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Margaret (Margi)

@margira.bsky.social
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Retired public health nurse now enjoying gardening, doll making, rudimentary water color painting.

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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is sobering (free article): www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Baltic States Prepare for War
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack—with the help of the United States, or without it.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Senator John Kennedy trying to drag Jack Smith's wife into today hearing is just pathetic. Such a weasel.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is extraordinary, as much of the Ukrainian people's stories. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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The Armored Sarcophagus Saving Ukrainian Soldiers
Unmanned ground vehicles are conducting once-impossible medical evacuations along Ukraine’s front lines.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
OMG, JFK Jr interview with Dana Bash is batshit crazy. He spews such bs. Shameful.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
www.instagram.com/p/DbdqC2VERx...
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morewithmj on Instagram: "Nobody caught Dr. Fauci in a lie. They caught him telling the truth to a story that needed him to be lying. Reality doesn’t survive…"
Nobody caught Dr. Fauci in a lie. They caught him telling the truth to a story that needed him to be lying. Reality doesn’t survive a manufactured narrative, so the narrative went after him instead. He is 85.Here’s what’s getting skipped by the people who want you to hate this man.Fauci advised seven presidents over fifty years and helped build PEPFAR, credited with saving millions of lives.When lockdown frustrations morphed into rage, he became the target. Absorbing death threats as the face of an entire profession. Easy to judge, now. But then? The science was evolving in real time against a virus no one had seen before.Knowing that Trump may try to come after him, Biden pardoned him. Last week Rand Paul subpoenaed him, leaked his private diary, then made him answer for it under oath, right down to the color of his tie. Biden’s 2025 pardon doesn’t cover new testimony, so he pled the Fifth to everything. Meanwhile, Trump has 34 felony convictions.While Congress chased headlines to make you think this matters? 43% of COVID patients died alone, nearly double the pre pandemic rate. 1 in 5 healthcare workers live with PTSD tied to the pandemic. 181+ public health officials got run out of their jobs.Fauci still pays for his own security detail after death threats got him federal protection, before Trump pulled it. Defend the truth. Stand up for science. We should protect the ones who protected us.#Fauci #democracy #healthcare #covid #politics
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Rand Paul will shortly demand that Dr Fauci be thrown into a large body of water to see if he sinks or floats. Science.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
TV.Garden picks up all live TV around the world. CBC NEWS BC showing trump with concurrent corrections to his bullshit running alongside
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Todd Blanche really is a sleaze. The YOLO GOP senators really have no excuse for not squashing his nomination.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Democrats need to do this on EVERYTHING until this criminal enterprise we currently call the Government of the United States is brought under control. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...
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Senate Democrats Block Defense Bill Over War in Iran (Gift Article)
The vote reflected how the political debate over the conflict in the Middle East has sapped bipartisan support for a normally popular measure.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
cc: Stephen Miller
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The SCOTUS decisions today on immigration might just be the final nail in the coffin of Social Security. It's a selfish perspective but do the math.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Gift article. Excellent summary www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Trump Does Not Understand the War He Lost
The president’s comments at the G7 summit revealed that he doesn’t understand the war he started—or the words that come out of his own mouth.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nailed it here. 👇
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Gift article. The corruption continues www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Trump Isn’t Giving Up on His Slush Fund
Despite insisting that a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund has been scrapped, the administration is quietly assuring allies that payout plans remain on track.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Gift article. We are becoming more and more stupid. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/w...
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Hospitals See Diseases Resurge as Vaccinations Decline
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Well, this is savage and deserved. Gift article www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s War Is Staggering to an Incoherent Defeat
Even the president’s supporters are alarmed.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Ex Trump White House Attorney Ty Cobb on Trump’s $1.776 BILLION Seditionist Slush Fund: “Todd Blanche sold his soul… this is really just a criminal conspiracy to steal money from the taxpayers."
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Every country has these creatures. The danger is when they are given positions of authority. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Israel’s Human Wrecking Ball
And the prime minister who empowers him
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Let's ALL apply to this slush fund. Haven't we all been harmed by this administration? Todd Blanche says any American is eligible. Let's just swamp them will applications.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Devastating effects of one lunatic's actions. Gift article www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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Photos: The Global Cost of the Iran War
The continuing crisis in Iran and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz have exacted a heavy cost worldwide. In addition to the steep price of military expenditures, destroyed infrastructure,...
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Leonardo, aka Leo
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Free article. Heart breaking. Please share. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Gift article: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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An Incredibly Weird Time to Be Alive
The world witnessed the best and worst of humanity in a single week.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Time for military coup d'etat.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Kegsbreath just loves delivering his TV drama. Such a loser.
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vicpescocostanzo.bsky.social @vicpescocostanzo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Read to the end. Good idea. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The State of the Union Revealed a Sad Reality
Donald Trump misused the annual presidential tradition in ways so radical as to call the ritual itself into question.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Not news, but still horrifying. newrepublic.com/article/2068...
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Americans Are Dying Early. There’s a Way to Fix It.
People die earlier on average in the U.S. than they would in other wealthy countries.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Terrifying but possible. Free article www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Pam Bondi's lipless little smiles towards GOP members of Congress are really quite creepy. Her constant hair flipping is indication of her anxiety
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Gift article: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Does America Really Want to Pick a Fight With Greenland?
Remote, frigid, desolate, and armed to the teeth: Greenland isn’t planning on submitting to Donald Trump.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Bye Buddy. You were a lovie for 13 years.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I know this is not my spot but I'm not moving
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Geesus, the whining and fantasizing...the exhausted tone. Is anyone sitting in the audience listening to this "speech"? I've heard enough.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Gift article www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Trump Exhaustion Syndrome
Americans can’t seem to keep up.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Gift article www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw
Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Gift article: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Is Risking a Global Catastrophe
His irrational fixation on Greenland could lead to global conflict.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Someone needs to tell Kristy Noem et al
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Saw a brilliant little red fox dash across 4 lanes of traffic this morning.
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Kristi Noem et al really are their own worst enemies. There is simply too much first hand video that disputes her craven words. Disgusting people.
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Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The cheapest way for America to access Greenland's mineral resources is to buy them. Greenland is happy to do business with its allies. Trump thinks it will be less expensive to deploy the American military to the Arctic to steal what he wants. Trump doesn't understand how business works.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Never forget. 🇺🇸
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Margaret (Margi) @margira.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Trump struggling to stay awake on his feet as Gen Cain (? Sp) rambles on. Guess he didn't get the memo.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
“A dark moment.”
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