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Marian

@marianisretirednow.bsky.social
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Retired old lady who loves cats and enjoys history, politics (at least I used to), birds, and living in the DMV. Don't ask me about the state of customer service these days because I'm trying to remain calm.

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☂️ 🌺 Krystal 🌺 ☂️ @krystalb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you don't have IG or go to the 1 letter site...this is THE Clinton that Angela gave a shoutout too in the BB house! 😊😊😊😊😊 #BB28
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Marian @marianisretirednow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Kitchen window this morning
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Neighbors United for DC Statehood @51stdc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#DCStatehood is the right thing. 700,000 people live in DC. We have more people than in VT or WY. We pay more in taxes than over 22 states. We are taxed without representation yet we fulfill all obligations of citizenship. The PEOPLE of DC deserve equality & we deserve statehood.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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Historic documents in limbo with proposed National Archives closure | Nichi Bei News
The National Archives at San Francisco and Chicago faces closure, according to an e-mail sent to staff on June 23. With the closure and the process to move files out […]
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Marian @marianisretirednow.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
That speech last night made me think of this old report hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.319...
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.
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ᑕᕼᗴᖇYᒪ @cheryl2877.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is Brilliant! You have to listen to this 😂
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Men of Mt. Rushmore
YouTube video by Michael Kryton
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Marian @marianisretirednow.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The Archivist of the U.S.’s Hearing Wasn’t Really About the Archivist open.substack.com/pub/harpp/p/...
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The Archivist of the U.S.’s Hearing Wasn’t Really About the Archivist
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Debbie Crochets @debbiecrochets.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Plz Share.Only a couple of sales this week.I sell my crochet to support my dogs and pay their past/future vet bills. I am up to my eyes in credit card debt from them, Any sales, or gifts from my wish list greatly appreciated.Thank you. Shop- debbiecrochets.etsy.com Wish List throne.com/debbiew
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Jenny Rae Rappaport @jennyrae.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Oh, hi, did you know Massachusetts is trying to restrict access to uncertified vital records, after 400 years of them being public records? And that this greatly impacts genealogists, historians, and public health scientists, among others? #genealogy www.ancestorarchivist.com/government-a...
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After losing a public-records fight, the Massachusetts DPH is trying to rewrite the law. — Alec Ferretti: The Ancestor Archivist
Massachusetts has one of the oldest traditions of public vital-record access in the country. That tradition should not be dismantled through a budget rider because one agency is angry that it keeps lo...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 06/06/2026
I went to Delaney Hall to follow up on conversations I had this morning with family members of detainees. ICE and GEO Group did not let me speak with detainees. Why do they insist on hiding the truth even after getting almost $1 billion of tax dollars?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/05/2026
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The failure to prosecute Trump for his treasonous J6 coup is the most catastrophic mistake in American history.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
New video from @nytimes.com opinion on the abortion pill www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | The Abortion Pill Case Is a Disaster for Republicans
Making abortion illegal doesn’t stop abortions; it just stops safe ones. As the Supreme Court weighs a huge restriction on the abortion drug mifepristone, Molly Jong-Fast explains the three options th...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Folks, pls don't share photos godforsaken Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social thieves circulate. Screenshot of a tweet looks like crap. No credit to photographer, a Black man. Support @nashvillebanner.bsky.social! Credit: Martin B. Cherry/Nashville Banner nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...
Justin Jones holding a burning paper Confederate flag inside state Capitol building. A state trooper is standing behind him.

Caption: Rep. Justin Jones (D-Nashville) burns a paper replica of a Confederate flag as he walks through a state Capitol hallway on Thursday. Credit: Martin B. Cherry / Nashville Banner
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/05/2026
Democrats treated Giuliani badly? 📌 According to the Washington Post, Trump instructed his aides not to pay Giuliani’s outstanding legal fees. White House officials were even told not to put through any of Giuliani’s calls.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Busy day yesterday! Thank you to everyone who showed up at the Calvert County and St Mary’s D5 meet and greets. I valued hearing your concerns and detailing how I plan to address them in Congress.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/05/2026
New in PN: Trump’s Reichstag fire presidency is immolating "While the world is lucky that Trump — a far lazier man than the quite lazy Hitler — is petering out well before he achieves anything close to the Nazi dictator's horrors, they share a late-regime obsession w/monuments to their failed rule"
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Trump’s Reichstag fire presidency is immolating
The media personality in the White House has been exposed as a crisis actor.
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Marian @marianisretirednow.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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Marian @marianisretirednow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Yesterday in the kitchen
Looking out a kitchen window with plant on the sill
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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Meanwhile in Indiana… @robertlandrumjr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Maybe 🤔, just maybe, we shouldn’t allow drunks, idiots, and dementia patients to be in charge of our country.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Some truly amazing news: “Today, Congresswoman @pressley.house.gov, Co-Chair of the House Haiti Caucus, secured a major victory in the House of Representatives, passing critical legislation to extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti by a vote of 224-204.” pressley.house.gov/2026/04/16/b...
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BREAKING: House Passes Pressley-Led Measure to Extend Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, Now Heads to Senate - Ayanna Pressley
Watch Pressley Make Final, Powerful Appeal to Colleagues to Protect Haitian Neighbors, Support our Communities, Care Economy Bipartisan Measure Now...
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Marian @marianisretirednow.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Buster sleeping through Whisker Wednesday
Cat showing off his whiskers
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Even if Trump is "bluffing," the US may never come back from this. Whether you voted for him or not, the rest of the world sees this guy as our collective will. To everyone else, we are a landmass teeming with viciousness. We have a very high bar to prove that's not true.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.
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Congresswoman Nikema Williams @repnikema.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026
I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 07/04/2026
Donald Trump has been in office for 2% of the last 250 years of presidents but has added 25% to the national debt.
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Doc000 @doc000.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Is he implying that nobody was missing until someone reported on it? Kinda like how he said there wouldn't be as many Covid cases if we didn't test for it?
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This is one of the most important stories of the week that you probably missed. The trump admin is basically taking something that belongs to all of us & giving it to political hacks & corporate donors. It’s an outrage & we should push back hard.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 02/04/2026
Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway. Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war. The most anti-Veteran President in history.
NPR: Trump's VA killed a home loan program. Vets are now losing their homes because of it
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This protest sign in Porto, Portugal is amazing! 🔥
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Marian @marianisretirednow.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
One finished piece from ceramics today
miniature tombstone says "maybe it will happen today"
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 24/03/2026
Iran is “trolling” the US with LEGO cartoons
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Marian @marianisretirednow.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Listen to Gurdeep
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John Hays @hsipi1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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𝒮𝒽ℯ-ℛ𝒶 @riptodeesse.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026
So it has begun
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Islamic Republic’s regime media frequently refer to Trump as the “White House pedophile,” and to Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as “the real estate agents,” a dismissive label meant to belittle them.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
LEFT: 1960s Robert Mueller, a wounded and highly decorated soldier in Vietnam. RIGHT: 1960s Donald Trump, a draft dodger at reform school, not athletic enough to make the team so picking up jock straps as “staff.”
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Patrick Favrel @patleon.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
#StreetArt in #Paris 11th
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
“I voted for Trump every election. We never thought it would come affect us.”🤔
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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Faux-old poster with fold marks. Postal Mascot Mr. Zip holds up a letter. Text reads: The Post Office is a SERVICE not a business! (Just like the police and fire departments!) When they say it NEEDS to turn a profit... Tell them to GO FUCK THEMSELVES!
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 19/03/2026
Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵
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