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Marty Duren

@martyduren.bsky.social
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Happy Hubster, Dad, Pawpaw, author, reader, freelance writer, raconteur, tsundoku practitioner, Jesus follower. I work with words.

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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And dump the remnants on his Mar-a-largo driveway.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”
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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel
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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
He’s literally making money illegally. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Lake Release the Epstein Files - MapQuest
Check out my custom map where I renamed Lake Ontario to Lake Release the Epstein Files!
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
My response to Elon Musk.
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
There’s a scene in the Ten Commandments when Ramses says, “Let the name of Moses be stricken from every wall.” We can only hope that, in time, all Trump’s gaudy monuments to himself will melted, crushed, or repurposed as lawn gnomes.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 26/07/2026
No one should have to guess where to vote. Find your polling place and trusted election information at trustedelections.ms. Support this work: buff.ly/CQvEQtG
Graphic promoting Mississippi Free Press Trusted Elections 2026. The background features the Mississippi state flag. Text reads, “Mississippians deserve to know where to vote. Find out at MFP’s trustedelections.ms.” The Mississippi Free Press logo appears at the bottom with the URLs MFP.MS/VOTING and MFP.MS/DONATE.
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Will see in theater.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
WOW. The Trump admin just barred the FBI from investigating cases where DHS officers get into confrontations with immigrants or citizens. ICE HSI will lead all investigations, yet HSI has no jurisdiction to investigate civil rights violations. The fox is guarding the henhouse.
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Text that says “is your panda peeling or weathered? Call now!” over a yard sign for a company called Panda Painting.
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I really wish someone would call these ghouls “ghouls” to their faces.
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
#4 is interesting.
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Seems, idunno, important?
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Does David Byrne know Trump has his Big Suit?
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Worth the time.
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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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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Aside from the grifting, conspiracy-mongering, arm-twisting, and narcissism, is this basic truth about Trump: no right thinking person wants their son to be like him nor their daughter to marry someone like him. He’s noxious.
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The Brussels Times @brusselstimes.com · 23/05/2026
The EU and Mexico agree, in Mexico City, to remove most trade barriers between them and boost mutual cooperation.
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EU and Mexico sign sweeping trade agreement
EU and Mexico sign sweeping trade agreement
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Ineptitude saves a life.
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is amazing. O’Leary is just a run-of-the-mill fool who happens to have too much money.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is a flat out horrifying article. It may be too much for some to read. But this should be documented, and we should know this is happening.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
These are actual Freedom Riders, now elderly, sitting together decades after risking their lives to challenge segregation in the American South. On May 4, 1961, they rode buses south to defy illegal segregation in terminal facilities.
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Many thx!
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 03/05/2026
i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
@joshautry.bsky.social You Rodney’s son?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
What Bovino means: About a third of the population isn’t white.
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
For the same reason he blurts our troop numbers over a general and the non-public health conditions of others. He’s a narcissist who has to show off.
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
NASA’s Artemis II Reveals the Basin in Full For the very first time, the mysterious Orientale Basin has been fully photographed. Thanks to Artemis II, humanity now sees the Moon in unprecedented detail, reminding us of the endless wonders beyond Earth. 🛰️
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 14/04/2026
Astronaut Victor Glover said it plainly. We don’t know each other because we don’t try. We stay divided because it’s easier not to reach out. That’s it. Be neighbors. Love people. Do better. #SheShed
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
You gonna need to prove yourself to Apple, Stephanie.
A screengrab of a text identified as “Maybe Stephanie” when the first line clearly says “Hi, it’s Stephanie.”
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Project Hail Mary is amaze, amaze, amaze.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
When I spoke to one of my displaced cousins in Beirut today, he said: “Now that Israel isn’t sending its warplanes to bomb Iran, they have a lot of extra time to bomb us”
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
A meme of Trump and the kid cutting grass with Trump asking him, “Can you go open the Strait of Hormuz,”
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Death died at the first one, so it’ll always rank high.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!
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Her husband is a double amputee in ICE prison. She confronted Kristi Noem over its cruel conditions: ‘I have a fire inside’
Mildred Danis-Taylor dropped everything to advocate for the release of her husband, Rodney Taylor. A brutal year of legal and health challenges led her to Capitol Hill
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Dr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Elon Musk had DOGE defund USAID, the largest humanitarian organization in the world, causing HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of deaths from starvation and disease - and Trump GLEEFULLY approved it. It’s the single most evil act in US history. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Unbelievable any lawyer will stand up and tell the Supreme Court that the US constitution is not the Constitution. That the 14th amendment does not say what it says about birthright citizenship. A disgusting, infamous day.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Probably worth repeated that as long as Stephen Himiller has the near-unfettered power to exact his revenge—dating back to those laughed at him in high school—onto Brown people who have nearly no legal recourse, the monstrosities will continue.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Oh @economist.com
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Marty Duren @martyduren.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If you see this, share a #randomshelfie #booksky
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Happens all the time in the West Bank. All of this thanks to our taxpayer dollars and elected officials. www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/m...
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Palestinian man in the West Bank says he was sexually assaulted by Israeli settlers | CNN
Dozens of masked Israeli settlers stormed into Qusai Abu al-Kebash’s small village last weekend in the middle of the night.
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Chris Hutchinson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸🇮🇷 🕊️ @cahutch1990.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Say what you will about him, at least George W. Bush put together his Coalition of the Willing *before* he started his war with Iraq.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.
Tweet from Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz:
Justice has been done.

I welcome the decision of the Chief Military Prosecutor, Major General Itai Ofir, to close the Sde Teiman cases against IDF soldiers and to cancel the indictment against them.

This trial was born in sin by the previous Military Advocate General, using a blood libel against IDF soldiers and criminal investigation methods, and I am glad that justice has been done and the trial has been canceled.

The role of the IDF's legal system is to protect and safeguard IDF soldiers who engage heroically in war against cruel monsters, and not the rights of the terrorists of Hamas.

I am convinced that the decision will lead to a new path.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
American democracy began in 1965. It will end in 2026 when the Roberts Court overturns the Voting Rights Act.
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Alan Godwin @alangodwin52.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 07/03/2026
this is explicitly genocidal
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