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MissMary

@missmary1111.bsky.social

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Older than my years. Voted for Harris. Rage? A useful tool. I go through husbands faster than my Victoria Secret panties. No bio? No posts? That's a block. My filter is broken. I'm not fixing it. If you're thin-skinned, fuck off. #VoteLikeABlackWoman

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MissMary @missmary1111.bsky.social · Feb 11

I posit the theory that Cael Sagan tasked Matt Groenig and James Brooks with providing Americans with information in a format that we could all easily understand.

MissMary @missmary1111.bsky.social · Feb 11

Carl Sagan wrote this in 1995. Since then, the Simpsons have had 17 predictions materialize.

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MissMary @missmary1111.bsky.social · 1h

Would be.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 13h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Rep. Jason Crow @crow.house.gov · 3d

Donald Trump is weaponizing the government against his political enemies & punishing states that didn’t vote for him.

We have to speak out now.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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MissMary @missmary1111.bsky.social · 2d

I'm back. I've been sick.

Power resides where men believe it resides.

It's a trick.

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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 7d

Someone should mention “Trump is defunding the police” to the Democratic Party leadership so they can fumble that away too.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 8d

Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 7d

Kash Patel cuts FBI's ties with major Jewish org over 'love letters' from Comey

FBI Director Kash Patel announced he had cut the agency's ties with the Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, an international Jewish organization that linked slain MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk to extremism.In a Wednesday post on X, Patel suggested that the FBI would no longer work with the ADL because fo...

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7d

Translation: “Here’s $8 billion worth of reasons to end Republican seats in blue states.”

Thank you, Russell Vought. Incredible strategy.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 7d

Six Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Durbin, Schiff, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, and Welch) voted yes on two Trump district court nominees this morning, and my question remains, why do senior members of this party keep voluntarily ceding political capital to Donald Trump

Why Is This Democratic Senator Voting to Confirm a Trump Judicial Nominee?

If you really think Trump poses an existential threat to democracy, the bar for affirmatively supporting one of his nominees has to be higher than “I don’t know, he seems fine.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Q: How did the White House decide it was appropriate for Jared Kushner to be working on matters that involve Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia -- 3 countries combined that have given him more than $2.5b

LEAVITT: It's frankly despicable that you're trying to suggest that it's inappropriate

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7d

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

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Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

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EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 7d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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Serendipity @serendipityinfl.bsky.social · 7d

CBS's John Dickerson has the best commentaries.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

Military clothes were historically designed for function, not fashion. High-waisted pants kept shirts tucked and allowed for better mobility. The Ike jacket was inspired by British battledress, which involved a cropped jacket that felt comfy when driving. Why change?

IG army.navy.vintage

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 7d

With TikTok’s potential sale to a group of Donald Trump allies, “we should be far less worried about what foreign governments could do with our social-media information than about how our own government might abuse it,” David Karpf argues.

The MAGA Media Takeover

Trump and his powerful friends are creating a dangerous moment for free speech.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6d

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query 'does trump show signs of dementia' as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

www.theverge.com/news/789152/...

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

www.theverge.com

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Parker Butler @parkerbutler.bsky.social · 6d

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 6d

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

“.. What this administration is doing is unprecedented, illegal and flat-out wrong. .. I’ve been deeply engaged in our federal government for over 30 years and there is nothing that has come close.”

@nbcnews.com
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6d

gift link - no paywall.

very much worth reading:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 9d

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MissMary @missmary1111.bsky.social · 9d

I do hope that Marc Elias is including that ratfuck Mark Amodei's traitorous ass.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9d

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of Nevada voter, my firm has filed a new lawsuit in Nevada state court challenging a ballot initiative seeking to undermine and alter the state's current redistricting process. www.democracydocket.com/cases/nevada...

Medina v. Aguilar

Learn about the lawsuits that Democracy Docket is keeping an eye on.