Editor Merry 🎄☃️🥂🕯️🎁
@editormary.bsky.social
Gradually migrating from the bird site. Semiretired editor specializing in development economics, social protection, and climate resilience. Former ink-stained wretch. #TeamPete. Big fan of cats and the Cubs. #NorthernVirginia #FallsChurch
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Trump has made America a place people fear, a place people don’t like, don’t trust, don’t want to do business with, and don’t want to visit. He’s made America a place people laugh at, a place that’s cruel & bigoted. America, under Trump, is no longer a destination. It’s a place to be avoided.
December 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Trump has made America a place people fear, a place people don’t like, don’t trust, don’t want to do business with, and don’t want to visit. He’s made America a place people laugh at, a place that’s cruel & bigoted. America, under Trump, is no longer a destination. It’s a place to be avoided.
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December 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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“The guy who bedazzled this room in gold thinks your child has too many pencils.” - Jimmy Kimmel
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“The guy who bedazzled this room in gold thinks your child has too many pencils.” - Jimmy Kimmel
OMG 😳
“According to a source Ms. Halligan became enraged when a grand juror told her that the word ‘indict’ is pronounced ‘in-DITE,” not “in-DICKT.”
Justice Department again fails to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James
The Justice Department also tried and failed last week to secure a new indictment against James in Norfolk, Virginia.
www.nbcnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
OMG 😳
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🚨New: Indiana Republicans ignored threats on their lives and rejected President Donald Trump’s demand that they gerrymander the state’s House map to help protect the party’s majority in next year’s midterms.
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
🚨New: Indiana Republicans ignored threats on their lives and rejected President Donald Trump’s demand that they gerrymander the state’s House map to help protect the party’s majority in next year’s midterms.
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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?
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December 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The first reporter to speak up, interrupt, and call Trump out to his face while he is berating, insulting and personally attacking another female reporter for no reason will be a national hero. You may lose access, but you will be a legend forever. At some point, someone has to.
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The first reporter to speak up, interrupt, and call Trump out to his face while he is berating, insulting and personally attacking another female reporter for no reason will be a national hero. You may lose access, but you will be a legend forever. At some point, someone has to.
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Behold and savor, a perfect moment.
December 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Behold and savor, a perfect moment.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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We really do live in the dumbest timeline.
"U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ... ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling Calibri a 'wasteful' diversity move.?
www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...
"U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ... ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling Calibri a 'wasteful' diversity move.?
www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...
Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri ...
www.reuters.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
We really do live in the dumbest timeline.
"U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ... ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling Calibri a 'wasteful' diversity move.?
www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...
"U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ... ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling Calibri a 'wasteful' diversity move.?
www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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I, too, grade myself with an A plus plus plus plus plus
December 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I, too, grade myself with an A plus plus plus plus plus
Is 'gift' really a verb?
Don't let gift-as-a-verb ruin your holiday spirit
www.merriam-webster.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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"What? What do you mean this isnt for me? It's a string, I like strings!"
Orion
This adorable fluffy boy deserves a home for Christmas!
#adoptable #adorable #va #BlackCat
Orion
This adorable fluffy boy deserves a home for Christmas!
#adoptable #adorable #va #BlackCat
December 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"What? What do you mean this isnt for me? It's a string, I like strings!"
Orion
This adorable fluffy boy deserves a home for Christmas!
#adoptable #adorable #va #BlackCat
Orion
This adorable fluffy boy deserves a home for Christmas!
#adoptable #adorable #va #BlackCat
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
I’m not mad, just disappointed.
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I’m not mad, just disappointed.
December 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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December 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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“In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice.
At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid.”
time.com/7338205/rage...
At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid.”
time.com/7338205/rage...
It's Time to Rage Against the AI Music Machine
If AI music takes over "humans will begin to echo the machines, and there will be a downward spiral into slop."
time.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice.
At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid.”
time.com/7338205/rage...
At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid.”
time.com/7338205/rage...
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I don't know how many shopping days there are until Christmas but I'm doing all mine here.
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I don't know how many shopping days there are until Christmas but I'm doing all mine here.