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Mara Sineps Miller

@marasimile.bsky.social
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Liberal, environmental, writer, skier, traveler, animal lover with two cats, Copernicus and Galileo, who were named above their intellect. Connections of note: St. Paul Open, CTC, Hamline, VCFA, IHCC, MRAC, MCFTA… Also, happily married 30+ years.

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11/09/2026
“To leave no loopholes Hitler exacted from all officers and men of the armed forces an oath of allegiance—not to Germany, not to the constitution, which he had violated by not calling for the election of Hindenburg’s successor, but to himself.” -Shirer, Rise & Fall of the Thrid Reich, p. 375
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I deleted Google Maps due to the Lake Ontario name change, but I get that Google is in a tough spot. My suggestion: Add a language setting for Canadian English with the names of locations (Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario) as they're referred to in Canada. (For fun add a few "ehs" & star hockey rinks).
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Frankly and for the record if Vance's (or the GOP's) actions (or inactions) lead to the end of times, it's really not fucking okay.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 02/09/2026
If you’re looking for an open source map app, I recommend the Magic Earth experience (yes, it still says Lake Ontario).
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Magic Earth Navigation & Maps App - App Store
Download Magic Earth Navigation & Maps by Magic Lane International BV on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like…
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Theresa McLeod @westtexascatlady.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So much truth here! 😢
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Excellent article. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The billionaires will not save us...literally. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alaska…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s mega-yacht didn’t respond to call for help from small boat in Alaska
When the captain of the boat that did respond announced Zuckerberg’s cruiser was closer and hadn’t answered the call, “t
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
My commentary on Marshall et al 2026's climate change rapid attribution study on severe Western U.S. snow drought, which developed during record-warm 2026 winter & has contributed to widespread drought & wildfire-related impacts since, is now out. [Thread] www.pnas.org/doi/10....
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
*Record-breaking*: July 2026 displaced the Dust Bowl-era July of 1936 as well as July of 2012 to take the title of the US' hottest month on record since NOAA's record-keeping began in 1895. www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/c...
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July was the hottest month in the US since records began in 1895 | CNN
July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, according to data released Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Shame on TV networks, Democrats for ‘climate hushing’' | Opinion
By defending democracy and using its tools, we the people can win the climate war — even if today’s politicians and TV networks won’t admit it’s happening.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My piece about the need to tell the truth first centers on the lies about the reflecting pool. Maybe the most transparent lies in American history, yet the press still felt the need to honor Trump's deceptions!
The obvious story here is at the most objective “Experts Dispute Trump’s Claims About the Reflecting Pool.” We know even the Times knows that’s the story because it’s in the subhead, which will be read by infinitely fewer people. The headline could easily go further, “Trump’s Fictions About the Reflecting Pool Baffle Experts,” if you want to avoid calling the president of the United States a liar about affairs of state.

Instead, the headline serves as a few keywords on the subject.

Why? Probably just so you don't piss off a few fascists on X who will dogpile you, completely missing that obeying in advance only increases the right’s appetite to savage you.

It’s always possible to present the truth, even when a politician is aiming to make that difficult, if not impossible.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
France calls out the U.S. at a UN meeting: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore. Today, it stands alongside North Korea, Nicaragua, Mali and Russia. Isolated. And the world no longer listens to it.” U.S. representatives stormed out of the meeting. Well said France! 👏🏼🇫🇷👏🏼
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.com · 30/07/2026
DOGE grant freeze left Minnesota forest vulnerable to wildfires heartlandsignal.com/2026/07/30/doge…
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DOGE grant freeze left Minnesota forest vulnerable to wildfires
A DOGE funding freeze delayed $10 million in Minnesota wildfire prevention. Now, thousands of acres in Superior National Forest are ablaze.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
His job is to destroy the United States
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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
LIKE TRUMP/MILLER, ALL ICE AGENTS ARE LOSERS! Many are scared racists, White Nationalist ”Patriot Front, KKK, Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boys, Neo-NAZIS; too full of Trump’s fear/hate/lies to know that THEY’re the true criminals, NOT the innocent families they destroy. Some are just soulless opportunists.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 11/09/2025
Steinbeck, East of Eden
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"I could never lend myself to any transaction, however respectable, that would commercialize on the prestige and dignity of the office of the presidency. Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I'll show you a crook." Harry Truman
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Anyone who cares about protecting our right to protest and organize in America should be paying attention to what’s going on in Minnesota right now (and Jon’s a great source for information) 👇
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
They tell us that ICE is about immigration. The southern border. Bullshit. It is about weaponizing our government against our constitution. Normalizing the use of paramilitary force on our streets in ways that we stop questioning it. Abolish ICE.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
About that New York Times op-ed: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2600021123
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This American Patriot 💙 @thisuspatriot.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
#TRUMP IS UNFIT AS OUR PRESIDENT If Congress does nothing to impeach him, then, in Nov, we MUST VOTE to 86 #GOP & centrist #DEM like Schumer & Jeffries Then OUR Congress will 86 Electoral College 86 #MAGA wannabe King Trump #StrongerTogether #UNITEDWeStand TYVM @boldnewme.bsky.social #BlueCrew
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mothers' Day! Don't miss this inspiring post by Heather Cox Richardson on the original origin! open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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May 9, 2026
If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet will tell you that Mother’s Day began in 1908 when Anna Jarvis decided to honor her mother.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 08/05/2026
Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
From #ScienceUnderSiege (by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly):
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 30/04/2026
Justice Kagan says it best
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Stalin extensively purged top science advisers, engineers & researchers during the '1930s-50s, particularly targeting biology, physics & technical fields. Thousands were arrested, sent to Gulags, or executed. @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I discuss in our sadly prophetic book #ScienceUnderSiege:
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/04/2026
For the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 contest, nearly 9,000 entries were submitted to organizers by member photographers from 15 countries. See a collection of some of this year’s winning and honored photographs via The Atlantic Photo:
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Winners of the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026
A collection of some of this year’s winning and honored photographs. Nearly 9,000 entries were submitted to organizers by member photographers from 15 countries.
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Mr Bill 😯 @mrbill420.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Bonners Ferry GOP 🛻🐘
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Keep focused on what tRump wants to distract us from: Epstein Files, Iran War, bombing Iranian school children, bombing Venezuelan fishing boats, immigrant concentration camps, ICE, murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, dismantling foreign aid, inflation, corruption, resurgence of diseases, etc.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
We must call them concentration camps. We must because Americans need to understand the urgency of this growing disaster, & that just letting a few cute kids out will not be enough. But don't listen to me. Listen to some of the smartest communicators alive explain why far better than I ever could.
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Call Trump's Concentration Camps What They Are
Andrea Pitzer on the history we cannot allow to repeat itself.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
There’s no better time than now to say: Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. No matter what.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A President with his lowest approval ratings ever attends an annual high profile dinner he has boycotted for years where an assassination attempt happens. He is prepared to deliver press comments 30 minutes after the shooting where he speaks of uniting the country. Hmmmm....
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Don Winslow last week…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2026
Tim Walz on DHS officers who shot Minnesotans: "We're gonna bring them back and hold them accountable for what they did"
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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 22/04/2026
#EarthDay
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CommonSense @comminsense.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The DOJ is now 5 month in breach of releasing the Epstein files. Holding these criminals accountable should be the Nuremberg of our time.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.
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Debbie Northway 🇦🇺🦘🐨 @debbienorthway.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
#EpsteinFiles
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 08/04/2026
NYT reporting that under this ceasefire each ship will pay $2M to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. It was $0 before Trump launched this illegal war. 100-130 ships pass the Strait daily. Trump just gave Iran an extra $100M-$130M per day. Masterful gambit, sir. Impeach and remove this fascist—NOW.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Trump’s immigration thugs detained the wife of a newlywed soldier who was training to deploy in the next few months. ICE detentions and deaths are still at record highs. Even though it’s not in the headlines, ICE is still carrying out Trump’s campaign of cruelty. Never forget this.
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