Patty Duffy
@pattyduffy.bsky.social
Historical fiction-international intrigue writer / social justice / foodie / Go green! / flutist / art lover / news / Michigan hiker-cyclist / love research and my grandkids.
Trump demands an end to the Senate filibuster, GUARANTEEING Republicans will "never lose the midterms and never lose the general election" again. Election rigging!
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Trump demands an end to the Senate filibuster, GUARANTEEING Republicans will "never lose the midterms and never lose the general election" again. Election rigging!
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UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
October 19, 2025 at 4:06 AM
UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
“The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”
“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
October 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
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"Monica Renteria-Gonzalez is one of four detainees, three of whom are transgender, alleging systemic abuse at the hands of a former ICE assistant warden, who they say created a work program which was used to penalize and demean them at a center designed to hold women."
ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint
A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.
www.newsweek.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
"Monica Renteria-Gonzalez is one of four detainees, three of whom are transgender, alleging systemic abuse at the hands of a former ICE assistant warden, who they say created a work program which was used to penalize and demean them at a center designed to hold women."
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Congressman wants Gavin Newsom arrested for terrorism because he called Stephen Miller a fascist. The hundreds of times Miller called Democrats fascist apparently doesn’t count for anything.
September 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Congressman wants Gavin Newsom arrested for terrorism because he called Stephen Miller a fascist. The hundreds of times Miller called Democrats fascist apparently doesn’t count for anything.
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What do Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso and Gabriel García Márquez have in common? The US once denied all of them visas because of their beliefs.
How the Visa Became America’s Favorite Censorship Tool
Long after most political censorship was rolled back, the US preserved its power to bar outsiders for what they believe. A new court case could test that power.
bloom.bg
September 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
What do Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso and Gabriel García Márquez have in common? The US once denied all of them visas because of their beliefs.
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When the Right lies about the Left, it's called "Free Speech" but
when the Left tells the truth about the Right, it's called "Inciting Violence."
when the Left tells the truth about the Right, it's called "Inciting Violence."
September 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
When the Right lies about the Left, it's called "Free Speech" but
when the Left tells the truth about the Right, it's called "Inciting Violence."
when the Left tells the truth about the Right, it's called "Inciting Violence."
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For every idiot like Ted Cruz, Bill Ackerman and Josh Hawley you find at Harvard, there are people like Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, a 1st generation American who finished with a 5.0 at MIT and got her doctoral degree in theoretical physics at Harvard. Many people call her the next Einstein.
July 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
For every idiot like Ted Cruz, Bill Ackerman and Josh Hawley you find at Harvard, there are people like Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, a 1st generation American who finished with a 5.0 at MIT and got her doctoral degree in theoretical physics at Harvard. Many people call her the next Einstein.
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Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover
- Doing a Sieg Hitler salute
- Eating dinner with neo-Nazis
Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity
- Using freedom of speech on campus
- Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover
- Doing a Sieg Hitler salute
- Eating dinner with neo-Nazis
Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity
- Using freedom of speech on campus
April 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover
- Doing a Sieg Hitler salute
- Eating dinner with neo-Nazis
Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity
- Using freedom of speech on campus
- Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover
- Doing a Sieg Hitler salute
- Eating dinner with neo-Nazis
Antisemitism (according to MAGA):
- Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity
- Using freedom of speech on campus
Twenty local authors will help you find your next great read! Stop by for a copy of Song of the Pearl and Oyster or The Compass Point. I'll autograph it for you.
April 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Twenty local authors will help you find your next great read! Stop by for a copy of Song of the Pearl and Oyster or The Compass Point. I'll autograph it for you.
Please register! This could be extra credit for Flint's humanities, English, or history classes.
March 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Please register! This could be extra credit for Flint's humanities, English, or history classes.
Cheers to Jasmine Crockett for speaking out! Cheers to peaceful protesters on March 29!
Jasmine Crockett fires back at Pam Bondi over Elon Musk warning
The congresswoman said she supports non-violent Tesla Takedown protests, and that she has never advocated violence against Musk.
www.newsweek.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Cheers to Jasmine Crockett for speaking out! Cheers to peaceful protesters on March 29!
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When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Amid ‘DEI’ purge, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser
Pages celebrating Navajo code talkers and other minority service members were also erased.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When you erase the history of the code talkers, you are erasing the history of the Second World War.
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
Have Americans ever been so fearful for their lives in our lifetimes?
'Trump is doing things a hundred times worse than they imagined, yet American artists remain silent'
COLUMN. While cultural figures had proudly attacked Donald Trump during his first term, they no longer speak out today, partly for fear of angering those who watch and listen to their work, writes Le ...
www.lemonde.fr
March 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Have Americans ever been so fearful for their lives in our lifetimes?
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The Hungarians are telling us something.
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
The Hungarians are telling us something.
www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n... What happened to our independent judiciary?
Judges threatened with impeachment, bombs for ruling against Trump agenda
Impeachment threats against judges — and sometimes physical threats to their safety — compromise the independence of the judiciary, experts warn.
www.npr.org
March 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n... What happened to our independent judiciary?
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"By rejecting passivity, Sanders is also doing more to actually put Republicans—who’ve recently been ordered to abandon town halls in the wake of mounting anger from their own voters—under pressure."
Bernie Sanders Is Showing Democrats How It’s Done
The Vermont senator is taking his anti-Trump tour to red America—and it’s a smash hit.
newrepublic.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
"By rejecting passivity, Sanders is also doing more to actually put Republicans—who’ve recently been ordered to abandon town halls in the wake of mounting anger from their own voters—under pressure."
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
U.S.A.I.D. Official Orders Employees to Shred or Burn Classified and Personnel Records (Gift Article)
Union representatives demanded that the aid agency follow the law stated in the Federal Records Act. Defense lawyers argued that officials had not destroyed personnel records and would not destroy any...
www.nytimes.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/u...
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We took a deep dive into what contracts DOGE slashed — and what it left untouched. Most of the biggest contractors were unscathed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
We took a deep dive into what contracts DOGE slashed — and what it left untouched. Most of the biggest contractors were unscathed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Two market meltdowns.
One common denominator.
One common denominator.
March 4, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Two market meltdowns.
One common denominator.
One common denominator.
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Trump, as usual, was lying during today's White House press conference with Zelensky.
I see Zelensky's ongoing, tireless diplomacy.
He's thanked the US people & leaders MANY times.
Trump never stops lying or bullying. Constant bullshit. I'm ashamed of my country right now.
I see Zelensky's ongoing, tireless diplomacy.
He's thanked the US people & leaders MANY times.
Trump never stops lying or bullying. Constant bullshit. I'm ashamed of my country right now.
March 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Trump, as usual, was lying during today's White House press conference with Zelensky.
I see Zelensky's ongoing, tireless diplomacy.
He's thanked the US people & leaders MANY times.
Trump never stops lying or bullying. Constant bullshit. I'm ashamed of my country right now.
I see Zelensky's ongoing, tireless diplomacy.
He's thanked the US people & leaders MANY times.
Trump never stops lying or bullying. Constant bullshit. I'm ashamed of my country right now.
Two cowardly puppets and a hero - Huffpost
March 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Two cowardly puppets and a hero - Huffpost
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I am embarrassed today to be an American. As long as the useful idiot remains in the White House, I suspect that feeling will persist.
March 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I am embarrassed today to be an American. As long as the useful idiot remains in the White House, I suspect that feeling will persist.