists.
They have zero credibility.
Shame on these extremists.
They have zero credibility.
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As a bookish kid, I admired the Supreme Court for having the character to unanimously come out against segregation in the 1950s, when no other branch of our government would have had that courage.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
As a bookish kid, I admired the Supreme Court for having the character to unanimously come out against segregation in the 1950s, when no other branch of our government would have had that courage.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
So it saddens me to see it lose its way and endorse judging people for the color of their skin today.
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I’m honored to serve on the new January 6th subcommittee alongside and Rep. Swalwell @repmoskowitz.bsky.social. Together, we will defend the Constitution, protect the truth, and make sure the American people never forget who was responsible for the defilement of the Capitol.
September 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I’m honored to serve on the new January 6th subcommittee alongside and Rep. Swalwell @repmoskowitz.bsky.social. Together, we will defend the Constitution, protect the truth, and make sure the American people never forget who was responsible for the defilement of the Capitol.
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So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.
September 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.
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CBS will be Fox II
"The new ownership of CBS News on Monday selected Kenneth R. Weinstein, a former chief executive of the Hudson Institute, a right-leaning policy think tank, to review complaints about its coverage."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/b...
"The new ownership of CBS News on Monday selected Kenneth R. Weinstein, a former chief executive of the Hudson Institute, a right-leaning policy think tank, to review complaints about its coverage."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/b...
CBS Taps Conservative Policy Veteran for New Ombudsman Role
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
CBS will be Fox II
"The new ownership of CBS News on Monday selected Kenneth R. Weinstein, a former chief executive of the Hudson Institute, a right-leaning policy think tank, to review complaints about its coverage."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/b...
"The new ownership of CBS News on Monday selected Kenneth R. Weinstein, a former chief executive of the Hudson Institute, a right-leaning policy think tank, to review complaints about its coverage."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/b...
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Important to remember, as hard as it is most days.
“When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is.”
— Carl Sagan
“When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is.”
— Carl Sagan
August 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Important to remember, as hard as it is most days.
“When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is.”
— Carl Sagan
“When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is.”
— Carl Sagan
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Gift link: lovely appreciation of the astonishingly talented Tina Modotti (1896-1942) by Grace Linden for the NYT. #skystorians www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Overlooked No More: Tina Modotti, Whose Life Was as Striking as Her Photographs
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Gift link: lovely appreciation of the astonishingly talented Tina Modotti (1896-1942) by Grace Linden for the NYT. #skystorians www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
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There are two famous tales from #JapaneseFolklore about magical infants being discovered in mysterious places. The first is about Momotaro (translates as peach boy) who was found by an older couple inside a giant peach. He grew up to become a hero. Read more in thread below.
#MythologyMonday
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#MythologyMonday
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July 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
There are two famous tales from #JapaneseFolklore about magical infants being discovered in mysterious places. The first is about Momotaro (translates as peach boy) who was found by an older couple inside a giant peach. He grew up to become a hero. Read more in thread below.
#MythologyMonday
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#MythologyMonday
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A nod to last night’s full moon, which was obscured by an evening storm along the eastern seaboard. Tonight I’ll have another look at the fullness of this rising moon just past sunset.
September 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
A nod to last night’s full moon, which was obscured by an evening storm along the eastern seaboard. Tonight I’ll have another look at the fullness of this rising moon just past sunset.
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E. Jean Carroll is what happens when you have a spine.
September 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
E. Jean Carroll is what happens when you have a spine.
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A federal appeals court in New York upheld the $83.3 million judgment imposed on Trump for defaming former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in 2019. Thank you Roberta Kaplan 👏👏
September 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A federal appeals court in New York upheld the $83.3 million judgment imposed on Trump for defaming former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in 2019. Thank you Roberta Kaplan 👏👏
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Columbia University, big law firms and major Fortune 500 companies have consistently rolled over to Trump. Meanwhile, E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels and the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein consistently stand up to him despite the risk of losing everything.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...
Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Columbia University, big law firms and major Fortune 500 companies have consistently rolled over to Trump. Meanwhile, E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels and the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein consistently stand up to him despite the risk of losing everything.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...
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I wish I lived in a country where Republicans had at least half the balls of E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, or the Epstein survivors.
September 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I wish I lived in a country where Republicans had at least half the balls of E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, or the Epstein survivors.
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Bad News for Trump. Pay up bitch!
A federal appeals court has upheld the $83.3M judgment against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, rejecting his immunity claim and noting he acted with “reckless disregard for the truth.”
A federal appeals court has upheld the $83.3M judgment against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, rejecting his immunity claim and noting he acted with “reckless disregard for the truth.”
September 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Bad News for Trump. Pay up bitch!
A federal appeals court has upheld the $83.3M judgment against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, rejecting his immunity claim and noting he acted with “reckless disregard for the truth.”
A federal appeals court has upheld the $83.3M judgment against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, rejecting his immunity claim and noting he acted with “reckless disregard for the truth.”