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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

This might be the most chilling, horrifying thing I've seen in the past days:"Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged."

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It's a new word in the American vocabulary: home-growns.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

One of my theories re tariffs may have played out today. Put tariffs in place (or threaten to) and crash the market. Rich people go in and buy cheap stocks, and keep loading up. Crazy tariffs are put on hold and the stock market goes up wildly. The rich get richer. He might keep repeating the cycle.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It seems to me that the big problem isn't that these top-level folks were using an insecure chat line to talk about war plans and included a journalist. That's bad enough. BUT - isn't the biggest issue that they were using an insecure chat that disappears? shouldn't sensitive war plans be archived?

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I thought I could 'give up' saying fuck for Lent, but I'm sorry - Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK Trump. Can't help it.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’d like to give up Trump for Lent.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I am so ashamed of the new role of the US on the world stage.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

This is well worth your time. JB Pritzker, governor of Illinois. I'm proud he's my governor.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I was wondering if we are going to be required to go back to 'gender marking' in professions? 'Steward and stewardess' instead of 'flight attendant'? 'Fireman' instead of 'firefighter'. 'Waiter and waitress' rather than 'server'? 'Policeman and policewoman' instead of 'police officer'? And so forth.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

As we've begun to deal with the election loss and the Drump reality, the call has been 'Work for the mid-terms! We'll take back the House!'. Yet as these shocking days pass I'm realizing that with Muskrat's boys running the government computers, there's NO WAY the votes won't be tampered with.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Am I alone in thinking that we're witnessing a silent coup? No overtaking the ramparts or machine-gunning into the seats of power and prestige as has happened elsewhere and in other times. Rather, this is a takeover from within....and it seems it's successful.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I'm proud of my Illinois senators: Durbin and Duckworth. And Illinois governor Pritzker. All of them are strong and confident, stand up for what's right, and speak truth to power.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

It's been a long year since January 20, 2025. I'm exhausted.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I've written a portion of the Orange Snowflake's Address: "Ask not what you can do for your country - ask what your country can do for ME."

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I feel a bit like I'm defiling Jimmy Carter who such a good man, but watching his farewell today it makes me feel a bit sick to imagine that the Orange Clown could get a similar honor.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It disgusts and dismays me that the muskrat is working to create havoc in other countries. His lies and power to spread them so broadly is devastating to me.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This is a genuine question. Why are we calling the impending gloom an oligarchy? Isn't it a plutocracy? helpfulprofessor.com/plutocracy-v...

helpfulprofessor.com

Plutocracy vs Oligarchy: Similarities and Differences (2024)

Plutocracy and oligarchy refer to power structures where a small group controls everything.

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Mari @4mari9.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This NY Times headline today gave me chills. “Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine”

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