Meredith Morse
@mighty-morse.bsky.social
A counselor in training at NCCU🦅 working for a non-profit ministry in Durham NC. Decolonizing. Resisting. Building communities of mutuality and inclusion. Also love fast cars, 🏈, fantasy-sci fi movies & books.
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Meredith Morse
@mighty-morse.bsky.social
· Nov 19
I mostly use social media to share ideas, pursue complexity, and connect with diverse perspectives. Like most of you I’m here bc there is a growing body of resistance to misinformation and a status quo that protects the dominant white/male/able culture. Hope to connect with anyone on that journey.
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Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
Trump just announced his own Hunger Games
In case you needed a reminder that we're living in a fascist hellscape.
www.motherjones.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Today, Trump declared that the nation will host the first-ever “Patriot Games,” an “unprecedented four-day athletic event” featuring high school athletes, one boy and one girl, from each state and territory.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
If you think this sounds like The Hunger Games, you're not alone.
Feed,
Free,
Fully restore
Palestine.
Free,
Fully restore
Palestine.
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Gaza mother worries time running out for evacuation of malnourished daughter
Gazan health authorities have reported more and more people dying from hunger-related causes.
reut.rs
August 2, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Feed,
Free,
Fully restore
Palestine.
Free,
Fully restore
Palestine.
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this is fucking great
August 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
this is fucking great
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"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law.'"
– Supreme Court Justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson 💯
– Supreme Court Justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson 💯
June 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law.'"
– Supreme Court Justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson 💯
– Supreme Court Justice
Ketanji Brown Jackson 💯
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In a 6-3 ruling today, the Supreme Court held that President Trump can have the Supreme Court summarily executed if he really wants to.
June 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In a 6-3 ruling today, the Supreme Court held that President Trump can have the Supreme Court summarily executed if he really wants to.
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💯. There is no strategy, only impulses to quench an unquenchable narcissistic thirst.
We have to stop talking about him as if he is he is a man who has the ability to understand diplomacy or military tactics….or anything else for that matter. He is a pathological narcissist with limited cognitive functioning. No one should discuss him with any other lens.
Or maybe he’s psychologically incapable of acting and speaking on anything but pure impulse.
June 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
💯. There is no strategy, only impulses to quench an unquenchable narcissistic thirst.
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This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
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Note to media: Do not dismiss Trump’s references to God tonight as awkward pandering. If you do, you are missing a key part of what is driving these dangerous actions.
In a 4 minute address gloating over US bombing of Iran, President Trump made this statement:
“We love you, God, and we love our great military.”
This is Holy War language.
He was flanked by Hegseth, who has the Crusades motto “Deus vult” tattooed on his arm.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
“We love you, God, and we love our great military.”
This is Holy War language.
He was flanked by Hegseth, who has the Crusades motto “Deus vult” tattooed on his arm.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
Update from Maggie Haberman
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Note to media: Do not dismiss Trump’s references to God tonight as awkward pandering. If you do, you are missing a key part of what is driving these dangerous actions.
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Tomorrow is a very good day to impeach a president and his entire cabinet. Today would be good too, but tomorrow will work for me.
June 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Tomorrow is a very good day to impeach a president and his entire cabinet. Today would be good too, but tomorrow will work for me.
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RFK can fuck all the way off.
No one should have to spend ONE OUNCE of their energy to defend their worth, dignity, value, importance, and beauty for how they are created and show up in this world. That goes for every population that has been dehumanized by this eugenics-informed racist admin.
No one should have to spend ONE OUNCE of their energy to defend their worth, dignity, value, importance, and beauty for how they are created and show up in this world. That goes for every population that has been dehumanized by this eugenics-informed racist admin.
April 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
RFK can fuck all the way off.
No one should have to spend ONE OUNCE of their energy to defend their worth, dignity, value, importance, and beauty for how they are created and show up in this world. That goes for every population that has been dehumanized by this eugenics-informed racist admin.
No one should have to spend ONE OUNCE of their energy to defend their worth, dignity, value, importance, and beauty for how they are created and show up in this world. That goes for every population that has been dehumanized by this eugenics-informed racist admin.
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It’s the stupid, economy.
April 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It’s the stupid, economy.
Someone explain the airsoft obsession to me. It feels like it was born and thrives in white male boredom and priviledge. My teen son getting invited to this constantly like its just another thing teens do. If its harmless competition then why not other sports or games? #meanmom
a cartoon character wearing a helmet and goggles with the words south park behind him
ALT: a cartoon character wearing a helmet and goggles with the words south park behind him
media.tenor.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Someone explain the airsoft obsession to me. It feels like it was born and thrives in white male boredom and priviledge. My teen son getting invited to this constantly like its just another thing teens do. If its harmless competition then why not other sports or games? #meanmom
My grandparents were immigrants and my dad an orphan. Parents divorced when I was 6 - I was a parentified child and first to go to a 4 year college incurring loads of debt - I felt every word of this as I and my husband navigate similar pains and assumptions:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.
www.theatlantic.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My grandparents were immigrants and my dad an orphan. Parents divorced when I was 6 - I was a parentified child and first to go to a 4 year college incurring loads of debt - I felt every word of this as I and my husband navigate similar pains and assumptions:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
As Nicole Hannah Jones said recently, now is a time for reading books - because social media snippets of journalism, however well done, can only take us so far in our understanding of the larger, historically informed patterns.
Get thee to a library.
Get thee to a library.
Yesterday folks around the country raised their voices in powerful protest. Today, we celebrate public scholarly voices working to help us resist, learn, & push toward a more perfect union, with my 219th #ScholarSunday thread. Share widely & enjoy! 🗃️
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...
#ScholarSunday Thread 219
Shared on April 6, 2025
americanstudier.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
As Nicole Hannah Jones said recently, now is a time for reading books - because social media snippets of journalism, however well done, can only take us so far in our understanding of the larger, historically informed patterns.
Get thee to a library.
Get thee to a library.
This tracks with a unified theory of DJT as a “mob boss” with a predator’s sense of entitlement
"'She told you Greenland is not for sale,' said one reporter. 'Will you take no for an answer on that?' Trump made it clear that he wouldn’t. 'I think we’re going to have it.'" Trump can't take no for an answer in any context. ICYMI @saletan.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/stop-gropi...
Stop Groping Greenland
Trump’s predatory treatment of Greenland and Denmark is psychosexually sick.
www.thebulwark.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
This tracks with a unified theory of DJT as a “mob boss” with a predator’s sense of entitlement
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Dear Boomer peers,
I want to remember until the day you die that Trump and Musk crashed your retirement savings because it gave them PLEASURE.
Because you, as a human being, are irrelevant to the GOP.
Because this is fun for them. Because they are sadists.
I want to remember until the day you die that Trump and Musk crashed your retirement savings because it gave them PLEASURE.
Because you, as a human being, are irrelevant to the GOP.
Because this is fun for them. Because they are sadists.
March 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Dear Boomer peers,
I want to remember until the day you die that Trump and Musk crashed your retirement savings because it gave them PLEASURE.
Because you, as a human being, are irrelevant to the GOP.
Because this is fun for them. Because they are sadists.
I want to remember until the day you die that Trump and Musk crashed your retirement savings because it gave them PLEASURE.
Because you, as a human being, are irrelevant to the GOP.
Because this is fun for them. Because they are sadists.
The power of a propaganda regime:
“If anything is anti-American, it’s threatening non-citizens who are in this country legally and have committed no crimes with the specter of being arrested, detained, and removed for doing nothing more than speaking up on behalf of unpopular causes…”
“If anything is anti-American, it’s threatening non-citizens who are in this country legally and have committed no crimes with the specter of being arrested, detained, and removed for doing nothing more than speaking up on behalf of unpopular causes…”
Via "One First," I take a quick look at (some of) the legal questions arising out of the arrest, detention, and potential removal of Mahmoud Kahlil; why the government might have at least a *bit* of a leg to stand on; and why that's deeply troubling unto itself:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/131-five-q...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/131-five-q...
131. Five Questions About the Khalil Case
The government's arrest and detention of a pro-Palestinian Columbia student (and green card holder) raises difficult questions about both technical immigration statutes and the First Amendment.
www.stevevladeck.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The power of a propaganda regime:
“If anything is anti-American, it’s threatening non-citizens who are in this country legally and have committed no crimes with the specter of being arrested, detained, and removed for doing nothing more than speaking up on behalf of unpopular causes…”
“If anything is anti-American, it’s threatening non-citizens who are in this country legally and have committed no crimes with the specter of being arrested, detained, and removed for doing nothing more than speaking up on behalf of unpopular causes…”
I dont make the rules. Just here to do my part.
We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
March 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I dont make the rules. Just here to do my part.
Declaration of Independence: “all men are created equal/ endowed with certain human rights…”
Musk: “people are NPC’s, parasites…”
The Founders would say govt answers to the people….Musk says “tell me what you did last week”
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Musk: “people are NPC’s, parasites…”
The Founders would say govt answers to the people….Musk says “tell me what you did last week”
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
March 9, 2025
Lately, political writers have called attention to the tendency of billionaire Elon Musk to refer to his political opponents as “NPCs.” This term comes from the gaming world and refers to a nonplayer ...
open.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Declaration of Independence: “all men are created equal/ endowed with certain human rights…”
Musk: “people are NPC’s, parasites…”
The Founders would say govt answers to the people….Musk says “tell me what you did last week”
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Musk: “people are NPC’s, parasites…”
The Founders would say govt answers to the people….Musk says “tell me what you did last week”
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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"We know the Black churches are a trusted institution...We know that they are really poised to help reduce stigma around mental health challenges in general, and suicide in particular." www.npr.org/sections/sho...
More Black teens are in mental health crisis. This church tries to help them heal
At First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York, a therapist was fielding 10 calls a week from parents of teens who needed mental health help. Now the church is part of a national pilot interve...
www.npr.org
March 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"We know the Black churches are a trusted institution...We know that they are really poised to help reduce stigma around mental health challenges in general, and suicide in particular." www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Red sky this morning.
I pause, hot coffee in hand,
and face a new day.
I pause, hot coffee in hand,
and face a new day.
March 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Red sky this morning.
I pause, hot coffee in hand,
and face a new day.
I pause, hot coffee in hand,
and face a new day.
Since “protecting women” has been a popular subject lately: A reminder the GREATEST threat to women’s safety are abusive men.
Abusive men would rather we believe its immigrants and transwomen but...
Abusive men run the govt, lead churches, enter exam rooms, wear badges, and live in our homes.
Abusive men would rather we believe its immigrants and transwomen but...
Abusive men run the govt, lead churches, enter exam rooms, wear badges, and live in our homes.
March 6, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Since “protecting women” has been a popular subject lately: A reminder the GREATEST threat to women’s safety are abusive men.
Abusive men would rather we believe its immigrants and transwomen but...
Abusive men run the govt, lead churches, enter exam rooms, wear badges, and live in our homes.
Abusive men would rather we believe its immigrants and transwomen but...
Abusive men run the govt, lead churches, enter exam rooms, wear badges, and live in our homes.