Mary Kay
@marykay.bsky.social
Democrat, cat mom, nature lover #HarrisWalz2024
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Never underestimate the threat Stephen Miller represents to America
Because long after Trump is gone, Miller will remain-spouting racist, xenophobic lies to a large segment of the US, which seems all too willing to villainize immigrants
We must defeat this blight on our nation-swiftly and forever
Because long after Trump is gone, Miller will remain-spouting racist, xenophobic lies to a large segment of the US, which seems all too willing to villainize immigrants
We must defeat this blight on our nation-swiftly and forever
December 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Never underestimate the threat Stephen Miller represents to America
Because long after Trump is gone, Miller will remain-spouting racist, xenophobic lies to a large segment of the US, which seems all too willing to villainize immigrants
We must defeat this blight on our nation-swiftly and forever
Because long after Trump is gone, Miller will remain-spouting racist, xenophobic lies to a large segment of the US, which seems all too willing to villainize immigrants
We must defeat this blight on our nation-swiftly and forever
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The science breakthrough of 2025 is Solar Energy, not because it is new but because of how successful its deployment has been. This year renewable energy surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Hopeful sign for what’s to come.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
December 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The science breakthrough of 2025 is Solar Energy, not because it is new but because of how successful its deployment has been. This year renewable energy surpassed coal as a source of electricity worldwide. Hopeful sign for what’s to come.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
Context for Trump withdrawing dozens of ambassadors
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
*China has invested heavily in expanding diplomacy
*The US has significantly degraded soft power
*The US already has scores of diplomatic vacancies
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I never again want to hear about how the Republican Party is the party of national security. You don’t incinerate our diplomatic capacity & violate all of our treaty commitments if you care about national security.
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“The law explicitly prohibits the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person’s name on the building’s exterior.” apnews.com/article/kenn...
Kennedy Center Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump name added to building
A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center has been canceled. Musician Chuck Redd, the show's host, says he called off the performance after the White House announced President Donald ...
apnews.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“The law explicitly prohibits the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person’s name on the building’s exterior.” apnews.com/article/kenn...
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The official name is unchanged. The new stuff on the wall is graffiti.
December 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
The official name is unchanged. The new stuff on the wall is graffiti.
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Exactly… No never will call it that.
December 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Exactly… No never will call it that.
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Thousands turn out for anti-ICE march in Minneapolis. “Thousands of people braved the bitter cold Saturday morning, marching more than a mile along Minneapolis’ Lake Street corridor in a massive, coordinated anti-immigration enforcement protest." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Thousands march in "ICE Out" rally on Minneapolis' Lake Street corridor
Thousands of people braved the bitter cold Saturday morning, marching more than a mile along Minneapolis' Lake Street corridor in a massive, coordinated anti-immigration enforcement protest.
www.cbsnews.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Thousands turn out for anti-ICE march in Minneapolis. “Thousands of people braved the bitter cold Saturday morning, marching more than a mile along Minneapolis’ Lake Street corridor in a massive, coordinated anti-immigration enforcement protest." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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Missouri Dems ❤️ Jess @piperformissouri.bsky.social
“Why isn’t there a White History Month?”
Because every month is White History Month. History is written by the victors — and colonizers. Much of the American history and literature we learned for generations erased the contributions of marginalized groups.
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Because every month is White History Month. History is written by the victors — and colonizers. Much of the American history and literature we learned for generations erased the contributions of marginalized groups.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Not That Kind of White
White supremacy
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Missouri Dems ❤️ Jess @piperformissouri.bsky.social
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Interesting thread from Gov. Pritzker's chief of staff
I want to take a moment of reflection. I don’t post a lot of threads anymore (bc really who wants to read them) but this seems like a good time to make a few points about wins & losses & surviving & fighting during the Trump administration’s siege on democracy. Especially as 2025 comes to a close.
U.S. Supreme Court sides against Trump, won't lift block on National Guard deployment in Illinois
DEVELOPING from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...
DEVELOPING from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...
December 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Interesting thread from Gov. Pritzker's chief of staff
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Wins like today are important in the fight against an authoritarian regime. They expose the state. They remind people that they should stand up and fight back. They inject some faith back into institutions. They push back against the zero sum thinking that can doom resistance.
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Wins like today are important in the fight against an authoritarian regime. They expose the state. They remind people that they should stand up and fight back. They inject some faith back into institutions. They push back against the zero sum thinking that can doom resistance.
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This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
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Jail every responsible officer over the holidays for contempt and then until the agency returns her to the US. This cannot stand.
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Jail every responsible officer over the holidays for contempt and then until the agency returns her to the US. This cannot stand.
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Do we charge for this? Or is it a free service we provide to friendly dictators?
The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad.
Trump removes nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial positions
www.inquirer.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Do we charge for this? Or is it a free service we provide to friendly dictators?
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The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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but isn't it great that all these tech companies automatically turn on these "cool" features that no one asked for and are quite possibly for niche users?!?!
December 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
but isn't it great that all these tech companies automatically turn on these "cool" features that no one asked for and are quite possibly for niche users?!?!
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Trump’s transpo Sec Duffy community noted for taking credit for what Biden did
December 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Trump’s transpo Sec Duffy community noted for taking credit for what Biden did
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Holding a story because the subject of reporting refuses to provide comment is b.s. and everyone knows it, even Bari Weiss.
Just Google "request for comment" and "site:https://www.thefp.com" and you'll see pages of stories on Weiss' own website published without comment.
Just Google "request for comment" and "site:https://www.thefp.com" and you'll see pages of stories on Weiss' own website published without comment.
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Holding a story because the subject of reporting refuses to provide comment is b.s. and everyone knows it, even Bari Weiss.
Just Google "request for comment" and "site:https://www.thefp.com" and you'll see pages of stories on Weiss' own website published without comment.
Just Google "request for comment" and "site:https://www.thefp.com" and you'll see pages of stories on Weiss' own website published without comment.
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As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves
There is no basis to withhold these images under the clear terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. None.
WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
December 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves
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Trump’s America.👇
Don’t leave the USA or you might be banned from returning, tech companies warn foreign staff bit.ly/4b8NrgS after free speech clamp down on personal social media posts
Google and Apple tell some staff to avoid international travel
A directive from the Trump administration has led the tech firms to advise some employees on US work visas against international travel due to stamping delays
bit.ly
December 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Trump’s America.👇
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Canada was their top customer! And thanks to President Deals, we stopped buying bourbon months ago. Billions and billions of dollars in sales, gone www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026
The move comes as Kentucky’s $9 billion bourbon industry is dealing with a glut of supply and slipping sales.
www.kentucky.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Canada was their top customer! And thanks to President Deals, we stopped buying bourbon months ago. Billions and billions of dollars in sales, gone www.kentucky.com/news/busines...
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This thread 😍
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This thread 😍
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Thank you for asking, and NO and we're far from done, and anything Bari Weiss decides to platform is probably failing women.
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 21, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Thank you for asking, and NO and we're far from done, and anything Bari Weiss decides to platform is probably failing women.
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Why might GOP's refusal to extend the ACA subsidies be a political loser?
Well, in new polling, record-high share of Americans say it's the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. Also... (short 🧵)
Well, in new polling, record-high share of Americans say it's the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. Also... (short 🧵)
December 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Why might GOP's refusal to extend the ACA subsidies be a political loser?
Well, in new polling, record-high share of Americans say it's the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. Also... (short 🧵)
Well, in new polling, record-high share of Americans say it's the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage. Also... (short 🧵)
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It is obscene.
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It is obscene.