Maryland Poppa
@mdpoppa.bsky.social
Ed & EdTech, Instructional Design, Curriculum Technology, Media Production...& Politics. Trying to focus less on the latter but with little success.
We all need to go on more hikes.
Be Kind, Don't Lie. Realize your Potential.
Anna's City, Mary's land
We all need to go on more hikes.
Be Kind, Don't Lie. Realize your Potential.
Anna's City, Mary's land
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“Nuclear weapons threaten every person on this planet — and President Trump’s reckless decision to resume testing endangers us all.” @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social
A Dangerous Step Backward: Renewed Threat of Nuclear Testing | Friends Committee On National Legislation
On October 30, former President Donald Trump directed the U.S. military to restart nuclear weapons testing after more than 30 years of restraint.
www.fcnl.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“Nuclear weapons threaten every person on this planet — and President Trump’s reckless decision to resume testing endangers us all.” @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social
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this sort of factual statement should not be confined to the opinion section
"If Trump’s first term was marked by a level of graft and self-dealing that would have embarrassed a Tammany stalwart, then his second term seems to be an explicit effort to outpace his previous record and set a new high-water mark for political corruption in the [US]."
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
#GiftLink #GiftArticle
Opinion | The White House Gold Rush Is On
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
this sort of factual statement should not be confined to the opinion section
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This is a really good writeup and clarified things I was unsure about...including possible scotus actions.
Trump appointed Harmeet Dhillon to the Justice Department so she could own the libs and sue DEI out of existence. But she is a bad lawyer! And her utter incompetence is the main reason why a conservative Trump judge just struck down the racist Texas gerrymander. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump’s Scheme to Gift the GOP Extra House Seats Just Blew Up in His Face
The opinion, written by a Trump appointee, cites Chief Justice John Roberts right up top.
slate.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 AM
This is a really good writeup and clarified things I was unsure about...including possible scotus actions.
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"defense attorneys are telling us they can’t get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because they felt they’re better off spending their money on a political donation, drawing Trump’s attention, and getting the case dismissed or going to trial and getting a pardon."
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"defense attorneys are telling us they can’t get their clients to take good or reasonable plea offers because they felt they’re better off spending their money on a political donation, drawing Trump’s attention, and getting the case dismissed or going to trial and getting a pardon."
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Just thinking about that time DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt bragged to his date that they'd redact all of the Republicans from the Epstein Files & leave only the Democrats.
Hey @oversightdemocrats.house.gov why not subpoena this guy? He's been in the DOJ for 23 years. Make him sing like a canary!
Hey @oversightdemocrats.house.gov why not subpoena this guy? He's been in the DOJ for 23 years. Make him sing like a canary!
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Just thinking about that time DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt bragged to his date that they'd redact all of the Republicans from the Epstein Files & leave only the Democrats.
Hey @oversightdemocrats.house.gov why not subpoena this guy? He's been in the DOJ for 23 years. Make him sing like a canary!
Hey @oversightdemocrats.house.gov why not subpoena this guy? He's been in the DOJ for 23 years. Make him sing like a canary!
How do we get these damn grand juries to stop no-billing our cases?!?!
How about we just promise them we'll have actual evidence at the trial?
Yeesh
How about we just promise them we'll have actual evidence at the trial?
Yeesh
November 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
How do we get these damn grand juries to stop no-billing our cases?!?!
How about we just promise them we'll have actual evidence at the trial?
Yeesh
How about we just promise them we'll have actual evidence at the trial?
Yeesh
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the Baltimore Film Revivals calendar is updated for the rest of the Charles & Senator fall seasons (mid-Dec). Andrei Rublev, When Harry Met Sally, Brazil, and Marathon Man all playing this week!
Hello I made a public Google calendar for film revival screenings + special events at the Charles, Senator, and Parkway Theatres here in Baltimore because I figured I create all these calendar events for myself every month anyway so I might as well share it
Baltimore Film Revivals
calendar.google.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
the Baltimore Film Revivals calendar is updated for the rest of the Charles & Senator fall seasons (mid-Dec). Andrei Rublev, When Harry Met Sally, Brazil, and Marathon Man all playing this week!
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Not taxing loans against unrealized capital gains is probably the biggest problem with our tax code, which is saying a lot. It encourages wealth hoarding and makes the richest of the rich essentially tax exempt.
November 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Not taxing loans against unrealized capital gains is probably the biggest problem with our tax code, which is saying a lot. It encourages wealth hoarding and makes the richest of the rich essentially tax exempt.
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Both this and in their story on Bannon and Epstein, Guardian has done it right.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Both this and in their story on Bannon and Epstein, Guardian has done it right.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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High-quality sources of accurate news are being shuttered. 📰📺👇🏾
PBS NEWS WEEKEND has been cancelled and 34 jobs will be cut at WETA in Washington D.C.
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
The NEWS HOUR West Coast bureau will also close and the updated daily West Coast broadcast will end.
“We cannot fully compensate for the scope of the federal funding loss.”
current.org/2025/11/weta... #PBS
WETA to cut staff, cancel ‘PBS News Weekend’ and close News Hour West bureau
The restructuring includes the elimination of 34 positions, following another round of cuts made in September.
current.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
High-quality sources of accurate news are being shuttered. 📰📺👇🏾
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But remember that most of Trump's people aren't deep thinkers. They want you to think they are, but they're mostly just tap dancing as fast as they can while raiding the treasury and inflicting their cruelty on others. They're living in fear of all this ending soon - and rightly so./18
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
But remember that most of Trump's people aren't deep thinkers. They want you to think they are, but they're mostly just tap dancing as fast as they can while raiding the treasury and inflicting their cruelty on others. They're living in fear of all this ending soon - and rightly so./18
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"blending governance and family business" nbd
Saudi officials used President Trump’s state visit in May to pique his interest in a major real estate development, the latest example of Trump blending governance and family business, particularly in Persian Gulf countries. nyti.ms/4r7mboU
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"blending governance and family business" nbd
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my radical idea for governing one of America's great cities is you should take the fucking job seriously
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
my radical idea for governing one of America's great cities is you should take the fucking job seriously
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she reminds me of that astronaut woman kidnapper who wore the diapers while driving cross-country so she wouldn't have to stop to pee. just vibes wise. she has that vibe
November 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
she reminds me of that astronaut woman kidnapper who wore the diapers while driving cross-country so she wouldn't have to stop to pee. just vibes wise. she has that vibe
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total aside here but im already really tired of this shit. i stopped one million wars. i made gas basically free now. i brought in a googolplex of dollars. our country is #1 now. shut the fuck up you weird old creep. you didn't do shit except line your pockets. sick of your shit
After making comments here and there over the past few weeks, President Trump finally turns on Congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene and says he will back a viable primary challenger.
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
total aside here but im already really tired of this shit. i stopped one million wars. i made gas basically free now. i brought in a googolplex of dollars. our country is #1 now. shut the fuck up you weird old creep. you didn't do shit except line your pockets. sick of your shit
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Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/kris...
"This year, I attended the first day of the conference by simply walking through security — no one asked for any credentials or a conference badge."
Nice
Nice
Does Cheryl Hines share husband RFK Jr.'s vaccine views? Now we know the answer: yes. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an... via @msnbc.com @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
Does Cheryl Hines share husband RFK Jr.’s vaccine views? Now we know the answer.
The actress finally steps out as first lady of the anti-vaccine movement.
www.msnbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"This year, I attended the first day of the conference by simply walking through security — no one asked for any credentials or a conference badge."
Nice
Nice
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Check out Kanopy's Most-Watched Films of the Week for 11/13/2025!
Go to Kanopy.com to watch these films and more. All you need is your library card.
Go to Kanopy.com to watch these films and more. All you need is your library card.
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Check out Kanopy's Most-Watched Films of the Week for 11/13/2025!
Go to Kanopy.com to watch these films and more. All you need is your library card.
Go to Kanopy.com to watch these films and more. All you need is your library card.
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"3 + 4 year olds in Lupita Villalobos’s district in Duncanville, Texas, use iPads... But she has opted out of using them in her own pre-K classroom, because she finds that children this age learn better through hands-on, play-based activities."
NO SHIT. This is nuts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
NO SHIT. This is nuts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
350 Teachers on How Screens Take Over Classrooms, as Early as Kindergarten
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
"3 + 4 year olds in Lupita Villalobos’s district in Duncanville, Texas, use iPads... But she has opted out of using them in her own pre-K classroom, because she finds that children this age learn better through hands-on, play-based activities."
NO SHIT. This is nuts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
NO SHIT. This is nuts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
While a 'routine' MRI is unlikely in itself, it *should* be routine.
An MRI scan every 10 years as part of covered health checkups would be great!
Better than a colonoscopy anyway.
An MRI scan every 10 years as part of covered health checkups would be great!
Better than a colonoscopy anyway.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked Wednesday about her promise earlier this month that she would follow up with President Donald Trump to find out more about why he had an MRI in October. https://to.pbs.org/4nSuL88
WATCH: White House says Trump's MRI was part of 'routine physical examination'
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did not specify what part of President Donald Trump’s body was imaged in the scan in October.
to.pbs.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
While a 'routine' MRI is unlikely in itself, it *should* be routine.
An MRI scan every 10 years as part of covered health checkups would be great!
Better than a colonoscopy anyway.
An MRI scan every 10 years as part of covered health checkups would be great!
Better than a colonoscopy anyway.
Argh.
And one result will be higher electric costs, and maga dimwits blaming Dems for shuttering coal plants.
And one result will be higher electric costs, and maga dimwits blaming Dems for shuttering coal plants.
scoop: one of the largest renewable energy projects in the u.s. is quietly getting killed
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
say goodbye to leading light, the latest casualty of trump’s war on offshore wind
(also means there is essentially no more offshore wind in progress at all for new jersey)
Scoop: Giant Wind Farm Off New Jersey Coast Is Getting Killed
Leading Light can’t move forward, a legal counsel wrote to state regulators.
heatmap.news
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Argh.
And one result will be higher electric costs, and maga dimwits blaming Dems for shuttering coal plants.
And one result will be higher electric costs, and maga dimwits blaming Dems for shuttering coal plants.
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“In Texas, CDC funds to stem a measles outbreak weren’t available until after the crisis had subsided and two children had died. A project to protect Alabamans from raw sewage and hookworm was abandoned…Time-dependent surveys on HIV and maternal mortality were halted…”
Wielding Obscure Budget Tools, Trump’s ‘Reaper’ Vought Sows Turmoil in Public Health - KFF Health News
Through shrouded bureaucratic maneuvers, White House budget director Russell Vought and DOGE have quietly upended outbreak response, HIV treatment, and dementia care in communities across America.
kffhealthnews.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
“In Texas, CDC funds to stem a measles outbreak weren’t available until after the crisis had subsided and two children had died. A project to protect Alabamans from raw sewage and hookworm was abandoned…Time-dependent surveys on HIV and maternal mortality were halted…”
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Fight Trump's attacks on offshore wind in Maryland. Sign this petition with @chesapeakeclimate!
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Offshore Wind Now!
Fight Trump's attacks on offshore wind in Maryland. Sign this petition!
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November 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Fight Trump's attacks on offshore wind in Maryland. Sign this petition with @chesapeakeclimate!
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