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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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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I've been noticing a facial droop in photos. I'm surprised more people aren't suggesting he looks like he's had a stroke. (That said he's always talked like he's mentally disabled.)
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
tRump's facial droop (in this photo and in his illegal ads) really looks like he's had a stroke. Why aren't more people noticing that?
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Always do.
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Seriously, How can The Onion's satire compete with tRumpian Dystopian tRuth?
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I'd phrase it this way: Trans people shouldn't bother you. Nazis should.
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well, tRump does know the letter "I" pretty well... but you're right, if you gave him the letter A, he might spell it "A-Me".
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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 GOPs actions (or as in the case of climate change, inactions) lead to the End Of Times, it is NOT F**king okay! Also, for the record, none of them are getting into heaven.
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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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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Does Canada have a good map app that can give directions in the US? Deleted Google Maps over Lake Ontario debacle.
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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 · 27/08/2026
Lake Ontario is an Iroquois word for beautiful water. T-Rump is a U.S. term meaning giant ass. (From MN -- We love Canada)
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
GOP = Greedy Old Pricks
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The word Ontario originates an Iroquois word meaning "beautiful lake," "beautiful water," or "big body of water." tRump is a U.S. term meaning Giant Ass.
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The word Ontario originates from an Iroquois word meaning "beautiful lake," "beautiful water," or "big body of water." T-Rump is an U.S. term meaning Giant Ass.
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The word Ontario originates from an Iroquois word meaning "beautiful lake," "beautiful water," or "big body of water." T-Rump is an US term meaning Giant Ass.
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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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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Every lie is a confession.
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Unaffordable too.
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You cannot run a government like a business. Government is for the people. People are not products. A business will get rid of products that are unprofitable. A government should protect those who are vulnerable. The GOP has no humanity.
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don't think Brooks is very smart--he thinks he is, but he's not. That said, I think he has a conscience. So he's struggling to come up with reasons for why his thinking went so wrong and instead of digging into the problems with his thinking, he wants to blame the people who got it right.
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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It's also a good map of where to and not to travel if you have kids or are immunosuppressed.
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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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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
My realization early in FB years was: "if it doesn't interest you; it's not for you." And you taught me: "my feed; my rules." I also have very few issues with blocking--I consider it curating.
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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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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
After a covid layoff (arts program dir), I got a climate change cert. and thought fighting CC was the way to go. I've read This Changes Everything, The Uninhabitable Earth, & others. I've installed solar and a heat pump. I vote, protest, and scream into my cake. But I feel powerless. Good piece tho.
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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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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Well, if tRump endorses it, I'll boycott it, although I'd already stopped using Miracle-gro because I don't think it's good for the environment or longterm soil health.
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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
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/majo...
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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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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I think it's best to lead with the truth: Iran suspected of cyber attacks on U.S. municipal water systems as a result of Trump's heedless war. Fortunately Minnesota cybersecurity acted quickly and warned other states about similar attacks.
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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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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You can also blame Musk-Melon and tRump for the rampant wildfires in the boundary waters - the Trump administration delayed a $10 million grant that was supposed to help Minnesota thin out about 4,000 acres of dense, dry forest at high risk of burning. www.outdoorlife.com/conservation...
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First Came the DOGE Cuts, Then Came the Wildfires
A retired U.S. Forest Service employee explains how federal funding cuts and staff reductions hindered prescribed burns in the BWCA.
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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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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Unfortunately, my boycotting GM will have little impact since I never would by a GM car in the first place. Boycotting only helps the cause if it hurts a little. Boycotting Target hurts. Boycotting Amazon and Home Depot is an inconvenience. Tesla is dead to me but EVs are a future possibility.
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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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Mara Sineps Miller @marasimile.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This line is misstated: "Camping bans are on the rise as states seek to crack down on homelessness." The states aren't cracking down on homelessness (i.e, trying to house the un-housed); they're criminalizing it.
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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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