Marnie Kaplan
@marniekaplan.bsky.social
Advocate for paid leave, early childhood education, & integrated schools; obsessed with books, storytelling, American history, & longreads; mom of 2.
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Marnie Kaplan
@marniekaplan.bsky.social
· Jan 28
I think it’s time to resurrect my old pinned tweet: It’s very hard to parent in a declining democracy.
Mainstream media, do better. This is unacceptable and unethical.
Deplorable state of U.S. media on display here, deliberately misleading the public. You can literally type into Google the same question @aoc.bsky.social was asked and the AI will give you her same answer because "strategic ambiguity" has been official U.S. policy her whole life.
February 18, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Mainstream media, do better. This is unacceptable and unethical.
Every person is a universe. Every child is someone’s whole world. Babies shouldn’t be jailed. Children shouldn’t be jailed. Children have a right to healthy food, fresh air, play, education and love. The lack of humanity on display right now in the US makes me feel so deeply ill.
February 18, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Every person is a universe. Every child is someone’s whole world. Babies shouldn’t be jailed. Children shouldn’t be jailed. Children have a right to healthy food, fresh air, play, education and love. The lack of humanity on display right now in the US makes me feel so deeply ill.
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I dealt with my three week old being hospitalized with an infection. The idea of being jailed and deported during that horrible experience, when you’re already terrified for your vulnerable baby…I feel like I can’t breathe when I think about it
UPDATE: Congressman @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social has confirmed that Juan Nicolás and his mother were deported despite the 2-month-old’s recent hospitalization for bronchitis.
“They were abandoned across the border in Mexico.”
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/2...
“They were abandoned across the border in Mexico.”
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/2...
2-Month-Old Baby Juan Nicolás & His Mother Were ‘Abandoned Across the Border’ Hours After He Was Hospitalized With Bronchitis, Castro Says
“His life is in danger,” Congressman Castro said Tuesday about the baby.
thebarbedwire.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:12 AM
I dealt with my three week old being hospitalized with an infection. The idea of being jailed and deported during that horrible experience, when you’re already terrified for your vulnerable baby…I feel like I can’t breathe when I think about it
This is so callous and irresponsible, my body is flooded with anger. Abolish ICE forever.
After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.
February 18, 2026 at 2:52 AM
This is so callous and irresponsible, my body is flooded with anger. Abolish ICE forever.
Amazing story which I really appreciate since my daughter also suffered from PANDAS: www.si.com/winter-olymp... via @bypatforde.bsky.social
A Mystery Illness Terrorized Her Youth. Now, Olympic Bobsledder Jadin O’Brien Is Shining a Light
Recruited on Instagram by Elana Meyers Taylor, the Notre Dame track champion only took up bobsled last year. It’s far from the biggest challenge she’s overcome.
www.si.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Amazing story which I really appreciate since my daughter also suffered from PANDAS: www.si.com/winter-olymp... via @bypatforde.bsky.social
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Let’s not become desensitized by the flood. These are human beings. People, babies, nursing mothers, neighbors. And the money for imprisoning them is the money the Republicans claim we do not have, for food or health or paid leave or care.
They’re robbing you to put people in concentration camps.
They’re robbing you to put people in concentration camps.
ICE wants to operate “like Amazon Prime, for human beings” so they're buying up warehouses for mass detention. That’s sickening, and it's even more reason to claw back the no-strings-attached billions of dollars that Republicans gave to ICE.
ICE holds people in disgusting conditions. Now it’s turning warehouses into camps | Moira Donegan
The Trump administration has bought warehouses across the US that could hold thousands. But resistance is growing
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Let’s not become desensitized by the flood. These are human beings. People, babies, nursing mothers, neighbors. And the money for imprisoning them is the money the Republicans claim we do not have, for food or health or paid leave or care.
They’re robbing you to put people in concentration camps.
They’re robbing you to put people in concentration camps.
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A two month old baby in one of the country's immigrant concentration camps is suffering from bronchitis and was recently unresponsive.
They are refusing him care.
A baby may be killed at the hands of ICE. Will we care about this as much as a white man being murdered?
They are refusing him care.
A baby may be killed at the hands of ICE. Will we care about this as much as a white man being murdered?
February 17, 2026 at 10:41 PM
A two month old baby in one of the country's immigrant concentration camps is suffering from bronchitis and was recently unresponsive.
They are refusing him care.
A baby may be killed at the hands of ICE. Will we care about this as much as a white man being murdered?
They are refusing him care.
A baby may be killed at the hands of ICE. Will we care about this as much as a white man being murdered?
So my brother and SIL live 18 minutes from us. They are in a different school district and county (but the same congressional district!) and we both have 2 kids enrolled in 2 schools in 2 school districts (4 total) and they have completely different school calendars.
February 17, 2026 at 2:40 PM
So my brother and SIL live 18 minutes from us. They are in a different school district and county (but the same congressional district!) and we both have 2 kids enrolled in 2 schools in 2 school districts (4 total) and they have completely different school calendars.
Discussing vaccines with my four year old. Four year old: “so you want people you don’t even know to be safe from getting sick?” Yes, exactly. Even four year olds understand public health.
February 17, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Discussing vaccines with my four year old. Four year old: “so you want people you don’t even know to be safe from getting sick?” Yes, exactly. Even four year olds understand public health.
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Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇
February 17, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇
This woman is such a badass heroine! I love her.
Elana Meyers Taylor.
Wins medals in 4 Olympics (bronze in 2010, silver in 2014/18/22)
In 2020 & 2022, she has kids. Both have special needs. She lives on the road with them, flying around the world for months at a time to compete in bobsled.
And THEN! At 41! She wins her first gold.
American hero.
Wins medals in 4 Olympics (bronze in 2010, silver in 2014/18/22)
In 2020 & 2022, she has kids. Both have special needs. She lives on the road with them, flying around the world for months at a time to compete in bobsled.
And THEN! At 41! She wins her first gold.
American hero.
February 17, 2026 at 3:12 AM
This woman is such a badass heroine! I love her.
Remembering this very appropriate and apt bumper sticker:
February 17, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Remembering this very appropriate and apt bumper sticker:
So criticizing Israel is a reason to be fired but being friends with a known sex offender is AOK and totally kosher.
The Bari Weiss hire, who appears in the Trump-Epstein files 1,838 times, wrote in a 2016 email: “I go into JE withdrawal when I don’t see him.” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
February 16, 2026 at 5:06 PM
So criticizing Israel is a reason to be fired but being friends with a known sex offender is AOK and totally kosher.
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If you want to learn what SSPE is like, there are real stories from real people about the devastation measles can wreak even years later
The return of measles will mean the return of SSPE.
If you don't know what that is, read this. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...
If you don't know what that is, read this. www.voicesforvaccines.org/what-measles...
What Measles Did to My Family
My mom always told me that measles was what made my sister sick. I was 8 when she finally explained the whole thing.
www.voicesforvaccines.org
February 16, 2026 at 2:08 AM
If you want to learn what SSPE is like, there are real stories from real people about the devastation measles can wreak even years later
We can do better!
My timeline is half leftists complaining about Gavin Newsom and half liberals complaining about Graham Platner and I'd like to propose that we launch both of them into the sun together.
February 16, 2026 at 1:13 AM
We can do better!
We need to talk about the junkification of Valentine’s Day. Our local elementary school no longer allows food gifts so my child received 20 plus stress balls, light up pens, etc.
February 15, 2026 at 4:51 PM
We need to talk about the junkification of Valentine’s Day. Our local elementary school no longer allows food gifts so my child received 20 plus stress balls, light up pens, etc.
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The MMR shot really is the minimum for attending school at all levels. Parents can‘t expect their kids to be in social environments while they make deliberately antisocial decisions about the kid’s health.
February 15, 2026 at 12:54 PM
The MMR shot really is the minimum for attending school at all levels. Parents can‘t expect their kids to be in social environments while they make deliberately antisocial decisions about the kid’s health.
I cannot believe that in the year 2026 children all over are contracting measles. Fuck RFK Jr and all his cronies.
February 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
I cannot believe that in the year 2026 children all over are contracting measles. Fuck RFK Jr and all his cronies.
Amazing bagel purveyor name alert! I feel like we used to discuss the best possible bagel store name. @mkramer.bsky.social
The absurd hyperlocal drama I am in invested in: an LA bagel truck chain called (help) Yeastie Boys did a collaboration with the New York Post’s new California branch. Painted trucks red, handed out mock papers. You’re never gonna believe this but bagel truck patrons aren’t Murdoch fans, turns out
February 15, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Amazing bagel purveyor name alert! I feel like we used to discuss the best possible bagel store name. @mkramer.bsky.social
And yet we aren’t allowed to call them “a basket of deplorables.” The Epstein class is embarrassing and evil. May they all be prosecuted for their crimes.
The Cabinet this week
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
February 14, 2026 at 2:50 AM
And yet we aren’t allowed to call them “a basket of deplorables.” The Epstein class is embarrassing and evil. May they all be prosecuted for their crimes.
I love this brown hoodie kid.
February 14, 2026 at 2:48 AM
I love this brown hoodie kid.
This is horrifying and inhumane.
Israel crammed 2 million Palestinians into displacement camps where 50 people share one bathroom per hour & sewage runs between tents. Now bacterial meningitis is spreading through Gaza's children. An 11-year-old got sick & died within a week. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/a-de...
A deadly meningitis outbreak is threatening Gaza’s children
Bacterial meningitis is spreading among children in Gaza, including those who are vaccinated. Officials say conditions in Gaza’s displacement camps, widespread malnutrition, and Israeli bans on the…
mondoweiss.net
February 14, 2026 at 2:44 AM
This is horrifying and inhumane.
This is beyond evil villain behavior. Just deeply inhumane and cruel.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
This is beyond evil villain behavior. Just deeply inhumane and cruel.
RFK Jr, RFK Jr. how many kids did you kill today?
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
n.pr
February 13, 2026 at 5:55 PM
RFK Jr, RFK Jr. how many kids did you kill today?
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Gotta say, as a Jewish person i don't think the lesson from the Holocaust is that "Jewish suffering is incomparably unique," rather the lesson is an unqualified "never again"
God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again
February 12, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Gotta say, as a Jewish person i don't think the lesson from the Holocaust is that "Jewish suffering is incomparably unique," rather the lesson is an unqualified "never again"