Mary Perkins
@msmaryperkins.bsky.social
Front page editor at HuffPost
damn daniel back at it again…
10 years after first organizing, it's time to bargain for our fourth contract. We're prepared, we're united and we're locked in.
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
damn daniel back at it again…
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BREAKING: Tremane Wood, who was moments away from being executed for a killing his brother admitted to committing, received a last minute clemency grant from Gov. Kevin Stitt www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...
Tremane Wood Spared From Execution In Shocking Decision
His case marks only the second time Gov. Kevin Stitt has commuted a death sentence since entering office in 2019.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
BREAKING: Tremane Wood, who was moments away from being executed for a killing his brother admitted to committing, received a last minute clemency grant from Gov. Kevin Stitt www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...
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Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
August 31, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Why do you appreciate unions?
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
I’ll start:
Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
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New: Five days in immigration court.
I witnessed 20 arrests over five days in lower Manhattan. It only takes a couple of seconds for agents to transform New Yorkers attending appointments into detainees.
www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...
I witnessed 20 arrests over five days in lower Manhattan. It only takes a couple of seconds for agents to transform New Yorkers attending appointments into detainees.
www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...
I Watched 20 Arrests In Trump’s America. Here’s What They Looked Like.
"This is fishing in a stocked pool. You tell them, 'Show up at this location,' and then they show up and you grab them,” one federal agent involved with immigration court arrests told HuffPost.
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July 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
New: Five days in immigration court.
I witnessed 20 arrests over five days in lower Manhattan. It only takes a couple of seconds for agents to transform New Yorkers attending appointments into detainees.
www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...
I witnessed 20 arrests over five days in lower Manhattan. It only takes a couple of seconds for agents to transform New Yorkers attending appointments into detainees.
www.huffpost.com/entry/five-d...
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One of the men @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I wrote about is Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. He came into the U.S. legally, through the CBP One app. His family has worked tirelessly to secure his release from CECOT. Tonight, they got to hug him again. His mother Ydalys shares this video:
July 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
One of the men @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I wrote about is Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. He came into the U.S. legally, through the CBP One app. His family has worked tirelessly to secure his release from CECOT. Tonight, they got to hug him again. His mother Ydalys shares this video:
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I spoke with 4 queer couples about what the 10th anniversary of the Obergefell ruling means to them.
After Dobbs, legal experts are worried about conservative efforts to push religious freedoms challenges to undermine marriage equality and LGBTQ rights overall.
www.huffpost.com/entry/10-yea...
After Dobbs, legal experts are worried about conservative efforts to push religious freedoms challenges to undermine marriage equality and LGBTQ rights overall.
www.huffpost.com/entry/10-yea...
10 Years After Marriage Equality, Queer Couples Are Worried
On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled to give LGBTQ couples nationwide the right to marry. But 10 years on, the wave of optimism that followed the decision has changed.
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June 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I spoke with 4 queer couples about what the 10th anniversary of the Obergefell ruling means to them.
After Dobbs, legal experts are worried about conservative efforts to push religious freedoms challenges to undermine marriage equality and LGBTQ rights overall.
www.huffpost.com/entry/10-yea...
After Dobbs, legal experts are worried about conservative efforts to push religious freedoms challenges to undermine marriage equality and LGBTQ rights overall.
www.huffpost.com/entry/10-yea...
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The following is a statement from the WGAE marking one year of bargaining at CBSNews.com. Fair contract now!
June 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The following is a statement from the WGAE marking one year of bargaining at CBSNews.com. Fair contract now!
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under the Trump administration, it has become nearly impossible for undocumented people to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children — as a result kids are trapped in government shelters, despite having parents and siblings desperate to care for them at home www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
The Trump Administration Is Trapping Migrant Kids In Shelters
In recent years, kids stayed in Office of Refugee Resettlement shelters for about a month. By April, that had climbed to 217 days, with many kids stranded indefinitely.
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May 29, 2025 at 7:17 PM
under the Trump administration, it has become nearly impossible for undocumented people to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children — as a result kids are trapped in government shelters, despite having parents and siblings desperate to care for them at home www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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For two decades, HuffPost has brought you the exclusives, scoops and hot takes on the news all your friends are talking about. Support our mission to keep us around for the next 20 — we can't do this without you. www.huffpost.com/support
May 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
For two decades, HuffPost has brought you the exclusives, scoops and hot takes on the news all your friends are talking about. Support our mission to keep us around for the next 20 — we can't do this without you. www.huffpost.com/support
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This is super important: @alannavagianos.bsky.social
interviewed a history professor about how authoritarian regimes use pro-natalism to trap women in the home.
Really, don't miss this one: www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-pr...
interviewed a history professor about how authoritarian regimes use pro-natalism to trap women in the home.
Really, don't miss this one: www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-pr...
The GOP’s Obsession With Women Having Babies Looks A Lot Like The Past
The Trump administration's policy ideas to incentivize women to have more kids resemble those pushed by authoritarian regimes throughout history.
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May 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This is super important: @alannavagianos.bsky.social
interviewed a history professor about how authoritarian regimes use pro-natalism to trap women in the home.
Really, don't miss this one: www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-pr...
interviewed a history professor about how authoritarian regimes use pro-natalism to trap women in the home.
Really, don't miss this one: www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-pr...
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Today, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem openly flouted the Supreme Court's order that the Trump admin facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, saying there's "no scenario" where he comes back.
One Democratic senator called her comments "incredibly chilling." www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi...
One Democratic senator called her comments "incredibly chilling." www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi...
Kristi Noem Openly Flouts SCOTUS Order With 'Incredibly Chilling' Remark
Kristi Noem said the deported Maryland man “will not be coming back" despite a court order, a claim that one Democratic senator called "incredibly chilling."
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May 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Today, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem openly flouted the Supreme Court's order that the Trump admin facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia, saying there's "no scenario" where he comes back.
One Democratic senator called her comments "incredibly chilling." www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi...
One Democratic senator called her comments "incredibly chilling." www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi...
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NEW -- Trump's new trade deal just raised taxes on Americans by $6 billion, and he's bragging about it.
On the plus side, he agreed to raise import taxes on Rolls Royces, Bentleys and Jags by just four-fold, rather than ten-fold.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
On the plus side, he agreed to raise import taxes on Rolls Royces, Bentleys and Jags by just four-fold, rather than ten-fold.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Boasts Of New Trade Deal That Triples Taxes On Americans Buying British Products
The agreement will result in $6 billion in new taxes that Americans will have to pay for goods from the United Kingdom.
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May 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
NEW -- Trump's new trade deal just raised taxes on Americans by $6 billion, and he's bragging about it.
On the plus side, he agreed to raise import taxes on Rolls Royces, Bentleys and Jags by just four-fold, rather than ten-fold.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
On the plus side, he agreed to raise import taxes on Rolls Royces, Bentleys and Jags by just four-fold, rather than ten-fold.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Pam Bondi met with victim family members of the people whose federal death sentences were commuted by Biden as part of the Trump admin's longshot campaign to bring new state death sentences www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bo...
Pam Bondi Holds Key Meeting In Trump Push To Reinstate Death Sentences
The Trump administration’s longshot campaign to bring state death sentences against people who will already die in prison “purely political,” one expert said.
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May 9, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Pam Bondi met with victim family members of the people whose federal death sentences were commuted by Biden as part of the Trump admin's longshot campaign to bring new state death sentences www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bo...
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It appears the Washington Post has created a website to discourage its tech workers from unionizing.
Lengthy post from Post CTO Vineet Khosla plays the anti-union hits. Sample below
posttechteam.org
Lengthy post from Post CTO Vineet Khosla plays the anti-union hits. Sample below
posttechteam.org
April 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It appears the Washington Post has created a website to discourage its tech workers from unionizing.
Lengthy post from Post CTO Vineet Khosla plays the anti-union hits. Sample below
posttechteam.org
Lengthy post from Post CTO Vineet Khosla plays the anti-union hits. Sample below
posttechteam.org
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April 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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“People are looking for this ‘crossing the Rubicon’ moment […] ‘When would this cross the line from what scholars call constitutional hardball into the ‘oh, my God’ dictator-for-life world?’ And I think we’re already there.” —Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton sociologist who studies autocracies
Trump is copying the autocrats' playbook from Viktor Orban to end democracy in America. He's using autocratic legalism (or really autocratic illegalism) to turn the constitution and the law against themselves. Now's the time to stop this:
www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
It Is Happening Here
Trump is following the playbook of autocrats around the world — and it could change America forever.
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April 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
“People are looking for this ‘crossing the Rubicon’ moment […] ‘When would this cross the line from what scholars call constitutional hardball into the ‘oh, my God’ dictator-for-life world?’ And I think we’re already there.” —Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton sociologist who studies autocracies
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Two transgender girls in New Hampshire are the first to challenge Trump’s trans sports ban, @shruti-rajkumar.bsky.social reports. The lawsuit, which was originally filed against a state law that banned trans girls from school sports teams, is now also fighting Trump’s executive order.
Two transgender girls are first to challenge Trump’s trans sports ban
The lawsuit was originally filed against a New Hampshire law that banned transgender girls from playing on school sports teams
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March 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Two transgender girls in New Hampshire are the first to challenge Trump’s trans sports ban, @shruti-rajkumar.bsky.social reports. The lawsuit, which was originally filed against a state law that banned trans girls from school sports teams, is now also fighting Trump’s executive order.
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For @msnbc.com I tried to scream abt how it’s already happening here & how, barring drastic action, we are on the worst trajectory, w/ insights from @andreapitzer.bsky.social on the history of concentration camps www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Don’t think ‘it can’t happen here’ — it’s already happening
Demonizing rhetoric from the White House, arrests without due process, deporting immigrants to a brutal prison in a foreign country. This is America today.
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March 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
For @msnbc.com I tried to scream abt how it’s already happening here & how, barring drastic action, we are on the worst trajectory, w/ insights from @andreapitzer.bsky.social on the history of concentration camps www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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NEW — Overlooked in the whole Signal military attack chat scandal is this: Top Trump national security were cheering on the destruction of an entire residential building to kill one suspected terrorist.
How many innocent civilians were killed?
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
How many innocent civilians were killed?
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Signal Chat Caught Trump Officials Cheering Destruction Of Entire Building To Kill 1 Man
Houthi officials said 53 people were killed in the Yemen strikes that have become notorious for Trump administration officials' use of Signal for planning purposes.
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March 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
NEW — Overlooked in the whole Signal military attack chat scandal is this: Top Trump national security were cheering on the destruction of an entire residential building to kill one suspected terrorist.
How many innocent civilians were killed?
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
How many innocent civilians were killed?
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Radio silence from the chairs of the House Armed Services Committee (GOP Rep. Mike Rogers) and Senate Armed Services Committee (GOP Sen. Roger Wicker) re: Pete Hegseth and co. sharing highly classified war plans in Signal + including the editor in chief of The Atlantic in their group chat.
March 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Radio silence from the chairs of the House Armed Services Committee (GOP Rep. Mike Rogers) and Senate Armed Services Committee (GOP Sen. Roger Wicker) re: Pete Hegseth and co. sharing highly classified war plans in Signal + including the editor in chief of The Atlantic in their group chat.
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Nancy Pelosi + Hakeem Jeffries both threw Chuck Schumer under the bus today for backing the House GOP's extreme govt spending bill vs fighting for a clean spending bill.
Pelosi: "This false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable.” www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
Pelosi: "This false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable.” www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
Top House Democrats Throw Chuck Schumer Under The Bus Amid Funding Fight
"This false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable,” Rep. Nancy Pelosi said as Schumer cast his vote for an extreme GOP spending bill.
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March 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Nancy Pelosi + Hakeem Jeffries both threw Chuck Schumer under the bus today for backing the House GOP's extreme govt spending bill vs fighting for a clean spending bill.
Pelosi: "This false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable.” www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
Pelosi: "This false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable.” www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...
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> Musk plays video games on "massive TV" In Eisenhower Executive Office Building: Politico
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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Who’s in Elon’s ear — and DMs
Musk's most trusted advisers remain a tight-knit group of executives who have followed him from his companies but lack political experience.
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March 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
> Musk plays video games on "massive TV" In Eisenhower Executive Office Building: Politico
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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NEW -- Trump today mused whether, if the US were attacked, NATO would really come to our aid.
Except it already has.
In fact, the ONLY time the alliance's mutual assistance clause has been invoked was after Sept. 11 -- on behalf of the United States.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Except it already has.
In fact, the ONLY time the alliance's mutual assistance clause has been invoked was after Sept. 11 -- on behalf of the United States.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Still Doesn’t Understand How NATO Works Or That It Fought On America’s Behalf
He threatened not to support others if they haven’t “paid” enough, but did not seem to know that the only time the alliance was triggered was to help the U.S. after 9/11.
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March 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
NEW -- Trump today mused whether, if the US were attacked, NATO would really come to our aid.
Except it already has.
In fact, the ONLY time the alliance's mutual assistance clause has been invoked was after Sept. 11 -- on behalf of the United States.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Except it already has.
In fact, the ONLY time the alliance's mutual assistance clause has been invoked was after Sept. 11 -- on behalf of the United States.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
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Color coordination as protest? In this economy?
My story today on the Democrats' “let’s wear pink" silent protest at President Trump's address last night. Unsurprisingly, many found it feckless and a little too 2016. www.huffpost.com/entry/why-di...
My story today on the Democrats' “let’s wear pink" silent protest at President Trump's address last night. Unsurprisingly, many found it feckless and a little too 2016. www.huffpost.com/entry/why-di...
The Dem's 'Let's All Wear Pink' Stunt Fell Painfully Flat. Here's Why.
Is color coordination really an effective protest in 2025?
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March 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Color coordination as protest? In this economy?
My story today on the Democrats' “let’s wear pink" silent protest at President Trump's address last night. Unsurprisingly, many found it feckless and a little too 2016. www.huffpost.com/entry/why-di...
My story today on the Democrats' “let’s wear pink" silent protest at President Trump's address last night. Unsurprisingly, many found it feckless and a little too 2016. www.huffpost.com/entry/why-di...