Marilyn R
@marilynr20.bsky.social
Retired. Formerly taught & worked in educational issues/policy for national organizations. Love history and have special appreciation for HCR and Joanne Freeman. Hope to preserve our democracy. As we fight the good fight, let’s keep our sense of humor.
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Trump Does Improv Badly with “Yes, And” #politics #PaulaPoundstone #Comedy #Trump #Satire #tds
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If you aren’t watching these videos (usually daily) by comic Paula Poundstone on YouTube, FB or other social media sites, you’re really missing out. Using humor, they make strong political points.
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1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
popular.info
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
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Pete Hegseth in 2016
“there have to be consequences for war crimes. If you’re doing something that is just..unlawful.. there is a consequence..That’s why the military said it won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief”
Funny how when Democrats-like Mark Kelly-say this,it’s sedition
“there have to be consequences for war crimes. If you’re doing something that is just..unlawful.. there is a consequence..That’s why the military said it won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief”
Funny how when Democrats-like Mark Kelly-say this,it’s sedition
NEW VIDEO: We uncovered footage showing Pete Hegseth in 2016 saying the military won’t follow unlawful orders — the same point he has recently criticized Democrats, including Sen. Mark Kelly, for making - and which Trump has said is punishable by death.
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Pete Hegseth in 2016
“there have to be consequences for war crimes. If you’re doing something that is just..unlawful.. there is a consequence..That’s why the military said it won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief”
Funny how when Democrats-like Mark Kelly-say this,it’s sedition
“there have to be consequences for war crimes. If you’re doing something that is just..unlawful.. there is a consequence..That’s why the military said it won’t follow unlawful orders from their commander in chief”
Funny how when Democrats-like Mark Kelly-say this,it’s sedition
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#Pinks #ProudBlue
Why are Russia and the U.S. having peace talks for Ukraine without Ukraine or their European allies involved? Witkoff and Kushner probably want Ukrainian land to build trump’s resorts on. They aren’t to be trusted. It’s a sham! 🇺🇦💙
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Why are Russia and the U.S. having peace talks for Ukraine without Ukraine or their European allies involved? Witkoff and Kushner probably want Ukrainian land to build trump’s resorts on. They aren’t to be trusted. It’s a sham! 🇺🇦💙
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Russia-U.S. meeting ends with nations no closer to finding path to peace in Ukraine, Putin aide says | CBC
www.cbc.ca
December 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Why are Russia and the U.S. having peace talks for Ukraine without Ukraine or their European allies involved? Witkoff and Kushner probably want Ukrainian land to build trump’s resorts on. They aren’t to be trusted. It’s a sham! 🇺🇦💙
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
Why are Russia and the U.S. having peace talks for Ukraine without Ukraine or their European allies involved? Witkoff and Kushner probably want Ukrainian land to build trump’s resorts on. They aren’t to be trusted. It’s a sham! 🇺🇦💙
www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
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These people are operating outside the State Department, rather like the “Three Amigos” of Trump’s first term.
Steve Witkoff, a special envoy for President Trump, and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, are expected to meet with President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Moscow on Tuesday, as the White House pushes for an end to the war in Ukraine. Follow live.
Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. Envoy to Meet With Putin in Moscow
nyti.ms
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
These people are operating outside the State Department, rather like the “Three Amigos” of Trump’s first term.
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This is insane. Any material a prof thinks is necessary but isn’t for formal licensing has to get the signoff of the chair, then dean, then provost?
This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom.
I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? It’s preposterous.
This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom.
I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? It’s preposterous.
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
Important point.
The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.
They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Important point.
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What we’re reading in Ohio….
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
What we’re reading in Ohio….
Great Substack article.
#Warcrimes at sea, #Congress finally blinking, Trump’s “peace plan” for #Putin, economic alarms screaming, and why silence right now = complicity. #uspolitics #kakistocracy #authoritarianism
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
No Quarter: The Collapse of Competence in Trump’s America
Inside the war crimes, the amateur diplomacy, the economic tremors, and the civic responsibility to refuse silence.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Great Substack article.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
Important report worth your time to read.
I highly recommend this bone-chilling, comprehensive and urgent @aapf.org report on the Trump regime's deadly anti-Black ideas and policies. The MSM @nytimes.com and @wapopitchbot.bsky.social have failed us profoundly in not recognizing anti-Blackness as a driving force of MAGA.
November 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Important report worth your time to read.
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GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…”
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
GUARDIAN: “Per head, 🇺🇸 output is six times China’s, and yet, inexplicably, there seem to be more abjectly poor Americans than Chinese. 🇺🇸 inequality is breathtaking… keeps getting worse…”
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wanting to address this isn’t radical.
NOT wanting to is.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Do yourself a favor and listen to Weiss and Snyder:
My chat with the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on Ukraine and the United States. Was meant to be 30 minutes and ended up going for an hour. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/o…
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Do yourself a favor and listen to Weiss and Snyder:
Happy Thanksgiving to all. I’m especially grateful for historians @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social for all the valuable knowledge imparted over years, along with smiles and laughs. I celebrate you today and everyday.
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all. I’m especially grateful for historians @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social for all the valuable knowledge imparted over years, along with smiles and laughs. I celebrate you today and everyday.
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Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
This is what needed to be said.
November 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
This is what needed to be said.
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Always, always, always read @zacheverson.com (who threads his stories here as well as publishing them).
New: Alt5 Sigma, one of Trump's key business partners, told the SEC that it suspended its CEO in mid-October.
An internal email, though, says he was placed on “temporary leave” more than a month earlier.
me, for @forbes.com
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An internal email, though, says he was placed on “temporary leave” more than a month earlier.
me, for @forbes.com
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Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma May Have Violated SEC Rules With Filing On CEO
One of Trump's key business partners told the SEC it suspended its CEO in mid-October. Internal records suggest he was on “temporary leave” more than a month earlier.
www.forbes.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Always, always, always read @zacheverson.com (who threads his stories here as well as publishing them).
I post about a number of important issues. However, voting rights and ending voter suppression should be our #1 priority. Nothing can be fixed without free and fair elections.
November 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I post about a number of important issues. However, voting rights and ending voter suppression should be our #1 priority. Nothing can be fixed without free and fair elections.
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Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
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A wonderful chance for me to meet Dr. Amy Acton, a physician with great ideas and a great story who is running for governor of Ohio. Please watch the video!
@amyactonoh.bsky.social
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@amyactonoh.bsky.social
snyder.substack.com/p/conversati...
Conversation with Dr Amy Acton
A recording from Timothy Snyder's live video
snyder.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A wonderful chance for me to meet Dr. Amy Acton, a physician with great ideas and a great story who is running for governor of Ohio. Please watch the video!
@amyactonoh.bsky.social
snyder.substack.com/p/conversati...
@amyactonoh.bsky.social
snyder.substack.com/p/conversati...
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We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
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snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War
Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine
snyder.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
This speaks for itself. Enough is enough!
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This speaks for itself. Enough is enough!
Yes. If true, this would be beyond travesty.
Rewarding Russia is a strategic blunder the first order.
New: I can confirm hasty US-Russia proposal being pushed to Ukrainians via Dmitriev-Witkoff to Umerov. It would amount to Ukraine’s capitulation, with people familiar saying it’s Kremlin’s maximalist demands.
-Ukraine army cut 1/2
-Give up certain weapons
-Give up Donbas
-Zelensky displeased
More tk
-Ukraine army cut 1/2
-Give up certain weapons
-Give up Donbas
-Zelensky displeased
More tk
November 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Yes. If true, this would be beyond travesty.