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maryklida.bsky.social
@maryklida.bsky.social
Writer, publisher, artist
🚫MAGA 🚫Nudity 🚫Haters I mute rage baiters … my views are my own. Review the literature on logical fallacies, then we'll talk. https://www.logicalfallacies.org
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Sad news about Steve Cropper. What a great legacy he leaves behind.
Memphis Soul. There's nothing like it.
(The Black & white southern soul scene seemed to be part of a new world that was being born. I guess that as a nation we're still in labor.)
RIP Steve Cropper, here he is tearing it up with Booker T and the MGs in 1970 while Creedence Clearwater Revival watch ecstatically from backstage www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbBc...
Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (Live, 1970)
YouTube video by 60s70sVintageRock
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Gallup Poll shows Americans want a stronger policy supporting Ukraine and opposing Russia. They believe Trump's actions have been ill-advised and ineffective. In particular, Republicans have come once more to embrace the Ukraine cause.
December 5, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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This is barbaric.
3 Questions:

1) What are we doing?
2) How is this pro-life?
3) What are we doing?

www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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We are a nation of immigrants and laws. In the face of Trump’s threats to denaturalize U.S. citizens, courts must protect them from being punished for what they say or who they are.
bit.ly/4adIy67
Trump’s Push to Redefine Who Counts as American
Threats of denaturalization are the latest attack on immigrants — but they won’t stand up in court.
www.brennancenter.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
access to women's health care, so important.
December 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Those who waged this assault at Wilshire Boulevard Temple want to make public Jewish life impossible in America. All who oppose bigotry must ensure they fail. 3/3
December 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Mark your calendars: We will be hosting a live blog during oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter on Monday morning beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST.
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"There is a point in any declining republic where foreign and domestic policy stops looking like strategy and starts looking like a racket. We are well past that point."
-Rick Wilson
https://www.againstallenemies.net/p/war-criminals-and-war-criminals
War, Criminals, and War Criminals
Corruption, lawlessness, and evil inside Trump's inner circle.
www.againstallenemies.net
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
make it so and fast
STEFANIK, on Mike Johnson:

“.. He certainly wouldn’t have the votes to be speaker if there was a roll-call vote tomorrow. .. the majority of Republicans would vote for new leadership. It’s that widespread.”

@wsj.com #NYgov
www.wsj.com/politics/eli...
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
democracy for sale. not satire. how did it come to this?
Plop down a couple of million to Trump for a pardon that wipes out $15.5 mn in fines and penalties? An absolute bargain.
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER.
My latest in @thenation.com
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Trump pardons Henry Cuellar, an indicted felon who took money from Azerbaijan and a bunch of Mexican banks to secretly work for them in Congress. But, of course, he did nothing that Trump himself hasn't done.
December 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"This seventh national security memorandum from the Trump White House pushes the limits of presidential authority by targeting individuals and groups as potential domestic terrorists based on their beliefs rather than their actions ... a profound shift in U.S. counterterrorism policy:
December 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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As this year's Nobel Prizes are being announced, the remarkable story of physicist Lise Meitner, who discovered nuclear fission, was excluded from the Nobel Prize for her own discovery, and persevered to pave the way for women in science anyway: www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/27/l...
How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize
“Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep joy and awe that the natural order o…
www.themarginalian.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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It’s clear whom to indict for these crimes…
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
For the sake of all that is holy, pull yourself together EU ...
Belgium is not satisfied with the legal framework prepared for the reparations loan,Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot said.

"The text the EC will table today do not address our concerns in a satisfactory manner.It’s not acceptable to use the money&leave us alone facing the risks," he stated
December 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
breathtaking and kinetic. I can feel it.
Visualization: Near a Black Hole and Disk: What would it look like to plunge into a monster black hole? This image from a supercomputer visualization shows the sky as seen from a simulated camera plunging toward a 4-mn-solar-mass black hole, like the one at the center of our galaxy. The camera
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Some very good thoughts by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social on the US attempt to con the world on its support for Ukraine. I know I never believed the current administration was anywhere but in Putin's pocket, but the long game is what it is: open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Two Pieces of the Puzzle
Understanding the Trump Con on Ukraine and Europe
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"All naval personnel have a duty to comply with the law of armed conflict in good faith; prevent violations by others to the utmost of their ability; and refuse to comply with clearly illegal orders to commit violations of the law of armed conflict." www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...
Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors: An Expert Backgrounder
An expert backgrounder on the reported Hegseth "no quarter" order to kill everyone aboard a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean on Sept. 2.
www.justsecurity.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Meanwhile, Trump is saying, “Don’t be duped into following the Constitution”.
What more needs to be seen?
Take these traitors down.
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Just sent out this free post on two pieces of the puzzle in understanding the Trump administration's fake pivot to look like they might help Ukraine. Trump was keen to make sure that seized Russian assets were not given to Ukraine--as always follow the money. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Two Pieces of the Puzzle
Understanding the Trump Con on Ukraine and Europe
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Ruttе:It’s important that the peace process is there.Hopefully,it will lead to results…The best way to put pressure on the Russians is:

• One is making sure that the Russians understand that the flow of weapons into Ukraine will keep going
• And secondly,making sure that the economic sanctions bite
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Judge Howell just enjoined warrantless immigration arrests in DC without probable cause to believe the person is a flight risk.

Great work by ACLU and Amica

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71452...
December 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It will take us all to turn this ship on fire around ...
What countries are most admired and respected? After the arrival of Trump, the US simply dropped off the charts.
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
document, document, document
Pete Hegseth doubles down on War Crimes:

“We’ve only just begun striking narco folks and putting narco terrorists at the bottom of the ocean because they’ve been poisoning the American people,” Hegseth said sitting alongside President Trump during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.”
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM