Marie Donigan
@nativeplantlady.bsky.social
Native plant gardener, former elected official, landscape architect in an earlier life
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Benjamin Netanyahu is a monster. He is monster for his actions, and he is a monster for his reasons.
He isn't doing this for the hostages. He isn't even doing this for revenge or because he wants Gaza. He doesn't CARE about any of that.
He's doing this to stay prime minister.
He isn't doing this for the hostages. He isn't even doing this for revenge or because he wants Gaza. He doesn't CARE about any of that.
He's doing this to stay prime minister.
Netanyahu said “Israel’s ‘closest friends in the world,’ including U.S. politicians…told him that they would arm Israel and defend it at the U.N. Security Council but that ‘they cannot handle pictures of mass starvation.’”
They’re concerned about the OPTICS.
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They’re concerned about the OPTICS.
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Netanyahu says ‘minimal’ aid will go to Gaza to preserve U.S. support
The prime minister said that while Israel plans to take “all” of Gaza, he had to prevent mass starvation there for “practical and diplomatic reasons.”
wapo.st
May 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Benjamin Netanyahu is a monster. He is monster for his actions, and he is a monster for his reasons.
He isn't doing this for the hostages. He isn't even doing this for revenge or because he wants Gaza. He doesn't CARE about any of that.
He's doing this to stay prime minister.
He isn't doing this for the hostages. He isn't even doing this for revenge or because he wants Gaza. He doesn't CARE about any of that.
He's doing this to stay prime minister.
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Only in America can an arsonist be torching the Constitution and the media can't stop blaming Joe Biden for everything.
May 19, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Only in America can an arsonist be torching the Constitution and the media can't stop blaming Joe Biden for everything.
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Why are so many Colorado Democrats frustrated with John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet?
Data from 155 Senate votes in 2025 offers an answer: They're voting like swing-state senators while representing an electorate that's now bluer than Illinois or New Jersey.
Data from 155 Senate votes in 2025 offers an answer: They're voting like swing-state senators while representing an electorate that's now bluer than Illinois or New Jersey.
Hickenlooper, Bennet give Colorado the nation’s biggest pro-Trump skew in Senate votes • Colorado Newsline
Sen. Hickenlooper has been the Democratic caucus’ number one outlier in voting with Trump's agenda almost twice as often as would be expected.
coloradonewsline.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Why are so many Colorado Democrats frustrated with John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet?
Data from 155 Senate votes in 2025 offers an answer: They're voting like swing-state senators while representing an electorate that's now bluer than Illinois or New Jersey.
Data from 155 Senate votes in 2025 offers an answer: They're voting like swing-state senators while representing an electorate that's now bluer than Illinois or New Jersey.
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Just trying to get my head around the absolute gutting of cdc and nih today. A bleak day for the US and …. well staying alive longer than people did in the 19th century.
April 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Just trying to get my head around the absolute gutting of cdc and nih today. A bleak day for the US and …. well staying alive longer than people did in the 19th century.
It's a stupid-ass headline.
We have.
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”
www.nbcnews.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:35 PM
It's a stupid-ass headline.
@nbcnews.com what's up with your crummy headline? Sheesh
How about “Trump Threatens to Ignore Constitution, Pursue Illegal Third Term”? That headline might be more accurate.
Fuck this. This plan, this media framing of the plan, all of it. Really.
March 30, 2025 at 11:28 PM
@nbcnews.com what's up with your crummy headline? Sheesh
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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Won't Stop Musk's $1 Million Payments To Voters After AG Sues
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, ju...
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March 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
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Just going to say that accidentally adding @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social isn’t the main story: it’s how we *know* the story, which is:
1) not following OPSEC on any front
2) airstrikes as messaging
3) appalling disdain for our European allies
4) incompetence and stupidity
1) not following OPSEC on any front
2) airstrikes as messaging
3) appalling disdain for our European allies
4) incompetence and stupidity
March 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Just going to say that accidentally adding @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social isn’t the main story: it’s how we *know* the story, which is:
1) not following OPSEC on any front
2) airstrikes as messaging
3) appalling disdain for our European allies
4) incompetence and stupidity
1) not following OPSEC on any front
2) airstrikes as messaging
3) appalling disdain for our European allies
4) incompetence and stupidity
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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
It’s Trump vs. the Courts, and It Won’t End Well for Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
Opinion | Trump Won’t Win a War Against the Courts
The judiciary will never surrender to the president its constitutional role to interpret the Constitution.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
It’s Trump vs. the Courts, and It Won’t End Well for Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o...
Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds?
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
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Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
@washingtonpost.com They were not DEPORTED. Deported means sending them back to their country of origin. These people were sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, without any due process or any analysis as to whether they feared harm in El Salvador!
In America, EVERYONE has a RIGHT to due process - regardless of immigration status. It’s fundamental to our Constitution.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
Deporting hundreds of people in secret by invoking a wartime proclamation is a blatant abuse of power by President Trump.
March 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
www.nytimes.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
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I’m reviewing an official DOGE staff list. Everybody’s number. Everybody’s email. Yes, including Elon’s. This Amy Gleason isn’t even on the list.
March 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I’m reviewing an official DOGE staff list. Everybody’s number. Everybody’s email. Yes, including Elon’s. This Amy Gleason isn’t even on the list.
Who Paid for Trump’s Transition to Power? The Donors Are Still Unknown. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
Who Paid for Trump’s Transition to Power? The Donors Are Still Unknown.
President Trump has not made good on a promise to disclose who contributed to his transition effort.
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Who Paid for Trump’s Transition to Power? The Donors Are Still Unknown. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
Maddow's Ultra tells the whole story!
Rachel Maddow drew a direct comparison between a 1940s Minnesota senator who was secretly on Adolf Hitler's payroll and pushing pro-Nazi policies to the MAGA embrace of pro-Russia policies.
Maddow compares Trump to 1940s senator with Nazi ties who demanded allies 'say thank you'
MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow drew a direct comparison between a 1940s Minnesota senator who was secretly on Adolf Hitler's payroll and pushing pro-Nazi policies to the MAGA embrace of pro-Russia policie...
www.rawstory.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Maddow's Ultra tells the whole story!
Can there ever BE a Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi team again? Who will you be? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
Opinion | 20 Years Ago, Democrats Found a Way Out of the Wilderness. They Can Again.
What the left chooses to fight on now will shape future elections.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Can there ever BE a Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi team again? Who will you be? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/o...
4 Dead in Fiery Chain-Reaction Crash in Arizona www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
Blowing Dust Eyed in Fiery Arizona Crash That Left 4 Dead
Investigators are exploring whether blowing dust contributed to the 12-vehicle crash on Saturday that also left two people in critical condition.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
4 Dead in Fiery Chain-Reaction Crash in Arizona www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...
We Need to Talk About the Lying www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
Opinion | We Need to Talk About the Lying
Trump promised and promised and promised.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
We Need to Talk About the Lying www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
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This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0
February 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This doesn’t exist and will literally save $0