Marilyn R
@marilynr20.bsky.social
Retired. Formerly taught & worked in educational issues/policy for national organizations. Love history and have special appreciation for HCR and Joanne Freeman. Hope to preserve our democracy. As we fight the good fight, let’s keep our sense of humor.
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Marilyn R
@marilynr20.bsky.social
· Dec 18
Trump’s Greatest Hits (No One Asked For)
YouTube video by Paula Poundstone
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If you aren’t watching these short videos (usually daily) by comic Paula Poundstone on YouTube, FB or other social media sites, you’re really missing out. Using humor, they make strong political points. Here’s one from 12/18.
youtube.com/shorts/QoD_c...
youtube.com/shorts/QoD_c...
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Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
February 4, 2026 at 11:24 PM
Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
Resist this slide toward autocracy and possibly worse.
Tenure enables freedom of speech, which is why aspiring tyrants don’t like it.
Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
February 7, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Resist this slide toward autocracy and possibly worse.
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Let’s make it viral folks. Thank you @histoftech.bsky.social.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Let’s make it viral folks. Thank you @histoftech.bsky.social.
Can’t be bipartisan if Republicans accept this exclusive invitation.
BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
Governors’ offices learned Friday that a White House meeting around the upcoming National Governors Association weekend will only include Republicans, a break from its bipartisan past.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Governors’ offices learned Friday that a White House meeting around the upcoming National Governors Association weekend will only include Republicans, a break from its bipartisan past.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
White House excluding Dems from its annual governors meeting
It’s a break from a decades-long bipartisan tradition.
www.politico.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Can’t be bipartisan if Republicans accept this exclusive invitation.
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"That is a truly fascist idea, the idea of outsourcing thinking....power is in our ability to think with each other"
Klein on the "AI for climate" crap and how to weave a better story:
www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
@themaybe.org
@alixdunn.com
Klein on the "AI for climate" crap and how to weave a better story:
www.themaybe.org/reframing-im...
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
@themaybe.org
@alixdunn.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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Hope you find these daily very funny short satirical videos by Paula Poundstone onYouTube or other social media sites. I have an older one pinned on my feed. Videos r consistently brilliant, humorous and effective in making political pts. Also see her Larry Experience videos. Efforts inspired by HCR
Did you watch my "Hey Donald Trump" video on Youtube, today?
February 6, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Hope you find these daily very funny short satirical videos by Paula Poundstone onYouTube or other social media sites. I have an older one pinned on my feed. Videos r consistently brilliant, humorous and effective in making political pts. Also see her Larry Experience videos. Efforts inspired by HCR
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This is LARRY, who is trying to save democracy with me.
February 6, 2026 at 10:20 PM
This is LARRY, who is trying to save democracy with me.
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This is an important point.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project.
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...
February 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
This is an important point.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
Empathy—in and of itself—is anti-fascist.
The arts—and the project of higher education as a whole—teach empathy, enabling you to put yourself in other people’s shoes.
So to a fascist, they must be destroyed.
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This is truly incredible.
Shakespeare speaking to RIGHT NOW—on the “mountainish” inhumanity of punishing and casting out strangers from your country.
Shakespeare speaking to RIGHT NOW—on the “mountainish” inhumanity of punishing and casting out strangers from your country.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 4:09 PM
This is truly incredible.
Shakespeare speaking to RIGHT NOW—on the “mountainish” inhumanity of punishing and casting out strangers from your country.
Shakespeare speaking to RIGHT NOW—on the “mountainish” inhumanity of punishing and casting out strangers from your country.
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Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
February 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
30-year financial analysis shows how much immigrants boost our economy.
I encourage you to consider that the @cato.org is right about this
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 4, 2026 at 2:33 AM
30-year financial analysis shows how much immigrants boost our economy.
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You can vote for THE NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER once a day. It really is a wonderful tribute to comedy, and a great place to visit.
February 2, 2026 at 9:32 PM
You can vote for THE NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER once a day. It really is a wonderful tribute to comedy, and a great place to visit.
Corruption and obfuscation everywhere. This must be stopped.
Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
February 2, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Corruption and obfuscation everywhere. This must be stopped.
Note:
February 2, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Note:
Outrageous!
“CNN has asked Starlink for comment, but received no answer. Under US sanctions, Starlink cannot be sold or used in Russia.”
January 31, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Outrageous!
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Please help it become USA Today’s #1 Pop Culture Museum in the country. Vote once per day through Feb. 9 at ComedyCenter.org/Vote. For daily vote reminders, text the word VOTE to 888.420.0147. Thank you!
Voting link: 10best.usatoday.com/awards/natio...)
Voting link: 10best.usatoday.com/awards/natio...)
National Comedy Center: 2026 USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards
Opened in 2018, this museum in Jamestown, New York (hometown of famed comedian Lucille Ball), offers plenty of laughs and interactive fun for the whole family. Featuring over 50 exhibits, you’ll get t...
ComedyCenter.org
January 30, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Please help it become USA Today’s #1 Pop Culture Museum in the country. Vote once per day through Feb. 9 at ComedyCenter.org/Vote. For daily vote reminders, text the word VOTE to 888.420.0147. Thank you!
Voting link: 10best.usatoday.com/awards/natio...)
Voting link: 10best.usatoday.com/awards/natio...)
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Europe and India just signed the “mother of all trade deals”, two billion people, a quarter of global #GDP, not invited - #Trump
New piece on how foreign media see Trump’s trade chaos, and why America is now the empty chair. #uspolitics #tariffs #kakistocracy
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
New piece on how foreign media see Trump’s trade chaos, and why America is now the empty chair. #uspolitics #tariffs #kakistocracy
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
A Trade Deal for Two Billion People, Minus One Superpower
The EU and India move on as America’s volatility becomes a problem to hedge against.
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Europe and India just signed the “mother of all trade deals”, two billion people, a quarter of global #GDP, not invited - #Trump
New piece on how foreign media see Trump’s trade chaos, and why America is now the empty chair. #uspolitics #tariffs #kakistocracy
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
New piece on how foreign media see Trump’s trade chaos, and why America is now the empty chair. #uspolitics #tariffs #kakistocracy
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
FYI
TOMORROW: AFT is hosting a public webinar on ways to ensure that schools, hospitals and communities are places of care, not fear, as intensified immigration enforcement efforts fuel fear and violence.
Register here and join 1/28 at 6 p.m. EST ⤵️
sharemylesson.com/webinars/imm...
Register here and join 1/28 at 6 p.m. EST ⤵️
sharemylesson.com/webinars/imm...
Immigration Enforcement: A Nation at Risk
Why Schools, Hospitals and Communities Must Remain Places of Care, Not Fear
sharemylesson.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:40 PM
FYI
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The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.
We have to see the logic of the killings as well as the killings themselves. The horror is a truth in itself. But it is also a sign of a political logic, one known from the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century.
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
snyder.substack.com/p/lies-and-l...
Lies and Lawlessness
The Camps, the Executions, and the Future
snyder.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:25 PM
The president should be impeached and convicted, as should everyone responsible for these outrages. ICE should be disbanded. So should the Department of Homeland Security. And the people who have killed should be investigated and brought before judges and juries.
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Murdered by the state for trying to protect a woman who was being accosted by masked, armed men for exercising her First Amendment rights.
My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti
Absolutely heartbreaking
Absolutely heartbreaking
January 25, 2026 at 5:58 PM
Murdered by the state for trying to protect a woman who was being accosted by masked, armed men for exercising her First Amendment rights.
“There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.”
Always read M Gessen. Donald Trump ruled the GOP using the same terror techniques that he’s now using to rule the country. Plenty of GOP politicians and activists knew this all along and full well. They chose to capitulate to the terror. They are complicit. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:09 PM
“There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.”
Truth.
They only get involved because someone is paying them, so they assume *other* people would only get involved because someone is also paying them.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Truth.
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So looking forward to this conversation with the amazing Lisa Graves at flyleaf books in Chapel Hill February 12!
Two of the country’s heaviest hitters on Leonard Leo, corruption of MAGA and the Roberts cout discussing the Roberts Court.
Attend this is you can.
Buy the book or get from public library and read it. 5-stars
@thelisagraves.bsky.social
@nancymaclean.bsky.social
chapelboro.com/events/lisa-...
Attend this is you can.
Buy the book or get from public library and read it. 5-stars
@thelisagraves.bsky.social
@nancymaclean.bsky.social
chapelboro.com/events/lisa-...
Lisa Graves presents WITHOUT PRECEDENT, with Nancy MacLean - Chapelboro.com
Lisa Graves presents WITHOUT PRECEDENT, with Nancy MacLean
chapelboro.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:52 AM
So looking forward to this conversation with the amazing Lisa Graves at flyleaf books in Chapel Hill February 12!
Yes, NOW!
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Yes, NOW!