Marilee O
@marileeodcunn.bsky.social
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Marilee O
@marileeodcunn.bsky.social
· Feb 22
National Security Leaders for America Statement on Firing of Senior Military Officers — National Security Leaders for America
National Security Leaders for America (NSL4A) Founder and President, retired Rear Admiral Mike Smith, issued the following statement regarding the announced firings of several senior military officers...
www.nsl4a.org
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Trump to generals: "We have beautiful paper, the gorgeous paper. I said, 'throw a little more gold on it, they deserve it. I want the A paper not the D paper.' We used to sign a piece of garbage ... I want to use the big beautiful firm paper."
September 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Trump to generals: "We have beautiful paper, the gorgeous paper. I said, 'throw a little more gold on it, they deserve it. I want the A paper not the D paper.' We used to sign a piece of garbage ... I want to use the big beautiful firm paper."
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He’s *reverent* toward Putin. With him, Trump, Rubio, and the rest, the USA is being governed as a province of Russia. Look at the rhetoric, at the policies, at the decisions. They all serve Putin and Russia. They’re making us the Russian Republic of America. And I think it’s not accidental.
JD Vance on Putin: "He's more soft spoken than you'd necessarily expect. The American media has a particular image of him. He's soft spoken in a certain way. He's very deliberate, he's very careful. Fundamentally, he's a person who looks out for the interests as he sees it of Russia."
August 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
He’s *reverent* toward Putin. With him, Trump, Rubio, and the rest, the USA is being governed as a province of Russia. Look at the rhetoric, at the policies, at the decisions. They all serve Putin and Russia. They’re making us the Russian Republic of America. And I think it’s not accidental.
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Texans: The Lone Star on your state flag represents independence and patriotism. The USA needs you to live by those principles now, for all our sakes, as your governor shoves poison down your throats. Stand up for yourselves, and for the Lone Star and all 50 stars on the flags you claim to revere.
a close up of a texas flag with a white star
ALT: a close up of a texas flag with a white star
media.tenor.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Texans: The Lone Star on your state flag represents independence and patriotism. The USA needs you to live by those principles now, for all our sakes, as your governor shoves poison down your throats. Stand up for yourselves, and for the Lone Star and all 50 stars on the flags you claim to revere.
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Feeling and loving all of the comments!! I was brought up to believe we allow all and take care of each other! So many reasons people come here as my grandparents did! Love all. ❤️
August 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Feeling and loving all of the comments!! I was brought up to believe we allow all and take care of each other! So many reasons people come here as my grandparents did! Love all. ❤️
Abortion pill campaign targets rural West Virginia, Kentucky gas stations westvirginiawatch.com/2025/08/18/a...
Abortion pill campaign targets rural West Virginia, Kentucky gas stations • West Virginia Watch
Advertisements promoting the abortion pill will be at gas stations across West Virginia and Kentucky over the next few weeks.
westvirginiawatch.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Abortion pill campaign targets rural West Virginia, Kentucky gas stations westvirginiawatch.com/2025/08/18/a...
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Israel has crossed the boundary between justifiable defense through aggression and indefensible atrocities. This author (with whom I don’t totally agree; I think Israel cross the boundary a LONG time ago) tries to navigate the matter from an informed perspective.
You can be deeply committed to the security of the Israeli people and Israel’s future *and* call out the humanitarian horrors in Gaza. In fact, both are necessary.
My colleague Rabbi Doug Kahn does it here: jweekly.com/2025/07/21/a...
My colleague Rabbi Doug Kahn does it here: jweekly.com/2025/07/21/a...
As a Zionist and lifelong advocate, I believe Israel has gone too far
A Zionist and Israel advocate who once led a major Bay Area Jewish organization says Israel’s conduct crosses moral lines.
jweekly.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Israel has crossed the boundary between justifiable defense through aggression and indefensible atrocities. This author (with whom I don’t totally agree; I think Israel cross the boundary a LONG time ago) tries to navigate the matter from an informed perspective.
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Abhorrent. There is no excuse for this. Hamas unleashed a force of hatred they cannot have expected would burn so viciously for so long. Israel has gone way WAY beyond acceptable moral boundaries. Condemnation and sanctions are needed, immediately.
NYT: “Amid rising starvation in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli government minister said on Thursday that Israel had no duty to alleviate hunger in the territory and was seeking to expel its population.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
July 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Abhorrent. There is no excuse for this. Hamas unleashed a force of hatred they cannot have expected would burn so viciously for so long. Israel has gone way WAY beyond acceptable moral boundaries. Condemnation and sanctions are needed, immediately.
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Trump’s DOJ granted a CONVICTED KID SEX TRAFFICKER immunity so they can…what? Gather information they already had to convict her? Is that what we’re supposed to believe? Trumpworld is corrupt beyond all morals, ethics, and law. If MAGA falls for this crap, there really is no coming back for America.
CNN: We are just learning that Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, was granted limited immunity in order to talk with Trump’s personal attorney turned deputy attorney general
July 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Trump’s DOJ granted a CONVICTED KID SEX TRAFFICKER immunity so they can…what? Gather information they already had to convict her? Is that what we’re supposed to believe? Trumpworld is corrupt beyond all morals, ethics, and law. If MAGA falls for this crap, there really is no coming back for America.
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Content from CBS and all Paramount outlets is now poisoned with the Trump/MAGA agenda. It is not safe for consumption. Choose a different provider. (Yes, US soccer fans, this applies to the Champions League coverage too!)
Beyond the 60 Minutes payoff & Colbert cancelation, an unprecedented capitulation: as part of merger agreement, new parent company agrees to install an official to "monitor bias" at CBS’s news division. CBS news will essentially be state controlled media.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...
July 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Content from CBS and all Paramount outlets is now poisoned with the Trump/MAGA agenda. It is not safe for consumption. Choose a different provider. (Yes, US soccer fans, this applies to the Champions League coverage too!)
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Precisely, unequivocally this. @jamestalarico.bsky.social hits the nail on the head, over and over again.
July 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Precisely, unequivocally this. @jamestalarico.bsky.social hits the nail on the head, over and over again.
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Reminder: Ghislaine Maxwell's father was the disgraced UK newspaper man Robert Maxwell. He looted his companies' pension funds to avoid bankruptcy. When those crimes were close to being discovered, he died by suicide. Wealth by crime, then escape by death. Familiar? moneyweek.com/505757/great...
July 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Reminder: Ghislaine Maxwell's father was the disgraced UK newspaper man Robert Maxwell. He looted his companies' pension funds to avoid bankruptcy. When those crimes were close to being discovered, he died by suicide. Wealth by crime, then escape by death. Familiar? moneyweek.com/505757/great...
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This is the party line right now but it has to be more than this by next summer. Wealth tax, repeal tax breaks for $bnaires, hold Netanyahu et al to account and fly aid into Gaza, and restore kids' meals, science research $, Medicaid/Midicare funds. For a start!
“Democrats 2026: You may hate us but we’re the only chance you have of avoiding oblivion.”
July 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
This is the party line right now but it has to be more than this by next summer. Wealth tax, repeal tax breaks for $bnaires, hold Netanyahu et al to account and fly aid into Gaza, and restore kids' meals, science research $, Medicaid/Midicare funds. For a start!
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This is the Trump effect. "Art of the deal" my ass. The world is turning *away* from the US Dollar. That is not - NOT! - a good thing for the US economy.
China announces BRICS will soon take steps to reduce dependency on US Dollar
July 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is the Trump effect. "Art of the deal" my ass. The world is turning *away* from the US Dollar. That is not - NOT! - a good thing for the US economy.
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The “party of family values” strikes again. That’s two in one day. At least they’re consistent.
Police arrested a Florida Republican city commissioner for soliciting a 13-year-old girl and two counts of solicitation of transmission of child pornography by electronic device or equipment. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
City Commissioner arrested after alleged inappropriate relationship with teen girl
Fort Pierce City Commissioner James Taylor arrested; 'nobody is above the law'
www.yahoo.com
July 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The “party of family values” strikes again. That’s two in one day. At least they’re consistent.
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The S&P 500 CEOs took home an average $18.9 MILLION last year.
Trump and Republicans just handed them a collective tax break of $738 MILLION.
That's worth 80,000 people's Medicaid, 300,000 people's SNAP food assistance, or 900,000 kids' school lunch.
What are we doing here?
Trump and Republicans just handed them a collective tax break of $738 MILLION.
That's worth 80,000 people's Medicaid, 300,000 people's SNAP food assistance, or 900,000 kids' school lunch.
What are we doing here?
July 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The S&P 500 CEOs took home an average $18.9 MILLION last year.
Trump and Republicans just handed them a collective tax break of $738 MILLION.
That's worth 80,000 people's Medicaid, 300,000 people's SNAP food assistance, or 900,000 kids' school lunch.
What are we doing here?
Trump and Republicans just handed them a collective tax break of $738 MILLION.
That's worth 80,000 people's Medicaid, 300,000 people's SNAP food assistance, or 900,000 kids' school lunch.
What are we doing here?
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Agnotology = word of the last decade.
“Proctor found that ignorance spreads when firstly, many people do not understand a concept or fact and secondly, when special interest groups – like a commercial firm or a political group – then work hard to create confusion about an issue.”
Sound familiar?
“Proctor found that ignorance spreads when firstly, many people do not understand a concept or fact and secondly, when special interest groups – like a commercial firm or a political group – then work hard to create confusion about an issue.”
Sound familiar?
"Agnotology is the study of the deliberate spread of ignorance or doubt to influence opinion. It helps us understand how people use ignorance to hide or divert attention from societal problems, promote ignorance, and stoke xenophobia and populism."
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The man who studies the spread of ignorance
How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon.
www.bbc.com
December 17, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Agnotology = word of the last decade.
“Proctor found that ignorance spreads when firstly, many people do not understand a concept or fact and secondly, when special interest groups – like a commercial firm or a political group – then work hard to create confusion about an issue.”
Sound familiar?
“Proctor found that ignorance spreads when firstly, many people do not understand a concept or fact and secondly, when special interest groups – like a commercial firm or a political group – then work hard to create confusion about an issue.”
Sound familiar?
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"A starving human being needs food today, not tomorrow." - José Andrés.
This man continues to be a light. May he continue to shine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
This man continues to be a light. May he continue to shine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
Opinion | José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza
www.nytimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"A starving human being needs food today, not tomorrow." - José Andrés.
This man continues to be a light. May he continue to shine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
This man continues to be a light. May he continue to shine.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
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June 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
On June 6, veterans will march in D.C. to defend their benefits, their jobs, and the ideals they swore to protect. This isn’t about politics—it’s about keeping promises. #Unite4Veterans
June 2, 2025 at 9:17 PM
On June 6, veterans will march in D.C. to defend their benefits, their jobs, and the ideals they swore to protect. This isn’t about politics—it’s about keeping promises. #Unite4Veterans
I can’t vote in BA but if I could, I would vote for Jess Anderson. Best on policies and can also do donuts.
May 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I can’t vote in BA but if I could, I would vote for Jess Anderson. Best on policies and can also do donuts.
Great speech by Samantha Power praising USAID personnel. (Sorry the beginning is cut off). drive.google.com/file/d/1oXHM...
SP award speech .MOV
drive.google.com
May 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Great speech by Samantha Power praising USAID personnel. (Sorry the beginning is cut off). drive.google.com/file/d/1oXHM...
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Nooooooo!!!!! She's the best!!!!
May 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Nooooooo!!!!! She's the best!!!!
Tammy Bruce, State Dept spokesperson, talks fast but not truthfully. Bruce said Samantha Power, former USAID Director,said last year that only 10% of U.S. govt funding got to the people who need it.
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tammy Bruce, State Dept spokesperson, talks fast but not truthfully. Bruce said Samantha Power, former USAID Director,said last year that only 10% of U.S. govt funding got to the people who need it.
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A new report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37 billion in potential legal liability from 11 federal agencies on inauguration day.
Many are now on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped their investigations into Musk's corporations.
"Conflict of interest" is an understatement.
Many are now on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped their investigations into Musk's corporations.
"Conflict of interest" is an understatement.
April 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A new report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37 billion in potential legal liability from 11 federal agencies on inauguration day.
Many are now on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped their investigations into Musk's corporations.
"Conflict of interest" is an understatement.
Many are now on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped their investigations into Musk's corporations.
"Conflict of interest" is an understatement.