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MarjeeC

@marjeec.bsky.social
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Social scientist by day, writer of fiction dawn thru dusk. Reader of everything

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 17h
data center boosters try to keep the conversation focused on water consumption because air pollution is where the acute problem is
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 19h
ICYMI: The nation of Niger has become the first nation in the world to criminalise asexuality as part of a wider crackdown on the LGBTQIA+ community
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Why Niger explicitly criminalising asexuality is significant to everyone, regardless of identity
To understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about 'traditional families'
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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 15h
Want a story for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY? Co-Director of Social Media and flash reader @marjeec.bsky.social's piece “Dumpster Ire” was published in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes 🙌 buff.ly/rSO8NJq
Dumpster at night.
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MarjeeC @marjeec.bsky.social · 11h
Thanks for the shout out @splitlipthemag.bsky.social !
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 20h
Do you ever think about how rarely it's mentioned that Musk was found guilty by a jury of his peers of defrauding investors before he launched the largest, and possibly most fraudulent IPO, ever?
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Jury finds Elon Musk misled investors during Twitter purchase
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 10/10/2026
Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream
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India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Even the Polish foreign minister is questioning Trump’s alleged diesel oil deal with Russia. America is quickly waking up to see through Trump’s gaslighting to desperate, absurd and foolish attempt to score publicity points prior to midterms. No doubt that Putin doesn’t have the supply.
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Our embassy reports fuel shortages even in Moscow, which is always prioritized for supplies. Moreover, serious sources report that Ukraine has already damaged about 50% of Russia's refining capacity. So where will the surpluses for export come from?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump's whole red dye diesel thing means that diesel that would otherwise end up heating people's homes this winter, will now be used to drive trucks. The supply of diesel that is used for heating, and keeping people from freezing to death, will be diverted toward transportation.
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MarjeeC @marjeec.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
lol, no
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Illustration from Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium, c. 1760
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Black bookstores matter, y’all! I stopped by Black English Bookstore in the heart of Tampa to see my girl Ariel. Go see her at 401 E Oak Ave. Tell her Angie sent y’all. And read a banned book in honor of banned books week! #AngieForFlorida
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MarjeeC @marjeec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sir, your coms team is top notch.
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MarjeeC @marjeec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So is he,
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is not accidental at all.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ballpoint pen and colored pencil. 

At the top of the piece we see the delicately drawn branches and leaves of an apple tree. Just beneath the tree limbs, a bat is flying with one of the green apples in its mouth. This is when the morphing begins, reader. A sequence of 13 drawings show the bat morphing into a teeny witch (with completion of the morph around drawing #9). The morphing creates a spiral leading us to the center of the page where the little witch is running towards her basket filled with apples. It’s likely she’ll re-morph into a bat again and the morphing pattern will continue.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cities are terrific. It's why most people want to live in them.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share.
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MarjeeC @marjeec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This took my breath away
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👁️ 👁️ 👄
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks
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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.
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MarjeeC @marjeec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This needs more pixels
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.
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Z.V. Anjali @zvanjali.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
so many issues here, but among them: they are SO CONCERNED about neurodivergent men supposedly being unable to navigate asking women out while respecting consent, and not at all concerned about neurodivergent women having to thread the needle of saying no clearly but not in a "shaming" way
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026
Damn, socialism seems pretty fucking cool if you ask me
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Page One in Milwaukee: @mcbridetd.bsky.social
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Exclusive: Over half a million voters registered in a single day last week
At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026
yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
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Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These allegations are a bombshell: the FBI informant claims Collins was in a pay-to-play scheme where donors to her Super-PAC were rewarded with government contracts. Trump stopped the investigation when he came into his office second term. As Collins would say, "concerning"
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026
Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026
It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.
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FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It just never ends.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Heads up: The Russian government has been targeting Americans with covert online disinformation operations seeking to undermine public confidence the midterms — using a familiar playbook in an attempt to inject chaos into the voting season, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
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Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds
The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ve seen some people making comments about not caring about the Kennedy Center, or even wanting it gone, and if you’re not local, maybe sit this one out. It may be an abstraction to you, but to me it’s where I want to take my kids someday to see the symphony, the ballet, touring shows, etc
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In general, if people could stop acting like DC is a theme park where the only residents are in Congress that would be great, thanks
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
$500, some highlighters, and ten days to wrap it up. Treat candidates like we treat teachers.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All the horrors people ascribe to violent and disturbing art are in fact true of reality TV, maybe the greatest "artistic" evil of our time.
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