Mark Wright
@jmarkwrite.bsky.social
Mark Wright, marketing writer. Former journalist. A blue dot in red Texas. I believe in democracy and separation of church and state. Shameless left of center champion of rights.
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Trump has crossed the 40% rubicon. Lots of polisci research that suggests lame duck presidents lose influence over the course of their second term. There is a huge market for resistance--nobody likes what is going on.
Trump has crossed the 40% rubicon. Lots of polisci research that suggests lame duck presidents lose influence over the course of their second term. There is a huge market for resistance--nobody likes what is going on.
Since Trump really start declining in early June nothing he and his regime have done have been able to stop his fall. He just keeps dropping. It's pretty remarkable.
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Trump has crossed the 40% rubicon. Lots of polisci research that suggests lame duck presidents lose influence over the course of their second term. There is a huge market for resistance--nobody likes what is going on.
Trump has crossed the 40% rubicon. Lots of polisci research that suggests lame duck presidents lose influence over the course of their second term. There is a huge market for resistance--nobody likes what is going on.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Sigh
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Sigh
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
Listen.
Vote for democrats.
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Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt now has a personal connection to the ICE raids. Her nephew's mother has been detained.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt now has a personal connection to the ICE raids. Her nephew's mother has been detained.
www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-lea...
www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-lea...
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can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
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No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
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WTAF is wrong with people?🤦♀️
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, a former Democrat who is running for #MIGov as an independent, just refused to condemn Donald Trump's threats to execute Democratic lawmakers
Duggan won’t say if Trump’s execution threats go too far - Detroit Metro Times
Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan had an opportunity this weekend to say whether he thinks President Donald Trump’s threats of jailing and executing political opponents has gone too far.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
WTAF is wrong with people?🤦♀️
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Credit where it’s due. But I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this new framing comes out after a Democratic wave election, the ascendance (and surprisingly broad acceptance) of Mamdani, and his steadily crashing poll numbers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
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November 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Credit where it’s due. But I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this new framing comes out after a Democratic wave election, the ascendance (and surprisingly broad acceptance) of Mamdani, and his steadily crashing poll numbers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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Is Bessent really that stupid, or is he just a colossal suck-up.
November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Is Bessent really that stupid, or is he just a colossal suck-up.
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
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Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
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Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.
With @readfrontier.bsky.social
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Russell Vought’s new “pledge” tells consumer watchdogs to be nice to the very Wall Street crooks they’re supposed to regulate.
Elizabeth Warren’s jaw hit the floor 😬
Elizabeth Warren’s jaw hit the floor 😬
Anger as Trump official issues 'pledge' to be nice to Wall Street fraudsters
“Why is Russell Vought showing the world his weird, creepy pledge of allegiance to big corporations? Have some dignity, Russell.”That’s what Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Union member Alexis…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Russell Vought’s new “pledge” tells consumer watchdogs to be nice to the very Wall Street crooks they’re supposed to regulate.
Elizabeth Warren’s jaw hit the floor 😬
Elizabeth Warren’s jaw hit the floor 😬
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I love Providence, RI
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I love Providence, RI
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Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
November 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
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There has never been a single time, as president or candidate, that Trump has singled out Putin for condemnation for his brutal invasion of Ukraine that murders civilians daily. It is always “both sides” that are to blame according to Trump, Vance and Witkoff. He masquerades as a
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
There has never been a single time, as president or candidate, that Trump has singled out Putin for condemnation for his brutal invasion of Ukraine that murders civilians daily. It is always “both sides” that are to blame according to Trump, Vance and Witkoff. He masquerades as a
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This isn't really a Miami thing. Virginia didn't play Miami, Pitt, SMU or Georgia Tech. The draw of your conference schedule has too big an impact on the standings now, because they're too big. We don't actually know the best teams in a league anymore.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This isn't really a Miami thing. Virginia didn't play Miami, Pitt, SMU or Georgia Tech. The draw of your conference schedule has too big an impact on the standings now, because they're too big. We don't actually know the best teams in a league anymore.
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Over more than two centuries, the Rule of Law in America became the envy of the world. And now: The FBI is investigating members of Congress for restating the law. The government defies court orders in an unprecedented fashion… 1/3
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Over more than two centuries, the Rule of Law in America became the envy of the world. And now: The FBI is investigating members of Congress for restating the law. The government defies court orders in an unprecedented fashion… 1/3
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We must spend the rest of our lives rebuilding what has been so corrupted. It is our obligation as patriotic Americans, but most likely, even under the best of circumstances, we will never be able to get back to a pre-2016 state of affairs. It’s such a great tragedy. 3/3
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
We must spend the rest of our lives rebuilding what has been so corrupted. It is our obligation as patriotic Americans, but most likely, even under the best of circumstances, we will never be able to get back to a pre-2016 state of affairs. It’s such a great tragedy. 3/3
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Really bothering me that ESPN’s projected CFP bracket features a really unlikely scenario (it specifies that Miami in as the ACC Champion, which has like a 10% chance of happening, maybe less)
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Really bothering me that ESPN’s projected CFP bracket features a really unlikely scenario (it specifies that Miami in as the ACC Champion, which has like a 10% chance of happening, maybe less)
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This is how you do it.
BREAKING Jair Bolsonaro, convicted of attempting a military coup and the violent abolition of the democratic rule of law, is ordered today to begin his 27-year sentence
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Bolsonaro out of appeals; will start 27-year sentence for coup attempt
The former Brazilian president will begin his sentence in a specially prepared cell at federal police headquarters in Brasília.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This is how you do it.
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They literally Google-translated Russia's demands, and called it the plan.
Trump on his administration's initial Russia-friendly peace plan: "That was not a plan. It was a concept."
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
They literally Google-translated Russia's demands, and called it the plan.
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Special agents at the Homeland Security Department have made fewer arrests for drug crimes and seized fewer weapons than they did the previous fiscal year, according to internal government documents reviewed by The New York Times.
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Drug Arrests and Gun Seizures Fell as Homeland Security Pursued Immigration
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November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Special agents at the Homeland Security Department have made fewer arrests for drug crimes and seized fewer weapons than they did the previous fiscal year, according to internal government documents reviewed by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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What’s turkey got to do with the country of Turkey?
Why doesn’t the bird have a Native American name since it’s indigenous to the Americas?
@robwords.bsky.social has your answers in this deep dive into the etymology of the word “turkey”.
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Why doesn’t the bird have a Native American name since it’s indigenous to the Americas?
@robwords.bsky.social has your answers in this deep dive into the etymology of the word “turkey”.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJJs...
Why is a turkey called a turkey?
YouTube video by RobWords
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November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
What’s turkey got to do with the country of Turkey?
Why doesn’t the bird have a Native American name since it’s indigenous to the Americas?
@robwords.bsky.social has your answers in this deep dive into the etymology of the word “turkey”.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJJs...
Why doesn’t the bird have a Native American name since it’s indigenous to the Americas?
@robwords.bsky.social has your answers in this deep dive into the etymology of the word “turkey”.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJJs...
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This is the ultimate “bring back a past I’m nostalgic for without recreating any of the material conditions that made that possible.” Peak MAGA brain.
Sean Duffy, the U.S. transportation secretary, has been urging people for the past week to dress and comport themselves better as a way of restoring “civility” to air travel. On Tuesday, he added another item to his list of concerns: the quality of the snacks handed out on commercial flights.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Wants Healthier In-Flight Snack Options
Sean Duffy, who has been promoting greater decorum among air travelers, said he would like to see choices besides salty pretzels and buttery cookies.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This is the ultimate “bring back a past I’m nostalgic for without recreating any of the material conditions that made that possible.” Peak MAGA brain.
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NEW:
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
NEW:
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.