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Mary T. McCarthy

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Award-winning Journalist 📰|| Bestselling Author ✍️|| Miniaturist 🤏|| Candlemaker🕯️||Beachcombing Educator 🌊|| Queer Mom of 4🏳️‍🌈|| Go Birds! 🦅 Subscribe to my free articles: marytmccarthy.substack.com?r=pmgfp&…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h
-Trump Airlines -Trump Beverages -Trump Casinos -Trump Magazine -Trump Mortgage -Trump Steaks -Trump's Travel Site -Trumpnet -Trump Tower Tampa -Trump University -Trump Vodka -Trump Fragrances -Trump Mattress -Trump Mobile All massive financial failures led by Trump. Now this...
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Joe Scarborough: It’s important we now have documentation that the Republican Party has corrupted itself to this degree. Republicans now support the Centralized State stealing taxpayers’ money to run ads for their political party.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day.
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My article today on the new Ryan Murphy Netflix series. www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/...
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Lezzie Borden
The queerification of Lizzie makes perfect sense in the Murphyverse. || Mary McCarthy
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Cher and Raquel Welch cover "I'm a Woman" in gowns I want to eat with a spoon. youtu.be/NDqgrZZtLnE?...
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Cher - I'm A Woman (with Raquel Welch) (The Cher Show, 02/16/1975)
YouTube video by Cher
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social Happiest of Birthdays to you Thanks for always inspiring us ❤️
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My article today on the new Ryan Murphy Netflix series. www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/...
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Lezzie Borden
The queerification of Lizzie makes perfect sense in the Murphyverse. || Mary McCarthy
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👉🏽▶️ Start-the-Epstein-Trials @esepajaronegro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Polo...went from a 50 mph tropical storm to a 160 mph Category 5 from Monday to Tuesday morning." The face of storms to come for a generation. www.cnn.com/2026/09/22/w...
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Hurricane Polo explodes into rare Category 5 monster after feasting on hot El Niño water | CNN
It became one of the fastest intensifying storms on record as El Niño fuels a hyperactive Pacific hurricane season.
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Honestly MSNow and CNN should just write troll chyrons all day for fun, why not? 😆
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Cuban delegation walks out on Trump 🇨🇺
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I said it last night, but I’ll say it again - man, I’m so tired of this fuckin’ President.”
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My QB1 😏🦅💖 #gobirds
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today is the Autumnal Equinox 🍁 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Summer is over and Fall is here! The autumn equinox is one of two days when all points on Earth except the polar regions see the sunrise and set at due east and due west. With few exceptions, all latitudes see 12 hours of daylight and 12 of dark
1692 The last eight people are hanged for allegedly practicing witchcraft as a result of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts Bay Colony; 19 are hanged overall, with six other deaths caused by the hysteria
1862 US President Abraham Lincoln issues the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all enslaved people in the rebel Southern states if those states fail to rejoin the Union by January 1, 1863
1919 Steel strike begins in the US and continues for four months
1920 Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that eight White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
1950 Omar Bradley is promoted to the rank of 5-star general in the United States
Army
1957 Western comedy series "Maverick" premieres on ABC television starring James
Garner
1970 US President Richard Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
1976 TV drama "Charlie's Angels,"
starring Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn
Smith, and John Forsythe, premieres
1997 Elton John releases "Candle in the Wind 1997," a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, in the US
2015 Pope Francis is greeted by President Obama and Vice President Biden as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, for his six-day tour of the US
2019 US President Donald Trump admits he speaks to the Ukrainian President about Joe Biden's son after news that a US intelligence officer makes an official complaint about the call
2020 America's COVID-19 death toll surpasses 200,000, more than any other country
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
SHOUT-OUT to all proud members of the MAGA-Resistance Movement in their defense of the Kennedy Center. It will NEVER have the Orange Felon's name on it, just as it will continue to be the Gulf of MEXICO, Lake ONTARIO & the Department of DEFENSE. #AccountabilityIn45Days 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My piece today: a Gen X childhood influenced by the fabulous Jeanne Cooper as Katherine Chancellor: chaos, caftans, and bourbon. marytmccarthy.substack.com/p/mrs-chance...
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Mrs. Chancellor is My Spirit Animal
Caftan chaos and bourbon for the win.
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My piece today: a Gen X childhood influenced by the fabulous Jeanne Cooper as Katherine Chancellor: chaos, caftans, and bourbon. marytmccarthy.substack.com/p/mrs-chance...
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Mrs. Chancellor is My Spirit Animal
Caftan chaos and bourbon for the win.
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s The Air Force’s Birthday 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Almost from the moment the Wright brothers found a way to soar with the birds, the military incorporated aeronautical pursuits into their missions. However, the Air Force did not become a separate branch of the Armed Forces until Sept 18, 1947.
1926 Hurricane hits Miami, killing 250 people
1939 William Joyce's (Lord Haw-Haw) first Nazi propaganda broadcast
1943 German occupiers liquidate the ghetto of Lida, Belarus, transporting the last remaining Jews to their murder at the Nazi extermination camp
Sobibor
1945 1000 whites walk out of Gary, Indiana, schools to protest integration
1957 US Western TV drama "Wagon Train" premieres
1964 TV sitcom series "The Addams Family," starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, and Ted Cassidy, premieres on ABC and runs for two
seasons
1971 Momofuku Ando markets the first Cup Noodles, packaging them in a waterproof polystyrene container
1975 American publishing heiress-turned-bank robber Patty Hearst captured by FBl in San Francisco, California
1990 A 500-pound, 6-foot Hershey's Kiss is displayed at 1 Times Square, New York City
2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey, in the 2001 anthrax attacks
2018 China announces new $60 billion tariffs on US imports a day after the
US imposes $200 billion worth of new tariffs on Chinese goods
2024 Tupperware Brands, maker of plastic kitchenware since 1948, files for bankruptcy in FL
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"A republic, if you can keep it." ~Attributed to Benjamin Franklin 239 years ago today-9/17/1787-upon being asked if new US government would be a monarchy or a republic. The founders signed the Constitution OTD in 1787, so happy Constitution Day to all! Let's keep it. Image: National Archives.
Image: This color image shows the beginning of the U.S. Constitution, with the words "We the People" prominently featured.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/09/2026
Happy Constitution Day! Celebrate by helping your friends and family brush up on their rights by getting a 10-pack of our pocket Constitutions. Plus get a free Constitution pin with the first 100 orders, today only! Shop now at aclu.org/merch_
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: Only Trump could deliver Kash Patel’s bestiality madness into a Senate hearing room #LastWord
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The trustees should let the center close, declare bankruptcy, and come to a sad end—all on Trump’s watch. Allow the Kennedy Center to fail in full view of the American public, and let them decide whether such things matter." Tom Nichols says Americans shouldn't bend to the hostage taker's demands.
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Trump’s Kennedy Center Shakedown
The only appropriate response is to refuse to accede to his demands.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
District court judges across the country have been holding the line against Trump. These judges deserve appreciation — just as those who have enabled and collaborated with the regime deserve condemnation. All of these people are making moral choices. Democracy is a moral choice. Remember this.
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Add your favorite “Weekend at Bernie’s” Mitch McConnell Meme 😆
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Add your favorite “Weekend at Bernie’s” Mitch McConnell Meme 😆
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Doc Baroque @roguearthistorian.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
First the Saudi nuclear deal. Then the 9/11 lies so fucking shameless the FDNY had to slap them down. Then he nods off while the names of the dead are being read. At this point the fake patriotism isn’t insulting. It’s fucking grotesque.
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My latest: on feminism and these two extraordinary American women. marytmccarthy.substack.com/p/ms-dollyam...
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Ms. Dollyamory
On feminism, sexual freedom, and two pioneering American women.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 11/09/2026
Almost 3,000 drones light up the night sky in lower Manhattan to honor the lives lost during the September 11th attacks.
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s Patriot and National Day of Service and Remembrance The sky was a perfect blue and not a cloud in the sky It was also the day that nearly 3000 innocent people died in the terrorist attacks against America We honor their memory and the first responders who risked their lives on 9/11 😢🦊😢
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/09/2026
25 years ago, terrorists killed nearly 3,000 people, including 2,753 New Yorkers. As we remember that terrible day, let us also remember the first responders, office workers and strangers who ran toward danger to help each other.
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My latest: on feminism and these two extraordinary American women. marytmccarthy.substack.com/p/ms-dollyam...
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Ms. Dollyamory
On feminism, sexual freedom, and two pioneering American women.
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💫Foxy💫 @getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s National Teddy Bear 🧸 Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear cub while hunting in Mississippi The Berryman cartoon of Teddy Roosevelt and the cub inspired New York store owner Morris Michtom. He created a new toy and even had a name in mind.
1901 Cornerstone is laid on the New York Stock Exchange building
1908 Orville Wright makes the first hour-long airplane flight, lasting 62 minutes and 15 seconds at Fort Myer, Virginia
1926 National Broadcasting Company (NBC) founded by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
1942 First bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWI! by Japanese planes
1956 Elvis Presley's first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
1957 US President Eisenhower signs the first civil rights bill since
Reconstruction
1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace is served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar Black students from enrolling in white schools
1971 Apple Records releases John Lennon's second solo studio album,
"Imagine," in the US; it tops the charts in the US, UK, Australia, and three other countries
1986 New York City jury indicts Soviet United Nations employee Gennady Zakharov for spying
2018 CBS chief Les Moonves departs the company after six more women make allegations of sexual abuse in "The New Yorker"
2020 Global death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 900,000, with the US having the most deaths at 190,589
2020 Donald Trump purposely downplays the pandemic in early 2020 to avoid panic according to Bob Woodward's new book "Rage"
2021 US President Joe Bidenannounces widespread COVID-19 vaccine mandates for federal workers, contractors, and large employers, affecting 100 million people
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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Will the firemen who carried Trump out of the building on 9/11 please stand up! 🤣
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My article today: much nostalgia as I wish the youngest of my four children happy birthday this Labor Day weekend. Love you Bobby! www.splicetoday.com/writing/kids...
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Kids Eventually Become Adults
How is my baby 21? || Mary McCarthy
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A queer family member gifted me a subscription to Ms. magazine when I was 12; it’s a big part of why I’m a lifelong journalist and feminist. And definitely why I’ve never checked any other prefix box except “Ms.” Thank you Gloria for your inspiration: rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My article today: much nostalgia as I wish the youngest of my four children happy birthday this Labor Day weekend. Love you Bobby! www.splicetoday.com/writing/kids...
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Kids Eventually Become Adults
How is my baby 21? || Mary McCarthy
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A queer family member gifted me a subscription to Ms. magazine when I was 12; it’s a big part of why I’m a lifelong journalist and feminist. And definitely why I’ve never checked any other prefix box except “Ms.” Thank you Gloria for your inspiration: rest in power. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
nytimes.com
Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem was a social activist and feminist icon who spent decades advocating for civil rights and equality. As a trailblazing journalist in the 1960s and 1970s, her work brought national attention to critical issues including gender-based workplace discrimination and abortion rights.
Black graphic with an image and quote from Gloria Steinem, who lived from 1934 until 2026. Underneath the photo it reads "The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving."
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Right after Trump cut down all of its rare Willow trees. He's not going to stop until he bulldozes the entire building like he said he would. I guess this is retribution for removing his name. Please stop letting him destroy everything good that's left #political
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This tweet is a case study in the purpose behind the 25th amendment. Our president is fucking insane.
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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
souless & shortsighted
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My article about the emotional weight of tonight’s lunar eclipse 🌝🫶✨. marytmccarthy.substack.com/p/how-can-i-...
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How Can I Help You Say Goodbye
Celestial events encourage us to release the past.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It’s been almost 90 days since the American people have seen or heard from Mitch McConnell. We’re still paying his salary.
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We are in a timeline where bodies of water need social media accounts. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Unlike the sellouts from Apple and Google Maps, MapQuest refuses to rename the Gulf of Mexico and also Lake Ontario. Thank you, MapQuest, for not kissing the One Ring to Fool Them All. And since we’re at it F**€K TRUMP AND F**€K MAGA
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Ways and Means Committee Democrats @waysmeanscmte.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Trump couldn’t put his name on the Kennedy Center, so now he wants to tear the whole thing down. This is petulance coming at the cost of the American people. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump administration says it might demolish the Kennedy Center if court blocks renovations
The DOJ attorneys called the Kennedy Center “structurally unsound, fundamentally unsafe, and embarrassing to the Nation’s Capital.”
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
We are in a timeline where bodies of water need social media accounts. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Actor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reports
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Actor Tim Curry Dead at 80
Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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