Mary M
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Mary M
@lotusmm.bsky.social
Previously mombot4 on Twitter. Buddhist| Feminist|Civil rights|💙|Nature|Art|Science|Performing Arts|Football|politics|anti-fascist

Married 35 1/2 yrs.
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Great episode last night. It reminds me of @nellminow.bsky.social’s late father Newton Minow who helped give birth to public broadcasting in the US. Saving public broadcasting is absolutely crucial at a time when our media is owned by far-right oligarchs obsessed with weaponizing the airwaves.
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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💯💥🤔🤨👇🏼
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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At some point, the media elite decided that Olivia Nuzzi is one of their own now and forever, and to rehabilitate her, they have to recast RFK Jr. as a grand romantic. It's disgusting all the way around, especially the parody of class solidarity that binds the rich and connected.
And while he is upturning the consensus on vaccines and eroding any remaining public trust in science, the NYT, Vanity Fair etc are laundering this man's reputation and impact as some kind of romantic figure, when he is truly dangerous.
He may not lob bombs, but his death toll will be significant.
Today RFK Jr. both suggested that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines cause peanut allergies *and* admitted there are no data to support this hypothesis, so he wants to find some.

Like if you took the scientific method, turned it backward and inside out and made it puke, you’d get RFK Jr.’s thoughts.
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Architectural firm responsible for construction at the White House.

Don’t call them. I mean, please please don’t call them.

#USDemocracy
October 25, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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The East Wing’s very plainness came to symbolize the functional modesty of democratic government: a space for staff, not spectacle; for the sustaining rituals of civic life, not the exhibition of personal glory. All of that is now gone, Adam Gopnik writes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing
The act of destruction is precisely the point: a kind of performance piece meant to display Trump’s arbitrary power over the Presidency, including its physical seat.
www.newyorker.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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From June Lockhart’s NY Times obit.

RIP to a real one.
October 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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They mad at us for participating in the most American thing that one can do! Peaceful protesting!

Like the meme says, we just venting, its not storming the Capitol.

No Kings
October 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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October 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Mike Johnson swore in newly elected Republicans earlier this year when the House wasn’t fully in session.

But now he’s refusing to do the same for Democratic representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
October 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Federal immigration thugs attacked in a military style operation to violently apprehend families including small children & even US Citizens!

Then they zip tied them, even the kids & put them in trucks like furniture.

SPEAK OUT & VOLUNTEER 4 ELECTIONS!

If you care, do it!
stopelectionrigging.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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DHS released a glossy ICE raid video straight out of an authoritarian playbook: helicopters over Chicago, 900 people swept up, children separated, citizens detained. They call it “Operation Midway Blitz.” I call it despicable state propaganda masking terrorist constitutional crimes.
October 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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War Ravaged Portland:
September 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Trump just ordered the military into Portland and he’s authorized lethal force on U.S. citizens.

This is the beginning of dictatorship in America. Donald Trump must be stopped!

Please donate to Free Portland and share this link!

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Free Portland!
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September 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Such a pleasure to talk with @charlotteclymer.bsky.social at the @clintonglobal.bsky.social Initiative about international human rights, hope, and how even in dark times, our solidarity makes us powerful.
At CGI 2025, I got a few moments with Liz Schuler, President of the AFL-CIO since 2021 and the first woman to lead the organization. We talked labor organizing, working class families, human rights, and why young people give her hope.

#CGI2025 @clintonglobal.bsky.social @aflcio.org
Interview w/ Liz Schuler, President of AFL-CIO (CGI 2025)
YouTube video by Charlotte Clymer
youtu.be
September 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Kamala Harris on Project 2025 and the MAGA agenda: "This is bigger than Donald Trump. This stuff didn't happen overnight, and it did not happen just because of an election in 2024 or even 2016."
"This is bigger than Donald Trump": Harris on Project 2025 and the MAGA agenda
"This stuff didn't happen overnight, and it did not happen just because of an election in 2024 or even 2016." Former Vice President Kamala Harris sits down with Rachel Maddow in her first news interview since the 2024 election and discusses President Trump's actions in office and the GOP's decades-long plan that led to this moment.
on.msnbc.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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A lot of hard-working, law-abiding, productive Chicagoans, and their family members and friends, are about to have their lives disrupted just because Trump is in the Epstein files. Well, and because he’s a White Supremacist.
September 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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The president is using the military to dismantle cities that didn't vote for him

The president is using the military to distract from women speaking out against his and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuses.

We are not living in ordinary times. Extraordinary responses are called for.
September 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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September 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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The president and his sons made $5 billion on paper as their cryptocurrency started trading — highlighting the extraordinary degree to which they are personally profiting from Trump's return to the Oval Office.
How Trump's latest crypto launch enriches his family
The president and his sons made $5 billion on paper as their cryptocurrency started trading — highlighting the extraordinary degree to which they are personally profiting from Trump's return to the Oval Office.
n.pr
September 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Pay very close attention.

On the campaign trail, Trump promised to release the Epstein files. Now that survivors are naming him as Epstein’s close friend, he’s calling it a “hoax.”

Miss me with that bullshit.
September 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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“[Epstein's] biggest brag, forever, was that he was very good friends with Donald Trump,” survivor Chauntae Davies said at today’s press conference DC. “He had an 8x10 framed picture of him on his desk, with the two of them. They were very close.” people.com/epstein-kept...
Jeffrey Epstein Kept an '8x10 Framed Picture' of Donald Trump on His Desk, Survivor Claims: Trump Was 'His Biggest Brag'
Several of Jeffrey Epstein's survivors spoke on Capitol Hill on Sept. 3, with alleged victim Chauntae Davies claiming that Epstein frequently bragged about being friends with Donald Trump and even kep...
people.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM