Mary Faulkner
@mfaulkner.bsky.social
Just another disillusioned person on social media. Also, my dog is the best.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.
To @bennet.senate.gov and @senatorhick.govpeeps.us - do not cave. Hold the GOP accountable to this administration’s acts of cruelty. The fact they demanded states to roll back SNAP benefit distribution tells you everything you need to know.
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
To @bennet.senate.gov and @senatorhick.govpeeps.us - do not cave. Hold the GOP accountable to this administration’s acts of cruelty. The fact they demanded states to roll back SNAP benefit distribution tells you everything you need to know.
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
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Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.
Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.
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NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself — and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.
I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
NEW: For the last several months, I have written and spoken regularly about the rise of authoritarianism in the United States. This is not something I ever envisioned for myself — and it is certainly not something my ancestors envisioned for their great grandchildren.
Did no one watch Black Mirror?!
"Dad—I’m creating this chatbot to talk to you." Jon Michael Varese on the resurrection of his dead father through ChatGPT: https://theatln.tc/5H5aCfIG
🎨: Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic
🎨: Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic
September 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Did no one watch Black Mirror?!
We have a sitting president declaring war on his own citizens. This is not something you laugh away. If you support this, pretend this is Obama, Biden, Harris saying this. How do you react? I am disgusted we are here.
Trump: San Francisco and Chicago, New York, Los Angeles… We'll straighten them out one-by-one. It will be a major part for some of the people in this room. It’s a war too. It’s a war from within
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We have a sitting president declaring war on his own citizens. This is not something you laugh away. If you support this, pretend this is Obama, Biden, Harris saying this. How do you react? I am disgusted we are here.
Once upon a time, I was a semi-regular blogger. I had a site and everything. For various reasons, I ended up writing more elsewhere, but today I fired it back up to see if I want to write a little more regularly again. Anyway, here's where you can find it. survivingleadership.blog/2025/09/25/w...
When progress stops belonging to all of us
History shows us something important: most technological revolutions eventually became part of the public fabric of life. The printing press didn’t just lower the cost of books, it broke down walls…
survivingleadership.blog
September 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Once upon a time, I was a semi-regular blogger. I had a site and everything. For various reasons, I ended up writing more elsewhere, but today I fired it back up to see if I want to write a little more regularly again. Anyway, here's where you can find it. survivingleadership.blog/2025/09/25/w...
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
This is so ridiculous.
September 7, 2025 at 2:58 AM
This is so ridiculous.
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After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.
August 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
After DEA GOONS begin to harass and question a man sitting in Starburst Plaza in NE Washington DC, local neighbors remind him of his rights and stand with him until the GOONS give up on their harassment.
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Last year, Direct File saved taxpayers $5.6 million in tax preparation costs by allowing people to file their taxes for FREE.
That’s why tax preparation companies like TurboTax and Intuit lobbied to get rid of it.
Trump just gave them their wish.
news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...
That’s why tax preparation companies like TurboTax and Intuit lobbied to get rid of it.
Trump just gave them their wish.
news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...
IRS Chief Says Direct File Is ‘Gone,’ Other Audit Tech Is Coming
The Biden-era IRS free filing tool, Direct File, is “gone,” IRS Commissioner Billy Long said.
news.bloombergtax.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Last year, Direct File saved taxpayers $5.6 million in tax preparation costs by allowing people to file their taxes for FREE.
That’s why tax preparation companies like TurboTax and Intuit lobbied to get rid of it.
Trump just gave them their wish.
news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...
That’s why tax preparation companies like TurboTax and Intuit lobbied to get rid of it.
Trump just gave them their wish.
news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...
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July 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Independence Day is a great day to read the Constitution. Here it is!
U.S. Senate: Constitution of the United States share.google/kkUqTtmFqWUV...
U.S. Senate: Constitution of the United States share.google/kkUqTtmFqWUV...
U.S. Senate: Constitution of the United States
Constitution of the United States
share.google
July 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Independence Day is a great day to read the Constitution. Here it is!
U.S. Senate: Constitution of the United States share.google/kkUqTtmFqWUV...
U.S. Senate: Constitution of the United States share.google/kkUqTtmFqWUV...
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.
July 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.
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This is not normal
July 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is not normal
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Trump’s cruelty today is directly commensurate with the level of his fear since 2016 that he would go to jail.
Trump in front of the migrant cages at DeSantis's camp: "Biden wanted me in here, that son of a bitch."
July 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Trump’s cruelty today is directly commensurate with the level of his fear since 2016 that he would go to jail.
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Notice the pattern? Republicans work to advance their worst bills in the middle of the night—hoping you’re asleep while they attack your healthcare, your rights, and your future.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Notice the pattern? Republicans work to advance their worst bills in the middle of the night—hoping you’re asleep while they attack your healthcare, your rights, and your future.
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no one cares that this is illegal but it is illegal and seems like something that might trip the court’s “major questions” doctrine
Per @npr.org, the Department of Homeland Security, in partnership with the White House U.S. DOGE Service, has built a searchable national citizenship register with data from the Social Security Administration & immigration records— without public notice & comment.
Infrastructure for a police state.
Infrastructure for a police state.
The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.
www.npr.org
June 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
no one cares that this is illegal but it is illegal and seems like something that might trip the court’s “major questions” doctrine