Mary Ann
@attagirlmaryann.bsky.social
Podcast addict, Bookworm (I read a lot of nonfiction) Marylander, Lover of History, I still think both experts and facts matter.
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Fascinating new results on Gen Z from the
@nbcnews.com Decision Desk poll -- views on family and marriage
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
@nbcnews.com Decision Desk poll -- views on family and marriage
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
September 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Fascinating new results on Gen Z from the
@nbcnews.com Decision Desk poll -- views on family and marriage
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
@nbcnews.com Decision Desk poll -- views on family and marriage
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Kilmar Abrego's lawyers ridicule the govt's claim, after Trump and his cabinet members tarred Abrego repeatedly in the press, that a defense filing was supposedly "incendiary."
"Please. The feigned indignation hardly merits a response," they wrote.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Please. The feigned indignation hardly merits a response," they wrote.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
August 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Kilmar Abrego's lawyers ridicule the govt's claim, after Trump and his cabinet members tarred Abrego repeatedly in the press, that a defense filing was supposedly "incendiary."
"Please. The feigned indignation hardly merits a response," they wrote.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Please. The feigned indignation hardly merits a response," they wrote.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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it’s a common occurrence now to see the name of a complete lunatic you hadn’t thought about in a while and learn they’re the head of a federal agency. A year or two ago Pulte was fraternizing with a weird online cult who think there’s a conspiracy against Bed Bath & Beyond stockholders.
Yep, I reported this several weeks ago. William Pulte, a Trump loyalist, is using the FHFA bureaucracy to help Trump gin up fake pretexts for prosecutions of his enemies.
One former IG told me: “From beginning to end, this process is highly irregular."
newrepublic.com/article/1980...
One former IG told me: “From beginning to end, this process is highly irregular."
newrepublic.com/article/1980...
August 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
it’s a common occurrence now to see the name of a complete lunatic you hadn’t thought about in a while and learn they’re the head of a federal agency. A year or two ago Pulte was fraternizing with a weird online cult who think there’s a conspiracy against Bed Bath & Beyond stockholders.
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Throwing a sandwich at a cop: REQUIRES 10-PERSON TACTICAL TEAM TO AREEST IN FULL RAID GEAR (even tho subject wanted to turn himself in)
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: “Go home. We love you.”
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: “Go home. We love you.”
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: felony.
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: tourist behavior.
August 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Throwing a sandwich at a cop: REQUIRES 10-PERSON TACTICAL TEAM TO AREEST IN FULL RAID GEAR (even tho subject wanted to turn himself in)
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: “Go home. We love you.”
Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: “Go home. We love you.”
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Column: Standing up to Trump the despot will require Gloria’s courage
Read more by Opinion Columnist Rick Hutzell: buff.ly/LuNvQJw
Read more by Opinion Columnist Rick Hutzell: buff.ly/LuNvQJw
August 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Column: Standing up to Trump the despot will require Gloria’s courage
Read more by Opinion Columnist Rick Hutzell: buff.ly/LuNvQJw
Read more by Opinion Columnist Rick Hutzell: buff.ly/LuNvQJw
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1. Why did Trump grant Top Secret access to a "low-level loser"
2. Why was it marked Top Secret if it's "flat-out wrong"
2. Why was it marked Top Secret if it's "flat-out wrong"
There are moments when you can very clearly tell that Karoline Leavitt is a 27 year old and this right here is one of them
June 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
1. Why did Trump grant Top Secret access to a "low-level loser"
2. Why was it marked Top Secret if it's "flat-out wrong"
2. Why was it marked Top Secret if it's "flat-out wrong"
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This decision is bad enough on the merits. But it also gives the government relief in a case in which it defied the district court at least *twice.* That’s quite a message to send to the government with respect to the costs of its litigation behavior in other cases—or the complete lack thereof.
June 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This decision is bad enough on the merits. But it also gives the government relief in a case in which it defied the district court at least *twice.* That’s quite a message to send to the government with respect to the costs of its litigation behavior in other cases—or the complete lack thereof.
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In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.
June 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
In a lengthy exchange, with ICE Deputy Field Director Bill Joyce, Reps Nadler and Goldman are denied the ability to visit the 10th floor. Joyce says it's not a detention facility it's just a place ppl are housed for several days w/out beds.
When people ask me how I am: I expect to lose my job any day now. Masked men are kidnapping people off the streets. The US is involved in a war in the middle east. It rained here for so many days, I forgot what the sun looked like. But other than that, things are great.
June 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
When people ask me how I am: I expect to lose my job any day now. Masked men are kidnapping people off the streets. The US is involved in a war in the middle east. It rained here for so many days, I forgot what the sun looked like. But other than that, things are great.
I'm not a lawyer, but I do listen to the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social "Through the Govenor" doesn't seem that ambigous to me. Why have a separate insurrection act if the President can just call up the National Guard without consulting with a Govenor?
June 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I'm not a lawyer, but I do listen to the @strictscrutiny.bsky.social "Through the Govenor" doesn't seem that ambigous to me. Why have a separate insurrection act if the President can just call up the National Guard without consulting with a Govenor?
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TRUMP SEPTEMBER 2020:
“We have to go by the laws. We can’t move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection but there’s no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case. We can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.”
h/t Aaron Blake
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
“We have to go by the laws. We can’t move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection but there’s no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case. We can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.”
h/t Aaron Blake
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Trump's ABC News town hall: Full transcript
Read the full transcript of President Donald Trump's ABC News town hall, Tuesday at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
abcnews.go.com
June 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
TRUMP SEPTEMBER 2020:
“We have to go by the laws. We can’t move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection but there’s no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case. We can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.”
h/t Aaron Blake
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
“We have to go by the laws. We can’t move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection but there’s no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case. We can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.”
h/t Aaron Blake
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
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This!
It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.
June 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This!
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i don’t think it’s realistic to ask people being targeted due to their ethnicity and national origin not to engage in displays of ethnic and national pride
June 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
i don’t think it’s realistic to ask people being targeted due to their ethnicity and national origin not to engage in displays of ethnic and national pride
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Abrego Garcia could ask for a bail hearing to cross examine the government on this pretty basic discrepancy. Suggests a real rush to charge in order to have a political face-saving way to bring him back. Of course, legally his due process rights were already violated, per the Supreme Court.
Bondi DOJ has a problem.
On left:
DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas
On right:
DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"
On left:
DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas
On right:
DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"
June 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Abrego Garcia could ask for a bail hearing to cross examine the government on this pretty basic discrepancy. Suggests a real rush to charge in order to have a political face-saving way to bring him back. Of course, legally his due process rights were already violated, per the Supreme Court.
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The presumption that he is a huge liar does a lot to insulate Trump from questions about whether his various erroneous statements indicate confusion or mental infirmity.
May 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The presumption that he is a huge liar does a lot to insulate Trump from questions about whether his various erroneous statements indicate confusion or mental infirmity.
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When we add to this the Cato Institute report showing how many migrants sent to El Salvador had in fact entered the country legally, THIS is the top story of the night.
The U.S. is sending people to horrors in foreign prisons. People who have had no due process.
An actual nightmare.
The U.S. is sending people to horrors in foreign prisons. People who have had no due process.
An actual nightmare.
This is catastrophe.
🚨According to litigators, ICE just put a dozen men on a flight (which may have already taken off) to SOUTH SUDAN, a country on the brink of civil war, in direct defiance of a court order requiring ICE to give people an opportunity to raise objections before being sent to a country not their own.
May 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
When we add to this the Cato Institute report showing how many migrants sent to El Salvador had in fact entered the country legally, THIS is the top story of the night.
The U.S. is sending people to horrors in foreign prisons. People who have had no due process.
An actual nightmare.
The U.S. is sending people to horrors in foreign prisons. People who have had no due process.
An actual nightmare.
Rule from the OPM would allow the president to fire career civil servants: no appeal or due process. Feds swear an oath to the Constitution, not to a president. This rule turns nonpartisan public servants into political pawns. Comments are open until 5/23
www.regulations.gov/document/OPM...
www.regulations.gov/document/OPM...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Rule from the OPM would allow the president to fire career civil servants: no appeal or due process. Feds swear an oath to the Constitution, not to a president. This rule turns nonpartisan public servants into political pawns. Comments are open until 5/23
www.regulations.gov/document/OPM...
www.regulations.gov/document/OPM...
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A US judge in Mass. has broadened his injunction to bar cheating. He'd barred DHS from removing aliens to countries not designated in their removal orders without due process. Govt removed several anyway through bankshots: 1st to Guantanamo, where nonparty DOD took custody, and then to 3d country.
April 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A US judge in Mass. has broadened his injunction to bar cheating. He'd barred DHS from removing aliens to countries not designated in their removal orders without due process. Govt removed several anyway through bankshots: 1st to Guantanamo, where nonparty DOD took custody, and then to 3d country.
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scoop: @thedispatch , the right-of-center media startup, is acquiring @SCOTUSblog, an early-aughts pioneer of Supreme Court coverage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...
The Dispatch Buys SCOTUSblog, a Supreme Court Mainstay
The Dispatch, a right-of-center political news and commentary start-up, plans to keep the legal news website available at no cost. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
scoop: @thedispatch , the right-of-center media startup, is acquiring @SCOTUSblog, an early-aughts pioneer of Supreme Court coverage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/b...
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these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
April 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
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Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13.
I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.
I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.
Breaking: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant
By Josh Campbell and Kit Maher
www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/p...
By Josh Campbell and Kit Maher
www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/p...
April 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
April 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
Can't a business from another country purchase a bunch of Chinese goods and then sell them to the US and avoid the crazy trariffs and have an advantage over American businesses? Or am I missing something?
April 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Can't a business from another country purchase a bunch of Chinese goods and then sell them to the US and avoid the crazy trariffs and have an advantage over American businesses? Or am I missing something?