Patti Marxsen
@pattimarxsen.bsky.social
Biographer: "Helene Schweitzer: A Life of Her Own" (SUP 2015); "Jacques Roumain: A Life of Resistance" (Caribbean Studies Press 2019); "Karen Blixen's Search for Self: The Making of 'Out of Africa'" (LSU Press 2026). I live in the world and vote in Maine.
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Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."
December 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."
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The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The Supreme Court, Presidency, Senate and two party system are all quite anti-democratic institutions as presently constructed.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
Our institutions are not only incapable of preventing tyranny—they’re currently enabling it.
When democracy returns, we need to reform our political system.
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Since we can’t ever expect Mike Johnson to do the right thing, we’re forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. And we only need four more members to sign the petition to make it happen.
Help us move the needle!
Help us move the needle!
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Since we can’t ever expect Mike Johnson to do the right thing, we’re forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. And we only need four more members to sign the petition to make it happen.
Help us move the needle!
Help us move the needle!
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If the Democratic Party retakes Congress, the first duty is accountability. Every crime, every abuse, every betrayal of the public trust must be unearthed. If we look away, we teach future generations that power excuses corruption.
December 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If the Democratic Party retakes Congress, the first duty is accountability. Every crime, every abuse, every betrayal of the public trust must be unearthed. If we look away, we teach future generations that power excuses corruption.
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Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
p.s. My new book will be published early in 2026 by LSU Press and is now available for pre-order at lsupress.org/books-by-sea...
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
p.s. My new book will be published early in 2026 by LSU Press and is now available for pre-order at lsupress.org/books-by-sea...
Seems like a good day to mention that Karen Blixen's "Majordomo," brilliant translator, and great friend during her years in colonial Kenya was Somali. She had great respect for Farah and for the Somali people.
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Seems like a good day to mention that Karen Blixen's "Majordomo," brilliant translator, and great friend during her years in colonial Kenya was Somali. She had great respect for Farah and for the Somali people.
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Pierre Bonnard "Gate at the Villa Bosquet in Le Cannet," oil on canvas, 1944; Muskegon Art Museum. #art #blueskyart #impressionism #impressionist #oilpainting #oiloncanvas #modernart #painting #museum #artmuseum
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Pierre Bonnard "Gate at the Villa Bosquet in Le Cannet," oil on canvas, 1944; Muskegon Art Museum. #art #blueskyart #impressionism #impressionist #oilpainting #oiloncanvas #modernart #painting #museum #artmuseum
Passing the buck... great caricatures here!
December 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Passing the buck... great caricatures here!
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Congress used to have the power of the purse and the power to declare war.
December 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Congress used to have the power of the purse and the power to declare war.
Escape to Florida??
I was told everyone was leaving.
@fortune.com #NYC
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December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Escape to Florida??
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Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.
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Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
MBS claims the murder of Khashoggi was "a huge mistake and we're our doing our best that this doesn't happen again."
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?
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Powerful.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Powerful.
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'Iris' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
'Iris' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker ##ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
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The biggest democracy news of the day and its only 11am! www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Utah Judge Strikes Down GOP Gerrymander, Restores Voter-Approved Fair Map
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The biggest democracy news of the day and its only 11am! www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
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BREAKING: I GOT MY SNAP BENEFITS. (NYC HERE)
CHECK YOUR EBT CARDS AND PLEASE REPORT BACK!!!!!
CHECK YOUR EBT CARDS AND PLEASE REPORT BACK!!!!!
November 9, 2025 at 2:40 PM
BREAKING: I GOT MY SNAP BENEFITS. (NYC HERE)
CHECK YOUR EBT CARDS AND PLEASE REPORT BACK!!!!!
CHECK YOUR EBT CARDS AND PLEASE REPORT BACK!!!!!