Carolyn Stetson
cpstetson.bsky.social
Carolyn Stetson
@cpstetson.bsky.social
Born and raised in the Northeast. After living there for seven decades, I am now enjoying beautiful Colorado. I’m a freethinker, passionate about public education, a world traveler and an avid reader.
May 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Harvard’s suing Trump with his own lawyers, Musk is calling the judiciary a “long con,” and Mexico just cut ties with Ecuador over U.S. interference. Meanwhile, Japan sends satellites, Colorado labels gas pumps #mexico #japan #ukraine #elonmusk #harvard
open.substack.com/pub/marygedd...
Trump’s Global Tantrum Tour
From satellite diplomacy to climate labels and Harvard lawsuits, the world moves forward while America's toddler-in-chief screams into the void
open.substack.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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BREAKING: “Musk’s DOGE is seeking access to a heavily-guarded IRS system that includes detailed financial info about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in 🇺🇸 — sparking alarm within the tax agency.”

Alarmed yet?
February 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
February 17, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Wow RFK Jr. just perjured himself on live tv
January 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
January 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Can you boycott something (or someone, in the current case) you never buy anyway?
January 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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January 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Quite a list.
January 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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What Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Disney and the rest of these quisling billionaires don’t understand

Is that genuflecting to tyranny begets not unity

It begets only a more austere version of tyranny

DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE
axios.com Axios @axios.com · Jan 3
SCOOP: Apple CEO Tim Cook will personally donate $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee.

He believes the inauguration is a great American tradition and is donating to the inauguration in the spirit of unity.
Scoop: Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1 million to Trump inauguration
Cook joins other top CEOs and companies in making a seven-figure pledge.
www.axios.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Can't believe everyone hated AI Instagram profiles, I mean this guy thought this was a great idea...
January 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
“You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”
November 30, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Did you see this in the NyTimes? Quote from an email to Pete Hegseth, sent by his mother. “You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego.
November 30, 2024 at 4:34 PM
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Thank God Merrick Garland waited nearly 2 years to appoint Jack Smith because, after all, nothing is more important than preventing the optics of politicization.
November 25, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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PLEASE REMEMBER:

trump's win percentage is shaping up to be the third SMALLEST in history.

He does NOT have a mandate, no matter what he says.

That means we push back against every single batshit crazy policy he tries to pass.

EVERYTHING.
Mandate my ass.
November 23, 2024 at 5:55 PM
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🚨

A year ago, I wrote a review of Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts," an account of the US Ambassador to Germany's tenure there in the early-mid 30s.

I shared lessons from the account that feel more relevant now than ever.

Here is a snippet of them:

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November 19, 2024 at 2:22 PM