Marianne Villanueva
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Marianne Villanueva
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Writer, Book Addict, Avid Gardener
4 Story Collections: Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila, Mayor of the Roses, The Lost Language,
& Residents of the Deep (Out August 2025 from Unsolicited Press), Next: folk horror in Villain Era Lit
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Writer Eileen Tabios engages with my new collection, Residents of the Deep, in the latest issue of The Halo-Halo Review: halohaloreview.blogspot.com/2025/11/resi...
RESIDENTS OF THE DEEP by MARIANNE VILLANUEVA
EILEEN TABIOS Engages Residents of the Deep by Marianne Villanueva (Unsolicited Press, 2025) BOOK LINK I’ve long anticipated a new book by...
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Honestly think This Hour has 22 Minutes is way better than SNL:
December 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Trump says we have declared war on drug cartels because so many lives have been lost. Why aren't we targeting the NRA because so many lives have been lost🤑
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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How come Senator Marshall doesn't know anything about this pardon and the rest of us out here in La La Land do? He must watch the same news programs that Mike Johnson does.
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Kyiv tomorrow:
rolling power outages –
7 hours without electricity,
3.5 hours with it.
Then repeat.

Just a reminder for the world of what russia does.
December 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
cnn has found SOMALIS WHO VOTED FOR TRUMP. Of course, now they regret it but I'm thinking: You actually believed him??? Democrats need to take notes!
December 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
MSM: Cracks appearing in Republican Party!

Excuse me, patient is on life support and only NOW are the Republican Party beginning to look at each other for answers? Lame!

GOP won't do what needs to b done. They looked at vid of the Sept. 2 strike & saw what they wanted 2 see, still refuse 2 condemn
December 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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It was all published on the web in Project 2025 and it’s 50% completed and we are screwed. Thanks to those that didn’t vote, those white people that voted for Trump, and those that didn’t read Project 2025 there are no more laws. Lawyers will tell you that.
December 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Mackenzie Scott (Jeff Bezos's ex) donated $50 million to Cal State/East Bay. I love this woman. She's married to a high school science teacher. A woman previously married to Jeff Bezos married a high school science teacher! I can see why they split.
December 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
#amwatching "The Phoenician Scheme" for the 2nd time. I love #beniciodeltoro
December 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The Roberts court is trying 2 stiffen the spine of states like Indiana that are hanging in the balance over re-districting maps. The timing worked so well when they announced Trump had presidential immunity just weeks b4 the elections. Now here they r again, trying 2 quell the rising Democratic tide
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Wow! The Supreme Court basically just said, if you want to do racial gerrymandering, have at it.

Let’s be clear, what Texas did was racial gerrymandering, plain and simple. SCOTUS just opened the floodgates.
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Take the gloves off. Gerrymander everything.

If SCOTUS doesn’t care, fine, fair is fair.
#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
That lousy Roberts Court. They're doing everything in their power to ensure that GOP retains control of the House in 2026. Just when we thought we might have an even playing field. Originalism, YAY. The six are crackpots.
December 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
US SCOTUS, single-handedly doing all it can to promote fascism.
December 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Was looking at my news archive from 2016. Then I looked at my news archive of 2020. In 2016, no one took Trump seriously. Even Trump sometimes didn't take himself seriously. 2020 was very different. The mood of the country was bleak. Today, it's not just bleak, it's almost unrecognizable.
December 5, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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"Possibly the biggest lie amid all the lies of Trumpism — one that is amplified endlessly by right-wing media — is that Trump is somehow against war and against corruption."
Boat strikes: War crime or "fake news" hoax? - Salon.com
Even as some Republicans turn on the ghastly Pete Hegseth, right-wing media can't handle the truth
www.salon.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I am taking the next few days off from writing to prepare for a Supreme Court argument. If you want to support Democracy Docket during my pause, here is there link. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Watching an action movie from Hong Kong, which is my favorite kind of action movie. Starring (and directed by) Donny Yen.
a man in a gray jacket and white shirt is making a funny face with his hands in the air .
ALT: a man in a gray jacket and white shirt is making a funny face with his hands in the air .
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Greetings from Kyiv,
where I’m having a warcoffee after visiting two exhibitions
and one Christmas tree.

Showing you a traditional 🇺🇦 costume of the 19-20th centuries.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Wordless Wednesday: Memories of Paris

The Tuileries, 24 December 2017
Wordless Wednesday: Memories of Paris
The Tuileries, 24 December 2017
anthropologist.wordpress.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
With one sound bite, Hakeem Jeffries moves the spotlight from Pete Hegseth to . . . Hakeem Jeffries ("The border is secure") I hope he isn't condoning the Venezuelan boat strikes. Has he given an official statement condemning the strikes? Because that's what he needs to do.
December 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Apparently Leavitt read a statement on Monday supposedly from Pete Hegseth, saying he had "authorized Bradley to conduct" these strikes. The fact that she chose to read a statement is the problem: no one believes her. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
After Decades in Combat, a SEAL Suddenly Comes Under Scrutiny
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM