Mary Ellen
@mestasek.bsky.social
Retired librarian, passionate about growing plants & minds. Still trying to organize my garden by Dewey. 📚🌸 Advocate for intellectual freedom, social & environmental justice, science. How about we save the planet?! 🌍💚 #LiberalAndProud #ReadMore #GrowLocal
Antics of Ohio's play-dead Democrats has them once again pleading for crumbs | Opinion
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Antics of Ohio's play-dead Democrats has them once again pleading for crumbs | Opinion
Ohio Democrats might as be re-label the Roll-Over-and-Play-Dead Party. Recent antics have all but decided Ohio’s 2026 congressional election for Republicans.
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November 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Antics of Ohio's play-dead Democrats has them once again pleading for crumbs | Opinion
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September 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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My new op-ed on how we need a "great rewilding" of childhood to counteract the "great rewiring of childhood" described in Anxious Generation @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social
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Reverse the great rewiring of childhood with a great rewilding of childhood: Jeff Opperman
Across all neighborhoods, relinquishing parental control remains a challenge, but can be accomplished most effectively through collective action — parents, neighborhoods, and schools working together ...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My new op-ed on how we need a "great rewilding" of childhood to counteract the "great rewiring of childhood" described in Anxious Generation @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social
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The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
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August 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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Good piece in Science by @kakape.bsky.social on the massive censorship of scientific work by the U.S. government - all in the name of free speech, presumably: www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research
Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader
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May 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Good piece in Science by @kakape.bsky.social on the massive censorship of scientific work by the U.S. government - all in the name of free speech, presumably: www.science.org/content/arti...
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My column: The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
Opinion | The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama
For the next four years, at least, the America we knew is over.
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February 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
My column: The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
