Mary Pezzulo
@marypezzulo.bsky.social
I write about the Gospel, politics, gardening, Christianity, spiritual abuse, neurodivergence and social justice. 🏳️🌈
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The Light In Darkness, Outside The Gate
There was the Advent wreath, with a single purple candle lit and three candles dark.What good could one candle do, in all of this darkness?
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It didn’t exactly feel safe, but it didn’t feel terrible.
There was the Advent wreath, with a single purple candle lit and three candles dark.
What good could one candle do, in all of this darkness?
www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
There was the Advent wreath, with a single purple candle lit and three candles dark.
What good could one candle do, in all of this darkness?
www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...
I hope Melania is every bit as miserable as she looks.
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I hope Melania is every bit as miserable as she looks.
I see nothing supreme about this court.
Supreme Court endorses minority rule. Says democracy is for suckers.
Breaking: Supreme Court on 6-3 Party Line Vote, Allows Texas to Use Its Re-redistricting Maps for 2026 Congressional Elections #ELB
You can find the order. a concurrence, and a dissent at this link. All the Republican-appointed Justices are letting Texas engage in re-redistricting, at least for the 2026 elections, and all the Demo...
electionlawblog.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I see nothing supreme about this court.
Trad men are so prurient they compare READING to sex.
I’m sure when Paul made his analogy, he wasn’t foreseeing the aforementioned clerical anecdotes, or a Peter Kwasniewski saying only men can be lectors because they are “inseminating” the congregation with the Word
December 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Trad men are so prurient they compare READING to sex.
I'm going to be ill.
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'm going to be ill.
Well that was fun while it lasted.
December 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Well that was fun while it lasted.
*sad trombone*
BREAKING: MSNOW reports Grand Jury refuses to charge Letita James.
DOJ can, by law, keep trying before a different grand jury, but this will be further proof of vindictive prosecution.
DOJ can, by law, keep trying before a different grand jury, but this will be further proof of vindictive prosecution.
Breaking on MS NOW:
The Trump Justice Department FAILED today to secure an indictment against New York AG Letitia James.
DOJ could attempt again to indict James. — via Carol Leonnig
The Trump Justice Department FAILED today to secure an indictment against New York AG Letitia James.
DOJ could attempt again to indict James. — via Carol Leonnig
December 4, 2025 at 10:47 PM
*sad trombone*
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And another one gone and another one down and another one bites the dust.
ABC News and MS NOW reports that a Virginia grand jury has refused to re-indict Letitia James on mortgage fraud charges
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
And another one gone and another one down and another one bites the dust.
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Under Trump’s leadership, electricity costs are going up nationwide.
17% in North Carolina.
15% in Georgia.
13% in Pennsylvania.
12% in Michigan.
And Republicans are doing nothing about it.
17% in North Carolina.
15% in Georgia.
13% in Pennsylvania.
12% in Michigan.
And Republicans are doing nothing about it.
December 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Under Trump’s leadership, electricity costs are going up nationwide.
17% in North Carolina.
15% in Georgia.
13% in Pennsylvania.
12% in Michigan.
And Republicans are doing nothing about it.
17% in North Carolina.
15% in Georgia.
13% in Pennsylvania.
12% in Michigan.
And Republicans are doing nothing about it.
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Trump's bandaged and discolored hand was visible today during an event where he again at times struggled to keep his eyes open (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
December 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Trump's bandaged and discolored hand was visible today during an event where he again at times struggled to keep his eyes open (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)
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Pleased to speak with @gregsargent.bsky.social for this piece.
It sounds like the two survivors were shipwrecked and directly targeted.
If you accept the administration's bogus theory that there is an armed conflict (there isn't), then targeting the shipwrecked would be a war crime.
It sounds like the two survivors were shipwrecked and directly targeted.
If you accept the administration's bogus theory that there is an armed conflict (there isn't), then targeting the shipwrecked would be a war crime.
NEWS --> Tons of fresh detail on what video of the strike shows: Rep Adam Smith says two men are sitting on capsized boat, drugs aren't visible. Rationale officials gave for killing is they *may* have been able to keep trafficking.
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
"It's bad," Smith says.
Read here:
newrepublic.com/article/2039...
Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details
The ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services committee tells TNR after watching the video: “This is a big, big problem.”
newrepublic.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Pleased to speak with @gregsargent.bsky.social for this piece.
It sounds like the two survivors were shipwrecked and directly targeted.
If you accept the administration's bogus theory that there is an armed conflict (there isn't), then targeting the shipwrecked would be a war crime.
It sounds like the two survivors were shipwrecked and directly targeted.
If you accept the administration's bogus theory that there is an armed conflict (there isn't), then targeting the shipwrecked would be a war crime.
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This is my big soap box. We gave the presidency too much power with the PATRIOT Act, extrajudicial drone strikes, indefinite detention and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Trump is just using executive authority Congress gave to the presidency after 9/11 to maximum effect.
Congress, in my opinion has ceded too much of its authority to the Executive Branch in the last nearly quarter of a century. What the administration has been doing is simply part the Post 9/11 legacy. It’s got to stop. I say this as a GWOT era veteran.
Credit to Rand Paul. He hated extrajudicial drone strike killings under Obama and he HATES them under Trump where Congress has given no authorization.
December 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is my big soap box. We gave the presidency too much power with the PATRIOT Act, extrajudicial drone strikes, indefinite detention and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Trump is just using executive authority Congress gave to the presidency after 9/11 to maximum effect.
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it seems like the new line is that the only way to practice ethical medicine is to be at least anti-vax curious if not full on anti-vax
Malone is suggesting that there is not informed consent when the CDC has a universal vaccine recommendation. That is not true.
December 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
it seems like the new line is that the only way to practice ethical medicine is to be at least anti-vax curious if not full on anti-vax
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Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released.
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
“And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
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Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
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The Trump Administration is gutting America’s science engine, wiping out thousands of grants in cancer, aging, engineering and more. Our district’s world-class researchers feel these cuts every single day.
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The Trump Administration is gutting America’s science engine, wiping out thousands of grants in cancer, aging, engineering and more. Our district’s world-class researchers feel these cuts every single day.
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Just philosophically opposed to doing ANY prep-work WHATSOEVER.
December 4, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Just philosophically opposed to doing ANY prep-work WHATSOEVER.
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Citizens nationwide and in NW Ohio are asking important questions on data centers. They're worried that facilities demand massive amounts of energy, eat up farmland, cede local ownership and control, and drive up utility costs even more. Ask questions first!
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Citizens nationwide and in NW Ohio are asking important questions on data centers. They're worried that facilities demand massive amounts of energy, eat up farmland, cede local ownership and control, and drive up utility costs even more. Ask questions first!
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I cannot imagine the level of moral bankruptcy to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay in the fight."
Q: What did you see in the second strike?
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."
December 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I cannot imagine the level of moral bankruptcy to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay in the fight."
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Behold the greatest economy in the history of the world
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Behold the greatest economy in the history of the world
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Not like it would be justified if they were drug smugglers, but I think it hasn't gotten enough focus that a boat with 11 people onboard heading from Venezuela to Trinidad was almost certainly migrants. These were probably, at least for some of them, people fleeing Maduro. That's who they murdered.
December 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Not like it would be justified if they were drug smugglers, but I think it hasn't gotten enough focus that a boat with 11 people onboard heading from Venezuela to Trinidad was almost certainly migrants. These were probably, at least for some of them, people fleeing Maduro. That's who they murdered.
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Cheaper for Big Oil to buy Congress than to pay taxes. Let alone pay for the harm of their pollution.
American Big Oil Pays More in Taxes Abroad
A new report details how fossil fuel lobbyists have won huge U.S. tax giveaways.
inequality.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Cheaper for Big Oil to buy Congress than to pay taxes. Let alone pay for the harm of their pollution.
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Hegseth stonewalled IG, refusing 1) to provide his phone for IG to probe other uses of Signal; 2) to sit for interview w/ IG. We only know about Yemeni Signal chat b/ Waltz added Goldberg to it by mistake. The scale and scope of Hegseth's security breaches still remain unknown even after IG report.
Officials reported the Secretary used additional Signal chats for DoD business. IG couldn’t verify content because he refused to provide phone access.
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Hegseth stonewalled IG, refusing 1) to provide his phone for IG to probe other uses of Signal; 2) to sit for interview w/ IG. We only know about Yemeni Signal chat b/ Waltz added Goldberg to it by mistake. The scale and scope of Hegseth's security breaches still remain unknown even after IG report.
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9 House Republicans could choose to take away Johnson’s gavel today if they wanted.
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
9 House Republicans could choose to take away Johnson’s gavel today if they wanted.
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“Imagine what would happen if, next year, we had a 2008-style crisis and Bessent and Hassett were [at Treasury and the Fed]. In such a universe, could the rest of the world trust American economic leadership? Could the American-led economic order survive?”
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-if-it...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-if-it...
What If It’s Already Too Late?
Institutional rot or ideological infection—either way, a real “Deep State” is already taking shape.
www.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
“Imagine what would happen if, next year, we had a 2008-style crisis and Bessent and Hassett were [at Treasury and the Fed]. In such a universe, could the rest of the world trust American economic leadership? Could the American-led economic order survive?”
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-if-it...
www.thebulwark.com/p/what-if-it...