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Marie desJardins

@mariedj.bsky.social
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Truth seeker, puzzler, singer, reader, foodie, traveler, wife, sister, mom, grandma, computer scientist, mentor, ex-professor & ex-dean. She/her pronouns.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 4h
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Yolly @yollybsky.bsky.social · 6h
People do not hate America, Mr Trump. They hate you. BIG difference.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 4h
If you're wondering just how expensive diesel is, this graph (generated with Gemini, thanks google!) really makes the point. Gas is up for everybody, but for trucking and other industrial activities, fuel costs have absolutely exploded -- the differential is higher than it's ever been.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We all know that Trump is swimming in corruption in plain sight -- but this is the best rundown I've seen to date of just how naked and overt it all is. Blue wave, here we come. Hearings, here we come. popular.info/p/how-maga-i...
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How MAGA Inc. raised so much money
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump, who is constitutionally prohibited from running for president again, has raised over $400 million through his super PAC, MAGA Inc.
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Jubilee Jones 🇺🇦🇵🇰 📎 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🇬🇱🇨🇦🌍🌎🌏 @jubilee-jones.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Natalie Wormtongue Harp, and King Donaldin King Donald and Natalie Harp Boleyn
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Very useful post to share with anybody who mistakenly still believes that sex is binary www.facebook.com/share/p/19Sv...
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Beautiful sunset over Lake ONTARIO
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's fascinating that Trump is against gain of function research when it comes to viruses, but all for it when it comes to AI. Not that he understands either one.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Are Don Jr. and his new wife corrupt, stupid, or both? It's anybody's guess!
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS!!! Trump offers to resign!! "The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT" www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/p...
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Trump dismisses AI alarms as a ‘HOAX’ — worrying White House officials | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump spent Monday angrily rejecting calls from AI industry leaders for more government regulation on their cutting-edge models, making clear in a day-long string of social media post...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’ve been hesitant to go this far - because I think party division will only hurt us in November - but seriously, fuck Fetterman.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@stuartreges.bsky.social may have won this lawsuit, but he's still an ass UW pays $600K to settle lawsuit with computer science professor over parody land acknowledgment – GeekWire share.google/Gkt8c8ePJzex...
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UW pays $600K to settle lawsuit with computer science professor over parody land acknowledgment
Stuart Reges was disciplined by the University of Washington after including a parody land acknowledgment in a course syllabus. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found university officia...
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I assure you all that I shall never be referring to any gulf or any lake (or really any body of water, up to oceans, and down to toilet water) in the way that trump directs.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/08/2026
REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just in case you are need of some juicy alliteration to describe the toad that is Michael Cohen substack.com/@jojofromjer...
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JoJoFromJerz (@jojofromjerz)
I will not be posting anything else about this loser, but I had to get this shit about Michael Cohen off my chest.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Great video (and a badass runner) and perhaps useful for those people in your lives who keep saying "there are two sexes" as though it's true www.facebook.com/share/v/1DMN...
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just for the record, assaulting people is not "de-escalation"
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
So.... Trump contends that foreign nationals are NOT covered by the 14th amendment -- because they are not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" -- so we don't need ICE any more, because nobody who's in the country illegally is subject to our jurisdiction anyway.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Honestly if I were Karoline Leavitt's makeup artist, and THAT was the best product I could come up with, I would not advertise the fact... www.aol.com/articles/kar...
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Karoline Leavitt's makeup artist on what it's like inside the White House - AOL
Karoline Leavitt's makeup artist has worked with the White House Press Secretary since her Fox News days.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Love this. I was just wondering about how all of those right-wingers who "don't see color" suddenly noticed that Lupita Nyong'o was black. Did they get new glasses or something?
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
You can't LEAVE the Democratic party when you've never actually BEEN there share.google/gkCmGT8VaSm6...
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Fetterman threatens to abandon Democrats
"If our party ever becomes, and just make it official, as the anti-Israel party ... that's when I would leave," he said.
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Trump wants to require states to use hand-marked paper ballots. If they think that California (or any other state) is too slow to count their ballots NOW...?!?!? www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/p...
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Exclusive: Trump administration plans to use homeland security funds to force states to adopt election changes | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold tens of millions of dollars in federal homeland security funds from states unless they adopt a sweeping set of election changes, according to multip...
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Hooray!!! share.google/pHhwQmNtqyrs...
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Trump's Name Removed From Kennedy Center Building
The removal of Trump’s name came after a federal judge ordered the Kennedy Center to restore its original name by Friday, June 12.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Why is it that Republicans apparently don't want to acknowledge the existence of differential treatment of women - unless they are telling people what bathroom they are allowed to use? Air Force cites DEI ban in cancellation of wreath-laying honoring women vets share.google/rvTRN6926adg...
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Air Force cites DEI ban in cancellation of wreath-laying honoring women vets
An Air Force spokesperson acknowledged that the service “declined participation in compliance with Executive Orders … and DoW guidance.”
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So. Fucking. Stupid.
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Senate panel approves Department of War name change
House Republicans have also endorsed the change, which means the Defense Department rebrand pushed by the Trump administration could become law this year.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Susan Rice is brilliant & unfortunately exactly the kind of person that Donald Trump would never listen to. The total lack of political understanding, historical knowledge, economic foresight, competence, and integrity in the Trump administration undermines global safety & peace every. single. day.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We all knew that Musks's Vegas Loop transit system was stupid, but it turns out it's even stupider than that www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...
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I rode Elon Musk's Vegas Loop, the worst transit system on Earth
The Loop was supposed to transform Vegas. It's the dumbest transit system imaginable.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It takes a fair amount these days to make me laugh at the political situation in our country, but this pretty much did it for me today
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
In his statement, Mr. Rosenbaum said that if the episode “serves as a warning about the risks of A.I.-assisted research and verification, that is why I wrote the book.” -- which, apparently, he did not write...? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...
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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
So let me get this straight, Donald J. Trump's Department of Justice says that killing people in international waters is a crime? So... can we toss the criminals who have been ordering the killing of Venezuelans in international waters in jail, please? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read the Indictment Against Raúl Castro
The Justice Department indicted the former president and defense minister of Cuba on murder and conspiracy in the deaths of four American citizens in 1996. Mr. Castro was charged along with five other...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2026
NEW: I've filed a claim with Todd Blanche for compensation from the $1.776B slush fund for the unlawful investigation by the government into my podcast in August 2019. I'm seeking $8.647 million in compensation for weaponized lawfare - the equivalent of punitive damages, lost pay and retirement.
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RepJackKimble @repjackkimble.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I am thrilled that DOJ is indicting Raul Castro. Fidel was such a sleazeball dictator that he made it illegal for the Cuban government to audit him or his family.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I assume that both Comeys will immediately apply for relief to the Anti-Weaponization Fund, since the DoJ was quite clearly weaponized against them. Others who should be shoo-ins? Letitia James, Mark Kelly, Elissa Slotkin, John Bolton, Lisa Cook, Adam Schiff, Jack Smith... the list is endless
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 20/05/2026
Every official who participated in this corrupt DOJ process should face termination or impeachment, followed by a full criminal referral for prosecution. Public trust demands consequence.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 20/05/2026
Nothing makes someone look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find
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lucasmundus @lucasmundus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The media should STOP referring to the slush fund as a done deal. It's a stupid memo written by the Assoc AG w/ no binding force. The next Congress/president must declare it invalid; fire & file criminal charges against those who misappropriated these funds; & investigate the hell out of all Trumps
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
cisgender == six genders to trump apparently... www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"The individuals the government is seeking to undo citizenship for this week included a man alleged to have committed war crimes..." Is it Donald J. Trump, by any chance? "another who allegedly entered into a fake marriage to gain a green card," Is it Melania Trump, by any chance?
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Trump Administration Wants to Strip 12 Immigrants of U.S. Citizenship
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social put it a lot more politely than I did. open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...
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John Roberts likes being political. He just doesn't like the accountability that comes with it.
Roberts complained Wednesday that people view the justices as "political actors." They are, though, issuing political decisions that have real-world consequences.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@tanglenews.bsky.social
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Hey, John Roberts - FUCK YOU AND YOU ARE A SHITTY JUDGE AND I HAVE A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SAY THAT SO DON'T TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT SAY ABOUT YOU. And for fuck's sake, don't try to tell me that you're not political. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
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John Roberts decries heated criticism of the Supreme Court
He said the court is not political and that judges should not be criticized personally.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Gorsuch is a fucking lying hypocrite, claiming he believes in individual liberty, separation of powers & the primacy of Congress, while writing repeated opinions that enable oppression, disempower individuals and Congress, and allow trump to do whatever the fucking hell he wants. [gift link]
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Opinion | ‘Not a Perfect Union’: Neil Gorsuch on America at 250
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is.... insane.
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"We must expand the Court in January 2029 by appointing 12 new justices (creating a Court of 21 justices) and pushing all nominees through the confirmation process in a month. Eradicate the filibuster. There is much work to be done, and we cannot afford a decade of 5-to-6 rulings..." Preach.
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The Jim Crow Court green-lights Louisiana’s racial gerrymander. (Non-paywalled)
May 5, 2026
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Goes to show, ya can't buy class
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This paywall for this post has been removed. Can't recommend it highly enough (and you might want to consider subscribing to The Tangle, though inexplicably they don't seem to be on bluesky...)
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Marie desJardins @mariedj.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
An amazing, wide-ranging summary of the trump crime family's fraud, corruption, influence peddling and self-dealing by Isaac Saul at The Tangle www.readtangle.com/the-everythi...
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The everything, everywhere, all at once corruption story.
I'm pleading with you to look at the president's self-dealing.
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