Mark Rosati
@msrosati.bsky.social
Communications leadership for nonprofit organizations. Playwright, member @DramatistsGuild. Published short-story writer. Former journalist; ex-editor Associated Press @AP Washington, Chicago. #defenddemocracy #voteblue #LGBTQIA+ ally #fightfascism #resist
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Mark Rosati
@msrosati.bsky.social
· Nov 4
Honored that my short story “Otto and Edith” is one of Clockhouse literary journal’s 2025 nominees for the Pushcart Prize. Sincere thanks to editorial director Ken Damerow, publisher Jen McConnell and the entire Clockhouse team! #writingcommunity #literaryjournal #defenddemocracy
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The lying never stops in this administration.
January 25, 2026 at 3:22 AM
The lying never stops in this administration.
Murdered in cold blood by the Trump regime
Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday, was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, an official said. He was a registered nurse who worked in the intensive-care unit at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Minneapolis. nyti.ms/4t3ekJW
Alex Jeffrey Pretti Knew He Wanted to Help Others
Shot and killed by immigration agents on a Minneapolis street, he wanted to be a ‘force of good in the world.’
nyti.ms
January 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Murdered in cold blood by the Trump regime
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
ICE and the regime murdered a nurse in Minneapolis today. #fightfascism #defenddemocracy
January 24, 2026 at 10:40 PM
ICE and the regime murdered a nurse in Minneapolis today. #fightfascism #defenddemocracy
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Let’s shut this whole fucking country down. Stop the ICE murders. Boycott USA is you are abroad. We don’t need a World Cup or a rock band’s tour, we need justice and serious fucking help.
January 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Let’s shut this whole fucking country down. Stop the ICE murders. Boycott USA is you are abroad. We don’t need a World Cup or a rock band’s tour, we need justice and serious fucking help.
"How many more Americans need to die?" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01... #defenddemocracy #fightfascism
Live Updates: Federal Agents Kill a 37-Year-Old Minneapolis Man
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:55 PM
"How many more Americans need to die?" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01... #defenddemocracy #fightfascism
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This is the grim, depressing reality Trump has made of American life. Instead of waking up on a Saturday, relaxing and spending time with your loved ones, you now have to watch American towns being ravaged and its citizens being murdered by violent secret police.
January 24, 2026 at 5:17 PM
This is the grim, depressing reality Trump has made of American life. Instead of waking up on a Saturday, relaxing and spending time with your loved ones, you now have to watch American towns being ravaged and its citizens being murdered by violent secret police.
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Federal agents shoot a person in Minneapolis, Gov. Tim Walz says. Dozens of masked federal immigration officers are on the scene and protesters have started to gather.
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January 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Federal agents shoot a person in Minneapolis, Gov. Tim Walz says. Dozens of masked federal immigration officers are on the scene and protesters have started to gather.
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Update: Renée Fleming is the latest to say they will not perform at the Kennedy Center.
Here's who's canceled their Kennedy Center performances since Trump took over
Renée Fleming is the latest to say they will not perform at the Kennedy Center.
n.pr
January 23, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Update: Renée Fleming is the latest to say they will not perform at the Kennedy Center.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
In the spirit of Dr. King, we must respond to ICE's tyranny with peaceful, mass civil disobedience across America.
I stand with the people of Minnesota and other cities across the country who are doing that today.
In the spirit of Dr. King, we must respond to ICE's tyranny with peaceful, mass civil disobedience across America.
I stand with the people of Minnesota and other cities across the country who are doing that today.
We Need Civil Disobedience Across America
We need civil disobedience in this country. Now.In the words of MLK Jr: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice every
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January 23, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
In the spirit of Dr. King, we must respond to ICE's tyranny with peaceful, mass civil disobedience across America.
I stand with the people of Minnesota and other cities across the country who are doing that today.
In the spirit of Dr. King, we must respond to ICE's tyranny with peaceful, mass civil disobedience across America.
I stand with the people of Minnesota and other cities across the country who are doing that today.
Fascism.
If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it?
[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
[Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
January 24, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Fascism.
Insanity
Breaking News: Rejecting decades of science, the chair of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said that shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional. The vaccines are credited with preventing disability and millions of deaths worldwide.
Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional, Rejecting Decades of Science
Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.
nyti.ms
January 23, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Insanity
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Breaking: After deliberating for about three hours, jurors found Juan Espinoza Martinez not guilty of offering $10,000 for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
Verdict reached in murder-for-hire trial involving U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino: live updates
chicago.suntimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Breaking: After deliberating for about three hours, jurors found Juan Espinoza Martinez not guilty of offering $10,000 for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
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Colbert on Trump's Gaza Board of Peace: "Paying a billion dollars to obey Trump seems a little steep. After all, CBS got to do it for just $16 million."
He said this CBS 🦸🏻♂️
He said this CBS 🦸🏻♂️
January 23, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Colbert on Trump's Gaza Board of Peace: "Paying a billion dollars to obey Trump seems a little steep. After all, CBS got to do it for just $16 million."
He said this CBS 🦸🏻♂️
He said this CBS 🦸🏻♂️
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RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
January 22, 2026 at 7:47 PM
RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.
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A hideous, unbelievable insult to our allies, who suffered a full third of the war dead in Afghanistan. And this from a soulless swine who knows everything about using his bone spurs to stay all the way back, entirely off the front lines.
Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.
Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 23, 2026 at 1:26 AM
A hideous, unbelievable insult to our allies, who suffered a full third of the war dead in Afghanistan. And this from a soulless swine who knows everything about using his bone spurs to stay all the way back, entirely off the front lines.
Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.
Every day, he shames the United States as a nation.
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A growing police state. A reason for Democrats to seriously ask whether we should fund this or not.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 22, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A growing police state. A reason for Democrats to seriously ask whether we should fund this or not.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:
January 22, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Special Counsel Jack Smith in his Opening Remarks:
Many of us who warned in the last three elections that having Trump and his regime in office - aided by his GOP posse on the Supreme Court and in Congress - would bring us dangerously close to Germany in the 1930s were accused of exaggerating. #defenddemocracy
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
ICE detains four children from Minnesota school district, including 5-year-old
Columbia Heights Public Schools district officials accused ICE officers of using the 5-year-old “as bait.” A 10-year-old and her mother were also detained.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Many of us who warned in the last three elections that having Trump and his regime in office - aided by his GOP posse on the Supreme Court and in Congress - would bring us dangerously close to Germany in the 1930s were accused of exaggerating. #defenddemocracy
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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And as the old saying goes: trust is like a glass: if it’s broken you can repair it but you will always see the cracks. Even if the US survives Trump and his regime, it will take decades to repair the damage.
Edward Luce
"The US has squandered its most valuable financial asset: trust. It risks paying a heavy price for this for decades to come." Important piece by my colleague @katie_martin_fx on the hit to the dollar and US borrowing costs of Trump's derangement.
www.ft.com/content/9f73...
"The US has squandered its most valuable financial asset: trust. It risks paying a heavy price for this for decades to come." Important piece by my colleague @katie_martin_fx on the hit to the dollar and US borrowing costs of Trump's derangement.
www.ft.com/content/9f73...
Trump’s Arctic ambitions torch the most important US asset
The market reaction to the threat of tariffs on supposed allies over Greenland has been extremely telling
www.ft.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:13 PM
And as the old saying goes: trust is like a glass: if it’s broken you can repair it but you will always see the cracks. Even if the US survives Trump and his regime, it will take decades to repair the damage.
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Trump publicly praises Putin and repeatedly questions NATO’s value. It has always been known since the Cold War that one of Russia's top strategic goals is to weaken NATO and to divide the US internally. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-wa...
I Could Be Wrong.
cbwrong.blogspot.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Trump publicly praises Putin and repeatedly questions NATO’s value. It has always been known since the Cold War that one of Russia's top strategic goals is to weaken NATO and to divide the US internally. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2026/01/i-wa...