✊ Marissa 🌊
@marissarae.bsky.social
Brain of a mathematician, soul of an activist, body of a chocolate-lover. (Pronoun: she.)
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✊ Marissa 🌊
@marissarae.bsky.social
· Apr 5
Just in case I get like mowed down by a Tesla at the protest today and the media needs some topline bio info:
I'm just a liberal Jewish suburban mom of 2. I'm not a leftist, not a radical, don't believe in political violence. I believe in compassion, civil rights, and the American Constitution.
I'm just a liberal Jewish suburban mom of 2. I'm not a leftist, not a radical, don't believe in political violence. I believe in compassion, civil rights, and the American Constitution.
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
December 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
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"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.
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Mia Tretta was a freshman when a classmate opened fire at her California high school. Now the Brown University junior worries how she’ll recover a second time.
“I found a place where I finally started to feel comfortable. And it’s been taken again.”
“I found a place where I finally started to feel comfortable. And it’s been taken again.”
She survived a school shooting in high school. It happened again at Brown.
Mia Tretta was a freshman when a classmate opened fire at her California high school. Now the Brown University student worries how she’ll recover a second time.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Mia Tretta was a freshman when a classmate opened fire at her California high school. Now the Brown University junior worries how she’ll recover a second time.
“I found a place where I finally started to feel comfortable. And it’s been taken again.”
“I found a place where I finally started to feel comfortable. And it’s been taken again.”
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What's striking about Trump's lies, and those of his apologists, is that they're not even plausible. They don't try to be plausible. As others have noted, that's kind of the point. True authoritarian control and power is telling a blatant and obvious lie, and showing you can get away with it.
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
What's striking about Trump's lies, and those of his apologists, is that they're not even plausible. They don't try to be plausible. As others have noted, that's kind of the point. True authoritarian control and power is telling a blatant and obvious lie, and showing you can get away with it.
The kids guilted me into walking to the sledding hill with them, but it turns out that snow pants adolescent metabolisms are sufficient in a way that jeans and middle-aged sluggishness are not. I begged off and went home alone. They're living it up out there! 🏂
December 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The kids guilted me into walking to the sledding hill with them, but it turns out that snow pants adolescent metabolisms are sufficient in a way that jeans and middle-aged sluggishness are not. I begged off and went home alone. They're living it up out there! 🏂
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I've been reading Prisoner of Azkaban to the kids and Avi spent some time last night deciding what he would want to be called if he were magic. His nonbinary alternative to "witch" and "wizard" is "wiz" (I suggested "witchard" but alas). 💫
December 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I've been reading Prisoner of Azkaban to the kids and Avi spent some time last night deciding what he would want to be called if he were magic. His nonbinary alternative to "witch" and "wizard" is "wiz" (I suggested "witchard" but alas). 💫
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All I know is that I remember a golden age in America when Americans were not asked by the government to ration their children’s supply of pencils and dolls. It was 2024.
December 13, 2025 at 8:06 PM
All I know is that I remember a golden age in America when Americans were not asked by the government to ration their children’s supply of pencils and dolls. It was 2024.
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Release the boat videos.
Release the Epstein files.
Release the ICE and Border Patrol body-cam footage.
Justice Brandeis: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
And there's so much the Trump administration's doing that needs disinfecting.
Release the Epstein files.
Release the ICE and Border Patrol body-cam footage.
Justice Brandeis: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
And there's so much the Trump administration's doing that needs disinfecting.
December 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Release the boat videos.
Release the Epstein files.
Release the ICE and Border Patrol body-cam footage.
Justice Brandeis: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
And there's so much the Trump administration's doing that needs disinfecting.
Release the Epstein files.
Release the ICE and Border Patrol body-cam footage.
Justice Brandeis: "Sunlight is the best disinfectant."
And there's so much the Trump administration's doing that needs disinfecting.
Is there a non-sociopathic interpretation of this argument? apnews.com/article/amer... #asl #deaf #americansignlanguage #accessibility
December 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Is there a non-sociopathic interpretation of this argument? apnews.com/article/amer... #asl #deaf #americansignlanguage #accessibility
No more car discourse, please I am begging, I can't believe something is irritating me more than LLM discourse
December 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
No more car discourse, please I am begging, I can't believe something is irritating me more than LLM discourse
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repeating “the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building has veto power over national security personnel” to myself over and over and slowly going insane
December 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
repeating “the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building has veto power over national security personnel” to myself over and over and slowly going insane
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Get Mengele out of office
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Get Mengele out of office
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LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
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"To deliberately target mass services during holy weeks of obligation in the Catholic church is just so wrong, especially during Christmas services where the story of the holy family's travel under government edict is a central part of the story."
www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-war-o...
www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-war-o...
Trump's War on Christmas Is a War on Liberalism
After decades of make-believe, the Trump administration is promising an actual war on Christmas that would traumatize religious communities with armed state power.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"To deliberately target mass services during holy weeks of obligation in the Catholic church is just so wrong, especially during Christmas services where the story of the holy family's travel under government edict is a central part of the story."
www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-war-o...
www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-war-o...
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This is an impeachment offense, and if our press were worth half of a quarter of a shit, it would be all over every single channel, kind of like Joe Biden being a bit slow with a name now and then.
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 5:09 AM
This is an impeachment offense, and if our press were worth half of a quarter of a shit, it would be all over every single channel, kind of like Joe Biden being a bit slow with a name now and then.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
My sister is the best. It's a random Thursday, middle of the day, we're both working to pay our respective bills, but I text her out of the blue to shout very loudly about SISTER ACT 2 and she immediately hops on board. Best reason to have two kids, so they grow up to have this in each other.
December 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My sister is the best. It's a random Thursday, middle of the day, we're both working to pay our respective bills, but I text her out of the blue to shout very loudly about SISTER ACT 2 and she immediately hops on board. Best reason to have two kids, so they grow up to have this in each other.
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The "leverage" was starving people
I guess we just have to do whatever Republicans want forever because exercising any amount of leverage might lead to bad things happening during this administration’s tenure
Yes, a much better outcome would have been to keep the government shut down indefinitely while planes fell out of the sky and the economy began to crash, that certainly is a simply scenario that it would be easy to manage
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The "leverage" was starving people
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one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
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this weather can only be described as hibernation conditions. my instincts are screaming for me to crawl into a cave and sleep for three months.
December 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
this weather can only be described as hibernation conditions. my instincts are screaming for me to crawl into a cave and sleep for three months.
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This week, House Republicans put forward the PERMIT Act, which would weaken the Clean Water Act while targeting our region by undermining the EPA’s role in the multi-state, collaborative Chesapeake Bay Agreement that has secured massive victories for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed for over 4 decades.
December 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This week, House Republicans put forward the PERMIT Act, which would weaken the Clean Water Act while targeting our region by undermining the EPA’s role in the multi-state, collaborative Chesapeake Bay Agreement that has secured massive victories for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed for over 4 decades.
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Shutdowns have externalities in "real people really suffering" that this analysis doesn't take in to consideration, and the "leverage" such as the Democrats had was "making the suffering last longer." Even if that was a desirable outcome, there's no mechanism to force party unity to achieve it.
i dont really see why this isnt the case ngl. Governing party generally takes the blame for shutdowns and there was polling showing republicans were taking it. Plus now what leverage do congressional dems have, having given away their last two leverages?
Yes, a much better outcome would have been to keep the government shut down indefinitely while planes fell out of the sky and the economy began to crash, that certainly is a simply scenario that it would be easy to manage
December 11, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Shutdowns have externalities in "real people really suffering" that this analysis doesn't take in to consideration, and the "leverage" such as the Democrats had was "making the suffering last longer." Even if that was a desirable outcome, there's no mechanism to force party unity to achieve it.
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by far the most encouraging thing about the second Trump term has been the extent to which ordinary people, tasked with the execution of the very system of justice this administration wishes to corrupt, have said absolutely the fuck not
our institutions are failing but our people are not
our institutions are failing but our people are not
JUST IN: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Snell just confirmed, at the prodding of U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, that this motion for dismissal followed a "no bill" from a grand jury.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
That means the grand jury refused to indict.
U.S. prosecutors in Chicago are dropping another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz, "without prejudice."
It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.
The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
It's USA v. Nathan Griffin. Below is the motion, followed by excerpts from the complaint.
The feds don't say why they're dropping it, but they had until today to secure an indictment.
December 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
by far the most encouraging thing about the second Trump term has been the extent to which ordinary people, tasked with the execution of the very system of justice this administration wishes to corrupt, have said absolutely the fuck not
our institutions are failing but our people are not
our institutions are failing but our people are not