Mary Stanik
@mstanik.bsky.social
Opinion writer published in papers including the St. Paul Pioneer Press. I hope extreme caution based on fear won’t dictate everything from now on. Read my Substack “After the Caregiving Has Gone.”
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Ask Not the Price of Thanksgiving Dinner
But maybe, ask to be happy many can just manage to have a Thanksgiving dinner
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There has been much talk, of all kinds, about the Walmart Thanksgiving basket. Discussed this with my single mother hairdresser. Then wrote about it for my Substack. Thank you for reading and a fine #Thanksgiving (no matter the cost) to all. #Walmart marystanik.substack.com/p/ask-not-th...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr's hand-picked vaccine panel is about to vote to stop giving the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns. @jessicanix.bsky.social digs into one piece of evidence presented and how an expert witness saw things in the chart many others wouldn't >
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Taking a Harder Look at Data Presented to RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel
Chart shows sharp drop in hepatitis B cases after the universal birth dose was introduced.
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr's hand-picked vaccine panel is about to vote to stop giving the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns. @jessicanix.bsky.social digs into one piece of evidence presented and how an expert witness saw things in the chart many others wouldn't >
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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(NBC News) - The Justice Department on Thursday failed to secure an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
(NBC News) - The Justice Department on Thursday failed to secure an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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16th-century French theologian Sebastian Castellio predicted that religious extremism would spill "so much blood that its loss will be irremediable." A historian argues his warnings about the dangers of forcing ideology on people apply today.
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Why one 16th-century theologian’s advice for a bitterly divided nation holds true today
Sebastian Castellio penned one of the first arguments for religious freedom – but it went unheeded for centuries.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
16th-century French theologian Sebastian Castellio predicted that religious extremism would spill "so much blood that its loss will be irremediable." A historian argues his warnings about the dangers of forcing ideology on people apply today.
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German president begins three-day UK state visit with royal carriage ride, 41-gun salute. Frank-Walter Steinmeier is Germay's first head of state granted a state visit in nearly three decades, as the Ukraine war leads European powers to forge closer ties.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
German president begins three-day UK state visit with royal carriage ride, 41-gun salute. Frank-Walter Steinmeier is Germay's first head of state granted a state visit in nearly three decades, as the Ukraine war leads European powers to forge closer ties.
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In 1781, in the town of Sorel in the colony of the Province of Quebec, the Baroness Riedesel hosted a party.
At that party, she unveiled a fir tree decorated with fruits and candles.
This is the story of North America's first Christmas Tree.
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At that party, she unveiled a fir tree decorated with fruits and candles.
This is the story of North America's first Christmas Tree.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
In 1781, in the town of Sorel in the colony of the Province of Quebec, the Baroness Riedesel hosted a party.
At that party, she unveiled a fir tree decorated with fruits and candles.
This is the story of North America's first Christmas Tree.
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At that party, she unveiled a fir tree decorated with fruits and candles.
This is the story of North America's first Christmas Tree.
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"Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, has also warned that far from being a lame duck, Trump “doesn’t care who he burns” as he tears down the country to stay in power." https://www.salon.com/2025/12/02/sorry-trump-isnt-a-lame-duck-yet/
Sorry, Trump isn’t a lame duck (yet)
The comforting story that Trump's power is fading obscures the risks facing us
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December 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, has also warned that far from being a lame duck, Trump “doesn’t care who he burns” as he tears down the country to stay in power." https://www.salon.com/2025/12/02/sorry-trump-isnt-a-lame-duck-yet/
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This'll be in 2028 ads
Trump on Tim Walz: "I think the man is a grossly incompetent man. I thought that from the day I watched JD destroy him in the debate. I was saying, 'Who's more incompetent, that man or my man?' I had a man and he had a man. They were both incompetent."
December 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This'll be in 2028 ads
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ANOTHER threat against an Indiana Republican who opposes redistricting
Sen. Mike Bohacek says his family received "threats of a bomb placed at our home"
Sen. Mike Bohacek says his family received "threats of a bomb placed at our home"
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
ANOTHER threat against an Indiana Republican who opposes redistricting
Sen. Mike Bohacek says his family received "threats of a bomb placed at our home"
Sen. Mike Bohacek says his family received "threats of a bomb placed at our home"
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🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
December 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.
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When the two-part miniseries Anne of Green Gables debuted on CBC on Dec. 1, 1985, nearly six million Canadians tuned in. It went on to win 10 Geminis, an Emmy and a Peabody.
To this day, the miniseries is studied in film schools.
This is the story of that miniseries.
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To this day, the miniseries is studied in film schools.
This is the story of that miniseries.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the two-part miniseries Anne of Green Gables debuted on CBC on Dec. 1, 1985, nearly six million Canadians tuned in. It went on to win 10 Geminis, an Emmy and a Peabody.
To this day, the miniseries is studied in film schools.
This is the story of that miniseries.
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To this day, the miniseries is studied in film schools.
This is the story of that miniseries.
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NADELLA: “.. At the end of the day, I think that this industry — to which I belong — needs to earn the social permission to consume energy ..”
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December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
NADELLA: “.. At the end of the day, I think that this industry — to which I belong — needs to earn the social permission to consume energy ..”
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It's a Minnesota thing. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Here's why Madison, Minnesota, is known as the "Lutefisk Capital of the Country"
With the holidays fast approaching, and lutefisk on the menu for many families, one Minnesota town has the distinction of being called the "Lutefisk Capital of the Country."
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's a Minnesota thing. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
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Amid the fog of war, clarity is often hard to find. But, if this story is true, there is nothing unclear or ambiguous about it.
This was either a war crime (if we believe that the killings are covered by the laws of war) or it was simply cold-blooded murder.
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This was either a war crime (if we believe that the killings are covered by the laws of war) or it was simply cold-blooded murder.
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"The Order Was to Kill Everybody."
Pete Hegseth's murders. And our War Crimes President.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Amid the fog of war, clarity is often hard to find. But, if this story is true, there is nothing unclear or ambiguous about it.
This was either a war crime (if we believe that the killings are covered by the laws of war) or it was simply cold-blooded murder.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
This was either a war crime (if we believe that the killings are covered by the laws of war) or it was simply cold-blooded murder.
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The right food is on the table. The kind with ridges from the can. #Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The right food is on the table. The kind with ridges from the can. #Thanksgiving
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Column: Today family comes first, but give thanks too for an independent judiciary, for the many federal judges, including Trump picks, who've withstood harassment and death threats to hold the wannabe king and his toadying turkeys to account. Examples:
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Column: Be thankful for the judges upholding the law
On immigration alone, more than 100 federal judges — including many Trump appointees — have ruled that the administration’s actions violated civil rights or were otherwise illegal.
www.latimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Column: Today family comes first, but give thanks too for an independent judiciary, for the many federal judges, including Trump picks, who've withstood harassment and death threats to hold the wannabe king and his toadying turkeys to account. Examples:
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
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In less than a year, the secretary of health and human services has undermined years of established science and made our society less safe. A Seattle Times editorial.
Lawmakers must hold RFK Jr. accountable for vaccine duplicity | Editorial
There are still highly qualified medical researchers at the CDC whose expertise is being overshadowed by a political agenda that could prove deadly.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
In less than a year, the secretary of health and human services has undermined years of established science and made our society less safe. A Seattle Times editorial.
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Fresh ink from David Horsey.
This Thanksgiving, Musk feasts on riches as children starve
DOGE'S cuts are estimated by a former USAID official to have caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children, in less than a year.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Fresh ink from David Horsey.
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Unemployment has been rising “a tenth of a point here, a tenth of a point there.” That feels small month to month, but as it has added up month over month, we've silently shifted from a very tight market toward a noticeably weaker one. Slow drips still fill the bucket.
November 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Unemployment has been rising “a tenth of a point here, a tenth of a point there.” That feels small month to month, but as it has added up month over month, we've silently shifted from a very tight market toward a noticeably weaker one. Slow drips still fill the bucket.
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The Heritage Minutes: Winnie The Pooh
This Heritage Minute depicts how a bear named for Winnipeg by a Canadian soldier during the First World War inspired the famous character Winnie the Pooh.
This Heritage Minute depicts how a bear named for Winnipeg by a Canadian soldier during the First World War inspired the famous character Winnie the Pooh.
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The Heritage Minutes: Winnie The Pooh
This Heritage Minute depicts how a bear named for Winnipeg by a Canadian soldier during the First World War inspired the famous character Winnie the Pooh.
This Heritage Minute depicts how a bear named for Winnipeg by a Canadian soldier during the First World War inspired the famous character Winnie the Pooh.
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Oregon Field Guide travels all over the region, capturing some beautiful and hard-to-reach areas. But the team's stories often include just a few location shots. Inspired by Norwegian "Slow TV," the team began setting up a camera to capture long, slow takes. Here's their first foray into the genre.
Explore the scenic Pacific Northwest ... slowly ... with ‘OPB’s Slow TV’
Linger in some of the region’s most wondrous sites and moments as OPB cinematographers take you on a barge through the Gorge, or on a train up Mount Hood, or in a canoe around Upper Klamath Lake.
www.opb.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Oregon Field Guide travels all over the region, capturing some beautiful and hard-to-reach areas. But the team's stories often include just a few location shots. Inspired by Norwegian "Slow TV," the team began setting up a camera to capture long, slow takes. Here's their first foray into the genre.
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When I worked for Obama, I advised him on how to talk to Russian leaders. I never gave the Kremlin advice on how to talk to Obama (and I talked to Ushakov many times!).
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
When I worked for Obama, I advised him on how to talk to Russian leaders. I never gave the Kremlin advice on how to talk to Obama (and I talked to Ushakov many times!).
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“.. They’re pretty much the whole boat when it comes to increases in electricity demand,” Quigley said.
“It’s going to get worse,” he said.
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“It’s going to get worse,” he said.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“.. They’re pretty much the whole boat when it comes to increases in electricity demand,” Quigley said.
“It’s going to get worse,” he said.
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“It’s going to get worse,” he said.
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There has been much talk, of all kinds, about the Walmart Thanksgiving basket. Discussed this with my single mother hairdresser. Then wrote about it for my Substack. Thank you for reading and a fine #Thanksgiving (no matter the cost) to all. #Walmart marystanik.substack.com/p/ask-not-th...
Ask Not the Price of Thanksgiving Dinner
But maybe, ask to be happy many can just manage to have a Thanksgiving dinner
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November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
There has been much talk, of all kinds, about the Walmart Thanksgiving basket. Discussed this with my single mother hairdresser. Then wrote about it for my Substack. Thank you for reading and a fine #Thanksgiving (no matter the cost) to all. #Walmart marystanik.substack.com/p/ask-not-th...