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Marcy Farrell

@marcyf.bsky.social
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Learning designer & editor; former teacher. Liberal mom in Austin TX.

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NPR @npr.org · 11/10/2026
Harmeet Dhillon has pushed out hundreds of longtime attorneys, replaced many with inexperienced ideological allies, and used the division's enforcement powers to pursue the president's agenda. n.pr/4hOxHkX
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Reshaped civil rights mission at Justice Department transforms its work, workforce
Harmeet Dhillon has pushed out hundreds of longtime attorneys, replaced many with inexperienced ideological allies, and used the division's enforcement powers to pursue the president's agenda.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The world does not consent (but Sam Altman does not believe consent is required). But the world would consent to many bad things happening to Sam Altman and OpenAI.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I believe in Medicare for All like I believe in public schools. There for you no matter what.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ken Paxton has taken over 275 out-of-state trips since taking office. Texans have spent $1.9 million in taxpayer funds on his luxury vacations.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/09/2026
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research. n.pr/4ycseLJ
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Under Trump, NIH funding disruptions have evolved. Here's what the numbers show
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm heading to the Pearsall ICE detention facility to check on Wilber Garces Perez, a man who was shot in the back by an ICE agent in Austin on Sunday. He needs a doctor, not deportation. I'll report back on what I find.
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Marcy Farrell @marcyf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s appalling that we let these companies do whatever they want with no regulation. Tte environmental impact alone should have been enough to stop them from charging ahead with no rules. We let these companies basically drop a bomb on society, and we’re basically shrugging.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
STOP SCROLLING Why I’m sounding the alarm: VoteSafe. org is run by Elon Musk’s America PAC, the same political operation working to turn out Republican voters in the midterms. The site collects voter and political info, and allows your information to be shared or sold to business partners.
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The Author Village @theauthorvillage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
**BANNED** One of the most important young adult novel's ever -- SPEAK by @halseanderson.bsky.social -- is banned in Iowa. Last month, Laurie posted on social about what’s been happening. Please take a moment to learn about this. Books save lives. theauthorvillage.substack.com/p/banned-spe...
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BANNED: Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
An Update on What’s Currently Happening in Iowa
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Marcy Farrell @marcyf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
There's a perverse symbolism in the legacy of White racism sheltering under the bowers of all African Americans have done for this country while patiently waiting for the chance to go back to insisting we are a drain upon their society and that they never needed us at all.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/06/2026
There’s going to be people who think based on this report that while the sciences are ‘objective’ the humanities aren’t. Remind them that the scholarship in both has been subjected to the exact same evaluative process - peer review - and thus is equally credible.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
<all together now>
Bart Simpson at board: The government is not a business
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Ted Lasso’s Mustache @macinewa.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Both guns used yesterday were purchased legally. It’s guns, guns are the problem.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
MAGA accounts are pushing Trump’s White House ballroom as the solution to last night’s shooting. A ballroom isn’t the problem here. Will every school get a ballroom to protect our students?
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incited an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while people don't believe him and create their own narratives. #whcd
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Crownsblue @crownsblue.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
How about we do something about the guns? Not a ballroom Not active shooter drills Not bulletproof backpacks Not thoughts and prayers It’s the guns. Be really brave and get rid of semi automatic assault weapons.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Today, we honor and remember Virginia Roberts Giuffre on the one-year anniversary of her passing. Her courage has allowed countless survivors to be seen, heard, and to be believed. Sending love to her family on this difficult day—and to all the survivors out there still on this journey for justice.❤️
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger. www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"As Trump reaches the end of the first year of his return to power, he and his lieutenants are demonstrating their willingness to deploy force beyond its legitimate use to achieve their aims. The warning is clear and intentional: We are violent. Beware."
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The Trump doctrine: Violence is us
The message is clear—be afraid.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 31/12/2025
New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
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ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
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Marcy Farrell @marcyf.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Indigo girls. Rites of passage.
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Marcy Farrell @marcyf.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Sinead O’Connor. I do not want what I haven’t got
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Nicole LaFond @nicolelafond.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
It appears that DOJ employees who use language to accurately describe the events that took place on Jan. 6 — but language that does not, of course, line up with Trump’s white-washed narrative on the attack — are being punished. More in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand here:
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Federal Prosecutors Suspended for Not Using MAGA-Approved Verbiage to Describe Jan 6
This is your TPM evening briefing.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
As a reminder to everyone, a key part of the Bari Weiss origin story is her livetweeting editorial meetings. In the institutions she critiques she treats leakers (including herself) as principled dissenters. In the institutions she controls, she expects loyal silence.
Bari Weiss tweeting about the civil war in the NY TimesAnother NY Times employee says: "I am in the same meeting that Bari appears to be livetweeting"
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Marcy Farrell @marcyf.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Slashing special ed staff in the Department of Education and gutting public health agencies is what you do if you are a straight-up eugenicist.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela. Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless warmongering. It failed 48-51. Murkowski and Paul voted yes. Fetterman voted no.
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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press." ACLU
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a man in a suit and tie has a badge on his jacket that says congressman
ALT: a man in a suit and tie has a badge on his jacket that says congressman
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 03/10/2025
First they shut down the government. Then they tampered with federal workers’ emails to shift the blame. This is corruption in broad daylight.
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Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown
Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2025
Trump wants to use a shutdown of Republicans’ own making to keep YOU in the dark about our economy. The September jobs numbers are ready – and Trump must release them. Without them, the Fed is flying blind while making decisions that impact you.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
No more Kamala Harris interviews. Society has progressed past the need for Kamala Harris interviews
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/09/2025
The Washington Post has fired its last full-time Black opinion columnist, who says it was because they didn’t like what she posted after Charlie Kirk’s shooting. trib.al/bqvSXjB
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Black Washington Post Journalist Says She Was Fired Over Charlie Kirk
Karen Attiah, the paper’s last Black columnist, says she was fired because top editors viewed her social media posts on Charlie Kirk as “unacceptable.”
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Marcy Farrell @marcyf.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This is sad news. Lina Hidalgo is very talented and has a spine. We need people like her. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
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Once a Rising Star, a Top Texas Democrat Won’t Seek Re-election
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
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After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Lot of unhappy things going on at large and in this article, but one of them is that there a contingent of RW activists searching through social media for comments they can use to get people fired or worse. Be careful. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Workers are getting fired, placed on leave over Charlie Kirk posts
Reactions to the conservative activist’s killing have become a litmus test for employers’ tolerance for political speech by employees, in public and private.
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The Not Chaotic Cherub 😇 @biensur-jetaime.blacksky.app · 11/09/2025
Racism really is illogical bc how are you threatening HBCUs bc a white man shot another white man at a white rally at a white university in what has GOT TO be one of the top 5 whitest states in the country??? Black people couldn't be further from this if we actually tried.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Anyway, seems like the white community should really do something about all this white-on-white crime.
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a man stands in front of a wall that says nba finals on it
Alt: A black man walks away
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The gun culture into which Tyler Robinson was born.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Wow
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Hey @nytimes.com, your story today is misleading and deeply incomplete. You need to update and correct it. Right-wingers aren't trying to expose people using dehumanizing rhetoric. They are trying to use this moment to get their opponents harmed and killed. I know because I'm one!
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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Wild to read such things in the context of everyone knowing both that: A. Trump is not Congress and, therefore, his tariffs are in fact obviously illegal according to unambiguous black-letter law, and B. Six lickspittle MAGA justices will invent some new, half-baked reason to say otherwise.
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
NEW: Trump family has now made $5 billion off its corrupt crypto deals. Your family gets higher energy prices and cuts to health care. His family gets billions. Corruption, plain and simple. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Trump Family Amasses $5 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch
The WLFI token traded far above its previous value, confirming—at least on paper—a huge windfall for the president and his sons.
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