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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

SpaceX has failed to appear under subpoena to a NYC Council hearing today about AI.

Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My husband and I have very good credit. Just finding out that our PC Richard/Synchrony credit card has an interest rate of 39.99. (We never carry a balance.) How is that not an illegal, usurious rate?

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My friend went on Medicare this year and got a prescription plan from United Healthcare for $105/month. She has now received notice that the cost is going up to $175/month next year and the deductible is going up from $615 to$700. (The premium increase is up 66%!)

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was recently looking for hay in the Hudson Valley, NY and a large horse farm said they get theirs from Canada. Than I was watching FarmAid on Saturday and the Virginia Gov said they get hay from Canada. You don't know what you don't know.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wow, just read about the Woody Guthrie song Deportee that was written as a poem in 1948 after a plane crashed killing 28 men. It was recorded by Dolly Parton on her 9to5 album. Also recorded by Christy Moore. Both versions well worth a listen. Google the song's premise too.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here's an idea for teachers afraid their students will cheat on HW and essays. Try a flipped classroom - even if it's only one or two times a week. Video yourself giving a lecture that the students have to watch for HW and then do HW in class.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Mets have a gem in Carson Benge.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Apropos of nothing - I'm doing an online NYT crossword from 2007 and the answer to the clue "eighty six" is toss (not kill).

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"I know what America gave me, but I also know what it has denied to many others." - Abdul El-Sayed today.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"BLT" stands for "bone marrow–liver–thymus." BLT-Lung mice were used to create treatments for Covid that saved lives. If some researcher jokingly called it a "BLT sandwich," it was just lab talk.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What is the logic of not allowing working people to continue to contribute to an HSA after they go on Medicare?

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Do you think if I heavily trim the top of this tree that it will last longer? (Birch.)

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Why didn't the Dems bring up the Abrego Garcia case or the Broadview Six?

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Todd Blanche is going to be confirmed. The Repubs have no spines.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Eric Schmitt (R) just casually referred to Jack Smith as the "dirtbag Jack Smith," after railing at the way his Dem colleagues have referred to ICE agents.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wow, Eric Schmitt (R) just said that the "hammer and sickle" that took over NY has as its central plank to defund the police. Meanwhile, here in the real world, the budget NYC just approved keeps the same number of police we currently have.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Platner: "this is the last week to get me off the ballot, that's why this is happening." Oh, BS, the woman was pissed off at the way the 6/4 NYT article was received and she went to Politico, which had to do a lot of follow-up/fact checking before they could publish.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Omg, Ronny Chieng on The Daily Show talking about the US and the World Cup, is absolutely hilarious.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Regarding the building with structural issues in Manhattan, you'd think the media would know the difference between a beam (runs horizontally in the ceiling) and a column. So, no, a beam didn't buckle, a column (or two) did.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

On MSNOW, pundit assumes a rate of 9% return per year for 18 years on "Trump accounts". Seriously?

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Wow, Juan Soto homers in the top of the 9th to give Mets the lead.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

One of the tall ships, New York Harbor.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Fly over this morning, New York Harbor.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Eleven years ago we were in Killarney, Co. Kerry, Ireland for the 4th of July and came upon a celebration for all the American tourists.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Statue of Uncle Sam in Troy, NY (home of RPI). Butcher Samuel Wilson supplied rations to the US Army during the War of 1812, and stamped his boxes U.S. which the soldiers jokingly referred to as Uncle Sam's.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The next Dem president should do *all the things* that the Supreme Court has said a president can do and then sign any bills Congress puts in front of him/her to prevent a future president from doing them (eg firing of heads of independent agencies and other civil servants).

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Vance: If Watergate happened today, it would be a 12-hour story, because this administration is 1,000 times more corrupt and nothing happens to us.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I just called three of my elected reps and recommended that they advance legislation to create a visa program to allow those with TPS to remain in this country. With bipartisan support, any veto by Trump can be overcome. Google the Morrison and Donnelly visa programs of the 80s and 90s.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

At the NY Mets game today and Norway is in the house!

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Alicia Keys opens with "New York State of Mind "

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

What a gift it is for NYC to be brought together in this moment of pure, unadulterated joy. - Mayor Mamdani

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

NY1 reporting that the 4:05am train from Ronkonkoma was packed with Knicks fans.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Clyde Frazier had six custom suits made for the finals but only had to use five of them!

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

From Scott Pelley's interview: "There is no democracy without journalism."

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Storefront vacancies in NYC are currently at half what they were prior to the pandemic!

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

When a newsperson interviews someone who says I voted for Ken Paxton after doing my research, why can't the reporter follow up and ask, did your research show you that he was impeached and that his wife cited "biblical reasons" in her divorce petition?

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The Mets have won the series over the Yankees after being down 6-3 in the ninth today!

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The baby Mets came through in the 10th!

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Alina Habba just saying on The View that a man in Florida was charged for saying she should be 86'd. However, he also said "a slow painful death" for her, which is different than 86.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

What kind of grand jury of clowns voted to indict James Comey for a photo of shells spelling out 86 47?

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Every time I'm at my place in the Hudson Valley, I appreciate the sunset (over the Catskills, the other side of the Hudson River).

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Wish news people would learn how to pronounce Magyar. It's MAH-dyar.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In my husband's hometown in Ireland, there is no gas. People are driving 10 miles to the next town, where sales are limited to try to make it stretch. Farmers may not be able to work their fields any time soon

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New building at 70 Hudson Yards being built with no structural steel - just concrete. Because of steel prices?

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Carson Benge homers for the Mets in his first Major League game.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Chris Jackson singing the national anthem at the Mets opener. Love it!

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Wow, Rick Pitino doesn't even smile right after his guys win in the final seconds. (A smile did come later )

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Hilarious - Janine Pirro complaining about judge dismissing case against Jerome Powell over renovations to the Fed building - saying public tired of money going into a black hole. Ya mean like that $10 billion Trump is putting into his Board of Peace?

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Comer just said that Ghislaine Maxwell was at Chelsea Clinton's wedding (as the girlfriend of a friend of the Clintons), and there weren't many people there. A simple Google search reveals there were 400-500 people at that wedding.

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Marge K. @margek.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The US men's hockey team coming into the SOTU chanting USA with their fists in the air. Gross. Why do we have to politicize sports?

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