Mary Anne Mercer
@mamercer.bsky.social
Grandmother, writer, progressive global health advocate, and always a Montanan
Civil society should be resisting Trump’s authoritarianism. It’s succumbing to it instead. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/civi...
Civil society should be resisting Trump’s authoritarianism. It’s succumbing to it instead.
My American Public Health Association membership was revoked after over 20 years because I protested for Palestine. As authoritarian norms spread in government, they are metastasizing into civil socie...
mondoweiss.net
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Civil society should be resisting Trump’s authoritarianism. It’s succumbing to it instead. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/civi...
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
Trump Administration Rescinds First Scientific Integrity Policy
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Trump Administration Rescinds First Scientific Integrity Policy
The decision prioritizes politics over science
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March 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Trump Administration Rescinds First Scientific Integrity Policy
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Budget efficiencies should start with the Pentagon www.stripes.com/opinion/2025...
Budget efficiencies should start with the Pentagon
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February 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Budget efficiencies should start with the Pentagon www.stripes.com/opinion/2025...
'The Trump Swamp Is Growing': President Fires Ethics Chief as DOJ Moves to Drop Eric Adams Charges www.commondreams.org/news/trump-f...
'The Trump Swamp Is Growing': President Fires Ethics Chief as DOJ Moves to Drop Eric Adams Charges | Common Dreams
"Nothing says corruption like firing the top ethics cop on the beat," said Public Citizen co-president Lisa Gilbert.
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February 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
'The Trump Swamp Is Growing': President Fires Ethics Chief as DOJ Moves to Drop Eric Adams Charges www.commondreams.org/news/trump-f...
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Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.
February 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.
Reposted by Mary Anne Mercer
I take my inclusion on Trump’s list as a backhanded compliment in response to our court successes against his administration this week. And I intend to return it in the best way I know how: by filing many more lawsuits against his and his cronies’ wrongdoing.
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Exclusive | Trump stripping the security clearances of numerous antagonists — including NY AG Letitia James, DA Alvin Bragg
President Trump has ordered security clearances stripped from a new hit list of antagonists.
nypost.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I take my inclusion on Trump’s list as a backhanded compliment in response to our court successes against his administration this week. And I intend to return it in the best way I know how: by filing many more lawsuits against his and his cronies’ wrongdoing.
nypost.com/2025/02/08/u...
nypost.com/2025/02/08/u...
Trump stop-work orders hit local aid and frontline communities : www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/01... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
Trump stop-work orders hit local aid and frontline communities
Shock, confusion, chaos: Local groups suspend US-funded aid while others try to re-open shuttered clinics and emergency services.
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February 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Trump stop-work orders hit local aid and frontline communities : www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/01... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
Trump-Musk Shutdown of USAID 'Would Have Deadly Consequences for Millions' www.commondreams.org/news/musk-sh...
Trump-Musk Shutdown of USAID 'Would Have Deadly Consequences for Millions' | Common Dreams
"Dismantling USAID would be a callous, destructive political power play," warned the president of Oxfam America.
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February 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Trump-Musk Shutdown of USAID 'Would Have Deadly Consequences for Millions' www.commondreams.org/news/musk-sh...
This is really bad news for programs like TB control! Gaps in care can mean death. Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
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February 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
This is really bad news for programs like TB control! Gaps in care can mean death. Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
PARTY ON!!!! 'A New Aristocracy': Billionaire Wealth Surged by $2 Trillion Last Year www.commondreams.org/news/billion...
'A New Aristocracy': Billionaire Wealth Surged by $2 Trillion Last Year | Common Dreams
An Oxfam report published Monday shows that the combined wealth of the world's billionaires surged three times faster in 2024 than the previous year.
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January 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
PARTY ON!!!! 'A New Aristocracy': Billionaire Wealth Surged by $2 Trillion Last Year www.commondreams.org/news/billion...
What It’s Truly Like to Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Tent: A Report From Gaza
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What It’s Truly Like to Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Tent: A Report From Gaza
Five newborns have died of hypothermia amid the cold in Gaza. Doctors tell Drop Site the deaths are a direct result of Israel's blockades
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January 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
What It’s Truly Like to Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Tent: A Report From Gaza
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