Mark Mucci
@mlmucci.bsky.social
Professional Amateur sharing Random Thoughts.
Keep in mind:
“Nobody wins unless everybody wins";
“Facts are stubborn things";
Social media is not real life.
Posting from my little town of Maplewood,
in the Great State of New Jersey.
Pronouns: He/Him
Keep in mind:
“Nobody wins unless everybody wins";
“Facts are stubborn things";
Social media is not real life.
Posting from my little town of Maplewood,
in the Great State of New Jersey.
Pronouns: He/Him
Pinned
Mark Mucci
@mlmucci.bsky.social
· Mar 4
Took this photo this morning on the lawn of the Municipal Building in my little town of Maplewood, NJ, showing the Ukrainian flag (which has been displayed for the past three years in support). As I left, I passed a woman who told me, “I’m here to take the same picture.”
I live in a great town.
I live in a great town.
In light of Trump's duplicity and collusion with Russian aggression, more towns should add the flag of Ukraine to their municipal displays, imho.
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So to reiterate now they are attacking an orphaned child
School of Renee Good’s son targeted by right-wing attacks
Threats to Southside Family Charter School in Minneapolis came after New York Post articles and a series of social media posts from right-wing commentators.
sahanjournal.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:34 AM
So to reiterate now they are attacking an orphaned child
Ruin a band by changing one letter:
Bruce Springsteen and the K Street Band
Bruce Springsteen and the K Street Band
Ruin a band by changing one letter:
Poundgarden
Poundgarden
Ruin a band by changing one letter:
Pearl Ham.
Pearl Ham.
January 17, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Ruin a band by changing one letter:
Bruce Springsteen and the K Street Band
Bruce Springsteen and the K Street Band
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I can't imagine dedicating my academic career to making bad faith, historically illiterate arguments that people born in America are not citizens.
Three generations of law professors making history up is enough.
Scholars spend decades researching and writing history with nuance and care.
American law professors will take a couple of months to relearn all of science to explain why the world is, in fact, flat.
Scholars spend decades researching and writing history with nuance and care.
American law professors will take a couple of months to relearn all of science to explain why the world is, in fact, flat.
January 17, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I can't imagine dedicating my academic career to making bad faith, historically illiterate arguments that people born in America are not citizens.
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Politico:
"We've got the world's most credulous reporter here to tell you that a university sponsored by billionaires whose anti-trans faculty are at the cutting edge of 18th-century race science wasn't a hard-right project."
Jesus Christ.
"We've got the world's most credulous reporter here to tell you that a university sponsored by billionaires whose anti-trans faculty are at the cutting edge of 18th-century race science wasn't a hard-right project."
Jesus Christ.
January 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Politico:
"We've got the world's most credulous reporter here to tell you that a university sponsored by billionaires whose anti-trans faculty are at the cutting edge of 18th-century race science wasn't a hard-right project."
Jesus Christ.
"We've got the world's most credulous reporter here to tell you that a university sponsored by billionaires whose anti-trans faculty are at the cutting edge of 18th-century race science wasn't a hard-right project."
Jesus Christ.
Experiment in "Conservative Intellectual Education" gives short shrift to math and science.
Not that anyone would be surprised by that.
Not that anyone would be surprised by that.
this is my favorite part, tho, because it's barely even about ideology at all
everyone at UATX was so focused on their complaints about the humanities that they forgot to hire anyone in math or science
everyone at UATX was so focused on their complaints about the humanities that they forgot to hire anyone in math or science
January 16, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Experiment in "Conservative Intellectual Education" gives short shrift to math and science.
Not that anyone would be surprised by that.
Not that anyone would be surprised by that.
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If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdownTrump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
www.pressherald.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
Just like a movie villain …
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Just like a movie villain …
There’s nothing Trump can’t cheapen or force others to cheapen it for him.
Grinning like a 5-year old getting his participation trophy at the post-season T-ball pizza party.
January 16, 2026 at 3:01 AM
There’s nothing Trump can’t cheapen or force others to cheapen it for him.
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At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
January 15, 2026 at 11:48 PM
At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.
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🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION
with apologies to Richard Scarry
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Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
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A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION
with apologies to Richard Scarry
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Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
January 15, 2026 at 4:03 PM
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION
with apologies to Richard Scarry
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Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
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A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION
with apologies to Richard Scarry
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Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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READ IT RIGHT HERE👇
Great new stuff going on in the Old Dominion!
Virginia's legislative session only started yesterday, and it was a very big day.
The House already passed four constitutional amendments on Day 1:
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
Next: Senate.
The House already passed four constitutional amendments on Day 1:
—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.
Next: Senate.
January 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Great new stuff going on in the Old Dominion!
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1989’s U.S. military action in Panama offers no constitutional cover for Trump’s Venezuela attack. bit.ly/49qN4Mv
No Legal Basis for Invading Venezuela
1989’s U.S. military action in Panama offers no constitutional cover for Trump’s Venezuela attack.
www.brennancenter.org
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 PM
1989’s U.S. military action in Panama offers no constitutional cover for Trump’s Venezuela attack. bit.ly/49qN4Mv
Happy Wikipedia Day to those who celebrate.
As for the "haters and losers" who think it's "too woke", have a nice day anyway.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
As for the "haters and losers" who think it's "too woke", have a nice day anyway.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Day - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Happy Wikipedia Day to those who celebrate.
As for the "haters and losers" who think it's "too woke", have a nice day anyway.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
As for the "haters and losers" who think it's "too woke", have a nice day anyway.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
“Trump’s word is good enough for me” is something said by someone who’s either lying or has no sense of reality.
CAIN: Trump came at you hard the other day, saying you "should never be elected to office again." You changed your vote on war powers after that. Why?
JOSH HAWLEY: I talked to the president and secretary of state and he said we're not gonna occupy Venezuela, and that's good enough for me
JOSH HAWLEY: I talked to the president and secretary of state and he said we're not gonna occupy Venezuela, and that's good enough for me
January 15, 2026 at 1:24 AM
“Trump’s word is good enough for me” is something said by someone who’s either lying or has no sense of reality.
Trump’s “War On Fighting Substance Abuse” is as stupid and cruel as that accurate description makes it sound.
NEW: Last night, the Trump administration made huge DOGE-like cuts to the grants from the federal agency that works on substance abuse and mental health issues. (Mind you, this is an agency for which the administration already cut the staff in half last year.)
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-take...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-take...
Trump Takes Another Blowtorch to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service
Potentially $2b was just cut from a key HHS agency with bipartisan support.
www.thebulwark.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Trump’s “War On Fighting Substance Abuse” is as stupid and cruel as that accurate description makes it sound.
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This is a pretty severe escalation from CBS, just straight up lying like this.
BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good last week in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.
ICE agent who shot Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, officials say
Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, suffered internal bleeding after the incident, two officials said, though it's not clear how extensive the bleeding was.
cbsn.ws
January 14, 2026 at 5:34 PM
This is a pretty severe escalation from CBS, just straight up lying like this.
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Trump regime executes Renee Good in front of her spouse and now wants to criminally prosecute the widow. This the type of stuff Joseph Stalin did.
January 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Trump regime executes Renee Good in front of her spouse and now wants to criminally prosecute the widow. This the type of stuff Joseph Stalin did.
From over at the Other Place, the Congressional Democrats on the oversight for Homeland Security provide a response to some atrocious misuse of the scriptures by Kristi Noem's social media people.
January 13, 2026 at 10:44 PM
From over at the Other Place, the Congressional Democrats on the oversight for Homeland Security provide a response to some atrocious misuse of the scriptures by Kristi Noem's social media people.
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On the left, the person Ezra Klein sees. On the right, the people Ezra Klein doesn’t see. If you’re still a fan of Ezra Klein, you really should ask yourself why, because his biases have been glaring for his entire career.
January 13, 2026 at 10:29 PM
On the left, the person Ezra Klein sees. On the right, the people Ezra Klein doesn’t see. If you’re still a fan of Ezra Klein, you really should ask yourself why, because his biases have been glaring for his entire career.
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😂😂😂 Go Greenland 👍
January 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM
😂😂😂 Go Greenland 👍
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Democratic-led US states sue over HHS grant conditions targeting transgender people reut.rs/3YCWmjq
Democratic-led US states sue over HHS grant conditions targeting transgender people
Twelve Democratic state attorneys general sued on Tuesday seeking to block the Trump administration from withholding hundreds of billions of dollars in funding from them, hospitals and universities unless they comply with new conditions they say would force them to discriminate against transgender Americans.
reut.rs
January 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Democratic-led US states sue over HHS grant conditions targeting transgender people reut.rs/3YCWmjq
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Joseph H. Thompson, the second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw the fraud investigation in Minnesota, joined his colleagues in quitting over the Justice Department’s push to investigate Renee Good's widow and its reluctance to investigate Ross. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Joseph H. Thompson, the second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw the fraud investigation in Minnesota, joined his colleagues in quitting over the Justice Department’s push to investigate Renee Good's widow and its reluctance to investigate Ross. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Mike Johnson is famous for “not seeing” a lot of Trump’s outrages. Now he “sees” what’s not there because Trump told him to see it.
Mike Johnson on Renee Good: "This woman was taunting ICE officers. She was impeding law enforcement. She was violating a number of laws. They were very patient ... what I saw was she hit the accelerator and hit the ICE officer and he reacted in a split second."
January 13, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Mike Johnson is famous for “not seeing” a lot of Trump’s outrages. Now he “sees” what’s not there because Trump told him to see it.
Good choice to put a sign identifying Trump’s Rose Garden as “The Rose Garden”.
It’s almost unrecognizable since its “Mar-a-Lago Makeover”, just as many people are.
It’s almost unrecognizable since its “Mar-a-Lago Makeover”, just as many people are.
The White House has added a new sign above the Rose Garden reading “The Rose Garden.”
January 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Good choice to put a sign identifying Trump’s Rose Garden as “The Rose Garden”.
It’s almost unrecognizable since its “Mar-a-Lago Makeover”, just as many people are.
It’s almost unrecognizable since its “Mar-a-Lago Makeover”, just as many people are.