Margaret R. Fortier
@mrfortier.bsky.social
Genealogist, editor, lecturer. Daughter of an immigrant.
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
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Sorry ass sons a bitches.
Watch this.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
October 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Sorry ass sons a bitches.
Boston No Kings
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Boston No Kings
The Trump regime is LYING about peaceful protests to justify sending in the National Guard and Marines! The truth is, our protests are peaceful, and it's Trump's administration that's fueling violence with their aggressive tactics.
#FreedomToDissent
#FreedomToDissent
June 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The Trump regime is LYING about peaceful protests to justify sending in the National Guard and Marines! The truth is, our protests are peaceful, and it's Trump's administration that's fueling violence with their aggressive tactics.
#FreedomToDissent
#FreedomToDissent
A reminder to EVERY member of our military: “We don't take an oath to a King. We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator” “We take an oath to the Constitution." #FreedomToDissent
June 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A reminder to EVERY member of our military: “We don't take an oath to a King. We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator” “We take an oath to the Constitution." #FreedomToDissent
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I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
May 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.
Kudos to colleague Jari Honora! Genealogist says Leo XIV has Louisiana African roots www.ncronline.org/news/white-s...
White smoke, Black pope? Genealogist says Leo XIV has Louisiana African roots
Louisiana Creole expert Jari Honora shared his genealogical research on 69-year-old Chicago native Robert Prevost shortly after white smoke rose in St. Peter's Square.
www.ncronline.org
May 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Kudos to colleague Jari Honora! Genealogist says Leo XIV has Louisiana African roots www.ncronline.org/news/white-s...
I'm going to May Day Strong's Boston event, “Speak-out for Justice, Equality, and the Rights of Working People!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event... #resist
Speak-out for Justice, Equality, and the Rights of Working People! · May Day Strong
Speak-out for Justice, Equality, and the Rights of Working People
Workers should have power, Not the billionaires!
After the Speak-out we will be marching over, in full solidarity, to join with the ...
www.mobilize.us
April 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I'm going to May Day Strong's Boston event, “Speak-out for Justice, Equality, and the Rights of Working People!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event... #resist
Apropos.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Apropos.
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Trump is destroying everything even affecting #Genealogy
"This is an attack on my family. That's how I see it," she said. "It's on my family name. It's on my great-grandmother. I find it very personal."
www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...
Enola Gay pilot's granddaughter decries 'shameful' Trump Defense Department DEI word purge
The granddaughter of the man who flew the Enola Gay during World War 2 is speaking out.
www.dispatch.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Trump is destroying everything even affecting #Genealogy
The National Archives at Waltham, MA, is included and several other properties in MA. That would make the nearest federal archive....Philadelphia? This is an attempt to make it harder for us to research history.
3. ... but you can find those buildings on this archived version of the list:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
March 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The National Archives at Waltham, MA, is included and several other properties in MA. That would make the nearest federal archive....Philadelphia? This is an attempt to make it harder for us to research history.
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JUST IN: The Census Bureau's #2030Census Advisory Committee has been terminated by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who oversees the bureau, Arturo Vargas, the committee's chair, confirms to @npr.org. I've reached out to the press offices of the bureau and the Commerce Department for comment...
March 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
JUST IN: The Census Bureau's #2030Census Advisory Committee has been terminated by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who oversees the bureau, Arturo Vargas, the committee's chair, confirms to @npr.org. I've reached out to the press offices of the bureau and the Commerce Department for comment...
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org. Your voice matters!
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
February 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org. Your voice matters!
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APG is hosting a call this Sunday March 2 at 4:30 PM - Saving A Nation’s Stories: The US National Archives and Why Advocacy Matters
Panel includes Rebecca Whitman Koford, Renée K. Carl and Rich Venezia
Registration info is at members.apgen.org/Calendar/mor...
#Genealogy #Archives #Advocacy
Panel includes Rebecca Whitman Koford, Renée K. Carl and Rich Venezia
Registration info is at members.apgen.org/Calendar/mor...
#Genealogy #Archives #Advocacy
Association of Professional Genealogists
members.apgen.org
February 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
APG is hosting a call this Sunday March 2 at 4:30 PM - Saving A Nation’s Stories: The US National Archives and Why Advocacy Matters
Panel includes Rebecca Whitman Koford, Renée K. Carl and Rich Venezia
Registration info is at members.apgen.org/Calendar/mor...
#Genealogy #Archives #Advocacy
Panel includes Rebecca Whitman Koford, Renée K. Carl and Rich Venezia
Registration info is at members.apgen.org/Calendar/mor...
#Genealogy #Archives #Advocacy
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Ooo this is a good one ☺️
February 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
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Records access in New York is under threat!! Speak out NOW to keep access to vital records for genealogists! #Genealogy @FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...
Call to action: New York!
Speak out on records access It's starting again. Every so often, records access -- particularly access to vital records -- goes on the chopping block. And access to these critical records for family h...
www.legalgenealogist.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Records access in New York is under threat!! Speak out NOW to keep access to vital records for genealogists! #Genealogy @FamilyHistory www.legalgenealogist.com/2025/01/28/c...
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Everything about this is incredible, a total scholarly thriller, a triumph in every way, I have rarely read an article with more excitement ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Everything about this is incredible, a total scholarly thriller, a triumph in every way, I have rarely read an article with more excitement ⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
#Genealogy
Years researching: 30
Hobbyist /pro: Pro
Fun fact: gr grandmother’s passenger list had her going to her fiance; found out that guy was not my gr grandfather. Stunned family reunion reaction. That’s when I knew.
Years researching: 30
Hobbyist /pro: Pro
Fun fact: gr grandmother’s passenger list had her going to her fiance; found out that guy was not my gr grandfather. Stunned family reunion reaction. That’s when I knew.
November 18, 2024 at 2:04 PM
#Genealogy
Years researching: 30
Hobbyist /pro: Pro
Fun fact: gr grandmother’s passenger list had her going to her fiance; found out that guy was not my gr grandfather. Stunned family reunion reaction. That’s when I knew.
Years researching: 30
Hobbyist /pro: Pro
Fun fact: gr grandmother’s passenger list had her going to her fiance; found out that guy was not my gr grandfather. Stunned family reunion reaction. That’s when I knew.