@maryvanarsdel.bsky.social
Actress and Singer. Los Angeles and New York City based. Born in Seattle. Dogs, History, Classic movies, travel, art photography and theatre are some of my passions.
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Democrats aren’t powerless against Trump’s blitzkrieg power-grab.
Senate rules are designed to protect the rights of the minority and Democrats have tools at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt if Republicans try to ram through Trump’s extremist agenda: indivisible.org/resource/how...
Senate rules are designed to protect the rights of the minority and Democrats have tools at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt if Republicans try to ram through Trump’s extremist agenda: indivisible.org/resource/how...
February 2, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Democrats aren’t powerless against Trump’s blitzkrieg power-grab.
Senate rules are designed to protect the rights of the minority and Democrats have tools at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt if Republicans try to ram through Trump’s extremist agenda: indivisible.org/resource/how...
Senate rules are designed to protect the rights of the minority and Democrats have tools at their disposal to grind Senate business to a halt if Republicans try to ram through Trump’s extremist agenda: indivisible.org/resource/how...
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February 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Where are the defenders of the US as Elon and nameless private agents infiltrate US agencies, commandeer US servers, steal US data, seize US money, march US officials from US buildings? Who sallies forth from the FBI? The CIA? Congress? DoD? The media? This is a coup—and America appears defenseless.
February 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Where are the defenders of the US as Elon and nameless private agents infiltrate US agencies, commandeer US servers, steal US data, seize US money, march US officials from US buildings? Who sallies forth from the FBI? The CIA? Congress? DoD? The media? This is a coup—and America appears defenseless.
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“None of this is normal & it’s our job to keep it from being normalized. Presidents don’t try to erase the Constitution or turn the federal bureaucracy into a loyalty corps. They don’t release violent criminals from prison so they can return the favor.” joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-day...
Trump's Day One Executive Orders
Day One of Trump 2.0 was full of shock and awful, precisely what we had every reason to expect.
joycevance.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
“None of this is normal & it’s our job to keep it from being normalized. Presidents don’t try to erase the Constitution or turn the federal bureaucracy into a loyalty corps. They don’t release violent criminals from prison so they can return the favor.” joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-day...
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"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?"
"Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though."
- Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next.
Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.
"Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though."
- Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next.
Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.
January 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?"
"Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though."
- Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next.
Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.
"Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though."
- Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next.
Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.
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The entire nation of Australia gets it. Media in that country are having to blur what Elon Musk did twice in public today because of laws there regarding the Nazi salute.
January 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The entire nation of Australia gets it. Media in that country are having to blur what Elon Musk did twice in public today because of laws there regarding the Nazi salute.
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Wait, where's the part to lower egg prices? Oh, well.
All this because you complained about bad governance and bureaucratic ineptitude!
This is what you voted for. You got it!
So don't complain when it comes back to bite you in the ass!
January 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Wait, where's the part to lower egg prices? Oh, well.
All this because you complained about bad governance and bureaucratic ineptitude!
This is what you voted for. You got it!
So don't complain when it comes back to bite you in the ass!
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Thanks, @hcrichardson.bsky.social for directing me here in today’s Letter.
January 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Thanks, @hcrichardson.bsky.social for directing me here in today’s Letter.
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Pls spend from now until Tuesday eve celebrating a truly great American: Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't let a racist adjudicated rapist take away from MLK Day!
Don't let a racist adjudicated rapist take away from MLK Day!
martin luther king jr. is giving a speech at a podium in front of a crowd of people .
ALT: martin luther king jr. is giving a speech at a podium in front of a crowd of people .
media.tenor.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Pls spend from now until Tuesday eve celebrating a truly great American: Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't let a racist adjudicated rapist take away from MLK Day!
Don't let a racist adjudicated rapist take away from MLK Day!
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Not going to pretend to be surprised about this because I wrote a book about January 6. But yes—if you were wondering—the most malevolent criminal in US political history is about to be POTUS in 6 days. It's an unimaginable situation, essentially a living nightmare, and very few fully comprehend it.
January 14, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Not going to pretend to be surprised about this because I wrote a book about January 6. But yes—if you were wondering—the most malevolent criminal in US political history is about to be POTUS in 6 days. It's an unimaginable situation, essentially a living nightmare, and very few fully comprehend it.
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I can’t imagine if the fires had begun after Jan. 20th.
January 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I can’t imagine if the fires had begun after Jan. 20th.
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here's today's post: "elderly convict won’t stop running his ignorant mouth about the LA fires" — and the media continues to fail us.
thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
elderly convict won’t stop running his ignorant mouth about the LA fires
and the media continues to fail us
bit.ly
January 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
here's today's post: "elderly convict won’t stop running his ignorant mouth about the LA fires" — and the media continues to fail us.
thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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Mexico & Canada sending firefighters to help in California really says it all about who we are and who we must resist becoming.
January 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Mexico & Canada sending firefighters to help in California really says it all about who we are and who we must resist becoming.
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Debunking right-wing misinformation.
gavinnewsom.com/california-f...
gavinnewsom.com/california-f...
California Fire Facts | Governor Gavin Newsom
Get the facts about the Los Angeles fires.
gavinnewsom.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Debunking right-wing misinformation.
gavinnewsom.com/california-f...
gavinnewsom.com/california-f...
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This bears repeating and reposting!
January 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This bears repeating and reposting!
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A great idea — an Advent of Kindness!
December 2, 2024 at 10:01 PM
A great idea — an Advent of Kindness!
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Truth be told, it does seem kind of silly to have the FBI do background checks on presidential appointees when the president is a convicted criminal and an adjudicated digital rapist.
November 18, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Truth be told, it does seem kind of silly to have the FBI do background checks on presidential appointees when the president is a convicted criminal and an adjudicated digital rapist.
New photo by Rick Stockwell of www.stockwellphotography.com
Hair/makeup by Lisa Cruz
Hair/makeup by Lisa Cruz
November 18, 2024 at 9:37 PM
New photo by Rick Stockwell of www.stockwellphotography.com
Hair/makeup by Lisa Cruz
Hair/makeup by Lisa Cruz
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Please call. Tell your family and neighbors to call. This is their second attempt at the nonprofit killer bill. If passed, it will allow Trump to have Treasury label any nonprofit that is politically inconvenient for him as “terrorist” to shut them up and mess up their funding.
As promised, updated scripts here for HR 9495, which will be headed back to the floor around Wednesday.
Yes, this is the bill that gives the Sec. Treasury powers to strip non-profits of their C3 status.
1. For House members,
2. For Senators,
3. For New Yorkers to call Schumer.
Please call.
Yes, this is the bill that gives the Sec. Treasury powers to strip non-profits of their C3 status.
1. For House members,
2. For Senators,
3. For New Yorkers to call Schumer.
Please call.
November 17, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Please call. Tell your family and neighbors to call. This is their second attempt at the nonprofit killer bill. If passed, it will allow Trump to have Treasury label any nonprofit that is politically inconvenient for him as “terrorist” to shut them up and mess up their funding.
It has been a spectacular Fall in the Northeast. One of my photographs taken in Litchfield Country, Connecticut.
November 16, 2024 at 9:07 AM
It has been a spectacular Fall in the Northeast. One of my photographs taken in Litchfield Country, Connecticut.
Hi! Welcome to my new Bluesky page! I hope you’ll follow me!
November 13, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Hi! Welcome to my new Bluesky page! I hope you’ll follow me!