Marti Trgovich
@mtrgovich.bsky.social
Freelance writer/editor, big on books/dogs/sheep also guinea pigs, words in National Geographic, Washington Post, McSweeney's, The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs, NYT Tiny Love Stories, Kinship, The Dodo, The Forge Literary Mag
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
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This is an example of how white supremacy works. It makes sense that George Floyd should be killed without a trial bcz of a $20 fake bill while this guy tried and found guilty by a jury of his peers is now free.
This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is an example of how white supremacy works. It makes sense that George Floyd should be killed without a trial bcz of a $20 fake bill while this guy tried and found guilty by a jury of his peers is now free.
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A year ago, I was living the same nightmare that 2.2 million people in Gaza are currently living: constant exhaustion, dehydration, rapid weight loss.
Just wrote on what it feels like to be starving — and slowly being deprived of the necessities to survive.
Just wrote on what it feels like to be starving — and slowly being deprived of the necessities to survive.
What It Feels Like to Starve
What we are witnessing now in Gaza is not a famine of nature. It is famine as a weapon of mass destruction.
open.substack.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:53 AM
A year ago, I was living the same nightmare that 2.2 million people in Gaza are currently living: constant exhaustion, dehydration, rapid weight loss.
Just wrote on what it feels like to be starving — and slowly being deprived of the necessities to survive.
Just wrote on what it feels like to be starving — and slowly being deprived of the necessities to survive.
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Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
May 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
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please enjoy my song
88 LINES ABOUT 44 SAINTS
88 LINES ABOUT 44 SAINTS
March 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
please enjoy my song
88 LINES ABOUT 44 SAINTS
88 LINES ABOUT 44 SAINTS
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Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Just found out #UWS staple of 20+ years and my local go-to bakery Silver Moon is closing March 23. It's sad when rent is so high small businesses cannot stay & we're left w/ McDonald's and weed shops. Shakespeare & Co right on the same corner is closing too. Here's how we're looking rn
March 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Just found out #UWS staple of 20+ years and my local go-to bakery Silver Moon is closing March 23. It's sad when rent is so high small businesses cannot stay & we're left w/ McDonald's and weed shops. Shakespeare & Co right on the same corner is closing too. Here's how we're looking rn
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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
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Dictator vs. Democracy. The stark contrast could not be any greater. 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Dictator vs. Democracy. The stark contrast could not be any greater. 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
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During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived.
His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛
His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛
February 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived.
His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛
His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛
Looking forward to my flight tomorrow 🥴😭
The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?
February 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Looking forward to my flight tomorrow 🥴😭
To counterbalance all the bad news out there, here is a delightful bunny I photographed recently. She’s been adopted but there are always rabbits in need at NYC ACC ❤️🩷🐰
February 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
To counterbalance all the bad news out there, here is a delightful bunny I photographed recently. She’s been adopted but there are always rabbits in need at NYC ACC ❤️🩷🐰
Oh ok so we are sending politicians to Europe to give impassioned speeches about public safety yet we live in a society where our own citizens are killing people with guns and the last politician I remember denouncing it with genuine passion was Obama ok got it 😤
February 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Oh ok so we are sending politicians to Europe to give impassioned speeches about public safety yet we live in a society where our own citizens are killing people with guns and the last politician I remember denouncing it with genuine passion was Obama ok got it 😤
On a much more positive note, here is a picture of my dog Claude who just turned 11, she is an angel 🩷
February 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
On a much more positive note, here is a picture of my dog Claude who just turned 11, she is an angel 🩷
This is like going to a stranger’s home, burning it down on purpose, then pretending you care about their safety. Also, if Gaza is “not a place for people to be living,” why are you going to turn it into some f’ed up version of Mar a Lago? Truly a despicable human being with zero empathy
February 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is like going to a stranger’s home, burning it down on purpose, then pretending you care about their safety. Also, if Gaza is “not a place for people to be living,” why are you going to turn it into some f’ed up version of Mar a Lago? Truly a despicable human being with zero empathy
Just a note b4 tomorrow: part of what also angers me is people think libs are angry we lost Biden/Harris & it’s like, no, we’re angry Trmp is incoming & we’re ALSO angry we were not offered a better option than B/H. An admin that valued human lives & didn’t back genocide would've been a great start
January 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Just a note b4 tomorrow: part of what also angers me is people think libs are angry we lost Biden/Harris & it’s like, no, we’re angry Trmp is incoming & we’re ALSO angry we were not offered a better option than B/H. An admin that valued human lives & didn’t back genocide would've been a great start
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Car owners forced to walk an entire block
January 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Car owners forced to walk an entire block
My favorite gift from my nephew
December 25, 2024 at 3:58 AM
My favorite gift from my nephew
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I have a big ask from our local partner shelter. Beautiful, sweet blind cat Helen has had three approved adopters, but when the time comes to take her home, none of them have showed up. Can we find Helen a loving home at last? She’s been there since she was a baby! www.petfinder.com/cat/helen-71...
December 18, 2024 at 2:40 AM
I have a big ask from our local partner shelter. Beautiful, sweet blind cat Helen has had three approved adopters, but when the time comes to take her home, none of them have showed up. Can we find Helen a loving home at last? She’s been there since she was a baby! www.petfinder.com/cat/helen-71...
Just read @crivera.bsky.social's heartbreaking and stunning essay in @thecut.com that ties the tragedy of a wild-caught, captive orca (and our failure of her) to society's violence against women. So many parallels in how we justify certain behavior and/or look the other way. This paragraph broke me
December 17, 2024 at 6:36 PM
Just read @crivera.bsky.social's heartbreaking and stunning essay in @thecut.com that ties the tragedy of a wild-caught, captive orca (and our failure of her) to society's violence against women. So many parallels in how we justify certain behavior and/or look the other way. This paragraph broke me
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My toxic trait is mistaking the specks of dust and detritus stuck to my laptop screen for actual punctuation in the Word doc I’m working on
December 17, 2024 at 4:37 PM
My toxic trait is mistaking the specks of dust and detritus stuck to my laptop screen for actual punctuation in the Word doc I’m working on
Me: I am a very busy person who has too much to do and not enough hours in the day!!! Also me: What if I made mood boards for my favorite literary characters
December 17, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Me: I am a very busy person who has too much to do and not enough hours in the day!!! Also me: What if I made mood boards for my favorite literary characters
Cookies for lunch in honor of cookie monster
December 16, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Cookies for lunch in honor of cookie monster
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I have never in my life learned from another person’s mistakes, I would literally let a giant wooden horse into my house right this second.
June 22, 2023 at 3:17 AM
I have never in my life learned from another person’s mistakes, I would literally let a giant wooden horse into my house right this second.