Marie in the Sky With Diamonds
@murray6971.bsky.social
She/her - I have that Jezebel spirit
In the immortal words of Bartleby, "I would prefer not to."
Fearless and undefined, this is what it sounds like.
In the immortal words of Bartleby, "I would prefer not to."
Fearless and undefined, this is what it sounds like.
Pinned
Tips to keep democracy alive in 2025:
1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
1. Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it.
www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions
Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat
www.theframelab.org
What America becomes in the future is predicated on who we are today and every day.
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So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So it turns out an ice agent is much more likely to have an arrest record than an immigrant.
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The Supreme Court is working hard to turn this country into a despot's dreamscape—while making it nigh impossible for good people to make lasting change for the better.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The Supreme Court is working hard to turn this country into a despot's dreamscape—while making it nigh impossible for good people to make lasting change for the better.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.
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The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.
Posting a comic cover I love.
December 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Posting a comic cover I love.
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My son was in preschool when Republicans first promised to have a better plan than the ACA.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
Only had 15 years and four different Republican House speakers since ACA was passed.
Roger Marshall on Republicans replacing the ACA: "It's gonna take us a while to figure out the right way to do it"
December 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
My son was in preschool when Republicans first promised to have a better plan than the ACA.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
He’s a sophomore in college now.
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Never forget 9/11, unless you’re Trump, Jared Kushner, and Paramount chasing a Warner Bros. takeover bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s PIF and Qatar’s QIA so they can continue consolidating the media landscape. Remind me how this is “America First” or making anything great.
December 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Never forget 9/11, unless you’re Trump, Jared Kushner, and Paramount chasing a Warner Bros. takeover bankrolled by Saudi Arabia’s PIF and Qatar’s QIA so they can continue consolidating the media landscape. Remind me how this is “America First” or making anything great.
Because he's too much of a statesman, I will say it for him - Trump/Putin, go fuck yourselves. Slava Ukraini!
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country. https://to.pbs.org/4poEmox
Zelenskyy again resists U.S. pressure on Ukraine to cede any land to Russia as he rallies European support
Other than Zelenskyy's comments Monday, Ukrainian negotiators have said very little in public about the content of the U.S. proposal or their attitude toward it.
to.pbs.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Because he's too much of a statesman, I will say it for him - Trump/Putin, go fuck yourselves. Slava Ukraini!
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I've pointed this out many times before, but this sort of bullshitting worked great for Trump when he was running for president, but it doesnt work when he *is* president. He cannot grasp that he cant just bullshit away what ppl can see in front of their faces when he's actually the one in power
OMG: The signage behind Trump at his so-called affordability event today reads "LOWER PRICES" and "BIGGER PAYCHECKS"
Trump's strategy to counter his disastrous handling of the affordability crisis is to just...lie about it.
This is a gift to Democrats.
Trump's strategy to counter his disastrous handling of the affordability crisis is to just...lie about it.
This is a gift to Democrats.
December 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I've pointed this out many times before, but this sort of bullshitting worked great for Trump when he was running for president, but it doesnt work when he *is* president. He cannot grasp that he cant just bullshit away what ppl can see in front of their faces when he's actually the one in power
Trump is just a front for all of the rancid barnacles that have latched onto him. He is surrounded by Wormtongues and he does whatever they flatter him into doing (or promise him money for doing). He probably doesn't have any clue as to what he is actually doing. His brain is pudding.
Awful: Trump just admitted in a new interview that he knows "very little" about the Honduran ex-president he pardoned. This guy trafficked a gazillion times more drugs into the US than anyone Trump has executed. Wrecks his case for the boat bombings.
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Trump Accidentally Sabotages Case for Bombings in New Interview Fiasco
The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of ...
newrepublic.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Trump is just a front for all of the rancid barnacles that have latched onto him. He is surrounded by Wormtongues and he does whatever they flatter him into doing (or promise him money for doing). He probably doesn't have any clue as to what he is actually doing. His brain is pudding.
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Just a reminder...
December 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just a reminder...
Star Trek episode you've watched more than six times with a GIF.
December 9, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Star Trek episode you've watched more than six times with a GIF.
My body is not a temple. It's the NSEA Protector crash landing onto the stage of a sci-fi convention.
December 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
My body is not a temple. It's the NSEA Protector crash landing onto the stage of a sci-fi convention.
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Donald Trump has unilaterally decided that one of America's largest media companies must be sold to one of his cronies. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Donald Trump has unilaterally decided that one of America's largest media companies must be sold to one of his cronies. Here's why America has a liberal media bias problem.
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That Samsung AI ad where the guy goes to a museum and his phone tells him about all the art is such a good idea. I hate when you go to museums and they never tell you what any of the stuff is
December 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Our country is just four corporations in a trench coat
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Our country is just four corporations in a trench coat
Name your favorite Tom Hanks film
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Name your favorite Tom Hanks film
Today's solution is tomorrow's problem.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
December 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Today's solution is tomorrow's problem.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
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Americans: high speed rail would revolutionize how we live in this country
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: what if we did pull ups in our smoking jackets while waiting for flights that are overbooked
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: what if we did pull ups in our smoking jackets while waiting for flights that are overbooked
December 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Americans: high speed rail would revolutionize how we live in this country
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: what if we did pull ups in our smoking jackets while waiting for flights that are overbooked
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: what if we did pull ups in our smoking jackets while waiting for flights that are overbooked
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Anyone who uses the term “narcoterrorist” seriously in this debate should not be taken seriously.
Indeed. These are no more “narco-terrorists” than Al Capone & his bootlegging associates were “alco-terrorists.” Prohibition-era gangsters were capable of extreme violence, but labeling them terrorists & hitting them with bombs would’ve been a silly way to address our insatiable demand for alcohol.
“Drug gangs can be terrible, they can be a threat, but that doesn't make them terrorists under the law.” @mawaldman.bsky.social on the US's justification for killing alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean. @cbssundaymorning.bsky.social
December 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Anyone who uses the term “narcoterrorist” seriously in this debate should not be taken seriously.
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The fact that the woo-woo, New Age, California Uber Alles granola fascist types have now sorted themselves into the MAGA GOP is a remarkable fact that explains almost everything about this current political moment.
December 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The fact that the woo-woo, New Age, California Uber Alles granola fascist types have now sorted themselves into the MAGA GOP is a remarkable fact that explains almost everything about this current political moment.
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Critical misunderstanding a lot of people had. Republicans only hate a nanny state if it's black people and women telling people what to do. They crave the nanny state in which it's white men telling people what to do.
i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
December 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Critical misunderstanding a lot of people had. Republicans only hate a nanny state if it's black people and women telling people what to do. They crave the nanny state in which it's white men telling people what to do.
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I don’t know if you recall experts saying DNA viruses don’t mutate very often…
It is mutating and there are two things that encourage this.
Replication opportunities.
Exposure to hosts, especially new hosts, and immunocompromised hosts.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
It is mutating and there are two things that encourage this.
Replication opportunities.
Exposure to hosts, especially new hosts, and immunocompromised hosts.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
England health officials identify newly evolved variant of mpox
Virus caught by person who travelled to Asia combines more severe form of mpox with less virulent type
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I don’t know if you recall experts saying DNA viruses don’t mutate very often…
It is mutating and there are two things that encourage this.
Replication opportunities.
Exposure to hosts, especially new hosts, and immunocompromised hosts.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
It is mutating and there are two things that encourage this.
Replication opportunities.
Exposure to hosts, especially new hosts, and immunocompromised hosts.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Anyone with a loved one who's had advanced cognitive issues is very familiar with this kind of irrational anger greeting gentle pushback or a reminder that they'd already said something they just said again.
Reporter: “Are you committed to releasing the full video?”
Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?”
Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.”
Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”
Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?”
Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.”
Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”
December 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Anyone with a loved one who's had advanced cognitive issues is very familiar with this kind of irrational anger greeting gentle pushback or a reminder that they'd already said something they just said again.
Substitute "rebelling against" for "mad about".
December 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Substitute "rebelling against" for "mad about".
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And, after 15 years of trying, they're going to kick millions off of the ACA—the first time the federal government has ever purposely uninsured millions of Americans.
That alone should be enough to cost the GOP control of Congress in a typical midterm.
That alone should be enough to cost the GOP control of Congress in a typical midterm.
December 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And, after 15 years of trying, they're going to kick millions off of the ACA—the first time the federal government has ever purposely uninsured millions of Americans.
That alone should be enough to cost the GOP control of Congress in a typical midterm.
That alone should be enough to cost the GOP control of Congress in a typical midterm.