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 Keeps Repeating Proven Lies | Paula Poundstone
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If you aren’t watching these videos (usually daily) by comic Paula Poundstone on YouTube, FBor other social media platforms, you’re really missing out. Using humor, they make strong political points.
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Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
December 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Today's abysmal jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
What's required is investment in working people — and better wages.
When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs.
Remember this.
Lovely.
Stephen King offers a written tribute to Rob Reiner, as only he can. Beautiful, @stephenking.bsky.social.
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Opinion | Stephen King: Why I Hugged Rob Reiner After Watching ‘Stand by Me’
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December 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Lovely.
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We will pay a price for putting utterly incompetent and self-serving people in charge of national policing.
www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...
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The FBI Spent a Generation Relearning How to Catch Spies. Then Came Kash Patel.
As China’s spies grow more aggressive, the FBI is distracted and off-balance.
www.thebulwark.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
We will pay a price for putting utterly incompetent and self-serving people in charge of national policing.
www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...
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It’s been pretty obvious that we’re all gonna have to work harder to vote this time around ~ because it’s been pretty obvious that the Republicans don’t want us voting…
December 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It’s been pretty obvious that we’re all gonna have to work harder to vote this time around ~ because it’s been pretty obvious that the Republicans don’t want us voting…
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🚨BREAKING: Republicans on county election boards are advancing proposals to the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) that would make it harder to vote — especially for student, minority and working-class voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
North Carolina Counties Propose Cuts to Voting Access
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🚨BREAKING: Republicans on county election boards are advancing proposals to the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) that would make it harder to vote — especially for student, minority and working-class voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.
![Trump brings bigots out of hiding
WASHINGTON Once you notice it, you can't unsee it."
A
about a Trump rally near Phoenix where
couple of weeks ago, I wrote:
The Twitterverse, and social media a young man shouted "mother-f—.
"Let's not mince words, Donald generally, can be dark places, as can the ing tacos — go back to Mexico" at two Trump is a bigot and a racist." comments section of Washington Post
Latino protesters — and a 70-year-old
I cited a long list of incidents in which articles, and my email inbox. This is
retiree sucker-punched a demonstrator.
he targeted women, Latinos, African-
the seventh presidential campaign I've
And where is the condemnation of
Americans, Muslims, Asians and the covered in some form over 25 years, and this behavior? At the Las Vegas debate, disabled. Here's what I heard back from harsh criticism comes with the terri-
Trump's rivals all but ignored the front-
Trump's defenders:
tory. But the Trump backers venom is runner, who previously said of a black
"Let's not mince
without precedent. His supporters surely protestor at his event: "Maybe he should
words," somebody
aren't all bigots — but he is bringing the have been roughed up." Trump is burn-
tweeted under the name
bigoted in from the cold.
ing down the Republican house, and the
Helios Megistos. "Mil-
There is an obvious truth to what
American house, yet his rivals are on a
bank is an anti-white
white nationalist publisher Jared Tay-
march of the narcissists.
parasite and a bigoted
lor told The New Yorker this summer:
If Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, Jeb
kike supremacist."
Trump's "support comes from people
Bush, John Kasich and other sensible
"[Trump] may well
who are more like me than he might like
candidates were to unite behind any one
be a bigot and a racist,"
to admit."
of them, that person could likely beat
DANA
one Michael Banfield
I write this not out of any hope of
Trump, and Ted Cruz. Instead, enabled
MILBANK
wrote me via email. "But changing the minds of Trump back-
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December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
While searching for something else I stumbled upon this fascinating op-ed from Dec. 2015--ten years ago. It appeared in the Greenville, SC Index-Journal. It matter-of-factly pointed out that Trump was beloved by white nationalists like Jared Taylor. This was BEFORE the first GOP primary was held.
If you aren’t watching these videos (usually daily) by comic Paula Poundstone on YouTube, FBor other social media platforms, you’re really missing out. Using humor, they make strong political points.
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Trump Keeps Repeating Proven Lies | Paula Poundstone
YouTube video by Paula Poundstone
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December 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you aren’t watching these videos (usually daily) by comic Paula Poundstone on YouTube, FBor other social media platforms, you’re really missing out. Using humor, they make strong political points.
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Two continents hit by mass shootings, #Europe declares the Pax Americana over, Trump spins snake-bite fan fiction and his #FBI nabs the wrong guy.
The world sees the hazard ahead. Too many Americans still pretend the sky is blue. #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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The world sees the hazard ahead. Too many Americans still pretend the sky is blue. #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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When the Adults in the World Leave the Room
Australia governs, Europe braces, Ukraine resists, and America, under Trump, forgets how to think, act, or protect its own.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Two continents hit by mass shootings, #Europe declares the Pax Americana over, Trump spins snake-bite fan fiction and his #FBI nabs the wrong guy.
The world sees the hazard ahead. Too many Americans still pretend the sky is blue. #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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The world sees the hazard ahead. Too many Americans still pretend the sky is blue. #uspolitics #kakistocracy
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Portland, Maine's Wharf Street in the Old Port at night. Acrylic on 9x12 canvas. 2016.
#acrylic #acrylicpainting #artist #artists #art #painting #originalart #traditionalart #Portland #Maine #Wharfstreet #cobblestone #fineart #oldport #city
#acrylic #acrylicpainting #artist #artists #art #painting #originalart #traditionalart #Portland #Maine #Wharfstreet #cobblestone #fineart #oldport #city
December 14, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Portland, Maine's Wharf Street in the Old Port at night. Acrylic on 9x12 canvas. 2016.
#acrylic #acrylicpainting #artist #artists #art #painting #originalart #traditionalart #Portland #Maine #Wharfstreet #cobblestone #fineart #oldport #city
#acrylic #acrylicpainting #artist #artists #art #painting #originalart #traditionalart #Portland #Maine #Wharfstreet #cobblestone #fineart #oldport #city
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
December 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment.
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
They are openly saying this.
Who would want to live in a country that works like that?
I laugh so hard throughout her shows. Only wish I were on the West Coast to see this New Years Eve show.
Dear SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,
Hey, hey, ho, ho, those first row five end seats for my New Year's Eve show at The Palace of Fine Arts hve got to go—Wed., Dec. 31
www.purplepass.com/events/33288... Get your tickets. Get your laughs.
Hey, hey, ho, ho, those first row five end seats for my New Year's Eve show at The Palace of Fine Arts hve got to go—Wed., Dec. 31
www.purplepass.com/events/33288... Get your tickets. Get your laughs.
Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstone is known for her smart, observational humor and a spontaneous wit that has become the stuff of legend. Time magazine, in the March 2020 “Best of” issue, listed Paula’s HBO special, Ca...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I laugh so hard throughout her shows. Only wish I were on the West Coast to see this New Years Eve show.
Don’t miss this video. Make your voice heard in Congress on this issue.
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Don’t miss this video. Make your voice heard in Congress on this issue.
Important:
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Important:
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Breaking NYT:
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Breaking NYT:
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
The Honduran attorney general just announced that he issued an international arrest warrant for the country's former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by Trump and released from a federal prison in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
Not a new development but increasingly difficult not to see.
I turned off the news for 1 day to give myself a break, and came back to this. wtf is going on now?
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Not a new development but increasingly difficult not to see.
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Silent Middle Child nails it. Again:
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Silent Middle Child nails it. Again:
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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
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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.
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.