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Mary T. McCarthy

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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My article today on AI endgame: what lifestyle do the robots have in store for us, if any? 🤔🤖 marytmccarthy.substack.com/p/ai-endgame...
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AI Endgame
Everybody gets a hobby, until the robots kill us.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thank you! 🥰
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🌈💙🫂
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💙Christine Slemmer💙 @slem63.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The man that incited an insurrection against his own country will most certainly try to steal this election. We need to be ready with every possible legal counter-measure. Remember these three key points. 1 - It will happen. 2 - We will stand up. 3 - He will fail.
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thanks for your positivity Foxy! Have a great day 🥰🌞✨
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
De Niro: When that coward, that fucking piece of shit, Donald Trump, tries to take our voice and power away, what do we tell him? Keep your fucking hands off our vote.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eric Schmitt: "Were you or were you not the pirate captain of the Black Pearl" Jack Smith: "Sir I believe that was Jack Sparrow"
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So Republicans want Jack Smith to go to jail for investigating trump crimes instead of trump going to jail for committing those crimes???!!!?!?
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy Caturday! Writing cat Rusty: guardian of the laptop, keeper of the creative flame. So grateful for him! 🐈😸🧡
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@milliekitkat.bsky.social thank you for including me in your starter pack 🥰💙🦋🌊
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Full and miniature size candles remaining in my fall shop restock. Stop by! tinytidingscandles.etsy.com
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lovely!
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Between 1854 and 1929, the Orphan Train Movement relocated an estimated 200,000 orphaned, abandoned or homeless children from Eastern cities to rural communities across the West and Midwest. Families would gather at the train stations to inspect the children and choose them for adoption or labor. /3
A 1904 locomotive gets ready to depart for Texas carrying children enrolled in the Orphan Train movement. The program helped some children escape starvation, disease and abuse in the city slums, and gain access to education and stable homes. However, some families viewed the children as free farm hands or domestic maids, treating them with coldness or cruelty. Children were often stripped of their pasts, forced to change their names, abandon their religion and lose all contact with their biological families. Siblings were often separated during this process, as farmers might only want a strong boy for field work or a young girl to help in the kitchen. Children who weren’t chosen got back on the train and headed to the next town. First-hand accounts from many of the children describe fear of the unknown and the trauma of being inspected “like a piece of merchandise.” However, some children said they found a loving home and a future.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My article today: it’s been a very rough week for Philadelphia sports fans. www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/...
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Bloody Red October
The intersection of being a horror and a Philadelphia sports fan. || Mary McCarthy
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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My article today: it’s been a very rough week for Philadelphia sports fans. www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/...
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Bloody Red October
The intersection of being a horror and a Philadelphia sports fan. || Mary McCarthy
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
-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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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Warmongers? 🤦🏻‍♀️ Like they say, every accusation is a confession. 🫠
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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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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And gay! 😆🏳️‍🌈🥳
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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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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🍁🍂✨☺️
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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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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’m so happy autumn is here, my favorite season. Have a wonderful day everyone! 🍁🍂🧡
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Peanuts: Autumn Seasons - Feels Like Fall
ALT: Peanuts: Autumn Seasons - Feels Like Fall
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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
🦊🦊🦊 have a great weekend Foxy! Thanks for all you do 🥰✨🦊❤️
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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
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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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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good morning and TGIF Foxy and Friends 🥰
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Zootopia Nick Wilde
ALT: Zootopia Nick Wilde
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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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Mary T. McCarthy @marymccarthy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nah it could be five years or fifteen 🙄🫠
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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
Not to mention Supreme Court justices! ⚖️
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