Margaret Morris
@marmorr.bsky.social
American immigrant in Europe. Former academic writing instructor at a small liberal arts college in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 Now living in France 🇫🇷
A bit of a hopeful thread at the close of a year that could have been worse.
My Cassandra cred's pretty solid--20+ years on far right beat, ten on Trump, nobody ever accused me of being a ray of sunshine. But at the end of this bad year, I think this too is true: fascism took so much, & yet nowhere near all it could & wants. There's so much left to fight for.
December 31, 2025 at 4:44 AM
A bit of a hopeful thread at the close of a year that could have been worse.
🧵Excellent read!
Ten great cultural, artistic or literary achievements of 1925:
1. “The Great Gatsby.” bsky.app/profile/100y...
1. “The Great Gatsby.” bsky.app/profile/100y...
100 years ago news (@100yearsagonews.bsky.social)
April 10, 1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” is published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. The quintessential portrait of the Jazz Age and tragic indictment of the American Dream is a…
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December 30, 2025 at 6:13 AM
🧵Excellent read!
I like these stories. Everyday people stepping up.
Thankfully, communities across the country are fighting back.
- An appraiser chasing ICE agents on his bicycle
- A fetish shop owner distributing whistles
- “Walking school buses” protecting kids
- A social worker putting $$ in commissary accounts
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- An appraiser chasing ICE agents on his bicycle
- A fetish shop owner distributing whistles
- “Walking school buses” protecting kids
- A social worker putting $$ in commissary accounts
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ordinary Americans are fighting back against ICE: ‘We’re going to outlast them’
As Trump carries out his mass deportation operation, residents are banding together to block raids and distribute groceries
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I like these stories. Everyday people stepping up.
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If you're keen to relive the madness of 2025.
🗓️ Looking back on 2025
Donald Trump's return to the White House, a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, war in Ukraine and Sudan, a new pope and Gen Z protests around the world.
Watch the full video on events that marked the year: u.afp.com/backon2025
Donald Trump's return to the White House, a fragile ceasefire in Gaza, war in Ukraine and Sudan, a new pope and Gen Z protests around the world.
Watch the full video on events that marked the year: u.afp.com/backon2025
December 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
If you're keen to relive the madness of 2025.
Who wore it better?
December 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Who wore it better?
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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LOL at Cory Booker putting the 60 Minutes story up on his YouTube channel. Paramount won't dare take it down
youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
YouTube video by Cory Booker
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December 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
LOL at Cory Booker putting the 60 Minutes story up on his YouTube channel. Paramount won't dare take it down
youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
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IT'S A WONDERFUL ESSAY: It seems people usually rewatch 'It's a Wonderful Life' just before Christmas. Can I commend to you this marvelous essay we published a few years ago? It could change the way you understand that classic movie.
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
www.thebulwark.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:18 AM
IT'S A WONDERFUL ESSAY: It seems people usually rewatch 'It's a Wonderful Life' just before Christmas. Can I commend to you this marvelous essay we published a few years ago? It could change the way you understand that classic movie.
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...
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"It is going to get so much worse."
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
Impfen | Es wird noch viel schlimmer werden
Podcast Episode · Pandemia · 22/12/2025 · 40m
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December 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"It is going to get so much worse."
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
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I don't understand any rhyme or reason to the organization or provenance of the various tranches of Epstein Files, but they clearly contain tons of raw investigative materials of dubious reliability/value and—at the risk of being a huge buzzkill—we all should exercise some careful discernment
December 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Dive into this thread and pick your favorites!
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Dive into this thread and pick your favorites!
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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More than 1,000 charities submitted federal tax filings without language reflecting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in mission statements from their earlier filings.
Others went as far as to change their names.
➡️ Read our analysis: https://propub.li/48X2tUs
Others went as far as to change their names.
➡️ Read our analysis: https://propub.li/48X2tUs
December 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
More than 1,000 charities submitted federal tax filings without language reflecting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in mission statements from their earlier filings.
Others went as far as to change their names.
➡️ Read our analysis: https://propub.li/48X2tUs
Others went as far as to change their names.
➡️ Read our analysis: https://propub.li/48X2tUs
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
🧵Haitian refugees, a boat, and the photographer who took the recent Trump administration Vanity Fair photos.
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 6:30 AM
🧵Haitian refugees, a boat, and the photographer who took the recent Trump administration Vanity Fair photos.
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One reason CBP hits this lot so often, besides essentially shooting fish in a barrel, is that it’s right next to their office.
Didn’t meet quota for the day? Just go grab some Uber/Lyft drivers at the end of the day.
Didn’t meet quota for the day? Just go grab some Uber/Lyft drivers at the end of the day.
December 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
One reason CBP hits this lot so often, besides essentially shooting fish in a barrel, is that it’s right next to their office.
Didn’t meet quota for the day? Just go grab some Uber/Lyft drivers at the end of the day.
Didn’t meet quota for the day? Just go grab some Uber/Lyft drivers at the end of the day.
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It's a slippery slope from "illegal aliens" to legal immigrants to naturalized citizens to people whose parents were born somewhere else to anybody who learns a forbidden concept or searches for the wrong phrase on the internet.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
It's a slippery slope from "illegal aliens" to legal immigrants to naturalized citizens to people whose parents were born somewhere else to anybody who learns a forbidden concept or searches for the wrong phrase on the internet.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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Chavez did forcibly expropriate oil fields from U.S. companies, in order to nationalize them. It was a foolish, counterproductive move that contributed to ruining the country's oil industry, but the notion that we're going to literally invade them to restore our investments is very 19th Century.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Chavez did forcibly expropriate oil fields from U.S. companies, in order to nationalize them. It was a foolish, counterproductive move that contributed to ruining the country's oil industry, but the notion that we're going to literally invade them to restore our investments is very 19th Century.
America, more mass shootings a year than than days of the year.
This is college in the United States. Video from inside a Brown University building shows the moment that police found a group of students who were sheltering after the shooting on campus. This isn't freedom.
December 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
America, more mass shootings a year than than days of the year.
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Not the first time we’ve had survivors of multiple school shootings, and I’m surprised this sick country doesn’t have a punch card system at this point.
Zoe Weissman - survivor of 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL
Mia Tretta - survivor of 2019 Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, CA
Both are now students at Brown University in Providence, RI.
Mia Tretta - survivor of 2019 Saugus High School shooting in Santa Clarita, CA
Both are now students at Brown University in Providence, RI.
Zoe Weissman, a sophomore at Brown University, joins us to discuss the shooting on Brown's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. She was in middle school in Parkland, Florida during the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. She is now an advocate for gun control and gun violence prevention.
December 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Not the first time we’ve had survivors of multiple school shootings, and I’m surprised this sick country doesn’t have a punch card system at this point.
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Remembering Plato’s argument that the only sound reason for seeking political leadership is fear of the mess others would make if they were in charge.
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Remembering Plato’s argument that the only sound reason for seeking political leadership is fear of the mess others would make if they were in charge.
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Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
December 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today:
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...
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A remarkable story - a woman was drowning in the North Sea off the Hague. A police helicopter saw her but was not equipped with a winch or any rescue equipment. So a crew member jumped from the helicopter into the sea and saved her life.
www.ad.nl/112-nieuws-d...
www.ad.nl/112-nieuws-d...
Bemanningslid springt uit politiehelikopter om drenkeling uit de Noordzee te redden: ‘Nog nooit meegemaakt’
Een bemanningslid van de politiehelikopter is maandagmiddag uit een helikopter gesprongen om een drenkeling uit de Noordzee te redden. De Kustwacht spreekt over een ‘spectaculaire redding’ die nog nie...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A remarkable story - a woman was drowning in the North Sea off the Hague. A police helicopter saw her but was not equipped with a winch or any rescue equipment. So a crew member jumped from the helicopter into the sea and saved her life.
www.ad.nl/112-nieuws-d...
www.ad.nl/112-nieuws-d...
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...