ScribeMarjie ✍️🎨🐶🗽🇺🇦🇨🇦
@scribemarjie.bsky.social
Poet, artist, working on novel. Blue💙. Live on farm in Blue Ridge Mountains with 3 dogs, a horse, and a donkey. Author of three chapbooks. Writer, 🌱gardener. Founder, long retired, of museum on coast of Gulf of Mexico. No dm's. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine! 🇨🇦
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Snows of Biloxi | Poem | Certain Age Magazine
In this poem by Marjorie Gowdy, the sea holds its mysteries and takes what it wants before releasing you back to yourself.
www.certainagemag.com
Most honored to have my poem, “Snows of Biloxi,” and my reading of the poem, published here for Certain Age magazine:
www.certainagemag.com/post/snows-o... #poetry. #writing
www.certainagemag.com/post/snows-o... #poetry. #writing
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“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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I can’t believe how hard it is to explain to people you’ve known for 30 years that fascism is bad. Kindly fuck off.
November 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I can’t believe how hard it is to explain to people you’ve known for 30 years that fascism is bad. Kindly fuck off.
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Shoppers spent $1 billion more online shopping on Black Friday this year compared to 2024.
Black Friday Online Sales Up Nearly 10% From Last Year, Study Shows
Shoppers spent $1 billion more online shopping on Black Friday this year compared to 2024.
www.forbes.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Shoppers spent $1 billion more online shopping on Black Friday this year compared to 2024.
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"If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder."
Here are US military lawyers stating clearly that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's "kill everybody" orders are either (1) war crimes or (2) murder.
Either way, expect prosecutions in the future.
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
Either way, expect prosecutions in the future.
www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...
November 30, 2025 at 4:39 AM
"If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder."
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Well-crafted thread, Charlotte!
Here's the thing: Daily reading of any print material (books, magazines, etc.) fell from about 60% of young people in the late 1970s to about 12% in recent years.
That's roughly an 80% relative decrease in daily print reading.
You can't write if you don't read.
Here's the thing: Daily reading of any print material (books, magazines, etc.) fell from about 60% of young people in the late 1970s to about 12% in recent years.
That's roughly an 80% relative decrease in daily print reading.
You can't write if you don't read.
There's a Crisis of Reading Among Generation Z
As young people read less and less, they may be short-circuiting their reading brains.
psmag.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Well-crafted thread, Charlotte!
Here's the thing: Daily reading of any print material (books, magazines, etc.) fell from about 60% of young people in the late 1970s to about 12% in recent years.
That's roughly an 80% relative decrease in daily print reading.
You can't write if you don't read.
Here's the thing: Daily reading of any print material (books, magazines, etc.) fell from about 60% of young people in the late 1970s to about 12% in recent years.
That's roughly an 80% relative decrease in daily print reading.
You can't write if you don't read.
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Your kid got into a great college because of excellent high school grades, and you're aghast that they're now getting low grades on written work. There could be a number of valid reasons, but more often than not, they just don't know how to write.
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Your kid got into a great college because of excellent high school grades, and you're aghast that they're now getting low grades on written work. There could be a number of valid reasons, but more often than not, they just don't know how to write.
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All those years spent in private schools or wealthy public schools, thousands spent on tutors, easy access to books, cultural experiences afforded through travel, extracurricular flexibility -- after all that, there are millions of students from this particular background who simply don't know.
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
All those years spent in private schools or wealthy public schools, thousands spent on tutors, easy access to books, cultural experiences afforded through travel, extracurricular flexibility -- after all that, there are millions of students from this particular background who simply don't know.
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I'm not talking about ideology or politics. I mean the basic mechanics of writing, let alone producing a college paper to standard.
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I'm not talking about ideology or politics. I mean the basic mechanics of writing, let alone producing a college paper to standard.
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That college essay making the rounds is bad, but in terms of writing skill, it's pretty par for the course.
The sad truth is that there are a few million upper middle class white parents in this country who genuinely fail to grasp that their kids don't know how to write.
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The sad truth is that there are a few million upper middle class white parents in this country who genuinely fail to grasp that their kids don't know how to write.
1/5
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
That college essay making the rounds is bad, but in terms of writing skill, it's pretty par for the course.
The sad truth is that there are a few million upper middle class white parents in this country who genuinely fail to grasp that their kids don't know how to write.
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The sad truth is that there are a few million upper middle class white parents in this country who genuinely fail to grasp that their kids don't know how to write.
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Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
[email protected]
So easy to fall in love with that face ⬇️😍 MELIA will thrive with the right person & Training.
3.5 years old, 50 lbs, a low traffic adult only home with no dogs. She enjoys going for walks.
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
[email protected]
So easy to fall in love with that face ⬇️😍 MELIA will thrive with the right person & Training.
3.5 years old, 50 lbs, a low traffic adult only home with no dogs. She enjoys going for walks.
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Hempstead Animal Shelter
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
[email protected]
So easy to fall in love with that face ⬇️😍 MELIA will thrive with the right person & Training.
3.5 years old, 50 lbs, a low traffic adult only home with no dogs. She enjoys going for walks.
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
[email protected]
So easy to fall in love with that face ⬇️😍 MELIA will thrive with the right person & Training.
3.5 years old, 50 lbs, a low traffic adult only home with no dogs. She enjoys going for walks.
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Incompetence will save us from full blown autocracy… probably
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Incompetence will save us from full blown autocracy… probably
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When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored?
Started. Going.
Started. Going.
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored?
Started. Going.
Started. Going.
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Ummmm, seems like whiskey Pete maybe shouldn’t have tweet about the war crimes.
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Ummmm, seems like whiskey Pete maybe shouldn’t have tweet about the war crimes.
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During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.
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Disgusting attack on free speech.
White House Launches ‘Media Offender of the Week’ On Website To Further Battle ‘Fake News Media’ Mediaite
www.mediaite.com
White House Launches 'Media Offender of the Week' on Website
twp.ai
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Disgusting attack on free speech.
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This.
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This.
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This is a MUST READ. It's terrifying and absolutely hits the mark.
I have been paralyzed into not responding to every mad missive from king Donny and his merry band of morons and syncophants. It's too much.
But that's the point, right?
Read this summary of last week...
I have been paralyzed into not responding to every mad missive from king Donny and his merry band of morons and syncophants. It's too much.
But that's the point, right?
Read this summary of last week...
The past decade has seen grave threats and unmistakable decline. But the past few days and weeks reveal that we have entered in a new and more perilous chapter here in the U.S. It must be a call to a new kind of action. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
We Have Descended into Utter Madness
A new sense of urgency is needed. Our national crisis has grown much more acute.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is a MUST READ. It's terrifying and absolutely hits the mark.
I have been paralyzed into not responding to every mad missive from king Donny and his merry band of morons and syncophants. It's too much.
But that's the point, right?
Read this summary of last week...
I have been paralyzed into not responding to every mad missive from king Donny and his merry band of morons and syncophants. It's too much.
But that's the point, right?
Read this summary of last week...
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“... virtually every issue of importance - natn’l security, foreign policy, economics, budgets, taxation, tariffs, healthcare, social services, energy, environment, education or the rule of law that the policies & positions adopted by this administration are not just greatly deviant from our past…”
The past decade has seen grave threats and unmistakable decline. But the past few days and weeks reveal that we have entered in a new and more perilous chapter here in the U.S. It must be a call to a new kind of action. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
We Have Descended into Utter Madness
A new sense of urgency is needed. Our national crisis has grown much more acute.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
“... virtually every issue of importance - natn’l security, foreign policy, economics, budgets, taxation, tariffs, healthcare, social services, energy, environment, education or the rule of law that the policies & positions adopted by this administration are not just greatly deviant from our past…”
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🧵Don’t skip. A must rd for everyone to understand we must work even harder than b4 starting now. But it will be a long hard fight thru to the next generation(s) . No exhaustion, no stumbles, no apathy can stop us if we want to claw back a Country that we used to love. Remember our children ⬇️
The past decade has seen grave threats and unmistakable decline. But the past few days and weeks reveal that we have entered in a new and more perilous chapter here in the U.S. It must be a call to a new kind of action. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
We Have Descended into Utter Madness
A new sense of urgency is needed. Our national crisis has grown much more acute.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
🧵Don’t skip. A must rd for everyone to understand we must work even harder than b4 starting now. But it will be a long hard fight thru to the next generation(s) . No exhaustion, no stumbles, no apathy can stop us if we want to claw back a Country that we used to love. Remember our children ⬇️
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"This moment must be a turning point. It is time to recognize that we have entered a dark, perilous new phase of the drama of the Trump years and it is up to us all that we ensure we are in the last act of that play." @djrothkopf.bsky.social
davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-have-de...
davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-have-de...
We Have Descended into Utter Madness
A new sense of urgency is needed. Our national crisis has grown much more acute.
davidrothkopf.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
"This moment must be a turning point. It is time to recognize that we have entered a dark, perilous new phase of the drama of the Trump years and it is up to us all that we ensure we are in the last act of that play." @djrothkopf.bsky.social
davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-have-de...
davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/we-have-de...
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Just as fraud perpetrated by white people does not indict all white people, this does not mean all Somali-Americans should be either as Trump has tried to do. But it’s a major fail on many levels by Walz and is a clear roadblock to any national run www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Just as fraud perpetrated by white people does not indict all white people, this does not mean all Somali-Americans should be either as Trump has tried to do. But it’s a major fail on many levels by Walz and is a clear roadblock to any national run www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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It’s always obvi been a biz grift www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It’s always obvi been a biz grift www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Must read: The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Must read: The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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Trump, long an enthusiastic advocate of extrajudicial killings and war crimes, "has been lusting for this kind of violence for years, maybe decades. And he has made no secret of it. This is what he wanted, and this is what he is doing right now. Expect much more." [@sykescharlie.bsky.social]
"The Order Was to Kill Everybody."
Pete Hegseth's murders. And our War Crimes President.
charliesykes.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump, long an enthusiastic advocate of extrajudicial killings and war crimes, "has been lusting for this kind of violence for years, maybe decades. And he has made no secret of it. This is what he wanted, and this is what he is doing right now. Expect much more." [@sykescharlie.bsky.social]
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