Marns
@isays2mabelisays.bsky.social
Boy and frenchie mom. Dyed-in-the-wool progressive and news junkie. Love music, food, travel, cocktails.
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"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes." - Anne Frank
October 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes." - Anne Frank
I adore this man!
August 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I adore this man!
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this is a disgrace and a national shame
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"
cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
August 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
this is a disgrace and a national shame
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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SHOOT THIS STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS, THOSE EXHAUSTED PATHWAYS OF BLOOD AND THWARTED HOPES
The perfect @amiberger.bsky.social content does not exi-
June 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
SHOOT THIS STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS, THOSE EXHAUSTED PATHWAYS OF BLOOD AND THWARTED HOPES
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In light of Pride month I'm fundraising for Point of Pride, an incredible trans-led nonprofit that provides direct gender affirming care & things like HRT to trans ppl in need.
Please, please donate any small amount that you can. Every bit makes a major impact! secure.givelively.org/donate/point...
Please, please donate any small amount that you can. Every bit makes a major impact! secure.givelively.org/donate/point...
June 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
In light of Pride month I'm fundraising for Point of Pride, an incredible trans-led nonprofit that provides direct gender affirming care & things like HRT to trans ppl in need.
Please, please donate any small amount that you can. Every bit makes a major impact! secure.givelively.org/donate/point...
Please, please donate any small amount that you can. Every bit makes a major impact! secure.givelively.org/donate/point...
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men will literally dismantle the federal government instead of going to therapy
May 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
men will literally dismantle the federal government instead of going to therapy
This feels like the right take on the end game - add that the scarcity of jobs furthermore shuts POC and women out achieving racist ends and subjugation of women…
all of the talk of “reshoring (low end) manufacturing” and “bringing back the american worker” is a smokescreen for a plan to impoverish as many americans by forcing as many of them as possible into backbreaking, low wage labor. it’s discipline for an unruly populace.
April 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This feels like the right take on the end game - add that the scarcity of jobs furthermore shuts POC and women out achieving racist ends and subjugation of women…
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This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This is a very important point. Breathlessly vague headlines and summaries of these executive orders created for the executive powers it does not have. This kind of press contributed to authoritarian regime change.
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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 (seems to merit at least this many)
March 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 (seems to merit at least this many)
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But this is about purging ALL of academia, government, the corporate world, and yes, the military of Black influence first and foremost.. but also women, LGBTQ, and the disabled.
It's about destroying these pipelines, salting the earth, then paving over the wreckage.
It's about destroying these pipelines, salting the earth, then paving over the wreckage.
February 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
But this is about purging ALL of academia, government, the corporate world, and yes, the military of Black influence first and foremost.. but also women, LGBTQ, and the disabled.
It's about destroying these pipelines, salting the earth, then paving over the wreckage.
It's about destroying these pipelines, salting the earth, then paving over the wreckage.
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the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
February 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
the rage I felt reading this as the parent of a disabled 14yo
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This is probably the most accurate take.
February 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is probably the most accurate take.
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This must be read. By every person who cares about the hijacking of this nation. By every Democrat in Congress. @democrats-judiciary.house.gov
Thank you @jamellebouie.net.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Thank you @jamellebouie.net.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article)
The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This must be read. By every person who cares about the hijacking of this nation. By every Democrat in Congress. @democrats-judiciary.house.gov
Thank you @jamellebouie.net.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Thank you @jamellebouie.net.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
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the fascists are looking to rigidly define gender not just to punish trans people like they claim but to lay the groundwork for the oppression of all women. when gender is legally mutable, it is harder to use it to restrict people’s rights.
they want to build a cage around you, made from our bones
they want to build a cage around you, made from our bones
January 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
the fascists are looking to rigidly define gender not just to punish trans people like they claim but to lay the groundwork for the oppression of all women. when gender is legally mutable, it is harder to use it to restrict people’s rights.
they want to build a cage around you, made from our bones
they want to build a cage around you, made from our bones
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they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
February 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
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Deeply inauspicious day for this to fall, but wrote about my favorite 2010s post-punk record, the violent recursions of sound and apocalypse, living in perpetual geopolitical anxiety, and, yes, the Preoccupations name change for their debut's 10th anniversary for @stereogum.bsky.social
Preoccupations' 'Viet Cong' Turns 10
When the end of the world comes, what will it sound like? Will it be something familiar to our ears — the terror of what we know all too well? Or will it be an unfathomable horror that never even cros...
www.stereogum.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Deeply inauspicious day for this to fall, but wrote about my favorite 2010s post-punk record, the violent recursions of sound and apocalypse, living in perpetual geopolitical anxiety, and, yes, the Preoccupations name change for their debut's 10th anniversary for @stereogum.bsky.social
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I would caution people to stop relying on the Constitution as written to have any meaning other than what the people Trump put on the Supreme Court says it means.
"He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"
"He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"
Trump cannot abrogate birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment by way of executive order. That’s not how constitutional rights work.
January 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I would caution people to stop relying on the Constitution as written to have any meaning other than what the people Trump put on the Supreme Court says it means.
"He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"
"He can't do that" is not a useful response to the things he's going to do. The correct response is "Will the Court uphold that?"
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I was about to post something similar until I saw Aaron post it. And he's spot on here. This is one of several reasons Trump is confident going into this term, he's got social media power on his side.
Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.
January 19, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I was about to post something similar until I saw Aaron post it. And he's spot on here. This is one of several reasons Trump is confident going into this term, he's got social media power on his side.
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I am fully convinced that B-roll is a significant contributor to misperceptions on immigration, because images are so powerful and because B-roll isn’t thought of in a journalistically rigorous manner.
“One veteran NBC News journalist described concerns that the network’s mass deportation coverage would focus on b-roll of immigrants at the border, when the story will largely unfold in the interior of the country: from meatpacking plants to the cities and communities where they live.”
"As the media ramps up its coverage of Trump 2.0, the question that it must confront is not just the scope of what transpires but the frame in which the issue is presented."
@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social latest is worth a full read👇
@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social latest is worth a full read👇
January 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I am fully convinced that B-roll is a significant contributor to misperceptions on immigration, because images are so powerful and because B-roll isn’t thought of in a journalistically rigorous manner.
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The LA Times photo desk, which is doing incredible work covering these brutal fires, has set up a Bluesky account that is among the newest ones we have verified. They are well worth following right now. @latimesphotos.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The LA Times photo desk, which is doing incredible work covering these brutal fires, has set up a Bluesky account that is among the newest ones we have verified. They are well worth following right now. @latimesphotos.bsky.social
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Stop using these apps entirely, people. Get a notebook and a pen and go analog. I'm serious
The ovulation tracking app, "Ovia", now mandates you identify what state you live in. Delete immediately and warn anyone who might need to know.
December 10, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Stop using these apps entirely, people. Get a notebook and a pen and go analog. I'm serious