Marian
@makersmarian.bsky.social
Mother of Cats | Lover of Broccoli | Sufferer of Analysis Paralysis | Bourbon & Wine Enthusiast | Book Consumer | Former Musician | Southerner | Episcopalian | Hearty Laugher
Pulse check: Are we great yet?
August 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Pulse check: Are we great yet?
Where's Dave when we need him?
July 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Where's Dave when we need him?
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This Memorial Day weekend, the best way to honor the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice is to honor and protect the freedoms and the democracy they died for.
May 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This Memorial Day weekend, the best way to honor the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice is to honor and protect the freedoms and the democracy they died for.
Journalism in general could use a win, so this is encouraging: apnews.com/article/prea...
Journalism comes from behind to win the Preakness 2 weeks after finishing 2nd in the Kentucky Derby
Journalism has won the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes. The heavy favorite made good on lofty expectations two weeks after finishing second to Sovereignty in the Kentucky Derby.
apnews.com
May 17, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Journalism in general could use a win, so this is encouraging: apnews.com/article/prea...
Mississippian here: I never thought I'd say it, but thank you, Roger Wicker!
March 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Mississippian here: I never thought I'd say it, but thank you, Roger Wicker!
Sweet Jesus. As if things weren’t bad enough.
March 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Sweet Jesus. As if things weren’t bad enough.
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Pete Doocy coming up with a better one-line talking point for Democrats than 90% of Democrats. You don’t have to always speak in run-on paragraphs to try and fail to make your point. Voters remember lines like this, they don’t remember verbal policy essays.
March 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Pete Doocy coming up with a better one-line talking point for Democrats than 90% of Democrats. You don’t have to always speak in run-on paragraphs to try and fail to make your point. Voters remember lines like this, they don’t remember verbal policy essays.
MPB celebrated Margaret Walker today for Black History Month. I remember being transformed by JUBILEE, about a young enslaved woman in GA during the Civil War, which we read in my MS Women's History class at Ole Miss. Here's an older article about her:
www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/r...
www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/r...
Remembering Margaret Walker 50 years later, as her groundbreaking poetry festival returns to Jackson
A conversation with author Maryemma Graham on her biography of Walker, famed novelist and professor who created the Phillis Wheatley Festival in 1973.
www.mpbonline.org
February 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
MPB celebrated Margaret Walker today for Black History Month. I remember being transformed by JUBILEE, about a young enslaved woman in GA during the Civil War, which we read in my MS Women's History class at Ole Miss. Here's an older article about her:
www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/r...
www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/r...
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Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia
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February 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Go to Google
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FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back an...
theonion.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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#OnThisDay in 1994, a jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith of murdering #NAACP leader Medgar Evers. His widow, Myrlie Evers, said his assassin “failed to realize Medgar was still alive in spirit & through ... every one of us who wanted to see justice done.”
mississippitoday.org/2025/02/05/o...
mississippitoday.org/2025/02/05/o...
On this day in 1994, Byron De La Beckwith was convicted of murdering Medgar Evers
On this day in 1994, a jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith for the 1963 murder of Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
mississippitoday.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
#OnThisDay in 1994, a jury convicted Byron De La Beckwith of murdering #NAACP leader Medgar Evers. His widow, Myrlie Evers, said his assassin “failed to realize Medgar was still alive in spirit & through ... every one of us who wanted to see justice done.”
mississippitoday.org/2025/02/05/o...
mississippitoday.org/2025/02/05/o...
Caturday! Radar is all snuggled in on this cold day.
January 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Caturday! Radar is all snuggled in on this cold day.
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This story was so well crafted in large part due to its subject. It warmed my heart. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
'Birding to Change the World' memoir uses birds as guides for social activism and joy
Trish O’Kane sometimes calls herself an accidental ornithologist. As a journalist focused on human rights, she once considered birding frivolous. And then, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, on a ...
www.wbur.org
December 5, 2024 at 12:01 AM
This story was so well crafted in large part due to its subject. It warmed my heart. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
🎶What a little moonlight can do…🎶
November 17, 2024 at 12:05 AM
🎶What a little moonlight can do…🎶