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Mary Nasca
@mnasca.bsky.social
She/her

Believes that people should have autonomy over their bodies.

Believes in social justice, equality & equity for all. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Believes no one should be disappeared to a foreign country or concentration camp.
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“On a podcast last year, Howard Lutnick described being so revolted by a mid-2000s visit to Mr. Epstein’s Manhattan mansion that he decided to ‘never be in a room with that disgusting person ever again.’

“Lutnick’s disgust appeared to prove temporary.”

Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
They Said They Weren’t Close to Epstein. New Documents Show Otherwise.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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"the hysteria that has developed around the abuse of women"
Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky
February 1, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Keep being loud!
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason
That's correct. Including the Founders.
February 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Worse than we know. Horrified by how normalized it is. Post looks at last 20+ yrs/patterns. Recommend full document 50pgs, see link and YouTube testimony.

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. "
I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 1, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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And one reason that federal funding agencies became such a huge target in Project 2025 were the evidence-based efforts that were (slowly) shifting policies so that this public good would actually fund scientific research that included and benefitted all Americans, not just white cis men
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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My grandparents were Holocaust survivors and they were never precious at all about "don't compare anything to the Holocaust!" They taught me about the genocides of Armenians and Cambodians as examples of how it had happened before and could happen again.
February 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home.

Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).
February 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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U.S. District Judge Fred Biery wrote: “For some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds, and are bereft of human decency.”
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Live: 5-year-old detainee Liam Ramos and his father back in Minnesota
A federal judge in Texas ordered the release of the Columbia Heights preschooler and his dad from a federal detention center.
www.startribune.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Seeing as new Epstein files just dropped, here’s a reminder about Alex Acosta’s involvement with the State Leadership Initiative alongside Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts & Nate Fischer.
Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts sits on the board of the State Leadership Initiative (SLI), which was co-founded by Nate Fischer & Noah Wall. Alex Acosta (of Epstein plea deal infamy) is the chairman. WTF? 1/
stateleadership.org/about/
About | State Leadership Initiative
About Our Vision Americans transforming their state and community into a legacy their children and grandchildren will be proud to call their home. SLI was f ...
stateleadership.org
February 1, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/
This one weird trick could stop US women from voting | Arwa Mahdawi
The Save Act – which would do the opposite of its title – could have a huge impact on the midterm elections
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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I’m trying not to be impulsive in my commentary so I’m just posting this story without offering any of the comments that I could readily make about it

But 2014 is after 2007
Harvard Professor Lisa Randall Maintained Years of Contact with Epstein, Flew on Jet | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard professor Lisa J. Randall ’84 maintained years of contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein — exchanging emails and phone calls and flying on his private jet in 2014 — according t...
www.thecrimson.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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Bondi’s attack on Judge Boasberg summarily dismissed. This was one of several MAGA attack vectors: House impeachment filings; Senate “suspension” letter...
US Justice Department's misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg gets tossed
A federal appeals court judge has dismissed a judicial misconduct complaint by U.S. Justice Department against a judge who clashed with President Donald Trump's administration over its move to deport ...
www.reuters.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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Women call your Reps and Senators
The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/
This one weird trick could stop US women from voting | Arwa Mahdawi
The Save Act – which would do the opposite of its title – could have a huge impact on the midterm elections
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter
A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...
www.salemreporter.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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2008: Epstein is convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution

2018: Despite that conviction, [files indicate] he was invited by Rowling’s team - along with a guest of his choosing - to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the private after-party

Protecting women and children, is it?
JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 1, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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TRUMP TODAY: There was an election in Texas? What?

TRUMP YESTERDAY:
February 1, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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Under any other president, this would be treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.

A foreign government giving hundreds of millions of dollars directly to the Trumps.

He promised to make your family better off, but instead he’s cashing in for his own.
February 1, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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🗣️ @chrismurphyct.bsky.social on FOX: “Minnesota is a dystopia. ICE is tear gassing elementary schools, disappearing legal residents, murdering 🇺🇸 citizens. They are making us less safe, not more. This is an emergency. The constitution is being abandoned by this administration.”
February 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Bill Ackman went after academic plagiarism even though his wife had plagiarized in academia.

David Brooks said Epstein Files weren't worth looking at while knowing he'd met with Epstein.

Team Trump campaigned on releasing Epstein Files knowing Trump was Epstein's confidant.

The hubris is endemic.
I find it kinda astonishing all these people who have spent so many years in public life, many of them media/ PR pros, didn’t think to get ahead of these stories. Did they really think it’d never come out? Bowles & Weiss never thought to mention it to ‘Free Press’ subscribers?
Not only is that the very same Nellie Bowles, but she pops up 17 different times in the files!
January 31, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..."

www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
February 1, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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February 1, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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it has been clear for months
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
February 1, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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Jeffery Epstein was already a convicted sex criminal and human trafficker when Noam Chomsky sent this email.
Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky
February 1, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM