marithleen.bsky.social
@marithleen.bsky.social
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"I doubt Senator Kelly will see this blog, and if he does see it, I imagine he will not be pleased with it. He’ll probably find it embarrassing. His humility likely makes him bristle at stuff like this. Well, that’s just too damn bad, Senator."
The Extraordinary Military Career of Mark Kelly
Good lord, has this man done a lot.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today.

www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion
The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism
www.newsweek.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Sick in a hospital town: a story of American health care - ProPublica
December 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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It is so blatant now.

Yet they still don’t get it.

That even their own racism was created for them by the wealthy to keep them poor.

Will they ever get it?
November 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Reno, NV
October 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The Depth of MAGA’s Moral Collapse - The Atlantic
October 19, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I suspected this might be coming because of her recent retirement... I knew she'd never lay down the microphone unless forced to.

RIP to a giant of journalism, to a Founding Mother of NPR, and to -- I am proud and humbled to say -- my friend.

www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...
NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died
Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.
www.npr.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Thank you all so much. 💐
October 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
October 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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They're calling Doctor Jane Goodall the Mother of Woke 2
October 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Posted to her Instagram account on 9/21/2025
Jane Goodall Institute 🇨🇦
October 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
When you need to take a breath….. Frijole Canyon NM
September 23, 2025 at 11:17 PM
September 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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mainandvine
Lisa
August 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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I’m watching a live stream
August 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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May 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.
May 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Always a lot going on in the woods.
May 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country!

It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.
May 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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When you know better, you do better. . . . All of our victims, our farmers, feel completely deceived and lied to.”
www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
After Cows Kept Dying on a Texas Farm, Lawmakers Are Taking Aim at Forever Chemicals
Two Texas families that lost dozens of farm animals to suspected PFAS poisoning are pushing lawmakers for a fertilizer ban.
www.texasmonthly.com
May 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch

🧢 @trumpfile.org
May 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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NEWS: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of various Republican plans for Medicaid spending reveals that, under every scenario laid out by the GOP, millions would lose insurance. The GOP's plans would have a disproportionate impact on low-income and elderly populations.
May 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM