Mary-Anne
@convert24.bsky.social
Lawyer, teacher, mediator.
Cradle Catholic. Pacifist. Progressive.
Cradle Catholic. Pacifist. Progressive.
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Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take
April 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take
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@booker.senate.gov made history yesterday.
He made genuinely “good trouble.”
During his brilliant record-breaking filibuster, he asked “Where does the Constitution live, on paper or in our hearts?”
All of us are called in our own way to answer that question by our actions, not just our words.
He made genuinely “good trouble.”
During his brilliant record-breaking filibuster, he asked “Where does the Constitution live, on paper or in our hearts?”
All of us are called in our own way to answer that question by our actions, not just our words.
April 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
@booker.senate.gov made history yesterday.
He made genuinely “good trouble.”
During his brilliant record-breaking filibuster, he asked “Where does the Constitution live, on paper or in our hearts?”
All of us are called in our own way to answer that question by our actions, not just our words.
He made genuinely “good trouble.”
During his brilliant record-breaking filibuster, he asked “Where does the Constitution live, on paper or in our hearts?”
All of us are called in our own way to answer that question by our actions, not just our words.
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Today, I called on my colleagues to listen to working people instead of talking at them.
Every Member of Congress should filter their work by asking, “Does this help working people?" Until then, we will keep losing support from working Americans & Republicans will get away with lip service.
Every Member of Congress should filter their work by asking, “Does this help working people?" Until then, we will keep losing support from working Americans & Republicans will get away with lip service.
March 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Today, I called on my colleagues to listen to working people instead of talking at them.
Every Member of Congress should filter their work by asking, “Does this help working people?" Until then, we will keep losing support from working Americans & Republicans will get away with lip service.
Every Member of Congress should filter their work by asking, “Does this help working people?" Until then, we will keep losing support from working Americans & Republicans will get away with lip service.
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The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose:
If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
March 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose:
If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
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Just goes to show: No amount of money can buy some people even a single clue
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their checks this month, my mother-in-law wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't."
March 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Just goes to show: No amount of money can buy some people even a single clue
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
March 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
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from NYT interview w/Schumer: 1. no plan beyond hoping it wouldn't pass the Senate. 2. never understood it was a leverage time not a binary choice 3. sounded old and cranky. Conclusion: Time to go. Biden realized he had to step aside but too late. Schumer shouldn't wait for the Const to implode.
March 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
from NYT interview w/Schumer: 1. no plan beyond hoping it wouldn't pass the Senate. 2. never understood it was a leverage time not a binary choice 3. sounded old and cranky. Conclusion: Time to go. Biden realized he had to step aside but too late. Schumer shouldn't wait for the Const to implode.
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Mike has been a friend of mine since we were young reporters at the @washingtonpost.com in the 1980s. He brims with talent, integrity and commitment to the truth. This is exactly what I expected and he had hoped he could stave off, which is a trash move by trash people. Throw them out.
March 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Mike has been a friend of mine since we were young reporters at the @washingtonpost.com in the 1980s. He brims with talent, integrity and commitment to the truth. This is exactly what I expected and he had hoped he could stave off, which is a trash move by trash people. Throw them out.
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What a different world we could have.
March 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What a different world we could have.
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If only Catholics were as concerned about caring for the poor, the homeless, the landless, the immigrant and refugee as they are about not eating meat on Friday!!!
March 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If only Catholics were as concerned about caring for the poor, the homeless, the landless, the immigrant and refugee as they are about not eating meat on Friday!!!
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The stunning Justice Department resignations recall President Nixon’s infamous “Saturday Night Massacre,” when top DOJ officials resigned rather than carry out the order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal.
Presidents Can’t Use the Justice Department as Their Personal Law Enforcement Agency
The new administration is eviscerating post-Watergate efforts to protect the DOJ from presidential overreach. The case of NYC Mayor Eric Adams illustrates the results.
www.brennancenter.org
March 3, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The stunning Justice Department resignations recall President Nixon’s infamous “Saturday Night Massacre,” when top DOJ officials resigned rather than carry out the order to fire the special prosecutor investigating the Watergate scandal.
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Feb 3 Scripture
Twice in the same breath Jesus says, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!" (Mk 10:23-24).
And it is even harder for those who have wealth, use their wealth to create structures for oppressing the poor/immigrants/refugees, but claim to be Christians.
Twice in the same breath Jesus says, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!" (Mk 10:23-24).
And it is even harder for those who have wealth, use their wealth to create structures for oppressing the poor/immigrants/refugees, but claim to be Christians.
March 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Feb 3 Scripture
Twice in the same breath Jesus says, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!" (Mk 10:23-24).
And it is even harder for those who have wealth, use their wealth to create structures for oppressing the poor/immigrants/refugees, but claim to be Christians.
Twice in the same breath Jesus says, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!" (Mk 10:23-24).
And it is even harder for those who have wealth, use their wealth to create structures for oppressing the poor/immigrants/refugees, but claim to be Christians.
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The Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
At Oscars, 'No Other Land' co-directors call for national rights for Palestinians
The Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
www.npr.org
March 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
The Oscar-winning documentary, made by a team of Palestinian-Israeli filmmakers, follows the displacement of rural Palestinian communities in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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I want to give a shout out to the Raging Grannies. I’ve had friends in Oregon who were members and were active protesting Trump’s presence in Portland in 2020. My new state doesn’t have a single chapter, but maybe I can get one going.
raginggrannies.org/starter-kit/
raginggrannies.org/starter-kit/
Starter Kit – Raging Grannies International
raginggrannies.org
February 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I want to give a shout out to the Raging Grannies. I’ve had friends in Oregon who were members and were active protesting Trump’s presence in Portland in 2020. My new state doesn’t have a single chapter, but maybe I can get one going.
raginggrannies.org/starter-kit/
raginggrannies.org/starter-kit/
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Know what belongs to you!
February 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Know what belongs to you!
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Can we have more of this, every hour, every day?
#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
“I’D JUST LIKE TO SEE SOMEONE GIVE A DAMN”…
~Michael Steele
“I’D JUST LIKE TO SEE SOMEONE GIVE A DAMN”…
~Michael Steele
February 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Can we have more of this, every hour, every day?
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Fellow Oregonians, the state has set up two new webpages to track the impact of the DOGE/GOP Congress on state health and community services:
OR Health Authority (OHA): www.oregon.gov/oha/Pages/Fe...
OR Dept of Human Services (ODHS): www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/pa...
Nice to have a state that cares.
OR Health Authority (OHA): www.oregon.gov/oha/Pages/Fe...
OR Dept of Human Services (ODHS): www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/pa...
Nice to have a state that cares.
Oregon Health Authority : Monitoring Federal Changes and any Impacts on Oregon : State of Oregon
www.oregon.gov
February 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Fellow Oregonians, the state has set up two new webpages to track the impact of the DOGE/GOP Congress on state health and community services:
OR Health Authority (OHA): www.oregon.gov/oha/Pages/Fe...
OR Dept of Human Services (ODHS): www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/pa...
Nice to have a state that cares.
OR Health Authority (OHA): www.oregon.gov/oha/Pages/Fe...
OR Dept of Human Services (ODHS): www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/pa...
Nice to have a state that cares.
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Threatening, inciting fear, violating constitutional and human rights, villainizing immigrants, glorifying colonization… that’s precisely not how democracy does work!
January 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Threatening, inciting fear, violating constitutional and human rights, villainizing immigrants, glorifying colonization… that’s precisely not how democracy does work!
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Women in the US on student visas are not subject to US jurisdiction? So they can do all the crimes they want, and won't be prosecuted? And a child of non-citizens born on Feb 18 has birthright citizenship, but one born on Feb 19 does not?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
THE STUPID, IT BURNS!
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
THE STUPID, IT BURNS!
PROTECTING THE MEANING AND VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Women in the US on student visas are not subject to US jurisdiction? So they can do all the crimes they want, and won't be prosecuted? And a child of non-citizens born on Feb 18 has birthright citizenship, but one born on Feb 19 does not?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
THE STUPID, IT BURNS!
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
THE STUPID, IT BURNS!
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Big thanks 2 @hcrichardson.bsky.social and Katie Paris for shout out for on their webinar. Tomorrow a fascinating interview (HCR is fascinating, I just ask questions), Stay for Live Chat beginning 1130. Come for the satire and mockery, stay for the democracy! contrarian.substack.com
The Contrarian | Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen | Substack
Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
contrarian.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Big thanks 2 @hcrichardson.bsky.social and Katie Paris for shout out for on their webinar. Tomorrow a fascinating interview (HCR is fascinating, I just ask questions), Stay for Live Chat beginning 1130. Come for the satire and mockery, stay for the democracy! contrarian.substack.com
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The biggest political divide in America isn't "left" versus "right."
It's the American people versus the oligarchy.
It's the American people versus the oligarchy.
What is Oligarchy? | Robert Reich
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The biggest political divide in America isn't "left" versus "right."
It's the American people versus the oligarchy.
It's the American people versus the oligarchy.
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The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care.
But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.
But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.
January 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The facts are, the ACA saved millions with pre-existing conditions and set standards for care.
But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.
But now, more than a decade later, with what we now know, it’s time to take the insurance companies out of the mix.
The subsidies they get are enormous. We don’t need them as middlemen.