MARY LOU
@marylouclark.bsky.social
If You Steal Our Elections, You Don't Get Our Money open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita.... We've got work to do!
If You Steal Our Elections, You Don't Get Our Money
Here's how we make this real.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
If You Steal Our Elections, You Don't Get Our Money open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita.... We've got work to do!
November 2, 2025—On Life Perspective open.substack.com/pub/jamescom... I needed to hear this today.
November 2, 2025—On Life Perspective
Former government person, author, teacher, father, grandfather. Tall and really quite funny.
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November 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
November 2, 2025—On Life Perspective open.substack.com/pub/jamescom... I needed to hear this today.
createsend.com/t/y-38D8D767.... Fran and David Korten's excellent essay on the meeting at Quantico on September 30.
Pete Hegseth Just Did Us All a Big Favor
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October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
createsend.com/t/y-38D8D767.... Fran and David Korten's excellent essay on the meeting at Quantico on September 30.
When Categories Define Lives open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr... analogy with which to consider life in an environment where organizations operate outside the boundaries of common sense and not for the common good, but operate despite harm done to us. We are all your family, Dr. Greenberg.
When Categories Define Lives
The peril of a world where classification rules over humanity.
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September 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
When Categories Define Lives open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr... analogy with which to consider life in an environment where organizations operate outside the boundaries of common sense and not for the common good, but operate despite harm done to us. We are all your family, Dr. Greenberg.
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An idea:
August 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
An idea:
Weird and sadly hilarious. Maybe call in the historians for a lecture on the 60's.
This is like playing Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Getting Back Together" at a wedding.
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played.
CINEMATIC
CINEMATIC
June 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Weird and sadly hilarious. Maybe call in the historians for a lecture on the 60's.
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The biggest story few are talking about: CBO projects that the government's interest rate never exceeds 3.6% over 30 years. If rates remain at 4.5%, that adds $40 trillion more to interest costs over 30 years - as much as adding a second Defense Department.
May 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The biggest story few are talking about: CBO projects that the government's interest rate never exceeds 3.6% over 30 years. If rates remain at 4.5%, that adds $40 trillion more to interest costs over 30 years - as much as adding a second Defense Department.
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The Democracy We Make open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr... “Democracy isn’t an heirloom. It’s not something we inherit—it’s something we choose. Not every four yers, but every single time we decide to care”…….James B. Greenberg
The Democracy We Make
Democracy Isn’t in Washington. It’s Here—And It’s Ours to Defend.
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April 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Democracy We Make open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr... “Democracy isn’t an heirloom. It’s not something we inherit—it’s something we choose. Not every four yers, but every single time we decide to care”…….James B. Greenberg
www.nytimes.com/athletic/624... Hope this young woman ends up winning every dime this A*H* ever makes as the result of her successful lawsuit. The misogyny has risen to the disgusting level and I am just damn tired of it.
ESPN’s Pat McAfee and others amplified a false rumor. A teenager’s life was ‘destroyed’
An Ole Miss freshman has engaged legal representation and says she intends to take action against McAfee, ESPN, and potentially others
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April 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
www.nytimes.com/athletic/624... Hope this young woman ends up winning every dime this A*H* ever makes as the result of her successful lawsuit. The misogyny has risen to the disgusting level and I am just damn tired of it.
Trump’s War on Climate Science: Blinding America to Disaster open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr... "But here’s the thing about reality: it doesn’t care whether you believe in it."
Trump’s War on Climate Science: Blinding America to Disaster
Trump’s war on climate science isn’t just reckless—it’s a full-scale assault on reality, a scorched-earth campaign against the very institutions that allow us to see what’s coming before it’s too late...
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March 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump’s War on Climate Science: Blinding America to Disaster open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr... "But here’s the thing about reality: it doesn’t care whether you believe in it."
The War on Social Security: Lies, Misinformation, and the Real Agenda open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr.... A primer on the theft of your money and mine.
The War on Social Security: Lies, Misinformation, and the Real Agenda
They say history repeats itself, but in the case of Social Security, it’s more like a broken record—one that powerful interests keep playing, hoping the American public will eventually buy into the sa...
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March 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The War on Social Security: Lies, Misinformation, and the Real Agenda open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr.... A primer on the theft of your money and mine.
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Trump's "golden age of America" so far...
-Inflation ⬆️
-Stock market ⬇️
-Thousands of layoffs
-Consumer & worker protections gutted
-Diseases spreading
-Federal funding illegally frozen
-$10 million+ spent on golf
-An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense
-Inflation ⬆️
-Stock market ⬇️
-Thousands of layoffs
-Consumer & worker protections gutted
-Diseases spreading
-Federal funding illegally frozen
-$10 million+ spent on golf
-An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense
March 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Trump's "golden age of America" so far...
-Inflation ⬆️
-Stock market ⬇️
-Thousands of layoffs
-Consumer & worker protections gutted
-Diseases spreading
-Federal funding illegally frozen
-$10 million+ spent on golf
-An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense
-Inflation ⬆️
-Stock market ⬇️
-Thousands of layoffs
-Consumer & worker protections gutted
-Diseases spreading
-Federal funding illegally frozen
-$10 million+ spent on golf
-An unelected billionaire lining his pockets at our expense
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Reminder to buy your groceries and other essentials today so you can participate in Friday's 24-hour economic boycott. It's designed to send a message to politicians and oligarchs. It also might serve as a rehearsal if the Trump power grab continues and we have to launch a general strike.
Economic Blackout: Will a 24-hour boycott make a difference?
A grassroots organization is encouraging U.S. residents not to spend any money on Friday. The People’s Union USA describes it as an act of “economic resistance” to protest what the group’s founder see...
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February 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Reminder to buy your groceries and other essentials today so you can participate in Friday's 24-hour economic boycott. It's designed to send a message to politicians and oligarchs. It also might serve as a rehearsal if the Trump power grab continues and we have to launch a general strike.
Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut Medicaid
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Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut Medicaid
And their own supporters will be among the biggest victims
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February 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut Medicaid
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u.... LIAR....LIAR.....LIAR
Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change (Gift Article)
Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change.
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February 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u.... LIAR....LIAR.....LIAR
DOGE is the Theranos of Cost-Cutting open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... As my old friend Abraham pointed out ….'You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time”.
DOGE is the Theranos of Cost-Cutting
And other notes from the Chaos
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February 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
DOGE is the Theranos of Cost-Cutting open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... As my old friend Abraham pointed out ….'You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time”.
Elon Musk’s Efficiency Obsession: Why Government Isn’t a Startup open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr.... Complex issues explained in the most engaging and digestible way. Professor James Greenberg is wonderful for those of us seeking understanding.
Elon Musk’s Efficiency Obsession: Why Government Isn’t a Startup
As a professor I have some experience with external views, and university restructuring processes, but Elon Musk’s evaluation of government agencies is a very deferent exercise, based on very differen...
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February 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Elon Musk’s Efficiency Obsession: Why Government Isn’t a Startup open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr.... Complex issues explained in the most engaging and digestible way. Professor James Greenberg is wonderful for those of us seeking understanding.
An Explosion of Lies open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug.... I am really liking Paul Krugman off the leash of the NYT editors. You might want to give the smart man some of your attention. Extra treat, the musical CODA: Syd Taylor - Heaven, is indeed heavenly.
An Explosion of Lies
The Musk Administration chokes on the truth
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February 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
An Explosion of Lies open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug.... I am really liking Paul Krugman off the leash of the NYT editors. You might want to give the smart man some of your attention. Extra treat, the musical CODA: Syd Taylor - Heaven, is indeed heavenly.
The Department of Government Efficiency: A Watchdog Turned Predator open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr.... James Greenberg has decided to publish on Substack. FYI, he is remarkable in the way he distills what is true.
The Department of Government Efficiency: A Watchdog Turned Predator
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was supposed to be a watchdog, an advisory body designed to streamline bureaucracy, cut waste, and make government more responsive to the American people...
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February 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Department of Government Efficiency: A Watchdog Turned Predator open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr.... James Greenberg has decided to publish on Substack. FYI, he is remarkable in the way he distills what is true.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o.... Not good, sorry.
Opinion | How Trump Could Get Us Into a Debt Crisis (Gift Article)
A blowup will be sparked not by government spending but from political malpractice.
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February 18, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o.... Not good, sorry.
John Oliver says the next 4 years of Trump 2.0 are gonna be "incredibly shitty." www.badchoices.us/p/john-olive.... We're going to need more wine and more John Oliver.
John Oliver says the next 4 years of Trump 2.0 are gonna be "incredibly shitty."
“It is worse than we thought, and we thought about it a lot."
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February 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
John Oliver says the next 4 years of Trump 2.0 are gonna be "incredibly shitty." www.badchoices.us/p/john-olive.... We're going to need more wine and more John Oliver.
Lies, Damned Lies and Trumpflation open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug....
Lies, Damned Lies and Trumpflation
Big worries — and some investment advice
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February 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Lies, Damned Lies and Trumpflation open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug....
Appeasement at Munich open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... An ideal time to read the expanded edition of On Tyranny which offers suggestions for resistance and acts building solidarity.
Appeasement at Munich
World Wars, Past and Possible
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February 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Appeasement at Munich open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p... An ideal time to read the expanded edition of On Tyranny which offers suggestions for resistance and acts building solidarity.